Juno News - December 24, 2019


The Candice Malcolm Show: The religious persecution of Christians


Episode Stats

Length

12 minutes

Words per Minute

171.73784

Word Count

2,126

Sentence Count

146

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

J.K. Rowling pushes back against the woke left, and then she gets cancelled by the woke Left. The Trudeau government admits they re looking into raising the carbon tax, just 2 months after an election where they pledged not to do so. And it s Christmas time, so we re going to talk about the most underreported story in the world, the religious persecution of Christians.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 J.K. Rowling pushes back against the woke left, and then she gets cancelled by the woke left.
00:00:04.780 The Trudeau government admits they're looking into raising the carbon tax
00:00:07.940 just two months after an election campaign where they pledged not to do so.
00:00:11.700 And it's Christmas time, so we're going to talk about the most under-reported story in the world,
00:00:15.520 the religious persecution of Christians.
00:00:17.920 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:25.340 Hi, everyone. Merry Christmas.
00:00:26.800 We're really looking forward to Christmas Day tomorrow, and before we get into that, though,
00:00:31.340 there's a couple of news stories that I really wanted to talk about.
00:00:33.760 First things first, J.K. Rowling tweeted out the following and caused a huge, huge stir online.
00:00:41.280 She said,
00:00:42.140 Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like.
00:00:45.280 Sleep with any consenting adult who will have you.
00:00:47.900 Live your best life in peace and security, but force women out of their job for stating that sex is real?
00:00:53.180 Hashtag I stand with Maya. Hashtag this is not a drill.
00:00:57.260 So the famous author of the Harry Potter series, who herself is a leftist,
00:01:01.760 who herself has constantly been promoting mass migration, open borders, against Brexit, you name it.
00:01:09.020 You know, she's on top of the social justice issues.
00:01:12.020 But on this issue, I was actually really surprised to see J.K. Rowling take the opposite perspective
00:01:16.760 and sort of turn a little bit on the sort of woke left here.
00:01:21.060 And so what this story is about is a woman named Maya Forstater.
00:01:25.940 Maya was fired from her job for basically pushing back against the woke culture
00:01:30.260 and standing up for traditional feminist rights.
00:01:33.500 Now, because of that, she gets called the sort of defamatory term TERF,
00:01:38.180 which stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminist.
00:01:41.580 It's sort of a slur that trans people throw towards feminists who are not completely in line
00:01:46.060 with their sort of latest iteration of LGBTQ rights.
00:01:51.200 And what this story is all about, though, it's not about gender identity.
00:01:54.580 It's not about people who wish to say that they identify as a woman,
00:01:59.520 even though they were born biologically as a man.
00:02:01.440 This is about biological sex.
00:02:04.100 And so it's not just gender that we're debating about anymore.
00:02:06.880 It's the biological aspects of sex.
00:02:10.240 And so Maya, she calls herself a feminist test case.
00:02:15.080 I lost my job over tweeting and writing about sex and gender identity
00:02:18.420 and sharing campaign material about the negative impacts
00:02:21.260 of a proposed policy of gender self-ID on women and girls.
00:02:26.120 I'm now taking the organization I worked for to the employment tribunal
00:02:30.040 for discriminating against me and my beliefs.
00:02:32.760 So the ruling came out on Friday and it came out originally against Maya.
00:02:37.840 And it was really, really a crazy case.
00:02:41.300 To most people watching, this is just way over the top.
00:02:44.520 It's pretty common sense that, sure, you can identify as a different gender if you want,
00:02:48.860 but you can't change your biological sex.
00:02:51.380 That's still rooted in biology.
00:02:52.560 Well, not according to this UK judge who's just set a precedent
00:02:54.840 that you can be fired for stating that.
00:02:56.980 And you even have someone who's on the left and of the left, J.K. Rowling,
00:03:01.900 saying, whoa, look, guys, you've gone too far.
00:03:04.780 And because of that, she basically got mobbed.
00:03:06.780 Now, you can see from J.K. Rowling's tweet, she has quite a bit of support.
00:03:09.620 Her tweet gained 190,000 likes.
00:03:12.800 But, I mean, you just sort of start scrolling through the replies here.
00:03:17.540 You really see how deranged the woke left is
00:03:20.120 when it comes to someone pushing back
00:03:22.460 against some of the more absurd arguments that they're making.
00:03:26.760 So, really, you know, in some ways, this is a good sign
00:03:30.700 because it shows that even people like J.K. Rowling,
00:03:32.920 who's a very high-profile mainstream leftist,
00:03:35.600 is, you know, kind of had enough of the whole shtick
00:03:37.880 of forcing and coercing people to say things that are not true,
00:03:42.500 that are not rooted in science and biology.
00:03:44.920 But then, on the other hand, looking at some of the replies here,
00:03:48.280 whew, wow, pretty mad, pretty crazy, crazy times.
00:03:53.280 Okay, let's move on.
00:03:54.120 So, this is a story exclusive over at TNC.news.
00:03:57.940 My colleague, Andrew Lawton, wrote about this.
00:04:01.060 So, the Trudeau government, Trudeau's new environment minister,
00:04:04.620 was over in Madrid at the climate conference over there
00:04:09.420 and basically said the opposite
00:04:12.140 of what the Trudeau government has been saying all along,
00:04:14.320 which is basically saying that the Trudeau government
00:04:16.280 is now looking into raising carbon taxes on Canadians.
00:04:20.260 And not just that, but also cancelling some of the rebates
00:04:22.860 that Canadians are supposed to be getting from that carbon tax.
00:04:26.040 So, here's the story.
00:04:27.340 Justin Trudeau's government is slashing carbon tax rebates
00:04:29.460 and provinces pushing back against the federal carbon tax.
00:04:32.260 The new environmental minister is also not ruling out
00:04:34.580 an increase to the carbon tax just two months after the federal election.
00:04:38.200 Justin Trudeau's mandate letter to Minister Jonathan Wilkinson
00:04:40.620 says the new minister should be strengthening existing
00:04:43.740 and introducing new greenhouse gas reduction measures
00:04:46.480 citing Canada's 2030 Paris Accord targets
00:04:49.940 and the 2050 goal of net zero emissions.
00:04:52.640 So, you know, I'm old enough to remember, what, three months ago
00:04:55.920 when the conservatives were accusing the Trudeau liberals
00:04:58.480 of hiding the fact that they were going to be increasing the carbon tax,
00:05:02.460 saying that it's inevitable that they would have to raise the carbon tax
00:05:05.380 just to meet their own targets.
00:05:07.780 And the mainstream media pushing back and basically saying
00:05:10.040 the conservatives are lying, the conservatives are being disingenuous.
00:05:14.540 Here's a report from Global at the time saying
00:05:16.300 new conservative party ad accused of deceiving Canadians over the carbon tax.
00:05:20.480 Well, it turns out that it was the liberals and the Trudeau government
00:05:23.560 that were deceiving Canadians and not the conservatives, as the media claimed.
00:05:30.000 Well, that's what you can expect from the mainstream media, completely dishonest.
00:05:33.900 Here's another exclusive over at tnc.news.
00:05:36.720 A Canadian grain retailer was charged over $10,000 in federal carbon taxes, over $10,000.
00:05:45.240 So we received this bill.
00:05:47.020 We verified its authenticity.
00:05:49.300 Basically, here it is.
00:05:50.320 It was charged $10,267.71 on an energy bill that was $46,382, which is about 20%.
00:06:00.060 That, you know, this is the cost that businesses are bearing.
00:06:04.220 And you better believe that those costs are going to be passed on to the consumers,
00:06:07.760 making everything more expensive.
00:06:09.900 Just like so many conservatives, so many people like myself warned about that a carbon tax
00:06:14.580 is a tax on everything because so many things within the economy get taxed, get passed along.
00:06:19.340 So whether it's something like this, this business focuses on grain and drying grain,
00:06:24.220 which is an energy intensive process.
00:06:26.640 It's not just things like this.
00:06:28.400 It's also anything that gets shipped, anything that's getting transported across the country.
00:06:32.460 You know, you think of manufacturers or anything that has to keep a facility heated and lit.
00:06:38.500 Really, it's hard to over-exaggerate how much the carbon tax impacts every aspect of the economy.
00:06:43.840 So sure, there are rebates, as I just mentioned, though.
00:06:46.320 The Trudeau government is looking to reduce those rebates.
00:06:48.460 And it's not like they're doing it to balance the budget.
00:06:50.540 No, as we reported last week, the budget deficit is spiraling out of control,
00:06:54.880 and there is no end in sight to the borrowing from the Trudeau government.
00:06:59.040 Okay, so like I said, it is Christmas time.
00:07:01.580 Every year at Christmas, I write my Toronto Sun column about what I think is the most underreported story in the world,
00:07:07.480 which is the persecution of Christians worldwide.
00:07:10.680 You know, many people think of Christians as being, you know, the people who live in Europe and North America
00:07:15.200 who are affluent and prosperous and free, and they don't think about Christian suffering.
00:07:20.600 But the world reports every single year come out and say the same thing,
00:07:24.960 that Christians are the most persecuted group on the planet.
00:07:28.200 You have to go to other continents to see it.
00:07:30.600 Although, you know, even in places like Europe, Christians are targeted.
00:07:34.560 There's been attacks by Islamist terrorists against Christmas markets, against churches.
00:07:39.820 Surely, you know, across North America, there is discrimination against Christians
00:07:44.460 as sort of the ties are turning and people are becoming more and more anti-Christian.
00:07:48.900 But then there is also very, very real and intense persecution around the world.
00:07:55.020 Back in 2017, on Palm Sunday, Islamic State militants waged a callous attack against Coptic Christians
00:08:01.800 praying at their church in Egypt.
00:08:03.540 Two suicide bombers struck, killing 44 people in one of the deadliest blasts.
00:08:07.740 These kind of attacks are commonplace.
00:08:10.380 It's, you know, incredibly sad.
00:08:12.620 Just a couple of weeks ago, in Burkino Faso, which is a small African nation bordering Mali,
00:08:19.240 there was another attack on a church.
00:08:21.440 On Sunday, December 1st, assailants attacked a small church near the border of Niger and Mali.
00:08:29.020 The gunmen opened fire, killing the pastor,
00:08:32.120 as well as 13 congregants, which included five children.
00:08:36.080 So, like I said, these attacks happen with some frequency.
00:08:38.560 They also happen in Pakistan.
00:08:40.880 I've written extensively about an attack on a Christian woman, a villager named Asia Bibi.
00:08:47.240 And Bibi was accused of drinking water from a cup that belonged to a Muslim person.
00:08:52.880 She was confronted by a mob who angrily demanded that she convert to Islam or be killed.
00:08:58.140 Bibi refused.
00:08:59.140 And because of that, she was arrested and given a death sentence in prison for blasphemy,
00:09:04.820 for insulting Islam.
00:09:06.280 Well, fortunately for Bibi, she was acquitted from the high court in Pakistan,
00:09:11.120 and she was sent to Canada as a refugee.
00:09:13.680 So, she is now living safely in Canada after a lot of pressure and a lot of outcry.
00:09:19.140 But, you know, Bibi is still not safe.
00:09:21.380 As True North reported, shortly after she arrived in Canada,
00:09:25.840 an Islamist from Pakistan posted a video on social media claiming that he was in Canada
00:09:30.800 and he was there to kill Bibi.
00:09:33.460 But, again, it's really, really worth noting and contemplating that Christians are under siege
00:09:38.260 and under attack around the world.
00:09:40.560 You know, one of the examples I'd like to point to is in the Middle East,
00:09:43.980 the sort of biblical homeland of Christians, a historic home.
00:09:47.220 So, after the end of the First World War,
00:09:49.000 it's estimated that about one in five people in the Middle East region was a Christian.
00:09:54.840 Okay?
00:09:55.480 So, that was 100 years ago.
00:09:56.980 We had about 20% of the population being Christian with large, vibrant Christian communities
00:10:00.940 in countries like Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Turkey, you name it.
00:10:05.940 There were a lot of Christians.
00:10:07.040 And the society used to be much more pluralistic, much more tolerant,
00:10:10.120 much more accepting of diverse ways.
00:10:12.340 Well, that's just not the case anymore.
00:10:14.340 There's been a rise of a very violent extremist strain of Islam
00:10:18.620 that's governing many of those countries.
00:10:20.600 And because of it, the Christian population today in the Middle East
00:10:23.280 is now estimated to be less than 4%.
00:10:25.620 So, it went from one in five 100 years ago to less than 4% today.
00:10:30.360 And in some of those countries I mentioned, like both Iran and Turkey,
00:10:33.840 the population of Muslims now surpasses 99%.
00:10:37.600 So, you know, basically there's no Christians and no Jews
00:10:41.460 and no non-Muslims left in those countries, which is incredibly sad.
00:10:45.680 Christians have been the victim of ethnic cleansing,
00:10:48.100 of targeting killings, and of genocide in that part of the world.
00:10:51.360 That's something that you just very rarely hear about.
00:10:54.040 No one talks about it.
00:10:54.900 No one discusses it.
00:10:56.100 But Christians are under siege and under attack around the world.
00:10:58.620 So, this year at Christmas, while we're enjoying the festive time of year,
00:11:02.000 enjoying, you know, time with our friends and our family and our loved ones,
00:11:05.140 we should also commit to doing better, to stand up for Christians around the world.
00:11:09.700 There's so many different ways that we can do that.
00:11:11.560 In Canada, you can donate funds to Christian groups
00:11:14.200 that help give aid to other Christians around the world.
00:11:17.740 You can pressure the government, pressure our politicians to stand up
00:11:21.340 and raise these important issues on the global stage.
00:11:24.820 Or also, there's, you know, opportunities to bring Christians to Canada.
00:11:28.740 There's a private refugee program that allows private groups,
00:11:32.660 like churches and charities, to come together and privately sponsor people into the country.
00:11:38.240 You should consider looking into that with your church or with a group of friends
00:11:42.140 to help save Christians that are being persecuted around the world.
00:11:46.960 All right, everyone.
00:11:47.860 Merry Christmas.
00:11:48.560 Thank you so much for tuning in, and we will see you later this week.
00:11:52.020 Thank you so much.
00:11:52.780 Thank you.