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Quebec: Green Party candidate forced to resign for criticizing mosque leader

Aug 17, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Luc Saint-Hilaire wrote: “It would be a good moment for the president of ‘the Islamic Association’ to condemn the repugnant actions of this ‘Mohamed’ who made his wife a human torch in front of her kids… but no! It’s silence…”

No one should be blamed for the actions of other people, but given that Islam sanctions the beating of disobedient women (Qur’an 4:34) and that many Muslim countries have reduced legal penalties for honor killing, it is not unreasonable to ask the president of the Islamic Association for some clarification on this matter. But no, mosque leaders are never to be questioned; the protected class must never be impugned or disturbed.

“Green candidate forced to resign after criticizing mosque leader,” by Alex Ballingall, The Star, August 16, 2019:

OTTAWA—A federal Green Party candidate was forced to drop out of the upcoming election campaign as he continues to call on the leader of the Quebec City mosque that was site of a 2017 massacre to denounce a man who allegedly lit his ex-wife on fire.

Luc Saint-Hilaire, the Green candidate for the Quebec riding of Lévis-Lotbinière, told the Star that the party gave him 24 hours to resign after he shared a post on Facebook following reports that a man accused of trying to kill his ex-wife by setting her on fire is Muslim.

Earlier this month, 39-year-old Frej Haj Messaoud was charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault for allegedly setting his ex-wife on fire in Quebec City, The Canadian Press has reported.

Saint-Hilaire’s post was first reported by blogging philosophy professor, Xavier Camus. Dated Aug. 13, it shows an image of Boufeldja Benabdallah, co-founder of the Centre culturel islamique de Québec, and reads in French: “It would be a good moment for the president of ‘the Islamic Association’ to condemn the repugnant actions of this ‘Mohamed’ who made his wife a human torch in front of her kids… but no! It’s silence…”…

Rosie Emery, a spokesperson for the Green Party, confirmed Saint-Hilaire was asked to withdraw his candidacy this week. “We have no further comment at this time,” she said by email.

In an interview with the Star, the marketing strategist said he admits it was “maladroit” to share the post without outlining his precise views. He insisted he is not racist or prejudiced against Muslim people, but that he truly believes leaders of the Muslim community in Quebec—including of the mosque that was attacked in 2017—should speak out about the recent attack in the provincial capital.

In a subsequent email, Saint-Hilaire added that he feels that silence gives members of the “extreme right” the chance to link the attack to Muslims in general.

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Filed Under: Canada, Featured, free speech, Islamic supremacism, Quebec Tagged With: Boufeldja Benabdallah, Centre culturel islamique de Québec, Green Party, Lévis-Lotbinière, Luc Saint-Hilaire, quebec


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  1. Diane Harvey says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 2:38 pm

    A lefty Green (is there any other kind?) runs into the truth, hits head.

    “It hurts”

    • mortimer says

      Aug 17, 2019 at 6:49 pm

      Silence! Don’t criticize Islamic honor killings. It’s their culture.

      • Debbie Mattson says

        Aug 18, 2019 at 10:30 pm

        Culture schmulture. Are you kidding me????

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 19, 2019 at 11:03 pm

          Yes, he is kidding. Mortimer is being sarcastic here, Debbie.

        • ninetyninepct says

          Aug 19, 2019 at 11:17 pm

          Yes Debbie, it IS their culture. A wife in Islam is simply a possession, much like a TV or a broom or other item. Do some research to find what the Koran says about females. Late last year there was a sale of females in Ontario that invited males from around the world. Held in late November and further to mid-December. Cedarbrook Community Center, Scarborough. Five viewing sessions, no test drives and likely no warranty.

        • Carol the 1st says

          Aug 20, 2019 at 2:32 pm

          Does 99% have any proof of this event? This doesn’t happen in Canada and that Center is chock full of meditation classes etc. Falsehoods make JW look bad, so what’s the aim?

  2. Ren says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 2:40 pm

    The Green Party that forces one of its members to resign for criticizing a muslim is not worth it.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 17, 2019 at 6:54 pm

      He criticized the silent mosque leader who refused to condemn honor killing per se. He didn’t criticize all Muslims. Most Muslims wouldn’t support honor killing these days.

      However, Luc Saint-Hilaire should have realized that in this PC environment, making any criticism of Islam is risky for a politician.

      The issues of Islam are so complex that not even Muslim scholars can explain them with getting into trouble.

      • Left Coast says

        Aug 18, 2019 at 12:41 pm

        “Most Muslims wouldn’t support honor killing” , , , , , you be Wrong . . . quite common in western nations today as our govts pander to these radicals.

        Where Are the Moderate Muslims?

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 19, 2019 at 11:08 pm

          Grimly true, Left Coast.

      • Debbie Mattson says

        Aug 18, 2019 at 10:34 pm

        Muslim culture is NOT our culture. Never was. Never will be. Don’t care about “complexities”. Law of the land prevails. Sharia is NOT it.

      • ninetyninepct says

        Aug 19, 2019 at 11:21 pm

        It was a fair and proper question and there should have been no need for it to be asked. May was and is VERY wrong in her condemnation. She is wrong about a lot of things, but what can we expect from someone facing criminal charges about illegal pipeline protests. I am surprised she isn’t in jail waiting for Trudeau as her cell mate..

  3. Tom says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 2:46 pm

    The irony of the leftist Green Party candidate being forced out because he wanted condemnation of a heinous act is rife with hypocrisy.

    All people should loudly condemn an act of burning a person alive. Those who remain silent are just as guilty of promoting such acts as the perpetrator himself.

    Canadians must be very careful who the vote for in this upcoming election.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 17, 2019 at 5:04 pm

      +1

    • Carol the 1st says

      Aug 18, 2019 at 10:32 pm

      “Saint-Hilaire added that he feels that silence gives members of the “extreme right” the chance to link the attack to Muslims in general.”
      —–
      How pathetic that a sane man is driven to back-peddle because the leader of the Green Party (Tyrell) is wringing his hands because muslims may have their feelings “hurt”. Saint-Hilaire wilts and then smears compassion and sanity by suggesting it takes the “extreme” right to even complain about muslim leaders and their lockstep minions keeping their mouths shut about koranic fear-inspiring atrocities. Extreme right indeed!!

      Unfortunately ex-muslims – the ones who could give frightened muslims better representation – are under considerable threat wherever they live. They need adequate protection – but first leaders like Tyrell need to discover and admit who is the real bogeyman.

  4. lisa says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 2:51 pm

    Canadians are heading for a civil war…..but it will probably not be contained in Canada….it feels like it will be a world war….is there such a thing as a world civil war?

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Aug 17, 2019 at 3:35 pm

      There will be civil war in every country when the Muslims feel they have enough power to force a change in the country towards submission to Islam. It will come one country at a time … and in those countries in which the Muslims lose, they will wait peacefully for another time to arrive when they will regain enough power to try again …. on and on until Judgment Day.

      • Terry Gain says

        Aug 17, 2019 at 4:02 pm

        I agree completely. Europa will be Muslim in 50 years and Canada and the United States will follow. China is the only country with the strength and ruthlessness to stop Islam.

        • Brian Hoff says

          Aug 17, 2019 at 5:38 pm

          China will be Muslim in the future.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 17, 2019 at 5:47 pm

          “Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–wrote:

          China will be Muslim in the future.
          …………………

          China is only .45% Muslim, so that’ll be a long slog…

          But “DefenderofIslam”–like all pious Muslims–wants to see the whole world taken over by the savagery of Islam. He has said that once there are enough numbers in the US he and his coreligionists plan on destroying the Constitution and imposing barbaric Shari’ah law.

          Re the story above, does “Brian hoff” have any problem with a Muslim setting his ex-wife on fire? Not so he ways.

        • don vito says

          Aug 17, 2019 at 10:34 pm

          Big H, China is the only country FORCING moslems to eat PORK. I shall add that China is doing so with the support of islamic nations, such as iran and saudi arabia, plus 14 other islamic nations for a total of 16, so far. If China can force moslems to eat haram pork, with the conivance of islamic bellweather nations, what chance does your prophet and god have against China? What’s the matter with you don’t you follow the news?

        • juleonly says

          Aug 18, 2019 at 8:30 pm

          No, US will not. But we will have trouble with people who think Islam just a nice Abrahamic religion of one Allah & peace made by the ‘freedom fighters’ with socialism of Mosques.

  5. Crusades Were Right says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 2:59 pm

    He thought he could criticize a Muslim and not be punished. He truly is “green”. lol

    • Joe says

      Aug 18, 2019 at 6:26 am

      Good twist!

  6. Fred Dawes says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 3:44 pm

    He should by Canadian system of joke Justice have his head cut off by Islamic system of monkey money laws,,,,See
    code book 666 of evil rulings, hells balls.

  7. joseph says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 4:23 pm

    “To learn who rules over you,
    simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
    Voltaire

  8. Bella says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 4:57 pm

    His question made perfect sense but was quashed. Something very powerful is stinking up this country and it needs to stop before we all suffocate.

  9. Bella says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 4:59 pm

    “In a subsequent email, Saint-Hilaire added that he feels that silence gives members of the “extreme right” the chance to link the attack to Muslims in general.” These ARE muslims in general.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 17, 2019 at 5:05 pm

      Good grief…

  10. Coonie says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 5:00 pm

    There was a time I had hope, now I do not know anymore. Losing freedom of expression is disastrous.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 17, 2019 at 5:06 pm

      Keep speaking out. We keep our freedom of speech by exercising it.

      • Coonie says

        Aug 18, 2019 at 10:08 am

        +1 🙂

      • Eric Jones says

        Aug 18, 2019 at 10:34 pm

        +2 Speak out we must.

        Eric

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 19, 2019 at 11:12 pm

        Thank you, Eric and Coonie.

  11. gravenimage says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 5:02 pm

    Quebec: Green Party candidate forced to resign for criticizing mosque leader
    ………….

    So now considering a Muslim lighting his ex-wife on fire is not allowed in Canada?

    And this is the Green Party, which is generally about as dhimmified as possible.

    • GreekEmpress says

      Aug 17, 2019 at 6:10 pm

      Interesting to watch them eat their own.

    • Carol the 1st says

      Aug 18, 2019 at 10:49 pm

      Muslim alert: The operators at crematoriums heat bodies to 1,750 degrees Fahrenheit for two to three hours; they liken the smell close-up to a burnt pork roast.

      General public alert: J.D. Salinger, who helped liberate concentration camps in World War II, told his daughter, “You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely. No matter how long you live.”

  12. Angemon says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 6:30 pm

    Luc Saint-Hilaire, the Green candidate for the Quebec riding of Lévis-Lotbinière, told the Star that the party gave him 24 hours to resign after he shared a post on Facebook following reports that a man accused of trying to kill his ex-wife by setting her on fire is Muslim.

    Was that not the case?

    • Jayme says

      Aug 18, 2019 at 7:54 am

      Some think the Greens may try and become the Islamic party to get votes.

  13. mortimer says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 6:45 pm

    This is the new reality in Canada from now on: the Islamic tail wagging the dog.

    Most politicians will never admit out loud, let alone to themselves, that Islam contains a canonical teaching of warfare against disbelievers. It is the canonical jihad doctrine that principally makes Islam incompatible with modern pluralistic democracy.

  14. tgusa says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 6:57 pm

    Safe space leftists who are triggered by mere words do not have the intestinal fortitude to stand against muslim encroachment. The yellow left is spineless and a threat to everyone else. The so-called extreme right (aka conscientious normies) need not try to link anything to muslims, muslims do that themselves. If conscientious normies wanted to hasten the demise of the yellow left they could just step back and stay silent while muslims literally devour them. Yellow is the new green and they don’t stand a chance against muslims.

  15. deeperinfo says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 7:34 pm

    Again shows the RBG Alliance; goes back to Hitler, Stalin and the so-called grand mufti aligning in WW2. At that time the Red’s were straight forward communisim; that part is now played by “Gorey greenies”

    Red communist (now disguised as redistrubutionary and retributionary goreism and re-education)
    Brown(shirt) fascist nazis (the Germans still subversively prefer to do dirty business with the Reds and Greens.
    Green islamist (the original greens from flag color; not the Gorey greenines).

    Just as we learn yesterday who REALLY has Israel’s back against the Sharia Squad (you read it here first).

    Did Hoyer complain when the US refused entry to a member of Knesset from Israel? Reciprocity of Law.
    Hoyer beeand Pelosi have been played by the Sharia Squad.

    The Sharia Squad has accomplished this minor goal of divisiveness, but the Jews are smarter and won’t be manipulated by the Dems any more. This should get a different type of blowback against the Sharia Squad, after the screaming ‘headlines’ of advocacy ‘journalism’ have been examined with logic.

    Its time to pick a side. Do you support Israel or the Genociders?

  16. Valkyrie says

    Aug 17, 2019 at 8:16 pm

    “Luc Saint-Hilaire, the Green candidate for the Quebec riding of Lévis-Lotbinière, told the Star that the party gave him 24 hours to resign..”

    A useful exercise for Luc Saint-Hilaire might be to compare the intentions of the Green Party vs the People’s Party of Canada with respect to freedom of expression. He might consider being a running mate of Maxime Bernier instead of an Elizabeth May dhimmi groupie?

  17. Laura says

    Aug 18, 2019 at 4:04 am

    Why must every truthful, and well deserved, criticism of muslims be followed by forced resignations, firings or grovelling ‘apopogies?’

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 19, 2019 at 12:32 am

      Damn good question.

  18. Pank says

    Aug 18, 2019 at 4:25 am

    Modern Way of War: Send a few Muslims and green supporters to your enemy. And a civil war does the rest.

  19. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Aug 18, 2019 at 8:18 am

    … and yet another liberal gets burnt for telling the truth in public LOL!

  20. Dave De La Rond says

    Aug 18, 2019 at 8:57 am

    Let’s not forget that the communist Green Leader Elizabeth May keeps on telling us she admires and respects the antisemitic leader of the UK Labor Party Jeremy Corbyn .Whats even Pathetic is that Elisabeth May made $137,000 last year as the supreme leader of the Green Party. Not bad for a Communist

  21. E T says

    Aug 18, 2019 at 9:28 am

    Canadians please go to ActforCanada site and sign the petition to allow Max Bernier to participate in the debates, while we still have DEMOCRACY in this country. You can also find a list of candidates for the PPC party, I found the candidate for Algoma, Manitoulin Kapiskasing and I will vote for him. I have voted for the Conservatives most of my life and I will continue to vote for the conservative PPC Party, the real Conservatives in this coming election. I urge all to read their policies and vote accordingly. God save Canada.

  22. E T says

    Aug 18, 2019 at 9:31 am

    Elizabeth May should go back to the USA. Lol

  23. Giacomo Latta says

    Aug 18, 2019 at 9:44 am

    Luc St-Hilaire: now there’s a real feminist. Right, Mrs. Trudeau’s husband, the number one feminist in the world? You missed a real photo-op, there. Looks like the Green Party is seeking support one pressure group at a time, too. Muslim associations are waiting for the details (Shia, Sunni, hijab, no-hijab, burqa, etc.) before making comment. Obviously, it wasn’t something that shocked them.

  24. Left Coast says

    Aug 18, 2019 at 12:45 pm

    Lizzy May is almost as loonie as Jihad Justin . . . Canadians can sure pickem . . . . . lol

  25. Eric Jones says

    Aug 18, 2019 at 10:44 pm

    Islam is a political system masqurading as a religion. Setting ones wife on fire is mutilation and barbaric in the extreme. What else do Canadians need to know? Islam is poision. Stay away.

    Eric

  26. KWJ says

    Aug 19, 2019 at 12:01 pm

    I would say that applies to the US too and both political parties and various government departments including the military. You know who had it right and said so per an article I read: Michael Flynn. Say what you will about anything else he’s done but he was 100% correct about Islam and the threat.

    People getting fired everywhere. Do whatever for votes, foreign nations contributing to people’s campaigns and both Democrats and Republicans at the same time, e.g. Hillary and Trump. Foreign governments should not be allowed to donate to campaigns which is as bad, if not worse, than alleged Russia meddling. So, these politicians cow to $.

    It’s just as bad here.

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