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A Fixed Way of Looking at the World

Feb 10, 2017 9:18 am By Michael Devolin

“A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports that myth.” — Edward de Bono

In a recent article in the Huffington Post, Thomas Woodley tells his readers that “Islamophobia” is defined as a “dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force.” My question is, Who says I have to like Islam or even Muslims? I don’t like Trotskyites, nor do I like Montreal Canadiens (on or off the ice), and I sure as hell don’t like Liberal Party of Canada members, especially not our Prime Minister. Is my dislike of all these people some sort of phobia? The Liberal Party of Canada is also a “political force,” and I am nauseated at the very thought of any of their members coming to my door around election time, asking for my vote. But is my dislike for these people and this “political force” somehow immoral, even so much as to deserve the imposing attention of the state?

The anti-Islamophobia petition in Canada is being presented with the premise that Islam is, and of itself, a salubrious ideology and constructive for Western society. But I don’t see it that way. I have heard many people echo the overused argument that “the terrorists have hijacked Islam” and that, of itself, Islam is a “religion of peace.” Well, I am not writing this article to go into all the proofs against such naive and grossly imprudent views. Been there, done that. My point here is that if I should boast that I live in a democratic country, I must also have the freedom – as an inherent right – to voice my objections to the many obtrusions of Muslims and their imperialistic cultural whims into Western societies, both in Europe and North America.

Omar Alghabra is now one of PM Justin Trudeau’s top advisors. This is a man who, as Paul Lungen reports in the Canadian Jewish News, condemned “CanWest newspapers for labelling Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations.” Lungen goes on to reveal of Alghabra that, during an interview with B’nai Brith’s Jewish Tribune back in 2006, “he declined to condemn suicide bombers; he said he didn’t believe Hamas was dedicated to Israel’s destruction; and he claimed UN Resolution 242 required Israeli withdrawal from all captured territories, which the clause itself leaves indeterminate, and that he’d criticized Toronto’s police chief for taking part in a charity walk for Israel. He also said he mourned the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. And when Ontario declined to permit the use of sharia law in Ontario, Alghabra said he was disappointed.” So, I must ask the question: am I commanded by the new anti-Islamophobia law to “like” Omar Alghabra and to condone his views on the terrorist entities Hamas and Hizballah simply because he is a Muslim (and a member of the Liberal Party of Canada)?

I haven’t noticed any petition condemning Judeophobia. During my time in the Jewish Defense League, I have seen many placards on the opposite of the street calumniating Jews, Zionism, and the State of Israel. Apparently such calumniation, if it’s directed at the Jewish people and the State of Israel, is permissible in Canada’s diminishing democracy. And after all, as many Jewish friends have told me over the years, the non-Jewish world (and especially the Muslim world) is quite comfortable with shameless and insouciant hatred of Jews and Judaism and the State of Israel. Funny thing is, though, the Western world is suddenly offended by certain perceptive individuals (i.e. Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller) pointing out the blatantly obvious connections between Islam and Jew-hatred, between Islam and today’s scourge of terrorism. Accusing Jews of every evil under the sun, condemning “Jewish settlers” for realizing their indigenous rights in their ancestral homeland, is permitted the Muslim, but conversely, pointing out the imperialistic sermons and barbaric tendencies of some imams residing in Canada is now prohibited by law with the threat of prosecution. How is this any different from 1933 Nazi Germany, where any public dissent against Adolf Hitler’s fascist regime was enough to land one in Dachau as a “political prisoner”?

The anti-Islamophobia bill will become a veritable rooftop podium from which Canadian Muslim groups supportive of Hamas and Hezbollah and other terrorist entities such as al-Qaeda and ISIL will push their anti-Israel and anti-democratic/pro-sharia agendas with an invigorated impunity. Anyone who opposes their views, who dissents from what always was and always will be their imperialistic objective; anyone who points out the intention of many Muslim advocacy groups, which is to obtrude their religiously embedded cultural practices into Western societies; will be prosecuted by the state and labelled as racist and “Islamophobic.”

The myth Canadians are now being forced to accept is that Islam is an innocuous and salubrious religion: Muslims do not have a history of violent imperialistic tendencies; and they really do like Jews, regardless what their Quran says. The way things are looking for Canadians right now, thanks to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party and Thomas Mulcair’s NDP, this myth will not be destroyed anytime soon, as any voice of dissent, any public objection to their myth, will be met with the full force of the courts. Welcome to Canada. Welcome to 21st century fascism.

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  1. Angemon says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 10:38 am

    My question is, Who says I have to like Islam or even Muslims?

    Indeed.

    • Alexis Wilkins says

      Feb 11, 2017 at 4:36 pm

      Agreed , who says indeed , the bloated Canadian Government is attempting to enact laws to make its citizens swallow the way of life Sharia Law , Muslim tentacles are in the halls of power as I write this , to conform their way of thinking unto us in North America. I have no fear only a great loathing for the Liberal mind set and history is a testament of the virus that is Islam .

  2. common sense says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 10:41 am

    Muslims have only one will, to serve Allah
    I have ‘free will’ as taught over and over by my faith and framers of the US constitution. This served our country and the rest of the world better than Islam, for all our problems we only need to look at the historical evidence. They have constant civil war we dont and Americans help more people world wide than any other nation ever.

    The goal and meaning of Islam is to ‘submit’ to their interpretation of life and worship. Shariah law is their biggest facilitator which I freely choose to disregard, critisize and prevent from entering my world of free will. I like being free, I like speaking about freedom, I like individual thought and freedom and like having a right bear my claws to defend that freedom. Somewhere a patriot smiles.

    The kids getting their hands chopped off in the other post under the caliphate don’t have that same free will. There is no such thing as Islamophobia or Islam to me because submission is not in my dictionary. Imagine that I have a phobia about submtting? Free will has no definition under Islam and therefore no meaning to Muslims. Some Muslims only ‘think’ they’re free to force their view opon us by political pressure or by the sword. See opening statement above….they’re not really free at all.
    God does not program humans he lets them live.

    • common sense says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 10:44 am

      And even if you are atheist you know this is true. Free will is the key to life and truth.

      • MorrisBCanada says

        Feb 10, 2017 at 3:14 pm

        To Common Sense: couldn’t have said it better myself. Cheers to the writer of this article.

  3. marina says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 12:11 pm

    Islamophobia is logical. If islam tells its followers to hurt non followers then we have every reason to dislike Islam. Trudeau should be kicked out.

  4. Thelastvirgingoat says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 12:25 pm

    This ignorance seems to include also many Jew’s. I remember seeing a video from the Rebel’s Ezra Levant where he talks about how much negativity he got while speaking at a synagogue about Islam. Political correctness runs deep trough all of western society.

  5. isabella van der westhuizen says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 12:28 pm

    Stand fast Israel stand fast

  6. mortimer says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 2:55 pm

    Omar Alghabra is a Saudi secret agent in the Canadian cabinet.

  7. underbed cat says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 2:55 pm

    Sure the mosques are welcoming….but they view you as butter, and they are the knife. It is amazing how well the propaganda has worked in presenting this political/not very nice religion to the west. It is shocking that leaders who are trusted to protect the public against harm have so little information about what they support. The west has been so easily misled , although it was long term effort to subvert, they marketed an image, youth, beauty, victimhood, racism, hate speech, islamopobia, marketing to perfection and blaming their target…and then brutally attacking. Time for Trudeau to wake up, but he now sees Trump standing up to the critics, he is trying to protect…Thomas Woodley is standing up to “imprudent view” of Trudea and Canadians should listen.

  8. mortimer says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 2:57 pm

    It is ironic for Parliamentarians to ban an undefined, theoretical, nebulous, unofficial ‘Islamophobia’, when Islam contains an intolerant, discriminatory doctrine that is ‘ESSENTIAL’, DEFINED, LEGALLY BINDING, PRECISE, and OFFICIAL.
    • ‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’ – (Allegiance and Disassociation) is an Islamic doctrine that is very similar to apartheid.
    • ‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’ is an ‘essential doctrine’ (usul ud-deen). ‘Essential’ means that all Muslims must believe and practice al Walaa wal Baraa as a condition of being admitted to paradise.
    • ‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’ is a highly developed, well-supported and canonical part of Islam approved by the consensus of Islamic jurists.
    • ‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’ is legally binding and obligatory upon all Muslims
    • ‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’ is precisely defined by Islamic jurists and is not a nebulous idea
    • ‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’ is an official Islamic doctrine and considered the second most important doctrine in Islam.
    Definition of ‘Al Walaa wal Baraa’ from Islamic sources:
    • -from “The Islaamic Concept of al-Walaa’ wal-Baraa’” by Khalid El-Gharib: …“[iv] to show enmity to those who show enmity to Allaah and His Messenger” (i.e. Muslims are to visibly demonstrate their enmity or towards the kufaar – non-Muslims)
    • -from a lecture given by Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal (H.A.): “The implication of al-Baraa is that one HATES for the sake of Allah (SWT)…Al-Baraa means to recognize who your enemies are and to HATE them and EXTERMINATE them in their Endeavour to get rid of your Deen, al-Islam…Al-Baraa is to HATE the people who propagate Baatil (falsehood)—the Muslim should HATE them and (at least desire to) KILL them when the time comes.” (i.e. the hatred of Muslims toward the kufaar is for the purpose of ethnic cleansing)

    Examples of Baraa from Historic Islamic Leaders:
    • -from Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in insulting kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to humiliate them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain terrified and trembling. It is intended to hold them under contempt and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”
    • -from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show animosity and hatred towards disbelievers and never support them.”
    • -from Umar Sulayman ‘Abd-Allaah al-Ashqar, “Belief in Allah”: “The Muslim should regard the Kuffaar as enemies and hate them because of their kufr, just as he hates their kufr (disbelief) itself.”

  9. Allan says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 4:15 pm

    OK, so a “phobia” can be identified in a person by identifying any aversion whatsoever. So be it.

    THEREFORE…

    Trumpophobia n. a dislike of or prejudice against Donald Trump or his supporters, especially as a political force.

  10. mortimer says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 11:36 pm

    KAFIR-O-PHOBIA is the Islamic HATRED of dirty KAFIRS:
    Koran 28:86 “Do not support the kafireen in any way.”
    Koran 5.51 “He amongst you who turns to them (for friendship) is of them.”
    Koran 40:35 “They who dispute the signs (verses) of Allah without authority having reached them are greatly hated by Allah and the believers.” (Note: not just “hated”, but “greatly hated”.)
    Koran 48:29: “Muhammad is God’s apostle. Those who follow him are violent to the unbelievers, but compassionate to one another.”
    Koran 4: 101 “The kuffar are for you a clear enemy.”
    Koran 8:60 “Terrorize the enemy of Allah and your enemy”
    Koran 60:4 “We have rejected you, and there has arisen between us and you enmity and hatred, until you believe and worship Allaah alone.”
    Koran 3: 118 “O you who believe! Do not take into your intimacy those outside your ranks. They will not fail to corrupt you.”

  11. IQ al Rassooli says

    Feb 11, 2017 at 5:17 am

    For those readers who still do not get the reality of Muslims and their worldwide intentions, will you please just digest the following verses from Quran and Hadiths (there are THOUSANDS more)~

    Al Baqara 2.216: “Jihad (holy fighting in Allah’s Cause) is ordained for you (Muslims) though you dislike it, and it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allah knows but you do not know.”

    Sahih Muslim Hadith 4631 & 4626 Abu Huraira
    “I heard Muhammad say: … I love that I should be killed in Allah’s Cause [Jihad]; then I should be brought back to life and be killed again in Jihad.'”

    Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 4.50 Narrated by Anas bin Malik
    “The Prophet said, ‘A single endeavor of fighting in Allah’s Cause {Qital fi Sabil Allah} (JIHAD) is better than the world and whatever is in it.'”

    Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 4.73 Narrated by Abdullah bin Abi Aufa
    Allah’s Apostle said, “Know that Paradise is under the shades of swords.”

    Al Mai’da 5: 51 “O ye who believe (Muslims)! take not the Jews [Yahood] and the Christians [Nasara] for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other.
    And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them…”

    *** The implications of the last sentence is of immense importance “And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them…” meaning that any followers of Muhammad who befriend or under the rule of Christians or Jews (or any none Muslim group) would be considered Apostates to Islam, outsiders to Islam, enemies of Islam who must be slaughtered.

    In a nutshell, no Muslim in the USA (or any none Muslim country) can ever be loyal to the American Constitution because it is Man Made NOT from Allah’s Sharia nor can any Muslim in the USA (or any none Muslim country) be a loyal citizen because none Muslim Americans are called Infidels/ Kuffar/ Unbelievers/ Kafiroon to be either subjugated or exterminated***

    *** These verses remind me of Hitler’s Mein Kampf! The NAZI Master Race creed ***

    Al Imran 3:85 “ If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah) never will it be accepted of him …”

    Al Tauba 9:33 “It is He (Allah) who hath sent His apostle (Muhammad) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam) to proclaim it over all other religions …”

    Muhammad 47:4 “Therefore when ye meet the Unbelievers/ Infidels/ Kuffar chop off their necks…”

    *** The very verse that ISIS, HAMAS, Boko Haram and every believing Muslim agrees to and tries to fulfil ***

    Al Anfal 8:55 “ For the worst of beasts in the sight of Allah are those who reject Him: They will not believe [la you^minoona]

    How much more ‘peaceful’ can Muslims be?

    The Western world’s WORST enemies are not al Qaida and ISIS but those TRAITORS within: most of the leftist/liberal Media & Academia

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!
    MAGA & DTS!

  12. Zha says

    Feb 11, 2017 at 3:49 pm

    Islam’s monotheism is unfit in a multicultural society.
    Islam’s suprecism is anti-multuralistic.
    Islam, true islam, fails the litmus test of a western multicultural society.
    some of the falsists will ask how and what is the litmus test.
    To those I answer you first tell me what does multi in multiculturalism stands for or means.? In a multikulti society there is no supreme culture or religion. Islam says it is superior. its got is great and greater than all. theirs is the last bopok revelation for humanity. wrong. Islamists elites and thinkers say it againa and again Islam believes in two worlds (dars) al harb and al-Islam.. Non-believers, idol worshippers, butt-prashtas are to be damned. (some ordinary muslims do not know much about Islam except it five pillars, dwa and prayers etc). Islam is supremist. Its ideaoogy is dfasist. It is unfor for a multicultural society. Non-Muslims must understand this; otherwise you are dealing with a wolf in sheep’s clothing.Islam and multiculturalism are a unfir combination though they may say Ismic Ottoman empre had multikulti populations but they lived under dhimmi status. so if you christisns wnt to live in a dhimmi state,an inferior person even of the Book, love all you can and bear the consequences in three four generations. Islam has long arm and can wait thousand of years but its agenda is to Islamize the world. but then the sects will fight amongst themselves. Islam and multiculturalism does not match; neither does Islam’;s monotheism and multiculturalism. Think about it.

  13. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Feb 11, 2017 at 8:47 pm

    Canada has always been a “soft” tyranny, where the peons have no self-defense rights at all.

    “Yay! More rights! Less responsibility! Whee!” is why most people vote for the Libertine Party.

  14. Noel says

    Feb 11, 2017 at 11:03 pm

    “A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world …” Complete bollocks. A myth is a story with a good chance of not being true. Robin Hood is a classic example. A myth may lead to a way of looking at the world.

    “Give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser, give instruction to a fool and he will remain a fool.”
    (Proverbs of Solomon).
    There is no point in educating some people.

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