Torquil Campbell should move south to El Ay. He would fit right in with Kristen Stewart and Neil Young and all the other star-studded idiots. In any case, this is how the Left thinks: with an unconscious colonialist paternalism, they assume that Muslims could never be acting for reasons of their own. They are merely passive reactors to whatever the big bad white non-Muslim West does. And so if a jihadist goes on a shooting rampage in Ottawa, it must be because of Harper’s policies. It couldn’t possibly be because of the jihad doctrine within Islam. And of course it never occurs to Torquil Campbell how much this stance of his resembles that of the old White-Man’s-Burden colonialist whom he doubtless despises. Yet both he and they think of the West as the only force in the world capable of rational thought and action, and of the Muslim world as simply raging irrationally against the West’s depredations, incapable of any independent thought or action.
“Stars’ Torquil Campbell Blames ‘Fascist’ Harper For Ottawa Attack (TWITTER),” by Jason MacNeil, The Huffington Post Canada, October 22, 2014 (thanks to Maxwell):
The shootings in Ottawa today prompted many Canadians across the country to turn to Twitter to voice their thoughts.
But a series of tweets by Stars singer Torquil Campbell, sent while parts of Ottawa were still on lockdown, caused considerable outrage as he called Prime Minister Stephen Harper a “fascist,” implied that his policies were indirectly responsible for the attack and predicted “this terrible event will be used by @pmharper to further his authoritarian agenda.”
He also claimed “this government has made this country the kind of place where these things are more likely to happen” and added “tell the lies, foment the fear, watch the people fall in line. it’s a good day to reread 1984.”
It all began with this tweet that Campbell sent this morning this morning:

jihad3tracker says
Again Robert Spencer gets right to the essence : “colonialist paternalism”.
I call it privilege guilt, and my fellow JW commenters here certainly have other ways to explain such behavior.
mortimer says
Agree. Spencer’s analysis is right-on: Post-colonial guilt combined with a real colonialist mentality of the cultural Marxist!
They say in effect: “We are the only ones who know the REAL explanation of Islam…it’s economic disentitlement! Muslims rampage, not because Allah commands it, but because Europeans offend them! We must stop Europeans from offending them and suppress everything that is European, their culture, their religion, even their race by supplanting Europeans and colonizing them with Muslims who can be counted on to destroy European colonialism and replace it with ISLAMIC COLONIALISM.”
Alex says
Oh please. Rock stars, film makers, actors. Why do people give them so much attention? Most of them didn’t even make it to college. Bunch of people whose career success depends on how much emotion (and fake) they can put in their act, far from any kind of rational thinking or knowledge of anything serious.
terry says
This comment by Torquil Campbell shows probably the main reason why the west can’t deal properly with the threat of Jihad and Islam’s ideology in general. Sadly he is not the only one making such comment.
My hat off for the honourable Prime Minister, Stephen Harper!
He is one of the last mature courageous leaders in the west that is probably clearly seeing the core cause of the problem and not cowardly and blindly going with the crowd.
Jay Boo says
Leftists are opportunists and are like unscrupulous jackals.
They have a shameless dual agenda.
mortimer says
Leftards or ‘cultural Marxists’ as I prefer to call them CHERRY PICK the answer…that is…they lazily take the easiest fruit to reach and then make a HASTY GENERALIZATION about the topic.
Without examining ALL the cherries on the tree of Islam, the ‘cultural Marxists’ are UNABLE to generalize about ‘WHAT ISLAM TEACHES’.
Robert Spencer with considerable effort and balanced scholarship HAS looked at all the cherries.
So…Mr. Obama, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Cameron, CNN, New York Times…who is better to determine what is Islam? A lazy leftard making HASTY GENERALIZATIONS or a scholar like Spencer who has spent 20 years studying Islam?
JS says
New guideline in liberal journalism:
Scenario 1: A muslim just killed a soldier. Waste no time to defend the shooter and the muslims!
Scenario 2: An evangelical Christian spilled a milk. Waste no time to attack the milk spiller and Christianity.
Roz says
Exactly!!
Mississauga Matt says
“Canadian rock star?” Never heard of this guy before. Hardly recognize anything when I read his and his father’s bio. So I’ll care when he morphs from a nobody into a somebody.
peterbrockley says
Just who the hell is Torquil Campbell? Never heard of him or her. Comments from an unknown idiot should be treated with the contempt they deserve.
Liz says
Torqil who?? I’ve lived in Canada all my life and I’ve never heard of this guy.
Eunice Well says
Torquil Campbell appears to be another imbecile who loves the acts of terrorists.
ninetyninepct says
Is this the Torqui who is a homosexual islamist muslim who prefers to have sex with male pigs? If so, it would be good if Islam beheaded him at his next attempt at what he claims is music.
Charli Main says
Anyone, regardless of their race or skin colour, who refuses to submit to Islam and carry water for Muslims is a Fascist or an Islamophobe.
gp says
On leftists:
“They are the most disagreeable of people…Their insincerity? Can you not feel a sense of disgust at the arrogant presumption of superiority of these people? Superiority of intellect! Then, when it comes to practice, down they fall with a wallop not only to the level of ordinary human beings but to a level which is even far below the average.”
“These very high intellectual persons who wake up every morning…see what they can find to demolish, to undermine, or cast away.”
“Let them quit these gospels of envy, hate, and malice. Let them abandon the utter fallacy, the grotesque, erroneous, fatal blunder of believing that by limiting the enterprise of man, by riveting the shackles of a false equality…they will increase the well-being of the world.”
-Sir Winston Churchill
Uncle Vladdi says
VERY Nice quote, thanks!
So…
Are these heedlessly hedonistic libertine “liberals” really possesssed by the Devil?
Not by the devil, no – just by their own cowardly treasonous criminal masochism, where they always try to “control” their fears BY causing the pains they fear!
That’s why there’s no crime or perversion a libertine “liberal” (criminal) won’t immediately try to compromise with or Submit to: because, as idolaters, anything they can imagine as “possible” becomes immediately “probable” and then “inevitable” as their perpetual focus on, and so also worship of, their own fear of Pain itself takes them over!
Oh, wait – worshipping “inevitable,” conscious Pain incarnate really DOES make them Satanists after all!
My bad!
😉
ecosse1314 says
Campbell being a Scottish gaelic name…interesting and appropriate that it means crooked mouth. Nae offence to others named Campbell.
profitsbeard says
A note to the airhead singer:
Music is forbidden by Islam.
Suck on that, moron.
sidney penny says
Words like fascist,racist,Nazi are words used by people who have no arguments.
They cannot refute so they name-call and smear. It’s a tactic — distract and destroy.
They cannot debate so they resort to personal attacks.
alyn21 says
Who the hell is Torquil??!!! Never heard of him. Maybe that is why he feels the need to say ignorant words about PM Harper. Just to get attention.
Jack Gordon says
Unfortunately, since I know the (poisoned by leftism) atmosphere that plagues Canada these days, this warbling creep may be right; ever since the days of the dope-smoking bimbo-beloved Pierre Elliot Trudeau, the country has been controlled by a feminized electorate ready to adopt any leftist cause however lunatic; Caspar Milquetoast should replace the maple leaf as the national symbol. Had Campbell (and sadly many of his fellow countrymen) been around in 1939, they surely would have blamed the Poles for provoking Hitler. I am glad my Canadian grandparents and mother are long gone because it would pain them to see what a collection of pantywaists has replaced the real men and women who once lived north of the 45th.
Jack Gordon says
Reading over my post, I see I left out something critical: This creep may be right THAT CANADIANS WILL BLAME HARPER. His charge against Harper, naturally, is as bogus as his ”talent” for singing (the reason most people reading this blog never heard of him). Sorry for any confusion caused by my cutting and pasting in message # 1.
ninetyninepct says
Singing? You call his screeching singing? When his mouth makes noise it is possibly caused by his tiny testicles being licked by his boar pig lover.
Uncle Vladdi says
Dear leftists:
I’m sure ISIS kills muslims and rapes Yazidi girls because of Canada, too.
I’m sure they behead babies in front of their parents and then put the babies’ heads on spikes to parade around Iraq, simple because they can’t get at Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, too. Makes perfect sense!
And I’m sure it’s why the Taliban rape their bacha-boys in Afghanistan, too.
Except … that islamic terrorism isn’t grievance-driven at all – it’s all strictly and officially docrtine-driven, and that doctrine clearly states they are out to get us NOT because of anything specific we do, but because of WHO we are: non-muslims!