All too often concerns about Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others are denounced as “bigotry” without any examination of the substantive issues involved. Here is an excellent review of Fired by the Canadian Government for Criticizing Islam, Jihad Watch writer Christine Douglass-Williams’ account of how she was…fired by the Canadian government for criticizing Islam. As jihadis and Sharia supremacists grow ever bolder in the West, it is an increasingly knee-jerk reaction on the part of many Leftists and conservatives to dismiss all opposition to these phenomena as “Islamophobia.” The dangers of this should be obvious to everyone, but they aren’t. As Sharia advances in the West with ever more people afraid to say a word about it, however, those dangers will become obvious to everyone. By then it will very likely be too late.
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“How Canada Protects Sharia Law,” by Fergus Hodgson, Epoch Times, December 20, 2018:
If you denounce Sharia law in a public fashion you will suffer. Outside of the arab world, this also holds true in Canada, where a member of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation board was fired over comments on Sharia law.
Such intimidation elicits self-censorship and an incremental downward spiral for Canada’s proudly modern, liberal society.
Christine Douglass-Williams was a director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) from 2012 to late 2017, and she has documented her story in a courageous new book: Fired by the Canadian Government for Criticizing Islam. Published in September by the Center for Security Policy—a neoconservative-leaning think tank in Washington—this 103-page story leaves no doubt about the swift enforcement of political correctness under the Liberal Party government.
A mulatto migrant from Trinidad and Tobago and self-described “visible minority,” Williams is an accomplished journalist and expert on Islam, author of The Challenge of Modernizing Islam. As a widely read contributor to Jihad Watch and sought-after speaker, she became a victim of her own success. Her profile rose to include engagements throughout Canada and abroad, notably in Iceland alongside Robert Spencer, author of The Truth about Muhammad and a fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
The Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back
Her concerns about the nature of Sharia law, particularly its implications for women and migrant integration, were right out in the open and never kept a secret. However, as her perspective garnered traction, murmurings grew.
At a May 2017 event in Reykjavik, titled “Everything You Wanted to Know about Islam but Were Afraid to Ask,” she offered a “personal warning to Icelanders.” She believed the Icelandic population was “being duped,” and she warned that “Westerners need to be street smart as citizens of a culture that idolizes multiculturalism.”
To be fair, she didn’t mince words. Consider the following excerpt from her message to Icelanders:
“Islamic supremacists will smile at you, invite you to their gatherings, make you feel loved and welcome, but they do it to deceive you and to overtake you, your land and your freedoms. … [Sharia] stipulates—among other abuses—death for apostasy, death for gays, a lower value to women, and the full covering of women.”
Whether her statements were accurate or not was never the topic of discussion among her peers in the federal government. Rather, a wave of cheap name-calling grew and eventually submerged her. You can imagine the pejoratives that sought to punish her, which they did.
After progressive media outlets got their knickers in a twist over her comments in Iceland, she came under heightened scrutiny and received a warning call from CRRF Chairman Albert Lo. In Williams’s words, she “was being watched by certain bureaucrats in the Department of Heritage.”
Sure enough, Williams received an invitation for a teleconference with Deputy Minister of Canadian Heritage Graham Flack. After declining and requesting all correspondence be in writing, she received a lengthy letter from Minister of Heritage Mélanie Joly.
Joly pointed to the CRRF mission: “the elimination of racism and all forms of racial discrimination … promoting diversity and inclusion, and respect for democracy.” This letter somehow got to the Canadian Press, which only heightened the tension.
There was a back and forth in the media, with plenty of prominent people coming to Williams’s aid. This support and a detailed letter of explanation from Williams, however, proved to no avail. On December 20, after a complaint to the federal government from the National Council of Canadian Muslims, she received the formal termination of her role with the CRRF.
Canary in the Coal Mine
The CRRF dismissal and its lead-up only form one third of “Fired,” which is appropriate given that the implications carry more weight than the one personal experience. The implications stem from the grounds used to justify the decision and the shariah sympathizers and advocates who have infiltrated Ottawa.
The decision came in the wake of the notorious Motion 103, introduced by Member of Parliament Iqra Khalid and passed by the House of Commons 201-91 in March 2017. This infantile motion against “systemic racism and religious discrimination” alleged an “increasing public climate of hate and fear.”
Supposedly hateful and paranoid Canadians voted in 20 percent foreign-born candidates to the Parliament. That includes more than 20 with dual citizenship. One is Khalid, a Pakistani citizen and the former president of York University’s Muslim Students Association. Animosity is also so common in Canada that Muslims fake attacks to garner high-profile sympathy and attention.
M-103 condemned “Islamophobia” without defining the term and called for “a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating” it. While purporting to target religious discrimination, M-103 failed to mention a single religion aside from Islam. The parliamentary secretary to Joy during Williams’s dismissal happened to be an M-103 advocate—Member of Parliament Arif Virani, a Muslim migrant from Uganda.
The entire Canadian federal government is now, free speech be damned, responsible for a campaign to eliminate undefined Islamophobia. Prominent conservative journalist Ezra Levant knows what lawfare this can lead to, after he published a Muhammad cartoon and faced the Alberta Human Rights Commission in 2008.
Although Levant eventually prevailed, he has since faced a litany of lawsuits from what he describes as the human-rights industry. M-103 will be another weapon against outspoken commentators like Levant and Mark Steyn, codifying that blasphemy against Islam will not be tolerated in Canada, in line with Sharia law.
Islam Joins Victimology Team
Williams is refreshingly frank about the problems of identity politics in Canada and the United States. She devotes the second half of the book to how victimology hustlers such as Black Lives Matter have join forces with “civilizational jihadists” and perpetuate an “us-versus-them narrative” for a “match made in hell.”
Sharia adherents have seized the opportunity to portray themselves as victims of ethnic animosity, even though Islam is a religion and not a genetic lineage. Williams explains that “truthful discussions about the global jihad and barbaric cultural practices are being wrongly presented as though they were inciting hatred, ‘racist,’ and hateful.”
These advocacy groups search for a villain to justify their existence and portray their constituents as helpless victims. Meanwhile, the supposed beneficiaries, in the words of Williams, “regrettably remain in shackles, the cycle of the bigotry of low expectations continues, and the oppressed remain stunted.”
Her brutal honesty and references to “Islamic supremacism” will likely be too heavy for most readers, at least those accustomed to the sanitized narrative of legacy media outlets. Even though “Fired” is relatively concise and easy reading, interrupted by block quotes, it faces a tall order overcoming partisanship and confirmation bias….
Read the rest here.
Renate says
She lost her job because she spoke the truth about Sharia from a Western person’s perspective. If they don’t like the West, why do Islamists come here? It’s to take over. Why do our Western leaders let them in? Our Western leaders are arrogant fools. What can we do about all this? Rid ourselves of the arrogant fools.
gravenimage says
How Canada protects Sharia
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Thanks to Fergus Hodgson for speaking out–and for the brave Christine Douglass-Williams for having done so.
dunroamin says
It’s the same in the UK. People get thrown into prison for criticising immigration, Islam or Jews. Even if they don’t go to prison, lefty bullies like Hate not Hope pressure employers to sack people who express the wrong opinions. A phone call or email to HR is all it takes to ruin someone’s life.
Filiz says
Dunroamin, wrong! never have I heard anyone thrown in jail for criticizing a Jew or Judaism in The UK, where do you get your info?
alex Reid says
Never thought the Western World would become so dystopian. All because of this kow-towing to this dystopian Desert Dogma.
Bill Quest says
Sharia compliancy by a million halal-cuts……. sharia compliancy drip-by-drip-by-drip-by-drip-by-drip-by-drip……. by bloody drip ……
mortimer says
The question for the ARROGANT KNOW-NOTHINGS is this:
“UPON WHAT BASIS IN YOUR STUDY or READING OF ISLAM are you capable of DISTINGUISHING or DISCERNING what is a VALID CONCERN about Islamic JIHAD-TERROR and what is GROUNDLESS or even WRONG … ???
What’s that ??? You haven’t read one of Islam’s VOLUMINOUS BOOKS OF THEOLOGY, or LEGALISM or history books on Islamic history???
What that??? You are making stuff up that sounds helpful to your party’s agenda? Why do you need to ‘make flattering stuff up’ about Islam?
Grizzly says
Yes, we have! We’ve read the Koran, the Hadith, the Sira, & Islamic history. It made us vomit!
DAvid says
Ouch stop it you are hurting me. You underestimate Canadians and Americans. We see the lies you make to the kafirs so you can get special points with the hores. We know what you are about. And true Christians and patriots will rise up and destroy you, it’s just a matter of time God’s speed all
Battle says
dunroamin good one. Mortimer good one.
infidel says
Once again I repeat… Canada is the biggest security threat to the USA in the future as its mad HOME GROWN and FED Jehaadis will come to roost and become a PERMANENT HEADACHE (pun intended) for the USA… and the border is a long one too without any fences and full of trusting people and these mad creatures can slip in and out unquestioned. Canada’s immigration policy DOES HAVE IMPLICATIONS on the USA for sure… In the ideal world, Canada should have SYNCED its immigration policy with the USA in the long term interests of the entire region. But the mad LEFTISTS of both Canada and USA will not allow this.
PRCS says
From the Epoch Times article:
“Sharia adherents”
ALL Muslims are sharia adherents–to some degree.
Whether that degree plateaus at praying, fasting and toilet etiquette or at beheading “the enemies of Allah” is irrelevant.
ALL Muslims are sharia adherents.
Pam Minnick says
I got so sick of muslims in different forums telling me to talk to other muslims on Islam and I’ll see they will tell me the same thing that Islam is about peace, love and acceptance. I’m not a dumb woman so I decided to turn the tables on them and lied and instead said I was very interested in converting to Islam to get facts from 9 different muslims from all over the world. It amazed me how each and everyone of them followed the very same script. I even had one from Pakistan tell me he would convert to the Roman Catholic Religion for me, anyone with even only a couple of working brain cells should know that leaving Islam in Pakistan is a death sentence. Once they trusted me, and felt they had me things sure changed. They begin to coach you on how to get non muslims to believe Islam stands for peace. I saved a few things but not everything I was taught. I spent 8 very long months lying to all 9 of them and they had others speak to me on different things. I do plan on doing this once again but at a higher number and saving everything this time, going to spend no less than a year this time and every phone call will be recorded, every email filed, every texted screenshot, every video chat recorded and then sent out to the press, our Government officials the churches that bring these vile creatures to our communities. I plan on hitting my home state of Minnesota hard, I want to throw this in Mark Dayton’s face, I may have moved out of Minnesota before he told Minnesotans to find a different state to live in that didn’t want to accept the refugees. It will mean more death threats but any living in the US will be reported this time. Trying to get people to understand that Islam isn’t a race but a mixture of Government and a very evil so called religion and that everyone accused of having Islamophobia we would see people running for their lives from anything that even resembles Islam and then they would soon lock themselves in their homes refusing to leave it. Muslims laugh at everyone who falls for it also. When muslims go on air after a muslim commits a terrorist attack, they put little things in to see if people say anything and if the mainstream media edits it out, like the St. Cloud mall stabbings, Lul Hersi said that she hopes everyone sees that day as a good day. There is only one video with her saying it when the muslims community was whining about backlash. Not one person said anything but most don’t know she said it because it has been edited out by every single news channel. Islam is at the root of every single violent act that has anything to do with Islam. Soon it will be time to turn the tables on these vile waste of oxygen and let them tell the bleeding heart liberals the truth and muslims true views on them.
infidel says
I say more power to U… but let me warn U that the task U have set Urselves ahead is going to be Xtremely TOUGH… See how people like Robert, Bill Warner and others are being hounded relentlessly.. Expect the same thing when U talk about the truth reg this vile cult…… U will find Muslims extremely slimy and backstabbing to deal with along with their constant ducking and weaving and sidestepping and all that and make U compelled to throw in the towel and call quits….I wish U all the best..
Forearmed says
It may just come down to this; Either we take them out now or we take them out after the SHTF scenario. It is sad that it must come to this because it was decidedly America’s fault that we are now facing the Muslim Jihad. America tore apart the middle east for political reasons and all of them had to do with Oil and our Energy sector.
So now we are having to face our foibles and past bad deeds head on and it may yet cost us our country and our culture. What America is now facing is the reality that Islam and Muslims are much more resilient than Americans and our military first realized.
Because of the lack of resolve of our government and military we are in another Vietnam moment. There is far too much in this concept to delineate here, but suffice it to say, we had better guard our collective asses, or else we may find ourselves praying to Allah on a carpet five time a day.
Arizona says
WELL you fools let DEMONS INTO YOUR COUNTRY,they just killed two young girls ,and cut off their heads,CANADA YOUR NEXT,they’ve been killing people in your braindead country since they arrived,same thing in america,and we have Guns,AND YOUR HERO’s ..THE POLICE GANGS have looked the other way,SO THAT MEANS THEIR IN ON IT TOO,their just slimly pieces of shit also,but knowing how stupid americans are YOU’LL LEARN THIS THE HARD WAY,when its your turn….
Older Canadian says
October 2019
Justin NO!
Andrew YES!
Problem solved, and Christine is rehired.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Some people are so scared of losing that they don’t even try to win any more:
“If I don’t try to win, then I can’t lose!”
So they pretend that compromising their own integrity isn’t mere cowardly Submission to their own fears, but a virtue!
They pretend they meant to do that – that compromising, negotiating away their own and others’ rights to extortionists, to giving in and going along with criminal lies to get along with the other lying criminals, to settling in stead of winning, and to the pretense that there are no real criminal aggressors, but only equally helpless fellow victims, is only being reasonable, shrewd, canny, wise and realistic – and further, that those people who dare to resist extortionists are really only being mean to those same criminally aggressive predatory equally helpless fellow victims who always deserve support.
Everyone in power in the West is a scared little sell-out traitor cucktard, always willing to Submit, settle, negotiate, and irresponsibly COMPROMISE away their constituents’ rights.
Politicians (aka power-traders) are all spineless worms with no integrity who have only succeeded in their party-gangs because of their ability to go along (with criminal lies) to get along (with all the other lying criminals). In short, they’re all too scared of losing to dare to try to win, and so always choose secure slavery over risky freedom.
Then these compromisers – who assert “screw you! I MEANT to do that!” blame those who won’t go along to get along as “haters!”
As if resisting extortion and slavery was just being mean to the poor well-intentioned criminal slavers. Whee.
Elizabeth Thorne says
CHRISTINE IS A CANADIAN HERO, A PERSON WITH MORAL VALUE. She speaks out to protect Canadians like our politicians should. Remember folks all the Liberals and all the NDP voted for M-103. 2019, 2019, 2019. Poof no Liberal party status.