Canada's Islamists And Their `Anti-War' Friends

This is what it’s come to: A disgraced, dictator-praising British MP who dances around in red tights on reality-television shows is visiting Canada to commemorate the founding of a fascist movement known for its own distinctive swastika and Nazi-style uniforms and an anthem that’s sung to the tune of Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles.

And it’s just another otherwise unremarkable day in the life of Canada’s “anti-war” movement.

Just how things degenerated so badly, and so fast, is a long and sad story. The upshot is that Canada’s anti-war movement has become not only the primary vehicle for an obscure, formerly left-wing group that attacks anyone who opposes sharia courts in Canada, it’s also now the main source of public respectability for a Toronto think-tank that advocates for the establishment of theocracies that hang gay people.

It’s a story that has left Canada’s progressive Muslims in despair, in disarray, and sometimes in fear for their lives.

That’s from my Tyee column today.

Sohail Raza, communications director for the Muslim Canadian Congress, told me that far too many Canadian progressives aren’t paying attention, and they’re unaware of just how successfully the Islamists and their supporters have insinuated themselves into Canada’s “anti-war” left.

“We can’t try to hide this anymore, and people should know what is going on,” Raza said. “All this is making it very very hard for us to do our work. . . These people are idiots, and as Muslims, we need to say it. And many of these people are very dangerous.”

Some of their collaborators are also pretty dangerous, I think. But spectacularly idiotic, too: