A huge problem that I had for many many months after Chapters in a press release said that I made "racist" statements,was
the following: Chapters refused to put in writing just what I am alleged to have said to justify their actions of
calling me a “racist”, etc. They refused to do this, even though the Court ordered them to disclose this by a certain
date, which they failed to do, and I had to push them in the court proceedings to finally release the written statements of the
employee or employees upon which they based their press release. The obvious reason that they refused for so long
was that in fact I did not say anything at all “racist”. In addition, they made the allegation BEFORE they had any
written statements at all - they were in such a rush to submit to the Islamist intimidation of an 18 year old part time
employee. My biggest problem then was in this Orwellian world I was fighting against an allegation which, although made,
and which, while extremely prejudicial in this cultural climate, did not even have to be disclosed to me. It is almost a
secret trial, where Judge Heather Reisman decided I am a racist, and the entire Jewish community, and civil rights
community, and the intellectual Left, are prepared to accept that. With very few exceptions (the wonderful Canadian Coalition
for Democracies, and the Mackenzie Institute) I couldn't get any organization to help fight this “chilling” McCarthyism
of the Left.
I fear that this is in fact a type of McCarthyism where instead of witchhunts against Communist sympathizers, we are out to
shun Israel sympathizers, and anyone who dares voice concern over cultural problems in the Arab world, especially in radical
Islam. It is hard enough to exercise freedom of speech when your “unpopular” opinions expose you to physical
intimidation, but when you can’t get any backing or support, it becomes a “martyr’s” game.
For a long time I tried to get the Waterloo police department to charge the Islamist hecklers who broke up the lecture, with
"causing a disturbance". I wasn't asking them to charge them with a hate crime, although it would have been
appropriate. I thought causing a disturbance would be an easy charge to make stick. Not only did they refuse, one
detective eventually told me to stop bothering them, or she might charge me! (with what, I don't know)
I thought if I could get Canadian Jewish Congress or the Wiesenthal Centre to make a formal request to lay charges, the
police might take this more seriously. I was so disappointed that none of them would pick up the phone or
send a letter or email, I was quoted in the Canadian Jewish News stating the obvious - that it would have helped if some Jewish
organization had been willing to help. Ths statement obviously irked Bernie Farber the Executive Director of the Canadian
Jewish Congress, so he decided to put me in my place: he said he had no idea what happened at the Chapters (although I
offered him sworn affidavits from witnesses) and that he had "every confidence" in the Waterloo Police Department. That
kind of despicable attitude reminded me of the Jewish Councils during the Holocaust.
I feel that only now, after 4 years, with the trial upcoming, and the country waking up to the "lawfare" against Levant and
Steyn, are people waking up to what happened to me, and what it means. The internet is a big help when
established media (even the National Post) wouldn't cover the story.
One other problem is that certain Jews who own or manage big media or bookstores, live with a pathetic attitude of fear that
anti-Semites will see them as proof that the Jews control the media, or this or that. Submitting to your anti-semitic
critics is a pitiful sight, and one wonders what good all the money, prestige and power is doing, if they have to be so fearful
and so submissive.
If you look at the written statement of Ms. Al-Halimi, it is quite clear that allegations of racism are used as a weapon
against those who are firstly, perceived to hold the "wrong" opinion about some ideological, political, or religious issue,
and, secondly, are in a position of greater (perceived) power, since "racism" has been redefined by some evil academics as
relating only to those situations where there is a power differential.
Here, again is the written statement of Al-Halimi, and notice how little it has to do with the facts, and how much it has to do
with what she thinks I must think of her.
Read this carefully, as it tells us a lot about what are we are facing when Canada's monopoly book retailer puts enough
confidence in this statement to ban my books. And note how she ends her rant with the chilling lines that what I must
have thought about her amounts to "racism at its worst".....You can imagine how I feel, when I lost my grandparents and aunt to
the gas chambers for the crime of being Jewish, that I now find out that what I did at Chapters was in fact "racism at its
worst" by this young girl but more importantly by Canada's monopoly book retailer. And note please that I in no way
said "All Middle Eastern people are terrorists" or anything close to that. And note the irony that my novel is
about a professor who gets in trouble after giving a lecture:
“ I went to see the author signing fifteen minutes into it and when I got closer to the area, I heard voices that became louder
and louder. I saw two people in the audience, one calmly stating basic facts to the author, the other yelling out, ‘What
are you … a f***ing Jew?’ only to have the author yell back, ‘A f***ing Jew? This only proves that Middle Eastern people
are terrorists.’ From there the yelling progressed, eventually reaching a point where the managers asked the audience
members to leave, and the author gave up and stepped into their office.
“For a person to come into my workplace and insult and judge me in such a manner without him knowing anything about me is
absurd. According to him, when walking down the street, I should be avoided at all times because my skin is darker
and I wear a headscarf. I am aware that the man in the audience should not have cursed at all given the atmosphere.
Nonetheless, the author, as a professional and as a representative of what books the company holds should have controlled
himself against saying such piercing words. It was uncalled for, rude and worst of all it was racial
discrimination.
“What frustrates me most about this whole scenario is the fact that both customers and employees alike had to witness something
so hateful towards those of Middle Eastern descent. At one of the most difficult times to be of a visible minority for
Arab and Muslim people, it was completely unjust for him to generalize the way that he did. I also noticed that he kept
repeating the word ‘they’ and ‘them’ like we were some vicious robots that act, think and speak alike with one brain. Even if
it was for a split second that someone looked at me and thought, ‘So she’s a terrorist?’ that is one split second too
much. I have never in my life done anything to intentionally hurt anyone, and to be accused of being one that
intentionally inflicts pain upon others is hurtful and untrue. It seems as if my genetic makeup caused him to
automatically make an unfair assumption. And that is racism at its worst.”
- Written statement of Raneem Al-Halimi, part time employee at Waterloo Chapters.
Well that's a classic case of the lady who doth protest too much. Howard, if I didn't know the Kafkaesque nightmare in which
you've been put, I'd have a good laugh at this. Her statement is inherently funny in its naive attempt to fool with
righteousness; let's hope you have a judge not so mired in pc as to see this. But just as Hamlet had to put on the play
within a play to reveal his mother, I think there is reason to hope you are on the right track with forcing the issue into
court.
"By "protest," Gertrude doesn't mean "object" or "deny"—these meanings postdate Hamlet. The principal meaning
of "protest" in Shakespeare's day was "vow" or "declare solemnly," a meaning preserved in our use of "protestation." When we
smugly declare that "the lady doth protest too much," we almost always mean that the lady objects so much as to lose
credibility. Gertrude says that Player Queen affirms so much as to lose credibility. Her vows are too elaborate, too
artful, too insistent. More cynically, the queen may also imply that such vows are silly in the first place, and thus may
indirectly defend her own remarriage.
Howard: your story so closely mirrors Ezra Levants it's shocking. I see that both Heather Reisman and the CJC who
decided you were a guilty racist, have similar attitudes toward Levant...Reisman pulling the Mohamaed cartoon issue of
Western Standard from Chapters shelves and the CJC taking sides with his tormentors.
Your story is made all the much worse because collusion and outright lies were employed to unjustly brand you a "racist"
which has impacted in direct loss to you and defacto censorship of your writing.
Your story concerning your abandonment by police, Jewish NGOs, Civil liberties NGOs and the general media and their
watchdog orgs, is a chilling journey into the savage heart of Canada's cultural relativist amoral future. When redress and
justice break down and popular wisdom forsakes truth to embrace lies in whitch the resulting culture makes the victim the
criminal and the criminal the victim we are living in a de jure state of dystopian chaos.
I hope you find some redress in the common courts but what is really needed is public exposure and vindication of the
injustice and censure you have faced in the pall of the dystopian race politics at play in this once civil nation. I hope your
case can get some noteriety...but I recall you saying that even JK at the Post refused to help.
For what it's worth, here's one civil libertarian who feels your outrage and shares your sense of injustice.
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