Entertaining Education

The insidious hateful malevolence of the Islamic Republic of Iran seems to surround us.  Most people, of course, would be ignorant of their meddling, but perhaps not if they happen to be Jews.  Toward whom much of that hateful malevolence is directed.  And it can be delivered in a variety of ways. 

For a general audience appreciating comic appearances, there is, for example, someone like Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, who is arriving from France to put on a four-day show, labelled Rendez-nous Jesus (Give us back Jesus).  Claiming Jesus for his own, he must obviously admire and respect Jews, for Jesus was a Jew.  But no, not quite.

According to Dieudonne, "It's clear the Jews control everything - the media, finance, politics.  We no longer have a choice.  We must exterminate them."  Obviously, Hitler, whom the comic alludes to as "a nice boy", did not do a good enough job, although it's not quite clear whether he rejects the occurrence of the Holocaust or bemoans its lack of thoroughness.

Iran, it appears, helped fund Dieudonne's first feature film, L'Antisemite.  The French anti-racism group Licra attempted to have the film and trailer banned.  His lawyer insisted it was merely "slapstick comedy", whose value was cathartic.  The judge ruled that despite its "insidious and particularly excessive nature", there was no urgency to prevent the film's sale.

It is not only in Quebec, however, that Iran's particular brand of lethal Islamism raises its ugly head, but Toronto as well.  It would appear that the East End Madrassa which uses a curriculum supplied to it by its affiliate, The Islamic Shia Ithna Asheri Jamaat, whose resident scholar complained in an online sermon that the West was "hyping the whole world up" against Iran because of its nuclear program, adding "this is all because of this fellow sitting in the Middle East, Israel" also has Iranian connections.

The passages of the Madrassa's texts alluding to Jews in rather unflattering terms were from books published by the Al Balagh Foundation in Iran, and the Mostazafan Foundation of New York, a front organization for the government of Iran.

The Toronto District School Board, which has permitted the Islamic school to operate out of a high school may wish to look into its co-operative venture with the East End Madrassa.  Or not.