A celebrated Canadian human rights lawyer urged Members of Parliament “to be careful in their use of the term Islamophobia,” saying “fear of some elements of Islam is mere prudence.” David Matas spoke to the House of Commons Heritage Committee hearings regarding anti-Islamophobia motion M-103, which seeks to “quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear,” and condemns “Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination….”
Matas also said: “Not every fear of Islam is Islamophobia.” He noted that anyone who was not afraid of the various jihad terror organizations around the world today was “foolhardy.”
Matas also noted that “Islamophobia does not appear in a vacuum,” but “grows out of a fear of incitement and acts of hatred and terrorism coming from elements of the Islamic community.”
M-103 accuses Canadians of “hate and fear,” and attempts to force Canadians not to discuss their fears or else be deemed “Islamophobic” or “racist.” On the contrary, citizens should be encouraged to openly discuss their fears and the reasons for those fears. One cannot blindly ignore widespread human rights abuses in the name of Islam, such as the mass murders of Christians, Yazidis and other minorities, as well as the murder of Muslims by Muslims (11 million since 1948), jihad attacks throughout the West, mass sex attacks on women deemed to be inferior, FGM, the state-sanctioned calls to obliterate Israel, etc.
All religious doctrine and ideologies should be open to discussion and scrutiny, in accordance with the principles of any free society.
M-103 has created enormous divisions in Canada from its inception and for good reasons, which do not include anti-Muslim bigotry, as its promoters have claimed. The term “anti-Muslim bigotry” was, in fact, recommended by many as alternative to the term “Islamophobia” as a means to fight hate and discrimination against Muslims without giving the impression that any criticism of Islam was being proscribed, but questionable groups including the National Council of Canadian Muslims (former CAIR-CAN) have been aggressively pushing the term “Islamophobia,” however ill-defined, and anti-Islamophobia measures throughout the country, in an attempt to shut down criticism of Islam and elevate it above all other religions and doctrines.
“Some fears of Islam justified, human rights lawyer tells M103 committee”, by Anthony Furey, Postmedia Network, October 18, 2017:
A celebrated Canadian human rights lawyer urged MPs to be careful in their use of the term Islamophobia, saying “fear of some elements of Islam is mere prudence.”
David Matas, an Order of Canada recipient who began his career as a clerk for the Chief Justice of Canada in the 1960s, delivered testimony Wednesday before the M-103 committee hearings in his capacity as senior counsel to B’nai Brith Canada.
“Not every fear of Islam is Islamophobia,” Matas said to the House of Commons Heritage Committee, noting that anyone who is not afraid of the various radical Islamic terrorist outfits in the world is “foolhardy”.
“Islamophobia does not appear in a vacuum,” Matas told MPs. “It grows out of a fear of incitement and acts of hatred and terrorism coming from elements of the Islamic community.”
The Winnipeg-based lawyer, who ran for office years ago as a Liberal, recommended the committee take a “dual focus” approach on both those victimized by Islamophobia and those within the Islamic community inciting hatred and terrorism.
Following Matas’ testimony, Shimon Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, urged the committee to aim towards a more precise definition of Islamophobia.
M-103 was nominally designed to denounce, and study, all forms of racism and discrimination, but has faced extensive controversy for singling out Islam.
Fogel pointed to a Toronto District School Board booklet’s definition of Islamophobia that included mere dislike of political Islam as worthy of censure.
mortimer says
Canadian parliamentarians should be PRUDENT when considering the following FACTS:
Duty of Jihad
Reliance of the Traveller O9.1 “Jihad is a communal obligation,” meaning obligatory upon the Muslims each year.
Legal Definition of Jihad in Sharia
Chapter O9.0: Jihad
(O: Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada signifying warfare to establish the religion.
The Objectives of Jihad
The caliph (o25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians…
O9.9 The caliph fights all other peoples until they become Muslim (O: because they are not a people with a Book…
DIVINE AUTHORITY FOR JIHAD
Allah said:
8:39. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allâh) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allâh Alone [in the whole of the world ]….
9:29.Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allâh, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islâm) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
Muhammad said:
“I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.’ And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah.” Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 8, Number 387
ISLAMIC JURISTS SAY:
• Al-Shafi’i said: “The least that the imam must do is that he allow no year to pass without having organised a military expedition by himself, or by his raiding parties, according to the Muslims’ interest, so that the jihad will only be stopped in a year for a (reasonable) excuse.” He said: “If he did not undertake the sending of enough troops to fight, those who are absent (must) go out, and consider as an obligation that which God (who is praised) said.”
• Below is what Al-Ghazali actually wrote about jihad war, and the treatment of the vanquished non-Muslim dhimmi peoples (from the Wagjiz, written in 1101 A.D.): …one must go on jihad (i.e., warlike razzias or raids) at least once a year…one may use a catapult against them [non-Muslims] when they are in a fortress, even if among them are women and children. One may set fire to them and/or drown them…If a person of the Ahl al-Kitab [People of The Book – Jews and Christians, typically] is enslaved, his marriage is [automatically] revoked…One may cut down their trees…One must destroy their useless books. Jihadists may take as booty whatever they decide…they may steal as much food as they need…
JIHAD REMAINS A DUTY FOR ALL MUSLIMS:
Abu Dawud Book 14, Number 2497: Narrated AbuUmamah: The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: He who does not join the warlike expedition (jihad), or equip, or looks well after a warrior’s family when he is away, will be smitten by Allah with a sudden calamity.
PaulM says
Very well said, AND ADD THIS: “M-103 was nominally designed to denounce, and study, all forms of racism and discrimination, but has faced extensive controversy for singling out Islam.”
Single out Islam. Duh….really? Maybe its because, THERE IS LITERALLY NON OTHER ‘MINORITY’ GROUP IN CANADA, OR ON THIS PLANET THAT CONDONES AND RECOMMENDS DRY HUMPING LITTLE BABIES AND THEN MARRYING THEM WHEN THEY ARE 5 AND THEN RAPING THEM REPEATEDLY ONCE THEY ARE 8 YEARS OF AGE. NO OTHER MINORITY GOES AROUND COERCING THEIR CHILDREN AND ADULTS TO STRAP ON A BOMB BELTS AND BLOW THEMSELVES AND INNOCENTS INTO PIECES. NO OTHER MINORITY DRIVES VEHICLES INTO INNOCENT UNSUSPECTING GROUPS OF PEOPLE. NON OTHER THAN ISLAM, THE FASCIST, DICTATORIAL SCUM RIDDEN, NEANDERTHAL GROUP OF DISEASED SEXUAL DEVIANTS THAT THEY ARE. WITH THE VERY ODD EXCEPTION, VIRTUALLY ALL MUSLIMS ARE THE BIGGEST RACISTS ON EARTH.
Ursus Arctos says
Don’t insult Neanderthals by putting them in the Islamic basket. Neanderthals were at least, after all, human.
mortimer says
NO POLITICAL IDEOLOGY MAY BE EXEMPT FROM CRITICISM IN A DEMOCRACY!
Islam is a POLITICAL IDEOLOGY.
PROOF?
1) the Islamic calendar begins with the founding of the POLITICAL ENTITY of the Islamic empire.
2) the name ‘ME-DINA’ means the PLACE OF THE GOVERNMENT or THE CAPITAL.
3) over 60% of Muslims agree that they need a CALIPHATE (a universal Islamic dictator who will subjugate the kafirs)
4) the Pakistan government has a branch called the Council of ISLAMIC IDEOLOGY.
5) Koran 9.33 calls for subjugation: He it is Who sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, that He might cause it to prevail over all religions, though the polytheists may be averse. 6) 51% of the Islamic Trilogy (foundational texts of Koran, Sira and ahadith) is concerned with politics.
Raja says
Thanks Mortimer, once again for educating us that Islam is a political ideology WITH THE EVIDENCE.
Hope the message goes out loud and clear that ISLAM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE REAL GOD. Period
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Religions as well, are open to criticism. No need to qualify Mohammadism as an political ideology (which it is).
Emilie Green says
They (leftists) know. They know exactly what we’ve been talking about.
They KNOW that Islam is one, dangerous ideology but are willing to tolerate it because it can be used as a bludgeon against their enemies.
JeffS says
The Leftists I know (my entire family), don’t know, and don’t want to know.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
It’s not so much that Canadians are politically left of center (or is that centre?). It’s more that many, if not most, are intellectually lazy virtue signalers.
gravenimage says
So true, Jeff. I know a lot of people like this.
Tom says
It is amazing where one can find allies in the fight against radical Islam and creeping Sharia.
Let’s hope this Liberal Lawyers advice will be heeded and that other Liberals who may be afraid to be critical of Islam will take heart from what was said by this prominent Liberal and stand up with us in the fight to stop the Islamization of our beloved Canada.
MFritz says
Alas, like Cassandra in ancient Greece nobody will take him serious. The usual suspects will call him “deluded”, “islamophobic” or simply “ignorant of islam”. And the rest of parliament doesn’t DARE to open their mouth and agree to his opinion in public, as long as the “thought crime police” of fake news is on guard 24/7.
jewdog says
Great to see someone in Canada with a brain. Infidelophobia is a much more dangerous phenomenon.
Mockingjay says
I like him.
PRCS says
The attempt by Muslims “to shut down criticism of Islam and elevate it above all other religions and doctrines.”
As Islam’s texts state it is and as Muslims believe it to be.
And what so many of our friends and neighbors either don’t realize or refuse to acknowledge.
David says
Some may call it treason when the official governing body of a country does not, will not, or refuses to protect its sovereign citizens from enemies of the state who have repeatedly, in various forms of passive and active aggression, stated their intentions of replacing the governing body and legal system with another.
Gene says
Attempts by government to whitewash Islam and make truth about Islam a hate crime, only cause more fear and concern. People can see with their own eyes what is happening and recognize the absurdity of the government’s claims. This can only lead to the conclusion that the the government has no interest in protecting its citizens from savages who wish to do them harm. The result can be nothing other than more fear and a result exactly opposite to that which the government claims it is seeking to achieve.
Charlie Martel says
The crafting of the concept of ‘Islamophobia’ is gaslighting, a technique commonly used by malignant narcissists (psychopaths) to attempt to silence victims and witnesses.
Charlie Martel says
“Gaslighting is a form of persistent manipulation and brainwashing that causes the victim to doubt her or himself, and ultimately lose her or his own sense of perception, identity, and self-worth. … At its worst, pathological gaslighting constitutes a severe form of mind-control and psychological abuse.” (From Psychology Today).
Does hat give you the Ah Ha moment?
PaulM says
Very timely. Thank you for that. That pretty well ID’s every Liberal who voted for trudeau the muslim.
Lydia says
In that case, we all need more prudence!!!
Lydia says
seeks to “quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear,” and condemns “Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination….”
For the first part, to quell a climate of ‘hate and fear’, it would be a brilliant start to stop importing terrorists because they hate us and as a result people fear them.
For the next part, they need to condemn islam and all its evils, not the natural repulsion towards it.
For the last part, if they want to attack religious discrimination, they can start with the muslims who are persecuting Christians. They can combine that with the systemic racism too, since it is the ‘browns’ attacking the ‘whites.’ At least according to their coloring codes. Then they can turn the mirror upon themselves and make amends for all the times the government did not defend someone who was persecuted or fired for wearing a cross in the UK by their employer. (Actual cases, there was a nurse and several others a few years back. Google for more.) So it is the government and business who are discriminating against Christians also.
That should keep them busy!
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
It is extremely irresponsible for legislators to embed colloquial terms in current usage (in this case, “islamophobia”) into their legislation/motions, without first carefully defining these said terms.
John Forbes says
MUSLIM JUSTIN will not be pleased at all ! He is a facilitator of this Iqura Khalid ( the blatant liar) who tabled this motion that actually should have been rejected out of hand but because of CANADIAN PARLIAMENTARIAN UTTER IGNORANCE was allowed to be tabled.
NOW the so called CANADIAN INVESTIGATION is headed by another LIAR – HEDY FRY ( the one who claimed that there were CROSSES BURNING on the LAWNS in PRINCE GEORGE -BC – She is a KNOWN LIAR ) & I am sure that more lying will be tabled !
Fred H says
They will just ignore everything he said.
John Forbes says
MUSLIM JUSTIN will not be PLEASED but he will ignore all of this !
His MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LIBERALS will deny everything & push on with SHARIA introduction after having stated there is nothing to be worried about !
CONSERVATIVE SHEER will remain in hiding in the HOPE that no one will ask a question that is difficult or provocative !
ISLAMOPHOBIA & M-103 will pass muster & Free Speech will go away & SLOWLY SHARIA will creep in while Canadians are at the HOCKEY GAME & they will notice far too late as their WOMEN & KIDS have to be SHARIA COMPLIANT to go to school or work or go to the game & sit in different rows !
In real time if the trends continue this is not at all far off !!! MUSLIM JUSTIN is working hard to have this as a STRATEGY of the NEAR FUTURE!!
LR says
I like this guys face…He looks so kind, and thoughtful…
Karen says
It will be interesting to see the reaction to his amazingly brave statements. The prestige his peers have given him can easily be taken away.
People are afraid of two things: 1) Islamic terrorism, 2) the growth of Islam in the West, and its role as a change agent in the culture. It’s that simple. When institutions like CAIR openly say they want “through education” to see Sharia become the supreme law of the land someday, is it surprising for people who love their democracy to feel threatened?
Pablo says
Please tell all the victims of the religion of peace that they are Islamophobic.
gravenimage says
Canadian human rights lawyer: “Fear of some elements of Islam is mere prudence”
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Very true. I am just surprised at the source.