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NDP opportunism betrays Canada

There was a time when the left in Canada, the NDP and its supporters, understood the meaning of freedom and stood prepared to defend it against its totalitarian foes.

Through the Cold War years the NDP and the anti-Communist left recognized the totalitarian nature of the Soviet system and while pushing for democratic socialism kept distance from Communist parties and their fellow travellers in the West.

The NDP made a vital political/moral contribution in opposing Communism and denying Communists in Canada the opportunity to acquire any shred of legitimacy by posing as defenders of the working people.

But that good sense, which characterized the NDP leadership from its founding years in the Depression era of the 1930s to the end of the Cold War, seems to be lost to the present leader, Jack Layton, and his federal caucus as it embraces Islamists of the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC).

Totalitarian politics, irrespective of whether of the left or the right, crushes human freedom and reduces individuals into cogs of the state machinery. Islamism is a totalitarian political ideology masquerading as religion, not dissimilar to Bolshevism and Maoism.

The goal of Islamists in the Arab-Muslim world is to establish Islamic states and implement sharia (Islamic laws) as codified a millennium ago in the modern world.

The current state of violence and unrest in the greater Middle East results mostly from the politics of Islamism and resistance to it.

In Canada and other western countries the Islamist agenda is to push for the recognition of sharia as a parallel legal system. This would make allowance for sharia-based rules – unequal male-female relationships, dress code and gender exclusion, divorce and child custody, inheritance rules, polygamy, limiting free speech in discussions of Islam – that run counter to the values of secular liberal democracy.

ISLAMISTS DECEPTION

Since most Canadians are generally uninformed of the distinction between Islam and Islamism, they are readily open to the deception of Islamists.

The tragedy and the scandal in the present circumstance is that while too many brave Canadian soldiers have fallen in securing Afghanistan from Islamist jihad (war), CIC and its allies in Canada go about unchecked in promoting their agenda and making propaganda in support of Islamist organizations such as the Palestinian Hamas, the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood, the Pakistan-based Jamaat-i-Islami and its offshoots including the Taliban.

It is, however, inexcusable for any federal party to be uninformed about the nature of Islamism and Islamists in Canada. It should be a matter of embarrassment for any federal party to receive public endorsement from an Islamist organization as the NDP has received from the CIC.

Instead of repudiating CIC chief Mohamed Elmasry’s support for the NDP, Jack Layton has opened the party to front for Canadian Islamists. In the riding of Bourassa in Montreal, Layton is running a CIC operative, Samira Laouni of Moroccan origin, as NDP candidate.

The mildest thing that can be said about this embrace is how dimwitted the political opportunism of the NDP is in promoting Islamists in Canada.

Opportunism is the staple of politicians, but Layton’s dismal judgment backed by his Quebec deputy, Thomas Mulcair, MP for Outremont, comes close to betrayal of Canada’s honour and the brave men and women who have given their lives in keeping peace and defending freedom.

Salim Mansur
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