Posted on 12/6/2009, 2:09:16 PM by Clive
Last week, I pointed out that Calgary's Official Jews invited notorious anti-Semites to co-sponsor a Jewish rally against anti-Semitism.
I know, it sounds too strange to be true. But it is.
One of those Jew-haters is Syed Soharwardy, a vicious, anti-Semitic bigot who trivializes the Jewish Holocaust, spreads blood libels against the Jewish Talmud, says Israel is perpetrating a Holocaust of its own against Palestinians, publicly calls for sharia law to be implemented in Canada, and participated in a pro-terrorist rally in the Jewish neighbourhood of Calgary, replete with a flag of Hezbollah.
I first came to know this odious man up close, when he hauled me before the Alberta human rights commission for publishing the Danish cartoons of Mohammed. Before that, the little thug actually tried to have me arrested by the Calgary Police Service for publishing those cartoons, as if we were back in his beloved Saudi Arabia, where the police take care of the infidels.
Syed Soharwardy is anti-Semitic scum.
Calgary's Official Jews freaked out when I publicized the words and deeds of this bigot, because they had so publicly cast their lot in with him. Some of the OJs wrote public comments on on my blog, and others wrote to me directly. All of their comments were the same, in that they ignored Soharwardy's anti-Semitism, and instead railed against me for my criticisms. In other words, they weren't embarrassed that they were friends with Soharwardy. They were embarrassed that they were caught.
So what did the Official Jews do about it? I mean, we know what they'd do if it were a white WASP who was espousing such bigotry: they'd press for his prosecution, as they did with Jim Keegstra.
But not with Soharwardy. They actually contacted him, and asked him to take down some of the most grotesque anti-Semitic comments from his website, so they wouldn't have to explain themselves to grassroots Jews who were asking the Official Jews what the hell they were doing.
To be clear: they didn't get Soharwardy to renounce his anti-Semitism. They didn't get him to explain it. They simply got him not to be so showy about it -- it was too embarrassing for them. Could he please take down the page from his website where he says the Jewish Talmud licenses Jews to murder non-Jews? If it's not too much trouble, sir?
Here's a Google cache of where that blood libel was published: see item 54, "What Talmud says about violence and hate". Until yesterday, it used to be here.
I guessed that the Official Jews would ask Soharwardy to take it down. So I saved it to my hard drive. You can see it here, in its full Jew-hating glory.
I've saved the other anti-Semitic pages on his website that I linked to in my earlier blog post. But they are by no means exhaustive. Take this nutty page, where Soharwardy publishes a rant claiming that Jews want to take over Jordan, Iraq, Syria and even parts of Saudi Arabia, as part of an international Jewish conspiracy, using "Jewish capital". The story ends happily for Soharwardy, though. Let me quote:
A great slaughter of the Jews will ensue and every one of them will be annihilated. The nation of Jews will be exterminated.
(Pssst! Official Jews, I've saved that page to my hard drive, too, so no point in having Soharwardy take it down now.)
There are plenty of pages on Soharwardy's websites where he compares Jews to Nazis, and accuses Jews of trying to commit a genocide against Palestinians. Here's one, where he blames the Jews for instigating Muslim suicide bombings against them:
Israelites are repeating the same cruel and brutal behaviour with Palestinians that they themselves faced during the World War II. In fact, the sufferings of Palestinians are getting worse day by day. Not only Israeli government wants to wipe them out but their own Arab and Muslim brothers and sisters are quietly watching their genocide.
This is the man who was invited to co-sponsor the rally against anti-Semitism. Really.
Soharwardy's hatred for Jews is not his only hatred. He hates other Muslim denominations, too. Read this rant against Ahmadiyya Muslims, a peaceful sect of Islam. Soharwardy rails against Ahmadiyyas, and then bizarrely implies that they support terrorism. Here's my favourite line in Soharwardy's press release about his fellow Muslims:
ISCC and MAT would like to request all the media organizations especially radio talk show programs that if they find any person who identifies himself / herself as Muslim and endorses terrorism please track that person's call and report to police. MAT and ISCC will be happy to assist the media in this regard.
The title of his press release is "Fake Muslims". It's about the Ahmadiyyas. And then he slides directly into an implication that they endorse terrorism. I say again: the man is a bigot.
Sometimes Soharwardy is literally crazy. Nutty as a Snickers bar. Check out this blather about one of his enemies, a group he calls "NewYorkees". Gee -- who could he possibly mean by that?
I really don't know what the hell he's talking about, but these "NewYorkees" are very good with the media, are anti-Islam and believe that "homosexuality is permissable". NewYorkees, NewYorkees -- who could he be referring to?
Soharwardy is a conspiracy theorist, too: here's a gem:
A new Holocaust may emerge in North America very soon. People are already talking about concentration camps and the Holocaust of more than 10 million Muslims in North America.
I present to you the main man of Calgary's Official Jews. He was a full-blown partner with the OJs in their rally last week. And guess what? He's returning the favour. He's inviting Judy Shapiro, the Calgary Jewish Community Council's community relations director, to attend a very special Hannukah celebration at his mosque.
And she's coming.
Here's the poster advertising the event. All of those groups listed -- the Canadian Association of Muslim Youth, the Al-Madinah Islamic Centre, Muslims Against Terrorism, and the Islamic Association of Canadian Women are all front organizations, shell organizations or downright fake organizations for Soharwardy.
Syed Soharwardy -- Jew-hater; Ahmadiyya-hater; Holocaust trivializer; Talmud-slanderer -- is having a little Hannukah celebration, as "proof" that he's not anti-Semitic. It's like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meeting with that nutty fringe sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews who don't believe in Israel. Ahmadinejad does it to pretend he's not a Jew-hater: look! He got a real Jew to shake hands with him! So it's obviously not true that he hates Jews!
Soharwardy's doing the same thing. But instead of flying in a nutty Neturei Karta rabbi for a photo op, he just calls down to the Official Jews, and they run right over. They're what Lenin called "useful idiots" -- they're happy to pose for a photo op with him, to give him moral cover for when he demonizes Jews, Israel and the Holocaust.
Do you think this is outrageous? Do you think it's insane? Well, it gets one degree more inexplicable.
You see, Judy Shapiro, the dupe who is going to Soharwardy's photo op, isn't just the community relations director for Calgary's Official Jews. She's also the wife of Richard Bronstein, the publisher of Calgary's Jewish Free Press, a small-circulation free newpaper that is mailed to Calgary's Jews. She's Mrs. Publisher.
Some readers will know that, along with the Western Standard, the Jewish Free Press (and the student paper at the University of Prince Edward Island) also published some of the Danish cartoons in February of 2006. And, just as he went after the Western Standard and me, Soharwardy hit the JFP with a human rights complaint, too.
Do you follow? Syed Soharwardy isn't just a menace to the Jews in general. He was a menace to the Jewish Free Press in particular. He sicced the human rights commission on them, for "hate speech". They capitulated, and went to a "mediation" with the thug. And they settled (Bronstein claims he didn't apologize).
And now Judy Shapiro -- Bronstein's wife -- is going to Soharwardy's anti-Semitic mosque next week to "celebrate" Hannukah by giving him a photo op.
That's not just being a dhimmi. That's some serious spousal Stockholm Syndrome going on.
Now, I don't give a damn if Bronstein agreed to go to the human rights commission's mediation with Soharwardy -- that's his business, and he has to live with himself. And I don't give a damn if he goes to Soharwardy's mosque. But his wife is an Official Jew. And -- look at the poster -- she's going in her capacity as an Official Jew. She's representing the entire Jewish community there.
That's bizarre enough, given how Soharwardy abused her husband. But she's carrying out her strange appeasement of her husband's tormentor in the name of all Jews. In my name, actually.
That's just gross.
It's even grosser that, in response to the revelations in my earlier blog entry, Shapiro hasn't cancelled her official visit -- all that's happened is that Soharwardy has been asked to take down some of his more flagrant anti-Semitic rants, at least until the Hannukah photo op is over.
Let me close on a note of sympathy and remembrance. I dedicate this blog entry to Robina Butt.
Robina Butt was a congregant at Soharwardy's sham mosque. She donated money, like he asked her to. But then Robina Butt made the mistake of asking Soharwardy where all the donations were going -- and why he hadn't filed proper corporate returns. Robina Butt became a nuisance to Soharwardy. Worse than that: she threatened to destroy his carefully crafted public image.
Soharwardy sued her. But she still didn't shut up. The woman just didn't know her place. (I've seen an undercover video of how Soharwardy shouts down the women at his mosque -- it's ugly). Who would stop this turbulent woman?
Someone had to. And so one day, when Robina Butt was at home, two people burst into her house and beat her to the point of hospitalization. According to Butt, they shouted: "We come from Al-Madinah; if you ever talk anything about Al-Madinah . . . this is the first instalment."
Al-Madinah, as you can see in the poster, is one of Soharwardy's shell organizations. Robina Butt had been asking about where all the money had gone. So this is what they did to her:
That's what happens to critics of the misogynistic bigot that Judy Shapiro is going to honour.
That's what happens to critics of the misogynistic bigot the Calgary Jewish Community Council invited to co-sponsor their rally against anti-Semitism.
Too bad. I remember a time when the Jewish community was against violence against women, whether it was done in the name of the Ku Klux Klan or the Al Madinah mosque.
One of the Official Jews who wrote to me actually said that Robina Butt's brutal beating was "two year old crap". Wow. They must be pretty invested in Soharwardy to disparage a victim of violence that way. Next thing they'll be saying is that Aqsa Parvez had it coming, too.
Then again, there was a time when the Jewish community was against the blood libel, too. Now, they just ask such slanderers to kindly take it off their websites -- at least until the Hannukah party is over.
I don't think that even Bernie Farber is that crass.
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The Official Jews are like the Sonnenkommandos at the death camps. They figure that they will be kept alive as long as the can help load the other Jews bodies into the ovens.
Strange. But as my Jewish friend explained to me, the Jews and Muslims are “family ... cousins.” They understand each other and their feuds better than Christians will be able to comprehend. I’ve come to the conclusion that shared hate binds strange bed fellows (or “family”). Both Jews and Muslims are NOT fond of Christianity ... we’re not to talk about that shared hatred towards Christians. As your experience manifests, actions speak louder than words.
They are akin to what are called judas goats at slaughter-houses. Their presence calms down the about-to-be-processed animals.
"Processed" - why it's almost biblical in tone!
*ping*
Just... Wow.
Dear Mr. Levant.
There’s really no reason to come up with a new term or word for those you label as “Official Jews.” The word has been around for many years, and is perfectly descriptive of these people.
The word is “Kapo.”
Thanks!
Mark
...a vicious, anti-Semitic bigot who trivializes the Jewish Holocaust, spreads blood libels against the Jewish Talmud, says Israel is perpetrating a Holocaust of its own against Palestinians, publicly calls for sharia law to be implemented in Canada, and participated in a pro-terrorist rally in the Jewish neighbourhood of Calgary, replete with a flag of Hezbollah...Thanks hennie pennie.
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