Quebec’s main opposition parties will not support a call by the National Council of Canadian Muslims (formerly CAIR-CAN) “to make the anniversary of Quebec City’s deadly mosque shooting a day of action on Islamophobia.”
Jihad Watch covered the CAIR-CAN/NCCM letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, stating that the group was exploiting the tragic mosque attack to continue to foist its “Islamophobia” agenda upon Canada. Also striking was the bold tone of its demands; its presentation of one-sided opinions presented as facts; and its list of stated partnerships. CAIR-CAN/NCCM, like its parent organization, CAIR, makes Muslims out to be the worst victims of hate and “racism”; they are not.
The Parti Quebecois says the term is too controversial, while the Coalition Avenir Quebec deems the word inappropriate because Quebecers “are not Islamophobic.”
Kudos to these parties for recognizing that Canadians do not need any “day of action on Islamophobia.”
Jihad Watch has reported on the real agenda behind Canada’s anti-Islamophobia drives, which is an Organization of Islamic Cooperation global initiative to curb the freedom of speech, so as to not insult Islam, in keeping with Sharia tenets. The biggest source of division in Canada has been Islamophobia motion M-103, which passed in parliament last year. This motion “called on the government to ‘recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear'” — a false accusation against Canadians. When replacing the term “Islamophobia” with the alternative “anti-Muslim bigotry” was repeatedly suggested from a wide variety of voices, the idea was flatly rejected. The Federal government has refused to budge on the word “Islamophobia,” despite its dangerously ambiguous nature.
Conservative Members of Parliament, however, overwhelmingly voted against motion M-103.
At the Provincial level, the Ontario legislature’s “anti-Islamophobia” motion was passed by a vote of 81-0; a particularly surprising development was that the Progressive Conservative caucus was urged by its leader, Patrick Brown, to support the motion two days prior to the vote.
In Quebec, Coalition party spokesman Samuel Poulin rightly stated that “Quebecers are open and welcoming. They are not Islamophobic.”
“Quebec parties oppose making mosque shooting anniversary a day of awareness”, by Sidhartha Banerjee, Canadian Press, January 9, 2018:
MONTREAL — The head of an influential Muslim group said he’s disappointed Quebec’s main opposition parties do not support a call by his organization to make the anniversary of Quebec City’s deadly mosque shooting a day of action on Islamophobia.
Last Friday, the National Council of Canadian Muslims wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, asking for the Jan. 29 anniversary of the mass shooting one year ago to become a national day of remembrance and action on Islamophobia.
Six Muslim men were shot and killed and 19 others were wounded in an attack on the mosque during prayers last Jan. 29. Alexandre Bissonnette is to stand trial in March on six charges of first-degree murder and six of attempted murder.
But this week, the province’s two main opposition parties made it clear that, while they support a commemoration, they believe Islamophobia is a loaded term.
The Parti Quebecois says the term is too controversial, while the Coalition Avenir Quebec deems the word inappropriate because Quebecers “are not Islamophobic.”
Ihsaan Gardee, director of the Muslim council, attributed the parties’ position to identity politics in an election year in Quebec.
“In our view, when arguing semantics, it draws attention away from the core issues of hate and Islamophobia and anti-Muslim discrimination that are being discussed and how to effectively address them,” Gardee said Tuesday.
While still waiting for a decision from Heritage Minister Melanie Joly, Gardee said such a designation would help enhance public education about hate, bigotry and Islamophobia and that a day of remembrance is supported by dozens of other Canadian Muslim groups and community partners.
He said the term Islamophobia is understood as the irrational fear and hatred of Muslims.
“Fear and hatred, if left unchecked, is certainly capable of leading to discrimination and violence, which we saw culminate on Jan. 29 of last year when six innocent Muslim men were killed in their place of worship,” Gardee said.
A PQ spokesman said in a statement the party believes the tragedy should be remembered every year, but notes the term Islamophobia is already a controversial term, while the Coalition says the day should honour the victims of the shooting.
“The attack at the Quebec City mosque is a serious tragedy that has struck all of Quebec,” said Bruno-Pierre Cyr, a spokesman for Leader Jean-Francois Lisee.
“We are obviously open to it being commemorated every year.”
But the PQ says it doesn’t like using the word ‘Islamophobia,’ which, it says, is the subject of permanent controversy. The party prefers the expression ‘anti-Muslim sentiment’.
The party notes there is already a world day against racial discrimination and that Quebec’s Human Rights Commission could mark it this year by making the Muslim community the focal point.
Coalition spokesman Samuel Poulin said the party doesn’t intend to support the Muslim council’s request…..
“Quebecers are open and welcoming. They are not Islamophobic.”
LB says
I was beginning to think that Canada was on its way down the muslim hole like the UK. Good to know that–while they don’t confront it directly–there is still some opposition to islam left, and that their PM Selfie Zoolander doesn’t get all the say. Because if it were up to him, Canada would already be renamed into Canadistan.
Terry Gain says
They still want to commemorate the event as an attack upon Islam even though no one knows what motivated Bossonnette. They are simply objecting to the loaded slur-word, Islamophobia, which is intended to insulate Islam for not just slander but all criticism.
Canada is still on the road to becoming an Islamic Hell-Hole and this tragedy will be guaranteed if Trudeau is re-elected in 2019. Muslims are resolute and if criticism of Islam is verboten, Canada will become Islamic through increased Muslim immigration and higher birth rates.
Canadians refuse to look inform themselves about Islamic doctrine and history or even look at what is happening in Europe. Our best hope is that Sweden falls to Islam sooner than later.
Joe says
I have read what I could find on the case. I haven’t read anywhere that Bossonnette was at the scene of the crime which explains the lack of motivation.
Carol says
Predictable, filthy nerve by NCCM/CAIR. How about instead reminding citizens of the 32,344 deadly terror attacks since 9/11?…aaawww, but then they could consider DEFENDING their culture.
Congratulations to Quebec for common sense and decency. What we should really have is a day of ANTI-OCCIDENTOPHOBE.
They just want to keep us still as hatred is indeed brewing after much, much, much provocation.
LeftisruiningCanada says
In my experience here, so many people are reluctant to talk or think about things that make them feel uncomfortable.
It really is that simple.
But, you might ask, what makes people feel uncomfortable?
Anything that might sully their picture of the world as a technicolor, bright sunny smiling place where everybody smiles back, and all beliefs that cause any disagreement whatsoever have been quietly put away as the backwards hobgoblins they so obviously were.
Especially important to many Canadians, at least here in the Socialist Workers Province of Watermelons of British Columbia, is to avoid anything, at all, that might make them agree with something an American said. Ever. If Trump doesn’t like something, here in BC we feel that it is our Moral Duty to, instead, celebrate it. Trump has expressed some bigoted islamophobia, therefore we Morally Superior Canadians must welcome ten bazillion muslims from everywhere, no questions asked. It’s the right thing to do.
It may well be, as a Canadian, that the only sure fire way to anger a fellow Canadian, is to so much as intimate some sympathy for anything our Neighbors to the South are currently concerned about. The only acceptable narrative (thank you CBC and BraveNewWorldian school education) is that Canada is the Conscience Of The World, and as such, believes in nothing in particular apart from acceptance and tolerance and whatever the fashionable terms may be to describe something we don’t understand, but so very much desire to be thought of as being by the rest of the world. Especially if the USA is not.
Poor Canada. I feel we are ripe for the picking by wolfish islam and/or totalitarian government. I’m sure this country is being fought over in the highest level meetings as to who gets to pick us. It will be so easy, and so gloriously simple to take control.
What a prize. What an easy prize i fear we have made ourselves.
john spielman says
many refer to the Canadian Prime minister as Justin TruDOPE!
Wesley C Schmidt says
In Alberta he is “St. Justin”.
Mamo says
Shut up your trap you ape, atheist what do you want you frog eater, you killed christians, Jews and Muslims and you lie and lie
Serge says
English Canada is turning into an islam hell hole. Quebec French Canada, is resisting the hijrah and the post-national multiculturalism of justin trudeau.
Wesley C Schmidt says
Keep resisting Quebec.
Andy says
ISLAM Religion of Peace or NOT Explained January 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jpu4eFlaOQ
Yukon Eddie says
Not surprising when you realize the Canadian Prime Minister/Dhimmi is a solid Muslim himself. Its only reasonable to understand that he has to tow the Islamic religion line.If it wasn’t for the left wing mainstream media and tax funded CBC which control at least 80% of the news in Canada, the rest of the country would know about their PM. But I guess most Canadians will never know.
Bodega says
I think Canada has a long way to go to get rid of CAIR-Can…clever of them to change an already “charged” name, I think.
Also Canada’s politicians seem just as devious as ours. I am shocked at how many laws this Congress has passed making us an Islam loving nation…and it all started with Barry-boy. Disgusting.
Terry Gain says
No, it started with Gerogie Porgie and his Islam Is Peace insanity. Who would have thought that Islam’s attack on America on 9/11 would cause America to embrace Islam?
Wesley C Schmidt says
The public votes for these low class Canadian politicians.
We have a very difficult time to find good people.People are always swayed by the media who are controlled by the powerful people.
bonnie louise loranger says
Absolutely disgusting
StellaSaidSo says
‘…Quebecers…are not Islamophobic.’
There is a huge difference between denying being ‘Islamophobic’, and rejecting outright the whole notion of ‘Islamophobia’. The term ‘Islamophobia’ should be accorded absolutely no legitimacy at all. It is a bogus term, devised by the Muslim Brotherhood, as a weapon aimed at neutralising and pathologising any criticism of one particular ideology, and is aimed at destroying our freedom of speech. The deliberate conflation of ‘Islam’ and ‘Muslims’ is a further sleight of hand which transforms even the mildest expression of concern about Islam into an attack on any or all persons who adhere to Islam. A ‘phobia’ is an irrational fear. As history shows, there is nothing irrational about fear of Islam.
PRCS says
Like the conflation of Illegal Aliens with immigrants.
StellaSaidSo says
Exactly. The debasement of language is one of the hallmarks of totalitarianism.
Terry Gain says
Well said. The real Islamophobes are those who are afraid to tell the truth about this imperialist, totalitarian, supremacist, violent and barbaric ideology.
Andy says
It is great to see that Quebec’s main opposition parties will not support a call to make the anniversary of Quebec City’s deadly mosque shooting a day of action on Islamophobia.
Jews are minority most targeted by hate crimes in Canada
https://www.timesofisrael.com/jews-are-minority-most-targeted-by-hate-crimes-in-canada/
The West is under Attack!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDiRUJAwCFE
CRUSADER says
I like how Canadian (Muslim Reformer) Irshad Manji retorts, when she herself is called “Islamophobe”!:
“SO WHAT?”
The point being, let’s get to doing, and never-mind the bollocks.
Words are just torpedoes.
Full Steam Ahead!!!
Eur says
It is obvious. Any other ideology similar to Salafism (Nazism, fascism …) would have daily rejection concentrations in front of its centers. The Salafists enjoy the freedom to expand their poison precisely because we are afraid of being called Islamophobes. In any healthy society the Salafists would have been swept away, expelled … and above all rejected social reality is that they open mosques and attract many Muslims, it is a lie that Muslims reject the Salafist message, they do not see it as radical, they see it as very religious and true. In Europe every day there are more and Salafist mosques and politicians and media try to reassure people by lying. They say that Salafism is not necessarily violent and then on the other hand they say that it is a minority current and that most Muslims reject it. If it is not violent … why do they say that we do not worry because it is a minority and rejected by the majority of Muslims? Reality is what we see on our streets in Europe day by day. Every day there are more bearded people with flip flops and women with niqab and full veil. Every day there is more pressure on the part of the Muslims to have Islamic nurseries, Islamic schools, halal food everywhere. The reality is that Muslims do not differentiate between fundamentalism and religion, nor is there any difference between Islam and Islamism. Everybody is lying.
For example, in Morocco an Islamic party governs. From Europe we consider it an Islamist … Muslims consider it simply Islamic. Then we want to compare the Christian Democrat parties with the Islamist / Islamic parties. Everything that is happening is an insult to our intelligence.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, the problem is not just Salafism, but Islam. Salafism does not teach anything that is not Islamic, and not all Jihadists are Salafists.
CRUSADER says
True observation, G.I.
Not every jihadi is a salafi.
Salafism is all about the conservative versions of Islam, keeping to its roots.
Deeply imbedded return to the traditions of the salaf, who are the first three generations of scholars after the Prophet Muhammad.
BUT….it certainly seems true that every SUCCESSFUL Reformer of Islam has been Salafi.
Do the “reformers” such as Zuhdi Jasser, Asra Nomani, or Irshad Manji actually have a snowball’s chance in hell to get real reform of Islam underway?….and if so….in time?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali seemed to have given up on even the possibility of Meccan reform occurring over the Medina side of Islam…..
Carol says
They CANNOT admit mistakes. Why? –
To paraphrase Christopher Hitchens (in his foreward to Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book INFIDEL), he said that ‘all ABSOLUTIST BELIEF SYSTEMS have had to come to the uncomfortable discovery that it is impossible to be just a little bit heretical, or to permit just a little bit of heresy…once admit any DOUBT, and the whole edifice is in danger of COLLAPSE’
WorkingClassPost says
The only thing that such a day of action would signify, is what happens when governments abdicate their responsibilities towards the people they are elected to serve and protect.
Bissonnette also seems to have been the victim of persistent bullying, as is the tradition on campuses all over the West when anyone exhibits non-leftist views, so there’s another purpose for their ‘day of action’ – clean up your colleges.
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/who-is-accused-quebec-mosque-mass-killer-alexandre-bissonnette/news-story/58ee40375def22dfc7d2b4a5b3491aab
The message for Canada is clear: When those elected refuse to act in the best interestsf of the people who elected them, those same people will eventually act for themselves, with sometimes tragic but entirely predictable results.
gravenimage says
The first reports of the Mosque shooting had the assailant screaming “Allahu Akbar!”. He was never charged with a hate crime–and this in Canada. I think there was more to this case.
johane says
That’s what I heard too. There were different reports. 2 people, screaming “allahu akbar” and then somebody was the suspect, then he become the witness (a muslim) and then Bissonnette was the only one. Like you said, there was more to this case. I don’t know if we’ll ever know the whole story.
Abbisid says
The is a spark of hope, that some in Canada understand the issue. Well done to those opposing and speaking up.
Tjhawk says
I’m sure some event of islamosupremacy inspired jihad violence could be found for each and every one of the other 364 days of the year.
364 Days of Action against Islamosupremacy. Each day in commemoration of some horrible jihad event.
Terry Gain says
I agree. I have often thought we need a This Day In Islam to educate us all about this satanic ideology which poses as a religion.
gravenimage says
Tjhawk, there have been over 32,000 Jihad terror attacks just since 9/11. That works out to over five a day. And there are likely others, that have not been officially deemed Jihad terror.
LeftisruiningCanada says
And yet these snakes in our Canadian grass (legalized donchur know) demand we all self flagellate for a whole day (plus the day before and after as it will be all over the radio etc) because of the one time some of their foot soldiers were attacked on their own turf!**
Don’t hear them pestering the Feds demanding a day to remember the brazen attack on our Parliament do you? It would be a good way for them to draw attention to how ‘unislamic’ that attack was, if they really believed it.
But they don’t. They think it was great, the work of a brave shahid allahu akbar inshallah blahblahblah.
These insurgents know the war their fighting. And they are laughing at us, incredulous at our inability to tell them to go to hell, and never more so than when they submit these insulting requests to us.
**i in no way condone attacks on mosques or muslims in general.
Michael Copeland says
Ihsaan Gardee deplores “hate” when stating:
“… arguing semantics, …draws attention away from the core issues of hate…”
Yet Islam INSTRUCTS hatred: he fails to mention that. The “excellent pattern” praised in Koran 60:4 is
“between us and you enmity and hatred forever…”
https://libertygb.org.uk/news/islam-instructs-hatred-muslims-speak
Fear of Islam? Is that something deplorable? It is what muslims are INSTRUCTED to achieve:
“We will put terror into the hearts of the unbelievers.” (3:151)
Pot? Kettle? Black?
Terry Gain says
I don’t hate Islam until I learned that Islam hates me and all non-Muslims.
Terry Gain says
Good grief. I typed: I didn’t. Damn you Autocorrect.
CRUSADER says
AutoCorrect is like A.I.
It will soon take over us all and make sure we remain Politically Correct morons.
LeftisruiningCanada says
We’ll know when it has completed it’s takeover when we can’t type things like Islamic Peace Gestures, Muslim Peace Actions, or Muhammad (PBUH) without adding PBUH on the end of it.
Andy says
The Reactions of Canadians To The Fall of Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nVkyQCGIGk
Pamela Gellar in Toronto with JDL & Ezra Levant Dec. 18, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7LLqCfB9cs
CRUSADER says
” You don’t get something for nothing
You can’t have freedom for free
You won’t get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes….
In your head is the answer
Let it guide you along
Let your heart be the anchor
And the beat of your song ”
~ RUSH
(a Canadian band)
mortimer says
Muslims are ALL KAFIR-O-PHOBIC or else they have left Islam.
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington
mortimer says
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen. So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
-“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah is right….if the one god you are believing in is called allah (and mohammad is his prophet.)
Tom says
Given the historic facts it is NOT irrational to have a fear of Islam.
Canadians are not islamaphobic they are becoming more and more Islamaware, which is a rational understanding of the threat of uncontrolled Islam.
I AM THE INFIDEL YOUR IMAM WARNED YOU ABOUT says
These F-ing muslims just don’t know when to stop eh.
So the message these inbred, goat & camel f-ing morons are trying to convey is that everytime a mosque incident or a muslim is killed they will call for that day to be commemorated as a day of some “shit”.
Why don’t they all just pack up and leave and go back to the hell-hole they came from.
It just makes my BLOOD BOIL every time I read or hear that they want this and they want that.
I can’t even stand it… I guess because I am a survivor of the 1971 muslim genocide
gravenimage says
What specifically happened in 1971? Biafra?
Carol says
I assume that was the Indo-Pak War involving Bangladesh.
LeftisruiningCanada says
“The head of an influential Muslim group said he’s disappointed ”
Oh NO, a disappointed muslim activist! Quick, surely someone must be punished for this outrage!
gravenimage says
🙂
LeftisruiningCanada says
” when six innocent Muslim men were killed in their place of worship,:
Only muslims are innocent
WorkingClassPost says
Or, maybe:-
Only six muslims are innocent…
Carol says
Here’s an interesting clip from a post around that time:
A regular attendee said “my son took the car that night otherwise I would have been there”. This man was Abdallah Assafiri, a man who has been connected with the Holy Land Foundation and who is listed as the Masul, or leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Association of Canada. A trial of Bissonette could be very awkward. for Justin.
gravenimage says
Canada: Quebec opposition parties reject making mosque shooting anniversary “day of action on Islamophobia”
……………………….
*Good*.
gravenimage says
Yep.
CRUSADER says
Canada needs a deep inoculation shot from UNDERSTANDING THE THREAT ——————————
as John Guandolo (former FBI) seems to have the handles to say what needs saying and
grab the bull of Islam by the horns….
https://www.understandingthethreat.com/training/
Revenge for the Horns of Hattin!!!
DEUS VULT
+++++++++
LeftisruiningCanada says
If this is anything like Quebec’s strong position on the headbag restriction for public service use, we can all look forward to animated yet mournful million muslim marches in Montreal real soon.
Politicianophobia says
Imam Sayed al- Ghitani, of the Al-Andalous Islamic Centre in Montreal, the Imam, who said “Destroy the accursed Jews, kill them one by one and give victory to our brothers who engage in jihad for your sake everywhere”, and Imam Wael-al-Ghitawi, same centre, who said Jerusalem is Arab and Islamic and Jews are decendants of Mongols”, will not be happy with this. The Muslim Brotherhood will not be pleased at all.
Candice says
The full story of the mosque incident has not been reveled to the Canadian public. It has been swept under the rug! What is to be remembered, when we don’t even know the truth about what happened?
For all we know it was a set up made to look like Bissonette was the killer! Who really knows what happened? Canadians have never been told the truth! We have not demanded to know the truth about this story!. For all we know it was Muslims killing Muslims. Wouldn’t be the first time.
Canada is a Haven for corruption and secrecy! Very disturbing!
Carol says
On Oct. 27 a trial date was set for March 26, 2018. It is estimated it will take two months. Canadians get kept in the dark until trial time. Charges will also be levelled regarding the wounded feelings etc. of the 35 other people in the mosque. Looks like sensitive muslims are having a hard time bearing up under such atrocities!