FOX News Channel's 'Free Speech Activist' is Infamous Racist Activist
On Aug. 4, FOX News about the Canadian prosecution of conservative author for alleged anti-Muslim human rights violations. Steyn, the author of the No. 1 Canadian bestseller, America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It, has had three complaints lodged against him for human rights violations by the Canadian Islamic Congress. Two cases have been dismissed, but the Human Rights Tribunal of British Columbia is still investigating a charge that Steyn鈥檚 work amounts to hate speech against Muslims.
Steyn鈥檚 book, which was serialized in the well-known Canadian newsmagazine , contends that Western democracies, particularly in Europe, may become fertile ground for Islamic extremists because of rapidly growing Muslim populations.
While there are many individuals and groups that think the prosecution of Steyn harms free speech in Canada 鈥 including PEN Canada and the 鈥 Fox News correspondent Steve Brown chose to interview a decidedly odd source: Paul Fromm, who was very sparingly identified on the broadcast as a 鈥淔ree Speech Activist.鈥 That鈥檚 a pretty weak, not to say completely misleading, description of Paul Fromm. As anyone who lives in Canada or who has access to Google should know, Fromm is Canada鈥檚 most notorious extremist, whose views form a trifecta of hate: he鈥檚 a white supremacist, a Holocaust denier and an anti-Semite. And he鈥檚 got a history of extremism a mile long.
鈥淲hat we are seeing is an effort by minority groups, including in this case radical Muslims, to shut down criticism and that鈥檚 what it is,鈥 Fromm, who habitually mocks Muslims, once calling a Muslim woman 鈥渁 hag in a bag鈥 while participating in a conference put on by former Klansman David Duke, told FOX about the Steyn investigations. At a 2007 meeting of racists and Holocaust deniers in Atlanta, Fromm pulled the Muslim hate card again, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama 鈥渁 crypto-Moslem of mixed parentage."
Fromm鈥檚 been a source to news reporters before 鈥 but not the type who most American news operations would want to brag about. In 2005, Fromm the Iranian Mehr News Agency that Hollywood is 鈥渃ontrolled by Zionists,鈥 discussed 鈥渢he story of the 鈥楬olocaust鈥 ... [that] has allowed the Jews to acquire many billions of dollars,鈥 and described the Nazi genocide as 鈥渁 religion created by the Jews for non-Jews.鈥
Fromm, whose Canadian teaching certificate was in 2007 because of his racist views and activities, is a stalwart of the American white supremacist and anti-Semitic scene. He has attended dozens of white supremacist events, including one held to mark the anniversary of Adolf Hitler鈥檚 death.
Besides running his own extremist group in Canada 鈥 the 鈥 Fromm is a national director of the white supremacist , a group that believes in 鈥渞acial integrity鈥 and views blacks as a 鈥渞etrograde species of humanity.鈥 Fromm is also a signatory to a 2004 hate group protocol calling for an alliance between various racist and anti-Semitic groups, including David Duke鈥檚 European-American Unity and Rights Organization and the neo-Nazi National Alliance.