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Canada: Ottawa library faces court challenge for cancelling film depicting the Islamization of Europe

Jun 15, 2018 9:28 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Madeline Weld, the organizer of a screening of the so-called “controversial” film Killing Europe “at the Ottawa Public Library… has applied for a judicial review of the library’s decision to cancel the showing.” Weld runs the Ottawa Chapter of Act for Canada and is also co-founder of the organization Canadian Citizens for Charter Rights and Freedoms (C3RF).

Killing Europe is a documentary that warns about the dangers of the Islamization of Europe. Its producer was scheduled to give a talk following the screening. See the trailer here.

Unfortunately, the Ottawa Public Library succumbed to the demands of some members of the public who had a predetermined judgement about the film. Those opposing viewed it as:

thinly veiled hate speech and a violation of Ontario’s Human Rights Code and the library’s policy to turn down events that are likely to promote discrimination.

The problem with predetermined accusations that consistently arise in the face of attempts to discuss the truth about Islamic supremacism and jihad is that such arguments are never founded upon reason and honesty. As writer Melanie Phillips succinctly put it:

Throughout Europe, there is a paralysis over attributing this cultural catastrophe to the Islamic world. Yes, it’s important to note that many Muslims refuse to subscribe to this, that millions lead unblemished lives in the West and that they are themselves targeted by Islamist extremists. But the silence over the specific religious roots of this widespread extremism is contributing to its acceleration.

The phobia about criticizing Islam is becoming more rooted in Canada. A retired Air Force veteran, Major Russ Cooper, who also co-founded C3RF, stated to me:

The case really highlights just how “chilled” and intimidated everyday government authorities have become when it comes to things Islamic — right down to the municipal level. We are well down the path that gave the UK its unimpeded rape gangs and growing totalitarian impulses including the jailing of Tommy Robinson.

Islam needs to be openly discussed and debated in the public sphere, because there is currently a global jihad that has been declared against the West, as is attested by an abundance of authentic documents. Not only have overtly jihadist organizations such as al Qaeda and the Islamic State declared war, but so has the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as the Islamic Republic of Iran. All have extensive networks in operation globally.

Valerie Price, National Director of ACT for Canada, expressed her concerns to me in an email:

Inch by inch, our rights to free speech are being stolen from us.  Event after event is closed down because there are those who believe that they know what is best for us – what we should think; what we should feel.  Hotels and other venues cowardly capitulate under threats of violence and the enemy walks away laughing with another victory.

The documentary “Killing Europe” was not about hate – it was an honest portrayal of how Europe is collapsing under political correctness and multiculturalism. This was not a movie with “actors” playing roles of persecuted Muslims.  It was real. It was the truth.  But that was not the interpretation of the Ottawa Public Library. Under heavy influence of a myriad of haters, they chose to close it down. They refused to understand that an event’s audience or attendees have a constitutional right to hear a speaker. A speaker has a constitutional right to speak. These rights are not superseded by haters who disagree. Disruptions are a violation of a fundamental right to learn, to engage in dialogue and to come together as a community.

Meanwhile, Canada allows Al Quds day – where the participants are calling for the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews.

Organizer Madeline Weld rightly stated in her application for judicial review that the library’s decision to cancel the film’s screening “violated (her) constitutional right to free expression,” as well as the rights of the audience to see the film.

The library initially agreed to the screening but reversed the decision under public pressure, including a letter sent to the library and city council by prominent Ottawa human rights lawyer Richard Warman.

Warman was described by Mark Steyn as Canada’s self-appointed “Hate-finder General.”

Meanwhile, in another disturbing situation, the Liberal government of Canada has announced a far reaching plan to crack down on “Islamophobia.” The implications of this plan were covered in depth here at Jihad Watch.

The document — GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO THE TENTH REPORT OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON CANADIAN HERITAGE ENTITLED: TAKING ACTION AGAINST SYSTEMIC RACISM AND RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION INCLUDING ISLAMOPHOBIA — has a creepy air of totalitarianism, and was neatly and cleverly wrapped up in a package with valid anti-discrimination measures.

Government action against “Islamophobia’ includes monitoring citizens for compliance, training law enforcement to investigate online and offline “hate speech,” and a plan of action to advance the government’s version of media literacy with respect to cultural and interfaith awareness. “Fake news” and “hate speech” were mentioned, as well as the government’s intention of cracking down on “far right” groups, along with “Daesh.”

While Daesh (aka the Islamic State) was mentioned, the government did not define what it meant by “far right” groups. It avoided a clear and concise definition and identification of “far right,” just as it avoided a definition of “Islamophobia.”

Canadians have every reason to be alarmed, as this government document can slap the label of “far right” on any group it chooses to destroy, particularly those groups which criticize Islam.

Let’s hope Madeline Weld is victorious in her efforts to protect and defend the freedom of speech in Canada.

“Library faces court challenge over cancellation of controversial film,” by Blair Crawford, Ottawa Citizen, June 13, 2018:

The organizer of a screening of the controversial film Killing Europe at the Ottawa Public Library last November has applied for a judicial review of the library’s decision to cancel the showing.

Madeline Weld claims in her application, which was filed Monday in Toronto, that the library’s decision to cancel “violated (her) constitutional right to free expression” as well as the rights of the audience to see the film.

Weld argues the library “acted arbitrarily and unreasonably” by cancelling the screening and asks the court to force the library to allow the film to be shown.

Weld, a retired public servant, booked the film on behalf of ACT for Canada, an organization that says it wishes “to defend our country by speaking out in defence of our democratic values, our security and our liberty against the rise of Islamism.”

Weld is the founder of the organization’s Ottawa chapter, according to her online biography. She is also founder of Canadian Citizens for Charter Rights and Freedoms, an organization opposed to M-103, the federal government’s non-binding anti-Islamophobia motion, which passed in March 2017.

Killing Europe is a documentary by Danish ex-patriate Michael Hansen, which purports to warn of the dangers of the “Islamification” of Europe. Hansen was scheduled to give a talk after the Ottawa screening.

Critics of the film call it thinly veiled hate speech and complained to the library that the screening violated Ontario’s Human Rights Code and the library’s own policy to deny events that “are likely to promote discrimination, contempt or hatred to any person on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, marital status, family status, sexual preference, or disability, gratuitous sex and violence or denigration of the human condition.”

The library initially agreed to the screening but reversed the decision under public pressure, including a letter sent to the library and city council by prominent Ottawa human rights lawyer Richard Warman……

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", dhimmitude, features, free speech Tagged With: ACT for Canada, Canadian Citizens for Charter Rights and Freedoms, Killing Europe, Madeline Weld, Michael Hansen, Ottawa, Ottawa Public Library


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  1. Linda says

    Jun 15, 2018 at 11:52 am

    In Justin Trudeau’s Canada, everyone is supposed to follow the globalist mantra.

  2. boris says

    Jun 15, 2018 at 12:00 pm

    Why do European politicians let this happen? Why is the moslim immigration to the US growing so hard? Why do all our Western politicians come with the same mantra, “islam is peaceful”, again and again after muslims have slaughtered Europeans or Americans. The Bush family, friends of the Saudi’s. The Clintons, friends of the Saudi’s, Obama, a moslim himself, Trump, first place he visited was Saudi Arabia. Yes it’s time to not only repatriate moslims from the West but also to retaliate hard in the heart of islam. Saudi Arabia and the UAE!

  3. Tom says

    Jun 15, 2018 at 5:32 pm

    The more ambiguous a definition is allowed to remain the easier it is to craft it to mean whatever you want it to be. That is how the, Muslim Brotherhood influenced, Trudeau government works.

    Hence the adoption of the word “Islamaphobia” without any real definition in the motion M-103 which is the basis for a “whole of government approach” to “discrimination”, a smoke screen for stifling free speech in Canada.

    This is a disaster for Canada and will result in total control of our society by Islam if we do not remove Trudeau and his Liberals from office in 2019.

    • Terry Gain says

      Jun 15, 2018 at 6:18 pm

      Tom
      You are a absolutely right. I am a retired lawyer and I will be devoting most of my time in the next 20 months to defeating Trudeau. If he is re-elected Canada is headed for civil war.

      • Vlad Tepes says

        Jun 15, 2018 at 7:02 pm

        Hate Speech is another ambiguous and weaponizable term as needs be. The left and islam play the same game. Make up words they can force everyone to agree are bad, then apply that term to anything that stands in the way of their supremacist agenda.

        I would call it brilliant, but really its a testament to how stupid the rest of us are, that it has worked so well for so long.

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Jun 15, 2018 at 7:47 pm

          It’s like the whole Code of Conduct thing that a lot of people in the gaming/coding industry have notice.

          The SJW campaigns loudly for such a Code to be implemented in the company, but all the definitions are so vague that, once the company has given in to the whinings of a few guilt tripping time wasters, those same SJWs are able to use the Code to harass and ultimately get fired anyone they don’t like.

          Vox Day writes a lot about this, and it’s the same MO coming from the same kinds of people that are pushing ‘Hate Speech’ laws at the governmental level.

    • SeanInNYC says

      Jun 16, 2018 at 6:51 am

      Canadians voted for the people who enacted the laws. This is the will of the Canadian people.

  4. Vlad Tepes says

    Jun 15, 2018 at 7:03 pm

    Here is the whole movie, Killing Europe.

    https://youtu.be/UOdB5k1iFVs

    Rumour has it, Michael’s next film will be even better, and more hard hitting as well as closer to home.

    ANTIFA and the social justice warriors still have not learned the lesson of Streisand. And so they get what they make.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 15, 2018 at 9:53 pm

      Thank you, Vlad.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Jun 15, 2018 at 10:30 pm

      Yeah, thanks Vlad.

      You guys probably now this already, but if it asks you to log in or something, just type “pwn” before youtube in the URL, and it’s yours.

  5. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Jun 15, 2018 at 7:44 pm

    The documentary “Killing Europe is called “thinly veiled hate speech and a violation of Ontario’s Human Rights Code”….

    “Meanwhile, Canada allows Al Quds day – where the participants are calling for the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews”

    Which is completely unveiled hate (perhaps the only thing that it is halal to be unveiled)

    This BS needs to stop.

  6. PRCS says

    Jun 15, 2018 at 9:40 pm

    Per Meanie Philips:

    “that they are themselves targeted by Islamist extremists.

    And:

    “this widespread extremism

    Melanie doesn’t quite “get it”.

    Still.

  7. gravenimage says

    Jun 15, 2018 at 9:58 pm

    Canada: Ottawa library faces court challenge for cancelling film depicting the Islamization of Europe
    …………………..

    Glad to see some Canadian patriots fighting back against this censorship.

  8. j karna says

    Jun 16, 2018 at 4:09 am

    Sharia Justina bows before this backward anti-west cult. Justina allows Al Quds day, sums up Canadastan.

    • Carol the 1st says

      Jun 18, 2018 at 1:01 am

      Has anyone heard a peep from the Boy Wonder?? Or is he too busy worrying about anti-Islammunism?

  9. Politicianophobia says

    Jun 16, 2018 at 10:09 am

    Good “They” will be cracking down on hate speech:

    On line, check out Imam Mazin Abdul-Adhim, head of the terrorists group Hibz ut-Tharir, living in London, Ontario, charge him with sedition-trying to over throw the government and deport him back to Irqa. Canadian law rules Canada not Shari’ah.

    Toronto Imam Ayman Elkasrawy

    Imam Sayed al-Ghitawi, Al-Andalous Islamic Center in Montreal, “Destroy the accursed Jews kill them one by one and give victory to our brothers who engage in jihad for your sake everywhere.”

    Same place-Imam Wael-al-Ghitawi, “Jerusalem is Arab and Islamic and Jews are descendants of Mongols.”

    Imam Abdu Albasset Egwilla, “Martyrdom in the name of Allah.”

    Who was the Imam who at his son’s funeral said, “Allah break the backs of the tyrants and the oppressors and the unjust and those nations of the world that are with them. Allah they have gathered against us and are scheming against us, so scheme against them…….

    Crack down on hate speech, yes and start with the mosques.

    Al-Quads day parades–Is calling for killing the Jews not hate speech.

    IWhat about Christianophobia, after all Canada IS a Christian country. How about “Love one Another.”

    We are way past the time for all this nonsense, promoted by our government, this divide and conquer attitude/diversity is our strength BS to stop.

  10. Politicianophobia says

    Jun 16, 2018 at 10:19 am

    Top three that have to go in 2019:
    Justine Trudeau

    Irqa Khalid

    Omar Alghabra

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Jun 16, 2018 at 12:44 pm

      Agree 100%

      Let’s vote for the Liberals…..

      To have party status revoked federally.

  11. Richard Courtemanche says

    Jun 16, 2018 at 2:43 pm

    Bravo Madeline!

    Since govs are afraid to assume responsibility, members of the public have to volunteer their time to secure the nation against foreign evil and internal incompetence and treason.

  12. Politicianophobia says

    Jun 16, 2018 at 7:07 pm

    Canadians MUST remember all the Liberals and all the NDP voted for M-103, the shhhh, hush up or shut up motion.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Jun 16, 2018 at 7:18 pm

      We must remember too that really, there isn’t any practical difference between those two parties. And the Greens are worse.

  13. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Jun 16, 2018 at 10:32 pm

    ACT for Canada has muslim employees, and proudly supports gays & women’s rights.

    Some of it’s top tier people are “social workers” – part of the busybody class.

    It’s sad, really – but this is what Canada has come to. I won’t be joining.

    • Rebuttal says

      Jun 17, 2018 at 7:18 pm

      You really are completely out in left field about Act for Canada

    • Rebuttal says

      Jun 17, 2018 at 7:20 pm

      You have no idea what you are talking about!

  14. terry says

    Jun 17, 2018 at 9:00 am

    I’ve had my CBC account suspended 3 times for daring to criticize islam in their comment section, at the same time criticism of christianity is posted nearly everyday.

    ‘Killing Canada’ coming to a bookstore near you in the future.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Jun 17, 2018 at 11:00 am

      Sounds about right.

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