Rebel News Podcast - June 30, 2026


EZRA LEVANT ｜ I went to that Regina mosque that blasts the Muslim call to prayer


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00:00:00.000 Tonight, the Lord's Prayer is out, and the Muslim call to prayer is in.
00:00:05.400 It's June 29th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
00:00:09.140 You're ready for freedom! 0.70
00:00:11.980 Shame on you, you censorious bug!
00:00:23.620 Ezra Levant here for Rebel News.
00:00:25.880 On this sunny summer's day, I'm in the heart of Regina,
00:00:29.020 saskatchewan regina is the latin word for queen in fact i'm standing on victoria avenue behind me
00:00:36.740 is queen elizabeth court it's what they call that massive city hall i wouldn't have thought they
00:00:42.100 needed such a big city hall to run a city of 270 000 but there it is we really are in the center
00:00:48.860 of town over there is the court of king's bench over there is the taxation office around where
00:00:54.660 we are within a block or two in many directions are several old churches, the most prestigious
00:00:59.720 hotel in town. It is the center of the action. There's even a YWCA, Young Women's Christian
00:01:05.920 Association building over there. But there's a new arrival in the heart of Regina, and it's just
00:01:11.880 down at the end of the block there. An old building has been bought and is being renovated
00:01:17.160 to be turned into two things. One of them is an Islamic school, the other an Islamic mosque.
00:01:24.660 Now, on the face of it, that's how it is.
00:01:26.860 You bring people from around the world with different faiths.
00:01:29.340 They have freedom of religion in Canada, something they often don't have in other countries. 0.97
00:01:33.660 But this mosque is a little bit different.
00:01:36.800 Last week, it decided that it would blast the call to prayer called the Adan in Arabic
00:01:44.560 for the entire downtown core to hear.
00:01:54.660 The call to prayer is just what it sounds like.
00:01:58.240 And if you've ever been to the Middle East, you may have heard it in its natural habitat.
00:02:03.820 The muazin or the singer climbs typically the top of a minaret and calls people to prayer.
00:02:10.220 Because that's how it was when Islam was founded some 1400 or so years ago.
00:02:16.360 There weren't cell phones to call people. 0.88
00:02:19.100 There weren't electronic alarms or apps.
00:02:21.820 you called people out by singing a prayer. It's 2026, and this is Regina. Why are you blasting
00:02:30.520 a call to prayer? Well, it's a question that a lot of Regina's were asking, and the answer is, well,
00:02:37.120 I'm not sure if they were persuasive, especially since some of the answers came from Regina's
00:02:43.120 police department. Bizarrely, the police weighed in on this matter, saying they're making notes of
00:02:48.900 anyone who's hateful, and there may be criminal charges. Now, noise is a sensitive issue in every
00:02:56.040 city. And on one hand, I mean, there's the sound of everyday life and traffic and whatnot. But even
00:03:02.160 right in front of City Hall, you can see that there are citizens petitioning for noise-dampening
00:03:08.020 rules, noise-dampening walls. Noise is an issue. And for this mosque to go ahead and blast the call
00:03:15.780 to prayer in all four directions, what are they doing that for? It's not like there's Muslims 1.00
00:03:21.740 wandering by who would have forgotten what time it is and they need this. That is a dominance move. 1.00
00:03:27.500 That is a political dominance move to assert their territory. It's similar to what we've seen
00:03:34.180 in other Canadian cities like Toronto and Montreal, where hundreds of Muslim lie down for prayers
00:03:41.020 in the middle of the street there's a hundred mosques in montreal a hundred mosques in toronto
00:03:46.160 there's no need to pray in the street i say again that's a territorial domination move
00:03:51.480 and there's one more thing that's on my mind of course it's not just the noise it's the message
00:03:58.260 itself i looked up the adan to get a translation i already knew what some of the words meant you
00:04:04.000 probably do too it starts with allahu akbar four times in a row you probably know that means
00:04:10.040 Allah, the Muslim God, is the greatest.
00:04:12.620 And it goes on from there.
00:04:13.940 Let me read it to you.
00:04:15.540 Allahu Akbar.
00:04:17.120 Allah is the greatest.
00:04:18.180 Allah is the greatest.
00:04:18.900 Four times.
00:04:20.080 And then it says, I bear witness that there is no God but Allah.
00:04:25.260 And that's repeated.
00:04:26.780 And then there's a few more lines.
00:04:28.500 And then there's come to prayer, come to success.
00:04:31.960 Allah is the greatest.
00:04:32.980 There is no God but Allah.
00:04:36.680 And that's said in Arabic.
00:04:38.900 How do you feel about a message being blasted all over town that there is no God?
00:04:43.740 There's a church literally across the street from that mosque.
00:04:47.080 It's going to be blasted with messages that there is no God.
00:04:50.560 Who are you praying to?
00:04:51.740 A Jewish God? 0.81
00:04:52.500 A Christian God?
00:04:53.780 You revere Jesus?
00:04:55.860 Who do you follow? 0.81
00:04:56.740 There's no God but Allah.
00:04:57.940 Don't you know that?
00:04:59.360 And even if you think you have a God, don't you know that Allah is greater?
00:05:03.500 They're going to blast that out on the loudspeakers.
00:05:05.720 You know, I've seen the regime media cover this story fawningly.
00:05:09.680 They don't want to talk about it.
00:05:10.900 They want to sneak this in the back door.
00:05:12.540 I don't know why, other than it undermines Canada's Christian heritage. 0.97
00:05:16.440 I mentioned Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria. 1.00
00:05:19.120 The city is named for the queens.
00:05:20.980 You may or may not know this, but constitutionally, the British monarch is the head of the Church of England.
00:05:27.240 There actually is a state religion in the UK, and those monarchs are our monarchs too.
00:05:32.820 King Charles is the head of the Church of England.
00:05:36.560 Now, of course, we do have freedom of religion. 0.53
00:05:38.900 But since when do we repaint Regina or any other Canadian city as an Islamic territory?
00:05:45.860 Since when do we grant them a special status? 0.97
00:05:48.880 And don't use the word diversity to me.
00:05:51.120 Don't use the word tolerance.
00:05:52.860 When the message you're blasting is there are no other religions, then there are no other gods.
00:05:56.800 And when you're aiming that at the churches in the area, don't tell me that that's a message
00:06:02.500 of diversity. That is a domination tactic to blast at the city hall, to blast at the Young
00:06:08.800 Women's Christians Organization, to blast at the churches and cathedrals. That's what that's about. 1.00
00:06:15.360 It's 11 a.m. We're here a little bit early because they're going to have a press conference
00:06:20.080 at 1 p.m., the hour that they intend to blast the message out today. It'll be interesting to see
00:06:26.580 if they let Rebel News in.
00:06:28.540 They did send us a formal invitation, which we took up.
00:06:32.140 In fact, we flew all the way to Regina.
00:06:33.940 It's more expensive to get here than you think.
00:06:36.320 If you're glad that we're out here to have independent reporting on this
00:06:39.180 rather than the fawning coverage of the CBC, 0.87
00:06:41.500 please go to StopIslamicDomination.com
00:06:44.340 to help chip in a few dollars towards our airfare and sign our petition.
00:06:49.340 I think that it's important that the political leaders of this city 0.63
00:06:52.700 realize that this move to assert dominion over the heart of the city by one religious group
00:06:58.860 preaching intolerance when you say there's no other god but Allah when you say Allah is the
00:07:04.260 best and when you're blasting that at the church I'm sorry you can't get away with saying that's
00:07:08.160 about diversity you just can't all right we've got two hours to the press conference I'll let
00:07:12.320 you know how it goes. Do you guys have an opinion about the mosque playing the call to prayer over 0.99
00:07:25.840 the loudspeakers? Have you heard about that one? No, I'm worried about it. I'm a Lutheran pastor
00:07:30.300 and I think that religious freedom is extremely important in our society and that we're much
00:07:37.540 too quick to clamp down on people who may look or think or believe a little differently.
00:07:42.640 Can I talk to you about the mosque? About the call to prayer? How do you feel about the call
00:07:46.780 to prayer that's going to be maybe Adan? Sorry, I don't have that. Okay, no problem. See you later.
00:07:53.040 Maybe he needs to hear the call to prayer to remember to go in. Yeah, I don't want to.
00:07:57.860 That's a spicy one, isn't it? Yeah, I know. Okay, see ya. For what? For Apple News? Yeah. Oh,
00:08:02.440 I'm okay. Thank you. Okay, see ya. Have you heard that? No. Do you have an opinion on that?
00:08:08.440 No comment.
00:08:09.480 Okay, thank you.
00:08:11.620 No comment.
00:08:12.880 How do you feel about the call to prayer being broadcast on the speakers?
00:08:18.420 My English slow.
00:08:21.660 Throat.
00:08:23.300 Yeah, now concentration close the road, yeah. 0.99
00:08:25.680 Do you go to that mosque there?
00:08:28.360 Mosque?
00:08:28.880 Yeah.
00:08:29.280 Yeah, I don't know.
00:08:30.420 Me here mosque?
00:08:31.300 Yeah. 0.99
00:08:31.660 Yeah, okay.
00:08:32.780 Yeah.
00:08:33.000 Do you go to a mosque around here?
00:08:38.040 Do you go to that one?
00:08:40.180 Which mosque is this area?
00:08:41.920 Downtown, I don't know.
00:08:43.180 I go out south to another place.
00:08:45.700 Where are you from originally?
00:08:47.060 I'm from Ethiopia.
00:08:48.420 Ethiopia.
00:08:49.020 Yeah.
00:08:49.320 Okay, nice to talk with you.
00:08:50.640 Thank you very much.
00:08:51.240 Bye-bye.
00:08:52.040 We don't want to answer no questions.
00:08:54.080 We'll see when it starts.
00:08:55.460 Oh, okay.
00:08:56.140 Yeah, we don't like rebel news.
00:08:57.640 Rebel news is fake.
00:08:59.080 Oh, okay. 0.99
00:08:59.540 You guys are fake, man. 0.98
00:09:00.420 You guys like to start problems. 0.99
00:09:01.640 you guys don't come to our community starting problems man you guys just bring your 1.00
00:09:05.640 alt-right bullshit to canada you know putting me on camera too all you guys are alt-right 1.00
00:09:12.160 you guys are like the maga of canada you guys are like the maga of canada you guys are not 0.99
00:09:17.520 welcomed in canada you guys are not welcome in our community so please just exit well where are 0.97
00:09:22.120 you from originally where are you from originally i'm from canada fourth generation too we have an
00:09:26.960 accent no i don't have an accent you have an accent i don't think you're actually from canada
00:09:30.960 Scottish. I think you're Scottish.
00:09:32.720 You know, that's a compliment.
00:09:33.900 You guys are Scottish. You guys are not Canadian, man.
00:09:35.980 I'll take that as a compliment. 1.00
00:09:37.400 Don't act like you're Canadian. 1.00
00:09:40.560 That is my name. How are you? 1.00
00:09:42.620 Nice to meet you.
00:09:43.820 So why are you here today?
00:09:45.800 I just want to see what's going on down here.
00:09:47.580 I see a lot of stuff in the media. I want to see it for myself.
00:09:50.140 Looks like there's a bit of a crowd gathering.
00:09:52.640 What's the buzz in the community?
00:09:54.020 A lot of people don't want to talk to us.
00:09:55.300 I think they're afraid of publicly saying something that is politically incorrect.
00:09:59.120 well that's pretty much the norm these days isn't it being called a racist for
00:10:03.620 everything yeah I think that's what's happening
00:10:13.120 how are you doing today I'm Andrew it's my friend Lincoln do we expect someone
00:10:18.240 from the police to I was gonna say is there anyone from the police that's gonna
00:10:21.080 say anything okay that's all I'm asking there's someone gonna be speaking here
00:10:26.360 today from the police? So they won't be here in person or they will be? You're not being very
00:10:34.100 helpful. I mean, I'm not asking you a substantive question. I just want to know, will the police
00:10:40.120 spokesman be here or not? Are you here to make hate crime charges against people who question
00:10:49.100 the mosque? That's an easy one to say no to if the answer is no. All right. There's Regina's
00:10:58.160 Finest. My first question was a pretty simple one. Will there be a spokesman from the Regina
00:11:04.460 police here? And the reason I ask is threefold. First of all, it's very unusual. I think I have
00:11:12.800 to look into this some more to get a broadcasting permit, a sound or a noise permit from the
00:11:18.920 police rather than from city hall why is it happening through the police second of all is
00:11:24.720 the regina police put out a statement that could only be seen as menacing if you ask the wrong
00:11:29.280 questions you could be facing criminal prosecutions i would also ask hey how are you boss i'm trying
00:11:35.660 to find a spokesman is there going to be a spokesman down here today do you know if there's
00:11:41.380 going to be a spokesman down here today no no you're just here to make sure nothing gets out of
00:11:46.260 hand? They're not so brave when the camera's on. But what I want to know is why are the police
00:11:57.900 putting out statements with some menace behind it? Who told them to do so? Did the mosque ask for
00:12:04.060 that? Did a politician ask for that? The police involvement here is not trivial. We tried to ask
00:12:10.500 a bunch of people in Saskatchewan, in Regina here, what they thought of this, and they were afraid to
00:12:15.700 to say anything at most they said no comment and others said oh i can't answer that i wonder if it's
00:12:21.780 because they're worried they're going to face a hate speech charge i think it's really weird
00:12:25.460 to have what they call in law prior restraint to threaten in advance if the police want to make a
00:12:31.960 charge because something bad happened fill your boots but to say that before anything happened
00:12:37.120 before there was any criticism to threaten people that's called prior restraint and and i think it's
00:12:43.280 highly inappropriate for the police to have done so and I think they sort of know it because they're
00:12:48.200 not answering any questions are they they won't even tell me if they can answer questions by the
00:12:52.880 way you know I grew up in in Calgary I'm out east these days but Regina in particular has a really
00:12:59.900 bad crime problem and I'm not going to get into the details of it but believe it or not on a
00:13:05.580 proportionate basis on a population basis it's one of the most violent cities in Canada and you can
00:13:11.740 sort of see it just walking around the downtown core but the police think it's so important to
00:13:16.880 threaten people questioning a mosque broadcast that they've got a couple of police cars here 0.56
00:13:21.280 and some warning so that's the priority for crime fighting in regina taxpayers it's people who
00:13:27.440 question a broadcast from a mosque there's a lot of police here and i tried to ask them about their
00:13:33.080 tweet that i thought was a little bit menacing where they suggested if you say the wrong thing
00:13:37.220 you could be in trouble what do you make of that whole thing i mean democracy's gone right um i
00:13:43.940 don't know what i'm allowed to say i came as a catholic just to represent myself here in my
00:13:47.680 church i don't know what i can say i really don't i i mean i've heard people talk about coming and
00:13:52.940 just blaring their car horns or something but even that could be a noise violation now or a hate
00:13:56.700 crime what is hate you know define hate i don't even know anymore those words have no meaning
00:14:01.240 anymore so what do we do i think the mosque broadcasting is beautiful in my opinion are
00:14:08.040 you muslim yourself i'm muslim yeah could you tell by looking at me uh well the beard you know and
00:14:13.320 uh that was just a guess on my part okay and the fact that you used the word beautiful what's uh 0.67
00:14:18.800 what's your stand on it well i'm trying to figure it out to me i i let me put the my harshest
00:14:24.260 criticisms to you so i'm gonna put my toughest stuff to you okay so one of them is you don't
00:14:30.880 need to broadcast the call to prayer in 2026 you don't need to you know in you know a thousand
00:14:37.300 years ago maybe that's what you needed to get people to come to prayer now you don't need to
00:14:41.360 interrupt 95 percent of the people right um so that's the first thing the second thing is it's 0.67
00:14:47.260 a kind of domination right and then the third is domination well it's it's you know Allah who
00:14:53.980 Akbar Allah is the greatest I do God is the greatest well Allah in particular right yeah
00:14:59.620 But Allah in particular, it's not one being Allah has 99 names.
00:15:03.740 Did you know that?
00:15:04.900 So let's what about my first point, which is we don't need to broadcast to call the prayer in 2026.
00:15:11.140 What do you think of that?
00:15:11.940 My rebuttal to that would be it's just cultural, right?
00:15:15.700 If you're promoting multiculturalism in Canada or even in Regina itself, it's just a cultural thing.
00:15:22.180 Nobody's forcing you to pray, but you're being forced to listen to it.
00:15:25.860 But you're forced to listen to church bells then because they ring down the street.
00:15:29.960 I was on Sunday walking down the street.
00:15:32.560 I heard it.
00:15:33.400 And what did the church bell say?
00:15:34.980 It doesn't say anything.
00:15:36.020 It's just the sound.
00:15:36.780 It's the same thing as blasting music down the road.
00:15:38.780 Does that disturb you?
00:15:40.600 Well, I think the fact that it's a religious message, Allah is the greatest.
00:15:45.480 There's no God but Allah.
00:15:48.320 If that was in English and it was... 0.91
00:15:50.720 There's no God but God.
00:15:52.000 That's the only...
00:15:52.800 If you translate that to English, which I can...
00:15:55.080 So let's say you're Hindu and you believe in multiple deities.
00:15:58.660 Why do you have to listen to someone saying that you don't have a real God?
00:16:03.320 That's totally their thing.
00:16:05.160 Nobody's going to stop them on the street and tell them,
00:16:07.320 hey, that's not a real God.
00:16:09.020 You're believing the wrong thing. 1.00
00:16:10.180 Well, but this mosque is going to broadcast that, 1.00
00:16:12.640 and they have to listen to it. 0.92
00:16:13.420 They're telling you to go pray, whether you believe in Jesus.
00:16:16.800 But no one else does that.
00:16:18.020 No other religious group does that in Canada.
00:16:20.260 No other religious group broadcasts a prayer.
00:16:22.760 How are you telling me that when the Christians play the bells, bells is the call to prayer, it's the same message?
00:16:28.020 Even if that were the same, and I don't think it is, this is a Christian country, it was founded by Christians.
00:16:32.760 It was founded by indigenous people, really. It was taken over by Christians. 0.95
00:16:38.380 Your cathedral is literally kitty-corner to the new mosque. What's your view on the call to prayer being broadcast on loudspeakers? 1.00
00:16:46.860 Yeah. I think it's great, actually. As a faith leader that shares this space downtown, I'm happy to share the space. I'm happy that we exist in this country under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees that my community and any other community can worship the way that they want to and they feel called to.
00:17:03.140 I'm not angered. I'm not mad. I'm intrigued as to why this is happening in a Christian nation without like a consent. There was no consent of never mind all the people. People are saying they weren't asked. They didn't even ask the first people of the first nations or no. I didn't hear there was no voting.
00:17:27.140 Like, there should have been a, maybe like a vote of the, how should I say, like a poll, maybe a poll in the city, before they tested the waters with something like this.
00:17:45.940 The call to prayer says there's no God but Allah, and Allah's the greatest.
00:17:51.960 And Allah means God. 0.97
00:17:53.660 Well, it's the Muslim God, it's not the Christian God.
00:17:55.980 it's the it's the arabic word for god no so the word in arabic for god but it doesn't refer to
00:18:02.380 jewish or christian gods if you're speaking to arabic speaking christians yes it does
00:18:06.860 or if you're speaking to arabic speaking jews it does they say allah yes okay um the word for god
00:18:13.180 to use to speak about god what do you think no i don't have an opinion fair enough i'm as much
00:18:18.700 canadian as you you know that i'm as much canadian as you well do you believe in the separation of
00:18:24.140 mosque and state who believes in that so you don't have that have to do with here well you're
00:18:30.540 projecting uh muslim call to prayer in a secular city when the church bells rings do you do anything 1.00
00:18:37.020 oh does it you know so that's why you guys are not welcomed in our community man do you have an 0.99
00:18:42.220 objection to it absolutely this is in the middle east broadcast in some languages nobody understands
00:18:49.340 you know where's all the french and english that's right but it's not bilingual we used to
00:18:56.160 be bilingual anymore once in a while the church bell rings isn't it the same what would you say
00:19:02.260 to him not at all the bells are literally no different from the glockenspiel down there just
00:19:05.960 telling you what time it is essentially this is a call for again i don't know what i'm allowed to
00:19:11.000 say right it's different and anybody who's read the quran knows what i'm talking about and i'll
00:19:14.620 leave it at that you can't control everything in the world man all i'm saying is you know i see
00:19:20.400 something in toronto and even freedom right yeah should i have the freedom to express whatever god
00:19:26.560 i like right but but freedom is different from the power to broadcast it over everyone here and
00:19:34.020 and by the way i i would doubt that anyone trial brother yeah well and then what's next people
00:19:39.700 really don't like it it's a ratchet it will stop really i don't think it'll i think things
00:19:44.500 only go one way i think that there's an islamification of the public square in canada
00:19:49.060 i think there's big islamophobia in canada well i mean some people are afraid of islam because
00:19:54.440 they see terrorism done in the name of islam i think people just take on uh whatever they see
00:19:59.440 on the internet and live with it well i'm muslim i don't i've never committed a terrorist i believe
00:20:04.460 you act i would never do something like i'm very glad yeah but many people people calling me 0.99
00:20:09.640 terrorists well and that's unfortunate but do you unfortunate but it's your people muslims don't go
00:20:15.760 around telling people you're a terrorist just because you're that color you're that religion 1.00
00:20:20.240 nobody does that but christians committed bare acts lots of infidelity lots of like disgusting 0.85
00:20:28.020 acts in the world but no like it's something you're just looking to fight but it's nothing 1.00
00:20:33.180 to fight what if you don't want to have your daily existence interrupted by a moment of islam 0.99
00:20:39.120 Yeah, first of all, I'll just correct you there. We do ring our bells on occasion, and that's for everybody. 0.98
00:20:46.060 Are you equated?
00:20:46.900 For an entire day.
00:20:47.860 Is that the same as actual specific messages about there's no God but Allah? It seems that it's fairly different.
00:20:54.560 Well, I think you could probably understand it as being different. I don't, because that's an expression of our faithful understanding.
00:21:01.320 This is an expression of theirs. So I don't see any difference there.
00:21:04.780 And actually, as far as noise downtown, if you were to stay here any longer than about 10 minutes, what you would hear over and over again, aside from the reason that you're here, are ambulances and fire trucks that are being called out multiple times a day.
00:21:19.660 But there's no political reason. There's no political meaning behind those sirens. You're not being forced to listen to a Islamic prayer in the siren. The siren is get out of the way. We're saving a life.
00:21:29.300 Yeah, that's also, I think, a call to each one of us to be aware of things that are actually problems in our neighborhood.
00:21:37.320 The call to prayer is not a problem.
00:21:40.280 I strongly believe that Canada is a Christian nation and that it was founded on the treaties.
00:21:46.680 And this is maybe an attack on the identity of a Canadian identity and the treaties that we founded this nation.
00:21:54.500 because we'd founded the treaties and the basis of this nation on Christian values.
00:22:00.040 Everyone within a kilometre hearing this, whether they want to or not.
00:22:06.100 So the bell is a different thing than a message.
00:22:08.720 It's exactly the same message that the bell gives.
00:22:11.340 And the church did that for how many hundreds of years?
00:22:16.540 Like over a thousand.
00:22:18.100 But isn't Canada a Christian country in its values, in its history, in its culture?
00:22:27.240 Isn't Canada a multicultural democracy in its cultures and its value?
00:22:31.880 Yes, it is. And it is not and was not founded as a Christian country.
00:22:37.160 Neither was the United States of America.
00:22:38.760 It was founded on religious freedom because the people who came here as colonizers had suffered through the Thirty Years' War. 0.99
00:22:46.720 and they didn't want to repeat that kind of stupid insanity and that devalues destroys and 0.98
00:22:54.400 undermines the very foundation of christianity when you use christianity as a cudgel to those 0.99
00:23:00.560 of other faiths christianity by the way also only functions well when it's in the underclass 0.79
00:23:06.960 and not in power when the church gets in bed with the emperor the church gets a social disease
00:23:13.280 You guys are bringing your division, your conspiracy theorists.
00:23:17.460 Like what? Give me a conspiracy theorist, man.
00:23:19.860 Give me an example.
00:23:21.200 You guys are not welcomed, man.
00:23:22.480 Well, we are welcomed. We were specifically invited by the imam.
00:23:25.840 You guys are not welcomed here, man.
00:23:27.460 Well, maybe not by you, but I don't even know your name.
00:23:29.720 You guys are coming here with your fake news.
00:23:31.920 Yeah, you're repeating yourself. I think you've run out of things to say.
00:23:34.280 No, no, I don't. I know what you guys are about. I know what you guys' agenda is about.
00:23:38.080 You guys are just here to antagonize people.
00:23:40.160 i haven't said a word to you you you antagonize fake news there shouldn't be rebel news there
00:23:45.680 should be fake news i don't want to say it's fear because like i mean if you read the bible a lot
00:23:51.280 of people went to jail for this kind of stuff i'm trying i'm just trying not to be a coward but at
00:23:55.200 the same time too oh man i just have no words right now i don't know what i'm allowed to say
00:23:59.680 i am genuinely rattled by this and i know a lot of people in the city are too and it's just it's
00:24:04.400 gotta stop listen you and i have had a good conversation here i appreciate it thanks
00:24:07.600 very much for stopping to talk with me. Well that tells me everything right there doesn't it?
00:24:15.120 You know when you say that there's not a that there's been a separation of church and state
00:24:18.240 I know that that our particular denomination was was right in there with uh with forcefully
00:24:22.560 forcing people into residential schools uh based on their on their race um we joined with the
00:24:27.920 government in that there's not been a separation of church and state so again I don't I don't see
00:24:33.120 I don't see that there's a problem and I don't see it as as bustling in I see that the police are here
00:24:37.280 because I've been talking to them all week, to make sure that everyone in this place is kept safe, regardless of what you believe.
00:24:42.540 I see it as an erosion on maybe an attack on the treaty and the Canadian identity.
00:24:47.900 And I'm very, I don't know, I'm passionate in upholding, as an Indigenous young man,
00:24:55.820 upholding the past and tradition and what the treaty is and what this nation stood for at the end of the day.
00:25:03.160 Should there be a separation of Washington State or not?
00:25:05.600 I mean, you're saying for five minutes, okay.
00:25:08.220 Why not?
00:25:09.500 Well, because some people don't want to hear an Islamic evangelical message. 0.61
00:25:15.440 And some people don't want to hear the bells proclaiming.
00:25:18.360 I've never heard that.
00:25:19.860 And a bell is just a tone.
00:25:21.940 Listen, I really enjoyed talking with you.
00:25:23.980 You've had some great points, and I appreciate you stopping to talk to me.
00:25:27.560 All the best.
00:25:28.560 Hopefully this will be figured out somehow.
00:25:30.300 Yes.
00:25:30.740 Thanks, guys.
00:25:31.340 If we can all learn to love each other, we can figure it out easily.
00:25:33.780 All right. Well, let's not talk about the jihad. Very interesting folks there.
00:25:38.420 You know what CBC is?
00:25:39.620 No, man. You guys have an agenda.
00:25:42.820 We got a lot of nerve saying he doesn't belong here and I don't belong here.
00:25:45.940 We were here before you were. Nobody says you're not welcome.
00:25:50.260 We don't force our religion down your throat.
00:25:52.420 Why are you trying to force your religion down our throat?
00:25:54.500 We keep forcing on you guys. We have our permits. We have our permits. 1.00
00:25:56.820 A permit.
00:25:57.620 How do you get a permit from the police? That's a new one, isn't it?
00:26:00.980 No, that's not a new one.
00:26:02.260 People have the premise from police all the time.
00:26:05.260 Do you think the police should arrest Rebel News? 0.53
00:26:07.300 Rebel News? No.
00:26:08.260 No. OK, just checking news.
00:26:10.540 We put it online.
00:26:12.180 You know, you are online posted online, not rebel.
00:26:15.460 We are. We are nothing but rebel, but fake.
00:26:18.500 All right.
00:26:19.180 From what I can tell, this went through the police rather than City Hall.
00:26:23.140 I've heard that now, again, politicians are the most politically correct people around.
00:26:28.620 They're worried about what the media says.
00:26:30.180 They're worried about all sorts of things.
00:26:32.220 If this goes to the broader city council, how do you think it's going to go?
00:26:37.520 Well, I hope it goes good. How do I think?
00:26:39.580 I don't like to make predictions or assume anything in the world anymore
00:26:43.180 because it could go either way now at this point.
00:26:45.440 But yeah, no idea. No idea. I can't even predict.
00:26:49.060 Hopefully the best. 1.00
00:26:51.160 Isn't Canada a Christian country? 1.00
00:26:54.140 No. No, I think that at times different people
00:26:58.880 who came from different Christian denominations
00:27:00.800 or from a Judeo-Christian
00:27:02.680 background were the ones who
00:27:04.760 in the way that this place was colonized
00:27:07.020 definitely gave
00:27:09.000 shape to the fabric here.
00:27:10.640 But I don't think it's fair to say
00:27:12.840 as a Christian leader, I don't think it's fair to say
00:27:14.980 that this place is a Christian country. 0.96
00:27:16.980 Well, what is it then?
00:27:18.460 This place is a constitutional monarchy.
00:27:21.060 And so we exist under a parliamentary
00:27:23.100 system. But the king is the head of the Church
00:27:24.980 of England.
00:27:26.560 He is on paper, yeah.
00:27:28.440 But he's not making decisions on behalf of the church.
00:27:31.940 So I'm trying to understand, if it's not a Christian country, what are the values that infuse it then?
00:27:37.160 It's certainly not Islamic values.
00:27:39.620 What would you categorize as Islamic values? 0.99
00:27:42.380 Well, I would, you know, I think I look around the world and there's no Muslim country that has the equality of men and women,
00:27:49.360 that has protection for minorities, that has the liberties that we do. 1.00
00:27:53.540 I think, unfortunately, Muslim countries have a propensity towards solving problems through violence, through the jihad.
00:28:00.640 So I don't think that those are I think that those are some of the qualities I look around the world contemporarily and historically. 0.99
00:28:07.460 Obviously, thank God, most Muslims or many Muslims do not subscribe to those views. 0.98
00:28:12.400 But I don't think it's accurate to say that Canada is infused with Muslim values. 1.00
00:28:16.600 I just don't think it is.
00:28:17.460 yeah i i think that canada is infused with uh with the values of inclusion and welcome
00:28:23.820 but you guys are not welcoming you guys trying to act tell me
00:28:26.900 well you're the one who told us i have to leave you're the one who told me i have to leave but 0.98
00:28:30.600 i'm not welcome you're like a freaking fourth generation scottish or something or irish or 0.99
00:28:34.940 shit like that you know you guys are not even freaking freaking canadians you know what i i 0.99
00:28:41.800 rarely receive compliments like that but being called a fourth generation scots irish 0.99
00:28:46.820 is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me.
00:28:49.960 I love the Scottish people.
00:28:51.880 I love the Irish people.
00:28:53.500 And here we are.
00:28:55.600 I did not expect that today.
00:28:57.060 I'm being called Scots-Irish.
00:28:59.520 I'm going to go have a Guinness.
00:29:00.740 can I ask why you're dealing with the police instead of city council and I mean the police
00:29:26.040 put out a tweet that was slightly menacing, suggesting if people did the wrong thing,
00:29:31.040 they would be charged with a hate crime.
00:29:33.000 Isn't the dialogue that you say you want, isn't the right way to do that through city
00:29:37.720 council, through debate, instead of getting it done through the police?
00:29:41.220 I highly appreciate and I respect what you are saying.
00:29:45.820 I totally agree with you because if there is any problem in between us, it's first to
00:29:52.640 discuss together before we inform the police. It is just not like me that I inform police,
00:29:59.760 it's the police they involve because this is an issue, right, for the greater community.
00:30:07.600 It is not me that I involve police first because the comment that we have received,
00:30:13.120 like from the social media, those are also threats. And when we feel that we also need to
00:30:18.640 contact the police because this is not the counselor issue this is the police
00:30:23.920 issue so what kind of threats like were you receiving or were people in the
00:30:27.640 community receiving give an example the example I can share with you I have
00:30:33.660 received phone calls I have also received emails that is saying the
00:30:43.200 speaker on the rooftop that they are coming and they are taking it out so
00:30:47.960 So that was the one thread, another thread they are saying like they do not understand
00:30:54.840 like what we are saying in Arabic and they are afraid about this and so he was very angry
00:31:03.340 at the beginning and after that I explained him and I said what exactly you feel the problem
00:31:11.040 is.
00:31:12.040 find there are several like ayat like in the Holy Quran that is contradictory with their
00:31:18.220 like a like a like a based on the explanation that they have from from the other people so
00:31:26.620 we discussed on that matter over the phone he was very angry at the beginning and after that
00:31:33.160 he come down and then he said the way you explain it to me I am not only one person I'm calling
00:31:40.300 actually on behalf of 50 other people who are with me so they told me to contact
00:31:45.700 with you to find out what exactly is your planning are you doing it for a
00:31:50.000 short time or you are continuing it for permanently but was there actually
00:31:53.440 threats so someone saying you didn't understand and was angry I don't know if
00:31:57.880 that's a threat so the threats like because they do not understand the
00:32:02.920 meaning of call to prayer so the threat they said they are coming to take the
00:32:09.340 mic out that's one right so another like the call i i received the messages it says to stop
00:32:18.780 like a like a like a call to prayer and he doesn't want to see that um so what will be the consequences
00:32:27.020 like that i don't know because this is the i think in in in canada this is the first attempt
00:32:35.340 that we have taken that we also would like to continue so we'd like to clear to the community
00:32:42.620 like what are they thinking because a different community they have different cultural background
00:32:47.740 some of them maybe they do not understand will you have a public consultation because
00:32:52.860 it i understand that city council felt sort of short-circuited here that you went a different
00:32:58.300 route and only now you're talking about consultations. I went to the city of Regina in person
00:33:04.500 before we have the call to prayer because I do not know what is the bylaw from the city of
00:33:10.100 Regina. Was there a consultation, like a public consultation, public hearing? Like a public
00:33:15.180 hearing because we want to make sure that we follow the rules in Canada, right? So that is
00:33:25.740 the reason because city of Regina just step away and we always keep in touch with them
00:33:32.420 to make sure we are doing everything right. So we understand that there will have a loud
00:33:38.100 speaker and the call to prayer will have a loud sound. So first I thought to visit city
00:33:44.580 of Regina. So I went there and then the lady I spoke with and told me would that be five
00:33:51.500 times a day? Will that be early morning? Will that be at night? And then I clarify all this
00:33:58.260 that no, it will be only on Friday, two to three minutes, the noon time, like before
00:34:03.580 the noon prayer, like because it depends on the sun position. Then she said, no, it is
00:34:10.440 not a problem then. So you need to go in person to the Regina Police Services and you talk
00:34:16.840 with them.
00:34:17.520 a question about christian christianity in the public square the lord's prayer isn't is no longer
00:34:23.200 said at the beginning of meetings or school crosses are being removed from official emblems
00:34:29.520 so christianity is being driven from the public square in the name of diversity or tolerance but 0.96
00:34:35.040 your call to prayer says allah is great allah is the only god so it's bringing islam into the 0.86
00:34:42.000 public square what do you think about people who might say it's a it's a dominating move
00:34:51.040 well i think i think a lot of people think this is a religion in the public square
00:34:56.720 we've removed christianity from the public square why is islam coming into the public square
00:35:04.400 we are not here like to dominate anything right or any any public we are here to follow our 0.99
00:35:11.200 religion. So there are other religions also, right? And we have a religion of freedom in
00:35:18.120 Canada, right? We are free to follow our own religion. But a microphone or an amplification
00:35:26.100 system for one kilometer, people who are critics of Islam, skeptics of Islam, who might be
00:35:33.080 apostates of Islam, must listen to your particular prayer. And they have no choice about it.
00:35:41.200 And so you say it's a religion of freedom, but you're imposing, we call the prayer on anyone within a one kilometer radius.
00:35:48.960 I highly appreciate the question that you are asking.
00:35:52.200 That is also one of the reasons why we pause this Friday, because we also would like the neighbor's opinion about the sound distance, right?
00:36:05.320 So that is what also we are assessing from the local community to understand what are they thinking about the volume of the sound.
00:36:18.360 If it is required to reduce the volume, obviously, because we are here working with each other and helping each other.
00:36:26.720 So if we don't want to bother anybody, so we will assess that to determine the volume of the sound.
00:36:35.320 how far that would be like appropriate from this point so we are thinking that it should be less
00:36:42.120 than one one kilometer because they're in that direction i think there are offices on that
00:36:48.040 direction there are residential areas so we also will visit and check to see what are they thinking
00:36:53.880 because our priority is the neighbors so if the neighbors has no problem we should not have any
00:36:59.640 problem what if they're afraid to say they have a problem i spoke to a number of people who are
00:37:03.640 worried that they'll be deplatformed or canceled if they criticize Islam and of
00:37:08.980 course I did I did streeters outside and a number of people said they don't want 0.98
00:37:14.980 to go on camera criticizing Islam and the police have said that they'll
00:37:20.880 prosecute people who cross the line so I'm can you really hear from people who
00:37:26.380 are skeptics if they're afraid of being called racist they were Islamophobic or
00:37:30.700 they're afraid that all these cops are going to follow through on their threat to prosecute under
00:37:34.540 the hate speech law so this is a new issues arised right so as i mentioned the survey uh we will not
00:37:43.100 we are not collecting any name any contact information right so it will be anonymous so
00:37:50.220 anybody who want like they can participate they can attend right and if anybody they don't like
00:37:57.180 it i would suggest that we also collect those information because the call to prayer will not
00:38:04.220 be for only one day it will be continuous and also based on this area so there are also a specific
00:38:12.780 criteria like whom the president police services take issue permits so as we feel that the that
00:38:20.860 it is not bothering anybody here right because it will not be at night time not early morning
00:38:26.620 is only once a week in the afternoon time. So I don't think this will be a big issue,
00:38:34.220 and that is also the reason, like, we are collecting also the opinion from the neighbors
00:38:40.140 who also will decide what do they want. And there will not be any particular information
00:38:46.620 that we are collecting to identify who attending this search. So you're collecting the information
00:38:51.260 Yes, we are going through from today we are starting a printout survey to share to the
00:39:01.140 local community.
00:39:02.140 Yes, and we also will share this with the regional police services.
00:39:05.580 We also talked about this with them.
00:39:08.160 So there's lots of people following blindly what they see online about this.
00:39:13.120 What do you say to them about their following these people blindly and their hatred and
00:39:17.480 all of that?
00:39:18.480 Yes, that's a very good question, because the problem actually arising, there are many
00:39:27.320 people, they actually don't know what is Islam, right?
00:39:31.640 Because they hear through the media, right, what is happening in Afghanistan, what is
00:39:36.000 happening in Dubai, Qatar, in different countries, right, in Iraq, right?
00:39:40.800 So I'm actually, we are not actually blaming the people who have that negative comment,
00:39:45.980 okay, because we feel sorry, right, because for the last 1,400 years we could not answer
00:39:54.740 those questions, you know, it keeps happening around the world, but this is Canada, right,
00:39:59.620 so if there is any problem and if we are not resolving these issues, that is why I would
00:40:05.800 like also a message from the Saskatchewan Premier and also from the city mayor, right,
00:40:14.980 we have a religion of freedom, so keeping quiet is not answering what exactly we want
00:40:23.460 to do.
00:40:24.460 So we also have children, we also have a generation, we need to end these issues, right? 1.00
00:40:30.920 And here, the Muslim community also from around the world, they are coming here, right?
00:40:37.380 We also don't want them to be treated negatively, right?
00:40:42.140 What is in the religion that is more important than what the people are saying, right?
00:40:49.320 So you know, like we don't expect, you know, to have a positive feedback when they don't
00:40:55.320 have the experience, like the positive experience, right?
00:40:59.240 That is why we need to discuss meet and greet, right?
00:41:02.840 We encourage also like the door is open, right?
00:41:06.460 Anytime anybody they want to come, you know, and meet and greet and talk, right?
00:41:11.440 So we can find out what exactly is the problem, what do we need to do to resolve this problem.
00:41:18.400 I think that is important.
00:41:21.500 Thank you very much for this question, because we also need to reach to the people who have
00:41:27.740 a negative comment.
00:41:29.300 And unfortunately, we don't have the chance to reach them, because we don't know their
00:41:33.880 number, they're in Regina or they're outside of Saskatchewan, we don't know them.
00:41:39.200 So we encourage them because it also will, inshallah, continue.
00:41:43.980 We also encourage everybody, whoever has any questions, come with and greet,
00:41:48.300 have a coffee together and share what we have the positive in between us
00:41:52.980 and share what we can find better and best for the community.
00:41:58.780 More of a comment than a question, but I'm your neighbor directly across the street.
00:42:03.380 We're the oldest place of worship downtown.
00:42:05.860 You'll now be the newest.
00:42:06.680 And so I just wanted to say welcome.
00:42:08.640 And we're glad that you're here and we're here to work together.
00:42:12.980 And we support fully your presence here, your expression here, and look forward to getting to know you.
00:42:18.080 So thanks for being here.
00:42:18.900 And thanks for having everybody here today.
00:42:20.340 Thank you very much.
00:42:21.180 And I highly appreciate that we have the opportunity to meet and greet today.
00:42:26.400 And inshallah, we also will visit along with the other members that we have to your place.
00:42:33.720 And we also will see how we can work together and what opportunity that we can bring for our community here.
00:42:41.080 Well, after all that, they didn't actually play the call to prayer on those speakers strategically located on the roof,
00:42:50.320 which makes sense because that mosque is not in operation,
00:42:54.580 nor was it operational a week ago when they played the call to prayer then either.
00:42:59.540 So it's clearly not done to actually bring people to this mosque.
00:43:04.720 This mosque is not operating.
00:43:06.400 It's about projecting that message into the community and maybe causing a bit of a kerfuffle.
00:43:12.360 I was waiting outside here for that sound to go off.
00:43:16.080 It didn't happen.
00:43:16.980 And then I saw the imam himself come down to the door and usher in, I'd say, about a half dozen journalists and about a half dozen activists.
00:43:25.640 Earlier, I met the priest who runs St. Paul's Cathedral, and I understand being neighborly.
00:43:32.540 That's a very Christian thing to do, but he was positively an advocate for the projection
00:43:37.900 of the call to prayer.
00:43:40.260 I would encourage him to visit Bethlehem, if he could, and see how the mosques dominate 1.00
00:43:48.300 that most important Christian site, which has a submissive status in Islam called being 1.00
00:43:55.360 a Dhimmi, D-H-I-M-M-I. It's a subordinate status that requires the payment of a Jazeera 1.00
00:44:02.360 tax. When Islam conquers Christian communities, they often offer different paths. One is be 0.99
00:44:09.700 killed. Another is convert. Another is live under the Jazeera. I saw this when I went 1.00
00:44:15.660 to Iraq and I saw the Islamic State. It almost feels like the boss of that Catholic church 1.00
00:44:25.360 wrong Islam. And earlier I, I spoke with someone who didn't want to appear on camera who said he
00:44:32.300 was Catholic and felt it was very demoralizing to have the call to prayer physically aimed at a
00:44:41.320 Catholic church across the street. He thought it was demoralizing, but he didn't want to go on
00:44:46.100 camera. And I don't blame him because the mockery and the derision that is heaped on anyone who even
00:44:52.980 ask questions i went in there and i asked a few questions i'll let you be the judge of if they
00:44:58.020 were good questions and i thought the answers were better than nothing but the clucking and
00:45:03.780 the hissing and the laughing of the regime journalists in there was truly gross it was
00:45:09.780 sort of incredible by the way the imam himself was fine with me being there and he answered my
00:45:15.220 questions to the best of his ability i asked him about the riddance of christianity from the
00:45:21.540 public sphere i mean it was only a generation ago where everyone knew the lord's prayer and that's
00:45:26.420 how you would start the day at a school at a public meeting now it's practically banned i know that
00:45:33.060 emblems are having their crucifixes removed from them i mean thinking of if i'm not mistaken it's
00:45:37.940 the university of alberta or university of calgary i can't remember which one removed the cross from
00:45:41.940 their emblem anything christian is being denuded from the public square but here is bold confident
00:45:48.580 islam going to project itself in a one kilometer radius even when there's no one actually praying 0.97
00:45:54.740 at this mosque and the local catholic priest couldn't be happier um there were no police
00:46:03.540 inside the mosque but it was interesting because i asked the imam what alleged threats he had
00:46:10.580 and he said someone said i'm going to take those loudspeakers down and the i mean is that a threat
00:46:16.500 I suppose I think that's more someone just engaging in some puffery and then
00:46:21.000 he said someone was angry because he didn't understand the Arabic meaning of
00:46:24.900 the prayers I'm sorry those are not threats but the police published that
00:46:29.520 there were threats and the media published that they were threats I
00:46:32.400 particularly pressed the Imam what threats have you had and that was all
00:46:36.960 he had someone was angry sorry being angry with your plan to broadcast
00:46:41.500 Islamic prayer throughout Regina that is not a threat and what bothers me is that 0.95
00:46:47.280 Islam is both at the same time hyper confident but also hypersensitive I 1.00
00:46:52.820 mean you're literally gonna blast a one kilometer area with an Arabic prayer 1.00
00:46:57.880 that says Allah is great there is no God but Allah you've got the confidence you 0.96
00:47:02.500 got the balls to do that but someone is upset because they don't understand it 0.66
00:47:06.760 and you're calling that a threat and here's all the police on standby ready 0.94
00:47:10.420 to make arrests i asked the imam uh for now who says he wants to consult why didn't he consult in
00:47:16.280 the first place why were there not hearings at city council why did he and he described the
00:47:20.940 process that he talked to some clerk at city council and that was enough i don't know i think
00:47:25.640 that there's a lot of uh institutional force that's being deployed in support of this imam what
00:47:33.660 What I mean by that is the people most excited about the Arabic call to prayer being blasted
00:47:40.680 for a kilometer, they're not in the mosque because there is no one in the mosque. 0.52
00:47:45.820 The people who are positively erotic about it are the Catholic priest, the regime journalists 0.96
00:47:51.880 and people who see Islam as the greatest challenge to the West. 0.96
00:47:59.900 You know, when I was growing up in the 70s and the 80s, leftists made alliances with
00:48:06.100 Soviets, peaceniks, they wanted disarmament. 0.82
00:48:09.400 That was the great counterweight to the West, the Soviet Union. 0.82
00:48:13.160 And so you saw Marxists and Leninists and activists on the left. 0.83
00:48:17.100 Now the great counterweight to the West is Islam and I suppose China as well. 0.83
00:48:22.200 And so you see all the Marxists who in the 70s and 80s would have been defending the 0.58
00:48:26.140 The Soviets are now just excited about the fact that there's going to be a call to prayer,
00:48:32.340 whether people downtown like it or not. 0.85
00:48:34.040 And that's the thing.
00:48:36.260 They won't say so.
00:48:37.260 The Imam said that he will personally conduct a survey.
00:48:40.320 I asked him, I asked him how the survey is going to be done.
00:48:44.020 And I asked him a little bit about the survey.
00:48:45.880 He said that he'll conduct it.
00:48:47.100 Oh, well, I'm sure no one would be shy about telling him to get lost.
00:48:51.920 the thing is that it is terrifying to people who have a job that's a jeopardy 1.00
00:48:57.140 to say you know I don't like an Islamic call to prayer I'm not living in 0.87
00:49:01.580 Pakistan or Bangladesh can we just please have Regina you know there's 0.90
00:49:06.080 something to the fact that Islam is more confident than ever and the West is less
00:49:12.140 confident than ever we're the kind of people who accuse ourselves of genocide 0.96
00:49:16.580 against indigenous people we're the kind of people who say we have to pay 0.94
00:49:20.280 reparations to blacks, even though we never had black slavery in Canada. And even at City Hall 0.95
00:49:26.620 today, I saw such a mishmash of monuments about what is Regina. I saw a statue of Confucius. I
00:49:35.340 saw a statue of Mahatma Gandhi. I saw an attempt to sort of blend indigenous rights with settlers
00:49:43.080 and colonists, as they called them.
00:49:45.500 This city doesn't know what it stands for.
00:49:49.320 And if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. 0.85
00:49:52.840 You've got a Marxist Catholic church.
00:49:56.380 You've got other churches so delighted to show how tolerant they are.
00:49:59.700 We even bumped into a pastor who said he couldn't be thrilled.
00:50:03.180 He couldn't be more thrilled with things.
00:50:05.000 There's a reason why those mainstream churches are empty.
00:50:08.700 And this mosque, he says, will be full. 0.99
00:50:10.880 A very interesting day out here. I came out here with my colleague, Lincoln Jay. We actually brought with us a sound measuring device to measure decibel levels. And it looks sort of interesting. We tried it out on a passing ambulance in a fire truck, and we got the volume level for that. And we were ready to test the volume here. But alas, they said they elected not to do it. I think it was probably a good idea not to do it again.
00:50:38.000 but they say that they have a permit to to do the loudspeakers for several months and they
00:50:45.640 intend to do it i don't like this because i think that canada is historically and culturally and by
00:50:54.320 our tradition and our law and our society it's a christian country it it's tolerant of minorities
00:50:59.880 i'm a jew but there was no better place in the world for a jew to be born and raised than in
00:51:04.000 the free Christian country of Canada.
00:51:05.920 There's no one else that would be, I mean, America,
00:51:08.900 no one else that would be as safe.
00:51:10.980 But it's those Christian values.
00:51:13.280 And you might have recalled that one Muslim man on the street
00:51:16.640 who accosted me, denouncing me ethnically,
00:51:19.400 saying I don't belong here.
00:51:20.640 Like, it was such an aggressive conversation.
00:51:24.180 And then that one fellow who pretended to be such a gentle man from Albania,
00:51:28.660 but in the end he refused to shake my hand. 0.99
00:51:30.580 I think we have, as Osama bin Laden would say, a strong horse and a weak horse.
00:51:37.760 And people prefer the strong horse now, don't they?
00:51:41.160 Canada is led by politicians who don't believe in our own country.
00:51:45.140 They don't even say Canada sometimes.
00:51:46.920 They say Turtle Island, or at the very least, they give a land acknowledgement.
00:51:50.820 They won't even say that we own the country, let alone stand for everything.
00:51:56.160 They tear down statues of Sir John A. MacDonald and Queen Victoria.
00:52:00.340 Regina is literally named for the word queen in Latin. 0.92
00:52:04.400 And yet they couldn't be happier to embrace a religion that would put a queen in a full hijab or a burqa.
00:52:10.920 And I saw that Global News has dispatched their hijab-wearing reporter on this file.
00:52:16.380 But, of course, you know, I'm for freedom of religion.
00:52:19.480 I really am.
00:52:20.160 And I think if someone wants to practice their religion peacefully, go to it.
00:52:24.260 I think the problem is one degree earlier. 0.89
00:52:26.580 the mass immigration that has brought into this country hundreds of thousands of people who do 0.57
00:52:31.440 not share our values and in fact are quite hostile to them if pressed. There is no Muslim country in 1.00
00:52:37.980 the world, there is no Muslim majority country in the world that is tolerant of minorities. I suppose 1.00
00:52:42.960 you could say the United Arab Emirates but frankly that's a majority of the people in that country
00:52:48.200 are expats. I fear that what made Canada such a wonderful place to grow up, its gentle Christianity
00:52:55.800 is being pushed aside by a vigorous force
00:52:58.940 that wants to shout out on loudspeakers,
00:53:01.980 there is no God but Allah.
00:53:04.640 And that's what's going on here in Regina.
00:53:06.500 If you want to help us out, including covering the,
00:53:10.080 it was more than a thousand bucks for each Lincoln and I
00:53:12.960 to come out here on short notice.
00:53:14.320 I think we're going to come back again
00:53:15.540 when they fire up the loudspeakers.
00:53:17.440 It costs us about a thousand bucks each to get out here.
00:53:20.020 If you can help chip in, go to stopislamicdomination.com.
00:53:24.260 that's stop islamicdomination.com and while you're there you can sign the 0.89
00:53:29.120 petition I think this deal is being done on the low down I think that the police
00:53:34.820 were happy to wave it on through it was not subject to a debate in city council
00:53:39.140 let alone a public hearing and even now the Imam says he'll handle the survey
00:53:43.400 of neighbors himself I think that this isn't the most pressing crisis in the
00:53:48.640 world but it's the nose it's the camel's nose in the tent isn't it and as it goes
00:53:53.640 in regina today it's one call a week then it'll be one a day then it'll be five a day and it'll 0.71
00:54:00.680 be every other mosque in the country does canada have a core does canada have a belief system a 0.55
00:54:07.160 culture a tradition a history you damn rights it does and i think that's what this battle here is 0.65
00:54:13.480 about. For Rebel News, I'm Ezra Levant. 0.63