Why
Canada's Left Has Lost My Vote
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Originally published under the title, "Why Mulcair Has
Lost My Vote."
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New
Democratic Party (NDP) Leader Thomas Mulcair says the war against ISIS
"is not our fight."
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The Western world's flaccid response to threats posed by the forces of
Islamism is best described by the British author Theodore Dalrymple in
his book, The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender
to Barbarism.
Referring to the Danish cartoon controversy of 2005-2006, Dalrymple
writes, we are "virtually giving in to demands that certain
important subjects (like Islamism) henceforth be placed, de facto, off
limits for discussion." Dalrymple writes it was obvious that for the
West, "the quiet life was clearly preferred to the costs of securing
a free one; if only we appeased enough, there would be peace in our
time."
This political cowardice within the Left, camouflaged in a burka of
anti-war rhetoric, is visible right here in Canada as well. Both New
Democratic Party (NDP) Leader Thomas Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin
Trudeau have demonstrated the symptoms of appeasement
In an interview
with Maclean's, Mulcair recently criticized Canada's role in the
coalition now fighting Islamic State (ISIS), claiming, "This is not
our fight."
Political cowardice within the
Canadian Left is camouflaged in a burka of anti-war rhetoric.
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That may be true for Mulcair, but other Canadians have a more global
view of our tiny planet. We feel for the families of bloggers beheaded in
Bangladesh and the Kurds slaughtered in Kobani. Imagine telling the
parents of the girls kidnapped by Nigeria's Boko Haram jihadis that their
fight "is not our fight."
For someone like myself who has been on the Left all my life, spent
time in prison as a socialist, fought for gay rights in hostile Islamic
communities, and who lives under death threats, Mulcair's words were a
betrayal.
At one time, internationalism was the hallmark of democratic
socialists. Today, many on the Left have become Sharia Bolsheviks.
It wasn't just Mulcair's Maclean's remark that was offensive to many
of us who have suffered the indignities of Islamism.
During the leaders' debate, the NDP leader quipped, "(W)e know
that a lot of the horrors that we are seeing are the direct result of the
last misguided war (U.S invasion of Iraq)."
Mulcair thinks it is America's
fault that ISIS beheads fellow Muslims, pushes homosexuals off roofs,
and enslaves women.
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I was stunned. Here was a man vying to be Prime Minister of Canada
reading a script whose logic could have been taken straight out of the
Muslim Brotherhood hymnbook. In effect, Mulcair was saying it was the
fault of America that ISIS was beheading fellow Muslims, pushing
homosexuals off the roofs of buildings and making sex slaves out of captured,
non-Muslim female prisoners.
Nonsense. Jihadis have been doing this since the dawn of Islam.
I doubt that Mulcair knows the recent bloodbath by ISIS in an Iraqi
city was not the first such action by jihadis. On April 21, 1802, 200
years before the United States invaded Iraq, jihadis from the first Saudi
state ravaged the Iraqi city of Karbala, killing 5,000 fellow Muslims,
plundering the city and destroying the 1,000-year-old tomb of the
grandson of Prophet Mohammed.
As for that other man seeking to replace Stephen Harper, Liberal
Leader Justin Trudeau's positions on Canada's and the West's national
security reflect his fear of offending Islamofacists.
When CBC's Terry Milewski asked Trudeau, "If you don't want to
bomb a group as ghastly as ISIS, when would you ever support real
military action?" Trudeau's response was shocking. "That's a
nonsensical question," he retorted.
In 1988, I put up my federal NDP sign, "This time it's Ed"
on my front lawn and voted for Ed Broadbent and his party.
This time, I will not vote NDP.
Tarek Fatah, a Robert J. and Abby
B. Levine Fellow at the Middle East Forum, is a founder of the Muslim
Canadian Congress, a columnist at the Toronto Sun, and the author of the
award-winning books Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic
State and The Jew is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that
Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism.
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