Glaring Hypocrisy Interviews Canada’s Latest Free Speech Victim, Monika Schaefer
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B’nai Brith Canada, a national Jewish human rights organization, complained about the piece in the magazine’s June-July issue, with its chief executive calling the column “despicable” and “hateful.”
While some Holocaust deniers flatly reject that Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime in Germany ran a campaign to wipe out Europe’s Jews, complete with notorious death camps that were killing factories, others quibble over the numbers killed and the history behind it.
The piece that ran in the London monthly falls into the second category, an English translation shows, describing the six million killed as ‘a number of impossible magnitude’ and blaming ‘Jewish propaganda’ that ‘managed to spread it and establish it.’
Shala, the magazine’s owner and general manager, said he didn’t know that the facts in the piece, which he said was written by an Egyptian journalist for another publication, were incorrect.
London police confirmed hate crime investigators are reviewing the piece, whose disputed edition carried a prominent Ramadan message by Premier Kathleen Wynne and members of her governing Liberals, and a smaller ad by hometown MPP Deb Matthews, the province’s deputy premier. … London Const. Chris Loizides confirmed police are investigating whether a Criminal Code offence occurred. …
[ Ontario Liberal cabinet member Deb] Matthews issued a statement saying the Ontario Liberals were ‘completely unaware’ of the magazine’s intent to publish the piece when they bought advertising for Ramadan greetings, and condemn ‘in the strongest possible terms’ the ‘anti-Semitic and homophobic views’ in the piece. [One wonders whether Christian publication can expect Christmas greetings from the wildly pro-homosexual, anti-Christian Ontario Liberals?]
‘I assure you that our caucus and I will no longer purchase advertising space in this publication,’ she said in the statement. …
A provincially-funded London agency that helps immigrants, the London and Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership, condemned the piece Thursday and yanked the magazine from its resource list for newcomers.
[B’nai Brith CEO Michael] Mostyn called that move and a statement by the organization’s co-chair, saying it doesn’t condone racist and homophobic views, a ‘positive step.’”
And thus works thought control in politically correct Canada.
Whatever happened to a good old letter-to-the-editor to set the magazine straight. However, the apostles of the tyrannical tribal religion of holocaust do not discuss or debate. And heresy is severely punished.
If this were a matter of historical FACT, it ought to be debatable. Indeed, the number of Jews allegedly killed in WW II has fluctuated wildly. Initially, a figure of 11-million was claimed; then, it was 7-million.By the 1970s, with the creation of the new religion of holocaust, the figure of 6-million became dogma. To question it might mean prison, job loss or fines in Germany and France — a situation suggestive that we are not dealing with history here but tribal legend. After the fall of communism, documents from Auschwitz revealed that the death toll there, formerly claimed at 4-million (about 70 per Jews) was actually about a million . Applying the same 70 per cent figure, this would reduce the Jewish death toll, from all causes, by some 2-million, but,strangely, this never reduced the 6-million figure. This is a mathematical miracle unparalleled since Jesus, we are told, multiplied five small loaves of bread and two fishes to feed a multitude of 5,000.
If this were merely Jewish tribal history, the figure wouldn’t much matter. They can tell one another whatever they like. However, as the new religion of holocaust is imposed on the West, it has implications — guilt mongering, a free pass for Israel, huge reparations payments. As such, it does become of matter of concern to know or. at least, discuss and debate whether what we’re being told is the truth.
Well, not in Canada
By Hala Ghonaim, Jennifer O’Brien, The London Free Press
Thursday, July 21, 2016 8:41:24 EDT PM
Abdul Hadi Shala the owner and GM of Al Saraha in London. (MIKE HENSEN, The London Free Press
Canadian Association for Free Expression
Box 332,
Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 5L3
Ph: 905-566-4455; FAX: 905-566-4820;
Website http://cafe.nfshost.com
Paul Fromm, B.Ed, M.A. Director
Paul Clarke, Editor of The Fitzhugh
Jasper Alberta
July 20, 2016
RE: MONIKA SCHAEFER — FOR PUBLICATION
Dear Sirs:
I was disappointed to read the article “Video Denying Holocaust Causes Uproar” about Monika Schaefer in trhe current issue of The Fitzhugh.
I was especially saddened to see that the Ken Kuzminski, head of the local Legion, is leading a campaign against Miss Schaefer for her having posted a very personal You Tube explaining why she doubts some of the details in the much publicized stories of the holocaust. He’s banned her from the local branch? Is that legal? Banned her for her views? What other views are banned, I wonder?
Furthermore, he’s reported her to the Alberta Human Rights Commission, the RCMP and the German Embassy. He is clearly trying to damage this woman simply for the non-violent expression of her views, however controversial. I’ve defended victims hauled before human rights tribunals for their opinions. These are kangaroo courts where truth is no defence. Google Ezra Levant’s famous confrontation, available on You Tube, with the thought police of the Alberta Human Rights Commission. It’s a shocker.
Frankly, Mr. Kuzminski is a disgrace to a generation who fought for freedoms. My parents both fought for Canada in WW II — my father in the Royal Canadian Navy and my mother as a nurse in the Canadian Army. They both believed, in the language of the day, that they were fighting for ‘King and Country and democracy’ and democratic rights. They’d be horrified to see a woman punished for the non-violent expression of her views. Wasn’t that the sort of tactics of the dictators they thought they were fighting against?
Mr. Kuzminski claims “he’s heard from several young people in town that they no longer feel safe.” Really? Because a gentle, middle aged violin teacher posts her views on WW II on the Internet. Have we really become that feminized and wussified as a nation that dissenting opinions make young people feel unsafe. Whatever happened to all the cherishing of “diversity”? Shouldn’t that also mean diversity of opinion?
I wonder whether it’s relevant that Mr. Kuzminski was an NDP candidate in 2006 and 2008. The NDP is often a bitter opponent of the Greens for votes on the left. He has, so to speak, a horse in this race.
Paul Fromm, B.A., B.Ed., M.A.
Director
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION
Preview YouTube video German Survivors of Allied Atrocities, July 2016
On June 17, Monika Schaefer, a well-known Jasper resident and former Green Party candidate, appeared in a video on Youtube denying the Holocaust. The video was subsequently posted on her Facebook page.
“This is the most persistent and pernicious lie in all of history,” said Schaefer, about the Holocaust.
In the video she described the Holocaust as the “the six-million lie” in reference to the six million Jews who lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis during the Second World War.
The six-minute video quickly went viral and garnered more than 30,000 views at the time of publishing.
At the end of the video Schaefer invited viewers to read several books published by Holocaust deniers, including Ernst Zündel, who lived in Canada for four decades before being deported to his native Germany where he was imprisoned for five years for denying the Holocaust.
Ken Kuzminski, president of the Jasper Royal Canadian Legion, described the video as hate speech.
“Monika has a right to say whatever she wants to say, but once she’s published it I feel that’s moved on to hate speech,” said Kuzminski.
“She can stand up and say whatever she wants, but she has to accept the consequences of doing that.”
He said he has written a formal complaint to the Alberta Human Rights Commission, contacted the local RCMP detachment and the German embassy.
“By her denying that this ever happened it perpetuates hatred, racism and discrimination,” said Kuzminski, adding he’s heard from several young people in town that they no longer feel safe.
“This is not the community we are and what we believe in.”
The Alberta Human Rights Commission neither confirmed nor denied it had received a formal complaint.
“All of the information that comes into the human rights commission with regards to complaints is confidential,” said Susan Coombes, with the Alberta Human Rights Commission.
With that said, she said any complaint involving hate would fall under section three of the Alberta Human Rights Act.
“It’s really difficult to prove,” said Coombes, about whether someone is in violation of the act. “What you have to do is say that there was intent to incite hate.”
The Jasper RCMP confirmed it was aware of the video, but said no formal investigation has been launched.
“At this time what I can say is that I’m aware the video exists and it was brought to my attention,” said RCMP Sgt. Rick Bidaisee. “Discussions are ongoing.”
Schaefer said she stood by her comments in the video during a telephone interview July 11.
“Right now the issue for me is freedom of speech,” said Schaefer. “Last I checked I thought we had freedom of speech in Canada and suddenly I’m the criminal.”
She confirmed she shot the video in Germany, where it is illegal to deny the Holocaust.
“If we don’t have the right to question a historical event then we don’t have freedom of speech,” said Schaefer.
Schaefer was slated to perform during Canada Day, but was pulled from the schedule after the Canada Day committee learned a group of residents were going to protest her performance.
“We had really reliable information that there was going to be a protest and in the interests of public safety and her safety for that matter, we decided it would just be in everybody’s best interests if she stood down for this year,” said Pattie Pavlov, general manager for the Jasper Park Chamber of Commerce.
Kuzminski confirmed she is also banned from the legion.
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) quickly condemned the video after learning of its existence.
“As a Holocaust denier, Ms. Schaefer, who appears in this absurd video, has earned her place on the very margins of society,” wrote Martin Sampson, director of communications for CIJA.
“Her comments would be laughable but for the intense pain they cause the survivor community and their descendants. Denying the Holocaust exposes her as an anti-Semitic ignoramus.”
“The truth is the Holocaust was industrialized, state-sponsored murder committed by the Nazis against the Jewish people. It is the most well documented genocide—by both perpetrator and victim—in history. To deny this fact is to spit in the face of truth.”
News that a formal complaint was lodged with the Alberta Human Rights Commission, comes after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on July 10 in Poland, where one million people, mostly Jews, were killed in the Second World War.
Paul Fromm is the Director of the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee. He points out that sentences are stronger for hate against minorities but not for hate against white people. This is bias against whites. This case was a judgement by Judge Harry van Harten.