It is the height of irresponsibility to report a story without hearing from both sides, but in today’s “journalism” of propaganda and press releases, it’s standard procedure. And so the Canadian Jewish News ran this story in which a Muslim professor, affiliated with the Saudi-funded “Islamophobia” propaganda mill at Georgetown University, the Bridge Initiative, claims to have been victimized by “Islamophobes” at a conference on the rule of law.
Yet again: what a coincidence! A trafficker in spurious claims of Muslim victimhood claims to have been victimized. Why does it so often happen that those who make it their business to portray Muslims as victims and paint the West as a hostile place where Muslims are routinely discriminated against and harassed so often end up claiming to have been discriminated against and harassed themselves? In February, “Islamophobia” propagandist Khaled Beydoun claimed to have been the victim of an “Islamophobic” attack by a Delta captain; Beydoun was lying. And in 2016, Rashid Dar of the Qatar-funded Brookings Institution claimed that he was punched in the throat by a random man on a Washington, DC street because he was wearing Muslim garb. What a coincidence that of all the many, many people wearing Muslim garb on the street in Washington, the one that this lout decided to punch was an “Islamophobia” propagandist. And what a coincidence that of all the multitudes of Muslims who fly on airplanes every day, many while wearing Muslim garb, the one that this Delta captain decided to manhandle was a professor of “Islamophobia.”
And now Jasmin Zine, who is, lo and behold, a professor who lists “Islamophobia” as one of her areas of expertise. Canadian Jewish News ran with the story without noting that one of Zine’s areas of expertise was just the kind of incident she instigated here, and despite the fact that it didn’t obtain any statements from anyone present other than the victimhood-mongering professor. Unfortunately for Jasmin Zine and the Canadian Jewish News, there is considerable evidence impugning the professor’s credibility. Christine Douglass-Williams told me on the day of the conference, immediately after it had ended, that Zine had accused her of warning about all Muslims in Iceland, as if all were terrorists, which was a lie, and one that Zine refused to allow her to correct. Christine also told me that Zine shouted at her that she was as bad as terrorists, and told me that Zine made a scene at the conference and that shocked and disturbed those who were present. Zine was bellowing with such incandescent rage after she was removed, Christine told me, that “she could be heard a floor up with the door closed.” Christine also told me that the corrections officer on duty offered to escort her to her car after the event, because Zine’s behavior was so aggressive and confrontational. Even worse, Christine was told by some attendees that after she was ejected from the event, Zine repeatedly circled the premises in her car while speaking to someone on her cellphone. The incident was entirely Zine’s fault and responsibility, and instead of waiting to hear from both sides, Canadian Jewish News is playing judge, jury, and executioner and publishing her quite questionable version of the events as if it were fact.
To top it all off, CJN identified me in the original version of this story as a “white nationalist.” After I tweeted at them several times, emailed, and finally threatened legal action, they finally corrected the story, while repeating the original libel in their correction. This epitomizes the ideological bias, sloppiness, and irresponsibility of their coverage of this whole episode.
“Muslim professor says she was assaulted at conference,” by Ron Csillag, Canadian Jewish News,
York Regional Police’s hate crimes unit is looking into allegations of an assault against a Muslim professor at a recent conference on free speech and the rule of law.
Jasmin Zine, a sociology and Muslim studies professor at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont., claims her arm was twisted and that she was thrown out of the conference organized by Canadians for the Rule of Law (CFTLR), after she asked questions of a panelist…
In an article she wrote for the online publication The Conversation, Zine said she spent “a long day of being a fly on the wall at this conference, hearing non-stop pro-Zionist rhetoric denying that Israel was oppressing Palestinians and consuming a steady diet of Islamophobic bigotry.”
According to Zine, the trouble began during an afternoon session on terrorism and public safety, when she “finally decided to intervene” by posing a question to panelist Christine Douglass-Williams.
Zine said she asked about a speech Douglass-Williams gave in Iceland in 2017 alongside U.S. author and blogger Robert Spencer*, in which she warned Icelanders about allowing an “Islamic supremacist incursion into your country.” Zine said she asked whether Douglass-Williams had similar warnings for Canadians.
Douglass-Williams became “defensive” and the session’s moderator became “angry and told me I couldn’t speak anymore. He told me to leave,” wrote Zine.
Zine said she was trying “to exercise my free speech rights, which this conference purported to uphold. The moderator … informed me I was now trespassing and had to leave.”
Zine acknowledged that the organizers had the right to ask her to leave. She said she rose to leave, “as instructed by the moderator,” but she made one final comment: “I said their thinly veiled white supremacist views and Islamophobic fear-mongering is the kind of rhetoric that inspires white nationalist terror.”..
*CORRECTION: This story has been changed to correct an earlier description of Robert Spencer as a “white nationalist.” The CJN regrets the error.
Renate says
I don’t even understand why a CJN would be so quick to stand up for someone reporting supposed “Islamophobia”. Didn’t Allah turn Jews into apes and pigs in the Quran? What happens if Muslims decide to “kill infidels wherever they find them” and they got after the particular Jews at CJN?
LB says
These are marxist communist jews that vote strictly as far left as possible to the point of blinding themselves to the very threat to their existence. Sadly, such Jews make up the majority of the Jewish population in the West; the number one example being all those Jews who voted for Macron but are now fleeing France en masse in a so-called “Jexodus” due to the “warm welcome” their new islamic neighbors are giving them on a daily basis. I doubt they even realize that their own actions forced them to uproot their ancestral homes.
This is similar to how the leftists from blue states (i.e. CA) are fleeing to red states (i.e. TX) only to once again vote democrat and turn their new state into a shithole they escaped from. It’s called having zero self-awareness and it can be deadly.
Rarely says
Ridiculous garbage.
Michael Perloff says
Very accurate assessment.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
How does islamocriticism involve “white supremacism?
mortimer says
How does a woman of color act as a white supremacist?
Someone who was there should post a video of this outrageous childish tantrum.
gravenimage says
Jasmin Zine looks pretty white to me.
mortimer says
Christine Douglass Williams was the speaker this Saudi agent disrupted.
Note: Mohammed was noted for the whiteness of his body … the whitest man in Arabia.
gravenimage says
+1
Ashley says
Zine sounds like an unhinged maniac…
I don’t think CJN trotted this piece out as “fact.” Only stated “the allegations…”
Oh…and if you pose a question to the esteemed panelist Christine Douglass-Williams you best know what the hell you are talking about…
mortimer says
To me it sounds like the Sharia supremacists are trying to drive a wedge between Jews and Christians. This was the strategy used in medieval Spain and it was very effective in dividing so that the Muslims could rule.
Jews and Christians should be aware of this very successful and effective Islamic strategy so that they will see it coming and REFUSE TO BE TAKEN IN BY IT.
I fear CJN has been taken in by this staged, amoral display of taqiyya.
Tom says
No interview with anyone else who was at the conference in order to obtain facts from both sides ….. No credibility for any “news” outlet that prints only one side of the story.
Those who use the guise of victims in order to fulfill an agenda should always be suspected of deceit, wolves in sheep’s clothing.
mortimer says
Suspicious? Rather more than that.
Jasmin Zine was evidently sent by her organization to do a hit job to embarrass and then slander this human rights organization. Her mission required preparation and money for airfare, hotel and transportation. This human and civil rights event was carefully concealed to prevent disruptions like this.
It is obvious that someone in her organization went undercover to learn the details of the event since they were announced at the last moment and this implies a spy, probably a Saudi government employee who is commissioned to sneak someone into such events and give freedom events a black eye. If all else fails … who knows … they might eventually use hired thugs for intimidation.
The obvious goal of the Saudis is to prevent people from organizing to stop their clandestine and opportunistic implementation of Sharia law.
The Saudis are apparently spending a great deal of money to prevent criticism of Islam or legal, organized resistance against Sharia supremacism.
It would be hilarious to note that Saudis are some of the most racist people on earth, if it were not so tragic and hideously evil.
Jasmin Zine is a perfect example of the opportunistic and amoral ethics of Islam. She cynically used free speech and Al Walaa wal Baraa hate to denounce hate and to take away free speech.
We have OBSERVED you, Jasmin. You are a Saudi spy and agent provocateur.
Dean says
It is getting harder and harder to stop antisemitism and hate for Israel in schools and the community because those in media (Jewish media too) and in high positions refuse to do their homework and refuse to ask key questions (like principals of schools who refuse to stand by their students and rush to judge them unfairly and inappropriately as was the case recently at Toronto’s CHAT which admonished their own staff and students for speaking with an expert on totalitarianism and oppression).
As a result, a deliberate one-sidedness, lack of curiosity and basic common journalistic sense is absent from their reports. This is what we now call “fake news” and it is a new pervasive sickness making society weak, pathetic and unable to defend its people.
Certain left-wing media (and that is how I now categorize the CJN) fail to expose all sides of the stories they publish. When they carry out in this manner, they harm the entire community, not just the Jewish community. We used to count on the Jewish News to present with honesty, but this is no longer the case.
The sloppiness of journalism today has polluted whatever was remaining of good reportage. They fail to expose real hatred and acquiesce to the underlying mentality of political correctness so as to play it safe rather than report the facts. In the process they harm others; sometimes with slander and libel.
Does the “journalist” know the history and political positions of the professor who created the scene? Do they know her motives? Do they understand what her hysterics mean? Did they bother to ask? Not a chance! When a person acts in such a hateful way, would it not be wise to ask if the professor has an agenda? Ms. Douglass-Williams has been a target of extremists in the recent past because she is a champion for Jewish rights, rights of women and rights of Muslims to live freely under Canadian rather than Sharia law.
And yet the CJN seems to not take any of this into account. Where are their sympathies? Are they with pro-BDS haters of Israel? If that is the case then, in my opinion, certain editions of the CJN ought to be renamed the “Canadian anti-Jewish News.”
PABLO says
One must ask why would CJN be interested in a story like this? I have to conclude it was for the sole purpose of discrediting the conference. On another note, CJN must be really upset that Bibi won again.
gravenimage says
I’m sure they were.
Rarely says
Many Jewish Israelis were disappointed that Bibi was re-elected. Are they all leftist, Communist antidemocracy pro-Jihadist self-hating Jews too?
gravenimage says
No, of course not all of those who voted against Natanyahu are pro-Jihad. His main political opponent, Benny Gantz, is himself pretty solidly anti-Jihad. His is also former chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).
From what I know about Israeli politics, I am glad that Natanyahu won reelection–but a pro-Jihadist was not going to win, in any case.
Jayme says
Dean
Both the GTA and Ottawa have a huge issue with non muslim hate in schools I mean to the level white kids are going home crying and the schools refuse to do anything about it.
Dean says
There is a lot of self-hate shown by leaders like Justin Trudeau (who wants his naivete spread by shaming and blaming Canadians for all kinds of hate and racism when, in fact, it is coming from those he lets in the front and back doors in huge numbers to impress his friends among the globalist leftist elites).
So when the freedom-ending tactics come from the top, it eventually filters down to the students and the children. The lack of courage from schools and administrations is both frightening and unacceptable.Then the already propagandized students get into universities where hysterical crazy profs have power over our young adults.
It just takes one or two to stand up but none want to be first in the line of fire. Christine Douglass-Williams and Robert are in the front lines and we see how quickly they are targeted and demonized and punished by the moonbats at every opportunity.
Most people care more about their jobs and salaries than they care about the future. Soon we will not have jobs because those who speak out will be put down or fired and that is why we now have a final window of opportunity to express ourselves at the ballot box and by writing and expressing our views while free speech is alive and has not been altogether smothered…go talk to your son’s and daughter’s teachers and principals and let them know how you feel.
mortimer says
Justin Trudeau encourages his audience to hate white people, especially old stock Canadians, the descendants of the very people who built Canada out of the wilderness and created stable governmental institutions that care for the wellbeing of all citizens as well as the native population.
Meanwhile, hypocrite Justin wants his audiences to forget he is one of those descendants himself.
GreekEmpress says
At least she was allowed to attend the conference. They didn’t extend the same courtesy to Faith Goldy and Laura Loomer when they tried to enter an open to the public conference in Toronto featuring Linda
Sarsour.
Such hypocrisy.
Jack Cade says
Which Muslim barrow told her she could have an opinion–let alone express it!?
gravenimage says
Likely lying about having been assaulted is not an opinion.
gravenimage says
Canada: “Islamophobia” prof claims she was assaulted at conference, media runs with claims without checking
…………………
This sounds like calumny against Canadians for the Rule of Law.
mortimer says
The CFTRL has Canadians of dozens of races. This shows that all races of the world have bones to pick with totalitarian Islam. 80% of the earth is non-Muslims … people of all races are realizing that ISLAM IS A PROBLEM WHEREVER SHARIA LAW IS IMPOSED by stealth or by force.
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
Agree. ‘Calumny’ is the only tool political Islam has got. They have no intellectual argument with which to defend Sharia supremacism.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Mortimer. And that Zine is ranting about “white supremacy” after mistreating a Black Anti-Jihadist is just ludicrous.
PABLO says
I just look at the article on CJN’s site and there isn’t any comments posted. The article has been up since the 11th of April and there hasn’t been any takers… What’s up with that?
gravenimage says
I imagine CJN is blocking comments.
PABLO says
I did not post a comment. I only mentioned the above to show that the author and CJN made an out, as the “overall” Jewish community does not appear to be buying what the author is selling.
infidel says
Then I wholeheartedly commend the people who asked this Islamic pest to leave.
Will she Q her mad Imaams when they make toxic sermons against Khafirs?? Oh no..
to not Q jehaad is sacred duty for Allah.. isn’t it??