The Toronto Star says that “some members of a group” (Muslims) are being accused of intolerance because of their stance against the LGBTQ agenda. Given how eager “some members” of the mainstream media have been to levy the charge of “Islamophobia” against anyone who criticizes Islam in any way, that’s exactly what columnist Shree Paradkar […]
Toronto Star reporter tells Ezra Levant his reporting “won’t be tolerated,” orders him to delete tweet
For decades, the establishment media had a virtually monopoly on the public discourse, and told Americans what they should believe about issues and individuals; now that monopoly is crumbling, and the Left’s fear and hysteria over losing its hegemony is palpable. Here, the Toronto Star’s Jennifer Pagliaro demonstrates her hate and rage over actual journalism […]
Toronto Star makes damaging false “correction” about Christine Douglass-Williams
A “correction” in the Toronto Star was for some reason made. It read: “A Dec. 22 article about Christine Douglass -Williams’ firing from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation reported accurately that her biography on the foundation’s website, which has now been taken down, stated she sits on the Anti-Semitism Task Force with the Friends of Simon […]
Video: Robert Spencer responds to Toronto Star piece claiming imam didn’t call for killing of Jews
An imam in Toronto recently called for the killing of Jews; the Toronto Star followed up with an extraordinary lengthy piece claiming he didn’t really say it, or didn’t mean it, or both, and that anyone who thinks otherwise is a right-wing “Islamophobe.” My full response is here.
Toronto: Imam prays for the killing of the Jews, Toronto Star explains he didn’t really mean it
An imam in Toronto, Ayman Elkasrawy, prayed that Allah would kill all the Jews. In a sane society, newspapers would be investigating the prevalence of Islamic antisemitism in the area mosques, and among Muslims in general. But this isn’t a sane society, this is Trudeau’s Canada. So instead of focusing on Islamic antisemitism, the Toronto […]
Toronto Star publisher: Segment of Canadian media peddling “flat-out racism & bigotry” against Muslims in Canada
Here is more of the same: more media handwringing, portraying Muslims as victims and downplaying the reality of jihad terror. Much commentary from me below. “Canada’s news media are contributing to mistrust of Muslims,” by Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star, April 18, 2016: The following is an excerpt from a lecture delivered at the Aga Khan […]
Hamas-linked Muslim lobbying group behind Toronto Star’s decision to stop calling the Islamic State Islamic
The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) used to be known as the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN). It is suing former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper for saying it had links to Hamas. The problem with the suit, however, is that it does. According to the Terrorism and Security Experts of Canada (TSEC […]
Toronto Star now calls the Islamic State “Daesh” instead of “the Islamic State” or “ISIS”
The name that the Islamic State calls itself is…the Islamic State. The Star has chosen to obscure this because “the criminal gang that has murdered, raped and pillaged its way across the Middle East, while sending sycophants to slaughter civilians abroad, is neither Islamic nor an internationally recognized state.” Yet everything it does, it patterns […]
Toronto Star: Mainstream Islam must do more to prevent extremist violence
Dow Marmur is rabbi emeritus at Toronto’s Holy Blossom Temple. In this column he repeats a sentiment that non-Muslims have expressed many, many times before. No one, however, ever seems to stop and ponder the implications of the fact that now, thirteen and a half years after 9/11, articles like this one still need to […]