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Robert Spencer:
From our No-Good-Deed-Goes-Unpunished comes this Toronto Star article, “Town puzzled by memorial to slain teen,” about the memorial for honor killing victim Aqsa Parvez in Pelham, Ontario.
The memorial to Aqsa in Pelham is a textbook case of how political correctness and self-aggrandizement can ruin a good initiative. In the Toronto Star piece, Scott McLeod and everyone else backpedals furiously to make sure that no one gets the idea that their memorial has anything to do with Islam or Pamela Geller. In reality, she is the one who started it, in December 2008, as you can see here. She first published photos of Aqsa’s unmarked grave, which McLeod just happened to see somewhere, on December 12, 2008. McLeod only entered the scene in February, in consultation with Pamela Geller. Nor is this a case of simple journalistic bias, for McLeod has been acting this way for many months.
If this had just been a case of someone taking credit for someone else’s work, I wouldn’t have said anything about it — but when the one who is responsible is not only not credited, but demonized, it becomes important to speak out. For this same tactic hamstrings such efforts whenever they’re attempted, and those who are defending human rights against Islamic supremacism and violence should not let it go unchallenged. We have to stop living in fear. If the people in Pelham wanted to memorialize Aqsa and the victims of honor killing, they should have done so wholeheartedly and without apology. Instead, they’ve put themselves in the position of doing something and apologizing for it at the same time, and furiously dissociating themselves from the one who started the whole thing.
We will win no battles, much less wars, that way.
Dear Mr. McLeod,
I am writing to you this morning because I am appalled at some remarks you made in today’s Toronto Star piece about the Pelham memorial to Aqsa Parvez.
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