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Radical Islam was Brexit’s elephant in the room – My column in the Toronto Sun
Tarek Fatah
The Toronto Sun
The beauty of an uprising like the Brexit vote is that it makes the political and media elites who govern our lives look like fools.
Brexit was no Haitian, Cuban or French Revolution, nor was it the Great Indian “Mutiny” of 1857. But it did demonstrate the power of the working class over elites, who showed they were cut off from reality.
The three main political parties of Britain endorsed the UK remaining in the European Union. They were backed by big business. Two hundred of Great Britain’s top business leaders called on the public to vote to stay in the EU.
Meanwhile, labour leaders representing 52 of the country’s largest trade unions, threw their lot in with the elites.
Leading up to the June 23 vote, virtually every pollster and pundit predicted the UK would vote to “remain” within the EU. Thus the “leave” victory was a shock for the political and media elites.
Appeals by 23 British Nobel Prize winners and 300 academics fell on deaf ears as the UK’s previously side-lined working class voted to raise the “Gates of Vienna” and stop their country from being swamped by refugees, camped on the other side of the English Channel in France.
The so-called, riff-raff that the leftist Labour Party had taken for granted as it appeased ethnic voters, came out to exercise their rights and took the elites by surprise.
The veteran leftist, author and filmmaker Tariq Ali labelled the EU as “Cuckoo Land”, saying Britain was better off without it. The Latin American TV network TeleSur quoted Ali branding the recent EU refugee deal with Turkey as “squalid”.
In the once-thriving mining town of Barnsley, where 70% of the population voted to leave the European Union, one middle-aged man summed it up as he spoke to Britain’s ITV network: “It’s to stop the Muslims from coming into this country. Simple as that.”
Few others dared to be so explicit. But neither before nor after the Brexit vote has the political and media elite dared to discuss the elephant in the room – radical Islam.
The fear of being labelled racist may silence many for now. But in the future there will be an ultra right-wing backlash in which innocent Muslims may well suffer.
I remember the fallout when former British foreign secretary Jack Straw in 2006 asked one of his constituents to remove her burka while speaking to him. He was accused of “thinly veiled racism” and his fate gave the elites one of many cues to tiptoe around such issues.
But trust ordinary Britons to be appalled at how their country was being reshaped to accommodate medieval values, not imported by Muslim immigrants, but entrenched in the values their British-born children were being taught at school.
The UK is not alone. From India to Myanmar; France to the Central African Republic, ordinary people are angry at Islamism.
As as a result, innocent Muslims suffer while their radical leaders gloat at this “proof” of their predictions that the ‘“kuffar”, non-Muslims, are enemies of Islam.
If Muslim leaders do not acknowledge the flaunting of radical Islam on the streets and in the workplaces of Europe’s cities, then Brexit is just the beginning.
Is blocking off streets in Paris and Delhi for Friday prayers the best way for Muslims to display our faith? It’s time to take stock, but is anyone listening?
June 23, 2016
The West is bowing to Radical Islam
June 22, 2016
Tarek Fatah
The Toronto Sun
Almost 10 years ago, Maclean’s magazine published an essay by Mark Steyn titled, “The future belongs to Islam”.
In it, he suggested, “the West is growing old and enfeebled, and lacks the will to rebuff those who would supplant it.” It was an extract from Steyn’s then best-selling book America Alone, where he concluded, “It’s the end of the world as we’ve known it.”
Steyn wrote: “We are witnessing the end of the late 20th-century progressive welfare democracy. The children and grandchildren of those fascists and republicans who waged a bitter civil war for the future of Spain now shrug when a bunch of foreigners blow up their capital. Too sedated even to sue for terms, they capitulate instantly.”
There was an outcry among Canada’s Islamists, who took Steyn and Maclean’s to the Ontario and British Columbia Human Rights Commissions.
My fellow Sun columnist, Farzana Hassan, and I wrote a rejoinder in Maclean’s titled, “Mark Steyn has a right to be wrong.” Today, I recognize, Steyn was right and I was wrong.
If there were any doubts the West is abdicating its responsibility to stand up for Western values, the amateur attempts by the FBI to cover up the Islamist nature of the Orlando attack, removed them.
At first, the FBI refused to even mention the fact the Orlando jihadi was inspired by ISIS, but after criticism, released the text of his 911 calls, but not the audio.
It replaced the word “Allah” with “‘God”, despite knowing precise words matter in truth-telling.
It was clearly an attempt to make the attack appear homophobic, not Islamist.
President Barack Obama and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton deflected attention from the obvious Islamic nature of the terrorism to a debate about gun control.
An FBI spokesman did the same when he downplayed the role of Islamism in the attack, editorializing that the killer, “does not represent the religion of Islam, but a perverted view, which based on what we know today, was inspired by extremist killers.”
In Toronto, Premier Kathleen Wynne, Canada’s first openly gay premier, also refused to address the Islamist nature of the attack, saying, “one cannot fight homophobia with Islamphobia”, at a vigil for the Orlando victims.
This is nonsense. Orlando was an act of Islamic terror and of Islamofascism, a doctrine of hatred towards the West and what it stands for, including LGBTQ rights.
It holds secular liberal democracy in contempt, hates non-Muslims, degrades women and is racist towards non-Arabs, especially black Africans.
It is a supremacist death cult that has the end times as its ultimate goal.
Chia Barsen, a 32-year old Canadian Marxist, was 10 when his family fled Islamic Iran, political refugees escaping the murderous rule of its barbaric ayatollahs. Commenting on the liberal left’s reaction to the Orlando massacre, Barsen wrote on his blog:
“Blaming guns for the Islamist murder of 49 people in the Orlando gay club, is like saying that Zyklon B gas was the cause of the Holocausts and not the Nazis. Gun control is a clear and present issue in the U.S. and there are countless episodes of shootings in the U.S. to justify the removal of all guns (not just automatic weapons), from the streets.
“However, piggybacking on the gun control debate and not making any mention of the threat of Political Islam and Islamism, is the furthering of a political agenda and not simple ignorance or apathy.”
Exactly.
June 20, 2016
Admiral (Retd) James Lyons slams President Obama. Claims, “Muslim Brotherhood has Infiltrated U.S. National Security Agencies”
Retired Admiral James Lyons, former Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, accuses President Barack Obama of treason in this speech delivered to the Center for Security Policy on January 28, 2015.
Admiral ‘Ace’ Lyons also alleges that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the highest levels of the American government and are behind many U.S. policies that have been Implemented by the Obama Administration.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fao2o0df6n4fsix/Admiral%20%28Retd%29%20James%20Lyons%20slams%20Obama.%20%27Muslim%20Brotherhood%20has%20Infiltrated%20US%20Security%20Agencies%27.mp4?raw=1
June 18, 2016
Unadulterated Hindu Hatred oozes out of Theodore Shoebat’s Sewer-shaped Mouth
Theodore Shoebat is the son of Arab Christian zealot Walid Shoebat and the two run their hate-filled Christian preaching with a medieval zeal that is unparalleled. In this outburst Shoebat belches out unheard hatred towards Hindus, referring to them as “bastards” and hopes India is invaded and all Hindu Gods are destroyed, yearning for a return of the Portuguese to Hindustan to sort out them Hindus. Listen to the hatred and let it be a lesson to all of us to never ever take this route.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lhokc6mhdfpey03/Hindu%20Hatred%20by%20Theodore%20Shoebat.mp4?raw=1
June 16, 2016
City of Toronto Poster depicts White men as Racist and Black women in Hijab as Victims
June 16, 2016
Tarek Fatah
The Toronto Sun
This poster has been placed on most of Toronto’s public transit stations.
Within hours of the Orlando Islamic terrorist attack, the Islamist groups in Canada and the U.S.A. sent out ‘how-to’ guides to avoid scrutiny of Islamist activity and turn around the anger against the jihad by making Muslims as the victims, not the dead and maimed gays of Florida.
It had its effect. Anger against ISIS and jihad dissipated and soon the tragedy was turned into an issue of gun control and the cheap slogan “homophobia cannot be fought with Islamophobia.”
What shocked me is how this type of manipulation also seems to be popular with the City of Toronto where, before the attack in Orlando, the city teamed up with the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI) to launch a campaign against “Islamophobia.”
In a press release on Tuesday, OCASI revealed, “The City of Toronto and OCASI are launching a Toronto public education campaign to address xenophobia, Islamophobia, and anti-immigrant sentiments.”
It quoted Councillor Joe Cressy of Trinity-Spadina saying “OCASI has an extensive history of working with refugees and understand the barriers they face to integration. We appreciate their insights.”
One of the first outcomes of OCASI’s “insights” was a poster that shows a white man confronting a black Muslim woman in hijab, telling her: “Go back to where you come from,” to which the black hijabi woman replies, “Where, North York?”
In one sweep the City of Toronto depicted every white man as a racist bigot and perpetuated the victimhood of Muslims, a goal of all Islamists worldwide who hate the West.
The question to Cressy is this: If you had to show a white male, then why didn’t you put your own face on the poster? Why leave it to an actor?
Or perhaps OCASI could have asked Mayor John Tory to do the honours of being the white racist male?
I am no denier of white privilege in our society and have taken on four white friends in a debate on this subject, so before the allegation of me being Uncle Tom is thrown my way (which I am sure it will), let me state the following: This is the most offensive poster designed by the City of Toronto in years.
Its intention seems to be to cover up the crimes of Islamists and distract Canadians from seeing the real threat to our society — Islamofacism, not so-called Islamophobia.
My son-in-law is white, so are the husbands of three of my nieces. My first boss in Canada was white and my editors at the Sun are white men. This poster is a slap in the face of Tory and all the decent, white males who have stood up for equal rights over the last century.
Bring it down, John Tory, because you are a good man.
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