Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi — the same mayor who took the liberty in his position of privilege to give mosques permission to break noise bylaws during Ramadan last year, so that they could broadcast the Islamic call to prayer over loudspeakers — has smeared Canadians who were protesting lockdowns and mask-wearing.
Nenshi is the first Muslim to be mayor of a major Canadian city. Canada is hyper-sensitive, under Justin Trudeau’s government, of “offending” Muslims. To ask questions, to point out that jihad terror and other human rights abuses are sanctioned in Islamic law, earns you the dreaded “Islamophobia” label, which comes in Canada with possible punitive action. This label gained even more traction with Canada’s anti-Islamophobia motion M-103. It was backed by a 23-million-dollar funding package attached to the document entitled “TAKING ACTION AGAINST SYSTEMIC RACISM AND RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION WHICH INCLUDES ISLAMOPHOBIA.” This document included plans to “monitor citizens for compliance” and to train law enforcement to detect online and offline hate speech. Little wonder that Canada is now grappling with bill C-10, which has created backlash as debates continue about its capability to restrict the freedom of speech, as if that freedom weren’t already restricted enough in Canada.
Given the state of the freedom of speech in Canada, Nenshi has escaped virtually unscathed after his attack on Canadians who have protested against mask rules. You see, in Canada, “taking action” against racism doesn’t apply to him. He has free rein, since an act of “racism,” as far as the woke are concerned, could only be committed against a visible minority by a white person, not the other way around. Therefore it is deemed to be within the range of what is acceptable for Nenshi to malign a segment of white Canadians for no justifiable reason. However, it is unacceptable merely to point out the truth about the violent and stealth Islamic jihad, and if anyone does, Islamic supremacist groups pull out the “Islamophobia” battering ram, with full agreement from the woke.
Lorne Gunther asks: “Does Nenshi mean all ordinary Albertans who feel that way are racist?” But what about visible minorities who don’t support masks and the lockdowns? They don’t exist in Nenshi’s mind. To him, it’s about “white nationalist supremacists.”
“Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi’s remarks comparing anti-maskers to white supremacists are disgusting and ignorant,” by Lorne Gunter, Edmonton Sun, May 11, 2021:
Remarks made by Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi over the weekend on Global News’ The West Block would get him run out of office if he made them about any other group.
Speaking about people who rally against social distancing and mask wearing, Nenshi said “Those people at those anti-mask protests … are marching in thinly veiled white nationalist supremacist anti-government protests.”
Some of the participants in anti-lockdown rallies are over-the-top wrong.
Lockdowns may be a mistake and an overreaction. If that’s your purpose for protesting, that’s a legitimate point of view.
The lockdowns, though, are not socialist plots to enslave the population, as some protestors say or tweet.
Does the over-reliance on “experts” and the instinct to lockdown society come, in part, from a misplaced faith in the infallibility of government? Sure. And so does the impulse to spend hundreds of billions of dollars we don’t have “resetting” society.
But that’s not the same thing as a communist takeover.
While some of Nenshi’s anti-maskers take things to an extreme, can you imagine the reaction if a right-of-centre politician used the old soft-racist phrase “those people” to refer to Black Lives Matter or Indigenous Lives Matter protestors?
It’s wrong to make broad assumptions about people based on race, gender, immigration status or faith.
Yet that is exactly what Nenshi did. He tarred everyone who comes out to voice their discontent with government restrictions as a white nationalist.
On Monday, he even doubled down on his racist rhetoric from Sunday.
The white supremacy at protests, Nenshi upped the ante, “is not thinly veiled at all.” It’s “completely out in public.”
Calling every hardworking Alberta small-business person a closet bigot just because some are protesting the forced closure of their salons or restaurants is disgusting.
Calling every small town resident the equivalent of a Klan member, for speaking up against the shutdown of their local café is revolting.
And have no doubt, it is also racist. It was Nenshi, not the protestors, who made an issue of their race. It was Nenshi who prejudged their character based on the colour of their skin.
If I were one of the protestors, I might file a human rights complaint against the Calgary mayor (who is not seeking re-election in the municipal campaign this fall).
Nenshi, who is rightly proud of being the first Muslim to be elected mayor of a major Canadian city, would likely rail against anyone who said “those people” (meaning Muslims) are all terrorists. Yet insisting “those people” (protestors) are all white supremacists is just as wrong….
“Calgary mayor says anti-mask rallies are ‘thinly veiled white nationalist’ protests”, by Amanda Connolly, Global News, May 9, 2021:
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi says some recent rallies billed as opposing the wearing of masks during the pandemic are really just “thinly veiled white nationalist” and “anti-government” activities.
In an interview with The West Block guest host Abigail Bimman, Nenshi expressed his frustration with the fact that people refusing to wear masks and gathering in large crowds are endangering others.
“Those people at those anti-mask protests, let’s not kid ourselves. They’re not people who [are protesting because they] need to eat. They are people who are marching in thinly veiled white nationalist supremacist anti-government protests,” he said.
He was asked specifically about comments he made during the 2013 southern Alberta floods, in which he said he was not allowed to use the words he wanted to describe people out canoeing on the volatile and flooded Bow River, and that he had been told he could not invoke “the Darwin law.”
“Here’s the problem. It’s that these folks are not just flagrantly putting themselves at risk. They are putting others at risk, he said in the interview….
Johnny B says
Whites have been terribly successful as a race but also incredibly stupid really. I cannot think of any other race be it blacks, Latinos, Asians, Arabs, or any other race who actually invited and sanctioned their own degradation and persecution. I don’t really care about people who have masochist or other strange tendencies as long as they don’t project them on me. Don’t do that or I will kick back eventually even if you enjoy the feeling..
John says
Yes, but not all whites are like that. Incredibly stupid and ignorant are Liberals with their false empathy feelings towards invasive populations flooding Canada and their self centered handsome empty headed leader. He has no chance ever recognize that he is killing clean, efficient prosperous Canada as I knew her 50 years ago. My guessing why Calgary priests are being arrested and thrown in jail is finally over. London in UK have Muslim major and since then all hell is going on there… In Calgary it is just starting.
Jedothek says
The fact that many people in North America and Europe (not to mention the rest of the world ) do not like freedom ought to frighten us.
william says
Jedo. I wear a mask in stores, on buses and in public buildings as it is required. I also obey lock downs when applicable such as closure of public gyms and swimming pools, though it is very inconvenient for me personally. I do not feel it affects my ‘rights’ in any way but it does respect the rights of others not to catch COVID19. Those who are anti mask and anti lock down are mainly malcontents who are always against something or other. They just cannot stand anyone telling them what to do, maybe because of their upbringing. I call them ‘rebels without a cause’
somehistory says
People hear what they wish to hear in many, many cases.
For example, some years ago, I changed phone numbers and was given one that had previously belonged to someone who was being skip-traced. Within a few days of getting the new number, a collection agency began calling for “Mr. So and So,” and I politely told them he did not live there. I was called a liar, and I hung up.
This kept happening, over days and weeks until I was sick of answering the phone…no caller id at that time…and so one morning when the phone rang and it was that company, I said,” I have told you people over and over…”
The woman who had spoken slammed the phone down as I was speaking. So, I called back and got the same woman.
She accused me of racism because I had said, “You people,” meaning, at that company, but she was Black and heard “race”…because she wanted to ..
Now this mozlum “mayor” is “hearing” White’s protest because it’s a popular thing and he wishes to hear it that way…. a blatant attempt to stir up bad feelings against Whites and those who don’t like the masks and the shutdowns and the distancing.
According to an MIT professor, forcing people to stand far apart is unnecessary, esp outside where the wind whips away a person’s breath.
But according to the popular and stupid….Whites are the troublemakers, no matter what.
And people wonder why the rest of us don’t want mozlums in any kind of seat of power.
Ken Johnson says
You would like to think our publically elected officals are somewhat intellignet¿¿¿
garry pollack says
was he really elected? Isn’t canada a dominion—ie as in voting machines…
BlackSabbath says
Canadian Sadiq Khan.
Sun says
In Calgary, Pastor Pawlowski was arrested and accused of violating public health orders to reduce the spread of COVID-19 because he opened his church. That happened just a few days ago.
Did the mayor ordered to riot the mosques too?
Jim says
It seems to me that electing a Muslim mayor should be a cause for alarm, not something to be proud of. Look at what the Muslim mayor of London is doing. It could be a cause for pride if the Muslim mayor is the best candidate and upholds the values of the West, including Christian and Classical values. There are not many distinctively Muslim values that should be promoted in Western countries. Broadcasting the call to prayer on loudspeakers is arguably not one of them. The city of Minneapolis also allowed this in the Cedar Riverside area, which might be nice for Islam, but it is not an American practice, not in the Bible, not in the Constitution. So what is to be proud of. They have alarm clocks today, we do not need loudspeakers disturbing the quiet of a neighborhood. Why should Jews and Christians or Buddhists or Hindus have to have their peace and quiet disturbed by the message that Islam or Allah is the greatest. It makes little sense. This is just identity politics, thanks to the Left and the Democrats in particular. I suppose that anthropologists and Leftists will be proud of the spread of Islam, probably not most people. A lot of people have to virtue signal their tolerance and respect for other value systems by praising the Muslim mayor of Calgary, but I bet a lot of Calgary citizens wish it were not what is happening and do not want any calls to prayer disturbing their peace.
St. Croix says
Good points about the call to prayer. It’s not much different than smoking in an enclosed place. It’s something most didn’t ask for in Canada or the U.S. or Christian, Buddhist, Hindu dominant societies. Didn’t ask and don’t want, and disturbs mental health, digestion, and who knows what else. And besides all that, it means something. That what Muslims want is the main thing; it doesn’t matter what everyone else wants. The message is: SUCK IT UP! We’re here, and we’ll have our way.
Wellington says
Projection on display again.
Infidel says
I can understand Toronto, Montreal and other such cities being islamo-Leftist. When did Calgary get infected by this Quranovirus?
gravenimage says
I think it’s the effect of the univeristy there. I knew a professor there–he said it was more “politically correct” than in the larger cities in Ontario and Quebec.
E T says
Large population of Muslims strategically placed throughout Canada, same as the US.
mortimer says
Let Canadians take the example of Naheed Nenshi and take care not to vote for Muslims. Naheed Nenshi deceived people to think he is a moderate, but he is a SUPREMACIST.
All Muslims are secretly supremacists, unless they are openly supremacists.
If a Muslim is not a supremacist, he/she is unaware of what Islam teaches.
gravenimage says
Canada: First Muslim mayor of major city slams anti-maskers as ‘thinly veiled white national supremacists’
………………
What claptrap. I know Blacks and Hispanics who don’t believe in masking–not just Whites.
And many Muslims violently reject taking *any* measures against the Coronavirus.
Infidel says
Precisely! In India, where several states are re-entering a lockdown due to the new strains of the virus there, muslims on Wednesday still had their big crowds celebrating eid ul fitr. Like I noted yesterday, the Covid-19 pathogens were probably converted to islam by the djinns and know not to do anything to mohammedans, even while they ravage local Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and others
Arnold Jackson says
Go lick a shrine!
Andrew Blackadder says
Well its been many years since I was last in Calgary, or even Canada for that matter, but Im guessing all the real Cowboys have left that Town already.
So tell me again, who in their right mind put this moron in Office as the number one man of the City… How,Why?.
If he was a Christian Pastor mentioning brown muslim terrorists, he would be cancelled, perhaps even Jailed, and most certainly lose everything he has, but this brown muslim fella can say whatever he wants…
muslims around the World are laughing in our faces as they see our level of tolerance as our weakness while we see it as our strength.
Its only gonna get worse.
E T says
Wing it social worker I know would kiss their feet. “They are wonderful, productive people”.
John Forbes says
No shortage of Racist White Haters from India! Available everywhere!
E T says
How has anything happened in Canada under Justine Trudeau?
Trudeau delivered a message at Easter : Enjoy the THREE DAY WEEKEND, stay home stay safe and shut up while we BUILD BACK BETTER. No mention of Easter until days later when the global clown prince heard the backlash.
Trudeau delivers a message on Eid al-Fitr Muslims celebrating the end of Ramadan their holy month, let’s remember the many contributions, let’s find inspiration in Islam’s teachings of equality, compassion and service. Let’s join together against COVID-19. BUILD BACK BETTER.
Then there was the message from Mazin Abdul-Adhim, the man from Iraq, living in London, Ontario, the Canadian leader of Hibz ut-Tharir, the terrorist group, the same man who calls Canadian soldiers war criminals and stated Muslims should not wear poppies. Remember when Canadian icon Don Cherry got fired for saying some people don’t wear poppies.
“It is difficult to celebrate Eid with what we are witnessing of the murder of Muslims around the globe and especially with what we have seen in Al-Quds in recent days. But alhamdulillah this is the best ummah brought forth to mankind. In spite of attacks, 100k Muslims prayed Eid Salat in and around Al-Aqua, whether the KAFIR occupiers liked it or not. May the Zionist occupiers die in their rage.
Eid Mubarak to everyone and may Allah honor our courageous Brothers and sisters in Al-Quds and around the world, in this world and the next.
Masks and COVID -19
A recent research paper from The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, points out some statistics. In February, the CDC reported it attributed 376,504 deaths in 202 to COVID-19. In 2017, a bad flu year, there were 401,000 deaths.
Many experts have been saying for months —COVID is comparable to a severe flu that disproportionately affects old, people, but is less dangerous for young people even than the flu.
some might claim COVID deaths would have been much worse without lockdowns and mask mandates. There is increasing evidence, however, that these non-pharmaceutical interventions had little or no effect on COVID mortality.
On a personal note, I had to wait 8 months to see an eye doctor, because of lockdowns, I was operated on immediately to fix a detached retina, and now I see shadows out of that eye. Thousands of people in Canada are waiting cancer, heart and other operations, some have died waiting. Some people have profited from COVID, many “little people” have suffered greatly, not to mention the children, oh the children, the fear created by MSM and so called adults.
Down the road, when sensible people step up and ……………
VARES report for Friday, May 14, 2021
There have been 192,954 adverse events
4,057 deaths from adverse reactions from the vaccine. (Just the reported ones)
17,190 serious injuries from the vaccine (just the reported ones)
How much of COVID is political, perhaps the mayor of Calgary will inform us some day.
Rarely will no doubt rave about my conspiracy theories — my future predictions include – more pipelines shut off, more cyber attacks food shortages and more Muslims being elevated to places they should not allowed to be. IN God we trust, not Allah.
Infidel says
ET, our health overlords think that ‘Covid’ is the only health condition that threatens us. Yesterday, I asked my Dr where I could get a Covid antibodies test – only if I don’t have the antibodies will I take a vaccine – and he brushed it aside, telling me to take the Pfizer vaccine that his office offers far from where I live (when I could get it at my local Safeway a few blocks away). I plan to change my doctor, and find out anyway where I can first verify whether I already have antibodies or not before
Out here, our overlords Dr Fauci and the CDC have finally told us that if we’ve been vaccinated, we can get off the masks. The store where I work still has the mask rule – that order hasn’t percolated down as yet, although a lot of stores have relaxed it. On the question of other health issues, I sure am glad and praise the gods everyday that I had my foot operation in 2019, and didn’t wait until 2020 to get it, or else I’d have been crippled in more ways than one
E T says
PLEASE DON’T get the vaccine. Read the stats, the chances of anyone dying from COVID is slim to none. Many people have been treated with ivermectin and are fine. Take Vitamin C, D and zinc, and don’t wear a mask when not mandated. Anyone wearing a mask outside should be put in an asylum.
Medical clinics, and hospitals get an awful lot of money from drug companies. I have read some people, health officials, in Germany have been charged with creating fear, lying about COVID stats.
Wise decision on your part to get rid of your doctor. People who have had COVID do not need to get the vaccine/gene therapy. Why are so many people who are completely vaccinated in the hospital with COVID, any genius out there want to tell us why?
We are still in lockdown here in Canada, Justine Trudeau is now talking about a mail-in vote, sound familiar? He keeps telling us we need to BUILD BACK BETTER – Sound familiar?
Please do not get the vaccine, keep your eyes on the number of people in the hospital with COVID, the fully vaccinated. People who were not sick to begin with, but got the shot so they would not get sick. Too bad the press is so like 1933. When before have we ever tested healthy people to see if they are sick? I am older than dirt, have only wore a mask to get into the hospital for my eye operation, have been thrown out of many stores, been called everything under the sun by the fearful ones and I am still alive.
I volunteer to put the ropes around necks once the crimes against humanity trials start.
Have a wonderful day, keep on the sunny side my friend.
somehistory says
The shots are legally labeled as “gene therapy.”
A few years back, there was a lot in the medical news about the prospects for “gene therapy,”…noodling around with our genes in order to stop people from having certain diseases, “genetic conditions,” etc.
At that time, some doctors were warning against the therapy, the manipulation, because it was an unknown thing…could be dangerous, etc.
Now, lo and behold, it’s “safe” after less than a year of manufacturing it and it is not intended to stop a person from getting the virus…maybe just lessening symptoms; and along the way, causing blood clots, problems with reproductive issues, etc., etc.
But promises of “freedom” if we get it.
E T says
Dr. Lee Merrick is being attacked from all sides, as is anyone who does not support the new world order of madness. I will NEVER get this so called vaccine and talk about crazy, I avoid those who have.
Crusades Were Right says
“Those people at those anti-mask protests … are marching in thinly veiled white nationalist supremacist anti-government protests.”
They clearly don’t want to be “veiled” – thinly or otherwise – Mr. Nenshi! lol
And speaking of masks…
…YOURS has slipped!
E T says
EXACTLY
OLD GUY says
It’s coming to an American neighborhood as we set back and watch our President Biden open the borders to the Muslin/islamic migration invasion of America. We the people are being SOLD out by our greedy political leaders and big business. Islam is not DIVERSE it is NOT freedom, peace and love. It is Slavery, Rape and Death to all who oppose its teachings. Thats the truth according to Muhammad.
John Lloyd Scharf says
So, the thickness makes a difference? Muhammadans are thickly vailed national supremists.
Eli says
Hopefully, you will find a new found faith in Jehovah God and in Jesus, to be with you. Thank you for sharing the truth of the invasion of global Islam, which will collide with Communism for a major battle. The Bible shares a major conflict, that is approaching. Americans, Europeans, and Canadians are foolish to subject themselves to Islam, while rejecting Christian principles, which were the foundation of our Nation in education and politics. The Bible was their main instruction, for wisdom and guidance to enable them to fight and win. People need to be alerted to the crisis, that is coming, to remove them from hiding and apathy. Many are aware of what is on the horizon. Trump, De Santis, Cruz, Rand Paul, Jim Jordan and other leaders, have had the courage to stand up against the Socialist Democrats strategy and Islamic Squad. They are being threatened, but still fighting for America. Others need to wake up and stand with them.