Rebel News Podcast - Islamophobia： What happens if we agree that removing a hijab is “humiliation？”

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00:00:58.740 Tonight a woman was forced to remove her hijab before boarding an airplane. 1.00

00:01:03.340 Is this Islamophobia?

00:01:05.500 It's September 10th.

00:01:06.860 I'm David Menzies and this is the Ezreal Event Show.

00:01:10.500 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:16.360 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:20.440 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's

00:01:24.820 my bloody right to do so.

00:01:26.300 Hijabs are very much in the news these days and the mainstream media narrative would seem

00:01:36.940 to be that hijabs are good, that they are empowering, that they are a fashionable proclamation

00:01:43.100 of one's adherence to a particular religion and perhaps most of all such headscarves are 0.99

00:01:49.000 downright sacred and any criticism of the hijab is nothing short of Islamophobia.

00:01:56.540 Just witnessed the media smackdown that was directed at Air Canada employees in San Francisco

00:02:02.000 who last month demanded that 12-year-old Fatima Abdelrahim had to take off her hijab while 0.97

00:02:09.780 passing through security for a flight to Toronto.

00:02:12.940 A National Post story notes that a total of three Air Canada employees insisted that Fatima

00:02:19.620 remove her head covering because she wasn't wearing one in her passport photo.

00:02:24.780 I think this is what's known as making a positive identification but then again, what do I know?

00:02:31.680 And in the spirit of reasonable accommodation, eventually a female employee escorted Fatima to 1.00

00:02:37.500 a corner in a tunnel and had her remove the headscarf.

00:02:40.700 Don't you wish you got that kind of personal concierge treatment at the airport too?

00:02:47.240 But that wasn't enough, it's never enough really.

00:02:50.540 So cue the outrage, said Fatima, quote, 0.99

00:02:54.460 It makes me feel really angry.

00:02:56.660 I was humiliated, end quote.

00:02:59.580 But why is the removal of a headscarf a humiliating experience?

00:03:04.400 I assume this garment is removed when Fatima takes a shower. 0.96

00:03:08.320 It was certainly not on her head when she posed for that passport photo.

00:03:13.860 Yet naturally, this being an Islamic incident, it was automatically elevated to federal case status.

00:03:20.980 The post quotes Fatima's family members back home who were all predictably enraged by this so-called incident.

00:03:28.960 The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority wasn't involved, but this agency says passengers may keep their head coverings on during the screening process.

00:03:40.220 They may require additional screening if they set off a metal detector.

00:03:44.100 Now, folks, I've been doing a lot of flying lately, and I can tell you with absolute authority that anyone who is donning, say, a baseball cap or a tilly hat or any other chapeau

00:03:56.880 is told to take it off, put it on a tray, and have it go through the x-ray machine.

00:04:03.040 Every single time, no exceptions.

00:04:04.760 Surely there's a reasonable expectation that one's rights will indeed be curtailed somewhat when one enters an airport.

00:04:13.840 That's why we are prodded and poked and x-rayed and patted down.

00:04:18.160 That's why one can enter a terminal brandishing a firearm, even in a state where it's legal to own one.

00:04:24.700 It's all about trying to ensure that planes aren't hijacked and or used as weapons of mass destruction.

00:04:31.460 Tomorrow, we will be observing the 18th anniversary of 9-11.

00:04:37.740 How sad that whatever lessons we supposedly learned on that dark day back in 2001

00:04:43.520 already seem to have been sacrificed upon the altar of political correctness.

00:04:49.480 Which is to say, if you have a problem with the hijab, even for security reasons,

00:04:54.880 you are automatically labeled a bigot and an Islamophobe.

00:04:59.260 But gee, I wonder if anyone sent that particular memo to Saba Kord Afshari.

00:05:07.700 For this Iranian woman was just recently sentenced to 24 years in prison 0.68

00:05:12.940 for protesting against wearing a hijab.

00:05:18.040 In a global news report, it is noted that, according to FIDH, an international human rights NGO,

00:05:24.620 Afshari is one of the many activists who have been protesting against the mandatory hijab laws in Iran on social media.

00:05:34.800 It's all about freedom and a woman's right to choose, after all. 1.00

00:05:38.320 You remember those off-repeated chestnuts, don't you?

00:05:41.260 Or do these caveats only apply to the abortion debate?

00:05:45.320 Regardless, on August 27th, this 20-year-old Iranian received a notice from the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran

00:05:54.500 stating that she had been sentenced to 24 years in prison.

00:05:59.900 Just like that.

00:06:01.360 Part of her penalty includes 15 years for, quote,

00:06:04.320 encouraging people to commit immorality and or prostitution, end quote.

00:06:09.780 Yeah, so the mullahs in Iran deem a woman to be a whore, should her head remain uncovered? 0.73

00:06:18.220 Fascinating.

00:06:20.020 And where exactly is the feminist movement regarding the Afshari affair?

00:06:25.480 Well, the silence is deafening.

00:06:28.180 In fact, today's feminists are more concerned about promoting the hijab, 1.00

00:06:33.120 even in Western nations and even for those who are not even Muslim.

00:06:36.920 Since 2013, February the 1st has been promoted as World Hijab Day,

00:06:42.760 in which everyone is encouraged to don a hijab,

00:06:46.080 even non-Muslim men, if you can believe it. 0.99

00:06:49.340 And this very questionable virtue-signaling exercise isn't just happening on college campuses.

00:06:56.380 Oh no, it's even being embraced by government agencies.

00:07:00.180 Last year, for example, officials at the UK's foreign office

00:07:03.620 even invited staff to wear hijabs for the day,

00:07:07.540 laughably claiming that such headscarves symbolized liberation, respect, and security. 0.95

00:07:15.180 It's also unsettling, this notion of any Western government using taxpayer money

00:07:20.400 to prop up something that is essentially a symbol of Islamic oppression of women. 0.97

00:07:25.660 And at the same time, the same people promoting such diversity

00:07:30.460 would really prefer not to comment on the plight of Saba Kord Afshari,

00:07:36.180 who will be languishing in an Iranian prison for 24 years

00:07:41.560 simply for choosing to go hijab-free. 0.97

00:07:46.020 Then again, going to bat for Miss Afshari 1.00

00:07:49.260 might be deemed by some as being Islamophobic.

00:07:53.700 And in today's political climate,

00:07:56.460 nothing could possibly be worse than that.

00:08:00.220 Not doing it will be catastrophic.

00:08:17.960 We'll have 8 degrees, we'll be 8 degrees hotter in 10,

00:08:21.620 not 10, but in 30 or 40 years,

00:08:23.900 and basically none of the crops will grow,

00:08:26.280 most of the people will have died,

00:08:27.700 and the rest of us will be cannibals, 0.84

00:08:29.180 civilization will have broken down,

00:08:31.240 the few people that are left will be living in a failed state

00:08:35.600 like Somalia or Sudan,

00:08:37.600 and living conditions will be intolerable.

00:08:39.920 The droughts will be so bad, there'll be no more corn growing.

00:08:44.560 Not doing it is suicide,

00:08:47.200 just like dropping bombs on each other, nuclear weapons is suicide.

00:08:50.940 So we've got to stop doing the two suicidal things,

00:08:54.140 which are hanging on to our nuclear weapons,

00:08:56.500 and global ambition.

00:08:57.500 And after that, we've got to stabilize the population.

00:09:01.680 When I was born, there were too many people.

00:09:05.240 That's why we have global warming. 0.99

00:09:07.800 We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff.

00:09:11.260 If there were less people, they'd be using less stuff.

00:09:13.440 Wow, who knew that Ted Turner was such a clairvoyant climate Cassandra

00:09:19.140 all the way back in 2008?

00:09:21.360 Because now a Swedish scientist is proposing that mankind indeed needs to embrace cannibalism

00:09:30.020 so that we can effectively fight back against global warming and greenhouse gas emissions.

00:09:36.640 That's right, cannibalism.

00:09:39.360 Oh, what a lovely future awaits our species, apparently.

00:09:43.900 And joining me now with more on this real-life version of Soylent Green

00:09:48.420 is Mark Morano of ClimateDepot.com.

00:09:52.620 Welcome to the Ezra Levent Show, Mark.

00:09:55.340 Thank you very much.

00:09:56.220 Happy to be here.

00:09:57.020 Always a pleasure.

00:09:57.700 But Mark, first things first, what do you prefer, white meat or dark?

00:10:03.040 Well, I always like dark meat, but with humans, I don't know.

00:10:06.740 Unless I'm on a soccer team that crashes in the Andes, I am not eating humans.

00:10:11.340 Of course, no disrespect to the dead.

00:10:13.660 That was a serious story.

00:10:14.860 But there have been a few cases of human cannibalism, including tribes in Papua New Guinea.

00:10:21.160 And they had something called, I guess it's called the laughing death

00:10:24.140 or different ailments that they've attributed to humans eating other humans.

00:10:28.100 It's not a pretty thing to do.

00:10:30.420 And there's really no reason to ever do it, unless you're like that team in the 1970s

00:10:35.000 that crashed in the Andes Mountains and were starving

00:10:37.320 and were forced to resort to cannibalism to survive until they were rescued.

00:10:42.460 I don't even know why anyone's talking about cannibalism.

00:10:45.740 You know, I mean, the idea, Mark, you know, first of all, it's so outlandish.

00:10:50.120 It's so far out there, it really does belong in the realm of science fiction almost.

00:10:56.220 But you raise a good point.

00:10:58.940 Has there been actual studies done about whether or not it is indeed healthy

00:11:06.180 or a person can get by on eating human flesh

00:11:10.980 without any kind of adverse side effects in the first place?

00:11:15.060 Well, as I said, in the 1930s, the tribes in New Guinea were studied

00:11:20.660 and there was this weird ailment that they attributed at the time to cannibalism.

00:11:26.320 I can't imagine with all the pathogens.

00:11:28.240 There have been other scientists who flirted with the idea

00:11:30.580 and one was even a hoax about talking about eating human feces

00:11:34.500 because of global warming and the need to do it.

00:11:37.640 Let's review why we're even here.

00:11:39.660 The United Nations, in about 2007, issued a report saying that cow emissions

00:11:45.300 were more dangerous to the climate than all of the transportation sector,

00:11:49.460 planes, airplanes, boats, and vehicles combined.

00:11:55.660 Cow emissions were killing the planet.

00:11:57.680 Thus, our love of eating meat was destroying the climate.

00:12:02.360 Then you go a few years further.

00:12:04.220 Top U.N. officials, advisors were saying things like

00:12:07.280 a successful U.N. climate treaty will skyrocket the price of meat.

00:12:11.760 That's what we need to do.

00:12:13.260 Then you had a whole eat insect movement that, I don't know why, failed to catch on.

00:12:17.980 You had people saying that eating insects was the only sustainable way forward.

00:12:22.020 There's a great source of protein.

00:12:23.680 At one point, you even had the actress, what's it, married to Tom Cruise at one point,

00:12:29.120 Nicole Kidman, doing a video for Vanity Fair about how yummy insects were.

00:12:35.240 She actually compared it to eating a hairy nut is one of the things she said.

00:12:39.980 I think she was eating crickets or some kind of weird animal.

00:12:43.900 They started banning meat, making meat more expensive.

00:12:48.680 Then they were trying to promote insects.

00:12:51.120 Fast forward, then there was even flirting with eating feces. 1.00

00:12:53.580 Now, they're back to talking about eating humans.

00:12:58.800 Now, when I say back, Ted Turner warned of it in 2008.

00:13:01.980 Paul Ehrlich, the overpopulation guru who's been wrong about every prediction,

00:13:05.900 warned about eating humans in 2014.

00:13:08.860 They're just trying to shock the public so that we'll take action on climate,

00:13:13.660 turn to central planning, give up liberty, give up free markets in order to save us from

00:13:18.200 a climate calamity.

00:13:19.180 And apparently now cannibalism, it'll save us from.

00:13:22.340 So if we go socialist, hey, you don't need to eat humans.

00:13:25.840 You know, and it's kind of incredible.

00:13:27.400 Again, Mark, as we always discuss the double standard and the hypocrisy.

00:13:32.160 I mean, Ted Turner making that comment because we're using too much stuff.

00:13:36.080 I'm sorry, but when I have a billionaire telling me we're using too much stuff,

00:13:40.560 that's not kind of resonating in my camp.

00:13:44.740 But getting back to this guy in Sweden, Magnus Söderland, he's the one suggesting this.

00:13:51.700 We should point out, Mark, he's a behavioral scientist.

00:13:56.460 So his bailiwick really has nothing to do with the science of climate at all.

00:14:03.280 Not at all.

00:14:03.680 Why does he think he has the, you know, the intellectual authority to suggest this as a

00:14:10.360 solution to a problem that he's not all that well versed in in the first place?

00:14:15.580 Well, because he accepts the consensus.

00:14:18.400 And that's the whole point of the 97% consensus.

00:14:20.960 You can study butterflies, social sciences.

00:14:24.620 You can study anything you want.

00:14:26.040 But you rest assured, you don't have to study climate because you've been told that 97% and

00:14:30.940 now, by the way, Al Gore says 99% of scientists agree.

00:14:34.360 So he comes out.

00:14:35.180 This is a gastro summit in Sweden, this behavioral scientist, sociologist, whatever you want

00:14:39.620 to call him.

00:14:40.460 And he starts talking about how even, I think it was 8% of the attendance of this conference

00:14:46.180 were willing to try eating humans in order to save the planet.

00:14:50.580 And these are very high-minded individuals.

00:14:52.720 They're willing to go that extra mile to save the planet.

00:14:54.980 And he said he himself hesitated, but he didn't want to be seen as too conservative.

00:14:59.580 It's now a conservative position to not want to eat your fellow human.

00:15:03.760 And so this is what they're doing.

00:15:05.000 I think it's more for shock value.

00:15:07.020 It's more to get attention.

00:15:08.960 It's more to scare people.

00:15:10.920 If you're not careful, we're going to be doing cannibalism.

00:15:14.200 Florida's going to be underwater.

00:15:15.680 Our major cities are going to be wiped off by super storms, et cetera.

00:15:19.860 So in order to prevent us, all these catastrophes say, let's not kill the polar bear.

00:15:25.480 Let's go central planning.

00:15:27.040 Let's go global governance.

00:15:28.320 Let's go socialism.

00:15:29.640 Let's go massive wealth of free distribution.

00:15:32.320 That's the only way to save us from eating your fellow humans' thighs or buttocks or whatever 1.00

00:15:37.620 part they want to eat.

00:15:39.080 And Mark, tell me, what do you think is really the unspoken strategy of this particular person?

00:15:45.040 Is he just trying to be outlandish and outrageous to generate headlines?

00:15:51.000 Or if you had these climate scientists in a room and you propose the idea of, hey, guys,

00:15:57.380 what do you think about cannibalism as a food alternative and a way of fighting back against

00:16:01.760 greenhouse gas emissions?

00:16:03.440 What percentage of consensus of them would say, hey, sounds like a good idea?

00:16:07.580 I can't imagine any scientist would even want to be associated with this.

00:16:13.740 Although, you know, the overpopulation girl, he's still winning awards, even climate awards. 0.76

00:16:18.120 He's considered, you know, one of the prestigious climate alarmists.

00:16:21.460 This is the guy that wrote the overpopulation bomb book in the 1960s.

00:16:25.380 He actually was just quoted all over the media this year with the UN Species Report.

00:16:29.860 He loves this.

00:16:31.480 It's a way there's a whole strain in the scientific community.

00:16:35.900 The more we scare people, the more they'll have to act.

00:16:38.880 And we have had former United Nations climate chiefs and other top UN officials actually

00:16:43.320 announce, similar to Babe Ruth announcing where he's going to hit the baseball, announce

00:16:48.360 years ahead of a UN report saying essentially and almost verbatim, quote, just wait to the

00:16:53.640 next UN climate report.

00:16:55.180 It'll be so alarming.

00:16:56.340 The world will have to act.

00:16:57.980 So they're trying to telegraph action and they think they can scare people into action.

00:17:03.600 And one of the ways to scare them is to say, hey, you're going to have to be eating your

00:17:07.160 fellow human if you're not careful.

00:17:09.240 Cannibalism is our future unless you listen to, hold on, pregnant pause, the science.

00:17:15.500 We must all bow down to the science.

00:17:18.260 And if you don't, you're an anti-science denier and you're headed toward cannibalism.

00:17:22.640 But, you know, I'm thinking, Mark, aren't they doing themselves a disservice?

00:17:25.760 I mean, I've heard all kinds of very short term, you know, projections.

00:17:30.140 We've got 12 years left.

00:17:31.460 We've got a dozen, you know, 10 years left.

00:17:34.400 Some say a matter of months even.

00:17:37.320 It's almost like that cliched, you know, cartoon of the grizzled old man on Times Square

00:17:44.140 with the placard saying the end of the world is nigh.

00:17:46.760 And yet the years keep going on.

00:17:49.920 I guess what I'm saying is that how soon is it before people look at these climate

00:17:54.860 Cassandras and just say, these are just a bunch of boys crying wolf?

00:18:00.460 Well, it's a good question.

00:18:02.180 The world is very divided on this issue.

00:18:05.940 So about 45 percent of the population does exactly what you say.

00:18:11.080 They recognize the climate Cassandras. 0.98

00:18:12.720 They know that in 1982, the U.N. issued tipping points.

00:18:16.140 They know 1989, the U.N. issued a 10-year tipping point.

00:18:18.900 They know Al Gore issued a 10-year tipping point in 2006.

00:18:21.680 They know Prince Charles issued a 100-month tipping point that expired and nothing bad happened.

00:18:26.820 So I don't think there's a certain segment that you're never going to convince.

00:18:30.700 But I think what they try to do is rally the base.

00:18:33.600 And I do think, if you watch that CNN town hall they had of the U.S. Democrat presidential candidates,

00:18:39.600 every single candidate, including CNN, ad nauseum, repetitively referred to the 10, 11 years we have left,

00:18:47.520 as though there's never been a tipping point.

00:18:49.360 And in my book, I go back to the 19th century.

00:18:51.820 There were climate tipping points back in, I think it was 1867.

00:18:55.500 That's how absurd this is.

00:18:57.080 It's just an old tactic.

00:18:58.580 At this point, they're using not only to rally the base for action and motivate their side,

00:19:03.820 but I think it has a big impact with millennials, the 20-something, 30-somethings of today and teenagers of today

00:19:09.920 who are willing to go to school strikes, who are being led by Greta Thunberg.

00:19:13.600 They're just ignorant enough to believe that we have 10, 11 years and that this has never been said before

00:19:19.760 and that we have to listen to the world's finest scientists, as Greta Thunberg says.

00:19:23.860 There's no reason to go to school because there's no future that will be no more

00:19:28.280 because our politicians aren't listening to the science.

00:19:31.500 So we'll be eating each other and all dying soon unless you listen to the science and follow the tipping points.

00:19:37.700 It never gets old.

00:19:38.740 In other words, overpopulation, same kind of fears, resource scarcity, the global cooling.

00:19:43.740 In fact, global cooling had the exact same fears.

00:19:46.080 It was causing extreme weather.

00:19:47.580 It was causing wars and national security problems.

00:19:52.120 I mean, you go back and the solutions, the man-made global cooling in the 70s are the same solutions as today.

00:19:57.360 That's what's shocking, too.

00:19:58.880 Nothing changes.

00:20:00.180 It's just a new set of activists.

00:20:01.940 And this time they hope to convince the rest of us or they hope to impose their will, which is more likely.

00:20:07.720 They seem to be pretty successful.

00:20:09.360 President Obama in the U.S. tried that with his executive orders.

00:20:13.020 Luckily, President Trump reversed them.

00:20:14.620 But if Trump doesn't win re-election, we go right back via executive order to a lot of this nonsense in the United States.

00:20:20.840 Well, you know, Mark, we're going to have to wrap it here.

00:20:24.800 But, you know, this whole idea of a behavioral scientist suggesting cannibalism and a 15-year-old girl sailing across the Atlantic to preach to us on the future of the planet.

00:20:36.760 This is exactly why, my friend, Mad Magazine stopped publishing last month.

00:20:41.360 It's beyond parody.

00:20:42.880 You can't out-parody the headlines of today's news.

00:20:48.460 It's just so outrageous.

00:20:49.860 But, as always, thank you for weighing in with your insight.

00:20:52.980 It's always appreciated.

00:20:54.740 Thank you very much.

00:20:55.800 Appreciate it.

00:20:56.400 Thank you.

00:20:56.820 And that was Mark Moreno of ClimateDepot.com.

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Rebel News Podcast - September 11, 2019

Islamophobia： What happens if we agree that removing a hijab is “humiliation？”

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