Juno News - The Candice Malcolm Show： The religious persecution of Christians

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. 0.97

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? 0.99

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. 0.86

00:01:09.020 You know, she's on top of the social justice issues. 1.00

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 0.83

00:01:30.260 and standing up for traditional feminist rights. 1.00

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 0.99

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. 1.00

00:02:15.080 I lost my job over tweeting and writing about sex and gender identity 1.00

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. 0.74

00:08:58.140 Bibi refused. 0.92

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, 0.92

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.91

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.

Juno News - December 24, 2019

The Candice Malcolm Show： The religious persecution of Christians

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