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Canada: “Islamophobia” screaming niqabi terrorizes bus driver after not being picked up

Jun 13, 2019 9:56 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

In a country like Pakistan, the word of a Muslim in a personal complaint against a kaffir is automatically received as truth and then results in various punishments and public alarm. It is the norm in such environments where reasoning and evidence are secondary to the Sharia, but such judgments are completely unacceptable in developed societies. Well, they should be. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported a personal gripe by one Muslim woman against an infidel as a headline.

Zineb Benrochd was standing at a bus stop in broad daylight last week, wearing her niqab, when a bus whizzed right past her. The 23-year-old Montrealer wondered why. She says she looked the driver up online and discovered a trail of Islamophobic social media posts.

The CBC reporters are careful to include that “while the driver’s motivations are unclear”, but then they go on:  “the incident occurred as Quebec politicians are set to vote on a proposed law that restricts where religious symbols can be worn in the province”, and that “Muslim women in the province have reported being the target of an increasing number of Islamophobic incidents since it was tabled in March.”  Agenda alert.

No Western country should permit the oppressive niqab and burqa to begin with. It is a form of torture, even though one must remember that Muslim women are deemed to be superior to infidels under the sharia. The niqab and burqa are also a security risk. Sri Lanka, banned  all face coverings “after police found several women suspected of having aided the Easter terror attacks were wearing burqas.” In Chad, two Boko Haram jihad suicide bomb attacks killed 23 people in 2015, which led to the country’s Prime Minister Kalzeube Pahimi Deubet condemning the use of the burqa as “camouflage,” and ruling that all burqas on sale in markets must be burned. So far, the burqa has been banned in China, Tajikistan, Morocco, Latvia, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, Chad, Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria, France and Algeria which banned the burqa in the public sector.

As for Montreal’s Zineb Benrochd wielding the “islamophobia” victimology stick, and the CBC giving her valuable print space, it sets a worrying precedent. Could the bus driver have been discriminating? it is possible but not known. I and many others have witnessed (with concern) from time to time, a random bus driver zoom on past someone waiting at a bus stop. The worst is when it happens to a senior on a cold wintry day. It has happened to me in past, as well as many people I know and one cannot immediately assume a driver’s intent, even in this particular case given the driver’s alleged past sentiments about Muslims as reported by Benrochd. The service industry is full of people who may be having out-to-lunch days but only Muslims screaming “Islamophobia” can actually make a CBC national news headline attaching “discrimination” to a bus zooming past a potential passenger.  Note how Benrochd proceeded to terrorize the bus driver, calling a friend to help track her down and when Benrochd claims to have finally caught up to the driver, she proceeds to wave her down, corner her, confront her, film her, alarm her and then “files complaints with the Montreal police hate crimes unit and Quebec’s human rights commission“.  Dizzying.

It isn’t only front line activists and writers that will face the wrath of supremacist Muslims. The latter is becoming more emboldened and will increasingly attack members of the public in various forms.

A union representative with STM bus drivers was quoted as saying in a post directed at Benrochd: “A normal Quebecer would have waited for another bus.”  The message of woe be unto any dhimmi that offends an Islamic supremacist, is unfortunately being supported by many in the mainstream media, the latter of whom will not escape the same woe, as Islamic supremacists become emboldened.

The traumatized bus driver or The Société de transport de Montréal, may well publicly apologize as a next step, to calm the fire and avoid the company being labelled “Islamophobic“.  Benrochd has served to provide further ample reason to ban the burqa and niqab in public places.

“Montreal woman says STM bus driver didn’t stop for her because of her niqab”, by Verity Stevenson & Jonathan Montpetit, CBC News, June 11, 2019:

Zineb Benrochd was standing at a bus stop in broad daylight last week, wearing her niqab, when a bus whizzed right past her.

The 23-year-old Montrealer wondered why. She says she looked the driver up online and discovered a trail of Islamophobic social media posts.

In 2010, for instance, the bus driver posted: “I’m so happy and in a good mood today, that I love everybody, except the [expletive] who wear the hijab or the veil. Sorry, but I can’t stand them.”

But when Benrochd took to Facebook in an attempt to call out the bus driver’s behaviour, she was soon bombarded with dozens of messages — some angry, some hateful — from other Montreal transit employees defending their colleague.

The Société de transport de Montréal has opened an investigation into the incident. Benrochd has also filed complaints with the Montreal police hate crimes unit and Quebec’s human rights commission.

While the driver’s motivations are unclear (attempts by CBC News to contact her were unsuccessful), the incident occurred as Quebec politicians are set to vote on a proposed law that restricts where religious symbols can be worn in the province.

Among other things, the law will require Quebecers to uncover their face in order to receive public services where their identity is in question. The details are still being worked out, but that could include taking the bus.

The bill has sparked heated debate, and many Muslim women in the province have reported being the target of an increasing number of Islamophobic incidents since it was tabled in March.

“I’m used to people telling me, ‘Go back to you country,'” said Benrochd, who grew up in Montreal.

“But [the bus] is a public service. You do not have a right to discriminate against me. You do not have a right to choose not to give me my right to service.”

‘Impossible for her not to have seen me’
On Thursday morning, Benrochd was waiting for the 128 bus at the corner of Muir and Tassé streets in Montreal’s Saint-Laurent borough. The two streets are wide, relatively quiet and residential.

“It’s impossible for her not to have seen me,” Benrochd told CBC News a day after the incident.

At the mall, on the bus: Muslim women say racist incidents are now part of daily life
The bus stop is next to a stop sign, across the street from an elementary school. As the bus approached, Benrochd noticed the driver was ignoring her.

She started waving her hands to get the driver’s attention. Benrochd said the driver glanced at her, then turned away and continued on her route without opening the bus doors.

Benrochd said she felt contempt in the bus driver’s actions and decided to try to confront the woman.

She called a friend, who quickly picked her up in a car and the pair drove to Du Collège Metro station, where they knew the bus would have to make a longer stop.

Benrochd walked up to the driver and, with her cellphone filming, asked why she had not stopped.

“Well, I didn’t see you,” the driver replied.

“You looked at me,” Benrochd said.

“No, no, I didn’t see you. I saw that you were there after,” the driver said, becoming agitated.

In another video, Benrochd filmed the bus driver flagging down police and complaining to the officers about being filmed.

Backlash online
Benrochd posted the videos on Facebook around noon on Thursday. Soon, several people identifying themselves as STM employees were commenting in the driver’s defence.

CBC News was able to identify some as union representatives for STM bus drivers. One of these representative said in a post directed at Benrochd: “A normal Quebecer would have waited for another bus.”….

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", Canada, claiming victim status, Islamic supremacism Tagged With: CBC, Montreal, niqab, The Société de transport de Montréal, Zineb Benrochd


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  1. No Muzzies Here says

    Jun 13, 2019 at 10:17 am

    Perhaps PM Trudeau should reconsider welcoming into Canada so many people who are conditioned to react to any and all slights with vicious anger.

    • Terry Gain says

      Jun 13, 2019 at 10:36 am

      Trudeau is an Islamophile and Conservative leader Andrew Scheer is an incompetent coward who yesterday disqualified well-respected moderate Muslim Professor Salim Mansur because he is a critic of Islamism.

      Canada is fcked. David Menzies of Rebel Media interviews Mansur.

      https://youtu.be/P4syqqaySKw

      • Renate says

        Jun 13, 2019 at 12:29 pm

        “Canada is fcked.”

        Sad, but true. I agree.

      • mortimer says

        Jun 13, 2019 at 3:35 pm

        Terry, to win the coming election, the Conservatives just have to avoid controversy as much as possible. They are keeping their heads down. It is a strategy that may pay off in a landslide. Jihadi Justin’s brand is shot to pieces by his own insincere stammering, blabbering and virtue-signalling platitudes. He was never an adequate candidate for his job. He’s 90% incompetent. His name and youthful good looks are now tarnished and faded. His former fans have abandoned him. You may not like the strategy, but it will likely turn out to be the wisest course. Scheer is a former Speaker of the House and so a master of diplomacy. Electioneering is not straight-forward, no matter which party is campaigning. Only very seldom is there an obvious choice in politics. Avoiding gaffes will be the way to win. Most Canadians don’t want more Muslims in Canada. Polls have shown this consistently.

        • James Lincoln says

          Jun 13, 2019 at 4:48 pm

          mortimer says,

          “Only very seldom is there an obvious choice in politics. Avoiding gaffes will be the way to win.”

          You just may be right…

        • Terry Gain says

          Jun 13, 2019 at 7:38 pm

          Mortimer

          Trump was elected because conservatives wanted a President who will fight. Canadians are not that much different. Mansur is a perfect candidate. If Liberals attacked him it would demonstrate how they have surrendered to radical Islam. This would be a huge gift to the Conservatives. Scheer is not avoiding controversy. He is demonstrating weakness and depressing Conservative support. He has his head up his ass.

  2. carolyne says

    Jun 13, 2019 at 11:45 am

    Its entirely possible that the bus driver mistook this deranged woman for a filled black plastic bag of garbage placed on the curb for trash pick up rather than a human being
    under that silly garb. She, the bus driver, is not required to pick up trash.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 13, 2019 at 3:23 pm

      A motionless black bag could easily be overlooked in busy traffic, when a driver must be hypervigilant, especially on the treacherous roads of Quebec, filled as they are with kamikaze drivers.

    • ElderlyZionist says

      Jun 13, 2019 at 4:50 pm

      Snerk. You are so bad. Churkle. Snurf.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 14, 2019 at 12:40 am

      Burqa or trash bag? Check out this picture:

      https://photobucket.com/gallery/user/feministing/media/bWVkaWFJZDo4MjE0MjU0Mw==/?ref=

      • Giacomo Latta says

        Jun 14, 2019 at 8:26 am

        The trash bag is second from the right.

      • somehistory says

        Jun 14, 2019 at 9:27 am

        g
        that photo reminds me of old horror movies…like “The Blob.” As the blobby, changing glob that threatened Steve McQueen and his girl friend…these blobs threaten the rest of us.

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 15, 2019 at 1:09 am

          Yep.

  3. Mike says

    Jun 13, 2019 at 12:00 pm

    Is this a ninja or bee keeper

  4. Valkyrie says

    Jun 13, 2019 at 12:18 pm

    “She called a friend, who quickly picked her up in a car and the pair drove to Du Collège Metro station, where they knew the bus would have to make a longer stop.”

    How convenient, having a friend “at the ready” with a vehicle able to chase down a city bus with the intention of confronting the driver….it begs the question: Why didn’t Benrochd call her friend for a ride instead of relying on public transit?

    This story is suggestive of a carefully planned plot to malign a bus driver who has gone on record in Face Book against face coverings.

    • somehistory says

      Jun 13, 2019 at 3:26 pm

      Valkyrie

      I agree. What proof is there that she was actually standing and waiting on a bus? Sounds more like a set-up from the get-go. More likely, she and her friend with the car found out which route the woman drove and just went right to the place where she confronted the driver.

      Who can blame the driver for not picking up someone whose identify is hidden? “she” could have been a male waiting for an opportunity to blow up a bus.

      • James Lincoln says

        Jun 13, 2019 at 4:51 pm

        Valkyrie says,

        “Sounds more like a set-up from the get-go.”

        Likely true. Oftentimes, the responses are preplanned – with lawyers on retainer…

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 14, 2019 at 12:42 am

      Good point, Valkyrie. Generally when someone misses their bus they have to wait for the next one.

      This smells like a set up.

  5. elee says

    Jun 13, 2019 at 12:25 pm

    In most places every bus driver has complete discretion to avoid picking up would-be passengers who might pose a threat to the orderly operation of the bus. As events have demonstrated, the bus driver’s intuition was spot on in this instance; the woman has shown herself to be an incident waiting to happen. I don’t want to ride the bus with her. All should support this bus driver’s exercise of discretion.

  6. keya says

    Jun 13, 2019 at 12:30 pm

    If she was so pissed off then she could have made a simple complaint instead of harassing the poor bus driver. She considers herself a supremacist and had to scream pisslamophobia..

  7. Barb Nak says

    Jun 13, 2019 at 1:00 pm

    How is it racist to not want to stop and pick up whatever is underneath the black sack? One really can’t tell the race or even the sex of whomever is beneath the material. ‘Racist’ is a term used to cover things that have absolutely nothing to do with race. I wouldn’t have stopped either.

  8. somehistory says

    Jun 13, 2019 at 3:33 pm

    Not being allowed to drive temporarily due to eye surgery, I had to catch a bus a couple of weeks ago and the first one i tried, passed me by. As it turned to double back, I tried again, but the driver just swooped on past.

    I wasn’t wearing any kind of disguise and have caught it many times. No fit-throwing, no calling a friend and chasing the driver down to confront him/her. I just waited for the next one. And was rewarded for my patience when the driver said I didn’t have to buy a pass that day.

    If moslims are not whining about “racism” against them or the “phobia” of their cultish religion of devil worship, they are blowing things up, stabbing innocent people, raping children and old women, and trying to set citizens up to take a fall for just being ordinary people. Had i been the bus driver, I wouldn’t have stopped.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 14, 2019 at 12:43 am

      +1

  9. Tom says

    Jun 13, 2019 at 4:08 pm

    The first mistake in this CBC article is equating any act of service denial to a Muslim as being racist. Muslim is NOT a race and therefore the denial, if it indeed occurred, cannot be an act of racism.

    The woman did not say that the bus driver denied her access because her skin was brown. Driving a bus and focussing on road safety, especially when the woman is wearing a covering that covers all but the eyes, it would be extremely difficult to determine what colour a persons skin may be under such circumstances.

    So therefore the only logical reason for denial of service that is claimed is that it happened because she was wearing a niqab, a religious symbol. That would most certainly not be an act of racism.

    If it indeed was intentional, the denial of service may be bigoted, nothing more.

  10. TKF says

    Jun 13, 2019 at 4:52 pm

    Islam does not have any limits as far as pushing their perverted norms on the West is concerned. Every time we accommodate their sick cultural and religious beliefs, we take a step back and they take a step forward. If we take two steps back, they take two steps forward. As long as we back up they will continue to advance. The only way to stop this shit is to take a stand….NOT ONE MORE STEP BACK.

  11. James Lincoln says

    Jun 13, 2019 at 5:00 pm

    As I understand it, a niqab covers the entire body – except for the eyes.

    This is a security risk that is not merely theoretical.

    The bus driver should not pick anyone up dressed in a niqab.

    • Terry Gain says

      Jun 13, 2019 at 7:43 pm

      The bus driver will be fired and castigated if he says that. He should just apologize for not seeing her.

      • dale edwards says

        Jun 13, 2019 at 10:39 pm

        How could the bus driver see her? She just looks like a black shadow, not a person.

        • somehistory says

          Jun 13, 2019 at 10:52 pm

          dale edwards

          And she has no proof that the driver actually did see her and recognize her as someone wanting a ride. All we…or anyone…have, is her word for what happened and moslims are taught to lie, lie and lie to further the growth and spread of islam.

          I have driven a bus in the past….a school bus, but one that could carry 72 students, so quite large. All of the dials and mirrors a bus driver has to watch, besides being on a time schedule is not the easiest occupation.

          If the driver stands firm in the claim of not having seen the creepy dark figure, there is no way for the creepy dark figure to prove she had been seen by the driver.

      • James Lincoln says

        Jun 14, 2019 at 7:02 am

        Terry Gain says,

        “The bus driver will be fired and castigated if he says that.”

        Yes – if he stated it – that is likely true.

        Had I been the bus driver, I personally would rather have been fired then to take on that kind of a security risk for myself – and my passengers.

        And if all bus drivers did the same, that would make a strong statement.Then countries like Canada would be forced to address it.

        Bus drivers should not be put into a “can’t win” situation.

    • St. Patrick says

      Jun 13, 2019 at 8:33 pm

      Oui Monsieur! Merci James..Un gros Merci! Buses would take off just before I got to them in freezing weather (Yes here in Montreal) because I was English. Yes they knew..Did I complain? Nope..Deal with it bitch..

  12. Lori Lynn says

    Jun 13, 2019 at 6:38 pm

    The bus driver was right! If it was me I would want to see the face of the person entering my bus!

  13. gravenimage says

    Jun 13, 2019 at 11:42 pm

    Canada: “Islamophobia” screaming niqabi terrorizes bus driver after not being picked up
    ……………………

    I’ve had buses pass me by at stops–annoying, but I don’t consider it a “hate crime”.

  14. Meturaf says

    Jun 14, 2019 at 4:58 am

    Cant blame the driver. He did not want to pickup someone dressed like an Antifa SJW.

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