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| Article in Canadian Muslim paper incites hatred |
| 2004-01-07 |
| Copies of a B.C. Muslim newspaper have been turned over to the province’s hate crimes unit after it published an article accusing "the Jews" of everything from starting both world wars to staging the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The Canadian Jewish Congress made a complaint seeking a criminal investigation into what it called "a virulently anti-Semitic article" published in The Miracle, a weekly newspaper distributed in Vancouver-area mosques. The edition featuring the page-long list of misdeeds it claims were committed by Jews also includes a column by Liberal Senator Mobina Jaffer and an advertisement by local Liberal MP Joe Peschisolido. "It isn’t Arabs lying about and guilt-tripping us with ’the Holocaust’ - it is Jews," the article reads. "It wasn’t Arabs who caused the Great Depression — it was Jews. It wasn’t Arabs who started WWI (the First World War) - it was Jews. It wasn’t Arabs who started WWII (the Second World War) - it was Jews." The Dec. 19 article, by Idaho resident Edgar Steele, blames Jews for 81 other items, ranging from pedophilia and organized crime to "race-mixing," militant feminism and "forcing us to allow homosexuals to lead Boy Scout troops." The Miracle, published in Delta, has a circulation of about 2,500. Its editorial page claims it is dedicated to Islamic brotherhood and bringing "harmony amongst all Muslim and other communities." Chief editor Nusrat Hussain said he had no regrets about publishing Steele’s article. "We try to keep freedom of speech and not necessarily that we agree with the article and that is what Canada is about," he said. ah. what a progressive guy NusRat is. I wonder if he’d be as openminded with an anti-muslim article. "We certainly did not publish it with intentions of hate crime. nah. that was just a bonus. But if the Jewish congress considers it that, then of course it is their right to think that way." of course they’d think that. they’re Jews! they probably wrote the article to get sympathy. Hussain said the newspaper published the article because the editors found it interesting. The congress said the Southern Poverty Law Centre, a respected U.S. civil rights organization that tracks hate groups and fights them in the courts, identified Steele in its fall 2003 Intelligence Report as an anti-Semite and anti-black racist, including him in a list of top-40 extremists "to watch." "It is appalling to see that a Canadian newspaper would even consider printing an article by Mr. Steele whose earlier works include In Defence of Racism, a venomous piece on the purported intellectual inferiority of black people and their ’propensity for violence and primal satisfaction, and It’s the Jews, Stupid, a particularly noxious treatise blaming the Jews for all things nefarious past, present and future," said congress president Keith Landy. The B.C. hate-crime team operates within the Solicitor General’s ministry. The ministry web site says the role of the team is to co-ordinate hate- and bias-related investigations by working with local police, sharing experiences and information, and communicating results from the centrally maintained data base. I’m really curious to see what they do. |
| Posted by:PlanetDan |
| #2 Anyone but me see the irony of a "Muslim" publication publishing a basically KKK screed about Jews? Why didn't anyone ask the author what he thought about the "Brown People" that put out this rag? |
| Posted by: NotMike Moore 2004-1-7 10:49:11 PM |
| #1 Let's see, "everything" was 'started by the Jews': That means: --- Adolf Hitler and Tojo were Jews. I believe there's some substantiating evidence that Hitler (Schickelgruber) did have a Jewish ancestor, but I can guarantee you NOBODY in Tojo's family were Jewish! --- The young Serb anarchist that assassinated emperor Franz Joseph was a Jew. That's a new one on me. I was under the impression he was a Muslim. --- From what I understand, the Great Depression was caused by idiocy on the part of the US population as a whole, special idiocy on the part of leading bankers and a raft of Government officials (including Herbert Hoover, the only engineer the United States has ever elected president), and the collapse of several European currencies, major defaults on debt, and a lot of other incidentals that snowballed into a mountain. --- Finally, Osama bin wallpaper paste crowed about the success of HIS OPERATION to "bring death and destruction to the Americans" on 9/11. Is Osama secretly Jewish? Whooodathunkit! Personally, this is just another case where the people who live only to hate find a way to excuse what they want to do anyway. Blaiming "the Jews" or "Bush" or "Cable Television" or anything else for their own character flaws makes them feel better, somehow. Frankly, I think they should all be deported to a desert island where the only thing to eat is each other. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-1-7 9:13:13 PM |