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Re: A Continuance Of Fear-mongering, letter to the editor, July 28, 2007

Dr. Ahmed is welcome to criticize my support for David Harris, but it would be helpful if his comments were grounded in reality.

Ignoring the content of Mr. Harris's letter, Dr. Ahmed asserts, in his own words, that "Mr. Harris represented the CCD at a recent Toronto conference featuring ... Steven Emerson, who outrageously wrote that the religion of Islam 'sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine.' " Dr. Ahmed is implying some guilt-by-association based on Mr. Harris attending a Fraser Institute conference at which, Dr. Ahmed claims, Steven Emerson was also present. It is unclear how Dr. Ahmed's petulance over an out-of-context quote from a leading counterterrorism expert has any bearing on Mr. Harris's letter, but doubly confusing because Steven Emerson was not at that conference.

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Dr. Ahmed again stoops to guilt-by-association when he states, "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." All the speakers at that conference were Muslim/Arabic/Iranian women, some of whom live under constant threat of death as a result of fatwas issued for their criticism of radical Islam. For Dr. Ahmed to express indignation over Mr. Harris's support for such heroic women, while remaining silent in the face of violent theocratic threats against them, may shed light on the values that underlie Dr. Ahmed's criticisms.

Finally, Dr. Ahmed asserts, "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." Failure to debunk a scurrilous accusation is not proof that the accusation is true. Dr. Ahmed has demonstrated how freely baseless allegations are thrown around by those of his prickly sensitivity, and debunking every such fantasy is a waste of time.

If Dr. Ahmed wishes to criticize anything that David Harris or I write, I suggest that he focus on the content of the writing and, most importantly, on reality.

Alastair Gordon, president, Canadian Coalition for Democracies, Toronto.

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