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Lawyer for 18 year old Islamist explains why I am a "racist"

edit secondgenerationradical 2008-08-05 22:05 UTC 4 comments

 

The lawyer for the then 18 year old Islamist/book clerk who stood by smirking as people known to her (including one who had been previously ejected from the store after a demonstration regarding Irshad Manji’s book) shouted me down with racial epithets has warned me of the futility of my lawsuit when it is “my” word against that of his client.    I thanked him for reminding me that indeed his client’s word would be compared to the word of some reputable Professors in the audience and myself, a lawyer/author - who has a record of writing for a multicultural magazine edited by a fine Egyptian Muslim lady, and who was lawyer for, and a close personal friend of, a leading Muslim family in Waterloo (who would actually say their evening prayers in my office if they were at my office if the time for prayers was due), and who had an unblemished reputation during 25 years as a lawyer, a developer of affordable housing for the working poor, and an award winner from the municipality.

 

I realize what a world we are living in, that when I am called a “racist” by Chapters, on the basis of an allegation by his client that I supposedly said that “all Middle Easterners are terrorists (which would be a silly statement not a racist one because Middle Easterners include white and black Jews, Coptic Christians, Arab Christians, Bahais, etc.) and when I then sue the maker of this statement, I am warned that this substantiates that my behaviour is racist.  As the lawyer wrote to me,

 

 

“If her version of facts is accepted by the trial judge, as it may well be unless you have some persuasive evidence from witnesses other than yourself to the contrary, it could sound like cultural stereotyping on your part – “racism” by another name – to try to connect her with this event.”

 

  

 

In other words, I am now a “racist” if I sue the one Chapters employee who was the only Chapters’ employee there for most of the event, and who made the allegation against me that caused her employer to label me publicly a “racist”.   Notwithstanding we have a bizarre rambling statement given by her to Chapters, (stressing what she thinks I think of her because she wears a hijav) I am warned that I am a racist to even try to connect her to the event. There is very little that I can do, or not do, at this point to escape the opprobrium and consequences of an 18 year old making up things against me.   It was all so easy for her.   

 

I am doing what I need to do, at great personal stress and inconvenience, to protect our children from a nightmare world, and to protect the rights of legitimate authors.

 

One irony is that the novel is about a professor who gets in trouble for using some rather loose wording in a lecture.    One would think this irony would be apparent and remarked on.

 

The lawyer for Chapters mainly just threatens that they are going to have the suit dismissed at the beginning of the trial, based on their allegation of the inadequacy of the pre-trial disclosure of the publisher’s accounting records to substantiate that the publisher might have lost some money on account of Chapters “banning” the book, returning over 300 copies a week after I demanded they withdraw their allegation that I am a racist, and even removing the book from their web sales.  

 

This world keeps getting more bizarre.  I am deemed a racist for suing those who make up allegations against me for purpose of banning my book.  The mere fact that I assert my rights proves my racism.  As a son of a survivor of Auschwitz whose parents’ and sister’s mere Jewishness proved their crimes against the Third Reich and justified their death in the gas chambers, this line of thinking….i.e. that a Jew who merely asserts his right to be free of hatred, intimidation and censorship is by that fact alone guilty of racism …is extremely scary.   God help us.

 

Comment #1enrico

2008-08-08 00:14:38

Why weren't the police called?  They were creating a disturbance.

The west needs to do whatever Is necessary to stop the soft jihad as well as the hard jihad.

I loved your response to "your word against his ", he assumed his word has equal credibility.

I wish you luck with the legal action  and be safe

Comment #2secondgenerationradical

2008-08-08 03:14:07

Thanks, Enrico for your comment.  The police were called but the Chapters manager did not want to call them, and first tried to tell me he did not know the number.  I told him to call 911.  They kept me in the manager's office with the door locked, and only later did i find out that the Police let the hecklers go without even talking to me or impartial witnesses.   To find out the rest of the story, please refer to:

http://www.secondgenerationradical.com/freeform_3.html

and read Chapters 2 and 12.

It is an amazing story.

I kept trying to get the police to charge the "hecklers" with causing a disturbance but to no avail.  I appealed higher up for an investigation, but the Detective in charge was very sarcastic.  First she told me it was my word against the hecklers.   Then when I told them we had affidavits from professors in the audience, she told me to leave the matter or she might charge me!  (with what I don't know).   You can also read on the blog about the assinine response I got from Bernie Farber of Canadian Jewish Congress, when I asked him to ask the police to lay charges.

Comment #3Vote for David

2008-08-08 18:38:57

As an American, as a Christian, and as a human, your story saddens and infuriates me, while reminding me that history is beginning to rhyme (again).

I will be praying for you and the results of the upcoming trial.

Do not be disheartened.  Remember that "All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."

Comment #4Acute

2008-08-08 19:52:17

I have been following your story and I wish you all the best in your upcoming court action. This is a sad story for Canada. What will become of us, if people like you choose not to fight back.

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