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Bat Ye’-Or Speaks [Candace de Russy]
Last week, numerous distinguished professors, authors and diplomats attended a symposium in Canada titled "On The Front Line of Immigration, Terrorism and Ethno-Politics." Various Muslim organizations were on the case, demanding that the event be monitored by the Police Hate Crime Unit.

According to Michael Coren in the National Post, these groups were especially incensed by the presence of the renowned writer Bat Ye'or:

If the other speakers provoke certain people, this diminutive, gentle and brilliant 74-year-old lady seems to positively terrify them. They urge immigration authorities "immediately to bar Bat Ye'or from entering Canada."

Here is some of what this “daughter of the Nile” had to say:

It is, I suppose, deeply ironic that I was told that I was not allowed to live in Egypt when I was a girl and now as a grown woman I'm told, in part by people from Egypt, that I shouldn't come to Canada either…

As late as the early 20th century, in some Muslim countries Jews had to remove their shoes when they left their own quarter, were not allowed to ride a horse, were treated as second-class citizens. This idea of equality is nonsense…

What occurred back then is history, but history has to be understood and accepted. What we have now is revision, denial. Muslim immigrants are taking this false idea of the past to Europe and North America, along with a culture that does not share the Western notion of tolerance, equality, criticism of religion and freedom…

There are courageous Muslims who do resist but it is difficult and dangerous. There is an underground of Sharia law across Europe, with terrible treatment of women. This is combined with the threat of violence aimed at anybody who speaks out against what is going on. Censorship through fear. We even see this to a mild degree in Canada, an example being the attempt to stop me entering the country.

Thanks to the Fraser Institute for sponsoring the conference and, I suppose, credit goes to the Canadian government for not caving in to Muslim calls for censorship.

# posted by Yr. Fthfl. Svnt. @ 9:52 PM