Last Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that the freedom of expression was “not without limits,” and should not “arbitrarily and needlessly hurt” certain communities. This was appalling, as the context of Trudeau’s comments suggested that the beheading of French teacher Samuel Paty for showing a Muhammad cartoon was justified. In response, Bloc Québécois […]
Canada: Supreme court won’t hear challenge to Quebec secularism law restricting religious symbols at work
A challenge to Quebec’s secularism law, Bill 21, will not be heard. The law bars some public sector employees from wearing religious symbols in the workplace. Most prominently featured in the media and religious rights and freedoms debate has unsurprisingly been Muslim women’s right to wear their veils. Last year, Quebec Premier François Legault “shrugged […]
Quebec: Restaurant tells family their wine will be taken away because Sharia-adherent Muslims are coming in
The principle is always and everywhere the same: in Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Islamic sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Islamic sensibilities. “Four bottles of wine,” translated from “Quatre bouteilles de vin,” by Patrick Lagacé, La Presse, February 9, 2020 (thanks to Gates of Vienna): It […]
Montreal: Muslims vandalize plaque for victims of mass shooting by son of Muslim migrant, worst in Canadian history
“Four men have been arrested after a memorial plaque was commemorating the École Politechnique massacre was vandalized.” These are the names of the four men: Ahmed Sido, Muhammed Nanaa, Abduallah Al-Mosuli, and Adnan Al Noumayri. According to a CTV report on December 6 marking the thirtieth anniversary of the “worst mass shooting in Canadian history,” […]
Canada: Muslim teen forced to wear hijab, marry much older man
“A Quebec youth court judge has removed a 16-year-old girl in Victoriaville from her family after she was forced into a marriage with an older man who insisted she wear a hijab, rifled through her cellphone and controlled who she could see. The girl was so afraid in the weeks before the ceremony was to […]
Quebec: Young non-Muslims, mostly women, forgo pork, observe Ramadan in solidarity with Muslims
“They see Islam as a way to return to the family model of their grandparents, but being more valued than their grandmothers, because, in Islam, the role of mother and wife is sacred and recognized by God.” Sure. However, “possible social pressure to conform to Islamic norms as an explanation for the trend does not […]
Leader of new People’s Party of Canada says his party is the only one willing to discuss the “Islamist menace”
People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier, along with PPC candidates and supporters, attended the party’s first national conference in Gatineau, Quebec on Sunday. A little background: the PPC was launched in September of last year after Bernier resigned from Canada’s official opposition Conservative Party. Bernier is also a former cabinet minister with the […]
Quebec: Green Party candidate forced to resign for criticizing mosque leader
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 […]
Quebec: Muslim politician who claimed Notre Dame fire was wrath of Allah apologizes and plays the victim
Eve Torres, who claimed that the Notre Dame fire was Allah’s wrath over France’s burqa ban, is busy now making a travesty of her apology by claiming victim status: “Many hateful messages targeted the former QS candidate after her comment. ‘It did not stop. People had never seen so much backlash,’ she indicated, adding that […]
Quebec: Muslim pol who called Notre Dame fire “wrath of Allah” worked for CAIR-Canada
Yesterday Jihad Watch reported about the Quebec Solidaire politician Eve Torres, who wrote of the Notre Dame fire that Allah had caused it because of France’s burqa ban, claiming that the ban had stirred up the wrath of Allah, and “here is the result!” She also made a veiled threat: “If I were (Quebec Premier […]
Canada: Muslim politician says Notre Dame fire was divine retribution, firefighters should sleep in local church
Her quip about the firefighters was not a direct threat of violence against the church, although her remarks can certainly be seen as tolerating and even approving of such violence if it occurred. She was saying that Allah might strike the church in Quebec, after saying that he struck the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris […]
Fascist “journalist” Patrick Lagacé of La Presse continues smearing Ensaf Haidar for meeting Robert Spencer
Like a dog worrying a bone, Quebec’s French-language La Presse just can’t let go of this non-story: this is its third full-length article about the meeting I had with Ensaf Haidar, the wife of Raif Badawi, who is in prison in Saudi Arabia for insulting Islam. (I wrote about the first two here and here.) […]
Fascist “journalist” Marc Thibodeau steps up his smear campaign against Ensaf Haidar for meeting Robert Spencer
An update on this story: as you can see below, now “journalist” Marc Thibodeau is pressuring Amnesty International to drop its support for Ensaf Haidar. Suddenly, because she met me, it is unimportant to this man that her husband is unjustly imprisoned in Saudi Arabia and awaiting lashings that could kill him. Thibodeau is showing […]
Fascist “journalist” Marc Thibodeau of Quebec’s La Presse defames Ensaf Haidar for meeting with Robert Spencer
Today Quebec’s French-language La Presse features a lengthy hit piece by “journalist” and hard-Left propagandist Marc Thibodeau, entitled “La femme de Raif Badawi liée à un auteur ‘extrémiste,’” that is, “Raif Badawi’s wife linked to ‘extremist’ author.” Badawi is the Saudi writer who is imprisoned there for insulting Islam; Thibodeau doesn’t see fit to include […]
Canada: City councillor apologizes, resigns after saying “it’s normal to be scared” of Muslims
Gatineau city councillor Nathalie Lemieux has issued an apology for comments she made about Muslims and quit her job as the city’s deputy mayor. Her apology for “offending or hurting anyone” didn’t stop there. She punished herself before the anti-Islamophobia brigade could attack her for offending Muslims and Islam. There has been a brouhaha in […]
Canada: Quebec Premier rejects calls for “anti-Islamophobia day”
The Premier of Quebec, Francois Legault, “says there will not be a day against Islamophobia in Quebec because according to him, it isn’t an issue.” The “Islamophobia day” idea was in reaction to a mosque shooting in Quebec in January 2017. Alexandre Bissonnette pleaded guilty to six counts of first-degree murder. The shooting was found […]
Quebec: Muslim event for children pledging to “wear hijab for life” canceled, “far right” groups blamed
An annual event that celebrates the “decision” of girls aged nine to 12 to wear the hijab for life was canceled in Quebec. Indoctrination rather than integration is the message that is continuously given to these youngsters, but the group’s plan was interrupted this time by so-called “far right” groups who allegedly “forced a Muslim […]
Canada: Quebec Judge strikes down veil ban
Superior Court Justice Babak Barin has “stayed a key provision of the controversial law banning people from receiving or giving a public service with their face covered….. under which people can apply for a religious accommodation to the legislation. Two key questions immediately come to mind: whose religious accommodations are being considered most? And when does […]
Canada: Muslim murders wife, defense says he has “mental health issues”
Of course. Muslims who commit acts of violence always have mental health issues. But he said she was cheating on him and planning to leave him. That brings us into the realms of honor killing. Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi […]
Quebec passes bill banning the niqab and burqa
Quebec has passed a law banning public service workers, and also those who receive services, from wearing face coverings. This means that everyone who uses public transit and government services must now unveil. Quebec’s Justice Minister Stéphanie Vallée stated that “having your face uncovered is a legitimate question of communication, identification and security”; but the […]