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NCCM (CAIR-CAN) requests “National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia” to commemorate mosque shooting

Jan 8, 2018 12:30 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

The Quebec mosque massacre last year was a shocking tragedy, yet motive for the murders has been encased in mystery, with no charges of terrorism laid down, despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau referencing it as “an act of terrorism.”

27-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, a student at Laval University, was charged with six counts of first-degree murder, but with no motive ever established, only conjecture about his interests in right-wing groups after he was discovered to have been listening to “French nationalist leader Marine Le Pen.”

Anti-Muslim bigotry, like all bigotry whenever it is genuinely manifested, needs to be striven against, but the factual considerations involved in declaring a “National Day of Remembrance and Action” by a country’s Prime Minister are crucial, particularly when the proposed action seals the word “Islamophobia” as the subject of particular governmental concern.

According to hate crime statistics, blacks, Jews and gays are. The letter below is a written request to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from the NCCM “Designating January 29th as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia On behalf of the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM).”

What is striking about the letter is how it uses the tragic mosque attack to continue to foist  its “Islamophobia” agenda upon Canada; the bold tone of its demands; its forwarding of one-sided opinions presented as facts; and its list of stated partnerships.

The group NCCM — an offshoot of CAIR –makes Muslims out to be the worst victims of hate and “racism”; they are not.

ACT for Canada leader Valerie Price wrote her own letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, garnering much support:

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau,

The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) has asked you to designate January 29 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia commemorating the Quebec City Mosque shooting.

Will you also be considering a National Day of Remembrance and Action on June 30 for Zainab, Sahar, Geeti Shafia and Rona Amir Mohammed, drowned by their father Mohammed, step-mother Tooba Yahya, and brother Hamed? Will you consider a day of remembrance for Aqsa Parvez on December 10, strangled by her father and brother for refusing to wear a hijab? October 22 for Cpl. Nathan Cirillo? October 20 for Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent?

When a Muslim goes on a killing spree, it is nothing to do with Islam and police are stationed at mosques to protect Muslims from Islamophobia. When Muslims are killed, it has everything to do with Islam(ophobia), and police are stationed at mosques to protect Muslims from Islamophobia

How do you choose between Muslim killers and Muslim victims? Are all lives not precious? The Quebec City mosque killing was a tragedy. I strongly condemn all forms of violence, including violence motivated by hatred and bigotry, and I call on all Canadians to affirm their commitment to civil, open dialogue and non-violence. But it is wrong to commemorate the victims of one tragedy with a Day of Remembrance while ignoring the victims of others. The question that many Canadians will ask is “why?”.

Valerie Price
QC

This is the letter that was written by CAIR-CAN/NCCM…..

January 5, 2018

The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau PC, MP
Prime Minister of Canada 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2

Dear Prime Minister:

Re: Designating January 29th as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia

On behalf of the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), I am writing to you about the upcoming first anniversary of the Quebec City mosque attack that will take place on January 29, 2018.

One year on, Canadian Muslim communities are still reeling from the devastating terrorist attack that claimed the lives of six Muslim men worshipping in their mosque – fathers, husbands and sons – and gravely injured many others. For the first time in Canadian history, a place of worship was targeted by a horrific act of violence solely because the victims were Muslims.

The question on so many minds is how do we prevent such a violent hate-motivated attack targeting Canadian Muslims, or any other religious community, from ever occurring again?

With the rise of far-right extremist groups that continue to threaten the safety of Canadian Muslim institutions and congregations, it is critical that our elected leaders stand firmly against Islamophobia and the agents of bigotry who aim to foment hateful division between Canadians and their fellow Muslim citizens. We must not allow voices of hate, even ones that may initially appear to be on the margins, to permeate our public discourse and damage our social fabric.

As you have eloquently stated, in these difficult times we must always remember the bonds of unity as Canadians and protect the diverse and open nature of our society.

To that end, we call on your government to designate, by order-in-council or by proclamation, January 29th as a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia, on or before the first anniversary. This call is supported by a host of other Canadian Muslim organizations and community partners, listed below.

Such a designation will enable Canadians to collectively remember the victims of the attack and to enhance public education about the perils of hate, bigotry and Islamophobia.

We look forward to your response to this important issue. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Ihsaan Gardee

Executive Director

National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM)

Endorsing Organizations

Afghan Canadian Islamic Community

Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Committee (AMPAC)

AMAL-Québec

Assunah Muslims Association (AMA)

Aylmer Mosque

Az-Zahraa Islamic Academy

Az-Zahraa Islamic Centre

L’association la Paix

L’assocation musulmane québécoise (AMQ)

British Columbia Muslim Association (BCMA)

Calgary Islamic Centre (SW Masjid)

Canadian Association of Muslims with Disabilities (CAM-D)

Canadian Association for Muslim Women in Law (CAMWL)

Canadian Centre for Deen Studies

Canadian Council of Imams (CCI)

Canadian Council of Muslim Women – National (CCMW)

Canadian Council of Muslim Women – Montreal Chapter

Canadian Friends of Somalia

Canadian Muslim Alliance (CMA)

Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association / Association canadienne des avocats musulmans (CMLA/ACAM)

The Canadian Muslim Vote (TCMV)

Centre Al-Jisr

Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec (CCIQ)

Le centre Badr

Le centre Kawtar de Laval

Collective of Muslim Feminists of Quebec

DawaNet

Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre

Downtown Muslim Professional Network (DMPN)

Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities (ECMC)

Federation of Muslim Women

Islam Care Centre

Islamic Association of Northwest Calgary

Islamic Association of Saskatchewan (Regina)

Islamic Association of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon)

Islamic Center of South Calgary

Islamic Circle of North America-Canada (ICNA-Canada)

Islamic Circle of North America-Canada Montreal Chapter

Islamic Family and Social Services Association (Edmonton)

Islamic Foundation of Toronto

Islamic History Month Canada (IHMC)

Islamic Institute of Toronto

Islamic Shia Ithna Asheri Jamaat (ISIJ) of Toronto

Islamic Society of Cumberland (Bilal Mosque)

Islamic Society of Gloucester (ISOG)

Islamic Society of Kingston

Islamic Society of North America – Canada (ISNA-Canada)

Islamic Society of Sandy Hill

Islamic Social Services Association (ISSA)

Jamiatul Muslemeen of Ottawa-Carleton (Jami Omar)

Kanata Muslim Association

La Voie Des Femmes

London Muslim Mosque (LMM)

Muslim Association of Calgary

Muslim Association of Canada (MAC National)

Muslim Association of Canada (MAC – Ottawa Chapter)

Muslim Association of Hamilton

Muslim Community Foundation of Calgary (MCFC)

Muslim Coordinating Council of the National Capital Region (MCCNCR)

Muslim Council of Calgary (MCC)

Muslim Council of Peel

Muslim Society of Prince Edward Island

Muslim Link Newspaper

Muslim Youth Services

North American Spiritual Revival (NASR)

Noor Cultural Centre

Ottawa Muslim Association (OMA)

Outaouais Islamic Center – Gatineau Masjid

Own It Institute of Canada Ltd.

Shia Muslim Community of British Columbia

South Nepean Muslim Community – SNMC Masjid

Tessellate Institute

Think for Actions

United Muslim Organizations in Ottawa Gatineau (UMO-OG)

Windsor Islamic Association

Windsor Islamic Council

Community Partners:

Amnesty International Canada

Amnistie international Canada francophone

Arab Canadian Lawyers Association

Canada Without Poverty

Canadian Association of Black Lawyers

Canadian Council of Refugees

Canadian Labour Congress (CLC)

Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter

Comité Solid’ère

C.O.R. organisme de Communication pour l’Ouverture et le Rapprochement intercultural

Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers

Global Shapers Montréal (a youth leadership initiative by the World Economic Forum)

The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG)

InterPares

Mosaic Institute

Ontario Federation of Labour

Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI)

South Asian Bar Association – Toronto

Toronto and York Region Labour Council

UneFilleUneFamille

United Food and Commercial Workers Canada

United Steelworkers, Local 2010

Urban Alliance on Race Relations

Vaughan African Canadian Association (VACA)

YMCA Toronto

YMCA Canada

 

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  1. mike9a says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 12:34 pm

    Where we would fit >30000 deadly attacks on infidels? National Day every minute!

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Jan 8, 2018 at 1:34 pm

      Seriously, we need to highlight the numerical discrepancy. Our casualties far exceed theirs, yet they demand a ‘National Day of Remembrance’, and have the audacity to invoke the b/s notion of ‘Islamophobia’! This is taking ‘taking the piss’ to a whole new level, and must be resisted as a matter of highest priority.

      • mortimer says

        Jan 8, 2018 at 1:50 pm

        ISLAM HAS A NORMATIVE DOCTRINE OF HATE: ‘AL BARAA’ = Islamic Apartheid, Shunning, Separation from KAFIRS ‘for the sake of Allah’, Islamic bigotry

        The hatred of Kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’…Al Bughoud or Al Mu’adaat (hatred) is the opposite of Al Muwalaat (love of Muslims), it is:
        – To Hate
        – To keep distance from
        – To be enemy to
        – To desert
        – To decline to help
        – To disrespect
        – To put down
        – Not to ally with
        – Not to support

        Allah ordered Muslims to have Baraa (to be cleansed) from the kufaar and from kufr and shirk.

        -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. – https://islamfuture.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/al-wala-wal-bara-according-to-the-aqeedah-of-the-salaf-parts-123/

        -Shaykh Ahmad ibn ‘Atiq said:
        “There isn’t in the Book of Allah the Exalted – after the issue concerning the obligation of tawheed and the forbiddance of its opposite – any issue which has as so many proofs, nor so clearly explained, than the issue of al-walaa’ and al-baraa’.”

        Examples of al-Baraa from historic figures:

        – from Sufi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in INSULTING kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to HUMILIATE them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain TERRIFIED and TREMBLING. It is intended to hold them under CONTEMPT and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”

        – from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show ANIMOSITY and HATRED towards disbelievers and NEVER support them.”

        – from Umar Sulayman ‘Abd-Allaah al-Ashqar, “Belief in Allah”: “The Muslim should regard the Kuffaar as ENEMIES and HATE them because of their kufr, just as he hates their kufr (disbelief) itself.”

        – from [Chap.iv] “The Islaamic Concept of al-Walaa’ wal-Baraa’” by Khalid El-Gharib: “… to SHOW ENMITY to those who show enmity to Allaah and His Messenger”.
        (Note: Muslims are to visibly demonstrate their ENMITY or HATRED towards the kufaar)

        – from a lecture given by Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal (H.A.): “The implication of al-Baraa is that one HATES for the sake of Allah (SWT)…Al-Baraa means to recognize who your enemies are and to HATE them and EXTERMINATE them in their Endeavour to get rid of your Deen, al-Islam…Al-Baraa is to HATE the people who propagate Baatil (falsehood)—the Muslim should HATE them and (at least desire to) KILL them when the time comes.”

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Jan 8, 2018 at 2:15 pm

          I bet Trudeau’s Muzzie mates haven’t told him any of this. And he’s too thick to research it for himself.

        • mortimer says

          Jan 8, 2018 at 5:22 pm

          Stella, Justin T. actually said in an interview that he doesn’t read newspapers and doesn’t watch TV news, because if it is important ‘someone’ will tell him.

          He is shallower than sheet of paper and many believe that the cardboard cutout pictures of him replace him if there is a recorded soundtrack.

        • Brian Hoff says

          Jan 9, 2018 at 3:03 pm

          Never hear of this. I see you make it up. Like the first chapter of the Koran you hater of Islam claim to have 66 sub chapter when it have only 7.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 9, 2018 at 5:26 pm

          Wow–there’s something the erudite, well-spoken, and knowledgeable “Brian Hoff” hasn’t heard of? sarc/off

          But, of course, even he is not *this* ignorant. The Qur’an and Hadith are full of exhortations for Muslims to hate the infidels, to not take them as friends, and to slaughter them wherever they are found.

      • JawsV says

        Jan 8, 2018 at 2:23 pm

        After all they have done to us Jews and Christians beginning with 9/11 I couldn’t care less about any Muslims. Couldn’t care less! They can take their anti-Jew/Christian bigotry and shove it!

        • Rob Porter says

          Jan 9, 2018 at 11:50 am

          JewsV, totally agree. While Valerie Price’s letter to Justin Trudeau is very good, there is some real naivety to Christine Douglas William’s column and it does not impress. “Anti-Muslim bigotry, like all bigotry whenever it is genuinely manifested, needs to be striven against, …” It that so? So is Muslim bigotry to be “striven against” with equal vigor and where do we ever see this in politically correct Canada – other than from the gutsy Jewish Defence League and The Rebel who are then branded “right wing”? Muslims incessant demonstrate their bigotry, not least when committing murderous act of violence against non-Muslims, incessantly try to impose their supremacist Islamic ideas on society, in schools, colleges and universities, so is it “anti-Muslim bigotry” to have no enthusiasm toward Muslims immigrating into the country where you live and to oppose Islamic indoctrination at your children’s school – which I do? Why after all the hatred and bigotry manifested by Muslims is this not discussed and Muslim immigration not “striven against” without those striving against it being accused of “bigotry”? Why is Muslim’s Judeophobia, Christianophobia, Hinduphobia and every other religious phobia known to man, not loudly condemned and “striven against”? Why would any sane person welcome into their country – without being accused of ‘bigotry’ – people who have no intention of assimilating and every intention of imposing their rubbish ideology and way of life? It’s a pity that Trump’s first NSA proved a liar because he was right when describing Islam as a cancer.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 8, 2018 at 4:55 pm

        Spot on, Mike and Stella.

      • Save Europe says

        Jan 8, 2018 at 11:01 pm

        Agreed. If North America and Western Europe commemorated Muslim terrorist attacks on non Muslims, there would be a considerable amount of commemoration days.

        • Andy says

          Jan 8, 2018 at 11:16 pm

      • alexstepanov says

        Jan 9, 2018 at 2:45 pm

        The numerical picture that shocked me was the number of Islamic support organizations that have sprung up across the country. I’m hoping these groups are contributing financially to Canadian society and are not using charitable status to avoid that. Also it bothers me that once this day is recognized, (which it surely will be), things won’t stop there. Significant creep of this ideology is happening in Canada, there are already the murmurings of having Eid Al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adha recognized as ‘official’ holidays for Muslims, not a stretch to see this day too becoming important enough to be a recognized holiday.

        • afrostreetwise says

          Jan 10, 2018 at 1:24 pm

          So long as your leaders gets to the offices through the ballot and muslim migration is continuous, You can be absolutely sure it will happen.The only moratorium being that Shoddy Arabia is at the moment in a bit of turmoil. That diminishes the funding.

    • J D S says

      Jan 9, 2018 at 8:55 am

      Yes there are 365 days in a year and it probably would take 365 years to honor those murdered by the fanatical Islamist.
      That said I do not condone murder.

  2. mortimer says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 12:35 pm

    How about a special COUNTERJIHAD DAY to commemorate the RIFLE ATTACK IN PARLIAMENT by JIHADIST Michael Zehaf-Bibeau who killed Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a Canadian soldier on ceremonial sentry duty. He then entered the nearby Centre Block parliament building, where members of the Parliament of Canada were attending caucuses. After wrestling with a constable at the entrance, Zehaf-Bibeau ran inside and had a shootout with parliament security personnel. He was shot 31 times by six officers and died at the scene.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_shootings_at_Parliament_Hill,_Ottawa

    • Linda says

      Jan 8, 2018 at 12:45 pm

      COUNTERJIHAD DAY is a good idea.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 8, 2018 at 5:13 pm

      Sounds good to me, Mortimer.

  3. Michael Copeland says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 1:03 pm

    How about “Victims of Gamil Gharbi Day” December 6th?
    Gamil Gharbi, a muslim, was better known as Marc Lepine.
    He singled out and shot 14 women, wounding 10 others and 2 men at the Ecole Polythechnique,Quebec, before shooting himself.
    Canadians did not then know about Jihad, then, so all sorts of mental issues were blamed.
    His actions qualify as jihad.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 8, 2018 at 1:34 pm

      Marc Lepine was no doubt a JIHADIST who hated women ‘for the sake of Allah’. His father was a Muslim from north Africa.

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Jan 8, 2018 at 2:11 pm

        It’s a fairly compelling piece of evidence, given our knowledge of what the children of Muslim parents are taught. Especially if the parents are observant Muslims.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 8, 2018 at 5:15 pm

        lebel, of course, hopes we know nothing about the Islamic hatred of women.

      • mortimer says

        Jan 8, 2018 at 6:08 pm

        Lebel, you might like to read what your religion says against women:

        The hadiths of Mohammed that insult and degrade all women:

        – I think that women were created for nothing but evil.
        – Women have ten ‘awrat (vulvas). When she gets married, the husband covers one, and when she dies the grave covers the ten (of her shameful parts).
        – A straw mat in the corner of the house is preferable to a barren woman.
        – Women are toys, so choose (your ‘toys’).
        – The woman is a toy, whoever takes her, let him care for her [ or do not lose her ].
        – Had it not been for women, God would have truly, truly been worshipped.
        – Men perished the day they obeyed the women.
        – Obedience to a woman’s advice causes regret.
        – Consult women and act contrary (to it).
        – Sneezing, drowsing, yawning in prayer, also menstruation, vomiting and nose-bleeding are from Satan.
        – When…your affairs are in the hands of your women, the interior of the earth (hell) will be the better for you than its surface.
        – If a woman offered one of her breasts to be cooked and the other to be roasted, she still will fall short of fulfilling her obligations to her husband. And besides that if she disobeys her husband even for a twinkling of an eye, she would be thrown in the lowest part of Hell, except she repents and turns back.
        – Mohammed asked some women, “Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half that of a man?” The women said, “Yes,” He said, “This is because of the deficiency of the woman’s mind.”
        – I have not seen any one more deficient in intelligence and religion than you (women).
        – I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers are women.
        – Bad omen is in the woman, the house and the horse.
        – After me I have not left any affliction more harmful to men than women.
        – Don’t wear false hair for Allah sends His curse upon such ladies who lengthen their hair artificially.
        – Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur’an.
        – Women, slaves and camels are same.
        – Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman.
        – If you relax the woman’s bridle a tiny bit, she will take you and bolt wildly. And if you lower her cheek-piece a hand span, she will pull you an arm’s length … Their deception is awesome and their wickedness is contagious; bad character and feeble mind are their predominant traits.
        – “[A man’s wife] fears him, while he fears her not, a kind word from him satisfies her, where nothing of hers has importance in his eyes, it is she who must tolerate the presence of concubines, and it is she who worries when he is ill whereas even her death would leave him indifferent.
        – If a man calls his wife to his bed and she refuses, and he spends the night angry with her, the angels curse her until morning.
        – Treat women well, for they are [like] domestic animals [awan] with you and do not possess anything for themselves. You have taken them only as a trust from God and you have made the enjoyment of their persons lawful by the word of God, so understand and listen to my words…
        – Muhammad’s last words on women during his farewell speech:
        – God allows you to put them in separate rooms and to beat them but not with severity. If they refrain from these things they have the right to their food and clothing with kindness. Lay injunctions on women kindly, for they are prisoners with you having no control- of their persons. Sirat Rasul Allah.

      • Brian Hoff says

        Jan 9, 2018 at 3:15 pm

        Not evidence at all.I never met than moslim parents who taught they children hated of non-muslim.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 9, 2018 at 5:43 pm

        “Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–wrote:

        Not evidence at all.I never met than moslim parents who taught they children hated of non-muslim.
        …………………………..

        Well, of course not! No Muslim would *ever* teach their children the Qur’an, which has Ayats like these:

        Quran (66:9) – O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern with them. Hell will be their home, a hapless journey’s end.

        Quran (8:55) – Surely the vilest of animals in Allah’s sight are those who disbelieve

        Quran (4:52) – Those (Christians) are they whom Allah hath cursed

        Or perhaps “Brian Hoff’ would have us consider the above little love notes to the “filthy Infidels”?

    • Older Canadian says

      Jan 8, 2018 at 1:52 pm

      I am old enough to remember this.

      Also remember the muslim connection was swept under the rug at that time and it remains there today.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 8, 2018 at 5:18 pm

        Here in the US we heard *nothing* about his being a Muslim at the time.

        • mortimer says

          Jan 8, 2018 at 6:39 pm

          GI, here’s the history…

          Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi (legally changed to Marc Lépine) was born in Montreal, the son of a Canadian nurse and an Algerian businessman. His father was abusive and contemptuous of women. After his parents separated when he was seven, his mother returned to nursing to support her children. Lépine and his younger sister lived with other families, seeing their mother on weekends. Lépine was considered bright but withdrawn and having difficulties with peer and family relationships. He changed his name to Marc Lépine at the age of 14 giving as the reason his hatred of his father. Lépine’s application to the Canadian Forces was rejected, and in 1982 he began a science program at a college, switching to a more technical program after one year. In 1986, he dropped out of the course in his final term, and was subsequently fired from his job at a hospital due to his poor attitude. He began a computer programming course in 1988, and again abandoned it before completion. Lépine twice applied for admission to the École Polytechnique, but lacked two required compulsory courses.

          Instability and violence marked the family: they moved frequently, and much of Lépine’s early childhood was spent in Costa Rica and Puerto Rico, where his father was working for a Swiss mutual funds company. The family returned to Montreal permanently in 1968, shortly before a stock market crash led to the loss of much of the family’s assets. Gharbi was an authoritarian, possessive and jealous man, frequently violent towards his wife and his children. Gharbi had contempt for women and believed that they were only intended to serve men.

          After several months of planning, Lépine entered the École Polytechnique de Montréal, on the afternoon of December 6, 1989. He had long complained about women working in non-traditional jobs, and after separating men and women in a classroom, he shot the women, claiming that he was fighting feminism. He then moved into other parts of the building, targeting women as he went, before killing himself. His suicide note blamed feminists for ruining his life.

        • 6woods says

          Jan 8, 2018 at 11:17 pm

          We didn’t hear about it in Canada at the time either. It was only several years later that I stumbled on that information somewhere. If he had been a “Right-Wing Christian Terrorist”, it would have been shouted from the rooftops.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 9, 2018 at 5:49 pm

          Thank you, Mortimer.

          I said I learned nothing about it at the time–in 1989. I have subsequently become well informed about the Islamic aspects of the atrocity.

          Even now, the Wikipedia page mentions nothing about this:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre

  4. PRCS says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 1:06 pm

    “With the rise of far-right extremist groups”

    Including Muslim groups.

    Let’s be honest: Islam is not a warm and fuzzy liberal ideology.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 8, 2018 at 1:36 pm

      PRCS, bingo! Islam is a VERY CONSERVATIVE, FASCIST IDEOLOGY.

      Muslims working with Trudeau do not work FOR HIM! They practice TAQIYYA!

      They are L.I.N.O.s … Liberals in name only!

      Muslims in the Liberal Party are fifth columnists who HATE LIBERALISM ‘for the sake of Allah’.

  5. PRCS says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 1:16 pm

    Valerie Price’s letter is well written.

    How will Prime Minister Trudeau respond?

    Decisions, decisions, decisions.

    Show respect for the victims cited in Valerie Price’s well written letter or pander to the perpetually whiny Muslim community?

  6. Thomas Kimball says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 1:25 pm

    How bout a national day of silence for arab sheep and goats! Time to speak out for those that can’t speak for themselves!!!! Baaaaaaah, Baaaaaaaah!

    • Westman says

      Jan 8, 2018 at 1:53 pm

      Mummy? What is this NDRAI on our calendar?

      “It’s just some national remembrance day for, I think, Artificial Intelligence”

  7. StellaSaidSo says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 1:29 pm

    The jihad just stepped up a notch.

    The Muslim Brotherhood plan for the take-down of North America advances.

  8. WorkingClassPost says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 1:30 pm

    This islamophia thing is a very serious matter, and I think the islamic groups in UK should compose something similar for Ms May to ponder.

    There was a recent terrible bacon attack on a mosk doorhandle which we should perhaps consider for starters.

    Or what about all those hurtful tweets and FB posts?

    The main thing is that we get our priorities straight, and recognize the real victims…

    • Save Europe says

      Jan 8, 2018 at 11:06 pm

      I totally totally agree. As a Limey it is important we recognise the hurt feelings of the aforementioned door handle and the Koranderthals whose lives were so greatly affected by a single slice of bacon. I’ve not been able to sleep since hearing about this tomfoolery!

  9. Older Canadian says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 2:05 pm

    Perhaps since trudeau is, at long last, presently on the hot seat for his doings in 2017 regarding his softness on terrorists, their actions and deeds, it will not get a nod of approval from him.

    But on the other hand, he just loves to repeat his mistakes to prove he is is not wrong.

  10. don vito says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 2:08 pm

    Hoist a stein of camel urine to the proposed national day of remembrance. Where have all the victims gone? To allah, every one.

    • Mak says

      Jan 9, 2018 at 12:10 am

      A day to remember islamophobia? How about a day to celebrate it. There should be cake. With an image of a burning masjid in the frosting.

  11. Kesselman says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 2:24 pm

    I’m amazed (not impressed) by the enormous amount of Fifth Column organizations in North America listed below the article. They are all involved in mole activities – from petty offenses on streets to money laundering or terrorist finance transactions.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 8, 2018 at 5:27 pm

      True, Kesselman.

  12. bat 21 says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 2:30 pm

    They missed a few endorsing organizations: Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, ISIS, Taliban, Al-Nusra Front, Jamaat-e-Islami !!

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Jan 8, 2018 at 2:53 pm

      They’re all represented – but under different names.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 8, 2018 at 5:34 pm

      Spot on.

  13. DogOnPorch says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 2:48 pm

    Initial reports said there were two gunmen shouting Allahu Akbar and opening fire.

    That changed to a lone ‘Trump Supporter’ the next day…

    The Day in question is to shame all non-Muslims in Canada and make them culpable in the shooting.

    Fishy is one word….

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 8, 2018 at 5:37 pm

      Indeed so…

    • Dov Berrol says

      Jan 9, 2018 at 8:00 am

      It’s amazing how little we Canadians have been told about Bissonette and the investigation. And it’s a full one year later. My suspicion: this was a naive student egged on by a Muslim to create an “Islamaphobic” headline event. Muslims don’t care of fellow Muslims die in the jihad to further Islam.

    • Older Canadian says

      Jan 9, 2018 at 4:03 pm

      Yes considering this mosque was the most non-violent, non-agressive, actually peaceful in their thinking, and the smallest and newest of all the divisions of islam.

      They are absolutely hated by their fellow muslims of the other divisions such as sunni and etc.

      Very suspicious indeed.

      And I don’t have to tell you, we will never be allowed to know.

  14. Manny says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 2:50 pm

    Maybe when there’s a national day of mourning across the Muslim world for all the terrorism of the last twenty years, I might consider it. Actually make it a national month of mourning. One day doesn’t make up for their jihadist ideology. Otherwise, they can go ride a camel. Of course the Canadian government is going to give it to them. I have no doubt about that.

    • Save Europe says

      Jan 8, 2018 at 11:07 pm

      National Year is closer !

  15. Terry Gain says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 3:50 pm

    Dear Prime Minister Trudeau

    I am petitioning you to announce a National Day of Remembrance, Condemnation and Denunciation for the Muslim Canadians who joined ISIS in order to rape, terrorize, torture and murder innocent people. Let’s do what we can to make sure this betrayal of Canada never happens again.

    • Older Canadian says

      Jan 9, 2018 at 3:52 pm

      Great idea. It would be interesting to make a request as you stated and see the reaction

      Actually something like this should be done, as we all know it would be refused. Then this refusal could be used as a tool to stop further submissions which is the tip of submission to this group of very special people.

  16. Dov Berrol says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 4:17 pm

    Why don’t we also have a Memorial Day for Victims of Jihad and Kafirphobia? After all, January is also the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo / Kosher Market massacre in France.

  17. Abbisid says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 4:49 pm

    I am sure our Little Potato (that would be Justin Trudeau) will bend over and comply, as he appeases every thing Islamic. Now the rest of us need to ask for two days, one for Christian persecution by Muslims, the other for the known cases of Islamic killings since 9/11, 213,610 Killed, 289,841 Injured. Little Potato needs to know these numbers.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 8, 2018 at 8:31 pm

      Jihadi Justin acts like an apostate from Christianity.

  18. gravenimage says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 4:51 pm

    NCCM (CAIR-CAN) requests “National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia” to commemorate mosque shooting
    ……………………………

    Given that the Canadian authorities themselves have not deemed this crime to have been “Islamophobia” or a hate crime–which they have always seemed eager to do–leads me to believe that something else was going on here.

    But of course CAIR Can hopes that no one notices, and that they can get the Canadian government to codify any criticism of Islam being a crime. If they can get the “filthy Infidels” to enforce Shari’ah, all the better. *Ugh*.

  19. Peter says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    For all the Jihad attacks, we would need “Global Minutes of Remembrance and Action on Infidelphobia.”

  20. Darryl Kerney says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    at the risk of sounding insensitive, which i am not, i condemn murder no matter who the victim(s),
    but don’t muslims believe that nothing happens without allah willing it ?

    • mortimer says

      Jan 8, 2018 at 8:36 pm

      Darryl, Muslims have never apologized for killing 270 kafirs or for enslaving enslaving millions of Africans in the largest slave trade in history or enslave 3 million Christian Europeans.

      • Darryl Kerney says

        Jan 8, 2018 at 10:48 pm

        true, but i am most curious about how they fail to be consistent in their belief, the common refrain is inshallah, if allah wills it, otherwise they think it won’t happen,
        but the mosque shooting DID happen, doesn’t that mean allah willed it ?
        if so, will they question whether he was punishing them ?
        or see him as not their protector as claimed in the quran ?
        it seems not.

        • 6woods says

          Jan 8, 2018 at 11:37 pm

          Their heads are too packed with religious mumbo-jumbo to question anything. Logic isn’t their strong suit.

  21. mortimer says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 8:36 pm

    Muslims have never apologized for killing 270 million kafirs

  22. WorkingClassPost says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 9:09 pm

    Just occurs to me that we once talked about compiling an alternative to SPLC’s ‘hate’ list, and it looks as though CAIR-CAN/NCCM have saved us the bother by getting a whole bunch of enablers and sympathizers to put their names to this stupid letter.

  23. SB says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 10:31 pm

    Justin Trudeau: one word–Ick!

  24. MFritz says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 11:41 pm

    If you had a holiday for every act of islamic terrorism, the calender would run out of days… quickly.

  25. Ewanda says

    Jan 8, 2018 at 11:43 pm

    Only if it is agreed to concurrently run the Remembrance for Canadian soldier Patrick Vincent and the 2nd soldier who was injured, plus 16 year old Aqsa Parvez, plus Corporal Cirillo killed on Parliament Hill, plus 3 sisters and first wife drowned in Kingston Canal, plus Constable Mike Chernyk and 4 pedestrians targeted and run over in Edmonton, plus arrest of Toronto 18 for plotting bomb attacks and Parliament attacks, plus 2-man terror plot on Via passenger train near Niagara, plus Gamil Gharbi alias Marc Lepine shooting 28 and killing 14, plus 120 million Africans including from the slave trade that is rampant even today, plus 60 million Christians including from the slave trade, plus 80 million Hindus including from the slave trade, plus 120 million Buddhists including from the slave trade, plus the millions of Jews including Islam’s involvement in the Holocaust, plus the Armenian Holocaust, plus the over 30 thousand Jihad attacks since 9/11, plus barbaric death sentences for blasphemy and apostasy, plus stoning of women, plus amputations, plus acid attacks, plus no go zones, plus live animal sacrifices to a deity producing desensitization to cruelty in the general population but more particularly in their children, and on it goes.
    You would think that when Muslims read their involvement in 1400 years of history, it would produce embarrassment in them and they would start to question the barbarism of their Ideology.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Jan 9, 2018 at 3:48 am

      Great points.

      ‘You would think that when Muslims read their involvement in 1400 years of history, it would produce embarrassment in them, and they would start to question the barbarism of their ideology.’

      Some do, and become apostates. Their courage commands our respect and support.

      For others, there is no embarrassment, no shame – and no barbarism. If it was done in the name of Allah, it must be OK.

      Recently, Canada removed the adjective ‘barbaric’ from a statute relating to FGM. Describing a barbaric practice as barbaric is offensive, apparently. The practice itself, not so much. This is the weird logic of the Muslim mind-set. One of our biggest mistakes has been our assumption that ‘deep down, they are just like us’. They are not.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 9, 2018 at 5:54 pm

      Unfortunately, many Muslims are not embarrassed by their history of vicious Jihad–they are inspired by it…

  26. Lydia Church says

    Jan 9, 2018 at 12:01 am

    What we need is a national day of remembrance for persecuted Christians around the world by the likes of isis! (There is one in general in early November. But you wouldn’t know it unless you were a Christian who cares.) And a national day of remembrance against “Christophobia” and “Truthophobia”!
    And one against those who come against those who are against jihad terrorism, by calling them ‘islamophobics’! islam is evil and so are those who support it.

    And that ‘international burka day,’ what a joke!
    Let’s see them roll out an international CROSS day!
    To identify with persecuted Christians!
    Two can play that game.

  27. Champ says

    Jan 9, 2018 at 1:26 am

    “Anti-Muslim bigotry, like all bigotry whenever it is genuinely manifested, needs to be striven against” …

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    I see they’re busy spreading the “anti-muslim bigotry” MYTH.

    Exposing evil islam with the unvarnished TRUTH is not “bigotry”, jeez …

    Hey imagine if a doctor discovers cancer in your body and recommends surgery to remove it, or die; and the response of say, your family, are claims that the doctor is a bigot against cancer …ridiculous, right? Of course! Since the sane course of action is to remove the cancer. But for some strange reason, your family has completely lost their way and they’ve decided to protect and side with the cancer. Unthinkable.

    And as crazy as this scenario is, it’s remarkably similar to those whom protect muslims by claiming that they’re being persecuted, and that the poor dears need to be protected. Remember, muslims are followers of an evil criminal and islam is the cancer being SPREAD by muslims.

    It’s really that simple. But impossible to see if you’ve lost your way–even if by a small degree.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 9, 2018 at 5:55 pm

      Good analogy, Champ.

      • Champ says

        Jan 9, 2018 at 8:07 pm

        Thank you, Graven.

  28. Joe says

    Jan 9, 2018 at 7:22 am

    The Alexandre Bissonnette case is weird. None of the facts fit together. I have been trying to follow the case, but there isn’t much information on it. All the groups piling onto the case before it is tried should be of a concern to the court.

  29. George says

    Jan 9, 2018 at 8:05 am

    I would like to know why the government is still keeping details of this mass murder secret?
    How come its taking so long to go to trial?
    Why is it that we still know nothing about the motive, or pretty much every other detail?

  30. Frederick Middleton says

    Jan 9, 2018 at 12:35 pm

    What about a day to commemorate the sad plight of the unicorns?

  31. gravenimage says

    Jan 9, 2018 at 5:52 pm

    Charles is so wedded to this that he is spamming this thread. *Ugh*.

  32. Politicianophobia community, free of hate says

    Jan 9, 2018 at 8:29 pm

    Alexandre Bissonnette shot everyone. The second man, a Moroccan immigrant, Mohamed el Khadir, aka Mohamed Belkadir was questioned as a suspect and was released as a witness. Other witnesses thought there were 3 or 4 shooters, three yelling Allah Akbar, but apparently they were wrong and that is the end of the story. Maybe after M-103 is passed as a bill, we the people will be told more, just don’t hold your breath. Times, they are a changing. Mom was right, believe half of what you see and nothing of what you hear.

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