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Radical Jewhater to head new Canadian Islam-kowtowing foreign-policymaking organ

Bad news from Canada's version of Foggy Bottom: a noted antisemite is to head its new Islam-fellation department.

OTTAWA - Canada's foreign affairs bureaucracy is proving its well known anti-Western credentials once again with the announcement that effective immediately it will be creating a special department to deal specifically with the world's Muslim community.

The group, to be known as the Muslim Communities Working Group Operational Unit*, institutionalizes an informal group created in the summer of 2005 under the previous Liberal Government. According to an internal memo, the new department will "serve as a clearing house... for issues concerning relations with the Muslim world... and take the lead in providing timely, strategic advice on relations with the Muslim world, and the lead in creating a policy framework for our overall approach to this subject."

"Canadians should be deeply troubled by this announcement and what it says about the agenda of Canada’s foreign affairs bureaucracy," explained Joseph Ben-Ami, Executive Director of the Institute for Canadian Values. "Certainly, if foreign affairs functionaries were concerned about ethnic sensitivities or religious tolerance, they would have created a department to deal with Hindus and Christians, whose populations approximate that of the Muslim world. Why the favouritism?"

Particularly worrying is the involvement of Crystal Procyshen who will serve as policy and operations officer of the new unit. Ms Procyshen is well known for her radical anti-Israel views. In an article written in 1997, she wrote that "Israelis, in order to fulfil their political prophecies of a Zionist state where they would be safe from persecution, are propagating a recurring cycle of hatred towards the Palestinians as they struggle to expand the state of Israel."

Other statements written by Ms. Procyshen include allegations that:

"Since the Israelis illegally occupied the autonomous regions of the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem, they routinely torture, kill and deprive Palestinians of their rights. Under Israeli control the Palestinians have no freedom of movement, no freedom of speech or press, no jury of peers, no trials , imprisonment without just cause, no right to education, no right to an attorney, no right to property, no right to trade or profit..." and,

"If East Jerusalem comes under full Israeli control, the Palestinians cannot (sic) pray at the Temple Mount or Holy Sepulchre."

Ben-Ami called this last accusation particularly odious. "In the first place, East Jerusalem was under Israeli control since 1967, although some of that control was shared with Palestinian security as part of the disastrous Oslo Accords, so she clearly had no idea what she was writing about," he said. "But the part about Palestinians not being able to pray at Temple Mount? That's pure fiction from start to finish."

Ben-Ami says the new government must make reform of Canada's foreign affairs establishment a top priority.

"Canadians want our country to be a principled player in world affairs, not a lackey to the sort of extreme anti-Western ideology that has enslaved our foreign affairs establishment for a generation. It has been the proverbial tail that has wagged the dog for years and it's time for that to change.

"The only question is whether Minister MacKay is up to the challenge."