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Toronto Star publisher: Segment of Canadian media peddling “flat-out racism & bigotry” against Muslims in Canada

Apr 19, 2016 2:08 pm By Robert Spencer

Here is more of the same: more media handwringing, portraying Muslims as victims and downplaying the reality of jihad terror. Much commentary from me below.

John Honderich

“Canada’s news media are contributing to mistrust of Muslims,” by Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star, April 18, 2016:

The following is an excerpt from a lecture delivered at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto by Haroon Siddiqui, the Star’s former columnist and editorial page editor emeritus.

He argued that the media have contributed to widespread Islamophobia by conflating Muslim terrorists with all Muslims.

When has the mainstream media, in Canada or anywhere else, ever done that? Even those of us who are frequently smeared as “Islamophobes” and accused of doing this don’t actually do it. The mainstream media doesn’t even come close to doing it.

In doing so, he said, the media are violating their own declared principles of fair and ethical journalism:

The biggest culprits have been the National Post and the Postmedia group of newspapers across the country, which now include the Sun chain.

Hardly a week goes by without these publications finding something or other wrong with Muslims and Islam. These publications are forever looking for terrorists under every Canadian minaret. They are hunting for any imam or any Muslim who might make some outrageous statement that can be splashed as proof of rampant Muslim militancy or malevolence.

Are there any Muslim terrorists? Is simply reporting about them now evidence of “Islamophobia”? Do the National Post, Postmedia and the Sun chain fabricate stories? If not, should they really be faulted for reporting about jihad activity? Do they report accurately about the outrageous statements that imams and other Muslims make? If so, what is the problem? Would it be better for Canadians not to know about jihad terror activity and outrageous statements made by imams and other Muslims?

In the 1950s there was the Red Scare. Today, Postmedia are giving you the Green Scare.

Last week, I spoke to John Honderich, chair of the board of Torstar Corp. I asked him if he thinks there has been an anti-Muslim bias in the media. “Yes, there is,” especially in the Postmedia newspapers, he said. Some of their columnists conflate Muslim terrorists and Muslims – “this has been lethal.”

Lethal? Really? Who has gotten killed? And why are no examples provided, none of these noxious and lethal columnists actually quoted conflating Muslim terrorists with ordinary Muslims? Or do Siddiqui and Honderich mean that Postmedia columnists behave as if Islamic terrorists, who avowedly kill in the name of Islam and in accord with Islamic teachings, are actually Muslims, instead of pretending that they aren’t as everyone else does, and that this is “Islamophobic”?

John Cruickshank, publisher of the Toronto Star, told me that a big segment of the Canadian media has been peddling “flat-out racism and bigotry” against Canadian Muslims. He added:

What race is Islam again? What race is jihad mass murder of innocent civilians? I keep forgetting.

“The popular press, perhaps, are doing what they’re doing not out of some deep conviction or ideological basis, but because they are playing to the notion of building the loyalty of a certain segment of their customer base by creating a tribal solidarity against Muslims. They’re doing it to strengthen their own brand. It is despicable. We have to call them out on it for not abiding by the rules of their craft.”

Would Cruikshank kindly explain the difference between reporting about jihad terror activity and “creating a tribal solidarity against Muslims”? No. For him, they’re the same.

The other media are not blameless.

The media demand that Canadian Muslims condemn the latest act of terrorism, anywhere. Muslim groups and individuals always do so, but the media rarely report on them. So the impression persists among large numbers of Canadians that Muslims have not condemned terrorism and may, in fact, be endorsing it by their silence. The media leave Muslims in a no-win situation.
Actually, as we see frequently at Jihad Watch, the mainstream media generally reports only on how Muslims condemn terror activity, while never exploring why there are nevertheless so many Muslim terrorists, and excoriating as “bigots” all those who explore the ways in which jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and make recruits among peaceful Muslims.

Some of the more outrageous allegations against Muslims have been carried on editorial and opinion pages, especially in Postmedia papers.

Examples? None.

Pundits are, of course, entitled to their views in a free society. But even opinion pieces must adhere to basic facts. Is it really true that Canadian imams are inciting terrorism? Are our mosques really crawling with potential terrorists? Is a preference for halal products really a sign of fundamentalism or militancy – more than it may be for your preference for kosher food?

Siddiqui throws out these questions as if they’re self-evidently absurd. On what basis did he arrive at that conclusion?

The credibility of media with Muslims is very low. Muslims generally don’t trust us. In fact, they’re outright afraid of us. They don’t think they would get a fair shake from us. They are petrified that their words would be twisted and distorted….

Muslims are afraid of the media? What an inversion of reality. The media is the jihadists’ best friend.

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  1. Angemon says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 2:18 pm

    Canada’s news media are contributing to mistrust of Muslims,” by Haroon Siddiqui

    Curious surname for such a peddler of misinformation…

    • ich says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 2:55 pm

      thats what I was thinking too lol

    • Jaladhi says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 3:02 pm

      Yep! Wikipedia gives the following information:

      >”Siddiqui is a family name or surname. Siddiqui means The Truthful in Arabic. Siddiquis are spread all over the world mainly the Middle east, Asia Pacific and Europe. Siddiquis are the descendants of the first Muslim Caliph Abu Bakr as-Siddiq of the Rashidun Caliphate (The four Rightly guided Calips).”<

      Siddiqui is a common in India and Pakistan where most of Muslims pretend to be descendants of Mo or his murderous comrades!! LOL…

      • Jaladhi says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 3:03 pm

        Siddiqui is a common name in India and Pakistan where most of Muslims pretend to be descendants of Mo or his murderous comrades!! LOL…

    • old white guy says

      Apr 20, 2016 at 8:03 am

      the terminally stupid are in control in Canada.

      • Western Canadian says

        Apr 20, 2016 at 10:30 pm

        Yeah. We imported them from the US.

    • Rob Porter says

      Apr 20, 2016 at 12:59 pm

      Angemon, I suspect that you already know that Haroon Siddiqui is a first rate liar working for a first rate lying newspaper, The Toronto Star. Siddiqui’s portrayal of the National Post is of course more lies and it should sue him for slander. It is today a lousy newspaper, spineless over Islam, and I know because I read it – as a kind of last resort – but it does not do what liar Siddiqui says it does. In reality, to a disgusting liar like Siddiqui, just truthfully reporting on violent, murderous Muslims and thus truthfully portraying those Muslims in a bad light, amounts to ‘Islamophobia’. It is nonsense, but being a fairly typical Muslim who believes in and practices ‘taqiyya’, Siddiqui simply exaggerates and lies – and gets away with it because the National Post and others is too gutless to challenge him.

    • Rob Porter says

      Apr 20, 2016 at 1:16 pm

      Angemon, What this liar, Haroon Siddiqui, is trying to do is shut up the cowardly Canadian media from truthfully reporting violent Muslim actions that murder and persecute. As to John Honderich, I once wrote to him to inform him that his newspaper served better use in rural outhouses than as a source of information. That he would concur with the drivel Siddiqui served him in that question, simply demonstrates the peculiar mindset of Honderich. Why agree with a mis-portrayal of truth and reality? I avoided unpleasant discussion, a thing that cowards do.

      • Angemon says

        Apr 20, 2016 at 1:58 pm

        I figured as much, Rob Porter. I can’t, from the top of my head, think of a single muslim commentator on a major, mainstream media that doesn’t do just that.

  2. Peter Charles says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 2:38 pm

    The more push back against the muslim invaders, the better.

  3. Voytek Gagalka says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 2:43 pm

    If only that would be true! Apparently, they are so afraid that it MIGHT be true (such media “bias” against Muslims, currently hardly non-existing), that they are desperate to invent it no matter what, as if in expectation of any future “backlash” (if it will even come): “OMG! Islamophobia is growing! It hunts us behind each and every corner!” Apparently those guys must be really haunted by their evil deeds, have very much dirty conscience and indeed feel very guilty.

    • billybob says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 4:39 pm

      It’s not that. There is no evidence I have seen in the mainstream press of any “Islamophobic” bias. Quite to the contrary, they are always lacking in balanced reporting. For example, when there is yet another terrorist attack, it seems they delay as long as possible to give us any clue about the nature of the attacker, like – by providing his name. What people like Haroon Siddiqui want is the free press to participate in active advocacy for Muslims – like their friend Obama does. They want their cause and concerns to be promoted in the free press – for free!. It is really a subtle, perhaps unconscious form of stealth jihad.

    • Sandra Lee Smith says

      Apr 21, 2016 at 12:39 am

      Yes, indeed, to be that paranoid!

  4. common sense says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 2:47 pm

    Ban sharia law. Japan does not allow muslims to own land and have restrictions on muslim visa’s who work in Japan. They don’t allow for parallel un-integrated cultures to flourish in the land of the rising sun. These restrictions don’t even really have anything to do with the extremism of sharia law or terrorism or IS. Just “sorry muslims you can’t stay”. Best way to stop this archaic culture is to restrict the immigration of it’s people and embargo their trade. Then maybe they’d wake up. Western nations are doing just the opposite.

    • freewoman says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 10:16 pm

      nobody’s going to want to live on that earthquake ridden volcanic radioactive rock anyway.

  5. Jerry says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 2:54 pm

    The left is resorting to outright lies and vicious propaganda, and this here is a good example of it. Their status quo position is to reject the truth, deny deny deny, and defame anyone that dares voice fair-minded criticism of islam or even offer facts that portray it in a negative light. This is how we know we’re in a war for our freedoms and security. When people who pretend to be of your own nation and culture work so hard to destroy it. These people are traitors of good society and morals.

    If I have any criticism of Mr. Spencer it would be that he’s too honest and fair minded for our own good. He does too good a job in sticking to the truth and his conclusions are too in tune with the facts. Of course that’s why so many love him, me included. But honestly, given the state of things I’m wishing he could be as low-down-dirty as are our leftist enemies. But I guess I’m sounding like a fool. We could never do better than sticking to the truth or our good intentions for country and humanity. So I guess I’m out of line here in my frustration. I follow Spencer’s good council because he a man of honest integrity. I wouldn’t want it any other way…but just once I wish he.!.no, forget it.

    • Jerry says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 3:02 pm

      Correction: “…he IS a man of honest integrity.” What I have there makes me sound like a dumb hillbilly. lol Not that I have anything against hillbillies. 🙂

    • freewoman says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 10:19 pm

      No, being reasoned and calm is the best antidote to leftist hysterics. We can quote facts while they scream personal attacks. Folks like Robert Spencer and Bill Warner have said their job is to educate the public about the threat and it’s up to others to come up with policy and measures against it.

      • Jerry says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 10:58 pm

        That’s true, but only to a point, I’d say. It takes more than reason and calm to win a war. It’s always a dirty business, war is, it’s inherently unfair because its express goal is to win at all cost. And they sure know it. And I’m not even talking about those that kill us, I’m talking about the “nice” moderates and their leftist allies. They lie, cover up, and cajole every chance they get, but we’re supposed to play by the rules. In the meantime Europe’s kids and women are getting raped like cattle, it’s a fact. Our civil rights are getting crushed, we’re humiliated at airports, communications tapped, one step away from a police state. Whole neighborhoods swallowed by nasty enclaves that show no promise of assimilating. Protests and riots with threats of jihad. Exploding crime and prisons, welfare depletion, and the subversion of our culture with sharia encroachment and cultural indifference. Their entire political and religious system is in total contrast to our values and way of life, yet we invite them in knowing full well that the outcome will be our death and doom.

        So yeah, you’re right, “reasoned and calm” is the right approach. But an occasional sneak-a-roo might not hurt now and then too. Even a cub scout knows you can’t beat a rabid dog with truth and fair play.

  6. Jaladhi says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 2:57 pm

    What else would one expect from a Muslim nothing but the false complain of Islamophobia promoted by the media. If anything the media is squarely in the corner of Muslim peddling the false fabricated narrative. You cannot expect even an iota of truth from any Muslim – lying and deceit is in their DNA.

  7. Ciudadano says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 3:06 pm

    “They are hunting for any imam or any Muslim who might make some outrageous statement…”

    If you are looking for outrageous statements just open the Quoran or Haddiths

    • Jerry says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 3:37 pm

      That’s right. We’d have to be fools to think that imams aren’t injecting somehow that violence into their teachings, it’s like supposing that Catholic priests forget Good Friday. Violence and bigotry is so central to islam that one cannot ignore it and still be considered a muslim. The very fact that their god and founder were both hateful murderers really does set the tone and tenor for how islam is interpreted. The faithful of any religion don’t ignore the behavior of their god and founder, they typically emulate them. So when muslims have a disagreement between their faith and another are they to seek peace at their own expense? LOL. Nope! Because allah and their beloved prophet made clear that islam is not to compromise for the rights and feelings of others. Islam is to reign supreme over all other faiths, and muslims are considered superior to everyone one else [5 minute pause for laughter] That’s a philosophy of hate and intolerance that we cannot allow to become empowered in the west. It isn’t hate speech to talk about islam’s hate speech. When I speak against islam I’m making a stand for human rights and nation, there’s nothing racist or bigoted about it. I so wish our leftist wussies and retards would stop fighting us, or at least get out of the way and let us do what needs to be done.

      • billybob says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 4:49 pm

        Muslims consider themselves superior to everyone one else for good reason. Imagine you are a moderately devout Muslim who does the ablutions and the prayers five times a day. By the time you have been an adult for some number of years, you have invested a great deal in your religion! Just count up the hours alone. Now imagine some kufr walks by who has not only invested nothing, he doesn’t even recognize there is no god by allah, nor that Muhammad is his prophet. For you he must be as unclean as the dog turd some dog left on your lawn that morning. You couldn’t help but recoil from a physical encounter with him. For damn sure you are going to feel superior! Really, “superior” doesn’t even begin to describe it. For you, the kufr doesn’t even rate – he isn’t even on the map.

        • Jerry says

          Apr 19, 2016 at 5:36 pm

          Well that’s exactly right. They couldn’t possible imagine forsaking their great dedication to those religious delusions, the only response that makes sense to them is that we are horrible kafirs, unclean and beneath them. I’ve seen this same kind of profound arrogant stupidity in other faiths too, but at least they don’t kill you for it. Only islam has the evil chutzpah to inspire millions to kill, rape, and hate for their god.

          I’m with Pam Geller on this when she says, “I don’t care what rock you worship just don’t stone me with it.” I can’t stop muslims from worshiping a murderous god and prophet, but I shouldn’t be forced to tolerate its growth in my neighborhood and nation. Not when it clearly promotes violence, is causing violence, and disseminates murderous hatred against non-muslims. Any free nation that tolerates intolerance will cease to be a free nation, it’s only a matter of time. That’s why I’m against islam and leery of muslim immigration. And surprise surprise, I don’t feel at all bigoted for saying that.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 19, 2016 at 7:21 pm

          So true–it’s like Thomas Jefferson saying he has no problem with any faith that “neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg”–alas, Islam does both, and much worse.

    • Angemon says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 7:19 pm

      Indeed.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 7:24 pm

        Yes–brilliant stuff.

      • Wellington says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 8:30 pm

        Thanks for that. Angemon. Well, mocking evil is the next best thing to crushing it.

        And all you Muzzies out there who can’t resist “checking in” at JW regularly (this would include that nefarious and extremely annoying bunch that would like Sharia to replace the Constitution as the law of the land in America and who make up CAIR), know that you’re “going down.” Yes, your entire and pathetic excuse of a religion is going down.

        Oh, it will come with much more useless slaughter, maiming and subordination of those who don’t accept the “true faith” where Islam still dominates, but Islam is still going down and one day will be looked upon by mankind as one of the most egregious, if not the most egregious, mistakes mankind ever made.

        Count on it, Muzzies. And please do stick your religion, your Profiteer and your “holy book” where the sun never shines. And if I am wrong about Islam, then I defy your Allah to strike me dead tonight. Yeah, go ahead, Allah, do it. I say you can’t because you don’t exist in the first place. You have been nothing more, Allah, than the hand puppet of Mohammed for going on some 1400 years now. But go ahead, strike me dead tonight, Allah.

        See you all tomorrow.

      • Jerry says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 11:07 pm

        Love that. I danced naked and swayed joyfully with every truthful note.

  8. Fessitude says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 3:23 pm

    Siddiqui has been a busy beaver at the Toronto Star for years, attacking the former PM of Canada, Stephen Harper (one of a precious few leaders in the West who is even in the ballpark of sanity about the problem of Islam), in numerous op-eds — including

    Forget terrorists — be terrified of Harperites
    Sat Mar 21 2015

    “Stephen Harper’s government wants us to be terrified of terrorists, niqabis, criminals, thieves, etc. But it’s the Conservatives we should be scared of.”

    http://www.thestar.com/authors.siddiqui_haroon.html

    Siddiqui has that polished, Westernized look, with his navy blue suits and sporting a Stephen Colbert-like haircut and spectacles (he’s sort of a Canadian Fareed Zakaria); but make no mistake, he’s waging jihad against us — the jihad bil-qalam (“jihad of the pen”); mightier than the sword in our current war of ideas context)…

    • Jaladhi says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 3:39 pm

      Of course waging the jihad by any means is a duty of Muslims and no Muslim will ever miss an opportunity for that. You notice this victimhood narrative of Muslims started right from Mohammad when they claimed Meccans were beating the crap out of them. Unfortunately Meccans didn’t succeed in that venture of the humanity wouldn’t have to suffer 1400 years of murderous genocide by Muslims. The same is happening now with a new vigor in all countries of the world where Muslims reside. The results of not dealing with them now will be disastrous for the humanity!!

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 7:25 pm

      Yeah–Siddiqui is a nasty piece of work.

  9. D-spot says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 3:34 pm

    Like your thinking Jerry. Just watched Robert Spencer’s talk on free speech in Montreal – looked like he’d been smuggled in under darkness – absurd to have to be so concerned about the safety of a person speaking – this freedom paid for in the blood and treasure of wars not that long ago!

    • Jerry says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 6:01 pm

      That was my impression too. He shouldn’t have to speak the truth in some hidden bunker. But it’s not over kill that he does, because we know there are muslims out there that…I don’t even want to say it. You know. Had things gone differently in Texas (muhammad contest) and the wrong people been killed we’d be tearing our hair out right now. This is where we’re headed unless we all band together and make some noise. The left has aligned their dirty little selves with islam’s fascist agenda and it’s our job to show them why they’re wrong. No matter how tough they get we’ll get tougher. If we fail the entire world will be in a new dark age. Don’t want it, don’t need it.

  10. Zeke Zick says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 3:35 pm

    Wait-wait-WAIT! According to this jackass, who is spreading hate and racism?

    Could it be members of The Religion of Pieces? ( they blow themselves up into “pieces”)

    Somebody wake me up, as this has got to be a nightmare.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 4:19 pm

      It’s a nightmare of disinformation and naïve Pollyannas who blindfolded themselves to the danger. It’s like Germany in 1930. The searchlights of truth and integrity were being turned off.

  11. mortimer says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 4:24 pm

    Honderich and Cruikshank are unread in the Islamic source texts, and yet, preposterously present themselves as experts on Islam. With no knowledge of the Koran, hadiths, Sira, canonical commentaries, manuals of Sharia law and Islamic history, how can they recognize the dangers inherent in Islam? They can’t any more than Neville Chamberlain did. Chamberlain didn’t bother to read Hitler’s book and speeches. Even if he had, Chamberlain would not have believed Hitler was serious.

    Even 15 years after 9/11 and after an additional 22,000 deadly jihad attacks…Honderich and Cruikshank do not see we are in the Third Great Jihad.

  12. billybob says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 4:30 pm

    Is it really true that Canadian imams are inciting terrorism? Are our mosques really crawling with potential terrorists? Is a preference for halal products really a sign of fundamentalism or militancy – more than it may be for your preference for kosher food?

    I think we need answers to those questions. I thank Haroon Siddiqui for raising them. Our journalists owe it to us to investigate not only facts, but also trends. I think these issues need to be kept before our eyes so we can keep abreast of the situation.

    I think Islam needs to be explored and questioned as a regular feature so that people will be well advised of the facts before they go naively accepting an invitation to dawha. I think I journalists have a responsibility to their readers to keep them well informed.

    Furthermore, I think our journalists need to resist press handouts from Muslim Brotherhood related groups like CAIR. If at any point they use these press handouts in part, it must be framed in the proper context, stating just what group gave them those handouts, who their sponsors are, and what their connections may be to the MB.

    Finally, journalists must resist being intimidated by those who would accuse them of “Islamophobia”. If anyone makes such a vague charge, they should answer it head on.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 8:03 pm

      billybob wrote:

      I think we need answers to those questions. I thank Haroon Siddiqui for raising them.
      ……………………

      billybob, Haroon Siddiqui is trying to demonize the mere asking of such questions as “racism”.

      • billybob says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 9:16 pm

        🙂

  13. mortimer says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 4:38 pm

    Robert Spencer wrote: “… do Siddiqui and Honderich mean that Postmedia columnists behave as if Islamic terrorists, who avowedly kill in the name of Islam and in accord with Islamic teachings, are ACTUALLY MUSLIMS, instead of PRETENDING that they aren’t as everyone else does, and that this is “Islamophobic”?” In other words, they claim that there is a personal, tolerant, folksy, non-judgemental, and unofficial version of Islam. There is not. But Islam is highly codified…they do not know that.

    How do Honderich and Cruikshank convince themselves that ISIS isn’t Islamic? What Honderich and Cruikshank say about the Caliph? Is Caliph al Baghdadi (PhD in Islamic Studies) a Muslim? Or is he fraud? What did Baghdadi’s teachers say about him?

    The professors from the Islamic University of Baghdad, however, do not agree. They taught the caliph and believe his credentials (BA, MA and PhD degrees in Islamic studies) and doctrines are sound.

    “If a person who has a PhD in Islamic studies and does nothing but study the Islamic scriptures knows nothing about Islam, then who does?” questioned al-Baghdadi’s main teacher from the Islamic University, preferring to remain anonymous since the fatwa against ISIS and its chief puts his reputation into jeopardy.

    “The wine-sipping Muslims, those hedonistic adulterers will tell the world what true Islam is? Obama and Cameron know more about Islam than the faculty of Islamic studies at the Islamic University in Baghdad?” the professor bellowed with rage, while talking to a journalist.
    Another professor who had taught al-Baghdadi in BA said off the record that the Isis caliph was an ardent student.

    “He had this obsession with Islamic studies. I used to tell him to go out and have some fun sometimes. But his idea of fun wasn’t too human friendly,” the professor said. “In any case he was a top student. One of the best I’ve ever had. Had the entire syllabus on his finger tips – to be honest, he knew more about Islamic studies than most of the professors.”

    “While you can question WHETHER THEY ARE HUMANS or not, THERE IS NO DOUBT that ISIS, including ABU BAKR (al Baghdadi), ARE INDEED BONA FIDE MUSLIMS,” concluded the ISIS caliph’s PhD professor.

    Honderich and Cruikshank think they know more about Islam than al Baghdadi? They are both humbugs.

    Perhaps…Baghdadi’s teachers are not ‘real’ Muslims as well.

  14. somehistory says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 4:42 pm

    His problem is *The Truth.*
    He doesn’t speak it and doesn’t want it to get out to the populace.

    If newspapers didn’t print anything ever about islam or moslims, he would complain. But, because the Truth is told…terrorists, terrorism, terror, bombings, stabbings, beheadings, and he knows…even if not stated by the paper…that the actions are those of molsims, then the media is being unfair and biased.

    The media that prints the truth or speaks the truth are enemies of those who worship the father of lies…satan.

  15. mortimer says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 5:20 pm

    SUPREMACISM is news, Mr. Siddiqui. Islam is inherently supremacist. Islam is the only community in the modern world that believes in its divine right of supremacism.

    When something this unique is expressed by acts of supremacism, it is news. Because Islam has this unique divine mission of conquer all countries militarily, Islam’s acts of jihad are newsworthy.

    Because of Islam’s unique jihad doctrine, kafir doctrine, misogyny doctrine, Islamic apartheid doctrine, taqiyya doctrine, revenge doctrine, vigilantism doctrine, hejira-jihad doctrine, theocratic fascism, world conquest doctrine, obscurantism doctrine, and non-reformability doctrine, Islam is highly newsworthy because so different from other religion or philosophy.

    Islam is weird…from another planet.

  16. mortimer says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 5:21 pm

    correction: Islam is highly newsworthy because it is so different from any other religion or philosophy.

  17. WorkingClassPost says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 5:22 pm

    Talking about racism, did you get the sneer?

    “Pundits are, of course, entitled to their views in a free society. “

    Bear in mind that Pundit (or Pandit), is a respected term for a Hindu wise person or counsellor, and we already know how muslims view Hindus.

  18. IndianTiger says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 5:55 pm

    From this great distance, I have been following Sidiqui’s writings in the Toronto Star for several years, after a friend in Canada raised red flags about his columns. He is an islamic apologists, pure and simple. By the way, moron Sidiqui, “phoebia” is defined as an irrational fear. The fear (or dislike) of muslims is not irrational. Look around and see who indulges in suicide bombings, senseless violence against civilians, abduction and rape of non-muslims, destruction of ancient monuments (Bamiyan and Palmyra for example), oppression of non-muslims,….. the list goes on. After all this evidence, you expect people to “like” muslims? Not a chance in hell!

    My friends in Canada tell me that they complained about Sidiqui’s biased writings to Toronto Star but nothing was done. They then submitted an article rebutting Sidiqui point by point but The Star rejected the article claiming that columnists have sufficient leeway in their writing without any evidence. Now, the same moron is arguing for counter opinion in other media outlets. Classic muslim strategy: I won’t give you anything but you must give me all the freedom to peddle my lies. My friends in Canada tell me that Toronto Star is a leftist rag, so it is not surprising to see their reaction.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 6:13 pm

      Honderich and Cruikshank feel they haven’t grovelled humbly enough beneath their new masters. They must do more.

  19. Wellington says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 5:55 pm

    Deep suspicion of all adherents to a profoundly troubling ideology like Islam, which to this day requires, among other heinous dictates, that a Muslim who converts to another religion be killed and that severe punishment or death be exacted against anyone criticizing or mocking Mohammed or the Koran, is eminently sensible and defensible. In fact, not having such deep suspicion is evidence of something wrong, whether it be willful ignorance, stupidity, shallowness or actual complicity.

    As I have written before at JW, an ideology must be judged by what it says and not by the fact that many adherents of that ideology don’t fully implement the tenets of that ideology. So-so or even nice KKK members, Marxists, anarchists, etc., exist but this doesn’t make what they adhere to OK. Not even close.

    The highly fallacious contention that Islam is something good, peaceful, noble and tolerant is being exposed for the farce which it is by plentiful amounts of Muslims virtually daily fulfilling or supporting the fulfilling or remaining silent about the fulfilling of sundry Islamic tenets which are inimical to freedom of speech, freedom of religion and equality under the law (the ad nauseam self-pity by Muslims only adds to this farce of farces being revealed). And there is nothing the Siddiquis of the world can do to stop this truth from becoming more and more apparent with each passing year, no matter how many bogus assertions of racism and bigotry they proffer.

    Islam is finally being exposed to all the world, and most particularly to the the West, for the totalitarian and despicable religion which it is. This will only continue despite the deceitful or ignorant attempts to mask this enormous truth. Yes indeed, truth is a very powerful phenomenon. It can be buried for a while but never forever. The Islamic world is finding this out. Good. ‘Bout time.

    • Jerry says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 6:54 pm

      You said that so well. It’s true, it is a very squalid claim they make, reminding us how many nice muslims live the peaceful side of islam. Let’s consider how many don’t, how many rapes and tortures they do, how much murder, and the biblical-sized crisis they’ve precipitated all because of their dedication to islamic jihad and cultural traditions. If we followed the reasoning of their apologists we could justify practically every evil deed, from organized crime to genocide, as they themselves do. Their logic is that we should accept the immoral notion that if most muslims aren’t overtly violent then they are exempt from responsibility and that the ideology itself is above criticism. I disagree vehemently. Moderate muslims are passive participants in what that religion has going. And with so many muslims murdering and terrorizing those moderates cannot claim exemption when the support they give is a tangible real-world benefit to that faith’s supremacist agenda. They’re all part of the same evil, both moderates and terrorists. Moderates may stink a little less, but they’re all part of the same pile of supremacist sh*t. And in regard the ideology, it is self-condemning, as it speaks unequivocally of murder and bigotry toward non-muslims. GUILTY AS CHARGED.

      Yes, islam has been exposed for the evil thing it is. It’s become such common knowledge now, the violence within their religion, that those that defend islam brand them selves as fascists before the whole world. It’s not like it was September 10th, 2001. Since then the entire world has been exposed to the point of saturation with islamic violence. I forget who said it, but all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. If we don’t act in good conscience to stop the spread of this fascist ideology then we will have betrayed our nation, our humanity, and the truth. And we will deserve every bad thing that comes from our abject failure.

    • Angemon says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 7:26 pm

      Wellington posted:

      “As I have written before at JW, an ideology must be judged by what it says and not by the fact that many adherents of that ideology don’t fully implement the tenets of that ideology. So-so or even nice KKK members, Marxists, anarchists, etc., exist but this doesn’t make what they adhere to OK. Not even close.”

      Indeed. There’s no such thing as “radical islam”, much like there’s no “radical Christianity”, “radical Buddhism”, “radical communism” or “radical scientology”, to name a few. Ideologies have set rules and requirements, and just because individuals pick and choose which ones to follow (or simply are not aware of them), it doesn’t mean that there’s more than one version of that ideology. Some Catholics refuse to wear contraceptives. Other wear them. Who is right? Well, what’s the stance of the Catholic Church. Some muslims go to the market. Other muslims blow up the market. Who is right? Well, what do their texts say?

      • mortimer says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 10:45 pm

        Islamic texts are inconsistent and duplicitous and even their scholars admit that. There is no ‘private, personal interpretation’ of Islam, because Islam is highly codified and not a matter of private opinion as Western elites erroneously assume. Western idiots have not studied Islam and are thus easily manipulated by writers like Saddiqui who runs rings around them, then spooks them with post-colonial guilt! Siddiqui is convincing with his uninformed newspaper chiefs, but transparently cunning when you know Islam.

        The Star’s chiefs have been completely duped by Siddiqui. What a cunning trickster…he must be enjoying his trickery. Canada hasn’t a great Islam expert like Robert Spencer who can call his bluff, so Siddiqui continues to get away with his taqiyya.

  20. gravenimage says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 6:35 pm

    Toronto Star publisher: Segment of Canadian media peddling “flat-out racism & bigotry” against Muslims in Canada
    ……………………

    Yeah–objecting in any way to Muslims mass-murdering us is “racist”…

    Here’s what the meretricious Haroon Siddiqui has had to say about Jihad terrorism:

    “To end terrorism by Muslims, end wars on Muslims: Siddiqui”

    http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/11/08/to_end_terrorism_by_muslims_end_wars_on_muslims_siddiqui.html

    In it, he openly sneers at the idea of the Islamic State being evil.

  21. ZULU says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 6:55 pm

    OT

    Nato raises ‘justified concern’ that Isil is plotting nuclear attack on Britain
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/19/nato-raises-justified-concern-that-isil-is-plotting-nuclear-atta/

    German tabloid, Bild, reported that the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) learned from its Italian counterpart that Islamic State members want to attack European holiday resorts
    https://neurope.eu/article/bild-italian-spanish-french-beaches-possible-targets/

    Nato believes there is ‘justified concern’ Isis will carry out nuclear attack in Europe
    Experts say the terror group are trying to obtain biological and nuclear materials
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/nato-believes-there-is-justified-concern-isis-will-carry-out-nuclear-attack-in-europe-a6991836.html

  22. ZULU says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 8:24 pm

    OT

    The Critics of Islam Were Right: An Apology to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Sam Harris, Bill Maher and Other So-Called Islamophobes
    Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/the-critics-of-islam-were-right-an-apology-to-ayaan-hirsi-ali-sam-harris-bill-maher-and-other-so-called-islamophobes-137416/#8ygF8HtiFL7i2Xsi.99
    Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/the-critics-of-islam-were-right-an-apology-to-ayaan-hirsi-ali-sam-harris-bill-maher-and-other-so-called-islamophobes-137416/#5HzoGmjkx2lHlOiV.99

    • billybob says

      Apr 20, 2016 at 6:18 am

      Thanks for the link.

      “Criticizing the Quran and Muhammad is not criticizing or stereotyping the Muslim minority just as criticizing The Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith is not criticizing or stereotyping the Mormon minority. When people criticize the Mormon holy book or prophet, rightfully, there is no attempt to shield Mormonism from criticism or smear the critics as Mormonophobes.”

      It would be just as ridiculous to call Mormonophobes racists as it is to call Islamophobes racist.

  23. freewoman says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    “Pundits are, of course, entitled to their views in a free society. But even opinion pieces must adhere to basic facts. Is it really true that Canadian imams are inciting terrorism?”
    Probably. Is there an equivalent survey of mosques like we had here the US that showed 85% were teaching violent jihad? I’d bet it’s close or more considering how liberal and unconcerned canadians are about terrorism.
    “Are our mosques really crawling with potential terrorists?”
    Probably, and expect more from the 26,000 migrants you already imported with another 25,000+ /yr on the way.
    “Is a preference for halal products really a sign of fundamentalism or militancy – more than it may be for your preference for kosher food?”
    Yes, because the Islamic texts say so. Supremacy is their goal, in every aspect of life.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 10:32 pm

      Halal products pay terrorists.

      • Western Canadian says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 11:43 pm

        And a push is under way in Canada, to force a couple of fast food chains to go for halal certification….. Criminal bastards.

        • mortimer says

          Apr 20, 2016 at 8:30 pm

          11 Muslim MPs with Justin.

  24. Western Canadian says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    The media in Canada has been largely worthless, for decades. PC to the core, willing to bury news items that conflict with their personal bigotry and hatreds…..

    If you do a 180 on what high profile media types say….. You’d be very close to the truth, on any issue.

  25. Dean says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 8:20 am

    Haroon Siddiqui and John Cruikshank have been the biggest media cheerleaders for jihadists in the Canadian media for several decades. Now Siddiqui is becoming the propagandist for all Muslims in Canada. He is motivated by hate for anyone who dares get in the way of the expanding Ummah and of Islamic domination than he is of helping Muslim integrate into Canada. He ignores the problems and bigotry and carnage in the name of supremacist Islam in the world. He loves to hate Israel and spends his time dreaming of ways to erase the history and culture of Jewish life over the ages in Israel. To Siddiqui, who is an Islamic-centric media propagandist, everything is about promoting Islam and making us all submit to Islamic religion and especially politics. He is a master at whitewashing his own religion and his own Islamic country of origin which he never criticizes, and excoriating anyone who criticizes the ongoing campaign to Islamicize the world.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 20, 2016 at 8:33 am

      Siddiqui is promoting Sharia law’s anti-blasphemy and anti-slander rules by ‘other means’. It is ‘impermissible’ for dirty kafirs to write about Islam or to criticize a Muslim…that is what Siddiqui is doing.

  26. Tony says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 8:57 am

    The media is also hammering Ted Cruz for refusing to meet with a “Muslim group”. Ted Cruz has met with Muslim groups in the past. He refused to meet with CAIR because of it’s pro-Sharia and anti-Israel stance. What they deliberately left out was CAIR’s record. Here is the link:
    http://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2016/04/19/media-failing-tell-ted-cruzs-refusal-meet-muslim-group/

  27. Fessitude says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 4:55 pm

    I spoke to John Honderich, chair of the board of Torstar Corp. I asked him if he thinks there has been an anti-Muslim bias in the media. “Yes, there is,” especially in the Postmedia newspapers, he said. Some of their columnists conflate Muslim terrorists and Muslims – “this has been lethal.”

    PC MCs (and, of course, Leftists) often decry the media for a supposedly bigoted bias against Muslims — a charge that is surreal, as Spencer notes, given how far the mainstream media bends over backwards (and salaams forward) to placate the Muslim community in myriad ways — from anxiously handwringing over possible (but never actual) “backlash” against Muslims after every terror attack, to more subtle maneuvers, such as hastening to point out — whenever a news event highlights the fanaticism of Islam in, say Indonesia — that “the vast majority Indonesian Muslims practice a peaceful and tolerant form of Islam”.

    Indeed, the very same Postmedia news & entertainment conglomerate about which Honderich is anxiously worrying for its anti-Muslim bias, employs a cleverly secular-appearing and Millennialish Muslima from Pakistan, Sadaf Ahsan — who (as I pointed out on my latest blog post) splashed the Postmedia’s front page with a report of how actress Salma Hayek (the daughter of a Lebanese Christian dhimmi father) “single-handedly shut down” Donald Trump’s minor gaffe in New York where he said “7/11” where he meant to say “9/11”.

    While Sadaf Ahsan’s other posts at Postmedia are airhead fluff (celebrity dish about Justin Bieber getting into a tussle with some famous rapper, Harrison Ford twisting his ankle on the set of his new movie; etc.), her essay on the Muslim culture of her home country, Pakistan, on the decidedly PC MC blog from Toronto called “The Ethnic Aisle” shows her doing stealth Dawa: http://www.theethnicaisle.com/new-blog-2/2016/2/23/sacrifices

    • Mike says

      Apr 21, 2016 at 5:51 pm

      Trump was referring to Fire Station 711.

  28. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    As of early last year, ALL MEDIA IN CANADA ARE OWNED BY THE SAME LEFTISTS.

  29. D says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 9:27 pm

    It’s not Islamphobic to protect what is yours.

  30. Don Kleim says

    Apr 21, 2016 at 11:50 am

    He says we find something wrong with Islam every week? No kidding.

    The media in Canada, led by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has led the war against the truth through omission and spin doctoring. Doctoring the truth is the same as lying. The left wing media has forgotten it’s obligation to protect the truth. Seek it out and report. Instead they protect the idiotic Liberal agenda which is to impress the world by instituting a massive Muslim immigration policy and, in concert with the media, stifle any reports of wrong doing once they arrive. I seriously fear for the West as we move evr closer to becoming Eurabia.

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