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Scaramouche decodes the latest press release from Wahida Valiante, president of the Canadian Islamic Congress.
Much of it is just predictable whiney drivel about being (at least temporarily) shut out from access to A-list ministers and the spigot of taxpayer gravy, plus a curious stylistic tic which suggests President Valiante sees being president of the CIC as akin to being president of the USA: She speaks about policies pursued "under my administration". What exactly does the CIC "administer"? I know they attempted to establish a de facto and de jure right to administer the opinions of Canadian citizens, but they got given the bum's rush over that.
And that's the interesting aspect of President Valiante's pitiful plaint. This is an official communique from the CIC yet it in effect throws her predecessor, Mohamed Elmasry, under the camel:
Minister Kenny stated: "We have ended government contact with like-minded organizations like the Canadian Islamic Congress, whose President notoriously said that all Israelis over the age of 18 are legitimate targets for assassination."
What Minister Kenny fails to tell his audience is that those comments made by the CIC’s past president do not reflect the position of the CIC under my administration (since October 2008).
Mr. Kenny wouldn’t know that because he "ended government contact" with the CIC before ever having any contact with me. Moreover, he has refused any overtures to meet me since I took office. And so the first female president of a national Canadian Islamic organization has been denied any chance of meeting with a federal cabinet minister, based solely on comments made by that organization’s past president.
Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper would not assume responsibility for words spoken by Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, so why should I be held unjustly accountable for those of my precursor in office?
Well, for one thing, Stephen Harper didn't serve as Deputy Prime Minister to M Chrétien, whereas you cheerfully served for years as Vice-President to Elmo and indulged in the same obnoxious buffoonery - for example, your halfwit assertion that Daniel Pipes was a "follower of Hitler", for which you and the CIC were forced to apologize and pay restitution.
But never mind that. What's interesting is the way President Valiante disowns at some length "the CIC's past president" and deems him so persona non grata she won't even use his name in the communique. This Mohamed is now as unmentionable as the other Mohammed is undrawable.
This too is fallout from the Maclean's case and the campaign to restore free speech in Canada. Over the last two years, every illustrious figure on the pro-censorship side has been diminished - from Jennifer Lynch, QC to Stormfront member Richard Warman, and now to Elmo himself. Even the CIC understands that. Happy New Year, Elmo - and here's to more of the same in 2010!
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