Juno News - The useful idiots siding with the Iranian regime

00:00:00.000 A vigil and a shrine for a terrorist on the streets of Toronto sounds unbelievable but

00:00:11.240 believe it because it is what happened over the weekend in response to the US

00:00:15.960 airstrikes that killed Qasim Soleimani that terrorist mastermind who led the

00:00:20.760 offshoot of the Iranian government the Quds Force which was responsible for a

00:00:25.200 lot of their attacks and proxy wars taking place all across the region now

00:00:29.600 after Soleimani was killed there was a natural debate about whether or not

00:00:33.080 this was the right choice by the Trump administration what the repercussions

00:00:37.220 would be and so forth okay fair enough people are going to talk out public

00:00:40.760 policy some people thought it wasn't a good idea others were celebrating it a

00:00:44.360 lot then there were those who their response to it transcended let's just say

00:00:50.120 public policy discussions and military affairs and defense issues and just

00:00:54.560 turned into flat-out terror worship now Soleimani it's fair to say he is a 0.61

00:01:00.440 terrorist because the Quds Force what he ran is a designated terrorist organization

00:01:05.320 that has been for a number of years it is a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary

00:01:09.620 Guard Corps which is part of Iran's military so if you're taking to the

00:01:14.360 streets and you're waving the flag and holding up pictures of this guy and

00:01:17.680 lighting candles in front of vigils for him you are supporting a terrorist and that is

00:01:22.920 exactly what happened on the streets of Toronto this past weekend apparently in

00:01:26.680 Edmonton as well as reports tell hopefully not in other cities in Canada

00:01:31.080 hopefully it was just those two but you never know these days so what exactly

00:01:35.580 happened over the weekend well first of all in Toronto there was a no war with

00:01:40.440 Iran protest and you kind of scratch your head out the head at that a little

00:01:43.920 bit because a lot of the usual suspects number of NDP people including a

00:01:48.160 couple MPPs other activists and so forth they all met in front of the

00:01:52.780 US consulate in downtown Toronto to do this no war rally and even with that I

00:01:57.940 was kind of left scratching my head this is generally something that people on the

00:02:01.420 left will do whenever there's a potential looming military conflict they'll do

00:02:05.020 their anti-war protests but clearly they're usually just anti-American protests

00:02:09.940 because there's a whole bunch of things other countries do all throughout the

00:02:12.640 year that are preludes to war could potentially lead to war and for some reason

00:02:17.200 we don't protest in front of their consulates and their embassies odd odd way

00:02:22.840 to look at all of this from these protesters because these airstrikes they

00:02:26.960 were not considered preludes to war by the Trump administration Donald Trump

00:02:31.120 actually went up to the podium gave a five-minute address and said we do not 0.99

00:02:34.360 want war this was a targeted decisive surgical strike we want to kill this guy 0.94

00:02:39.260 and we did it so you can agree or disagree think it was a good or a bad thing but it

00:02:43.960 was not an attempt to start a war by the Trump administration so first of all

00:02:49.400 there I'm not exactly sure what these left-wing activists were getting at while

00:02:53.440 they were holding up these no war placards but the second part is why did

00:02:58.640 they not protest Iran doing all of these warlike moves throughout the past 20 0.97

00:03:04.540 years the things that Soleimani was doing and the things that ultimately got him

00:03:08.740 killed talk about the consistency there well after that protest wrapped up

00:03:13.920 later on in the evening an organization called the Almaty youth group well they

00:03:18.960 gathered in that area to hold a vigil for Qasem Soleimani where they were not

00:03:24.640 being unequivocal about it or cagey about it they weren't saying oh this is just a

00:03:28.260 no war protest no they were being flat-out honest that they were there to honor

00:03:33.540 Soleimani they described him as a hero of Islam in a post that they put up to

00:03:39.320 social media up on Twitter when I drew attention to this social media post they

00:03:43.500 took it down afterwards I guess not liking the fact that people were hip to it and

00:03:47.580 also that a lot of people were criticizing them for that now this is not one

00:03:51.720 single little fringe organization of a few people the Almaty website shows that

00:03:56.520 this is actually a part of Pickering's broader Almaty Islamic Center it's a

00:04:01.480 larger facility I saw that they recently were successful in doing a

00:04:05.500 fundraising drive to create a larger mosque a larger community center that will

00:04:09.500 get under construction later on hundreds of people attending this community

00:04:14.720 center so clearly not just one or two nut jobs in their Twitter accounts and and on

00:04:19.820 their Facebook pages but one apparently growing and thriving community and it was

00:04:24.480 a number of these people who showed up in downtown Toronto to erect this shrine to a

00:04:30.560 designated terrorist Wowzers now here's the interesting part were these

00:04:35.480 Iranians who were celebrating the killing of this Iranian figure maybe maybe not the

00:04:40.420 Almaty Center describes themselves as being consisted of people from

00:04:43.880 Afghanistan Iran Iraq Africa India and Pakistan although what we do know is that a

00:04:49.700 number of Iranian dissidents showed up at that event to confront these people and to

00:04:55.940 denounce them there are many Iranian Canadians who came here to Canada

00:05:00.480 specifically because they knew the horrors of the regime in Tehran they knew what Iran had 0.68

00:05:05.360 turned into after the 1979 Islamic Revolution they wanted nothing to do with it and

00:05:10.400 many of them and their family members had been tortured a lot of political

00:05:14.840 dissidents have been executed murdered held at the notorious Evin prison you can

00:05:20.120 say you don't support these airstrikes fine you can say no war in Iran but to 0.90

00:05:24.560 side with Soleimani to side with this regime what on earth are these people

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Juno News - January 08, 2020

The useful idiots siding with the Iranian regime

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