Justin Trudeau appointed pro-Hamas Lobbyist Omar Al-Gabra to Cabinet, and he refused to say yes to a simple question: would he condemn Hamas? Ezra Levant explains why this is so bizarre, and why it's not surprising.
00:05:45.340And I'll show you proof that he has literally been a lobbyist for Hamas and Hezbollah to get those two terrorist groups decriminalized in Canada.
00:05:59.360Justin Trudeau just appointed a Saudi-born extremist, Omar al-Gabra, to be parliamentary secretary to the foreign minister.
00:06:06.560He's now in charge of Canadian consular affairs, our consulates around the world.
00:06:10.800With thousands of Syrian migrants flooding into Canada and the risk of Islamic terrorism at an all-time high, this is a recipe for disaster.
00:06:18.900You see, Omar al-Gabra says that terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah are not actually terrorist groups.
00:06:25.280He doesn't think they should be illegal in Canada.
00:06:27.900He doesn't think Canadian journalists should even be able to call them terrorists.
00:06:31.940He even opposes having a Canadian no-fly list.
00:06:35.900Which is curious, because he himself was once stopped by U.S. agents when he wanted to fly to the States.
00:06:41.720And this guy is now in charge of Canadian consular affairs.
00:06:45.120He's the deputy, really, to the foreign minister.
00:06:47.180He's an official parliamentary secretary.
00:07:07.800Here, I'm going to give you the facts proving every assertion I've just made and more.
00:07:13.240Omar al-Gabra was born in Saudi Arabia to Syrian parents.
00:07:16.040So, basically, the two most fascist, pro-terrorist places in the world.
00:07:20.600Now, it's possible that he couldn't wait to get out of there and come to Canada and embrace our values of liberty, equality of men and women, separation of mosque and state, things like that.
00:07:31.560Once in Canada, he ran the Canadian Arab Federation, a group that is so anti-Semitic, it had its government funding cut off.
00:07:40.120They sued, but the courts ruled that, in fact, it was reasonable to call them anti-Semitic.
00:07:45.280Here, let me quote the Federal Court of Appeal.
00:07:47.640There are mixed views about what constitutes anti-Semitism and whether the Federation's conduct could be perceived to be anti-Semitic.
00:07:56.580The Federal Court found the record was replete with articles and statements that supported the minister's characterization of the Federation.
00:08:28.000Here's his announcement declaring that he was taking a Canadian newspaper chain to the press council for the newspaper daring to add the word terrorist into wire stories to describe terrorists.
00:08:40.920Yeah, al-Gabra isn't on Canada's side.
00:08:44.000A few years ago, Ontario police chiefs wanted to go to Israel to study counterterrorism from the people who do it every day.
00:08:54.740Sending the heads of Ontario police chiefs to benefit from Israeli security experience is like sending a Canadian parliamentarian delegation to learn from Saddam Hussein about democracy.
00:09:33.680It's like a community party, a walk with a bit of a festival at the end, sort of like the St. Patrick's Day parade, but for Jews and people who like Israel.
00:09:41.440Like a party in Little Italy, or like Chinese New Year.
00:09:44.800It's something that happens in Toronto.
00:09:54.380A show of solidarity for a foreign state currently in the midst of an unresolved conflict, a country that is conducting a brutal and the longest contemporary military occupation in the world.
00:10:06.500So he wanted Toronto officials like the police chief to boycott the Jewish march.
00:10:16.740He loves calling Israel brutal while he defends Muslim terrorist groups.
00:10:21.300This isn't just stuff he said when he was the leader of the anti-Semitic Canadian Arab Federation way back when.
00:10:27.440I mean, just last year, when Israel finally struck back at the Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, who had been raining rockets down on Israeli civilians,
00:10:36.200al-Gabra wrote a Facebook post calling Israel, once again, blind and cruel.
00:10:42.580But not a word against the Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians that started it.
00:10:47.440In fact, when the arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat died, Omar al-Gabra announced that he was in mourning.
00:11:20.620He even went to the Wahhabi mosque in Montreal, the one funded by Saudi Arabia, fingered by the Pentagon as a recruiting mosque for terrorists.
00:11:28.560Here, listen to Trudeau boast about that.
00:11:30.920I spend a lot of time running from the Bangladeshi to the Pakistani to the Maghreb to the Asuna Wahhabi mosques.
00:11:41.560I cover all the different communities.
00:11:45.820It's incredible what al-Gabra got Trudeau to do, even to dress up like a medieval desert tribesman.
00:11:53.400Trudeau prayed a Muslim prayer called the Shahada, which under Sharia law is the requirement to convert to Islam.
00:12:01.740Now, I don't believe that Trudeau converted to Islam, but al-Gabra knows what symbols to use,
00:12:07.420like this picture of Trudeau's mother and wife wearing hijabs.
00:12:12.480Well, the campaign worked, and al-Gabra, after the election, was given his reward.
00:12:17.040And now Trudeau says he'll immediately withdraw our CF-18 jets from the Allied Coalition Against the Islamic State Terrorists.
00:12:25.560And Trudeau says he'll repeal the law stripping Canadian citizenship from convicted terrorists who were dual citizens.
00:12:31.900And Trudeau says he's in favor of Muslim women wearing face-obscuring niqabs in citizenship courts.
00:12:38.280But what's next, now that al-Gabra is a junior foreign minister himself?
00:12:42.880How will Syrian migrants to Canada be vetted?
00:12:45.940Will al-Gabra's view that Hamas and Hezbollah aren't really terrorists,
00:12:50.620will that view govern how we vet Muslim migrants?
00:12:54.040What role will al-Gabra have in making those decisions?
00:12:56.900After all, he's in charge of the consulates.
00:12:59.060How about our relations with Muslim extremist countries?
00:13:02.640Here's what al-Gabra told Al Jazeera before the election.