Are Copts in Canada silent?

A reader has an interesting angle on the Muslim parliamentary candidate in Canada who, standing before a Christian Copt congregation, enthused about how his nomination was a “victory for Islam,” and the Liberal Party failed to reprove him for it.

I’m writing in response to the rather abstract arguments on Canadian (and certainly American) liberalism some of your readers have contributed regarding the Muslim Liberal candidate’s outburst (now it looks like another Muslim politician made the outburst at the meeting) in the Toronto suburb Mississauga-Erindale riding nominations.

I found it all enlightening and interesting, but I believe the story is grittier and messier than it looks. The Coptic congregation had no business loaning/renting their center to a clearly Muslim candidate. Coptic members had no business participating in the nomination of an avowed Muslim candidate.

In the name of Canadian Liberalism, which gives them just the right amount of welfare benefits, free medical care, free university education, the indefinable “multicultural” state, and anti-Israeli/anti-American rhetoric, Copts who fled Egypt are now sitting in the same room as their murderers, who will only do exactly the same here in their free Canada.

This is the biggest irony of all, and the biggest abandonment of responsibility. Instead of nominating Liberal candidates and installing Muslim politicians, these Copts had the responsibility, which they shunned and ignored in a shameful way, to warn their new found countrymen against the dangers of their old enemies, and Canada’s new ones.

For money, and a little ethnic recognition, they have given it all away. There is nothing innocent about this; just clear (or rather muddled) calculation.

The liberals have found just the right kind of people, Muslims and Liberal Copts, to run their agenda to its logical consequence. Even Paul Martin ignored the too-late cries of the Copt who informed him of these outbursts.

If people with this kind of wisdom and historical knowledge about Islam cannot stand up and help their new-found countries, who is to say that they’re not aiding and abetting the enemy?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at December 23, 2005 01:57 AM | Send