OSCE: Canadian Representative Wants to Squash Free Speech in the Name of “Tolerance”

In the following video from OSCE Warsaw the Canadian representative used his right to respond to take exception to Debbie Anderson’s intervention warning about M-103. He essentially said that Canada intends to squash free speech in the name of “tolerance”, branding those who spread alarm about M-103 as the intolerant ones.

As an example of the hatred and intolerance being permitted in Russia, he cited the oppression of gays in Chechnya — neglecting to mention, of course, that the persecution of gays in Chechnya is being carried out by Muslims in line with Islamic law.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:

See Vlad’s remarks on this intervention.

For links to previous articles about the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, see the OSCE Archives.

2 thoughts on “OSCE: Canadian Representative Wants to Squash Free Speech in the Name of “Tolerance”

  1. I would like to give some extra information that might help to understand the situation with Chechnya.

    It’s important to know that Chechnya is a land of the sharia law; its priority over the Russian federal laws is closely monitored and guaranteed by president Kadyrov, even if this goes against the Russian constitution. Hence the attitude towards their gays.

    Since 1990, when the Supreme Council of Chechen-Ingush ASSR adopted the “Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Chechen-Ingush Republic”, an ethnic cleansing took place when Chechens murdered thousands of Russians, and hundreds of thousands of the remaining Russian population had to flee.

    Two Russian-Chechen wars followed with Moscow trying to restore some control, but it all ended in the situation when, as a Russian proverb goes, ‘the tail wags the dog’ in the meaning that Russia was humiliated by having to accept the rules of the game dictated by Chechens.

    Looking at the demographic dynamics in the Chechen Republic, the Chechen-Russian population ratio is as follows:

    Census of 1926: Chechens 67.3% vs Russians 23.5%
    Census of 1979: Chechens 60. 1% vs Russians 30.6%
    Census of 2010: Chechens 95.3% vs Russians 1.9%

    Despite Russians hating Chechens as much as Chechens hate Russians, Moscow has a special arrangement with the Republic of Fear that if they let go the most violent, savage and rebellious of all the federal republics, the whole federal construction will collapse with other muslim republics following suit.

    The arrangement costs Russia dearly, as the tiny republic gets a significant preferential financial treatment compared to other members of the Russian Federation. There’s a meme illustrating what would Chechnya realistically look like in a year if tomorrow Moscow stopped paying their jizya to Kadyrov:

    https://pikabu.ru/story/god_bez_dotatsiy_1665980.

    However, this meme may be not true any longer as it appears that very recently in his new search for the global ummah leadership Kadyrov has secured a support from the House of Saud. In early September he had a visit from Prince Khaled bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and right after the prince’s departure, Kadyrov convened a million rally in the Chechen capital of Grozny in support of the Rohingya (who had nobody heard of before). Equally suddenly after that, he announced that there was no point in rallying anytime again in the future for the same cause.

    Many alarmingly bad things are going and amassing in that geographic area, and the plight of gays is just a minute trouble compared to what lies ahead.

  2. Correction: instead of ‘the Republic of Fear that if they let go the most violent, savage and rebellious of all the federal republics, …

    please read ‘the Republic of Chechnya for fear that if Moscow let go the most violent, savage and rebellious of all the federal republics, …

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