The Lawfare Project (LP), a non-profit legal think-tank based in New York City, notes with dismay the apparent failure of ethical due diligence of the Canadian Interfaith Conversation (CIC) in the course of planning the CIC’s pending conference in Ottawa, Canada. Scheduled for Saint Paul University on May 8-9, 2017, and titled “Our Whole Society: Religion & Citizenship at Canada’s 150th,” the conference and its failings appear to be the shared responsibility of the CIC and its “Our Whole Society” partner organizations, the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, and Cardus, a Canadian Christian organization.
The LP’s concern stems from the announced presence, among conference presenters, of Dr. Ingrid Mattson, former head of the Islamic Society of North America, and Ms. Amira Elghawaby, a representative of the National Council of Canadian Muslims. These individuals are, in the LP’s opinion, unsuitable candidates for prominent roles in an interfaith gathering purporting to emphasize solidarity and tolerance, and aspiring to achieve a more peaceful world.
Dr. Ingrid Mattson was a longtime leader of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) when it was designated an unindicted co-conspirator in the successful US Holy Land Foundation terror-fundraising prosecution. Mattson’s current position at Huron University College was the result of an endowment built around money from radical-Islamic sources. Any number of her associates have been problematic from the perspective of Islamist supremacism, as have some of her teachings and preferred theological sources. For more information on Mattson, see the LP’s news release, “Collapse of Mattson Libel Suit Signals Victory for Free Speech and The Lawfare Project,” including its links to court papers.
The LP is unaware of any attempt by Dr. Mattson to repudiate, publicly and by name, the various troubling individuals and organizations with which she is, or has been, connected.
Ms. Amira Elghawaby has for years been communications chief for the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR.CAN), now renamed – deceptively, according to some – the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM). NCCM/CAIR.CAN was established as the Canadian chapter of the radical, US-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Saudi-funded organization that was also designated an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial. CAIR derived from the Islamic Association of Palestine (founded by Hamas operative Mousa Abu Marzook, who is now a US Specially Designated Global Terrorist), is said to be a Hamas-supporting organization, and has seen several of its officials and affiliates convicted of terrorism-related offenses. Like CAIR, NCCM/CAIR.CAN is known for its exaggerated claims of “Islamophobia”, claims that have unnecessarily alarmed Canadian Muslims and thereby risked pushing young Muslims into radical hands. For more about NCCM/CAIR.CAN, see the LP’s statement, “Lawfare Project Concerned about National Council of Canadian Muslims Participation in Global Affairs Canada event.” To the best of the LP’s knowledge, neither Ms. Elghawaby nor her organization have ever condemned, publicly and by name, CAIR and those CAIR officials and affiliates who have been convicted of terrorist offenses. Nor are they known to have publicly condemned Dr. Jamal Badawi, a former, long-serving official of NCCM/CAIR.CAN who recommends light physical punishment for “misbehaving” Muslim wives and has been a high-level Islamic Society of North America official – and a US unindicted co-conspirator in his own right.
In the United Against Terrorism handbook jointly produced by NCCM/CAIR.CAN and the closely connected, controversial Islamic Social Services Association, many people of good faith were shocked to find the handbook’s authors apparently attempting to mainstream Dr. Mattson and other questionable individuals by recommending them as scholars to whom Muslims and broader civil society could defer in matters of Islamic theological interpretation, particularly in counter-radicalization contexts. To no one’s surprise, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police publicly withdrew its support for the handbook project. NCCM/CAIR.CAN, however, continues misleadingly to distribute the document, with the RCMP name and logo on it.
Was the inclusion of Mattson and Elghawaby in the “Our Whole Society” event the result of incompetence within CIC, its planning committee, and CIC partner organizations? Was it reflective of one or more planning insiders’ conscious efforts to “launder” the two Islamists in Canada’s national capital, the better to facilitate their access to interfaith, media, government and other influential circles?
Perhaps it was a combination of these things. But incompetence cannot be ruled out, given the fact that a Canadian Interfaith Conversation webpage announcing that CIC executive committee members Mr. Zul Kassamali and Dr. Aileen van Ginkel would become the CIC co-chairs, featured what the Interfaith Conversation seemed to regard as a spiritually uplifting quotation of industrialist Henry Ford. An accomplished anti-Semite, Mr. Ford produced a notorious hate-book, The International Jew, and his Nazi sympathies helped the auto-builder win Hitler’s 1st Class Grand Cross Order of the German Eagle in Gold with Star.
CIC might find a certain resonance in Mr. Ford’s ability to dupe Christian, Jewish and other well-meaning clerics and others about his true inclinations – and then to use such people for endorsements.
Following a review of the material herein provided and linked, CIC organizers and their Canadian Race Relations Foundation and Cardus partners will face a moral-ethical choice. On the one hand, they could honestly and forthrightly admit that errors have been made. On the other, they might be too embarrassed to be honest, and might further condemn themselves by doubling down on their invitations to Dr. Mattson and Ms. Elghawaby. The former, honorable course would avoid opening the CIC, its partners, presenters and sponsors to being used to legitimize individuals and organizations unworthy of the influence that involvement in a high-profile, spiritually oriented gathering could avail them. The latter course would dishonor all concerned and facilitate further penetration by undesirables into influential Canadian circles.
The choice made by the Canadian Interfaith Conversation and its associates will give a revealing indication of the true commitment of those involved, to morals, ethics and the integrity of Canada’s interfaith movement.
There is no shortage of moderate, mainstream Canadian Muslims, and Canada is fortunate to be the home of reputable organizations such as the Council for Muslims Facing Tomorrow. Seen in this light, the due diligence failure of the Canadian Interfaith Conversation, the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and Cardus, is all the more regrettable.
Sincerely,
Brooke Goldstein
Brooke Goldstein
[Published by third party request]
Bad.
I’d like to hear what Stephen Coughlin has to say. Help with perspective.
That would be nice.
The Council for Muslims Facing Tomorrow, Mission Statement.
“Our mission is to reclaim Islam for, as the word itself means, securing Peace for all people, and to oppose extremism, fanaticism and violence in the name of religion…”
Whereas, if you know Islam then under Sharia Shirk means death from the hand your fellow Muslim in the street, so this is written only with taqiyya, to bend the minds of the godless.
Therefore, I guess that all that Brooke Goldstein saw was:
Our mission is to reclaim Islam for, as the word itself means, securing Peace for all people, and to oppose extremism, fanaticism and violence in the name of Allah…”
Sounds fair doesn’t it?
Reclaim Islam
Islam means Peace
Oppose Extremism
However, Islam 1.0 invaded and took over what was possibly the world’s first multi-faith Safe Spaced call the Kaaba. Lessons never learned.
Islam means submission not peace.
Oppose extremism from every quarter, except Islam.
Henry Ford (as she cited The International Jew) stated:
“In simple words, the question of the Jews has come to the fore, but like other questions which lend themselves to prejudice, efforts will be made to hush it up as impolitic for open discussion. If, however, experience has taught us anything it is that questions thus suppressed will sooner or later break out in undesirable and unprofitable forms.”
And what is it, that is “impolitic for open discussion?”
“Divinely ordered to drive out the Canaanites that their corrupt ideas might not contaminate Israel, the Jews did not obey, according to the old record. They looked over the Canaanitish people and perceived what great amount of man-power would be wasted if they were expelled, and so Israel enslaved them — “And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.” It was this form of disobedience, this preference of material mastery over spiritual leadership, that marked the beginning of Israel’s age-long disciplinary distress.”
Preference of material mastery over spiritual leadership.
This is the human condition.
A Muslim with Allah inside them is a Bitch. A Jew with G_d in them knows their father. A Muslim without Allah is human. A Jew without G_d is a Communist for they retain the two-tier system that was once reserved to distinguish those with and without souls, (who can or cannot have a gun licence) but is now for those with or without Birth-Identity Preference.
The Secular Jew (Jewish from mother-to-mother and apron-clinging son), is what the fatherless hate, for they cannot compete with them. The mommies of International and National Socialism are just playgrounds to manipulate and play one side off with the other.
Islam is the spiritual half that follows Secular Judaism.
Brooke Goldstein has led them right to us.
Whereas with real Jews with G_d inside, Islam vanishes instantly in their light. Those who have just invented another life-saving device for an undeserving world. Oh, and there’s another. And another.
Islam is irrelevant.
Yet she promotes and surrounds herself with her with the comfort of “Moderates.”
This impolitic discussion.
And what is a conscious Jew?
Well, we can read it in the story of Jesus and with the House of Israel divided between the unholy Pharisees and Sadducees, between dysfunctional Adams and Eves. No longer help-mates but competitors for the throne of Righteousness. People championing their one side.
And we can still see it today in our own time with the new religions and cults, dividing into The Right and The Left. Worshipping False Fathers and False Mothers. Following Their Inerrant Laws or Their Golden Calves. Worshipping the woman-man or the man-child. (Men do not follow recipes or care about appearance, you know that, right?).
Thank you for the writers of Greek Jesus. At least Universities back then were useful.
“Henry Ford said, “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” ”
Resentment always – condemns the judged
Whatever is good, is rejected or grudged.
And bringing with them the sexually urged
In the love of world where demons are merged.
https://youtu.be/30Fr8F_3VpY
So, after finding the character of the author, this is what she demands:
“The LP’s concern stems from the announced presence, among conference presenters, of Dr. Ingrid Mattson, former head of the Islamic Society of North America, and Ms. Amira Elghawaby, a representative of the National Council of Canadian Muslims. These individuals are, in the LP’s opinion, unsuitable candidates for prominent roles in an interfaith gathering purporting to emphasize solidarity and tolerance, and aspiring to achieve a more peaceful world.”
By refusing the very people who need and we want to sit at the table in dialogue with the highiest spiritual and most erudite ministers, (that they all claim themselves to be), representing all of Mankind’s religions.
You can’t make this up.
A lower entity is at work.
This is how people debate.
https://youtu.be/_CGFMwtJTyE