Juno News - January 08, 2020The useful idiots siding with the Iranian regime
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A vigil and a shrine for a terrorist on the streets of Toronto? Sounds unbelievable, doesn t it? But believe it! That's what happened over the weekend in response to the US airstrikes that killed Qasem Soleimani, a terrorist mastermind who led the offshoot of the Iranian government's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Quds Force.
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A vigil and a shrine for a terrorist on the streets of Toronto sounds unbelievable but
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believe it because it is what happened over the weekend in response to the US
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airstrikes that killed Qasim Soleimani that terrorist mastermind who led the
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offshoot of the Iranian government the Quds Force which was responsible for a
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lot of their attacks and proxy wars taking place all across the region now
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after Soleimani was killed there was a natural debate about whether or not
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this was the right choice by the Trump administration what the repercussions
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would be and so forth okay fair enough people are going to talk out public
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policy some people thought it wasn't a good idea others were celebrating it a
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lot then there were those who their response to it transcended let's just say
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public policy discussions and military affairs and defense issues and just
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turned into flat-out terror worship now Soleimani it's fair to say he is a
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terrorist because the Quds Force what he ran is a designated terrorist organization
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that has been for a number of years it is a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary
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Guard Corps which is part of Iran's military so if you're taking to the
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streets and you're waving the flag and holding up pictures of this guy and
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lighting candles in front of vigils for him you are supporting a terrorist and that is
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exactly what happened on the streets of Toronto this past weekend apparently in
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Edmonton as well as reports tell hopefully not in other cities in Canada
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hopefully it was just those two but you never know these days so what exactly
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happened over the weekend well first of all in Toronto there was a no war with
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Iran protest and you kind of scratch your head out the head at that a little
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bit because a lot of the usual suspects number of NDP people including a
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couple MPPs other activists and so forth they all met in front of the
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US consulate in downtown Toronto to do this no war rally and even with that I
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was kind of left scratching my head this is generally something that people on the
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left will do whenever there's a potential looming military conflict they'll do
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their anti-war protests but clearly they're usually just anti-American protests
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because there's a whole bunch of things other countries do all throughout the
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year that are preludes to war could potentially lead to war and for some reason
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we don't protest in front of their consulates and their embassies odd odd way
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to look at all of this from these protesters because these airstrikes they
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were not considered preludes to war by the Trump administration Donald Trump
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actually went up to the podium gave a five-minute address and said we do not
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want war this was a targeted decisive surgical strike we want to kill this guy
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and we did it so you can agree or disagree think it was a good or a bad thing but it
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was not an attempt to start a war by the Trump administration so first of all
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there I'm not exactly sure what these left-wing activists were getting at while
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they were holding up these no war placards but the second part is why did
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they not protest Iran doing all of these warlike moves throughout the past 20
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years the things that Soleimani was doing and the things that ultimately got him
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killed talk about the consistency there well after that protest wrapped up
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later on in the evening an organization called the Almaty youth group well they
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gathered in that area to hold a vigil for Qasem Soleimani where they were not
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being unequivocal about it or cagey about it they weren't saying oh this is just a
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no war protest no they were being flat-out honest that they were there to honor
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Soleimani they described him as a hero of Islam in a post that they put up to
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social media up on Twitter when I drew attention to this social media post they
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took it down afterwards I guess not liking the fact that people were hip to it and
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also that a lot of people were criticizing them for that now this is not one
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single little fringe organization of a few people the Almaty website shows that
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this is actually a part of Pickering's broader Almaty Islamic Center it's a
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larger facility I saw that they recently were successful in doing a
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fundraising drive to create a larger mosque a larger community center that will
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get under construction later on hundreds of people attending this community
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center so clearly not just one or two nut jobs in their Twitter accounts and and on
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their Facebook pages but one apparently growing and thriving community and it was
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a number of these people who showed up in downtown Toronto to erect this shrine to a
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designated terrorist Wowzers now here's the interesting part were these
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Iranians who were celebrating the killing of this Iranian figure maybe maybe not the
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Almaty Center describes themselves as being consisted of people from
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Afghanistan Iran Iraq Africa India and Pakistan although what we do know is that a
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number of Iranian dissidents showed up at that event to confront these people and to
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denounce them there are many Iranian Canadians who came here to Canada
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specifically because they knew the horrors of the regime in Tehran they knew what Iran had
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turned into after the 1979 Islamic Revolution they wanted nothing to do with it and
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many of them and their family members had been tortured a lot of political
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dissidents have been executed murdered held at the notorious Evin prison you can
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say you don't support these airstrikes fine you can say no war in Iran but to
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side with Soleimani to side with this regime what on earth are these people