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Canadian Jewish News exposes anti-Semitic Muslim speakers, but earlier promoted anti-Israel Muslim propagandist

Dec 27, 2019 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

“A recent Islamic conference in Toronto has drawn criticism from B’nai Brith over some of its guest speakers.”

Jihad Watch also has concerns about this “controversial Islamic conference in Toronto,” as Canadian Jewish News put it. The reason why is expressed in the press release from B’nai Brith Canada. It’s because three speakers are presented who “made anti-Semitic or anti-Zionist comments in the past: Yasir Qadhi, Siraj Wahhaj and Omar Suleiman.”

“It is troubling that a major Canadian Muslim conference continues to invite extremist preachers to Canada,” Michael Mostyn, the CEO of B’nai Brith Canada, said in the statement.

Troubling it is, but deception is rampant among the Islamic supremacists who present themselves as voices of “moderation,” while the political and media elites lap this up without question. In the case of imam Omar Suleiman, this Israel-bashing imam even delivered the Ramadan opening prayer at the House of Representatives.

Unfortunately, speaking out of both sides of one’s mouth is counterproductive and dangerous in the defense against Islamic supremacism and the jihad doctrine. Yet Canadian Jewish News did just that when it lowered its journalistic standards in an article published by Ron Csillag, who ran with propaganda, lies and defamation. Good journalists and publications do not publish without solid verification. No verification should mean no article. The Csillag article entitled “Muslim professor says she was assaulted at conference” was a one-sided rendition from trouble-making Muslim professor Jasmine Zine, which Robert Spencer addresses HERE.

Spencer says:

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.

There’s more. Jihad Watch then published, on October 27, a B’nai Brith press release that depicted Jasmine Zine in her true light.

In B’nai Brith Canada’s press release “Canadian Muslim Voting Guide: Federal Election 2019,” Islamic antisemitism and an insidious attempt to influence Muslims (especially young Muslims) in Canada’s recent elections is exposed:

B’nai Brith Canada is deeply concerned after learning that a federal grant was used to produce a guide instructing Canadian Muslims on how to vote in last Monday’s national election.

The “Canadian Muslim Voting Guide: Federal Election 2019” was released by the Canadian Islamophobia Industry Research Project at Wilfred Laurier University on Oct. 18, just three days before Canadians went to the polls. Its front cover acknowledges support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), a federal agency that assigns research grants.

Disturbingly, one of the six “key issues” for Canadian Muslims unilaterally selected by the authors of the Voting Guide is support for the anti-Israel and antisemitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement (pages 18-20). The Voting Guide purports to assign a “Fail” grade to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for recognizing that BDS is a form of antisemitism that harms Jewish students on Canadian campuses, and gives the same failing grade to Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer.

As B’nai Brith notes:

Research by B’nai Brith shows that the Voting Guide’s lead author, Jasmine Zine, received $24,923 from the SSHRC in 2018 for a project called “Mapping the Canadian Islamophobia Industry.”

Jasmine Zine is that same woman that Ron Csillag and the Canadian Jewish News promoted as a righteous victim just over eight months ago.

It is ill-advised to serve the causes of identity politics, Islamic supremacism, and political correctness. It makes one look cretinous and uninformed; even worse, it facilitates malignant agendas against free nations, and against human rights and freedoms for all.

“Controversial Islamic Conference In Toronto Draws Concerns,” by Michael Fraiman, Canadian Jewish News, December 24, 2019:

A recent Islamic conference in Toronto has drawn criticism from B’nai Brith over some of its guest speakers.

In a Dec. 19 press release, B’nai Brith Canada highlighted three speakers who have made anti-Semitic or anti-Zionist comments in the past: Yasir Qadhi, Siraj Wahhaj and Omar Suleiman.

“It is troubling that a major Canadian Muslim conference continues to invite extremist preachers to Canada,” Michael Mostyn, the CEO of B’nai Brith Canada, said in the statement. “Surely there are enough qualified moderate Muslim leaders, without a history of extremist messaging, who can be chosen to speak at events such as these.”

The annual Islamic conference, called Reviving the Islamic Spirit, ran from Dec. 20-22, 2019. Started in 2001, it has grown to become one of the largest in North America, with more than 20,000 attendees each year. The conference organizers did not return The CJN’s request for comment.

Omar Suleiman, a Palestinian imam who works extensively in the humanitarian sector and with interfaith groups, has a history of making anti-Zionist social media posts, including writing on Facebook that “Zionists are the enemies of God,” and comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.

“My parents were displaced Palestinians due to the occupation and ended up meeting in Houston,” Suleiman wrote in an op-ed in the Dallas Morning News in May 2019, after a public backlash over his comments. “They were activists, and my late mother wrote poetry about the Palestinian catastrophe. But I was taught early on to not let championing the Palestinian cause descend into anti-Semitism in private or in public.”

Yasir Qadhi, a professor and author who was called “one of the most influential conservative clerics in American Islam” by The New York Times Magazine, is a vocal critic of Islamic extremism and was targeted with death threats by Islamic State propaganda in 2016. He was also part of a delegation of eight American imams and rabbis who visited Auschwitz in 2010 and signed a statement denouncing Holocaust denial as contrary to the ethics of Islam.

However, he has also made troubling comments about Jews. In the early 2000s, he repeated misinformation he read about Jews on a website he didn’t realize was anti-Semitic; he wrote a public apology in 2008 acknowledging and explaining his mistake. Earlier this year, he gave a talk about a hadith (a passage by the prophet Muhammad), that’s widely seen as anti-Semitic, since it calls for a battle at “the end of days,” in which Muslims will kill the Jews.

“The hadiths do mention killing (Jews). Let’s be honest here,” he says in the talk. “They do mention it. Let us realize, these hadiths are predictions, not prescriptions. Big difference.… These are not anti-Semitic hadiths whatsoever. It is merely describing a battle towards the end of times (between) the forces of good and the forces of evil.”

The third imam who concerned B’nai Brith is Siraj Wahhaj. He’s arguably the most controversial of the three. In 1993, Wahhaj was a character witness in the trial of the mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing, Omar Abdel-Rahman, in which he was loosely alleged to be, but unindicted as, a co-conspirator. Since then, he has frequently been the subject of far-right fake news stories, including one that falsely claimed he gave a keynote address at the 2012 Democratic National Convention…..

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  1. mortimer says

    Dec 27, 2019 at 12:17 pm

    Canada’s Jewish voters lived in a fool’s paradise and voted for their the USEFUL IDIOT FOOL LEADER of their great enemies. There were more Muslim MPs than Jewish MPs in the LibJihad Party of Canuckistan led by its black-faced HAREM EUNUCH JIHADI JUSTIN … a parody version of the HAREM CHIEF of the sultan, the “Kizlar Agha”. See photo here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizlar_Agha

    They swallowed the Leftist propaganda of ‘benign Islam’ which only emboldens the jihadists. As any person with the slightest desire to learn about Islam would know, Jews will be among the first targets of jihad. Anti-Semitic crimes have increased in Canada as has anti-Semitism on campuses.

    It should be noted that Jihadi Justin (the walking embarrassment) has visited every mosque in Canada, but not every synagogue.

    • commonsense says

      Dec 27, 2019 at 12:48 pm

      The CEO of B’nai B’rith, Canada, believes that there are, surely, enough qualified moderate Muslim leaders, without a history of extremist messaging, who could be chosen to speak at events such as the Islamic conference reported here. Tellingly, he fails to come up with even one possible example.
      And Yasir Qadhi lies through his teeth about the genocidal hadith in question (Sahih Muslim, Bk. 41, 6985, also found in Sahih Al-Bukhari) being a prediction and not a prescription. It most certainly IS a prescription, as it is a declaration by Muhammad that Muslims are obligated to hunt down and kill all the Jews they can find, as their failure to commit this mass murder will prevent the coming of the Hour i.e. Judgment Day).

  2. keya says

    Dec 27, 2019 at 1:29 pm

    “qualified moderate Muslim leaders”

    As long as those leaders chose to remain Muslim they will chant their usual mantra Islam is a religion of peace, there is no violence in Islam etc.They will white wash Islam and continue deceiving the non muslims. Moderate or radical doesn’t matter

  3. Rarely says

    Dec 27, 2019 at 2:44 pm

    Using the same logic (?) Christians don’t get to complain about the murder of Christians by muslims in the muslim world because some Christians defend “muslims all over the goddamned (sic) place”.
    Give your head a shake. You can not put all Jews under one umbrella any more than you can put all Christians under one.
    Perhaps it would be fairer to say that those who defend “muslims all over the goddamned place” have no business complaining when the support backfires. Of course it’s still “blaming the victim” but it’s a little less offensive.

    • Rarely says

      Dec 27, 2019 at 2:46 pm

      Intended for thebigw

      • ToBeFrank says

        Dec 27, 2019 at 6:13 pm

        Those of us with a functioning brain knew exactly what thebigw meant. It must be extremely tiring for you.

        • Rarely says

          Dec 28, 2019 at 12:35 pm

          Yes. Bigotry is very tiring.

      • ToBeFrank says

        Dec 28, 2019 at 2:11 pm

        Rarely says

        Dec 28, 2019 at 12:35 pm

        Yes. Bigotry is very tiring.

        ToBeFrank says

        You missed it again. Keep trying, you may get it right one day.

        • Rarely says

          Dec 28, 2019 at 6:31 pm

          Perhaps you’d be kind enough to explain it.

  4. gravenimage says

    Dec 27, 2019 at 6:45 pm

    Canadian Jewish News exposes anti-Semitic Muslim speakers, but earlier promoted anti-Israel Muslim propagandist
    …………………..

    Like so many, these guys at Canadian Jewish News are quite confused.

  5. Haroldp says

    Dec 28, 2019 at 9:09 am

    For some reason we believe that Muslims who come to the West are not the same as the Islamists left behind in Muslim majority countries who kill, persecute Christians, Jews and other non-Muslims. Islam is Islam. The violence in the Middle East will eventually come to the West.

  6. Dean says

    Dec 28, 2019 at 9:46 am

    One of the problems with striving for fairness in journalism is that publications like the CJN trip over themselves bringing in radical Islamists and their friends just to make the paper look woke and fair.

    In an age when leftists see terrorists and everyone else as the same in terms of moral equivalence, the press, the CJN for example, empower and give the stage to terrorists and terrorist sympathizers. They bring in Jewish leftists (to write columns) who have made deals (and get funding) with those who would like to see Jews and all of us dead.

    To the CJN, the journalists who criticize Israel for existing and call Trump an anti-semite because he is not leftist, are just as valid as pro-Israel writers. The CJN seems to not care about the “Jewish” in the title of their publication except for the leftists who put Judaism and Israel in the trash bin and look the other way when the universities they donate to and avoid criticizing have gigantic posters of terrorists ready to kill Jews in their student halls – and get violent when there is a pro-Israel speaker.

    Canada today has become a terror-supporting nation in terms of ideological political direction. Trudeau has decided to support his new BFFs in North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Hamas/PA, etc. Canadian Jewish voters do not seem to care, judging by their voting patterns, they just want to be among the light-hearted woke as the hard-core woke distance themselves from Israel/Jews.

    I wonder how those who died in the Holocaust would view these people, Jewish and other, who side with the enemies of freedom and enemies of Israel.

    I view most Islamists with suspicion because I know the books they follow all too well and those tomes leave little to no room for me in their beliefs.

    • Rarely says

      Dec 28, 2019 at 12:56 pm

      It is just as incorrect to lump all Jews together as it is to view all Catholics as supporting the Pope’s current position on islam and accusing those that do as being self-hating Christians.
      Of course it is insane to support someone whose wants to kill you or supports those who do. But there are those who believe, rightly or wrongly, that every effort must be made to deal with the entire islam situation without resorting to all out religious warfare. We may be dealing with Nazi-type deceivers but what choices do we really have?
      What do you suggest?

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