Rebel News Podcast - A Christian woman is hunted by Muslim extremists in Pakistan. Why doesn’t the world care？

00:00:00.000 Tonight, a Christian woman is hunted by Muslim extremists in Pakistan.

00:00:04.760 Why doesn't the world care?

00:00:06.560 It's November 12th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:15.000 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:18.780 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:22.520 You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.

00:00:25.500 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it,

00:00:29.460 is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:00:36.500 Asia Bibi is the name of a Christian woman from Pakistan. 0.95

00:00:41.080 You don't want to be a Christian woman from Pakistan. 1.00

00:00:44.400 They hate Christians there. 0.99

00:00:46.060 They riot and violently attack Christians. 1.00

00:00:49.680 They kill them. 1.00

00:00:51.060 It's a bigoted country. 0.99

00:00:52.660 If Pakistan were called Germany and Christians were called Jews, 0.70

00:00:57.420 you would see comparisons made to Nazism. 0.84

00:01:01.420 Pakistan is an officially bigoted country towards non-Muslims, 0.86

00:01:05.720 and even to some Muslim sects that they hate, like the Ahmadiyya Muslims. 0.98

00:01:11.280 Their constitution itself in Pakistan has bigotry hardwired right into it.

00:01:16.200 Anyways, Asia Bibi was harvesting berries and dared to have a religious discussion with her fellow peasants, 0.99

00:01:24.700 as in they attacked her for being Christian.

00:01:27.500 They were Muslim and didn't like what she had to say or believe. 1.00

00:01:31.480 All right, fair enough.

00:01:32.380 But whereas in normal countries, you can have a political or religious disagreement,

00:01:36.680 and that's that.

00:01:37.380 Well, in Pakistan, they live under medieval laws, with medieval customs, including a blasphemy law. 1.00

00:01:45.140 So Asia Bibi was prosecuted and convicted of the crime of blasphemy and sentenced to death. 0.89

00:01:50.960 I kid you not, sentenced to death for speaking out as a Christian in a normal conversation 1.00

00:01:56.400 with people from the religion of peace.

00:01:59.500 Now, her cause created a global outcry of sorts, but not really.

00:02:04.660 I haven't heard anyone at the Oscars or the Grammys or any of the other fancy people take up her case of you.

00:02:12.160 You'd think they would.

00:02:13.720 I mean, she fits the bill. 0.92

00:02:15.380 A woman being killed by a bigoted theocracy, sentenced in a kangaroo court, obviously 100% male. 0.79

00:02:21.640 Where are all those handmaid's tale protesters for her? 0.95

00:02:25.640 I'm not sure if Lena Dunham and all the rest of the feminist lovies just didn't see about her case 1.00

00:02:31.460 or didn't want to say anything as controversial as,

00:02:34.540 please don't hang a woman just because she's Christian. 0.97

00:02:37.740 Or, I don't know, maybe they don't mind hanging Christians. 1.00

00:02:40.320 Who knows? 0.65

00:02:40.860 We should ask Linda Sarsour of the Women's March.

00:02:44.120 There aren't a lot of Christians in politics in Pakistan.

00:02:48.320 The population is about 97% Muslim over there,

00:02:51.840 with about 1.5% Christian.

00:02:54.520 There's some Hindus there, too.

00:02:56.300 Look, get out, folks.

00:02:58.040 It's not going to end well.

00:02:59.080 It's not going to get any better.

00:03:01.400 Now, it's easy for me to say,

00:03:02.960 but what if you've been living in a place for centuries in your family?

00:03:06.200 What if it's your ancestral home?

00:03:08.220 Why should you have to move away from your country?

00:03:11.180 Well, to survive, I guess.

00:03:13.160 Egypt used to be a Christian country, too.

00:03:15.500 Did you know that?

00:03:16.560 Turkey did, too.

00:03:17.800 Istanbul was once Constantinople.

00:03:19.820 Now it's a Muslim country. 0.97

00:03:21.260 Why live as a permanently prosecuted, personally, permanently persecuted, abused minority? 1.00

00:03:29.140 I don't know.

00:03:30.880 One Christian politician named Shabazz Batty dared to speak up for her while he was assassinated.

00:03:37.820 If they can do that to a leading political figure, they can do that to anyone.

00:03:40.940 Now, a couple of weeks ago, on October 31st, to be precise, almost a decade after her conviction,

00:03:49.100 the Pakistani Supreme Court claimed it had reviewed details of her conviction

00:03:53.400 and found some discrepancies and noted that Asia Bibi's Muslim colleagues at the berry-picking

00:03:59.780 insulted her first for being a Christian.

00:04:03.080 And so that's one reason she'd be let go.

00:04:05.780 So, you know, it's not even a victory, of course.

00:04:08.280 It's really a loophole to get someone out of jail to stop what little political pressure

00:04:12.180 there was on Pakistan.

00:04:14.700 Well, this bigoted court wasn't bigoted enough for bigoted Pakistan. 1.00

00:04:18.980 Check out the protests that met the Supreme Court's acquittal.

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00:05:16.720 jeez

00:05:24.720 that's madness

00:05:26.720 100% men of course 0.98

00:05:28.720 begging for the murder of a woman 0.98

00:05:30.720 for the crime of being christian that's madness 0.98

00:05:32.720 that's pakistani culture and custom

00:05:34.720 and law the people's court by that he means

00:05:36.720 the mob and in fact

00:05:38.720 the mob got its way

00:05:40.720 take a look at this that handsome fella there is

00:05:42.720 Imran Khan

00:05:44.720 he's the new prime minister of pakistan a former

00:05:46.720 cricket pro in the UK

00:05:48.720 and that's his lovely bride

00:05:50.720 i mean i assume she's lovely

00:05:52.720 i i don't really know

00:05:54.720 anyways he's a bit of an islamist as you can

00:05:56.720 detect it won't shock you to learn

00:05:58.720 and so he cut a deal

00:06:00.720 with an even more islamist political party

00:06:02.720 to ban asia bb from

00:06:04.720 leaving pakistan 0.61

00:06:06.720 just cut a deal

00:06:08.720 because that's how you do it

00:06:10.720 i guess they they actually put her on a

00:06:12.720 no-fly list can you imagine that

00:06:14.720 this is a terrorist supporting

00:06:16.720 country 0.88

00:06:18.720 pakistan financed and was the home of the

00:06:20.720 taliban the home of extremists 1.00

00:06:22.720 you saw the thugs outside 0.94

00:06:24.720 and they're putting this little christian

00:06:26.720 woman on a no-fly list 0.96

00:06:28.720 oh the irony

00:06:30.720 now why why do they want her 1.00

00:06:32.720 to stick around

00:06:34.720 well obviously so the mob can finish her off 1.00

00:06:36.720 since the court said

00:06:38.720 a decade in prison was

00:06:40.720 enough well though you saw the thugs on the street

00:06:42.720 now last week a news report

00:06:44.720 said this about asia bb

00:06:46.720 a lahore based tv news

00:06:48.720 channel reported that asia bb was

00:06:50.720 released from new jail for women

00:06:52.720 in maltan about 350 kilometers

00:06:54.720 from lahore late on wednesday night

00:06:56.720 and taken to nur khan airbase

00:06:58.720 rawal pindi from where a chartered

00:07:00.720 plane would take her to the netherlands

00:07:02.720 asia bb a 47 year old mother

00:07:04.720 of four was convicted in 2010

00:07:06.720 after being accused of insulting islam

00:07:08.720 in a row with her neighbors

00:07:10.720 she always maintained her innocence

00:07:12.720 but has spent most of the past eight years

00:07:14.720 in solitary confinement

00:07:16.720 imagine that eight years in solitary

00:07:18.720 confinement

00:07:20.720 pakistan is a terrible place

00:07:22.720 don't go there and don't bring the terrible parts

00:07:24.720 of pakistan here

00:07:26.720 there are a lot of terrible things that come from pakistan 1.00

00:07:28.720 they don't just hate christian women 0.99

00:07:30.720 they hate women 1.00

00:07:32.720 in general the vast 0.99

00:07:34.720 majority of rape gangs in the united kingdom 1.00

00:07:36.720 are pakistani muslim men 0.99

00:07:38.720 don't take it from me take it from the 0.51

00:07:40.720 pakistani muslim home secretary

00:07:42.720 of the uk sajid javid

00:07:44.720 let me quote

00:07:46.720 what he said in twitter 1.00

00:07:48.720 these sick asian pedophiles 1.00

00:07:50.720 are finally facing justice 0.98

00:07:52.720 i want to commend the bravery of the victims for too long

00:07:54.720 they were ignored not on my watch

00:07:56.720 there will be no no go zones

00:07:58.720 asian is how they call pakistanis over there in the uk

00:08:02.720 give credit to sajid javid

00:08:04.720 he's not being politically correct about it

00:08:06.720 he can speak truthfully because he himself

00:08:08.720 is a muslim from pakistani background

00:08:10.720 not so here in canada though

00:08:12.720 ikra khalid a pakistani muslim woman in our parliament

00:08:16.720 has one claim to fame known for only one thing

00:08:18.720 she's bringing pakistani

00:08:20.720 style blasphemy laws 0.67

00:08:22.720 into canada she introduced a motion 0.87

00:08:24.720 called m103

00:08:26.720 anti-islamophobia motion that the liberals

00:08:28.720 have adopted and are now feverishly

00:08:30.720 working to operationalize

00:08:32.720 oh and she was part of the ceremony 0.72

00:08:34.720 in manitoba to name a

00:08:36.720 public park in canada

00:08:38.720 after muhammad jinnah

00:08:40.720 the islamist founder

00:08:42.720 of the modern state of pakistan so we're tearing down 1.00

00:08:44.720 statues of sir john a mcdonald but

00:08:46.720 we're putting up statues of the bigoted

00:08:48.720 founder of pakistan got it

00:08:50.720 but back to asia bb woman

00:08:52.720 victim falsely imprisoned

00:08:54.720 vulnerable a textbook definition

00:08:56.720 of a refugee but that report

00:08:58.720 in that pakistani newspaper

00:09:00.720 was contradicted the authorities

00:09:02.720 denied that asia bb was allowed

00:09:04.720 to leave the country

00:09:06.720 wouldn't they want to get rid of her

00:09:08.720 maybe they're worried she'll become

00:09:10.720 a christian version of malala yousafzai

00:09:12.720 the young pakistani

00:09:14.720 woman who was shot for daring

00:09:16.720 to believe women should be able 1.00

00:09:18.720 to go to school

00:09:20.720 asia bb were to flee pakistan and

00:09:22.720 actually have a voice

00:09:24.720 so will she will she be freed

00:09:26.720 look at this headline

00:09:28.720 this is from the telegraph newspaper

00:09:30.720 in london england

00:09:32.720 asia bb not offered uk

00:09:34.720 asylum amid concerns

00:09:36.720 of unrest and attacks

00:09:38.720 but not they don't mean

00:09:40.720 in pakistan let me read a little bit to you

00:09:42.720 britain has not offered asylum to a

00:09:44.720 pakistani christian woman freed after eight years

00:09:46.720 on death row for blasphemy because

00:09:48.720 fear it would prompt unrest

00:09:50.720 in the uk

00:09:52.720 and attacks on embassies

00:09:54.720 her supporters claim

00:09:56.720 asia bb and her family had

00:09:58.720 appealed for sanctuary in britain

00:10:00.720 after her conviction was quashed

00:10:02.720 by pakistan's supreme court

00:10:04.720 the acquittal of a 53 year old

00:10:06.720 catholic farm worker prompted days

00:10:08.720 of demonstrations by hardline

00:10:10.720 islamist parties in pakistan

00:10:12.720 who had campaigned for her

00:10:14.720 to be hanged

00:10:16.720 five remains hidden in pakistan 0.61

00:10:18.720 after imran khan's government

00:10:19.720 agreed to allow a petition

00:10:20.720 against the court decision

00:10:22.720 as part of a deal to halt the protest

00:10:24.720 a uk campaign group

00:10:26.720 in touch with the family

00:10:27.720 said the british government

00:10:28.720 was working to help asia bb

00:10:29.720 but had stopped short

00:10:30.720 of offering asylum

00:10:32.720 now there's some factual discrepancies

00:10:34.720 in her age and how many kids

00:10:36.720 but we can all know the fact

00:10:38.720 that she was in prison for eight years

00:10:40.720 for being a christian

00:10:42.720 and what does the uk have to say

00:10:44.720 about that

00:10:46.720 well they will offer all assistance

00:10:48.720 right up to the point of actual help

00:10:52.720 but the reason is obvious they say so

00:10:54.720 they will have those same mad riots

00:10:56.720 in pakistan

00:10:58.720 they will have them in the united kingdom

00:11:00.720 too of course they will

00:11:02.720 look at this drone footage

00:11:04.720 look at this footage

00:11:06.720 and it's not from pakistan

00:11:08.720 it's from birmingham

00:11:12.720 they're not dressed

00:11:14.720 in british garb

00:11:16.720 they're dressed

00:11:18.720 like they're still in pakistan

00:11:20.720 they're there on mass

00:11:24.720 tens of thousands

00:11:26.720 this is in birmingham

00:11:28.720 and obviously not a woman amongst them

00:11:30.720 do you think teresa may

00:11:32.720 would risk pakistani riots 0.94

00:11:34.720 in her lovely britain

00:11:36.720 or she'll throw 1.00

00:11:38.720 tommy robinson in prison

00:11:39.720 that's easy

00:11:40.720 what's he gonna do right

00:11:42.720 try throwing a hundred thousand 0.84

00:11:43.720 pakistani british rioters 0.98

00:11:44.720 in prison

00:11:45.720 they're on enough prison cells

00:11:46.720 so best keep out

00:11:47.720 asia bb

00:11:48.720 i mean that whole

00:11:50.720 salman rushdie thing

00:11:51.720 that was what

00:11:52.720 thirty years ago

00:11:53.720 when the muslim population

00:11:54.720 in the uk

00:11:55.720 wasn't as large

00:11:56.720 or as radical as it is now

00:11:57.720 he'd be thrown to the wolves today

00:11:59.720 don't doubt it

00:12:00.720 and by the way

00:12:01.720 he'd have the

00:12:02.720 whoever kicked him out

00:12:04.720 or threw him out

00:12:05.720 he'd have the support

00:12:06.720 of about fifty percent

00:12:07.720 of the intellectual class

00:12:08.720 who fancied themselves

00:12:09.720 as very woke islamophiles 0.88

00:12:11.720 alright so where's canada

00:12:15.720 we took fifty thousand

00:12:16.720 unvetted muslim migrants 0.99

00:12:17.720 from syria

00:12:18.720 we're looking at taking

00:12:19.720 more unvetted muslim migrants

00:12:20.720 from burma 0.93

00:12:22.720 will we take one christian refugee 0.99

00:12:25.720 take her out of solitary 0.85

00:12:26.720 confinement in pakistan

00:12:27.720 where she's literally

00:12:28.720 at risk of murder

00:12:29.720 because of blasphemy laws 0.72

00:12:31.720 and rioters

00:12:33.720 most surprisingly

00:12:34.720 may be

00:12:35.720 look at this headline

00:12:37.720 canada in talks

00:12:38.720 with pakistan

00:12:39.720 over possibly

00:12:40.720 taking asia bb

00:12:43.720 the stories from dateline

00:12:44.720 paris

00:12:45.720 canadian prime minister

00:12:46.720 justin trudeau

00:12:47.720 said monday

00:12:48.720 that his government

00:12:49.720 was holding talks

00:12:50.720 with pakistan

00:12:51.720 over potentially

00:12:52.720 offering asylum

00:12:53.720 to asia bb

00:12:54.720 a christian woman

00:12:55.720 recently freed from prison

00:12:56.720 after her blasphemy

00:12:57.720 conviction was overturned

00:12:58.720 we are in discussions

00:13:00.720 with the pakistani government

00:13:01.720 trudeau said in an interview

00:13:03.720 with afp in paris

00:13:05.720 where he was attending

00:13:06.720 a peace conference

00:13:07.720 organized by french

00:13:08.720 president emmanuel macron

00:13:09.720 there is a delicate

00:13:11.720 domestic context

00:13:12.720 that we respect

00:13:13.720 which is why

00:13:14.720 i don't want to say

00:13:15.720 any more about that

00:13:16.720 but i will remind people

00:13:17.720 canada is a welcoming

00:13:18.720 country he said

00:13:19.720 hmm

00:13:20.720 could be

00:13:21.720 or it could be

00:13:23.720 that she's already

00:13:24.720 en route to the netherlands

00:13:25.720 so trudeau doesn't mind

00:13:27.720 saying so

00:13:28.720 look at this story here

00:13:30.720 bb's lawyer

00:13:31.720 seifel maluk

00:13:33.720 fled to the netherlands

00:13:35.720 soon after the verdict

00:13:36.720 citing death threats

00:13:38.720 the dutch government

00:13:40.720 said on thursday

00:13:41.720 that it had offered him

00:13:42.720 temporary shelter

00:13:43.720 on friday the dutch government

00:13:46.720 said in a statement

00:13:47.720 that its embassy in pakistan

00:13:48.720 which is in a tightly guarded

00:13:49.720 diplomatic enclave

00:13:50.720 had temporarily halted

00:13:52.720 issuing visas

00:13:53.720 due to circumstances

00:13:55.720 beyond our control

00:13:56.720 who knows what that means

00:13:58.720 i'm guessing that thousands

00:13:59.720 of angry pakistanis 0.98

00:14:00.720 threatened the dutch embassy

00:14:02.720 after they heard asia bb was

00:14:03.720 granted asylum there

00:14:04.720 her lawyer fled to the netherlands

00:14:05.720 maybe she'll follow him there

00:14:07.720 at least she'll know someone

00:14:08.720 or maybe she'll come to canada

00:14:10.720 if so she'll be well received

00:14:11.720 by canadians

00:14:12.720 by christians especially

00:14:14.720 and by many muslims

00:14:15.720 who want to live in a secular society

00:14:17.720 but not so much by our own

00:14:19.720 muslim extremists

00:14:20.720 by many of whom are from pakistan 0.95

00:14:22.720 and they'll hate her as a symbol

00:14:24.720 they'll hate that canada 0.97

00:14:25.720 would allow such an infidel 1.00

00:14:26.720 a blasphemer 1.00

00:14:27.720 she'll undoubtedly need security

00:14:29.720 here to protect her

00:14:30.720 from murder

00:14:31.720 oh and she'll probably need 0.81

00:14:32.720 protection from ikra khaled too

00:14:34.720 after all

00:14:35.720 khaled is bringing pakistani 0.99

00:14:36.720 style censorship

00:14:37.720 to our country

00:14:38.720 no doubt asia bb means

00:14:40.720 beats the subjective definition

00:14:41.720 of being an islamophobe

00:14:45.720 don't you think

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00:15:05.760 billions of american

00:15:06.340 french

00:15:07.300 and allied troops

00:15:08.300 that fought

00:15:08.800 with extraordinary skill

00:15:09.760 and valor

00:15:10.800 in one of the bloodiest conflicts

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00:15:13.800 we are gathered together

00:15:15.760 together at this hallowed resting place to pay tribute to the brave Americans who gave their

00:15:22.980 last breath in that mighty struggle. That is U.S. President Donald Trump speaking. You can see the

00:15:28.860 Eiffel Tower behind him in Paris, speaking along with other world leaders on the 100th anniversary

00:15:34.540 of the end of hostilities of World War I. America joined World War I in 1917. The war was already

00:15:42.540 three years in, but it did play a decisive role in ending the conflict. Of course, Canada was a

00:15:48.560 disproportionate fighter there, and of course, to this day, we wear our poppies in remembrance of the

00:15:55.480 sacrifice that Canadians made there. I thought Trump's remarks, as always, arose to the occasion.

00:16:01.780 He's been a very strong supporter of both serving military and the veterans. He's made that a big

00:16:06.280 emphasis of his, in particular contrast to the neglect or outright hostility shown to veterans

00:16:12.100 in the military by his predecessor, Barack Obama. I thought Trump was on his best behavior,

00:16:17.700 but boy, the media, as always, were looking for any drop of politics. Let me show you a quick clip of

00:16:25.600 when Trump met with other leaders. He shook a few hands there. You can see, there he is arriving.

00:16:34.000 There were dozens of world leaders. That's in Paris. He also went to an American cemetery. And then there's

00:16:44.000 a clip of him, and I just want to show this just because it was sort of an awkward moment of when

00:16:49.100 Trump took his place standing, and he stood and shook the hands of several other world leaders,

00:16:57.900 but not that of Justin Trudeau. So everyone was on their best behavior, more or less. But there was

00:17:06.460 one little wrinkle, and I'm going to get into that in a minute with our next guest. But as you could see,

00:17:10.960 it was rainy there. And Trump and any U.S. president moves around where possible in Marine One, which is

00:17:19.200 the name of any helicopter that has the president. And when the helicopter travels with the president,

00:17:25.280 it's actually one of a group of helicopters. And they move around sort of like a shell game. So

00:17:29.380 you never know which helicopter the president himself is in. And when you're in France, obviously,

00:17:34.920 you have to be extremely careful. It's the land of jihad, and it's a land that America doesn't have 0.91

00:17:40.160 full command and control of every law enforcement agency, unlike how the president travels in the

00:17:45.660 United States. So because it was rainy and foggy, and there was low visibility, Marine One,

00:17:52.620 Trump could not travel to a particular cemetery by helicopter. And the alternative to take him

00:17:58.960 on the ground would have been two and a half hours each way in a motorcade, shutting down half of Paris

00:18:06.040 and the environs. So Trump or his staff made the decision to go to an alternative cemetery. But

00:18:12.560 the world's pundits mocked Trump. Let me just show you quickly. Here is the official statement

00:18:20.360 put out by the White House, explaining that Trump did not go to a particular cemetery because

00:18:27.340 he couldn't get there in a timely way. And it would be a great, it would discombobulate the

00:18:34.860 metropolitan area of Paris for five hours. But look at this. Let me show you some criticism. I'm going

00:18:40.640 to bring in our guest in a second here. Here's John Kerry, the former Secretary of State,

00:18:45.760 mocking Trump's decision. Let me just read it. President Donald Trump, a no-show because of

00:18:51.820 raindrops? Those veterans the president didn't bother to honor, fought in the rain, in the mud,

00:18:57.040 in the snow, and many died in trenches for the cause of freedom. Rain didn't stop them, and it shouldn't

00:19:01.660 have stopped an American president. That from the coward John Kerry. Of course, Trump didn't stop 0.99

00:19:08.420 because of the weather. He just changed plans. And here's David Frum chiming in,

00:19:12.240 it's not about the weather. And he later mocked the president saying Trump didn't want to get his

00:19:18.680 hair wet. Joining us now to talk about Trump, the other world leaders, and the criticisms

00:19:24.340 is our friend Joe Warmington, the scrawler of the Toronto Sun. Great to see you in studio here.

00:19:29.700 It's good to see you. I wonder if John Kerry would have gone for a fourth Purple Heart had he...

00:19:33.520 Yeah, that's right. Look, Donald Trump, you can blame him for a lot of things, Joe. He does a lot of

00:19:39.900 things that make his allies sort of tense up. But you can't say that Donald Trump doesn't care

00:19:46.060 about the vets. I don't think you can say even the things that you just said. You know, I don't

00:19:50.300 think he says or does anything really wrong that I've seen. He just tells the truth. And the truth

00:19:55.060 is not with, you know, the other side. They're just going on and on about things. And they just don't

00:20:00.720 like a guy that comes at it from a different perspective. But on this one, you know, they really,

00:20:05.460 I mean, it is really low. And I would never, ever do something like that with Prime Minister Trudeau

00:20:10.740 or whatever. When Marine One could not take him to the cemetery, which is 60 kilometers away,

00:20:17.300 American Cemetery, that was the end of the story there. And then it says, let's have a plan B and

00:20:23.500 all this kind of stuff. Well, plan B, when have you ever seen a president drive 60 kilometers

00:20:28.100 on road anywhere, let alone through the countryside in France, through all of Paris, where just last

00:20:35.860 week they had a terror attack that they foiled on Macron. You know, don't think they didn't think

00:20:40.740 of also perhaps something on the president. So they really did cherry pick something. And it's

00:20:46.780 actually stuck. I mean, you're the only one that will talk about it. I'm pretty well the only one

00:20:50.860 on Twitter that challenged John Kerry and David Frum, our friend. And it goes on and on and on.

00:20:57.560 But the reality is that wasn't fair. Yeah. I mean, the idea that Donald Trump,

00:21:01.720 who flew all the way over to France. To do that.

00:21:04.100 Yeah. I mean, that's a six-hour flight or seven-hour flight, whatever it is. The idea that

00:21:08.440 he just couldn't be bothered. He bothered enough to fly all the way over to Europe. The idea that this

00:21:14.260 was some trivial decision by him that he didn't want to get his hair wet. Yeah.

00:21:18.140 I like David Frum, too. But he's such a never-Trumper. He's gone over the top here. And

00:21:23.600 he should know, because he worked not closely with George W. Bush, but he worked in the White

00:21:29.500 House. And John Kerry should know. John Kerry, who wouldn't travel anywhere without a whole

00:21:34.880 retinue of security. Those guys politicized what should have been a non-political event.

00:21:40.180 Right. And I think they took the story to a level where it went to, which was a non-story

00:21:45.360 turned into something. And they actually said, and they both did it, that the guy was a disgrace

00:21:51.260 because he left and did not care about the troops in the cemetery, the fallen. And I find that way

00:21:58.300 worse than what Trump did, which was he didn't do anything wrong. And he wanted to go there. In fact,

00:22:03.320 he saved lives, perhaps. He knows about, he has the intel reports about the threats on him. And don't

00:22:10.620 forget for one second that if a threat is on the president, it's on the Secret Service and on the

00:22:16.260 people that work with the president. You know, he's cognizant of that. And also, you know, what Sarah

00:22:22.780 Sanders said, the press secretary, that he made the decision that he did not want to shut Paris down

00:22:30.120 for five hours either, because he has to go two and a half hours out there. The beast doesn't travel

00:22:35.360 in 120 clicks. It goes out in an entourage. And then he would do what he needed to do in the

00:22:40.680 cemetery, then drive back. They can't reopen it while he's out there. So that would be unfair.

00:22:45.240 So the whole story is a phony, another political hit job on the president.

00:22:50.520 Yeah. The idea that the president of the United States would spend, I don't know, two, three,

00:22:54.180 four, five hours just on a road and back. That's not how presidents operate in a foreign country

00:23:00.100 that has perpetual jihadist attacks. I, I, there was a snipiness and a pettiness. They're trying to 1.00

00:23:08.120 dent Trump. They are. On his strongest ground, which is his support for the military, support for

00:23:13.300 law enforcement, support for veterans. And they did it on, on those patriotism too. They've even taken

00:23:17.820 that, you've seen in the speeches that patriotism is, it's not patriotism to be national. Well, let me

00:23:22.120 show you this because to me, Trump was on his best behavior. You know, some people say there's good

00:23:26.640 Trump and then there's rowdy Trump. This was good Trump. This was scripted. This was, he was on his

00:23:32.740 best behavior. He was a statesman. Yeah. And, and John, I mean, David Frum's a pundit, but John Kerry,

00:23:39.020 former secretary of state should know better. But look at Emmanuel Macron who politicizes. Here's a tweet

00:23:44.220 that Emmanuel Macron wrote first in French, and then he felt the need to translate it into English.

00:23:49.660 This is his own translation. You know, sometimes we show you foreign tweets and we translate them

00:23:54.740 using software. This is Emmanuel Macron. This was written, translated, and published in English.

00:24:01.560 Why? Obviously at, to prick and poke Trump, let me read it to you.

00:24:07.660 Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism.

00:24:15.580 By putting our own interests first with no regard for others, we erase the very thing that a nation

00:24:21.040 holds dearest and the thing that keeps it alive, its moral values. That doesn't even make any sense.

00:24:27.900 It doesn't even make any logical coherence. But by the way, just because I thought, I can't be right,

00:24:32.240 because patriot, I know a tiny bit about etymology. I like words. Patriot comes from the Latin word for

00:24:38.940 father, patron, paternity. And your fatherland. And nationalism comes from the word for being born,

00:24:46.440 natal. That's the same thing. Your fatherland, the land you were born. It's the same thing.

00:24:53.860 That's gobbledygook. It's junk. It's confused thinking. And it's a weird political attack on Trump. 1.00

00:24:59.720 It is. And he don't forget that he started this whole thing by saying that they were, you know,

00:25:03.380 going to create a European army, which would be the first time in history they ever stuck

00:25:07.220 up for themselves in France anyway. It wasn't for Canada and America and Great Britain. I mean,

00:25:13.320 what would France be? And so that was insulting. And then he was talking about that to protect from

00:25:18.380 Russia and from the US. That's the crazy thing is Macron, and they're talking about a European army.

00:25:23.220 Macron would, that tweet would have been in German if not for America 70 years ago.

00:25:28.460 Well, that's a good point too. But I think this whole business of, you know, they talk about populism

00:25:32.780 and nationalism. And, you know, you're at the sort of epicenter of that in the media here in North

00:25:37.960 America, where they say they're trying to make those dirty words. They always take, the left always

00:25:43.500 take words that are perfectly fine as they are, and they make them into something that they want it

00:25:48.900 to be. It's smart politics. Look at, they're hammering this guy. And, you know, the president's

00:25:53.380 walking down the line and he's arguing with the very reporters he has no respect for. I mean,

00:25:58.660 you wonder why he would even waste his time doing that because they're not really important. He makes

00:26:03.760 them important. And so what he should be doing, in my opinion, is to get past all that and get

00:26:10.240 focused on the very things that matter, which is his agenda. And his agenda is America first.

00:26:16.400 And, you know, you saw that here. We went through it with the free trade agreement. And that's

00:26:20.060 interesting too, how they, you know, they had that kind of look between each other because

00:26:24.200 there's more going on there than meets the eye because Prime Minister Trudeau's speech, Ezra,

00:26:28.580 was very similar to Macron's.

00:26:31.060 Yeah, it was, it was strange. You know, I was just thinking, the word, our own national anthem,

00:26:35.780 O Canada, our home in native land. Native is the same root as nation.

00:26:42.800 We're going to have to change that?

00:26:44.060 And true patriot.

00:26:44.860 We're going to rewrite it.

00:26:45.240 So we are both home in native land and true patriot love. It's the same thing.

00:26:49.720 You've got to get those words out, Justin.

00:26:51.080 Yeah. It's just so weird. And it doesn't make any sense. It's just this, it's a pettiness.

00:26:59.140 And America still defends Europe. And America defends us here in Canada. And the only reason

00:27:05.100 we can fool around and buy secondhand F-18s from Australia and treat our military so poorly

00:27:11.740 is because we know America is there to backstop us. And Europe is even worse. And they're talking

00:27:17.280 about having a military and we'll fight against anyone, including America. It's folly. It's

00:27:21.720 like a tantrum by a child.

00:27:22.960 And Trump could easily come back to Macron, who made that comment about, you know, the

00:27:27.020 patriotism and all that stuff, and say, well, then pay up at NATO. Like, pay your, pay your

00:27:32.220 percentage.

00:27:32.560 Yeah. If you're so patriotic, why are you relying on a foreign country to pay? You know, it's,

00:27:36.440 it's, it's so frustrating. But it's also a lie, Joe. Because Macron and the entire French 0.73

00:27:44.300 idea is a patriotic nationalism. And, and that's true. Sometimes Trudeau flip-flops all the

00:27:51.800 time. Sometimes he actually claims there are Canadian values. He might say they're even

00:27:56.100 embodied in the charter. He talks about Canadianism. He tries to own that. So he likes to own the

00:28:01.720 Canadian nation when it suits him. And then he disparages it when we say.

00:28:05.980 He's got a big, Trudeau has a big problem as well, is that he saw himself as kind of the

00:28:10.520 foil to the president. But now it's kind of Macron and Merkel's kind of taken a bit of a backseat

00:28:15.860 to it. I must say, though, I think that if you take that speech out of it and talk, talk about

00:28:21.960 Prime Minister Trudeau, I think he did pretty well over there this weekend. And I wanted to say that

00:28:26.120 he went to Vimy and I was very proud of that. And I think he did well last year as well. So you're

00:28:32.720 right. He is kind of complicated. I don't understand, you know, this whole thing about Canada

00:28:38.820 wanting to be closer to Europe than it does to the United States when it's booming. You know,

00:28:43.600 here's the center of this whole thing, too, is that, and I believe this to be true, what I'm

00:28:48.240 going to say now, I think that what's at stake here is that whole left-right thing that I'm not

00:28:54.140 saying that they're Marxists, but they've got that kind of socialist mentality that the state is kind

00:29:00.160 of it. And Trump is obviously opposite of that, but he's also getting results, Ezra. You're starting

00:29:06.100 to see African-Americans and Hispanics that are starting to thrive and look around and going,

00:29:10.440 hey, wait a minute, I can do this. And of course, that is death to the socialist thinking because

00:29:16.300 they want everything in a box and they want the purse strings controlled by them. They have to 1.00

00:29:21.960 do this to Trump. And that's why they're going at him. I don't know why David Frum would do it,

00:29:26.520 but, you know, the whole thing is funded with tax dollars, if you look at it. And if I were

00:29:32.700 President Trump, what I would have said to the Macron quote about the army is, we're going to

00:29:38.880 pull, thank you, good for you, you got this, pull all the American troops out of Europe and all other 0.69

00:29:45.500 parts of the world with the exception of, you know, the interest in Saudi Arabia and Israel and places

00:29:49.460 like that that you can't. There actually are no American troops in Saudi Arabia or Israel, which

00:29:54.080 is interesting. Well, but they're not too far away. Right, yeah. And they're ready to help if needed.

00:29:59.000 Yeah. And both those countries are desperately grateful to it. Yeah. Yeah. Crazy stuff. You

00:30:03.860 know what? It's, I think Trump, to me, the big story of the weekend is the reality of Trump doing

00:30:10.000 a good job versus the media perception of he was an unpatriotic disaster. Well, I heard that today.

00:30:17.100 They said he was a disgrace and he went over there. So he went over there for the troops, but he gets

00:30:22.080 to come back to, he disgraced the country when that's not true. That's why no one believes.

00:30:26.120 It's just like, you know, we haven't talked about it, but the Jim Acosta business, and you've done

00:30:30.180 a good job of showing that. I mean, the reality is that, I mean, it's not the biggest deal all the

00:30:35.620 time, but Acosta did cause it. Try to go to any news conference, whether it's Chief Saunders here in

00:30:41.840 Toronto, or if you go to Prime Minister Trudeau, anywhere, and ask four questions and argue with

00:30:46.520 him and see how long you get to do it for. Yeah. Good point. I mean, it's ridiculous. So...

00:30:50.120 Try that at the CNN annual general meeting as a shareholder that kick you out.

00:30:54.980 Is there shareholders of CNN? Yeah, I presume...

00:30:57.460 Maybe you should get some of them here for the rubble. Yeah, that's right.

00:30:59.800 Maybe they want to make some money.

00:31:02.040 Joe, it's great to see you. Thanks very much for being on the show.

00:31:04.400 Good to be here.

00:31:04.660 Hey, welcome back. On my monologue Friday about Remembrance Day, Norbert writes,

00:31:18.760 I want to thank Ezra for once again bringing this issue forward. An excellent shanty song.

00:31:23.300 Always love the poem. Thanks. Yeah, you know, I like the poem too. Obviously, Flanders Field's

00:31:28.800 a great poem. I like the Tommy Atkins one because it's a little more, what do we do now? You know,

00:31:36.000 what do we actually do for veterans? And that song by the Dreadnoughts, their version of what

00:31:40.460 Johnny will happen to you, a little sad, a little sad in a different way. I don't know. You tell me

00:31:47.720 if you think it's an anti-war song. Barb writes, it is the Canadian public that must demand better

00:31:53.560 government treatment for our currently serving military and all military veterans.

00:31:56.720 The joined voices of Canadians who respect and appreciate Canada's military veterans

00:32:00.980 must learn to all yell together to make sure governments can no longer undermine

00:32:04.780 the defenders of our freedom. You're right. We have detected amongst veterans groups a shyness

00:32:14.220 because they are often reliant on the government for funding, for access or approval. So they're

00:32:22.020 sort of conditioned. They're obedient. I think that's fine most of the time. Most of the times

00:32:27.360 veterans and their families should have a normal, healthy working relationship with the government,

00:32:32.460 but there should be a bad cop too. There should be some organization that doesn't care if Justin

00:32:37.700 Trudeau or Harjeet Sajjan or Seamus O'Regan blacklists them because they don't care. Their loyalty

00:32:43.060 is first and only to the vets. I don't know if we have a group like that in Canada.

00:32:46.700 Stephen writes, Trudeau found $41 million to give to Afghanistan for its veterans,

00:32:53.920 $2 million for an Afghan hospital, $2 billion for public low-income housing in India, $600 million

00:32:59.220 for third world abortions, $15 million for the billionaire Aga Khan, $45 million for the

00:33:03.920 disgraced Clinton Foundation, $2 billion to help fight climate change international, but not a nickel

00:33:08.260 for our troops, veterans or Canadians in general. Stephen, your statistics look at first blush to be

00:33:14.740 accurate to me. It's very frustrating. You could add to that, of course, the $10 million a pop he gives

00:33:22.160 to Omar Khadr and at least three other terrorists or terrorist suspects too. I think he just comes

00:33:31.600 at things from an alienist point of view. What does that mean? I'm not sure if that's a real word.

00:33:38.500 I've heard it used by Peter Brimelow. An alienist is the opposite of a nativist.

00:33:45.820 Donald Trump is America first. Maybe Justin Trudeau is Canada last. So an alienist, opposite of a

00:33:53.900 nativist, would put someone else's cause ahead of his own country, would take the enemy's point of

00:33:59.600 view as opposed to his own countryman's point of view. An alienist is someone who would say,

00:34:04.260 we really ought to listen to ISIS returnees. They have a powerful voice we could all learn from. 0.56

00:34:09.960 As opposed to saying, no, no, we're going to side with our military vets. I think Justin Trudeau

00:34:15.360 takes the side of the other, which is interesting in some philosophical debates, but when it comes

00:34:22.600 to life and death and terrorism and war, it's not interesting. It's disloyal. That's the show for today.

00:34:28.580 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:34:32.440 Keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - November 13, 2018

A Christian woman is hunted by Muslim extremists in Pakistan. Why doesn’t the world care？

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