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Article in Canadian Muslim paper incites hatred
Copies of a B.C. Muslim newspaper have been turned over to the provinceâs 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 isnât Arabs lying about and guilt-tripping us with âthe Holocaustâ - it is Jews," the article reads. "It wasnât Arabs who caused the Great Depression — it was Jews. It wasnât Arabs who started WWI (the First World War) - it was Jews. It wasnât 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 Steeleâs 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 heâd 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 theyâd think that. theyâre 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 âpropensity for violence and primal satisfaction, and Itâs 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 Generalâs 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. Iâm really curious to see what they do. Posted by: PlanetDan 2004-01-07 |
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