
What's the CJC up to these days?
I was looking through my junk mail folder and came across some news releases issued recently by the Canadian Jewish Congress. I read through them, interested to see what the CJC's view on the whole Imam Al-Hayiti scandal would be. Would the CJC denounce his anti-Semitic screed? Would they implore the Canadian Human Rights Commission to charge him under section 13, as they surely would if, as Mario Roy puts it, his name was Tremblay instead of Al-Hayiti? What do they have to say about all this?
They're dead silent on Al-Hayiti. Not a word. See their 2008 press releases, here.
Not that they haven't been busy reading the French language press. They've even issued a sorrowful press release about some vandalism in France. Do they think that somehow discharges their duty to opine on French-language anti-Semitism in Quebec, and the CHRC's acceptance of it, and the CHRC's view that it's acceptable?
Or maybe they're just too busy writing love letters to the new leader of the Liberal Party, and doodling "CJC + Iggy 4EVR" on their schoolbooks. No surprise there.
I think the message both the CJC and the CHRC are sending is pretty clear. If you're a white, Christian Jew-hater, get ready for years of prosecution and punishment and denunciation. If you're a Muslim Jew-hater, you can continue with impunity.
They're dead silent on Al-Hayiti. Not a word. See their 2008 press releases, here.
Not that they haven't been busy reading the French language press. They've even issued a sorrowful press release about some vandalism in France. Do they think that somehow discharges their duty to opine on French-language anti-Semitism in Quebec, and the CHRC's acceptance of it, and the CHRC's view that it's acceptable?
Or maybe they're just too busy writing love letters to the new leader of the Liberal Party, and doodling "CJC + Iggy 4EVR" on their schoolbooks. No surprise there.
I think the message both the CJC and the CHRC are sending is pretty clear. If you're a white, Christian Jew-hater, get ready for years of prosecution and punishment and denunciation. If you're a Muslim Jew-hater, you can continue with impunity.

