Harding's Treatment is Canada's Shame

I have been writing about the travails of Mark Harding for years. He's the Christian pastor who, not that long prior to 9/11, vociferously objected to Islam being thrust on a local public school. Back then it was considered flagrantly hateful--a crime, no less--to sound the alarm about the violent aspects of the faith. For his prophetic efforts (should you review his prognostications, you'll find that almost everything he predicted re Islam and its fanatical adherents has come true) he was put through the wringer by our court system and carries the burden of criminal record to this day. A travesty of justice, to be sure, one that was compounded when, as part of his sentence, he was forced to do community service under the auspices of ISNA Canada. Since ISNA is a Muslim Brotherhood creation and therefore heavily invested in the supremacist dogma, it should come as no great surprise that the ISNA official to whom Harding was handed proceeded to lord it over him re his lowly kafir status. (Years later, the same official was forced to resign ignominiously due to some, er, inventive bookkeeping--which is just desserts of a sort, I guess.)

When I finally got to meet Mark Harding--a mild, sweet, soft-spoken chap who hates no one--I told him I'd been writing about him, and how sickened I was by what had happened to him. I am thus delighted--no, thrilled--that Ezra Levant has taken up Harding's cause, and is exposing it to TV viewers, to many, no doubt, for the first time. Let's hope it's the first step in redressing the grievous wrong that was done to Harding--and to Canadian freedom.

Update: Lest we forget, Bernie Farber played a role in this travesty:

Bernie Farber, director of community relations for the Canadian Jewish Congress, said that Harding’s material “could have been a tinderbox. It could lead to violence.

Harding's material could lead to violence? Why--did Harding invent the jihad imperative that has animated Islam (and inflamed hearts, minds and infidel property) from the get-go?

Harding was a prophet. Bernie...not so much.