US Democrats smear oilsands with nuisance lawsuit. Don’t count on Trudeau or Notley to defend us.
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Justin Trudeau loves the U.S. Democrats. He went to the White House to campaign for them when Barack Obama was in office. He brought all of his personal friends with him, including his mother and in-laws, and all his liberal party fundraising friends. And when Hillary Clinton ran for office, the rest of the world assumed she would win.
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Tonight, Democrats smear the oil sands again, this time with a nuisance lawsuit.
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But don't count on Justin Trudeau or Rachel Notley to defend us.
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It's October 26, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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I mean, he loved going down to the White House when Barack Obama was in power and they overlapped.
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He didn't bother bringing Canada's trade minister or energy minister with him to the party,
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And if you can believe it, he brought his mother and his in-laws and all his liberal party fundraising friends
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because in many ways Barack Obama was sort of shallow like Trudeau, all about style, not about substance.
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Remember this whole video here, the selfie stick?
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And when Hillary Clinton ran for office, same thing.
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Trudeau, like the rest of the world, just assumed Hillary Clinton would win.
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So senior personnel from the Democratic Party came to Canada in 2015
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to take senior positions in Justin Trudeau's Ottawa campaign team.
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If a Canadian conservative ever brought up top Republicans, say Steve Bannon, to run a Canadian campaign,
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it would be all the media up here talked about.
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But when Democrats bring in their senior guns, well, it's called clever and savvy.
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Justin Trudeau and his liberals love the U.S. Democrats.
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And they've never, not once, ever spoken out against a policy that is central to Democrats these days,
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When Hillary Clinton first looked at the Keystone XL pipeline, it made obvious sense.
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Because Canadian oil would replace Venezuelan oil imports to the U.S.
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It was obviously environmentally superior than shipping oil by train.
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It helped relieve the pipeline shortage in the U.S. Bakken geographical region in North Dakota.
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But as you can see by this chart here, over the years of delay,
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she realized which way the wind was blowing in the U.S. Democrats.
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The party was colonized by environmental extremists,
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just like Trudeau let Gerald Butts, an anti-oil-sans lobbyist, colonize Canada's Liberal Party.
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I mean, remember this. I've shown you this before.
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Here's Gerald Butts, just before he ran Trudeau's campaign, talking about oil.
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We think that the oil sands have been expanded too rapidly
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without a serious plan for environmental remediation in the first place.
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So that's why we don't think it's up to us to decide whether there should be another route for a pipeline.
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Because the real alternative is not an alternative route.
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And on the U.S. side, there's a big U.S. Democrat named Tom Steyer out of San Francisco
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who has poured tens of millions of dollars into the Democrats,
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supporting various candidates in return for a promise from them to demonize Canada's oil sands oil.
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Steyer had come to Mayflower to gather ammunition for what may be the biggest fight of his life,
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trying to stop the Keystone XL pipeline from being built.
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It would stretch from the Canadian tar sands across the U.S. to refineries on the Gulf.
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What the true argument is that it's going to be more oil not from the Middle East.
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But it doesn't mean it's more oil to the United States not from the Middle East.
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It just means there's more oil not from the Middle East in the world market.
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Steyer says the bigger climate issue is how the tar sands oil is recovered from the Canadian tundra.
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This is a gigantic mining operation in the middle of nowhere.
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They want to take production by 2025 more than double it.
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And your job is to make sure that never comes out of the ground.
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Well, look, from my point of view, I'm not a scientist.
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The scientists say it would be devastatingly terrible for the 7 billion people on the Earth if it does.
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Yeah, so that's Tom Steyer, the number one donor to the Democrats.
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He actually donates even more than George Soros, who also gives a lot of money to the Democrats.
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But he prefers to give directly to environmental lobby groups, street gangs, you know.
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So my point is Trudeau has colonized the Canadian Liberal Party with environmentalists the same way Steyer and Soros have colonized the Democrats.
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And they all made the Canadian oil sands their number one enemy.
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And neither Justin Trudeau nor Rachel Notley has said a hard word when Barack Obama killed the Keystone XL pipeline shortly after Trudeau was elected because they hated the pipeline too.
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Our position on the Keystone was that if we ship unprocessed bitumen to Texas, according to this government and to the American government,
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we will give tens of thousands of Alberta jobs to Texas, not to Albertans.
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So, yeah, Canadian Liberals and NDPers united with U.S. Democrats to demonize and tax Alberta and Saskatchewan oil and to keep OPEC oil flowing just fine.
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And one of the very first things he did was reverse the Obama-Clinton blockade of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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And it's a good thing he did because Trump seems to be the only leader around these days who can get a pipeline built.
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Exxon sued in the United States for allegedly low-balling Alberta oil sands carbon costs.
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A lawsuit filed this week in the U.S. court says ExxonMobil has dramatically underestimated the risks its oil sands assets face from efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
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The lawsuit, filed after a three-year investigation by the New York Attorney General's office, charges that Exxon deliberately low-balled by $30 billion the carbon costs faced by 14 different Alberta oil sands operations it runs through its subsidiary Imperial Oil.
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So just to be clear, this is not a real lawsuit by investors who think Exxon did something wrong.
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It is rigorously managed, scrutinized, audited, governed, controlled.
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This is a political lawsuit by a bunch of left-wing attorneys general who all are trying to run for governor or senator or even president in the Democratic Party of today,
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where you each have to outdo each other hating oil and gas.
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And not any oil and gas, not opaque oil and gas, oil sands.
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So it's really Tom Steyer's people pulling a stunt.
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Let me read some more from the story in the Financial Post.
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The legal action is a civil suit arguing Exxon defrauded investors by disguising its carbon liabilities.
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None of its statements has been proven in court and a statement of defense has not yet been filed.
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So these left-wingers are trying to force, through a lawsuit, the recognition of a fairy tale that carbon dioxide is costly and Exxon is lying when it doesn't agree that carbon taxes are good and oil is bad.
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It's really a first-year university debating club resolution, but with the resources of various departments of justice backing it up.
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These basis allegations are a product of closed-door lobbying by special interests, political opportunism, and the attorney general's inability to admit that a three-year investigation has uncovered no wrongdoing, the company said.
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If you are an attorney general, and in New York, that is often the stepping stone to running for governor, you need to fundraise like crazy.
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And Tom Steyer has been waiving around tens of millions of dollars to Democrats anywhere who will fight the Keystone XL pipeline.
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The lawsuit alleges Exxon has for years told investors it was accounting for risks such as increasing carbon taxes and other regulatory measures meant to reduce oil demand and fight climate change.
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However, Exxon has proceeded using much lower estimates of such risks, called proxy costs, the claim says.
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It's saying if the whole world were to bring in punitive carbon taxes, and if everyone would stop using oil because of it, and if under these carbon taxes Exxon wasn't able to get an exemption, and if it was all shut down, then they could face higher costs than they're letting on.
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But of course, Exxon actually did manage to get a serious exemption, as all big companies did, from Rachel Notley's carbon tax.
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And now Justin Trudeau and Catherine McKenna are promising the same thing for their carbon tax.
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Look, carbon taxes always only tax little people.
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So Exxon is probably pretty accurate with their predictions.
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And look, if they're not, so their stock price will sink.
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And if shareholders are angry at their executives, they'll vote them out at their shareholders, meaning whatever.
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So the company's shareholders right now have already priced in all the information they think it's accurate.
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If they don't, they would sell their shares or short their stock.
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And Justin Trudeau and Catherine McKenna call carbon dioxide pollution.
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Some might even point out that Tom Sire himself made his millions in coal and oil.
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So I don't think he actually believes what he's saying.
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It's just a bunch of loser Democrats abusing their positions as attorneys general, abusing taxpayer resources to file nuisance suits.
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If you're a group of Democratic attorneys general and you're having a serious press conference about a lawsuit, you're probably not going to invite Al Gore.
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This is about extremist politics, not the law, not science.
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And by the way, hold that on the screen for a second there.
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That's the former attorney general in New York who was thrown out because of a Me Too allegation.
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This story here is actually from two years ago when Steinerman and the other attorneys general sued not only Exxon, but they actually sued, get this, a pro-energy think tank called the Competitive Enterprise Institute for what?
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For daring to disagree with the theory of man-made global warming.
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Seriously, that's all the Competitive Enterprise Institute does.
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I think they're smarter than Trudeau and Notley.
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I think they probably have as many lawyers as Trudeau and Notley.
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Because this lawsuit isn't really about the law.
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So where's our side of the PR, of the politics?
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Where are our defenders in, not in the court of law, in the court of public opinion?
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When Canada's pampered Quebec dairy cartel, the millionaires who convinced the federal government
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to jack up prices of milk and cheese and yogurt for all of us, when that industry is faced
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with the possibility that it might have to lower its artificially high prices because
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Donald Trump wants to be able to sell American dairy into Canada, which would lower prices
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for all of us, well, Andrew Scheer and Justin Trudeau trip over each other to promise the
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I'm just saying to morally come to the defense of the oil sands, where are Scheer and Trudeau
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Not to defend some artificial privilege, but to simply defend Canada's reputation, Alberta's
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Why isn't she flying down to Manhattan to rebut these lies?
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He loves going down to the schmooze, work his magic on his Democrat friends.
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I mean, they love going to the states on taxpayers' expense, but they haven't even issued a statement
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The answer is because none of them actually care about the oil sands.
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They actually, if you press them, don't like the oil sands.
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Neither has moved the pipelines forward an inch.
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Justin Trudeau bought the existing Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline and overpaid by about
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a billion dollars just to shut the company up from complaining about how its expansion
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When the federal court just ruled against the Trans Mountain and delayed its construction
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by years, Trudeau said he won't even appeal that ruling.
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He just spent $4.5 billion to not build a pipeline, not to build the pipeline, and Rachel
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If the answer is so obvious, I can't even believe I've taken 10 minutes to tell it to
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you, Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau just don't have a problem with this anti-oil sands
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I'm just wondering why Jason Kenney and Andrew Scheer are silent too.
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How would you feel if you were told that in order for you to go to heaven, this is what
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you needed to wear, that in order for you to please your God, this is what you need to
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Even if you choose to wear it because you want to go to heaven and you don't want to burn
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in hell, you're not really given much of a choice, are you?
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You know, we have to make sure that we understand that that's the mindset of the women that are
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And it is our responsibility in this kind of society that we're living in today to speak
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up against those kinds of barbaric, misogynist, modesty culture ideals.
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That is Yasmin Mohammed, who used to wear a full face obscuring niqab, talking about the
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niqab, the burqa, the chador, various varieties of a garment that only women are asked to wear
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in Islam, and especially in the case of the chador and the niqab, to totally obliterate
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the face of the woman who is compelled to wear it.
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This is in the news again because, of course, the new government of Quebec, which is ruled
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by the upstart Coalition Avenir de Quebec party, has made one of their priorities banning
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Just to be clear, they're not going to ban the burqa in the streets, only for those who
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work in the government, both front lines dealing with staff and behind the scenes, are not going
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to be allowed to wear ostentatious religious gear like that.
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Joining us now to talk about this news is the lady you saw speaking on Twitter a moment
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ago, Yasmin Mohammed, who joins us now via Skype.
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Well, it's a pleasure, and of course, it's nice to talk with you, to hear what you say.
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You're a thoughtful person, but it's also nice to see your face because when you talk
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to someone, you look at their face, you look at their eyes, you look at their facial expressions.
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I mean, so much of the context, so much of the feeling and tone in our communication, you
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Someone could say the same word, and if they're winking or blinking or smiling or scowling,
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When you take away someone's face, you can't even understand them, or at least you can't
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In fact, research shows that almost 90% of communication is nonverbal.
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So, you know, even though when I was completely covered in black, you could hear my words,
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you could hear the things I was saying, but we weren't really communicating effectively.
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And you say it's nice to see my face, it's really nice to be able to show my face and
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to be able to interact with society as an equal, as opposed to being erased, being hidden
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behind this garb and feeling like I'm a ghost, just walking amongst people and I can see them
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And it's really horrible for the person that wears this portable sensory deprivation chamber.
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Now, the niqab has a little slit for the eyes, but the chador, if I'm getting my terminology
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right, it's sort of got a mesh in front, so you can't even, you can't even really see
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I was going to say, I wore the, these are just different styles.
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So there's Afghani style and there's Iranian and there's, you know, Arab.
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And the kind that I wore was the Saudi Arabian style.
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So it was, it was actually a black cloth covering my face entirely.
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That's in, that's, that is absolutely dehumanizing.
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It was, it was still totally obstructing every single one of my five senses.
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It's so intuitive, we don't even think about it.
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It's so natural that when we talk to someone, if they're not making eye contact, just for
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If they're looking at you, but then they look away when they say something, is it because
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I mean, eye contact is so, are they paying attention?
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And, and that's, that's a poetic phrase, but it's true.
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It's why, it's why we have the right to face our accusers in court.
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If you're giving testimony in court and you can't see someone's face, are they shaking?
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Do they have a facial tick like a poker tell when they start to lie?
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It's, talking to someone behind a mask is so counter to human nature.
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It's got nothing to do with race or religion or nationality.
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It just, as humans, we look at each other's face.
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The face, it, it, it reflects so much about our, our attitude, about our body, even.
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I, the idea that you would just say to a woman, you can't show your face.
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Everyone's got to know in their bones that's wrong.
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Well, I mean, we've talked before about your own journey.
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We talked before about how, and I don't propose to get into the details of the now,
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but I would encourage our viewers to go back and, and you've come on the show before.
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We did an extended interview about your own personal story, about how you were in a marriage
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with actually a terrorist, incredibly, and how he kept you basically in a cage.
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And I would, in fact, we'll put a link to that other view, interview at the bottom of this page
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But I want to talk about where you are now, because you have become a champion for women
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who were still wearing that one person body bag.
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Can I read the headline of your latest essay on this subject, which is published on a commentary
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Let me just read the title of it, and we'll show it for our viewers if they want to find
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And isn't that, doesn't that get straight to it?
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Here in the West, feminists are worrying about man spreading on a subway.
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Fellas who take up too much room, people are worried about mansplaining, and guys always
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have their own control, and that, compared to the real feminist crises of the world, which
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What I'm saying in that article is really, I'm asking all of these feminists that are interested
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in human rights and are interested in women's equality to imagine that they could reach back
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200 years or so to suffragettes, to women that were fighting for their basic freedoms.
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And I want them to know that those women exist today, that there are women in Saudi Arabia
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And what those women are doing now is they're trying to fight back.
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They are a very small minority, but they are trying to fight back.
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And so what they'll do is they'll post videos on Twitter of themselves burning their naqab,
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And in Iran, they are forced to cover their hair.
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So they'll tie a hijab at the end of a stick, and they'll just wave it in the street in resistance
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For posting pictures of themselves online with their faces uncovered and with their hair
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So these women exist that just want their basic freedoms.
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And instead of the people over here joining hands with those freedom fighters and helping
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them and supporting them in their fight against this oppression, we end up doing the exact
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Marks and Spencer, a department store in the United Kingdom, is selling hijabs for three-year-old
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I mean, it's reached a tipping point, and now a hijab is almost treated like a feminist
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You know, I want to disagree very slightly with one thing you said.
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You said, if we could talk to suffragettes a century ago, obviously there's a comparison
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in that women in the West, even here in Canada, did not have full equality.
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They didn't have the right to vote until about a century ago.
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But women had most other freedoms than they could walk in the streets, they could drive
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I grant you, there were some limits, but it's much worse than just going back in time a century.
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I mean, the women in Saudi Arabia and Iran and these other places, frankly, the fact that
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they must hide their face is a small humiliation and punishment compared to, for example, the
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outrageous laws dealing with, I'm sorry to bring it up, but rape is that it takes, you
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know, four witnesses to condemn a man, that a man's testimony was doubled out of a woman.
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I mean, the niqab, the chador, the burqa is awful, but it is one of a suite of horrific
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I'm sorry, I didn't mean to go down that tangent, but the analogy is far, far worse than just
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So what I'm trying to say is that these huge, there are big fights that we could be fighting
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There are bigger fights than trying to figure out if air conditioning is sexist or not.
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Like these women want big fights, but they are, they don't know where to look because
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most of those big fights have already been won in the West.
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And if they haven't been won, then there are already people working on them and willing to
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help women that are trying to, to make themselves equal members of society.
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But my point here is that these women are acting like they want equality and they want
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freedom for women, but instead of helping the women that are fighting for their freedoms,
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Because when you put a hijab on Barbie, who is supposed to be an icon of femininity and
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feminism, when you put a hijab in gap ads, when you put a hijab on every flat surface,
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what you're doing is you are supporting the conservative fundamentalist Muslims that these
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brave women are fighting against and losing their lives to, to fight against these oppressive
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And then us here in the West, where we should be supporting these women, we're actively supporting
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You know, I, I think there's an obvious reason why.
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And I think it's feminists, especially white liberal feminists are brave when it comes to
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taking on white male oppressors, except for there's just not that many white male oppressors,
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I mean, if you're going after man, man spreading or air conditioning is sexist because guys like
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to be cooler than gals or whatever the thesis is, that's easy.
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But to take on Muslim men who are abusing Muslim women, that's my view, is that it's a, it's
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a gender apartheid culture where men put women in these, in these one person body bags.
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That is terrifying to a white liberal woman who is terrified of being called racist, who's
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terrified of being racist, terrified of being, you know, ethnocentric, terrified of, you know,
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there's a lot of things that scare these white liberal feminist women.
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And so they'll just go, you know, argue over trivia in the West, rather than stand in solidarity
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with Iran, Saudi Arabia, and these other countries.
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I think they just don't want to be called racist.
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And they lack the courage that they should have.
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And everything that you've said, like how terrified they would be and how much courage
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it requires, that's true for the women over there too.
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In fact, it's more true for the women over there because they could actually be killed
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So if you're here in the free West and you're, and you want to call yourself a feminist,
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but you're too scared to take on feminist fights, then I don't know if you should be calling
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I mean, really, what's the worst that could happen to you?
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Someone falsely calls you racist and you can say, no, I'm not racist.
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I support women of color, if you want to use that phrase.
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I mean, what's the worst thing that would happen to you if you're a liberal white feminist
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in Brooklyn, New York, who says, I support women in Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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Someone calls you a mean name on Twitter, but that's the level of lack of commitment.
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I want to ask you, though, and I appreciate your time.
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It's great to see you again and to see your face and to see your eyes.
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Since we've last, since we spoke to you last time, you have had some success in making allies
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It looks to me, at least as an outsider who follows you, that you're making allies and
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maybe you're having a bit of an impact and your story is being heard.
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Can you give our viewers, especially those who watched that first autobiographical interview
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we did with you, can you tell us what you've been up to lately and if there's any projects
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But can you tell me what else you've been up to?
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Because I know this has really become a cause for you.
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I was just recently invited to Harvard to speak for the Students for Liberty.
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And now I have a partnership with Women's March for All, who are the women's march group that
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started up to counter the other women's march group that had a hijab and a Sharia-supporting
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So a new women's march has started up and I'm partnered with them.
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And yeah, I've been very lucky that there are a lot of people that, like you said at
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the beginning of this interview, you have to just know that these things are wrong.
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I mean, I'm not saying anything that is outrageous or out of the ordinary.
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Of course, when you see somebody covered in a black cloth, you know that that must not be
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good for the person that's hidden inside of there.
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And it's not good for the rest of society either.
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I mean, for all of the reasons you mentioned, but then also safety concerns as well.
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So in the Muslim world, what is very common is there are a lot of thefts and rapes and
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kidnappings and even a suicide bombing done by people wearing niqab and, you know, trying
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I did not know there was something called the Women's March for All.
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And I'm delighted to learn that it's in counter position to Linda Sarsour, who was part of
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And our viewers will know that we've been following that file when she came to Canada
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I'm going to keep my eyes peeled for what Women's March for All does, because I'm very
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I also seem to recall you were doing some things with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who's also just
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And before we turn the cameras on, you said that your new book will be out in 2019 called
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That's actually one of the proper definitions of the word Islam, right?
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So that's a little bit of a sort of a hint in there for people that are in the know that,
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And when that book is ready for us to promote, when it's on Amazon or another website that we
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can tell our viewers about, I know you're still putting the finishing touches on it with
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Let us know, because that is very interesting to us.
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And I know a lot of our viewers really started to wake up to these subjects when we started
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to work with Raheel Raza at the Sun News Network.
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And I look forward to working with you to get the word out about your project.
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Thanks for weighing in on the burqa and these other things.
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And let's not let so much time pass until we have you back on the show again.
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And of course, when her book is ready, we'll let you know about that.
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And if we see other op-eds by her, we'll also take the opportunity to bring her back.
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about the left pretending to care about the
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Well, Dawn writes, Atwood admitted she actually based her dystopian novel on the Iranian theocracy.
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What she didn't say, but what can easily be surmised, is that she did not have the courage
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to criticize Islam, so she went the coward's route and opted to criticize Christianity instead.
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You know, I thought about that quite a bit, and I've talked about this in earlier shows
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In 1984, which is 1985, around then, which is when Atwood wrote this, I don't think that
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I don't think the Salman Rushdie thing was for a couple years, for example.
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So I don't think fear of radical Islam was a big deal in the West in the mid-80s.
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I mean, yeah, there was terrorism in Libya and Lebanon and things like that, and some
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airplanes were hijacked, but it wasn't a domestic threat.
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Really, Muslim terrorism in North America was pretty much unheard of.
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So I don't think it was fear of Islam, and I don't even think it was fear of being called
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I think it was more hatred, a self-hatred, just the same way all the leftist elites backed
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the Soviets in the Cold War against their own country.
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I think Margaret Atwood backed Iran or the other against their own country.
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I don't think Margaret Atwood really understood Islam, other than it put women in bags.
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I think it was just, like the Soviets, a threat to capitalist, free, Western, Christian
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And she knew she hated that, so she'd back whoever the rival was.
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Liza writes, if I wanted to see women covered and oppressed this way, I would live in Islamic
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Well, I think we've given more than an inch already, would you not say?
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Not as much as in the United Kingdom or Europe, but I think we've given more than an inch.
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By the way, as you know, there have been lawsuits successful that women are allowed to wear full-face
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And there have been attempts to have it allowed in regular court, too.
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If I was on trial as a criminal accused, God forbid, may it never happen, and some accuser
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was wearing a full-face obscuring niqab, and she was the accuser, and I couldn't look my
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accuser in the eye, and the judge couldn't look my accuser in the eye when I was being
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accused of a crime by someone wearing a mask, I would walk right out of that court.
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On the interview with Joel Pollack, Cam writes,
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you referenced the Unabomber as an environmental extremist and leftist.
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I just wanted to push back a bit on your assertion.
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He was certainly motivated by the destruction of the environment, especially being triggered
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by his favorite spot in nature being destroyed by industry.
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But if you read into his manifesto, it's apparently clear he was not motivated by any left-wing
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ideology, but in fact, his critic of society was against leftism.
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Okay, well, I haven't read the Unabomber's rants at length, so I just don't know what
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to make of your criticism, but I'm happy to air it.
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I know that there is a kind of sentimental anti-industry philosophy.
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Sometimes he laments the passing of the nature and, you know, the big trees were allies and
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It goes all the way back to Ned Ludd and Luddism and the psychological cultural crisis brought
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about by the Industrial Revolution where people were dislocated.
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And then a machine would come along and do what 100 people used to do and they were uprooted.
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And some of these craftsmen had been, you know, I mean, the loom, the mechanical loom.
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How many generations, how many centuries did craftsmen make things by hand one at a time?
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And then a machine comes along and improves the economy and creates prosperity and plenty.
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And now it's not just the aristocracy who can afford socks and everyone else has like one
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That's wonderful for prosperity and lifting us all out of sheer poverty.
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But it's very dislocating to people who were replaced by machines.
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And of course, it happened the same on the farms.
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And, you know, so, yeah, there has been a kind of sentimental conservatist Luddism.
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I mean, look, I am a bit, I'm not a Luddite when it comes to technology.
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A Luddite implies someone who refuses to use it.
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But I also acknowledge, even today, as our traditional customs of privacy and alone time
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are being destroyed by the technology of our era, and I find it dislocating, and maybe
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Well, imagine what it was like in the Industrial Revolution.
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When the British Army had more soldiers deployed to protecting factories that were being torched
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and destroyed by Luddites than they had to defending against Napoleon.
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All right, Mike writes, I want to say how thankful and supportive I am of the whole rebel team.
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My idea for a 10-minute blurb would be on the shootings and attacks on our service members
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and society in the last year or two, and the common occurrence on race and religion we
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keep seeing on the daily, the location of these crimes are recurring, and whether or
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I trust your journalism more than anything else these days.
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I'll be honest with you, I don't know exactly what you're referring to.
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Maybe you're talking about the crime spree, the shooting, stabbing spree in Toronto.
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And yeah, I think we could do more coverage of that.
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I mean, we have limited people, resources, but it's a good idea.
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I thought at first you were referring to some of our coverage in the United Kingdom, which
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This time, Candace Malcolm, Andrew Lawton, Avi Amini from Australia, Cassandra Fairbanks
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So I feel like the rebel led the charge there, and I know that's the United Kingdom, and people
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say you've got to focus more on Canada, and I agree, but occasionally there are huge stories
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overseas that impact us, and in this case are a premonition of what's to come for us if
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By the way, if you want to see more from the UK, go to TommyTrial.com.
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I know I was away for two days, but thanks to my colleagues for filling in for me.
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I have no plans to go anywhere just yet, but I should tell you, if you are in Alberta
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or close to it, why not go to TheRebelLive.com?
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TheRebelLive.com, because on Saturday, November 10th, we're all coming to Calvary.
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We've done The Rebel Live in Toronto a few times.
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We're going to have about 500 folks, maybe more.
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We got keynote speakers on a range of subjects.
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The Oil Sands, Notley, Lindsay Shepard on free speech.
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We invited both Andrew Scheer and Maxime Bernier to come give a talk.
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Until Monday, keep watching our videos on the YouTube side.
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On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night, and