There is no indication from the CBC as to what this man actually wrote, which is understandable given the nature of the case: the CBC doesn’t want to be accused of “hate speech targeting Muslims” in turn.
The arrest, however, unless this fellow was calling for murder or some other crime, is ominous. Leftists and Islamic supremacists routinely defame any honest discussion of how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence as “hate speech.” Their agenda is clear: to silence all critics of jihad, so that the jihad can advance unopposed and unimpeded.
As jihad attacks continue, non-Muslims will speak out in frustration at their supine authorities, only to be charged with “hate speech,” which will be used as evidence of “Islamophobia,” requiring new restrictions on speech.
“Hate speech” is not something capable of being objectively verified. It is in the eye of the beholder. Hate speech laws are tools of the powerful, used to silence those whose opinions they dislike.
It appears that Canada is well on the way to establishing Sharia restrictions on criticism of Islam. What other elements of Sharia will follow?
“Montreal police arrest Kirkland man accused of online hate speech targeting Muslims,” CBC News, February 1, 2017:
Montreal police have arrested a Kirkland man accused of making hateful social media comments targeting Muslims.
The man was arrested overnight at a home on de Shediac Street, near de Berne Street in Kirkland.
Const. Raphael Bergeron said members of the Sûreté du Québec came across the alleged remarks while monitoring various social media sites.
They transmitted the information to Montreal police. Investigators were questioning the man, whose name has not been released….
Montreal police Chief Philippe Pichet said Tuesday that since Sunday night’s attack at a Quebec City mosque, there has been a spike in reports of hate-related comments.
The force is hiring 55 people whose jobs will include monitoring social media sites for hate speech.
Angemon says
This does not bode well.
Dum Spiro says
I agree.
Do you think a George Soros kind of “troll outreach” to Bissonnette could have been done to incite and use him to ultimately help effect restrictive speech laws in Canada?
Now Trudeau can even more fast track an anti-Islamophobia hate speech initiative. Just watch — it’s in the works as reported by The Rebel Media’s Faith Goldy (see the two videos I posted below).
marie says
got to give the muslims a job!
Seriously what the hell is Canada thinking…their agenda is madness!
Why not just hand their country over to the Muslim mob and save the bloodshed
and grief.
Rob Porter says
Marie, You’ve got to live here to see how stupid Canada has gone. Amazingly, just about nobody talks about Islam, Islamic violence after honour killings like that in the canal near Kingston, Ontario, that took the lives of three females, or The Toronto 18′ who planned to murder thousands and cause immense destruction, or the men who planned to bomb off the rails a train running from Canada to the U.S.. Very few Canadians value their freedom and most never test or use it. The media is totally gutless and politically correct, so avoids contentious issues highlighting Muslim atrocities. Political correctness that this nation has swallowed hook, line and sinker, grips this nation like a plague, discouraging discussing of ‘sensitive’ matters – and just about everything is now ‘sensitive’. It’s absolutely killing open and honest discussion. It’s going to be interesting to see how long brave Ezra Levant, Faith Goldy, Brian Lilley can keep operating ‘The Rebel’ website.
Prometheus says
The government encouraged censorship of Canadian media is the reason so many Canadians visit America/UK/European/International news sites comment boards. We do not have freedom of speech here to express any dissenting opinions. We get feel-good or sob stories but nothing about the negative economic and social impact of the influx.
Phillip says
Good bye Canada.
Prometheus says
It is hard to understand why Christian churches are at the forefront of sponsoring so many adherents of a religion/political movement that undercuts their very own Christian religion and traditions. It is like cutting off your own hand.
MorrisBCanada says
BIG BROTHER (trudeau) IS WATCHING YOU. ORWELL
A Harris USA says
The fact is Canada, is lost!!! As is many other countries that damn free speech, if you rail against Catholics, Jews, or others, are you arrested to?? Think not!! If this is so all of the Jehovaha Witness church would be locked up.. Think of it, Nazi regimes, and others practice this type of suppression. Nothing new. Trudeau is a globalist freak, and puts Canada in a real bad situation .. Oh, Canada, good bye.
no_one says
Big brother is watching and he is muslim.
JawsV says
Actually, Big Brother is the Western Regressive leftists and their “islamophobia” BS.
no_one says
It is hard to say which one is more evil.
Bill says
Western Regressive Leftists, by a country mile.
gravenimage says
True, Jaws.
marc says
Waiting for the announcement of the opening of re-education camps to cure “islamophobia” here, this really does not bode well. Fredericton where a girl was sexually abused by migrants on school grounds by 2 syrian refugees, she was pushed to accept responsibility, those demanding more refugees faced some backlash after the rebel got on the case, but now Fredericton is seeing an influx of professional agitators (same soros funded group from calais), and a gofundme has successfully started raising funds for another beachhead (mosque), more marches planned, conflating refugees with illegals etc. https://vladtepesblog.com/2017/02/01/reaction-from-the-left-in-fredericton-nb-from-the-rape-of-the-14-year-old-and-establishment-victim-blaming/
gravenimage says
Thanks for the link, Marc. It seems that even police are blaming the victims, and are more concerned about the Muslim abusers than the victims. Appalling.
marc says
@RCH
If you can figure out how I pay my mortgage and feed my kids while I am locked up, let me know 🙂
Seriously, many here know I am very active, and not being able to work would silence many to whom I give a voice. In leftist controlled areas where I live we have to pick our battles carefully.
I wonder if canada pushes on with “thought crime” laws, maybe I’ll be heading south as a refugee soon.
A Harris USA says
MARC, you are on top of it!!! This is now the newest anti- freedom globalist push. Join the illegal Hispanics and Islamic terror groups together…. The majority of illegals have no education, and are easily lead to follow the Soros, globalist rants… Not knowing that they too, will be killed at the drop of a sombero.
Graham says
This kafir is going to have to move to the States soon. I feel more American than Canadian at this point.
gravenimage says
Don’t give up on your civilized nation yet, Graham–Canada needs her patriots now.
And while things are not as bad in the US at this point, there is still plenty of appeasement of Islam and even enabling of Jihad from the clueless Left.
Graham says
Thanks for that, gravenimage. I do love Canada but it sure would be nice to have true freedom of speech here like in the USA. We even have a ridiculous old ‘blasphemous libel’ law that is still in our Criminal Code! And now because of our existing ‘hate speech’ laws and the new push to criminalize ‘Islamophobia’, we are going to have to get very creative.
davej says
I always thought that it was acts that were illegal, not thoughts.
Limited police resources spent on monitoring all social media, paid for by taxpayers. Followed by arrests, trials and imprisonment, paid for by taxpayers. Wonder about the impact on real crime enforcement…
gravenimage says
All good questions, dave. And considering that these actions will actually *embolden* violent Muslims, it is even worse than it might otherwise be.
JawsV says
I detest Muslims and Islam. Will I be arrested for that by the Western Regressive left Thought Police?
Guest says
Yes, in some countries you would. “unless this fellow was calling for murder or some other crime,” – the problem with this statement is that ‘other crime’ now does include so-called ‘hate speech’ in some countries.
Dum Spiro says
These bear repeating for Canadians:
(and)
Voter apathy got Canadians Trudeau. Continued apathy will get them — through him and those like him — much worse — especially for their children, grandchildren and future generations in that formerly “true north strong and free” country.
Canadians still have a (quickly closing) window of opportunity to protect their free speech and freedom…
— Spero
Dum Spiro says
Read the relevant details here as well about M103: http://www.FreedomToOffend.com
The time for Canadian apathy is over…
— Spero
gravenimage says
Thanks for the links.
Dum Spiro says
Robert Spencer’s newest book can’t come soon enough: The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies).
It should be on sale at the bookstores relatively soon (and Canadians should read it)…
— Spero
bernie says
If Canada passes a new Islamophobia law, perhaps books by Robert Spencer, and books by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens, and anything else deemed potentially offensive to any Muslims in the slightest way, could be banned.Any thoughts on that?
Let’s say a gay or lesbian person criticizes the strong homophobia which many Muslims claim is part of their religion. Is that Islamophobic? Or, if a Canadian criticizes any aspect of Sharia Law? Should they be arrested for Islamophobia?
carol says
bernie…here’s a cartoon that depicts the situation well:
https://www.google.ca/search?q=geller+cartoonist&biw=1280&bih=703&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjF9P_G1_HRAhVk5IMKHa-wAvgQsAQILg#imgrc=5ea2NUYB8IXkVM:http
mortimer says
Note: when one of these ISLAMOPHOBIA posters showed up on campus, a student simply wrote ‘KORAN 9.5’ on it.
“Fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them: seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war).” (K.9:5 is called ‘The Verse of the Sword’)
Prometheus says
It’s already gone.
Don McKellar says
Absolutely terrifying.
There is nothing more frightening than an empty suit being led around by the nose by left-fascists and moslems. And that is the very definition of Trudeau.
joel mcilveen says
spot on!
linnte says
What I wonder is…Considering the vile speech of most Muslims on line like the death threats they gleefully post to anyone who speaks about Islam, will anyone take them to jail? Nope. And also, having people monitor public social media sites? Dang! England has been doing this too. These are perilous times.
Guest says
I have mixed feelings about banning such death threats. They seem a pretty useful way of know whom to deport/not allow into the country. But yes, the ban applications are totally hypocritical.
Michael Casmer says
so are Canadians going to protest this like the Anti-Trump people are protesting in the US? Why not?
lWhere is freedom of speech?
bernie says
At some anti-Israel protests in Canada, some Muslims clearly chanted, “Heil Hitler!” and “Death to Jews!” Did the Canadian police arrest them for hate speech, since what they were doing was clearlt illegal (not to mention immoral, racist and even genocidal)? Apparently not.
Don McKellar says
If somebody had the time and money, they should be considering monitoring social media for hate speech from Canadian moslems and forwarding it to this new thought police unit and keeping a public record on a specialized website about it. They could solicit tips and links from anybody on the internet and act as a funnel on public record to bring this criminalization of free speech to a head. Look at the nightmare situation in France or the Netherlands where you end up on trial for this stuff. This is insane.
hicmarina says
Why don’t they regulate the mosques for hate sermons against the infidels. Trudeau should be kicked out.
Jerry says
Arrested for hate speech. Was it hate speech against the muslims who want to kill us or only those muslims who support the ones who want to kill us? Just curious.
Keith Gilbert says
Gosh, what can this mean? Really, certainly advocating for the murder of a single islamic might cause a bit of interest…but advocating for the complete extermination of all of them…now that is the real deal and not hate speech at all; Love is where you find it!
SK says
This is why the whole idea of whatever Bissonette or Breivik thought they were doing was insane.
Remember, leftists are under the impression that “counter-jihad” means “be the same as violent Muslims that you claim to oppose, but against Muslims”, so I refuse to give them reasons to think this way.
DogOnPorch says
De facto blasphemy laws are now a reality in Canada.
That fellow literally got the ol’ knock on the door late at night…
He was a criminal, though…right?
Right??
Lion of Judah's Cub says
Reminiscent of the Gestapo or communist KGB or Stasi enforcers.
gravenimage says
Montreal: Man arrested for “online hate speech targeting Muslims”
………………………..
As noted, unless he was calling for violence, then this is a grotesque miscarriage of justice.
More:
The force is hiring 55 people whose jobs will include monitoring social media sites for hate speech.
………………………..
This would be ridiculous at any time; given that Muslims represent a growing violent threat in Canada, this is especially obscene.
SK says
As noted, unless he was calling for violence, then this is a grotesque miscarriage of justice.
They’d probably like to say that we all are, in effect.
I know that you are not, but I’ve read comments where people want to. JW mods should remove the explicit ones.
marc says
@SK and @everyone_else If you see any posts calling for violence or see genocide as a solution etc. please use the contact button on the side bar requesting technical support or those that have my email or skype ping me there.
UNCLE VLADDI says
ALL “Hate-Speech Laws” ARE CRIMES!
“Progressive” criminals – who like all criminals desire an equality of outcome over a true equality of opportunity, and to get it will always try to socially engineer ever-more rights and ever-less responsibilities for them selves, by offloading their responsibilities onto their victims by stealing their victims’ rights – pretend to hold submissive masochism as the highest virtue (for their victims to hold, not them) and the ultimate crime to be causing offense and hurting other people’s (criminal’s) feelings, (i.e: by accusing them of their crimes).
So they want to make it illegal to accuse criminals of their crimes, since that might hurt their feelings and in offending them with the often-painful truth, “make” them commit even more crimes!
Is there anything which really ought to qualify as hate speech and be banned?
NO – not because it’s “hateful” (because that sort of nonsense is only making subjective assessments based on emotions;) and “HATE” is really only the perfectly natural human response of perpetual anger towards ongoing crimes (like islam); without ‘hate’ we would never bother to accuse criminals of their crimes in order to stop those crimes.
Unreasonable false displays of hatred and anger on the other hand, are what the Left is good at – but that’s already illegal, not because of the anger displayed – that’s just the outrageous holier-than-thou virtue-signalling packaging used to disguise their preposterous extortion attempts – but because it’s fraudulent slander.
Such criminal leftists who try to make “hate” into a crime, only ever make it ‘illegal’ to hate crime itself!
Speech which is already disallowed is incitement of immediate violence and death-threats … and even those aren’t illegal, if say they call for the police to use violence to counter ongoing mob violence and looting, or call for the death-penalty for murderers!
UNCLE VLADDI says
ISLAM ITSELF IS A “HATE-CRIME!”
The Qur’an and islam itself should be banned, because everything muslims pretend to believe is “holy” is already a crime!
The Qur’an is more than just another flawed book of confusing, contradictory superstitious nonsense, it’s evil.
It should never be allowed by backwards people to be considered “illegal” to accuse these criminals (muslims) of their crimes, allegedly because the painful truth might offend them or hurt their feelings, and so “make” them commit even more crimes!
No problem was ever solved by ignoring it, and we aren’t doing even any of these muslims (whose own ancestors were among Muhammad’s first victims) any favours by going along with any of their historic lies and alibi excuses for their crimes.
Pretending islam is just another religion like all the others, hijacked by some con-men, is wrong.
That’s only a parochial, Western-based and ethnocentrist approach to islam.
Islam is NOT only a real religion which can be and is sometimes only occasionally misunderstood and/or taken advantage of by a few evil persons.
It’s not also – as are all the other, “real” religions – only an opinion presented as a fact (i.e: only a simple case of delusive criminal fraud)!
Islam is really an actual threat to everyone because IT says it is, not because we misinterpreted it.
According to their own Eastern histories, islam has an official 1,400 year history of “holy” lies, extortions, robberies, tortures, arsons, kindappings, slaveries, rapes and 270 million murders: that’s OVER A QUARTER-BILLION INNOCENTS SACRIFICED TO ALLAH, so far!
For a detailed breakdown of historical islamic depredations by region and era, just Google for: “Tears of Jihad.”
Islam has a larger death-tally than that of EVERYONE ELSE, both secular and religious, COMBINED, and with an historical average of less than 1% of the global population to have committed it with, too!
Do the math: 270 million divided by 1,400 is almost 200,000 per year, or over 500 per day, or over 20 per hour or about one person every three minutes being murdered by Muslims ever since Islam was founded.
So, simply and precisely because of their “THOU SHALT KILL!” cultural indoctrination, MUSLIMS ARE STILL FROM BETWEEN FOUR AND SEVERAL HUNDRED TIMES MORE LIKELY TO ENGAGE IN MURDER (and all other crimes,) THAN EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD!
According to Paris-based Iranian sociologist Farhad Khosrokhavar, “of France’s 64,000 prisoners, up to 60% are Muslim. (Muslims are thought to compose only 8% of the population.)”
Based on data from 2011, Pew Research Center estimated that Muslims made up 9% of the 1,598,780 state and federal prisoners in the United States. Pew also reported that as of 2010, about 0.8% of the U.S. population was Muslim, up from 0.6% in 1990. Data allegedly provided by the federal Bureau of Prisons reported that, as of 1997, Muslims made up 7.27% of the federal prison population.
In other words, Muslims are overrepresented in the French prison population by 7.5 times their percentage of the population. In the United States, although their overall percentage is smaller, Muslims are overrepresented in the prison population by 11.25 times their percentage of the population.
Here’s the most recent American prison-inmate-by-religion stats:
US Inmate population religious preferences
58% Christian
29% Muslim
13% Other (including Atheist)
Since muslims are at most 3% of the total population in America, it’s obvious they are TEN TIMES more likely than their numbers would indicate, to be in prison.
And I believe Americans in general poll at 80% Christian, so they are under-represented in prison, by at least 30% or one third less than one might have otherwise expected, based on population percentage alone.
But it’s not surprising, really:
ALL muslims are criminals: by their own rules, they must endorse in public every word in the Qur’an, which tells them that they are so “superior” to all non-muslims, that it’s not only their right, but also their holy duty to their god, to extort, enslave, and murder all the non-muslims in the world, simply for the “crime” of not being muslims:
“Slay the non-muslims wherever you find them,” (Qur’an 9:5), “Strike upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip,” (Qur’an 8:12) and “Fight them until there is no unbelief and the religion, all of it, is for Allah” (Qur’an 8:39).
And they have no choice – islam isn’t cafeteria catholicism, it’s all or nothing (sura 2:85) and so
if they give evidence they aren’t toeing the line, the others must murder them for hypocrisy (4:86).
Therefore all muslims call them selves “muslims” and not “islamists,” or “radicals,” or “moderates!”
So the Qur’an is a clearly-written, us-versus-them hate-crime book, endorsing a permanent might-makes-right death-threat.
ALL muslims are criminals, as being members of the ancient, ongoing global extortion racket called islam. In sharia law texts, muslims are SUPPOSED to be regarded as threats (as “objects of fear”) by all the unbelievers, whether or not the individual muslim has itself actually committed any crimes.
(As documented in the Hedaya, Volume II, Book IX, INSTITUTES, on pages 154 & 157); Qur’an 8:57 & 60.
That’s why we have laws against simply being a MEMBER of a crime-gang or ‘criminal enterprise’ because their membership endorses the inherent threat. Threats are crimes in themselves: they are psychological attacks, also known as intimidation, bullying, coercion, duress, harrassment, activist agitation, extortion, and “terrorism.”
And even any “only” attempted crimes are still considered by civilized people to be crimes.
Here’s islam’s “holy Message from god” as exemplified by the collective words and deeds of it’s Founder:
“I will save humanity by lying to, extorting, torturing, robbing, burning out of their homes, kidnapping and ransoming, enslaving, raping and murdering everyone who even only verbally disagrees with me – and you can, too!”
– Muhammad –
Muhammad was really only a con-man and bandit-king, an arch-criminal who always blamed “god” for his own penchant for committing crimes. If Moe got away with committing a crime (and he tried them all, enthusiastically, more than once, but instead of ever showing contrition, bragged about how much fun it was to commit them, and advised everyone else to join in the fun, too), then it was held to be “obvious” that “god” wanted him to get away with having committed those crimes!
And since “allah” forced him to commit them, they were never really “crimes” at all in the first place!
Everything muslims pretend to see as “holy” is already a crime!
Why did Muhammad really hate both dogs and pictures of himself? Probably only because he was a career criminal constantly on the run from the Meccan authorities, so he detested tracking dogs and wanted-posters with his picture on them.
Bottom line? Islam is not a “religion” (at all, much less one “of peace”) nor is it a “race” (at all, much less one of “Poor, Oppressed, People Of Colour”)!
Obviously, islam is ONLY an ancient, ongoing extortion-racket CRIME-syndicate, and the only “religious” part in it, is where they say:
“God told us to commit these crimes!”
(Capisce?)!
😉
No Fear says
Mohammed was a gangster and a killer of Jews. NO ONE can make me RESPECT or OBEY him.
I spit on his crapulous book the Quran. The Quran is hatespeech against non muslims.
HOW DARE anyone try to make non muslims RESPECT a book which calls them VILE (Q8:55).
It is like asking a Jew to RESPECT Main Kampf.
linnte says
No Fear! Love the term “crapuolous”. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH!
Paul says
“What other elements of Sharia will follow?”
Well, former substitute drama teacher Trudeau said that ‘honour’ killings
shouldn’t be called “barbaric”, so I guess anything goes. You can never
underestimate the amount of stupidity and sheer malevolence that come
from ‘progressives’ as they perform their breathtaking mental gymnastics.
If you’re a concerned Canadian be afraid, VERY afraid! Crazy times.
David G. says
Guess I would be in jail today if I was in Canada! Wow
MorrisBCanada says
To David G. Wonder if they’ll come after you if you use ridicule and humour to point out the idiocy of the ideology. We’ll see, I’m Canadian.
mortimer says
HATE SPEECH? How is that thin line determined? By the solicitation of murder or solicitation of violence against a group of people to terrorize them?
Or is HATE SPEECH now defined as ‘saying something that someone does not like’.
If ‘saying something that someone does not like’ is what they are controlling, then the government can lock up anyone.
mortimer says
MONTREAL POLICE FORCE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING ?
… MONITORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH … IS CALLED ‘TOTALITARIANISM’.
Dov Berrol says
This obsession with so-called Islamophobia by Arab Supremacist Imperialists is once again evidence of the severe need to psychologically “project” in order to cover up the Arab hatred and fear of the Kafir Infidel. Can you imagine if this policing of online hate speech were to suddenly include experts in Arabic who would monitor the hateful speech of Arabs on the internet and in their other media of communications? In fact, the entire Koran is one big volume of hate speech directec at the infidel enemy. Though Arabs may celebrate the increase in study of Arabic, we kuffar may very well need to kearn the language in order to arrest those Arabs who are also committing crimes of hate speech.
Dov Berrol says
*directed
Dov Berrol says
*learn the language
Kevin Charron says
found anthony Padulo on twitter, @Hermit_Spirit , He wasn’t inciting violence, he was defending Muslims and Islam. He was being sarcastic and mocking the other person. Read it all and you’ll see, these charges are nonsense.
on the ridge says
My goodness, I guess I should be in jail too for expressing my negative opinion of Islam. If they read everything I have said over the last few months they’d lock me up for hate speech. Next thing you know they’ll be locking us up for hate thought. The people doing this are obviously Muslim as no normal thinking people would even consider doing something this stupid. Soon our jails are going to be full of people who have said ungood badthink words.
Rich says
Canada is a true Police State assisting in Sharia…………
Canadian police and politicians are beyond disgusting pigs!
Which Type of Islam Will Genocide You..
The continuing source for this education is one of the founders of American Homeland Security in Mr. Phillip Haney. The following information has been kept deliberately from the American public, and therefore the world, as it provides the education to stop the genocide of the Western Christian Peoples.
This is a post which each of you should print on paper and electronic copy to read and share, as this education on Islam is what your life depends on, and if your grandchildren will survive.
Every person reading this must comprehend that there is absolutely no difference in Islam from a group like ISIS who is raping and beheading people in Syria or a group in a mosque praying in Quebec, as they are viewed as the same militant soldiers of Islam.
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2017/02/which-type-of-islam-will-genocide-you.html