For decades, the establishment media had a virtually monopoly on the public discourse, and told Americans what they should believe about issues and individuals; now that monopoly is crumbling, and the Left’s fear and hysteria over losing its hegemony is palpable. Here, the Toronto Star’s Jennifer Pagliaro demonstrates her hate and rage over actual journalism — reporting that doesn’t follow the establishment line — and demonstrates the hard-Left’s authoritarian tendencies and inveterate opposition to the freedom of speech.
gary fouse says
The Star should ask why it took 22 hours to inform the public that the Toronto shooter was Hussain while immediately going into the mental illness mode.
Emilie Green says
They KNOW,
They KNOW,
They KNOW,
that we’re right about Islam.
Moejj says
There is no such thing as islamophobia, there is only islamaware
Johnnie Carmichael says
Islamophobia is an irrational fear of Islam. The only people who have an irrational fear of Islam are the people who are scared to speak out against it. They are the same people who will defend this evil ideology without doing any research on the subject….the Dhimmis aka Democrats. Just like Islam, Dems don’t care about truth, they care about what is acceptable by social standards. No different than Hollywood. They seek to impose their beliefs on the rest of society by any means necessary. Islamophobia is a word stolen from Homophobia to demonize any criticism of the ideology and portray the critic as irrational and fearful. The only people irrational and fearful are those who let this evil ideology thrive.
Nabi says
Right. And very few people have an irrational fear of homosexuals. Logical types, always wondering what the next piece of nonsense will be, merely object to enshrining or promoting gender bending concepts.
Nabi says
You’re right, of course–but there seems to be a lot of perverse Islamophilia.
Axolotl says
Moejj. You’re right. We need to get away from the word ‘Islamophobia’. There is nothing irrational about my fear of Islam. I’m going to start using ‘Islamaware’.
mortimer says
Moeji is correct that there is no DIAGNOSIBLE ILLNESS called Islamophobia. The fear of the MISOGYNISTIC and SUPREMACIST IDEOLOGY OF ISLAM is perfectly REASONABLE and RATIONAL.
To fear the HORRENDOUS EFFECTS of the most DEADLY IDEOLOGY IN HISTORY is RATIONAL and PRUDENT, and it is not an ILLNESS.
J D S says
Yes Mortimer…..
FEAR…..FEAR is what has held Islam in place for these many centuries and FEAR is still working today (apostasy laws) and FEAR by non Muslims of being murdered by those Muslims who really follow Islamic laws of subduing all non Muslims ….
Michael Perloff says
Since a phobia is an unwarranted or irrational fear of something, there is no such thing as a phobia about the civilization-destroying ideology of Submission (Islam in Arabic). It’s the only “religion” where the more its followers become observant, the more they tend to become intolerant and prone to violence. Therefore, having a negative attitude about it is entirely warranted.
Consider that if Submission/Islam is truly a “religion” of peace and tolerance, then wouldn’t extremist Muslims necessarily have to be extremely peaceful and tolerant?
Andy says
Peaceful multicultural societies don’t exist, Dutch FM says in explosive leaked speech
“Give me an example of a multi-ethnic or a multi-cultural society, in which the original population still lives, and where there is a peaceful cohabitation. I don’t know one.”
https://rightedition.com/2018/07/23/peaceful-multicultural-societies-dont-exist-dutch-fm-says-in-explosive-leaked-speech/
Myrtle Upchuck says
That peaceful society is Canada. The problem is that racist bigots are trying their best to disrupt Canada to prove their false theory on multiculturalism. mULTICULTURALISM WORKS FOR ALL BUT THE PARANOID XENOPHOBIC FRINGE. If you are part of that fringe, just shut the f up and let us live in peace. We don’t need your sick hateful view of the world.
Frank says
Open your eyes, Myrtle, and see the world as it is. Here are a few facts for you to chew on. First, Islam is not a race but an ideology with, in your words, “a sick hateful view of the world.” Its adherents are of many races, as is true of other religions such as Christianity. I suspect you want to call its critics racists as a way to avoid answering legitimate criticism. (Real racism, unlike the faux racism you trumpet, does exist and should be condemned and resisted.). A second fact: Considering its history of legal inequality, domestic violence, honor killings, forced marriage, and FGM, of the major religions Islam is the MOST sexist. Note the word “most”—you don’t disprove this statement by citing some sexist practices in other major religions. (Remember we have comparative words—less, more, few, most, worse, worst, etc.). Another fact: In the world today Islam is the MOST intolerant of the major religions. Witness terrorist attacks, persecution of religious minorities in Islamic countries, killing of nonbelievers and gays, hostility to criticism, and, last but not least, attacks on competing strands of Islam such as Sunni versus Shi’a. Considering these facts, why are you surprised and concerned that many Canadians and other Westerners are anxious about the influx of large numbers of Muslims? And by the way, there is a clear distinction between criticism and persecution, a distinction deliberately ignored by people who rant about “Islamophobia.” I don’t know anyone who wants to persecute Muslims—that is, deny them the usual civil rights of fellow citizens. But what’s wrong with criticizing the beliefs and practices of Islam, just as we criticize other religions? That’s what we traditionally called living in a free society. There are over 4 billion non-Muslims in the world, so criticism of Islam is never going to end. Muslims should get used to being criticized and live with it, as Christians have—and stop persecuting their critics! Your call for us to “shut the f up” tells me you either haven’t thought these issues through or you believe in blasphemy laws, the outlawing of criticism of religion. Are you able to give a reasoned reply to me, Myrtle, or are you only capable of insults, smear words, and name calling? I look forward to your reply.
rebecca eatmon says
Consanguinity (“blood relation”, from the Latin consanguinitas) is the property of being from the same kinship as another person. In that aspect, consanguinity is the quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person–explains much in this evil religion!!!
DanC says
And that’s why people like Ezra and Robert and Pamela and Ayaan Hirsi Ali have problems: because they speak the Truth. Establishment/brain-washed don’t want the Truth, it’s not comfortable. In this case, where Ezra raises a very legitimate concern ( why so many “mentally-ill” around Islam) – it’s uncomfortable for these lemmings.
Necrophage says
The truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.
Sandy Shore says
That’s so true…Great comment !!!!
Anton says
Brilliant! Saved it.
Lydia Church says
Exactly!!!
Linda says
What “should” happen is that Paliargo should leave Ezra Levant alone, mind her own business and quit telling other people what to do.
R Russell says
It it anti-Semitism? – just going by his name
Linda says
Ezra is Jewish.
mortimer says
Jennifer Pagliaro is a Pollyanna and KNOW-NOTHING in the matter of JIHAD.
She has not read (let alone studied) the Islamic primary source texts, nor the CANONICAL COMMENTARIES, nor SHARIA LAW MANUALS, nor ISLAMIC HISTORY, and yet, PREPOSTEROUSLY, Jennifer Pagliaro considers herself as a SPONTANEOUS EXPERT on Islam and on the IDEOLOGY OF JIHAD … without reading a single book on the subject.
So how does Jennifer Pagliaro’s MENTAL TABULA RASA about jihad PREPARE her to COMMENT ON JIHAD???
It doesn’t. ARROGANT Jennifer Pagliaro knows less about JIHAD than she does about ADVANCED NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLES!
Karfox89 says
It looks like the website thereligionofpeace.com is down I wonder why.
revereridesagain says
Truth is the new “hate speech”. Truth with irrefutable documentation is the new “Nazi hate speech”.
gravenimage says
It seems to be working fine now:
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Necrophage says
That hack can demand all she wants. She’s not gonna get a retraction or an apology.
Terrt Gain says
“it won’t be tolerated”.
Who died and made Jennifer Pagliaro Fascist In Chief.
Rarely says
Yes Ezra the timing is curious.
ChrisfromCincinnati says
We all thought what Ezra thought. Seems like a lot of Jihadis have severe mental illness these days.
Anton says
Maybe then we should ask officials whether following the line of the Qur’an is an actual mental illness?
Richard Hallin says
This is due to the rampant inbreeding between moslems over the past 1400 years.
Older Canadian says
Simple explanation and most likely very accurate.
Ric says
The truth, facts are not synonymous with the Toronto Star. An unabashed Leftist Progressive rag that for decades eludes truthfulness. Toronto, not unlike any major city, is awash with extreme Leftist news sources from print to electronic. Toronto, fortunately, does have a conservative newspaper, the Toronto Sun which is poles apart from the Star and others.
The Star is a propagandist and apologist for Islam; hence, their reporting that the terrorist suffered from a psychosis. An all too common ruse when the media and governments want to secret the facts from its citizens. Under the Trudeau regime, a supporter of all that is Islam, a far-left agenda and mandate not unlike the fetid Democrats. The opportunity for Canadians to alter their perilous course is nearing; an election in which they can toss Justin Trudeau and his party into a shredder.
DanC says
True, Toronto Star is probably most left-socialist from them all. Also National Post and Globe and Mail are quite lefty/politically correct as well. From TV outlets: CBC, Global News, CTV – pretty much all of the TV news are fake/leftie-socialist biased. And people wonder why oh why Ontario is so Liberal 🙂
Frank says
Ah, yes – the Toronto Star. Or, as some of us call it, ‘Red Star Over Toronto.’
Dave says
Hopefully, you will not have the problem we now have in the UK, where the Muslim population (aka Muzpop) tip the balance in favour of the Labour party scum standing in the majority of Labour held seats and would need a population change to overturn their majority.
gerard says
What a stupid comment.
No way is this comment will be deleted by Ezra!
This pro-Islamic reporter’s intent was to bring hate and harm to Ezra Levant.
Westman says
Agreed. And exactly where is this fear-mongering in Ezra’s tweet? Is anyone made fearful? No! Are we surprised? No! Does Jennifer Paliargo appear to be an unhinged leftist? Yes!
Gosh Jennifer, you must have been a student hall monitor in grade school. You definitely lend credence to the phrase, “Everybody wants to rule the world”. But then, you are so seriously underpaid, like the majority of news journalists; so trying to change the world is the only valid reason to stay in journalism. I’ve worked at newspapers and seen this control-freak low-income phenomenon up close. I’ve even been in your newsroom in Toronto and it’s just like the rest. Poor angry leftist with a news-press voice.
Buraq says
Leftists are waking up in a cold sweat at the way their traditional hold over disseminating lies is being taken from them by those telling the truth about Islam’s agenda. In a fascinating interview with Tommy Robinson on March 31st, 2018, Tommy explains how, just on Facebook, 193 million people had read his Tweets and 49 million people had watched his videos in only a four week period!!
The “Toronto Star” will go supernova, just like the self-regarding British leftist rag, “The Independent” when the public sees the mismatch between their world-view and the grim reality of Islam’s bloody agenda that the man and woman in the street have to face.
Check out : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDXYxM4hVA and start listening from the 11 minute mark, entitled ‘Journalism’.
Can you imagine what Tommy’s figures will be like when he is released from prison! Biblical!
PABLO says
Maybe Paliargo can talk about Ezra’s fear mongering with the victims’ families.
CogitoErgoSum says
How is asking a question fear mongering? Answering the question with a logical and reasonable answer would settle the matter. So what is the answer? One seemingly obvious answer would be that the Muslim reporter was privy to information that was withheld from “infidel” reporters. Maybe it’s the answer that is detestable and not the question.
Older Canadian says
I asked the same question, although not via any social media, but to myself. Still waiting for an answer.
I am now asking myself….. is this person one of trudeau’s returnees?
The Toronto Star. Read it for one week, and you will understand how the propaganda mill works of any socialist state. Sadly.
steve k says
the name Faisal Hussain was deliberately withheld for a day so things would cool off before the Muslim reveal. (unlike the mosque shooting in Quebec where the assailant and supposed motive were disclosed immediately and trudeau jumped all over it) as levant aptly says, a statement by the family on Hussain’s “mental illness”(eye rill) had already been prepared to go with the name reveal (meaning that people already knew his name some time before it was reported)
Who is the real new reporter here. the person curious about something that looks incredibly odd? or the person who tells him to shut up and ignore it?
Journalism is dead just like free speech– the totalitarian left (and their alliance with radical islam) is destroying everything good about western society
Nabi says
The ‘authorities’ likely had a Muslim team guiding them (a contingency group, set up in anticipation of such moments) who they’re by now cosy with, too.
steve k says
Has Trudeau said anything about this being terrorism yet? I sure remember him jumping all over the quebec mosque shooting right away, (which was the impetus behind m-103) and talking about it over and over.
Yet I haven’t seen a peep from him about this Islamic terrorism. Could it be that the leader of Canada thinks hate crimes against Muslims are ultra-important, but Muslim hate crimes against Non muslims are not worth talking about?????
Darryl Kerney says
That jihad disease sure is contagious, perhaps Pravda, ah, The Toronto Star, should look into it ?
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Hey, look at that! Ezra has not only survived his near brush with his news venture failing, he is now also thriving. How the wonders will never cease! I guess there’s hope for us all.
Nabi says
Demonstrates how the fall of Troy was likely a true story–not merely a myth. An aggressive, ultimately suicidal PC culture projected by the political class likely overcame and villified the sane types who saw the horse for what it was.
Angel says
For a reliable collection of books depicting the true nature of Islam (i.e. a fascist ideology masquerading as a pseudo-religion), see mideastbooks.com/islam.html . This can be useful to send to your naive friends who still believe that it is a “religion” like all the others.
Terry Gain says
“it won’t be tolerated”.
Who died and made Jennifer Pagliaro Fascist In Chief.
gravenimage says
This idiot should know better:
“Toronto terror plot: Suspects were religious men, according to colleagues, neighbours”
By JENNIFER PAGLIARO AND ALLAN WOODSStaff Reporters
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/04/22/toronto_terror_plot_suspects_were_religious_men_according_to_colleagues_neighbours.html
How can she have learned nothing reporting on stories like this one?
SAE says
Excellent question, Terry.
Frank says
What I most want to see here is confirmation by the police AND independent journalists that the killer did indeed have a lengthy record of undergoing treatment for mental illness. We should not simply take his family’s word for it. Because he is dead his privacy should not be an issue and we should be informed what doctors and hospitals treated him and on what dates. If this information does not come out we will have to assume the family lied and were coached into releasing their carefully worded statement. If this info does come out we should give the killer the benefit of the doubt, because he may in fact have been seriously mentally ill. So put maximum pressure on police and journalists to seek this information….
gravenimage says
Very true, Frank. This casts some doubt on this claim:
“Toronto jihad murderer’s neighbors unaware of his ‘mental illness’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/07/toronto-jihad-murderers-neighbors-unaware-of-his-mental-illness
Terry Gain says
Mental illness does not explain this behaviour. I want to what caused him to engage in Jihad.
Axolotl says
Frank, +1
gravenimage says
Toronto Star reporter tells Ezra Levant his reporting “won’t be tolerated,” orders him to delete tweet
……………………
Utterly appalling that a “journalist” is trying to crush freedom of speech.
Kudos to the brave Ezra Levant for continuing to speak out.
Fairbairne Sykes says
Another journlist proponent of magical thinking….If I say it loudly and frequently it will be true
Politicianophobia says
This woman reminds me of the ISNA, San Antonio, Tx. South Central Conference in 2008 when CAIR, National Board member, Sarwat Husain said: ” It is very important, media in the U.S. is very gullible. OK? And we will see if you have something, that especially as a Muslim, if you have something to say, they’ll come running to you and you take advantage of that.”
A real reporter, might find it odd the police would know his age and almost 24 hours later, they would tell the public his name. Who reads The Toronto Star, what is their IQ?
Wellington says
Covering up or making excuses for evil is a nasty and stupid thing to do. Leftists do it all the time now wherever and whenever Islam is involved.
Politicianophobia says
I wonder what this “reporter” thought about Meir Weinstein, of the JDL of Canada comments on the Toronto attack. Is he allowed an opinion?
Politicianophobia says
Geez, I can not help but wonder how many mothers dropped their children on their heads at some point in their little lives.
Peter says
In this case I think it was way more than once
Roy says
Canada has turned into England, build a northern wall to match Mexiho’s.
Chatillon says
Here’s an idea, Jennifer Pagliaro: Report the news in a timely manner, as accurately and completely as possible. This way the public won’t have to speculate what’s going on and you might even gain a reputation as a real, live journalist, instead of the propaganda functionary you seem to be.
Indiana Tom says
Red Star reporter tells Ezra Levant his reporting “won’t be tolerated,” orders him to delete tweet.
Chris Malan says
I once read a story where a liberal attorney got a murderer off on a technicality only to be later murdered by him – poetic justice. One can only hope something similar happens to the liberals at the Toronto Star. They should listen to The Snake by Johnny Rivers.
SAE says
Karma can be sweet, Chris. However, as a lawyer, deceptive Hillary, manipulated the law and freed a child rapist.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cCDzRtZLUkc
Unlike your legal murder tale above, its highly doubtful ANYONE would rape that corrupt, demented hag.
SAE says
“Journalist” , Jennifer Pagliaro, demonstrates her HATE and RAGE
over actual journalism
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The lips of the righteous (Ezra Levant) know what is acceptable,
but the mouth of the wicked, (Jennifer Pagliaro) what is perverse. (Proverbs 10:32)
Fuchi Sakamoko says
Ezra Levant is a vile person. Somebody should fix his mouth. He gives voice to the worst element in Canada.
I really don’t like people like that. They drive me crazy