A Liberal Member of Canadian Parliament (MP), Iqra Khalid, who has suggested “that terrorism carried out by Muslims ‘has no religion,'” has tabled a second anti-Islamophobia motion in Parliament. The motion is titled “Systemic racism and religious discrimination,” but it specifies that Canadians must “condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination and take note of House of Commons’ petition e-411 and the issues raised by it.” Petition e-411 was forwarded in June, stating that “We, the undersigned, Citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to join us in recognizing that extremist individuals do not represent the religion of Islam, and in condemning all forms of Islamophobia.” Conservative government members of Parliament did not support the anti-Islamophobia motion when it was first presented for approval in Parliament in October, but it was finally passed last month.
Canadians need to be questioning what is behind these anti-Islamophobia drives, and what the agenda of their originators might be. For starters, the Canadian Charter of rights and freedoms already ascribes to multicultural inclusiveness, and there are already widespread anti-racism programs across Canada that advocate for all Canadians, so why are Muslims being awarded the special privilege of separate motions? A little getting-to-know-you exercise about some of the happy faces of support behind these petitions and motions may be a good start, beginning with MP Iqra Khalid.
Last January, Khalid met with board members of Palestine House in Mississauga (near Toronto) and a “large number of members of the Palestinian community,” including Palestinian political activists. Palestine House supports the Palestinian al-Quds Intifada, and its settlement program was defunded by the former Conservative Harper government for allying itself with terrorism. It was also condemned for:
celebrating the release of terrorists and honouring the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), one of the groups that formed the Palestine Liberation Organization and “in the 1960s and ’70s, was responsible for numerous armed attacks and aircraft hijackings.
According to the Canadian Arab newspaper Meshwar, which covered the event at Palestine House in honour of Khalid, “the purpose of the event was to strengthen the relationship between the members of the [Palestinian] community and the Liberal members of Parliament.”
That same newspaper published an article by Jordanian activist Hisham al-Habishan, who stated that the US and the “ Zionist-Masonic movement” were behind the Islamic State, with the intention of weakening the Arab region. Al-Habishan wrote:
“The goal of the Zionist entity today, and its allies in Washington, by spreading this chaos that followed the Arab Spring in the Arab homeland, is to safeguard their entity, which is called the State of Israel…”
Also at the event for Khalid was Meshwar editor Nazih Khatatba, who once…
advised al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah movement, to change their policy and instead of uttering threats at Israel, to demand from Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President and the leader of the PLO and Fatah movement, to re-arm them.
Khatatba openly calls for armed jihad against the state of Israel, and his position is welcomed and supported by the politics of Palestine House. Yet Iqra Khalid, a member of the Canadian Parliament, was hosted by this jihad-supporting hate organization. During her time as a student at York University, “Khalid was active in student politics,” and she served as “president of both the Muslim student association and one of the two Pakistani student associations.” The Muslim Student Associations are well known for their aggressive Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions on-campus drives to demonize and delegitimize the State of Israel, and for their intimidation of Jewish students.
York has been accused of “allowing anti-semitism to spread.” Shelley Yachaev, president of the Israeli Students Union at York, said “’every little part’ of the university has been infiltrated with anti-Semitism.” Yachaev also said that she no longer walks “anywhere at York (anymore) where I trust the fact I can speak freely.” Paul Bronfman, “a leader in the film and TV production industry,” became outraged and withdrew financial support from arts students at York University when he learned about a large, offensive pro-Palestinian painting that had been hanging at the entrance of a foyer in one of the campus student centers. The painting “depicted a person wearing a scarf with the Palestinian flag, palming a couple of rocks and staring at a bulldozer as it nears a tree.”
Khalid has introduced Canada’s second Islamophobia motion in Parliament intending to, among other things, “recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear.” But how does one possibly go about “quelling” an atmosphere of fear, given the truth about the menacing global violence that is victimizing innocents daily in the name of Islam, even in established Islamic states? What is also now happening in Europe is another cause for alarm: the most dangerous city in Europe is reported to be Marseille, France with a 40% Muslim population; 900 Muslim migrants in England and Wales were arrested for “sickening” crimes; seventy thousand crimes and attempted crimes were committed by Muslim migrants due to Angela Merkel’s open-door immigration policy in Germany; in the UK, there was a massive coverup of up to a million “white girls” sexually assaulted by Muslim rape gangs; and also in the UK, a Sharia courts ordered a Muslim woman to return to her violent, rapist husband, and many such courts still operate and flout British law with impunity.
All over the Middle East, Christians and other minorities are being wiped out by Muslims; Muslim states surrounding Israel have sought and still seek the obliteration the Jewish State; Muslims have murdered some 11 million Muslims since 1948; Islamic texts are still invoked by Muslims of various sects to kill apostates, infidels, homosexuals, and blasphemers against Islam and Muhammad, and to stone adulterers. Numerous reports and YouTube videos have circulated about violence being preached on Western soil by Islamic leaders and imams; yet Iqra Khalid’s private member motion about Islamophobia and quelling a climate of fear and hate is being pushed in Parliament. Note that in the motion, fear and hate are paired together; the two verbs do not necessarily relate.
Canadians should also be asking the question of what this anti-Islamophobia motion actually means, since there is no problem with Islamophobia in Canada in the first place. Jews and blacks remain the most targeted groups for hate crimes, despite the global upheaval being caused by jihadists.
Recall the warning from former member of the International Institute for Islamic Thought, Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, who was present when the word “Islamophobia” was packaged to be sold as a household propaganda tool. Muhammad declared that this “loathsome term is nothing more than a thought-terminating cliche conceived in the bowels of Muslim think tanks for the purpose of beating down critics.”
When the first anti-Islamophobia motion was stalled in October, a Liberal MP from Mississauga Centre, Omar Alghabra, referred to the Conservative attitude as “troubling.” What’s more troubling is that Alghabra stated in 2002 that he did not believe that Hamas (an avowed Muslim Brotherhood proxy group) or Islamic Jihad were terrorist groups. Alghabra has also openly indicated that he favors Sharia for Ontario, and that he was disappointed when it was kiboshed after the 2003-2006 debate in Ontario.
Liberal Member of Parliament Frank Baylis first sponsored anti-Islamophobia petition e-411, which was initiated in June by Samer Majzoub, President of the Canadian Muslim Forum. The petition was celebrated by the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), the former Canadian branch of CAIR (CAIR-CAN). CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism funding trial in U.S. history, related to funding of Hamas. CAIR was also designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates, of all places. In the words of an NCCM press release upon its name change: “we remain the same organization.” The NCCM’s Executive Director, Ihsaan Gardee, said of the anti-Islamophobia motion that it “sends a strong message to Canadians that discrimination and hatred against Muslims is unacceptable.”
The essence of the petition (e-411) by Samer Majzoub, which formed the basis of the anti-Islamophobia motions, outlines the contributions of Islam throughout history and declares Islam a religion of peace which has been hijacked by a violent few. Meanwhile, it has been uncovered that Samer Majzoub managed a Muslim Brotherhood-linked Montreal high school, and that he is also a leader of the self-described Muslim Brotherhood-linked Muslim Association of Canada (MAC).
So yet another anti-Islamophobia motion is being forced upon the Canadian Parliament without sufficient questions being asked about its possible agenda. All the while, Conservative MP Kellie Leitch, who is a contender for the Conservative Party leadership, gets ridiculed in a Toronto Star report and other media for having so-called “anti-Muslim” sentiments and a “Trumpian immigration” policy because she promotes “Canadian values.” Interesting that the Toronto Star exposed the fact that “Islamic schools, mosques in Canada are filled with extremist literature,” according to a study. The Toronto Star report also pointed out that “the authors of the study say what worried them was not the presence of extremist literature, but that they found nothing but such writings in several mosque libraries and Islamic schools.”
Could it be that these anti-Islamophobia motions are being forced through in Canada in order to begin censoring those who warn that jihadist individuals and groups (stealth and violent) pose a global threat and a danger to Western freedoms? And also to also censor those Muslims who recognize that normative Islam is abusive to human rights and who are therefore striving toward the reform of their faith?
The Canadian branch of the American Congress for Truth — ACT! for Canada — has now begun its own petition to counter the passage of Petition e-411. This new petition is “aimed at preserving our precious free speech rights in Canada,” and can be found HERE.
efoc says
Yet again, Islam is using the institutional processes and mechanisms of an established democracy in order to get their “religion” treated as an exception and immunised from criticism. It is already easy for them to do this in an Islamic-based country where they are a majority and rule the institutions however, where they are a minority in Western countries they use the democratic mechanisms in place to bring about the same aim.
Islamic supremacists and taqiyya-deceiving Muslims place this as their aim: to penalise, criminalise, and prevent any honest discussion and examination of Islam. They actually want to corrode the very freedoms we enjoy today, which evolved over centuries partly as a rebellion against religious tyranny. The freedom of speech is there so we can discuss all subjects freely, nothing is off-limits. It is there so we can say things we need to say without fear of reprisal from the state or other totalitarian forces.
It is actions like these that prove Islamic organisations in the West are not willing to be treated as an equal along with other groups in society. They want special treatment, they want special favours, they want special protection….and if we don’t do as they say, we will be punished. It is clear that a genuinely harmonious society cannot exist if certain groups demand such extraordinary treatment; it effectively places them above other groups and also above the idea of freedom of speech itself – Canada is now saying that you can say anything you like but NOT when it comes to Islam.
Freedom of speech is the be-all and end-all. NOTHING is above it, especially the putrid, stultifying bankrupt ideology of a 7th-century madman as codified in its “holy” texts.
Adrian Johnson says
You said it. Amen.
Byzantium1683 says
As a Canadian, darned if I know.
Well, Canada IS more leftist than America. In some ways, that makes Canada a better country….but Its deadly when it comes to Islam.
I hate everything about Trudeau, but I remember when he said we should stop bombing ISIS, that our specialty is helping local civilians. As a country of 36 million, why can’t we do both? I doubt a dead militant cares who hit him.
So many leftists talk about our pacifism, or make the jokes a lot do, about Canadians being polite. Yet it hurts our heritage, us being some of the best soldiers in the world wars!
Adrian Johnson says
Indigenous Canadians must realize Islam “doesn’t do polite.”
But by time they do, they will probably be “Dhimmi” in their own country.
Sardonica says
“I hate everything about Trudeau, but I remember when he said we should stop bombing ISIS, that our specialty is helping local civilians. As a country of 36 million, why can’t we do both?”
In the tiny liberal bleeding heart mind, we ARE doing both. That’s because third world terrorist savages magically morph into “local civilians” as soon as Turdeau and his ilk ship them over here and give them a free lifestyle, all at our expense. In the meantime it’s these same moslems’ Christian and Yazidi
genocide victims, and Canadian “local civilians” who really need our help. But they are forced to compete with the imported media and politician darlings for that help. And guess who wins, every time?
No worries, soon we won’t be permitted to complain about the new state of affairs. Nothing to see or discuss here folks, move right along.
john spielman says
just more BS from the libtard left of Canada and it’s cowardly PM Justin Bieber, I mean Trudeau.
This “anti islamophobia” motion has NO standing in law as it is only a motion- and how can parliament prevent someone from being phobic about islam?
Do they care about phobias against spiders or bats or venous snakes?
Islam is deadlier than any of these as far more people die from islam inspired terror attacks than from spider bites, bat rabies, and venomous snake bites
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM says
“just more BS from the libtard left of Canada and it’s cowardly PM Justin Bieber, I mean Trudeau.”
The are 2 main differences between the 2 beavers, I mean Justins other than both being Kanadian eh!.
Beaver Bieber makes no attempt to mask his callous, infantile callowness, while beaver Trudeau has a small army of acolytes covering his innate stupidity and mendacity .
The other difference is beaver Bieber parties in full view while beaver Trudeau sneaks into mosques to dilly-daddle with the muzz.
gravenimage says
Justin Bieber is a callow moron, but is less dangerous than Justin Trudeau.
Kam says
Canadian Petition in circulation:
Protecting Canadian free speech rights from allegations of “Islamophobia”
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/protecting-canadian-free-speeech-rights-from
gravenimage says
Thanks, Kam.
Darryl Kerney says
AND,
those are the people elected or appointed in charge, along with the rest of the Liberal gov’t,
WHO WANT TO CHANGE OUR VOTING SYSTEM.
does that sound like a good idea ?
not to me.
Dum Spiro says
Khalid… Khalid… Where have I heard that name before? Oh yeah… here: https://counterjihadreport.com/tag/khalid-bin-al-walid/
Hmmm. Today’s Khalid shouldn’t be anything like that other Khalid…
— Spero
gravenimage says
What is Really Behind Canada’s Anti-Islamophobia Motions?
……………………….
Muslims counting on suicidal dhimmitude.
And Muslim supremacist Iqra Khalid is no “Liberal”.
Angemon says
And a nice, big slice of “Saviour Complex” that lets a handful of holier-than-thou morons have an unwarranted feeling of moral superiority for standing for the “persecuted” ones – the fuzzy feeling one gets when they do something that’s morally right in an environment where everyone else is doing the morally wrong. Like if they’re the sole ray of light that shines in an otherwise dark and dank world. Plus, the elected MPs need to show they’re actually doing something, or else the populace will eventually think “you know, we have a really sweet gig here – we don’t even need politicians passing new laws and ordinances any more”.
Plenty of things at play here, I’d say.
gravenimage says
True, Angemon–supremacist Islam, hatred of the free West, and clueless but self-righteous leftism–a perfect storm of dangerous ugliness and stupidity.
Mark A says
Good article.
I’m Canadian and I’ll be watching this closely.
PRCS says
“join us in recognizing that extremist individuals do not represent the religion of Islam”
The idiocy, the obvious cognitive dissonance exhibited by that statement makes clear those who concocted it either do NOT know what they’re talking or they’re intent upon deceit.
The “extremism” they refer to includes barbaric “divine” punishments, violent jihad, hatred of “filthy unbelievers”, etc.
The “extremist individuals” they refer to are those Muslim who DO comply with those very Islamic tenets.
Of course those extremist individuals represent the religion of Islam–more faithfully (sorry) than “moderate” Muslims.
JUSTICEFORALL says
How can they say their terrorism is “not” caused by their religion when their Bible (The Koran) tells their people in 109 places to kill others for one reason = because they are not Muslim! I have read the Bible of many, many religions but Islam is the only one whose Bible tells them to kill people and/or cut off different parts of people’s bodies (fingertips, hands, feet, head, etc.) for one reason – because the other person is not of their religion! That is the only religion I have ever read that says such things! And how can they call it a “religion of peace” when it says such things. I advise everyone to read the Koran and see for yourself!
BLC says
Motions like the ones in this article should be front page news for everyone to know about, but they’re only given lip service if they’re reported at all, as though they’re of no consequence to the lives of Canadians. These are the kinds of things that all Canadians should be voting on in a nation-wide referendum, instead of just sneaking them through Parliament when the Canadian public hardly knows about them.
Michael Copeland says
“…extremist individuals do not represent the religion of Islam”, says Iqra Khalid?
On the contrary. They certainly do.
An “extremist” (in UK “Prevent” strategy definition) is one who adopts violence.
“The Quran directly commands us to commit terrorism, so why are we afraid of it?”
Ragab Hilal Hamida, Egyptian MP,
See “Ideology of Killing” at Liberty GB:
http://www.libertygb.org.uk/news/ideology-killing
“Violence is the heart of Islam”
Ayatollah Yazdi
Michael Copeland says
Correction (with apologies): it is the “radical” who adopts violence.
This is the “Prevent” definition of “extremism”:
“Extremism is vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. We also include in our definition of extremism calls for the death of members of our armed forces, whether in this country or overseas.”
Item by item it neatly matches ordinary basic Islam:
http://www.libertygb.org.uk/news/extremism-–-there-problem-within-islam
Samuel barthis says
The Last time we checked the majority of Canadians voted for the Liberal Party. It is they who sold their intent to the majority of Canadians. We can only protest because we know the dire consequences of the pending legislation. Secondly, Canadians are vastly secular folks. Secular individuals do not subscribe the to Christian(Western Values); secular people are romantics. Romanticism emphasizes the sublimity of nature; thus Islam in all its forms are marveled at by Liberalism because they see Christianity and Western values as archaic. Islam, despite its history and future intent contained in the da’wa doctrine is misunderstood or either interpreted as the critics restriction and oppression of Islam. The vast archives of Muslim destruction does not matter as Liberals operate in the present. we can only hope that when the next Canadian election comes around that there will be a return to sanity!!
gravenimage says
Actually, most secularists understand little about Islam. Sadly, this is true of many Christians and Jews, as well.
andra says
I wonder what has happened to the Canadians in the past years. They used to be a strong and confident Nation. And today they run into dhimmitude faster than any European Country has done sone far.
Florida Jim says
Isn’t this the same words used by the PC police in colleges all over America bullying and shutting off another viewpoint runs alike in both philosophies.
Toxick1 says
I have a suggestion for these poor, misguided muslims. If you are offended and afraid of islamophobes , stay in whatever is your country of origin. You obviously are not wanted here by the majority of Canadians, and should not want to suffer the consequences of your stupid decision to come here in the first place.
mortimer says
Agree. The politicians who want this nutty declaration do not know the Charter of Rights. Canada has the guarantee of freedom of expression in its constitution. Muslims who don’t like it and who want Sharia censorship will have to move to a Sharia hellhole.
Magali Marc says
Am I the only one to notice that by presenting these stupid motions – which have no legal impact whatsoever – the Muslims are just bringing attention to themselves and to the crimes committed in the name of Islam?
If they were smart, they would remain silent – as non-activist Muslims do – and try to integrate into the Canadian society as fast as they can!
Instead, they force the discussion on whether or not rapists and terrorists are acting in the name of Islam.
To throw around the word «Islamophobia » is forcing Canadians who are wary of Muslims to examine their reasons for such negative attitude.
In the end, Canada being a free country, many Canadians might arrive at the conclusion that Muslims are just trying to silence criticism of their creed and with Muslim terrorist attacks continuing, muted indignation is worse. People will say nothing and will end up voting for someone like Trump who is not afraid to criticize …
By the way, as they posture themselves as victims of «islamophobia», Canadian Muslims are just trying to imitate the Jewish community and its fight against antisemitism. They hope to gain the same kind of respect. Problem is: there is no Jewish terrorism, so lefties and Muslims are stuck with accusing Israel and promoting antizionism.
mortimer says
Agreeing with many of Marc’s very perceptive comments. It’s true that a resolution like this cannot overturn the freedom of expression provision in Canada’s Charter of Rights.
gravenimage says
With all respect, Magali Marc, I don’t believe we can afford to ignore the erosion of our freedom of speech, or the inroads of stealth Jihad.
Mort says
If this direction continues, Canada will soon find itself in the same position as Germany and France!
Your citizens will find themselves the victims of Islamic crimes as their populations increase!
Your time as a somewhat free society will be coming to an end, stop voting for liberals!
mortimer says
The ‘Islamophobia’ SPECIAL PLEADING is Trojan horse legislation. It’s stealth jihad. It’s a blasphemy law in disguise. It’s a sly and crafty plot to impose draconian, Sharia censorship over Canadians. It is illegal and unconstitutional to curtail the freedom of speech. No ideology should be above criticism.
Canadians are free to criticize anything they choose to criticize. By allowing this sort of motion in Parliament, the Justin Government shows it is unaware of the idea of civil liberty and thus IT IS UNFIT TO GOVERN.
The Opposition should make a motion of non-confidence.
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer–stealth Jihad is *exactly* what this is.
Don Foss says
What a hoax! Irrational fear of Islam simply does not exist. If you know Islamic doctrine, the sunnah, sharia, post-Hijrah ideology, its scripture…it is irrational NOT to fear it seeping into one’s own culture.
Grace says
It appears that, in Canada, we are on a irreversible course to self-destruction. And, Christians and Jews will be the first to be destroyed by it. When you look around you and see how Christians are being annihilated in all Middle Eastern Muslim-dominant countries, you see only terrorism directed at these religions, and death to all. Look at what happened again in Egypt just this last weekend. And this is what we want here?? Who, in their right minds, voted in all these radical Muslim MPs, and others of influence in government? Just like what was happening in the US, with Muslim-lover Barack Obama, we have a very Muslim-friendly prime minister, and Muslims feel emboldened, and will attempt to take over as much as they possibility can.
gravenimage says
Grace, the Muslim population of Canada is about 3%. Do not give up on your civilized nation, but *fight for it*.
denis says
Any time a Muslim introduces something like this anti-Islamophobia it has one purpose. STOP FREE SPEECH. By this I mean STOP any any comments that are negative to Islam. You must remember Islam is a political-religious ideology whose sole purpose is world domination. This arrogant woman Iraq Khalid (actually a second class person in Islamic eyes) is a pawn being used by the male members of the mosque she belongs too and other outside influences. She is attempting to undermine our Canadian freedom of expression by making it a CRIME to speak out against the VIOLENCE that is so prevalent where ever Islam takes root. If she really want to do something about Islam in the Islamic world go back to Pakistan and try to promote Canadian ideals around religious freedom. You know how long she would last. Less than a week before she would be declared an apostate and some wack job would attempt to kill or kill her. Islam has NO PLACE in western society until it reforms itself as strictly a religion of worship. Today its a religion of HATE , Misogyny war, jihad and selfishness as being the only religion in the world people should belong too. And our shining pony leader JP allows this in Canada.
Jerry ? says
You are absolutely right about the Muslim religion,in their Quaran they call anyone outside of theirs is called an infidel and must submit to Islam and become one with them or be killed.People need to read the Quaran but sadly enough they will not.This is a religion of hate and submission.Send them back to their country of origin,they came here for freedom but are still enslaved by their man made rules.As a Christian I must say,Christianity-Jesus was tolerant of all but did not say conquer and kill those who will not submit,love your fellow man and women.Freedom to choose.
Dum Spiro says
Canadians, this is important for YOU in particular to see:
Read the relevant details here as well about M103: http://www.FreedomToOffend.com
Voter apathy got you Trudeau. Continued apathy will get you — through him — much worse — especially for your children, grandchildren and future generations in your country. You still have a limited window of opportunity to protect your freedom…
— Spero
Ted says
Seriously… let’s stop paying taxes and bills. We can all watch Trudeau and the libtards start turning our beautiful contry into a third world shit hole like Syria.