Help with error message: Expected end of line but got identifier

The following is a calculated applescript step in a Filemaker script. It tells iCal to go to the date of an iCal event that the script has previously created from Filemaker. The code below keeps generating an error message: "Expected end of line but got identifier." Note: "ACTIVITY::Date" below is Filemaker's way of indicating the file name (ACTIVITY) and the field in question (date). Help appreciated.
"tell application \" iCal\" ¶
activate ¶
switch view to month view ¶
set theDate to date \"" & ACTIVITY::Date & "\" ¶
view calendar at theDate ¶
end tell"

It's not clear exactly what you're aiming for here, so it's not easy to tell you how to fix it.
At first glance I'd say you're missing a quote symbol or two, but even then it doesn't make a lot of sense without more context - for example, 'ACTIVITY::Date' isn't valid as an AppleScript variable name (you can't have a : in a variable name), and your code isn't within a Filemaker block, so it doesn't appear to relate to Filemaker, either.
In either case the only thing that looks remotely valid to me would be:
set theDate to date "\"" & ACTIVITY::date & "\""
but without knowing the context of ACTIVITY::Date it's impossible to tell if this is valid, or how it differs from:
set theDate to date ACTIVITY::Date
(i.e., why the quotes are needed at all)

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