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A continuance of fear-mongering
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Published: Saturday, July 28, 2007Re: Who's Really Doing The Fear-Mongering? letter to the editor, July 26; Anti-Muslim Fear- Mongering, letter to the editor, July 21; At War With Radical Islam, letter to the editor, July 19.
Alastair Gordon's attempt to defend David Harris's letter actually lends credence to the contention of fear-mongering against the Muslim community. Interestingly, Mr. Gordon did not deny Mohammad Maan's claim that the Web site of the Canadian Coalition for Democracies (CCD) stated the insidious view that Muslims are "infiltrating" the federal government.
In addition, Mr. Gordon ignores the fact that Mr. Harris represented the CCD at a recent Toronto conference featuring the self-styled terrorism pundit Steven Emerson, who outrageously wrote that the religion of Islam "sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine." Mr. Harris also attended an October, 2006, conference in Montreal, at which he unreservedly praised a keynote speaker who had insisted in her speech that all Muslims were radicals.
It's incredible that the CCD and Mr. Harris have failed to distance themselves from such raw bigotry. Rather than offer a hollow defence, Mr. Gordon, as a responsible Canadian, should unequivocally disassociate his organization from those who foment hate and divisions between Canadians. We need to stand united in the fight against terrorism. This should also be the case in the fight against intolerance.
Dr. Nudrat Ahmed, Calgary.
