(Compilation of articles from various Canadian sources in February
2017.)
The motion M-103 is titled “Systemic racism and religious discrimination,” but it specifies that Canadians must “condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination and take note of House of Commons’ petition e-411 and the issues raised by it.”
Petition e-411 was forwarded in June, stating that “We, the undersigned, Citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to join us in recognizing that extremist individuals do not represent the religion of Islam, and in condemning all forms of Islamophobia.”
Petition E-411 (Islamic Terrorism Is Nothing To Do With Islam)
e-411: Petition to the Canadian House of Commons
-- Islam is a religion of over 1.5 billion people worldwide. Since its founding more than 1400 years ago, Muslims have contributed, and continue to contribute, to the positive development of human civilization. This encompasses all areas of human endeavors including the arts, culture, science, medicine, literature, and much more; (Apart from killing not less than 400 million human beings last 1,400 years)
-- Recently an infinitesimally small number of extremist individuals have conducted terrorist activities while claiming to speak for the religion of Islam. Their actions have been used as a pretext for a notable rise of anti-Muslim sentiments in Canada; and (About 100 million Muslims worldwide are supposed to be radical Islamists and thus prone to SJS – Sudden Jihadi Syndrone – and can easily turn into a suicidal maniac.)
-- These violent individuals do not reflect in any way the values or the teachings of the religion of Islam. In fact, they misrepresent the religion. We categorically reject all their activities. They in no way represent the religion, the beliefs and the desire of Muslims to co-exist in peace with all peoples of the world. (ISIS is not Islamic and Hitler might not be a Nazi at all.)
-- We, the undersigned, Citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to join us in recognizing that extremist individuals do not represent the religion of Islam, and in condemning all forms of Islamophobia. (What exactly is Islamophobia?)
Conservative government members of Parliament did not support the anti-Islamophobia motion when it was first presented for approval in Parliament in October, but it was finally passed last month.
Motion M-103 (Ban Islamophobia Without Defining Islamophobia)
M-103: Systemic racism and religious discrimination
That, in the opinion of the House, the government should:
(a) recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear;
(b) condemn
Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination and
take note of House of Commons’ petition e-411 and the issues raised by it; and
(c) request that the
Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage undertake a study on how the government
could
(i) develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating
systemic racism and religious discrimination including Islamophobia, in Canada,
while ensuring a community-centered focus with a holistic response through
evidence-based policy-making,
(ii) collect data to
contextualize hate crime reports and to conduct needs assessments for impacted
communities, and that the Committee should present its findings and
recommendations to the House no later than 240 calendar days from the adoption
of this motion, provided that in its report, the Committee should make recommendations
that the government may use to better reflect the enshrined rights and freedoms
in the Constitution Acts, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms.
Liberal MP Iqra Khalid The Paki Sharia Bitch Behind E-411 & M-103
Canadians need to be questioning what is behind these anti-Islamophobia drives, and what the agenda of their originators might be.
For starters, the Canadian Charter of rights and freedoms already ascribes to multicultural inclusiveness, and there are already widespread anti-racism programs across Canada that advocate for all Canadians, so why are Muslims being awarded the special privilege of separate motions?
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| Iqra Khalid with PM TRudeau. |
But how does one possibly go about “quelling” an atmosphere of fear, given the truth about the menacing global violence that is victimizing innocents daily in the name of Islam, even in established Islamic states?
Born in Pakistan, Khalid and her parents moved to England when she was six and to Toronto when she was 12. Her father got a PhD in library information science in England and was a professor in Pakistan. But like many new Canadians, he could not afford to take the time to requalify here because he had mouths to feed.
The family, which includes her three brothers, moved to Mississauga a decade ago and now operate a small grocery store called Alramzan on Ridgeway Dr. in the riding. She graduated from York University after studying professional writing and criminology, then managed an immigration firm in Toronto for 18 months. She then enrolled in the Thomas M. Cooley law school at Western Michigan University in Lansing in Sept. 2010.
During her time as a student at York University, “Khalid was active in Muslim student politics,” and she served as “president of both the Muslim student association and one of the two Pakistani student associations.” The Muslim Student Associations established by Muslim Brotherhood as part of their war within western civilization are well known for their aggressive Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) on-campus drives to demonize and delegitimize the State of Israel, and for their intimidation of Jewish students.
Staunch Anti-Israel & Pro-Palestine Politician (Muslim in Leftist Skin)
Last January, Khalid met with board members of Palestine House in Mississauga (near Toronto) and a “large number of members of the Palestinian community,” including Palestinian political activists. Palestine House supports the Palestinian al-Quds Intifada, and its settlement program was defunded by the former Conservative Harper government for allying itself with terrorism.
It was also condemned for: celebrating the release of terrorists and honouring the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), one of the groups that formed the Palestine Liberation Organization and “in the 1960s and ’70s, was responsible for numerous armed attacks and aircraft hijackings.
According to the Canadian Arab newspaper Meshwar, which covered the event at Palestine House in honour of Khalid, “the purpose of the event was to strengthen the relationship between the members of the [Palestinian] community and the Liberal members of Parliament.”
That same newspaper published an article by Jordanian activist Hisham al-Habishan, who stated that the US and the “ Zionist-Masonic movement” were behind the Islamic State, with the intention of weakening the Arab region.
Al-Habishan wrote: “The goal of the Zionist entity today, and its allies in Washington, by spreading this chaos that followed the Arab Spring in the Arab homeland, is to safeguard their entity, which is called the State of Israel…”
Also at the event for Khalid was Meshwar editor Nazih Khatatba, who once… advised al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah movement, to change their policy and instead of uttering threats at Israel, to demand from Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President and the leader of the PLO and Fatah movement, to re-arm them.
During her time as a student at York University, “Khalid was active in student politics,” and she served as “president of both the Muslim student association and one of the two Pakistani student associations
York has been accused of “allowing anti-semitism to spread.” Shelley Yachaev, president of the Israeli Students Union at York, said “’every little part’ of the university has been infiltrated with anti-Semitism.” Yachaev also said that she no longer walks “anywhere at York (anymore) where I trust the fact I can speak freely.”
Paul Bronfman, “a leader in the film and TV production industry,” became outraged and withdrew financial support from arts students at York University when he learned about a large, offensive pro-Palestinian painting that had been hanging at the entrance of a foyer in one of the campus student centers. The painting “depicted a person wearing a scarf with the Palestinian flag, palming a couple of rocks and staring at a bulldozer as it nears a tree.”
Does Iqra Khalid Condone Wife Beating Islamic Style?
In 2014, the Muslim Student’s Association of York University handed out a book condoning wife beating. A former President of the same student organization is now pushing a bill to make Islamophobia illegal in Canada.
Iqra Khalid was born in Pakistan and
moved to Canada in the 1990’s. She is a Liberal Member of Parliament, a Muslim,
and a former President of York University’s MSA. Interestingly enough, despite noting her work
as President of a Pakistani student club, her official Liberal Party website
makes no mention of her work as President of the York University Muslim
Student’s Association.
Allow us to make the political reasoning for this quite clear.
Pictured above is a table at a 2014
event put on by York University’s Muslim Students Association. There are
several photos of the book in question on the association’s Facebook page. The
entirety of this book, written by one Abdul Rahman Al-Sheha, is available online
for you to read in its entirety.
Here are some of the most repulsive
excerpts.
Lovely. And here is a choice bit of
victim blaming:
Another page is devoted to honour
killings. The implication seems to be that if we only would allow stoning and
beating of women who commit fornication or adultery, there would be no need for
murdering women through honour killings!
And on the lesser credibility given to
women’s testimony in Islam:
While Iqra Khalid wishes to curtail
free speech by using absurdly broad “Islamophobia” laws, she was at one point
president of an organization which is clearly pushing radical Islamist views in
the present day.
We who value human rights and freedom
of expression must demand an explanation from this elected official as well as
this public university. Do you or do you not disavow these actions by the York
University Muslim Student’s Association? We will be reaching out both to York
University and to Iqra Khalid’s office for comment and this article will be
updated with any new information we receive.
M-103: Ban Islamphobia Without Defining What It Really Is
About 1,200 people showed up to The Rebel’s Rally For Free Speech at Canada Christian College to protest Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government’s M-103 motion being debated in the House of Commons this week, which many criticism is, in essence, an anti-blasphemy law seen in many Muslim countries that prevents criticism of Islam.
Turns out, there are a lot of people concerned about free speech in Canada. And concerned about losing it. “It’s great to be in a room full of severely normal people,” said Conservative leadership candidate Dr. Kellie Leitch, drawing cheers. “We need to fight back against all of this politically correct nonsense,” said Leitch.
And they were doing just that. When it comes to Liberal Erin Mills MP Iqra Khalid’s motion to “condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination,” the crowd’s stance was clear. They don’t want it. “Justin Trudeau says people who are opposed to M-103 are fringe,” said Leitch. “Justin Trudeau, you are fringe.”
Every speaker brought similar sentiments, whether it be Ezra Levant, Faith Goldy, PC leadership candidates Leitch, Chris Alexander, Brad Trost, Pierre Lemieux or Dr. Charles McVety of Canada Christian College. “This is grassroots,” said Goldy. “If we don’t stand up now historians will look back and say no one stood up for free speech that our soldiers laid down their lives for.”
Khalid’s motion should be ripped up for good. Canada needs a lot of things, but not government deciding who and what is Islamophobic. Scary a government would even try.
This was an interesting night because it shows that while the Liberals are very much in control of Canada, there is a movement out there not pleased with them. This was clear here. There’s frustration about the cost of living, rising debt load, dying towns, cost of energy.
But mostly, there’s anger about government ramming down people’s throats politically correct motions that in essence call people racist for simply calling out concerns about Sharia Law or standing up against honour murders. “I don’t think any one religion should get special status,” said Leitch. “There are laws in this country that cover everyone.”
The best part about this night, ironically, was the free speech that was on display. Will it be on display in the future?
Khalid’s Trudeau-backed “eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination including Islamophobia” motion promises to “develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination including Islamophobia, in Canada.”
Said McVety: “If this ever became law it could mean two years in jail for anybody who may criticize Islam, As Christians, Jesus Christ teaches us to love everyone including Muslims, but we do not have to love Islam. We need a revolution of truth to stop this motion.”
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| Justin Trudeau has converted to Islam? |
“We thank Dr. McVety,” said Levant. “If we can run into this kind of censorship and shutting down of freedom of speech already, can you imagine if this motion passes?” Levant wonders if the likes of him will even have personal freedom for “speaking the truth” or standing up to Trudeau.
“It won't be easy if this motion passes and leads to what we are concerned about, for people on radio to do their shows,” said Levant. Alexander reminded of the 159 who died in Afghanistan as an example of standing up for Muslim people and the cost of freedom. And Trost hit the nail on the head by saying “I will not let the thought police control what I say.”
There was a whole room full of people who agreed with that sentiment. When it comes to free speech, there are more than a few Canadians prepared to weather the storm to protect it.
NEED TO KNOW
What it is: Liberal MP Iqra Khalid tabled Motion M-103 in the House of Commons late last year, calling on parliament to officially “condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination” and request “that the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage undertake a study on how the government could develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination, including Islamophobia, in Canada.”
Not to be confused with: The now-discontinued M103 heavy military tank On tabling the motion, Khalid said: “I am extremely proud to put forward Motion M-103, to continue our government’s leadership on diversity issues and state on the record that there is no place for racism and religious discrimination in Canada.”
It changes: On the face of it, not much - the motion reflects the view of those who support it but is not binding - but the actions flowing from that motion has critics concerned that it singles out Islamophobia in a way that might impinge free speech.
Federal Conservative Leadership candidate Maxime Bernier posted his objections on Facebook: “There is a current in Islam, and not necessarily limited to radical Islamists, that says nobody should criticize their religion or make fun of it. Just remember the debate about the prophet Mohammed cartoons in Charlie Hebdo from a few years ago ... Is this motion a first step towards restricting our right to criticize Islam? Given the international situation, and the fact that jihadi terrorism is today the most important threat to our security, I think this is a serious concern we have to take into account.”
Punjabi is now the third language in Parliament of Canada
OTTAWA (Web Desk) – After four years of being Canada’s third most important language, Punjabi has officially become the third language in Parliament of Canada after English and French. The move came after the election of 20 Punjabi-speaking candidates to the House of Commons, the Fire Post reported.
The Parliamentary elections, which were conducted on 19th October led to the selection of 23 South Asian-origin members, three out of whom do not speak Punjabi. Out of 20 Punjabi speaking members, 14 are males and six are females. Also, 18 are Liberals and two are Conservatives.
MP Deepak Obhrai of Conservative Party said, “The voice of the Indo-Canadian community will now be very well represented in the Parliament. In the overall aspect of it, the South Asian community won.” Iqra Khalid, the Liberal MP who was born in Pakistan, said the diversity of the newly-elected House reflects the true make-up of Canada.
According to Statistics Canada’s 2011 National Household Survey, 430,705 Canadians identified Punjabi as their mother tongue, making it the third most common language after English and French. The 430,705 native Punjabi speakers make up about 1.3 per cent of Canada’s population. The 20 Punjabi-speaking MPs represent almost six per cent of the House of Commons.
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| Four of the 23 Pakistani-Canadian MPs. |
Canadian Parliament Condemns So-called Islamophobia