Moral Dementia
What else might this conceivably be a symptom of, other than utterly bankrupt morals for a Canadian television channel to apologize for previously broadcasting what could only be construed as a call to fundamentalist militant Islamists to take up arms against the "enemy", and to issue a solemn declaration of intent to higher vigilance in future, but yet to once again broadcast another lecture the following week-end by the self-same preacher of hatred.
If Vision TV has set out to confound its viewers and to manipulate its critics, while at the same time clinging to the notion that it performs a vital public function in bringing to its audience a message that anyone living in Canada needs to hear, it is criminally delusional. While on the one hand it had issued an expression of regret for its broadcast of a previous week-end's lecture by a Pakistani-based imam who advocates violent holy war and "extermination" of Jews, it has somehow recanted and managed to re-offend.
The issue has garnered outraged letters to the editor from people who simply cannot believe that such incendiary and hateful messages from an ostensible cleric, could be introduced over a Canadian television station. Among the letters are some from Muslims who are aghast that such an event could conceivably take place in Canada. "I was outraged to hear that Vision TV would carry a program that calls for violence in the name of Islam", wrote one man.
"This program must be shut down as it propagates jihadi violence against non-Muslims. We Canadian Muslims must learn from the British experience and start the crucial task of waking up from the state of denial and realize there is no shame in confronting extremism within our communities. If our beloved Canada is going to confront radicals and violent extremists, we simply cannot afford to tolerate individuals who take advantage of our liberty and democracy to harm fellow Canadians", according to writer Adam Benni.
Yet VisionTV sees nothing amiss evidently, in airing another lecture by this hate-monger from Pakistan, a man who takes pleasure in labelling Jews "parasites", who considers the Holocaust to be "divine punishment" for "condemned" Jews. B'nai Brith Canada's Frank Diamant sees this as "...a complete abdication of their responsibility to knowingly give a platform to this individual whose calls for jihad can clearly be interpreted by his supporters as a call to engage in terrorism".
Despite VisionTV's code of ethics forbidding broadcast of programmes to incite violence overseas or at home, or strife between religions, they have seen fit to go about their business
as though a previous airing hadn't resulted in outraged protests at their weak self-defence and their seeming lack of interest in audience reaction, but much worse, the practical harm their acquiescence to this imam's message can inflict on signal portions of their audience.
This man is recognized for what he represents in North America, where his presence is not permitted. He heads a self-described "revolutionary organization called Tanzeem-e Islam whose intent it is to transform Pakistan into a fundamentalist Islamist state. As the first of many such states meant to launch a global mission for Islam to dominate the political agenda internationally. No mean ambition, that, one he shares with many other psychopathic minds.
As though official Canada and our security agents are not sufficiently engaged in identifying under-cover agents of Islamic terrorism, we've got a cable station broadcasting in a manner that would undermine all efforts meant to isolate, detain and defang the serpents of violence in our midst.
It's amazing just where you can find poisonous vipers' nests, in the seemingly most unlikely places that purport to be a voice for reason and freedom but which nonetheless seem incapable of concealing their fondness for the possibilities of destabilizing the very society that offers them freedom to celebrate diversity.
If Vision TV has set out to confound its viewers and to manipulate its critics, while at the same time clinging to the notion that it performs a vital public function in bringing to its audience a message that anyone living in Canada needs to hear, it is criminally delusional. While on the one hand it had issued an expression of regret for its broadcast of a previous week-end's lecture by a Pakistani-based imam who advocates violent holy war and "extermination" of Jews, it has somehow recanted and managed to re-offend.
The issue has garnered outraged letters to the editor from people who simply cannot believe that such incendiary and hateful messages from an ostensible cleric, could be introduced over a Canadian television station. Among the letters are some from Muslims who are aghast that such an event could conceivably take place in Canada. "I was outraged to hear that Vision TV would carry a program that calls for violence in the name of Islam", wrote one man.
"This program must be shut down as it propagates jihadi violence against non-Muslims. We Canadian Muslims must learn from the British experience and start the crucial task of waking up from the state of denial and realize there is no shame in confronting extremism within our communities. If our beloved Canada is going to confront radicals and violent extremists, we simply cannot afford to tolerate individuals who take advantage of our liberty and democracy to harm fellow Canadians", according to writer Adam Benni.
Yet VisionTV sees nothing amiss evidently, in airing another lecture by this hate-monger from Pakistan, a man who takes pleasure in labelling Jews "parasites", who considers the Holocaust to be "divine punishment" for "condemned" Jews. B'nai Brith Canada's Frank Diamant sees this as "...a complete abdication of their responsibility to knowingly give a platform to this individual whose calls for jihad can clearly be interpreted by his supporters as a call to engage in terrorism".
Despite VisionTV's code of ethics forbidding broadcast of programmes to incite violence overseas or at home, or strife between religions, they have seen fit to go about their business
as though a previous airing hadn't resulted in outraged protests at their weak self-defence and their seeming lack of interest in audience reaction, but much worse, the practical harm their acquiescence to this imam's message can inflict on signal portions of their audience.
This man is recognized for what he represents in North America, where his presence is not permitted. He heads a self-described "revolutionary organization called Tanzeem-e Islam whose intent it is to transform Pakistan into a fundamentalist Islamist state. As the first of many such states meant to launch a global mission for Islam to dominate the political agenda internationally. No mean ambition, that, one he shares with many other psychopathic minds.
As though official Canada and our security agents are not sufficiently engaged in identifying under-cover agents of Islamic terrorism, we've got a cable station broadcasting in a manner that would undermine all efforts meant to isolate, detain and defang the serpents of violence in our midst.
It's amazing just where you can find poisonous vipers' nests, in the seemingly most unlikely places that purport to be a voice for reason and freedom but which nonetheless seem incapable of concealing their fondness for the possibilities of destabilizing the very society that offers them freedom to celebrate diversity.
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