Trudeau announces Amira Elghawaby as Canada's first representative to combat Islamophobia

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I can say for Israelis, many of them are amused and baffled when they hear that there are people in Canada who call Israel a “white settler colonial state.”
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It comes as a surprise to descendants of Holocaust refugees. It comes as a surprise to Jews of Ethiopian descent and of Iraqi and Tunisian and Algerian and Moroccan descent that our multicultural, multiethnic, democratic state in the Jewish ancestral homeland gets called a white settler colonial state by people around the world and in places like Canada and the United States.

It’s the best definition we have and what we’re seeing since October 7, with the horrific outburst of antisemitism that has left Jews in Canada feeling scared and intimidated, is that anti-Zionism, antisemitism — these theoretical debates — are irrelevant for all intents and purposes. Those who are calling for the destruction of the Jewish state, those who are calling for the destruction of the country that is home to half of the Jews in the world, are calling for violence and persecution against Jews, and they’re going after Jewish targets in the diaspora as well.

They see them all the same, and this is a fight that we cannot allow them to win when you see people accusing Israel of every crime under the sun. And you see the protests against Israel are not really about Israel. They say it’s about police brutality, and about LGBT rights and about climate justice.
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What they’re doing is slipping into the same patterns of antisemitic thinking, which has always been to say: all the problems in the world have one common root. That root is the Jews.

If you fix the problem of the Jews, you fix the problems of the world. That is what we see now with the demonization of Israel and Israelis. With the attempt to paint Israel as being involved with everything that is wrong with the world. It’s the same antisemitic pattern that says, “If only we deal with the Jews, if only we fix that problem, we’ll redeem the world.”
If you are at the encampment because you genuinely support the terrorists who burned people alive at a music festival and you want them to do it again and you see the barbaric acts of sexual violence as glorious resistance, I have nothing to say to you. You are not someone I can speak to. You are an enemy, and I think that society needs to shun you and expose you.

To the extent there are people who are protesting because they don’t like this war, and they want it to go away, I’ll say, you know who really wants this war to go away? Young people in Israel. They’re the ones who’ve been drafted into (the army) reserves. And now they’re having to fight because a terrorist army invaded their country, burned people alive and abducted hostages into the Gaza Strip.

We want this war to go away. We want to live in peace. But we realize, if we do not, defeat the terrorist army that did this, there will be a next time and it will be worse. We’re not going to abandon the hostages in the Hamas terror dungeons no matter how many times you tear down hostage posters to try to make people forget that they are still there.
 

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I rather suspect that for the vast mass of Israelis, their knowledge of the positions of "some Canadians" is exactly the same as their concern therefor.

0=0. It's a mathematical axiom.
 
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Ron in Regina

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When Amira Elghawaby was named as Canada’s first special representative on combating Islamophobia in 2023, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was so enthused he released the news himself. Elghwaby was cited as “an award-winning journalist and human rights advocate” who “has had an extensive career supporting initiatives to counter hate and promote inclusion.”
It only took days for someone to draw attention to an article she’d written suggesting a “majority of Quebecers appear to be swayed not by the rule of law, but by anti-Muslim sentiment.” Those and other comments she’d made about Quebec earned her a public rebuke and led to her making an embarrassing public apology.

Apart from inertia, there’s the not-implausible suspicion the prime minister and his cabinet see such appointments mainly as convenient means to attract support from targeted voting groups. How better to show you care about an ethnic, cultural or religious community than to hand some cash and a fancy title to one of its members?
That being the motive, no one wants to look too closely at the recipients’ record, which carries the danger of discovering something. Everyone has potential embarrassments if you look closely enough, why bring it up if you don’t want to find any?
 
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Ron in Regina

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Amira Elghawaby? Comments?
 
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Ron in Regina

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You can’t fight antisemitism in Canada without engaging the most passionate Palestinian supporters, a good few of whom clearly do mean “Jew” when they say “Zionist,” at least to my and many other Canadians’ eyes and ears.

You can’t fight Islamophobia in Canada without engaging Quebec nationalists, many of whom make no bones about being fearful of Islam and what pious Muslims might do to Quebec society. You can’t fight Islamophobia without talking to the only province that bans teachers and Crown attorneys and police officers from wearing a hijab.

But Elghawaby can’t talk to Quebec, and never will be able to talk to Quebec, because in the past she had disrespected Quebec’s all-consuming victimhood complex. “I want to puke,” she wrote on Twitter in response to a historian’s proposition that French Canadians were “the largest group of people in this country … victimized by British colonialism.” Etc…
 

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Playing the victim has always been profitable for Quebec. And it is still the most decisive factor in promoting Canadian unity.
 
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Just more bureaucracy and more tax dollars being wasted on some Muslim nonsense again. I wonder how much this gang of diversity screwballs is now going to cost the already overtaxed Canadians? All we get from the federal government is a more and bigger government with more taxes to be forked out to one more of those woke federal bureaucrats. Diversity and equality is all about divide and conquer. Diversity and equality are part of the programs and agendas of communism.
All religion is just superstitious rubbish to me, but only one of them will kill you for mocking their prophet or disagreeing with their 'holy' book.
That religion is Islam. To state this is NOT Islamophobia, it is a statement of fact and record. .
 

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Wolfe should have lost .
Wolf was an honorable man. He allowed Quebec to keep their language, laws, and Church. Yes for sure he was honorable and it was his biggest mistake.
FTR there is no such entity as the quebec 'Nation'. And also FTR we should stop paying for their presence.
 

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Access To Information records show that a taxpayer-funded guidebook suggested the Conservative Party might have bigots and young white nationalists trying to join its ranks, reports Blacklock’s Reporter.

“They sometimes attempt to infiltrate mainstream Conservative political parties,” states the guidebook called Confronting And Preventing Hate In Canadian Schools that was approved by former diversity minister Ahmed Hussen’s office.
“In 2020 McMaster University Conservatives were scrutinized for allowing members with overly bigoted beliefs and ties,” the guidebook says.

Generic “conservative campus groups” were also censured in the guidebook, which cost taxpayers $268,400.

Confronting and Preventing Hate in Canadian Schools did not name any other political party but the guidebook also called the Red Ensign, Canada’s national symbol until 1965, a hate symbol along with the swastika

“Its usage denotes a desire to return to Canada’s demographics before 1967 when it was predominantly white,” said the guidebook.

The guidebook was written by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, a subsidized advocacy group.
(The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) is a Canadian nonprofit organization that monitors hate crime and far-right groups)
“Did the Department of Canadian Heritage or the Minister approve of the final published version of the toolkit? Yes,” said a 2022 staff email. “Did cabinet approve the final version of the toolkit? Yes.”

The guidebook also told schoolchildren how to challenge classmates who align with politicians with “problematic” views.

“Sometimes educators and students will find themselves in the position of requiring an immediate response to a student in class who invokes a bigoted ideology,” it said. “While these situations should be treated carefully they need to be addressed as they happen.”

“These incidents can range from mild to severe and each will require its own approach depending on the situation. Examples: A student argues in favour of a problematic politician or policy, e.g. Trump’s wall, in a classroom discussion.”

An American example again? What country is Justin Trudeau PM of again? What country is he campaigning in/for again?
 

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Sarah Ahmed was among the leaders at the University of Waterloo protest in Ontario, Canada. First established on May 13, the encampment was designed to pressure the university to cut all financial and academic connections with Israel and companies tied to its war effort.

But when she saw her name printed on the lawsuit, Ahmed said she was overcome by a “feeling of shame”. Oh well…
 

Ron in Regina

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Sarah Ahmed was among the leaders at the University of Waterloo protest in Ontario, Canada. First established on May 13, the encampment was designed to pressure the university to cut all financial and academic connections with Israel and companies tied to its war effort.

But when she saw her name printed on the lawsuit, Ahmed said she was overcome by a “feeling of shame”. Oh well…
“Since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, McGill and its students have been the target of a coordinated, inauthentic and foreign narrative attack,” XPOZ wrote in a report obtained by the Post.

The company examined how social media users discussing the McGill encampment interacted online and found a disproportionate number of Farsi and Arabic commentators. These accounts amplified support for McGill’s student encampment, openly supported Hamas, and denounced Israel for committing genocide in Gaza.

In early July, campus security dismantled the school’s encampment.

“The campaign extensively utilized inauthentic profiles to amplify the discourse and broaden the reach of the narrative. Many of these profiles are inauthentic foreigners,” XPOZ wrote.

According to the company, 60 per cent of anti-Israel social media posts concerning McGill were posted by fake accounts. By comparison, the company found 75 per cent of commentators critical of the encampment were authentic users. The dataset drew on nearly 150,000 posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, over half a million likes on the platform, and more than 65,000 comments.

“In summary, there is a very clear attempt by a foreign power to sow discord and incite public unrest within Canada,” the company concluded, adding that such practices violated X’s terms of use.

“When the activity is authentic, (it) is very different,” an XPOZ researcher who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the Post. “This is due to the fact that with authentic activity, we don’t see cases in which hundreds of thousands — up to millions of accounts — are operated to follow a certain command or to promote a certain target.”

The researcher said that authentic social media profiles usually follow a variety of interests — such as cooking or sports — but fake accounts are designed to engage solely in political discourse. Part of their analysis, which is known as network typology, examined users’ followers, people they interact with, activity levels, language, retweets and likes.

“It’s not at all surprising that there’s a significant inauthentic network and activity being observed amplifying narratives that are supportive of Hamas,” Kolga, who reviewed the XPOZ reports, said. “Their conclusions seem to confirm what experts and activists like myself have previously hypothesized.”

Joel Finkelstein, the co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), said that while XPOZ’s findings jibe with similar revelations his group has unearthed, without reviewing the underlying data, the findings should be approached cautiously.

“The claims being made by the research may be hard to determine in specificity, but are largely uncontroversial in terms of broader trends. Based on our data, these assertions align with observed trends and are credible,” Finkelstein told the Post.

He pointed to viral social media posts to show how foreign actors have amplified controversial messages since October 7. “The hashtag campaigns we’ve analyzed, such as #FreePalestine, are often inauthentic, driven by coordinated inauthentic behaviour. Our findings consistently confirm this trend, which is why these analyses are crucial.”

This squares with the Islamic Republic’s decades–long campaign to infiltrate democracies, said Michael Bonner, a historian of ancient Iran and senior fellow with the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy.

“Iranian intelligence now targets Western domestic cultural and political weaknesses and inflames them, as we saw in recent protests,” he told the Post in an email.

“If such an intelligence operation has been active in Canada, as reports suggest, most Canadians will not be aware of it,” he continued. “They may not be aware of the extent to which their protests or other activities have been amplified on social media by bots and trolls linked to” the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Bonner called on the federal government to impose “appropriate limits” on foreign meddling in domestic affairs and properly recognize “the dangers posed by … actors who do not respect us or wish us well.”

Neil Oberman, a Montreal-based attorney who recently represented Jewish students at McGill seeking an injunction against the anti-Israel encampment, initially flagged the XPOZ report to the Post, saying it was “not an issue only for the Jewish community” but for all Canadians.

Oberman, who recently announced his candidacy to run for the Conservative Party against Liberal MP Anthony Housefather in the Mount Royal riding in Montreal, called on the federal government to actively investigate the matter. “Canada cannot be allowed to be manipulated by foreign countries to create social upheaval. That is not acceptable. Period.”
 

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Dominic Cardy was arrested at an anti-Israel rally in Toronto for disturbing the peace, he said.

Cardy, who is the Independent MLA for the constituency of Fredericton West-Hanwell, explained what happened to him Thursday evening in the city’s Yonge and Dundas area.

“I woke from a nap to hear hundreds of Hamas enthusiasts upset at (Hamas political leader Ismail) Haniyeh’s death,” he wrote on Friday morning, in a thread on social media platform X.

“I chanted ‘Free Palestine – from Hamas.’ The crowd reacted poorly.”
Cardy was asked to leave by Toronto police, but said he declined. He continued to chant “Free Palestine from Hamas,” which received more negative attention. It even got physical with some of the attendees kicking him, he said.

When police returned, Cardy told them, again, that he wouldn’t leave. He was arrested for “disturbing the peace,” although he pointed out that people at the rally were burning an Israeli flag a metre away from him.

“The police were professional and courteous. My complaint is not with them but with the political cowards who arrest peaceful democrats, and not the terror enthusiasts who seize our streets at will,” he said.

“This all in the name of ‘tolerance.'”

Cardy said he was held for a couple of hours before being released without charges or conditions. He said that he would not be avoiding future protests.

“No more standing by. It’s time for standing up. Step up against extremism. Defend our open society. Now,” he said.

Cardy’s arrest was confirmed by police in a statement to the National Post on Friday.

“This individual was arrested yesterday at a demonstration for Breach of the Peace and was subsequently released without charges.

“What would Amira Elghawaby say about this???”​

He was engaging in confrontational behaviour towards other demonstrators and failing to comply with “selective” police directives,” said a spokesperson for Toronto police via email.

Many users commented on his posts, thanking Cardy for taking action. One person called the police in Canada “irreparably broken,” but Cardy disagreed. The problem is the politicians, he said, adding that the officers were simply taking orders.

“You can point out unjust orders through peaceful civil disobedience, as I did yesterday,” he said, “and hope (people) agree, and that orders change.”

Anti-Israel protests have been held across the country since October 7, when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel.

In Toronto, protesters took over Yorkdale Shopping Centre in December 2023. In January, anti-Israel protesters gathered near Canada’s largest Jewish community at Avenue Road and Highway 401, blocking a highway overpass.

More recently, police foiled an alleged terror attack being planned by a father-son duo, reportedly on behalf of terrorist group ISIL.
 

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When Amira Elghawaby was named as Canada’s first special representative on combating Islamophobia in 2023, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was so enthused he released the news himself. Elghwaby was cited as “an award-winning journalist and human rights advocate” who “has had an extensive career supporting initiatives to counter hate and promote inclusion.”
Groper is so full of shit it's leaking out his ears. Remember M-103? It was predicated on the fact that over a specific three year period hate crimes against muslims had doubled, as Amira so dutifully pointed out. But she also wasn't lying, just being incredibly disingenuous. You see, I also checked the stats to verify the accuracy of her statement and here's what I found out. Over the exact same three year period hate crimes against White Canadians had increased by 2.5X while hate crimes against Jewish-Canadians almost tripled. Doing a little cross-referencing those increases in hate crimes were commensurate with the increase in muzzie migration to Canada.

Amira isn't a human rights activist in any way shape or form, she's exclusively a goodam muzzie-rights activist and everyone else can go to hell as far as that cunt is concerned.
And Trudeau is just pond scum who licks muzzie ass.