Leftists frequently present the statements of those they oppose without even attempting any refutation. They either assume that they’re self-evidently false, or think that even if they’re true, not positions that people who want to be accepted by the establishment elites are allowed to hold. So it is here: Melanie Joly is apparently concerned about the statement from Jihad Watch writer Christine Douglass-Williams below about deceptive Islamic supremacists, but neither Joly nor anyone else offers any evidence for why it is wrong or hateful.
Are there actually Muslims who posture as moderate when they actually aren’t? Consider the imam Fawaz Damra was known in the Cleveland area “as a voice of moderate, mainstream Islam.” He “was often seen at public events with politicians and leaders of other faiths, including several prayer services after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.” Meanwhile, he was “disparaging Jews in Arabic as ‘pigs and monkeys’ and raising money for the killing of Jews by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.”
But despite the reasonableness of her statement, “there are concerns that Douglass-Williams’s views are a hindrance to her work with the foundation and an affront to its legally defined mandate, which is to help eliminate racism and racial discrimination in Canada.”
Racism? Racial discrimination? What race is jihad terror again? What race is Sharia oppression of women, non-Muslims, gays, etc.?
Meanwhile, much is made of my saying that “Islamophobia” is a term designed to intimidate people into fearing to oppose jihad terror, but this article itself, and the “scrutiny” of Christine Douglass-Williams for writing for Jihad Watch, is an illustration of the truth of what I said. She opposes jihad terror, and so is under fire on suspicions of “Islamophobia.” This is what the Left and Islamic supremacists, as well as the establishment conservatives, have done to Jihad Watch for years, and now the Canadian government of Justin Trudeau is doing the same thing, stigmatizing honest reporting about the nature and magnitude of the jihad terror threat as “bigotry” and “racism.”
Meanwhile, who calls Jihad Watch a “hateful website”? A representative of the National Council of Canadian Muslims, formerly known as CAIR-CAN. That’s right, Hamas-linked CAIR. Expect Melanie Joly to jump to do its bidding.
The Left sees its chance after Charlottesville. Leftists are moving rapidly to crush all dissent and destroy all opponents, ripping up the foundations of a free society and demanding that everyone conform to Leftist groupthink, on pain of ostracism (Hillary’s “peer pressure and shaming”), character assassination and professional ruin. It’s coming down fast. This “scrutiny” of Christine is part of that initiative.
“Federal appointee to race relations board under scrutiny for writings on Islam,” The Canadian Press, August 20, 2017:
OTTAWA — A board member with the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, an arms-length federal government agency with a mandate to combat racial discrimination, is in jeopardy of losing her post over her writings on the controversial website Jihad Watch.
Christine Douglass-Williams has been writing for the site almost since she was appointed to the foundation’s board in 2012. But multiple sources have told The Canadian Press that the government is reviewing that appointment in the wake of an essay that appeared on the site in May.
The post, entitled, “Christine Williams: My personal warning to Icelanders,” was based on a visit Douglass-Williams paid to the country alongside Jihad Watch founder and U.S. academic Robert Spencer earlier this year.
In it, Douglass-Williams warns that Icelanders are being duped by seemingly moderate Muslims who deceive people into believing they are harmless, and writes that if Muslims truly had nothing to hide, they’d allow police to conduct surveillance in their mosques.
“Islamic supremacists will smile at you, invite you to their gatherings, make you feel loved and welcome, but they do it to deceive you and to overtake you, your land and your freedoms,” she writes.
“They intentionally make you feel guilty for questioning their torturous deeds toward humanity — toward women, Christians, gays, Jews, apostates, infidels and anyone who dares to oppose these deeds.”
With concerns about the post circulating among her fellow board members, it came to the attention of Heritage Minister Melanie Joly, whose department is responsible for the foundation.
Specifically, there are concerns that Douglass-Williams’s views are a hindrance to her work with the foundation and an affront to its legally defined mandate, which is to help eliminate racism and racial discrimination in Canada.
In a statement to The Canadian Press, Douglass-Williams said it is not racist to oppose “the jihadist-Islamist” agenda, and that her writings are entirely in keeping with the work of the board.
“Any efforts currently against me in my private work are an unjust, agenda-driven and cruel attempt to intimidate me for my distaste for all supremacist agendas,” she wrote. She pointed to her recent book, “The Challenges of Modernizing Islam,” as proof that she’s pro-Muslim and pro-human rights.
“My book differentiates between Islamists and human rights-respecting Muslims who thrive to live peaceably and equally among Westerners,” Douglass-Williams wrote.
“They ask for no special favors and advocate for the separation of mosque and state; they condemn Islamism, and stand against human rights abuses committed in the name of their religion, sometimes at great personal risk.”
Pierre-Olivier Herbert, a spokesperson for Joly, said the foundation needs a board that recognizes the importance of diversity and inclusion….
Spencer, who launched Jihad Watch in 2003, has expressed frustration with the view that the perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks did not represent the true peaceful nature of Islam. He believes it must be made clear that the attacks were rooted in Islam — not to demonize Muslims, but to prove there’s a problem within the religion.
Spencer has gone on to deny the existence of Islamophobia, calling it a term deployed in order to “intimidate non-Muslims away from criticizing or resisting the jihad and Islamic supremacism.”
Douglass-Williams picked up on similar themes in a March 2017 post about a controversial House of Commons motion that called “on the government of Canada to condemn Islamophobia in Canada and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination.”
Douglass-Williams accused the Liberal MP who sponsored the motion of being part of a broader plot when she insisted on including the word Islamophobia in the text, as opposed to other suggested phrases like “anti-Muslim bigotry.”
In a statement, the National Council of Canadian Muslims said anyone with such views has no place on the foundation’s board.
“For a federal appointee to be writing for hateful websites, denying the existence of Islamophobia and calling for the violation of fundamental rights and freedoms of a minority community is contrary to everything the Canada Race Relations Foundation stands for and to the values enshrined in the charter,” Amira Elghawaby said in a statement.
“We are confident that the federal government will take appropriate action with respect to this matter.”
D Austin says
If Islam is a race, than Christianity is a race, making Muslims Christianophobic and anti-Christian bigots.
And those scamming thugs wonder why people don’t take them seriously.
PABLO says
Christianity and Judaism are the only two religions or “RACE” that you can attack with impunity and the enablers of Islamic supremacism are only too happy under the disguise of tolerance or in Canada, multiculturalism, to do their bidding.
gee says
@PABLO – Judaism is a religion, Jews are a race. DNA proves that.
maghan says
Trump’s daughter is a Jew. What is her DNA compared to that of an Ethiopian black Jew?
Terry says
Trump’s daughter ( as well as Eric and Donald Jr. are also Jews.) HOWEVER, THEY ARE CONVERTS.
They were not born as Jews.
There is (sorry, don’t know what it is called) a strain or substrain or something of DNA that is only found in Eastern European Jewish women, born of Eastern European Jewish women -for generations back. (The women don’t have to live in Eastern Europe anymore, just of Eastern European Jewish ancestry) (on the mother’s side, at least). Jewish men do not have this- whatever the particle of DNA might be called.
Jews from other parts of the world do not have this.. Strange.
Wellington says
Agreed, D Austin. Yes, claiming Islam is a race is, as you implied, stupid in the extreme but, arguing in the alternative and assuming it is, then Christianity is a race——Hinduism, Buddhism and of course Judaism too. So, all that hateful garbage that can be found in the Koran and the Sunnah against other “races,” for instance Christians and Jews (e.g. Sura 98:6), is racist in the extreme and should be labeled as such, as should the mountain of hate spewing forth from imams aplenty in the West and in that shithole of the world which is the Middle East (minus Israel of course).
But it won’t be. Because we live in the Age of Nonsense. We live in the Age of Whitewashing Islam’s Spiritual Fascism. We live in the Age of Massive Willful Ignorance. We live in arguably THE most hypocritical age EVER. And here is what is most ominous: Countries like Canada, America and the UK were freer a century ago then they are now. This “result” is due to 1) modern Leftism and 2) that despicable ally of modern Leftism, Islam, and 3) wussies galore, for instance many in the Republican Party of the US, people like Romney, Graham and Corker, never mind the execrable McCain. I challenge anyone to refute what I have just asserted.
Are you reading this CAIR? You too you little shit of an organization, the SPLC? And you also you silly person and enabler of evil, one Kirchner by name?
My God, we are living in an age where the painstaking built-up of freedom by the West is now being torn down by the stupid Left, malevolent Islam and cowards aplenty. Beyond disgusted. Yes, that’s what I am right now——disgusted. Time for a beer and a Beethoven symphony (while I can still have them which Islam would, of course, disallow if only it could).
Are you getting of this Trudeau? Kirchner? SPLC? Et al.? Of course you’re not.
Terry says
Wellington, YOU LEFT OUT FLAKE.
If ever ( my opinion) the name fitted the person, it is him.
(When he was first elected to the Senate, he was interviewed , (admitted, it was on yahoo news, so probably ANAL PORE (AP) did it.
In it, he said that being a career politician is an honorable profession.
In 2016, when pres trump had won the nomination, he said that he could not make it to the Convention, he had to ” mow his lawn”.
And now he is upset that Pres. trump has announced support for his primary challenger.
Darryl Kerney says
the collective insanity of leftism is accelerating….
epistemology says
Very good term, that’s what Islam is “Spiritual Fascism” and oppression, suppression, repression and it’s a racist ideology, as black people are considered as slaves. I once witnessed a Muslim insulting my South Sudanese friend like that. When I asked my friend why he had to leave his country, he had been a journalist at home and I thought he had written some revealing article, he gave a simple answer. “I’m black and I’m a Christian”. Very mundane but that says it all. The KKK is a bunch of choir boys compared to Muslims.
Muslims always reproach others what they do. BTW the fairy tales Arabian Nights are full of stories where a debauched wife betrays a virtuous husband, the lover is always a black man, looks ugly, stinks, suffers from some unsavory disease and treats the woman like shit. But she is infatuated with him, very Freudian if you ask me. Indeed if Freud was still alive today he wouldn’t find any sleep, he ‘d be to busy analyzing Muslims.
At a German university some morons invented a new somewhat more encompassing term for racism: group-focused enmity. It’s stupidity to the power of ten, the Germans are very good at that sort of nonsense, as there are some loathsome groups, Nazis and Muslims are part of them.
But I think it’s about time to do something about Islam on higher political level. My idea is to get the three superpowers America, Russia and China together. If the three of them unite against Islam, the spiritual fascism won’t have a chance. The Chinese already made a step in the right direction, they banned full veils, overlong beards and giving your children names that incite to violence such as Jihad for instance. There was no outcry in the Muslim world about human rights after that ban, as they know the Chinese don’t care what Muslims say. I think we have to overcome political correctness and get there as well.
epistemology says
All the best to you and yours my friend, take care
Wellington says
I’ve long thought, epistemology, that America, Russia and China should work together, not just on thwarting Islamic designs but on many other matters as well. The main problem preventing this from occurring is that only America of these three is a free country. The traditional authoritarianism that has existed and still exists in Russia and China serves as a major impediment to the kind of cooperation you mentioned. I mean just imagine a truly free Russia (which by now could be in NATO——and Turkey under Erdogan expelled from it) and a free China. Short of continued stupidity about Islam by many Americans (a classic example right now being Trump’s National Security Adviser, McMaster) these three free polities cooperating against the Islamic world would put Islam on the defensive everywhere.
I taught many Chinese over the course of my academic career (by the end of my career the Chinese I taught spoke excellent English while at the beginning of my pedagogical career those Chinese I taught spoke a very broken English for the most part) and I liked them very much. They catch onto American humor quickly (many other foreigners do not) and they admire the traditional American can-do mentality. They were in awe of American technology. They are also refreshingly honest, for instance saying that Truman absolutely did the right thing dropping the A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and that they, the Chinese, are racist and they don’t care what others think about this. One Chinese student I taught, a very impressive young man, told me that as bad as Americans think the Chinese are, they’re even worse. He said this with no remorse or regret.
Taught a fair amount of Russians too (without giving away where I taught I can tell you that the place I taught at had a much higher percentage of foreign students than the average American college). I liked them as well but in a different way from the Chinese. They were more quiet, more reserved, even more suspicious. I don’t mean to say they were impolite. No, not at all, but I felt closer to the Chinese than I did to the Russians. There is something about the Russians that makes you feel they’re like no other people you ever met. Anyway, I remember (and I have narrated this before at JW) what one Russian told me when I said that what made America great above all factors is freedom. He said to me that I had to understand that to a Russian freedom means something very different from what it means to an American. For a Russian, he continued, freedom means being able to buy as much vodka as you want and being left alone in your apartment to drink it. Yeah, imagine that. Another Russian I taught, when I asked him back in 2000 when Putin first came to power what this man Putin would be like, responded in a rather thick Russian accent, “Once KGB, always KGB.” Pretty damn good call I’d say.
Yes, I’d relish the cooperation you brought up but the lack of freedom in China and Russia is a major impediment here and right behind this problem is the problem of America naivety combined with an isolationist sentiment that dates back to colonial days. Not for nothing did the Great Man, Winston Churchill, who deeply admired America, calling it often as he did, the “Great Republic,” say that America will always end up doing the right thing after exploring every other possibility.
So, we got one problem with China and Russia and a very different problem with America. Wonder if we could get rid of these problems. Sure would like that. Not only would America, Russia and China be the better off for it but the whole world would be. Well, sorry for going on as long as I did. Hope you are doing well in a world increasingly on fire. Take care, my friend.
LR says
…”My idea is to get the three superpowers America, Russia and China together.”…
And then China would turn around and eat EVERYONE’S lunch…
Janice Disher says
D Austin – you are so correct!
PABLO says
Maybe Amira Elghawaby of the National Council of Canadian Muslims (formerly CAIR-CAN ) could explain to Canadians why the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) stepped away from Islamic booklet (United Against Terrorism) about youth radicalization because of ‘adversarial tone’. This booklet was published by published by the National Council of Canadian Muslims and the Islamic Social Services Association and the RCMP logo is on the booklet see link below. Also, can Minister Melanie Joly explain why she is doing the bidding of Islamist?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/rcmp-steps-away-from-islamic-booklet-about-risk-of-radical-extremist-groups/article20872707/
carol says
Melanie Jolie comes across in interviews as a determined, programmed, automaton with a stubborn veneer of ever-so-distressed genteel French sensibilities replacing solid reasoning. She does all this while vouching for the vile M-103 that she’d be happy to use to zipper our mouths and free minds. We can only hope there’s a day of reckoning for idiots like her.
carol says
Here’s an example from five months ago:
Liberal Minister Gets Confused While Debating M-103
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHEyWmIrybs&t=36s
PABLO says
It is quite amazing that Prime Minister Trudeau will pick a complete idiot as the minister of Heritage. The interviewer was so professional, but his body language shouted I am speaking to an IDIOT.
Zane Tyler says
TRUE!!!!!!!
Melanie Joly is doing the bidding of islam!
We are going to have to fight for our children if we don’t want them to be FORCED into islam or have their heads cut off by muslim radicals.
Where ever muslims go to live, there is an increase in Gang rapes, murder, torture sodomy, theft. not to mention that loud crap they broadcast from the mosques
WorkingClassPost says
They pick through our words with the well practiced skill of a surgeon, dissecting, then cutting and pasting whatever catches their finely tuned sense of victimhood, and exaggerated feelings of guilt by projection.
We are left in the absurd position of denouncing evil while not offending it’s perpetrators and enablers.
Yet, all the while, they condem and disgrace us without a semblance of truthfulness or objectivity.
Go figure.
So
Yohanan says
As wiki states that “Canadian Race Relations Foundation is a Canadian government agency responsible to foster racial harmony and cross-cultural understanding and help to eliminate racism.”
Don’t these goals of social harmony and non-racism require informing the public about religious extremist terrorism? How does exposing the sources and beliefs of violent supremacism conflict with the above CRRF mandate? Just the opposite, Trudeau’s so-called pragmatic approach to obliquely control terror is shortsighted appeasement and false intercultural communication.
Orwell’s 1984 is here. Trillions of petrodollars, terror bullying and islamophobia blasphemy legislation would outlaw free speech – north and south of the 49th parallel.
http://www.crrf-fcrr.ca/en/about/community/item/25391-christine-douglass-williams
THe political pendulums of Canada premier and US president seem couterbalanced.
billybob says
From your link… “Christine is currently working on a book project exploring Moderate Muslim Reform in the West”. That’s what has the Muslims condemning her. To the majority of Muslims, Muslim Reformers are worse than apostates, because these are often honest about the violence and hated inherent in the religion. After all, why would it need reform? Think about that…The very existence of Muslim reform movements is an indication of serious problems in this religion. You don’t see reform movements around peaceful religions – like all the others.
carol says
Joly’s premise seems simple:
The natives are becoming restless ’cause they begin to sense snakes have been set loose.
“Throw a net over the natives” is Joly’s solution for the Canadian people.
Terry says
The other day, DAVID HOROWITZ of THE FREEDOM FOUNDATION had a great essay about Canada, and its immigration policy.
Illegals are fleeing the US- AND GOING TO CANADA, SINCE TRUDEAU basically said that he will not allow deportation.
The result-small towns (populations like under 5,000) as well as larger towns and cities, are being inundated with refugees.
Excellent article. Well worth reading
ElderlyZionist says
“The Left sees its chance after Charlottesville. Leftists are moving rapidly to crush all dissent…”
Very true. The unselfconscious display in Charlottesville by David Duke, Richard Spencer and their pinhead ‘white nationalist’ followers was a debacle, not only for them (that’s fine by me), but for President Trump and all principled American conservatives. The popular reaction to seeing those Nazi freaks cavorting on national television, not to mention the bloody murder that one of them did, is violent revulsion, an urge to stamp on them, like a disgusting big cockroach or a hairy spider.
40,000 people turned out in the streets of Boston Saturday to shut down a Free Speech rally by a couple of hundred pro-Trumpers, who may or may not have been Nazis, but sure were seen as being. Boston is a very blue city, and school is in session, but that’s an enormous mobilization. I haven’t seen anything like it since Nixon invaded Cambodia.
You can’t turn a stampede like that by standing in front of it, waving your arms. The Confederate monuments are now another Lost Cause; they’re coming down, and we will have to take care not to be run over ourselves. Trump has finally gotten some good advice, or listened to some; he’s stopped trolling 40,000 outraged anti-Nazis, and is running along with the herd, more or less. When the herd has run itself to exhaustion, then it may be possible again to reason.
Terry says
Right after the election, MAUREEN DOWD, a liberal writer, wrote an essay ( my term; I believe published in The New York Times)
A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN.
In it, she was critical of Obama, and supportive of THE DEPLORABLES, and said that not all 62 million are homophobic; misogynist etc.
Excellent article, and it is unfortunate, the left STILL does not want to accept the results, and people like Flake, McCain and others on the Rep.side also don’t like it.
gravenimage says
Thanks for this information, Terry. Not always a fan, but good for Maureen Dowd here.
Lydia says
The hit list agenda is rolling I see.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
brane pilot says
It is official. The Canadian Government has spoken.
‘Diversity and Inclusion’ includes people who want to kill you and destroy your society.’
Anyone who is not on board with this will be dismissed from their employment.
Well, at least now it is official, and not merely obvious.
Terry says
Back to Canada.
This past weekend, david Horowitz of The Freedom Center (?) had an excellent article about Canada, and the illegals.
It seems that since Pres. Trump took office, illegals have been fleeing the U.S. and going north to Canada, after Trudeau said that they are welcome there.
And many are being sent to small villages and towns (including a few- before the refugees- had populations of about 1,000-2,000) as well as larger towns and cities.
And they are from all over. Including people living illegally in the US for a decade or more, and now claiming otherwise.
Worth reading- a shame that Canada is going down like this.
bat 21 says
The total asylum claimants processed by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) that entered Canada between January to the end of July 2017 at all ports of entry, land, air and marine—- 21,695 This number includes the 7,500 that the RCMP apprehended and where turned over to either CBSA or IRRC for processing.
PRCS says
Bat-21
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Bat_21_Bravo
billybob says
That was quite the story. I read it all. Don’t know what possessed you to post it though, since it has nothing to do anything here.
PRCS says
I was responding to the poster—–bat 21.
mousey says
If you didn’t know it, Rebel Media is taken down. They also had a cruise planned to discuss…norwegian canceled it.
Mark Swan says
mousey Microsfts Live Search opens it—I am not familiar with this site—what is ithis about about ?
https://www.therebel.media/
gravenimage says
Mark, this is one of the very few conservative sites in Canada. Anti-Jihadist Ezra Levant is involved. Some stories featured on Jihad Watch have been sourced from Rebel Media.
gravenimage says
You are right–I can’t access it. Very disturbing.
billybob says
I have no problem. The site is there and functioning.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Yes The Rebel Media is in trouble; I commented about this days ago. It’s basically a mud slinging contest. And to get both sides go to youtube and search on:
“Caolan Robertson WHY I LEFT THE REBEL MEDIA”
To get Levant’s rebuttal search on:
“Rebel Media Blackmail: Setting the record straight”
To get some background and Tommy Robinson’s take on it search on:
“TOMMY ROBINSON’S REPLY TO CAOLAN ROBERTSON.”
This hurts everybody on the Right. Levant’s reputation is in doubt; he may get a visit from the police or the tax man. Caolan looks like a blackmailer. Everyone who left looks like they took hush money. The political right looks a little more corrupt and far less credible. All right leaning and jihad fighting organizations (like JihadWatch) will have a tougher time raising funds.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
* The Canadian Press describes the Canadian Race Relations Foundation as “arms-length federal government agency with a mandate to combat racial discrimination”. What does the “arm-length” part mean? This must have a specific meaning in Canadian law.
* Neither the linked-to article, nor even this Jihad Watch article, links to the post entitled “Christine Williams: My personal warning to Icelanders”. Bad journalism.
* “Pierre-Olivier Herbert, a spokesperson for Joly, said the foundation needs a board that recognizes the importance of diversity and inclusion.” How do ya figure? I thought the subject-matter of this foundation was race relations, not diversity and inclusion.
PABLO says
Just google “Christine Williams: My personal warning to Icelanders” It can be that difficult.
gravenimage says
Mark, it is not “bad journalism” if there is not a link to every issue mentioned in the article. If you want to read the piece, you can find it here:
“Christine Williams: My personal warning to Icelanders”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/05/christine-williams-my-personal-warning-to-icelanders
mortimer says
Islam is a political ideology.
Examples:
-Sovereignty, or supreme power, belongs to Allah. The ’cause of Allah’ or ‘way of Allah’ is an ideology.
-Most important verse in Koran 9.29 – to enforce the jizzya tax by violent coercion to finance the Islamic State.
-Bernard Lewis said, Islam “is not only a religion in the narrow Western sense but a whole civilization which grew up under the aegis of that religion.”
-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher thought this was so. In an article in The Guardian on February 12, 2002, she wrote of Islamic extremism that, “like Bolshevism in the past, it is an armed doctrine. It is an aggressive ideology promoted by fanatical, well-armed devotees.”
– Maudidi argued that Islamic states must be established based on pure Islam, and that Islam is a militant ideology and program which seeks to alter the social order of the whole world and rebuild it in conformity with its own Islamic tenets and ideals.
– -Hasan al-Banna, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928, called not only for political systems to be founded on Islamic rule, but also for jihad to be the way in which the mission of spreading Islam was fulfilled, and to work for pan-Islamic unity.
– Sayyid Qutb, the major intellectual influence on the Brotherhood after Banna’s death in 1949. Qutb called for a more aggressive attempt — not simply to defend the homeland of Islam, but to carry the movement of Islam throughout the world to the whole of mankind. In addition, Qutb used the Islamic concept of “takfir” [the declaration that someone is an apostate], to threaten and justify attacks on Muslim rulers who did not rule on the basis of pure Islam. Non-Muslims could be tolerated but apostates could not: the penalty is death -– the basis for the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat; he had made peace with the infidel Jewish state, Israel.
– “Islam is a political ideology” that “hides behind the notion of it being a religion,” national security adviser Michael Flynn
– we can say that Islam is a religion (emphasis added) FOR MUSLIMS, but it is an ideolgoy FOR OTHERS PEOPLE (i.e. for kafirs). Because of that it is obeyed by MUSLIM as religion and also is God gifted. And THE OTHERS PEOPLE follow this as an ideology in their unconscious mind. (Shafiul Shahin, Is Islam a Religion or an Ideology)
TO THE SUBJUGATED KAFIR DHIMMI, Islam is DEFINITELY an oppressive, fascistic IDEOLOGY.
gravenimage says
Canadian government appointee Christine Douglass-Williams under fire for writing for Jihad Watch
……………………
In a sane world, I would ask what possible problem the Canadian government could have with opposing violent Jihad.
So sorry to hear that a brave person like Christine Douglass-Williams is suffering because of this idiocy. I hope she comes through OK.
Catherine says
Robert, I imagine that you have heard about Ezra Levant’s woes. I don’t know if you have read the horrendous hatchet job that the National Post did on him and everyone that worked for him, so I’m attaching a link, in case you haven’t. Of particular interest is the reference to the anti-Muslim counter-jihad “theory”! http://nationalpost.com/features/inside-ezra-levants-rebel-media
RodSerling says
They are already “reviewing” the measured and reasonable views of Christine Douglass-Williams before the “study” on M-103 is complete. Imagine what they will do once it is complete with recommendations, and they expand their powers to persecute and suppress other Canadians who may disagree with the Islam project (and Trudeau’s bending over backwards to accommodate it).
Just look at the content of the cited article Christine wrote (“My Personal Warning to Icelanders”), which mentions the fact that Robert Spencer was poisoned probably by a leftist, to get a sense of how warped these “reviewers” must be to think that Christine’s statements are the problem here.
We need to oppose this leftist-Islamic supremacist movement with all legal means available.
eduardo odraude says
You hold the key which unlocks the door to another dimension…a dimension of sight, sound, and mind…
RodSerling says
We’re in the Twilight Zone, for sure.
eduardo odraude says
The story in the Canadian Press is misleading. At one point, at least, it make it seem that Christine Douglass-Williams ‘personal warning to Icelanders’ judged Muslims in general. But if you read the warning for yourself, you see that she did not do that. She explained how to identify the genuinely moderate Muslims and distinguish them from the fake moderates, who actually want sharia.
Demsci says
It is a very big talking point, for many years now, with the leftists and in the MSM; Critics of Islam “paint all Muslims with the same (black) brush”, and the critics therefore being “racist”. Whereas, they say, in reality the Muslims are very diverse, even as Christians are very divers. Of course they seek to show there is only a “Tiny Minority of Extremists” among Muslims.
Maybe one day we can fight ideology with ideology and turn this discussion on it’s head. Our ideology then might be called “Tolerant Democratic Ideology” (TDI) and it might be set on a par with Islam(ic ideology).
Instead of focusing only on the bad of Islam we could focus on the good of TDI. And challenge Muslims, leftists and journalists alike; can we please seek those Muslims who support TDI? And those who are openly or in surveys around the world hostile to it? Because sure as hell Islam is INTOLERANT and Dictatorial, or interpreted very demonstrably in that way by hundreds of millions of Muslims.
Can we find a word that is equivalent to Jihad, only with the meaning of fighting or a struggle FOR TDI, as opposed to merely against Islam? Because surely TDI is as much opposed to Nazism, Communism.
Can we bandy about the term TDI-phobia (or something like it?) or TDI-hate (speech)/ TDI oppression etc? so that Islam get’s less discussed and thought about and TDI and what we stand as much or more?
Demsci says
I am in favor of fighting the dark with concentrated light. Not by stopping fight against evil, but by a 2 pronged approach. There can “holy books” and “prophets/ rolemodels” for a Tolerant Democratic Ideology of our own aplenty. And a thousand times better than the really pathetic Islamic ones. And even “temples”. Islam is perhaps only so successful because of lack of good competition.
And Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Atheism etc already all fit well with tolerant democratic ideology, I think.
Demsci says
With our own much more explicit ideology we have other concepts, tools; apostates for Islam can be seen as TDI-converts, not losing a comforting ideology but gaining a better one. We can put TDI-conditions and controls for entry and even citizenship of democratic countries. Globally we can support TDI-converts and demand equal rights for them. And we can happily wish our own apostates all the best, in sharp contrast to Islam.
Demsci says
We can even have an authoritative body determining and maintaining what TDI in essence entails and what not. We can let it throw so-called TDI-members out of TDI, when they deviate from the essence.
In sharp contrast with Islam where no member ever get’s thrown out, no matter how far (s)he strays from accepted core values-tenets and no matter what (s)he does. Instead there is deathpenalty for apostasy! So also for the rotten apples, who now stay in and give the rest a bad reputation! We can do so much better than that! If only.
lebel says
“they condemn Islamism,” Islamism? does anyone at jwatch, particularly the writing staff/management, believe that such a thing exists?
This is where Christine is being disingenuous.
Matthieu Baudin says
“… Specifically, there are concerns that Douglass-Williams’s views are a hindrance to her work with the foundation and an affront to its legally defined mandate, which is to help eliminate racism and racial discrimination in Canada…”
There is a certain desperation to all this on the part of the powers that be. Most people are aware at some level that Militant Islam is tearing apart their Utopian dream of mutual respect and peaceful coexistence between all cultural groups. The blame for this evident failure is now falling upon those who have been skeptical about the supposed reality underpinning this wishful thinking. Yesterday’s Barcelona carnage is a nauseating repeat of the ineffectual and predictable response of government to terror; the population are given candles to light and out of the shadows come those with reassurance that ‘this has nothing to do with Islam’. If we are silenced through censorship, the delusions of those in political power will remain unchecked and the road to totalitarianism will come into sharp focus.
billybob says
Douglass-Williams’s views are an asset to her work with the foundation and something that lends added credibility to its legally defined mandate, which is to help eliminate racism and racial discrimination in Canada. The reason is that the Left continually confuses criticism of the religion of Islam with racism. You see this everywhere “Islamophobes are racists”. Douglass-Williams is well informed and in an unique position to know real racism when she sees it, and not be misdirected chasing after something that is merely an intellectual debate on religion.
Joe says
Islam is not a race. Anyone in this “race relations foundation” that does not clearly understand the difference is not fit to be in the foundation.