Meanwhile, in the Peaceful Kingdom...
Meanwhile, in the Peaceful Kingdom...
From CBC
Ahenakew found guilty of promoting hatred; fined $1,000
Former aboriginal leader David Ahenakew, who called Jews "a disease" and tried to justify the Holocaust, lashed out Friday and said he would appeal a court verdict that found him guilty of wilfully promoting hatred.
"I'm innocent of the charges brought against me and I will be appealing the court's decision," Ahenakew told reporters. "I have learned that native people will never get good, solid justice in this country."
Ahenakew also said he would fight a plan by Order of Canada officials to strip him of the honour he earned in 1978...
Saskatchewan provincial court Judge Marty Irwin fined Ahenakew $1,000. The amount was appropriate to prevent him from becoming a "martyr" for racists and bigots, Irwin said...
In reading his verdict, Irwin said Ahenakew's comments "clearly dehumanize the Jewish people" and were exactly the kind of comments that laws against hate crimes were designed to address.
"To suggest that any human being or group of human beings is a disease is to invite extremists to take action against them," Irwin said.
Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at July 9, 2005 08:10 AM
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BobW
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Believe it or not; the late Yitzhak Rabin called religious Jews - not just Hareidi -"parasites".
There will always be mosquitos in swamps. Ahenakeu is a mosquito.
Our problems are internal.
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on July 9, 2005 02:59 AM
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Sara
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Nevertheless, it sounds almost reasonable that Chief Ahenakew should be permitted to call Jews "a disease", as long as there is no prohibition against publishing and quoting books characterizing Jews this way:
Qur'an Surah 5:60: " ... Those who incurred the curse of Allah and His wrath, those of whom some he transformed into apes and swine ... ." or Surah 2:65: "And well ye knew those amongst you who transgressed. In the matter of the Sabbath; we said to them: 'Be ye apes, despised and rejected."
Posted by: Sara on July 9, 2005 05:13 AM
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Meanwhile, in the Peaceful Kingdom...
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Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at July 9, 2005 08:10 AM