Memo to the TRB: If You Trash the Free Speech of the Pamela Gellers, Only the Zion-Loathing and the Exquisitely Politically Correct (Who Are Often One and the Same) Will Get to Speak

The eminent rabbi who put his name to the anti-Geller screed wants to quell QuAIA, too (see "Statement to City Council on Pride Parade"). And since he's the local king of interfaithiness, he thinks his voice carries extra heft (sort of like how Barack thought his voice would carry extra weight with some because of his Arabic first name and his Muslim dad):

While respecting the right of free speech, my colleagues and I find the term “Israeli Apartheid” hurtful, the organization Queers Against Israeli Apartheid distasteful, the participation of this organization in the Pride parade and activities to be repugnant and the financial support enabling such involvement objectionable. The presence of QuAIA makes a parade of inclusion into a political pageant of exclusion and is a negative mark against our City.  As some of you know, I helped to organize the Path of Abraham study mission to Israel and Palestinian Territories in 2010. We brought 60 Muslims, Christians and Jews to visit the Holy Land, meet with religious leaders, listen to families that lost loved ones to acts of terror and war, and meet Israeli settlers, Palestinian politicians, and people seeking to create the possibilities of peace. We discovered concern and complexity. We witnessed appreciation and admiration that Jews, Muslims and Christian from Canada would travel together and learn from one another.  Cooperation and co-existence is the model that the world wants from Canada and Toronto, not simplistic slogans that unfairly smear a sovereign state seeking security and civility. On the Path of Abraham, we were told many times that Israeli trade and industry was critical to the economic health and welfare of Palestine and that unbalanced criticism of Israel actually hurts Palestinians.   

The proposed anti-discrimination policy recognizes that political discourse and affiliation may lead to harassment, denigration and discriminatory action. It should enable Council to decide that the participation of QuAIA violates the anti-discrimination policy of the City. We urge Council to continue to work with Pride Toronto to search for ways to avoid the politicization of the parade and its use for propaganda rather than the celebration of inclusion.   Show support for the gay community by affirming Kulanu and the State of Israel, the only nation in the Middle East that provide legal protection for the gay community.

Hey, go for it. But first show support for those who dare speak the truth about sharia and the supremacist agenda (which, newsflash, is the antithesis of "a celebration of inclusion"). Support those who defy totalitarian speech codes, both leftist and Islamist. If you don't, you will soon find that, though you scream your head off (a la the chief of the TRB), only the QuAIAns and their ilk have a voice that will be heard.

And, oh yeah, there isn't a whole lot of "civility" or "complexity" in "Allahu Akbar!" You'd know that, if you'd listened to Pam.