5 Feet of Fury

“Don’t you love the hypocrisy of it all?”

The folks at the Canadian Islamic Congress purport to be the arbiters of what can and can’t be said in this country. The CIC and its sock-puppet co-complainants are the ones who hauled Maclean’s before various human-rights commissions in a bid to force the magazine to publish its Islamist propaganda. And the CIC regularly berates the media — and Canadian society in general — for the sin of Islamophobia. Just last week, the group put on a press conference in Toronto repeating such claims and demanding, yet again, that Maclean’s publish its agitprop — or else.

“Not a week has passed since that event. But the CIC has moved on. Today, the group’s national president, Mohammed Elmasry, published an article on the CIC’s web site about ‘Zionist Israel at 60.’ Not ‘Israel’ — ‘Zionist Israel.’ Elmasry, the country’s self-appointed judge of all that is hateful, is himself so full of hate for the Zionist entity (as Arab politicians like to call it) that he cannot speak the country’s name without using the Z-word…”