Salman Rushdie and the racism of shielding Muslims from offence

Those who want to treat Islam differently to all other faiths see Muslims as lesser citizens.

First the horror, then the silence. It’s been a week since Salman Rushdie was stabbed on stage in New York, the 33-year-old fatwa finally catching up with him, and the mood is strangely muted. There have been some powerful defences of free speech in the media and statements of solidarity with Rushdie, who is still in a hospital bed nursing life-changing injuries. But in general our political and cultural elites have managed only limp, anodyne or oddly delayed interventions – in Labour leader Keir Starmer’s case it took him a full day to say anything about the attempted murder of a fellow knight of the realm. Meanwhile, the culture warriors – those wont to downplay the threat of Islamist extremism and dismiss free speech as a racists’ charter – are keeping remarkably schtum.

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GOLDSTEIN: How hatred of Israel promotes antisemitism in Canada

Laith Marouf – trusted advisor to Justin Trudeau

In 2021, Jews both in Toronto and across Canada were the most targeted religious group for reported hate crimes.

Jews have good reason to fear racists when it comes to antisemitism, but anti-racists often provide the political cover for such hateful views.

When white supremacists march and chant “the Jews will not replace us” it’s obvious what they mean.

But it’s not substantially different from what an anti-racism expert hired by the federal Heritage Department as a senior consultant for a $133,000 anti-racism project, tweeted prior to being hired.


I believe he was hired because of those views. Our public service unions, universities, and political parties have all been infiltrated. Given the slack cut Mohammedans it’s no surprise. “Islamophobia” is great cover.

Toxic immigration policy combined with the toxins of multiculturalism and diversity have poisoned the Kumbaya Kool-Aid.

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Trudeau Vows To Teach All Canadians What It Means To Be Muslim

During a recent visit to a mosque in Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a speech to a large crowd celebrating the Islamic Eid festival. For ten minutes, our PM heaped praise on the community. With passionate conviction, Mr. Trudeau spoke of the virtues of Islam, the value of Muslim-Canadians, and the challenges of Islamophobia.

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To the Antisemites Who Sit Next to Me at School

My NYU classmates talk about the ‘Zionist grip on the media’ and tweet ‘death to Israel.’

To my law school classmate who tweeted, “my love language is marg bar [death to] Israel”: thank you.

To the Students for Justice in Palestine, who explained: “Zionism is, by design, an ideology that promotes violence against, and hatred and delegitimization of Palestinians. Embedded in the Zionist supremacy narrative is the orientalist, Islamophobic idea that Azkenazi [sic] Jewish whiteness is fundamentally superior to Palestinian lives, culture, and identity”: thank you.


I have been blogging since 2006.

Made our bones here bringing Islam to the light of day.

It has not gotten better only worse.

Whether in the USA or Canada, on the university campus or in the public square the atmosphere is poisoned.

Forcing mass immigration on Canada from nations that  despise our values & heritage was a criminal act of vandalism by our elites.

Canada will not recover from the toxins of diversity and multiculturalism. We will be a ‘New France.’

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Surprising No One: The Taliban Have Not Moderated

An Extremist Regime Is Pushing Afghanistan to the Brink

When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, some observers suggested that their approach to governance might prove more moderate this time around. Twenty years had elapsed since the group was last in charge. The country had transformed dramatically, and with the fight against the United States over, tasks like collecting garbage and keeping the lights on now seemed largely nonideological in nature.

The Taliban’s initial actions in office, however, quickly dashed those hopes.

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Colleyville and the evils of identity politics

Why the woke set doesn’t care about this act of racist holy war.

Isn’t it remarkable that all those woke blowhards and self-righteous TikTokers who were raging about JK Rowling’s ‘racist’ goblins a couple of weeks ago have had nothing to say about the violent hostage-taking of four actual Jews in Texas? You remember the goblin controversy. It was a new low – there’s one every week – for the Rowling-hating set. 

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Barbara Kay: The high priests of woke hijack the hijab debate

Readers truly interested in courageous Muslim women’s ‘lived experience’ can find them online under hashtag #FreeFromHijab

Quebec’s Bill 21, which proscribes visible religious symbols in many public-sector jobs — popular with Quebec francophones, unpopular with Quebec and Canadian anglophones — was passed in 2019, but it wasn’t until October that a test case emerged in the public school system. In an act of civil disobedience abetted by Bill 21-dissenting school administrators, substitute teacher Fatemeh Anvari, who wears the hijab, was assigned to a homeroom Grade 3 class at Chelsea Elementary School.

This entire affair is media incited. Sane people do not desire to live under the Mohammedan cult’s sharia law.

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Canadian Medical Association Journal caves to Islamist cult and retracts letter that correctly describes the Hijab as a symbol of oppression

Canadian Medical Association Journal retracts controversial hijab letter

Child abuse

The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) has retracted and formally apologized for a letter it recently published about the hijab following calls from multiple organizations and individuals.

Interim editor-in-chief of the CMAJ, Dr. Kirsten Patrick, apologized on Thursday for publishing the letter, which she said “did not contain appropriate subject matter for publication” and “disgusted many readers across Canada.”

The letter, published on Dec. 20 with the headline “Don’t use an instrument of oppression as a symbol of diversity and inclusion,” was written by Montreal pediatric surgeon Dr. Sherif Emil in response to the CMAJ’s use of an image last month of two young girls, one of whom is wearing a hijab, that accompanied a piece on social interventions in primary care.

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New Muslim-Liberal Party Caucus Speaks To The Future Of Canadian Society

According to a 2015 Supreme Court of Canada decision, political institutions from across the country must remain neutral with respect to religion.

“Federal and provincial governments are under an equal duty to maintain neutrality with respect to religion,” said Carissima Mathen, a law professor and constitutional expert at the University of Ottawa.

Fascinating it is to discover how this flies in the face of a recent development endorsed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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Rex Murphy: Toronto school board takes lunacy to a whole new level

I took down from the bookshelf last night my faded copy of Stephen Leacock’s fabulous Nonsense Novels. I was checking to see if our great humorist, in that fine survey of silliness and vacuity, had lent his quill to the operations of the Toronto District School Board. Alas, not. He was too early on the Earth to reap the harvest the TDSB could have offered him. Even so, were he alive today, even his grand radar for the ridiculous might have been overwhelmed by the density and volume of material, already at hand and in no need of comic exaggeration, for his satirical treatment.

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FATAH: The outrageous censorship of Nadia Murad

 

… The TDSB decision is not merely about censorship. It is about the drumbeat of ‘Islamophobia’ that has made every concerned citizen worry that he or she does not end up with the tag of “racist” throughout their lives.

The sword of Islamophobia now hangs over the heads of most Canadians who wish to keep religion and politics separate and outside the public domain. But they dare not stand up for the values of liberal secular democracy that are the foundations of Canadian values.

Degenerates are in charge at the TDSB

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Prayer in Public Schools Is Back…as Long as It’s Prayer to Allah

Prayer in public schools has been a hot-button issue in the United States ever since the Supreme Court ruled against it in the landmark 1962 decision Engel v. Vitale. But now it’s back, at least in one school district in Newsomland. EdSource reported Monday that California’s “Elk Grove Unified School District began offering culturally appropriate meals and setting aside rooms in many of its middle and high schools for prayer during Muslim holidays in preparation for the additional Afghan refugee students it expects in the next month.”

h/t Marvin

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France launches Islamic art shows across 18 cities to combat rising Islamophobia

“The idea is to show that Islam has been part of French cultural heritage since the Middle Ages,” says Yannick Lintz, the head of the Musée du Louvre’s Islamic department, of a bold new initiative unveiled in Paris today. The French ministers for education and culture are due to announce the simultaneous opening on 20 November of 18 exhibitions devoted to Islamic art in 18 cities.

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OUTRAGEOUS: Virginia Public Schools to Focus on Muslims—As Victims—in Teaching About 9/11 On Attacks’ 20th Anniversary

On Thursday, the Virginia Department of Education published a video entitled, “Culturally Responsive and Inclusive 9/11 Commemoration,” detailing how Virginia public school teachers should handle the upcoming twentieth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 jihad terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans. The emphasis on that day and thereafter must not be on the ideology of the attackers or the ongoing jihad terror threat; rather, the focus is entirely on acknowledging and eradicating what the video calls “anti-Muslim racism.”

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