We are quite capable of knowing who our friends and enemies are. If the National Post and Greg Brady want to be cheerleaders for genocide in the middle east, that is on their conscience. But using their bully pulpit to muddy the waters with fantastic allegations that LGBTQ support for human rights is supporting Islamic extremism is the worst kind of yellow journalism.
Greg Brady’s Interview with Terry Newman of the National Post, “Whether the attack on Pride in Berlin might finally break up the LGBTQ — Islamic extremism alliance” offers a master class in obfuscation.
First, there is no LGBTQ-Islamic extremism alliance outside the fevered imaginations of Brady and the National Post. If anything, the attack on Berlin Pride should clearly demonstrate that.
There is, however, in LGBTQ communities, as in most of the rest of the population regardless of sexual orientation, a growing revulsion against Israel’s brutal ongoing genocide in Palestine, and growing solidarity with the beleaguered population of Gaza and the West Bank. That solidarity has nothing to do with anti-Semitism, nothing to do with religion and nothing to do with LGBTQ-Islamic alliances. It is motivated by people’s conscience, a sense of right and wrong and support for human rights, everyone’s human rights, including Palestinians'.
The National Post’s recent obsession about LGBTQ communities as somehow being idiots and dupes of people who hate us is insulting to the intelligence of our communities. We are quite capable of knowing who our friends and enemies are. If the National Post and Greg Brady want to be cheerleaders for genocide in the middle east, that is on their conscience. But using their bully pulpit to muddy the waters with fantastic allegations that LGBTQ support for human rights is supporting Islamic extremism is the worst kind of yellow journalism.
Tim McCaskell