Vegan insanity, the Islamic Party of Ontario & moreļ¼ Guest host David Menzies
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Summary
Vegan protesters in Toronto make for front page news, while thousands of trucker protesters are ignored in Alberta. Is there anything that screams arrogance, ignorance, and a sense of entitlement more than a bunch of vitamin B12 deficient loudmouths demanding that everybody must become part of the carrot crusading contingent? Yes, these days, vegans aren t merely asking for tolerance, they want affirmation.
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Tonight, a handful of vegan protesters in Toronto make for front-page news,
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while out in Alberta, thousands of trucker protesters are virtually ignored.
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It's January 3rd, I'm David Menzies, and this is The Ezra Levent Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Vegetarians will tell you that nothing makes them look worse than vegans,
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and vegans will tell you that nothing makes them look worse than vegan extremists.
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Is there anything that screams arrogance, ignorance, and a sense of entitlement,
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more so than a bunch of vitamin B12-deficient loudmouths demanding that everybody must become part of the carrot crusader contingent?
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Yes, these days, vegans aren't merely asking for tolerance.
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Hey, you want to go eat copious quantities of kale and Brussels sprouts?
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But it would be kind of nice if the carnivores and the omnivores of this planet
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didn't have to endure sanctimonious sermons when it comes to chowing down on a cheeseburger.
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We're merely taking our rightful place atop the food chain.
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65 million years ago, the apex predator was the T-Rex.
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Yet, these militant vegans won't shut the hell up.
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I refer to a couple of recent stories emanating out of Hogtown,
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and boy, I bet the vegans really, really hate that nickname for Toronto.
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For starters, on New Year's Day, the so-called animal rights activists blocked traffic
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at a major Toronto intersection as they staged a die-in to, get this,
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protest the inauguration of Brazil's new president, Mr. Bolsonaro.
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According to a CTV report, organizers of the protest say nearly 50 people participated.
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I'm counting 19 people, including the ones who appear to be wearing oversized Muppet costumes.
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Now, some activists held signs urging President Bolsonaro to, quote,
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You know, I think I'm opting for the electric share, please.
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I kind of like the idea of leaving behind one final little carbon footprint
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Even so, Anita Kranjic is an organizer with Toronto Climate Save and the Extinction Rebellion.
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Anyway, she told CTV that vegans want Bolsonaro to live on a plant-based diet for a month.
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They want him to be as miserable as your average vegan.
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And then again, think of the upside, Mr. President.
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After day 30 of enduring such a diet, even a week-old Big Mac is going to taste like a Gordon Blue culinary masterpiece.
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But, you know, if any reasonable person were to protest any country in South America,
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wouldn't the obvious choice be the socialist utopia that is Venezuela?
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But, say, since Venezuela gets a pass while Brazil gets vilified,
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do you think there's something more to the vegan protest than merely leafy-based food choices?
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After all, Bolsonaro, who has been called Brazil's Donald Trump,
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rode a populist wave of anti-establishment sentiment to presidential victory back in October.
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First Trump, then Doug Ford, now this boy from Brazil.
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Brazil, this populist thing, it's getting out of hand, isn't it?
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So, let's demonize Bolsonaro as, um, enemy of the environment.
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After all, he already announced Brazil has withdrawn its offer to host this year's UN Summit on Climate Change.
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I mean, the UN bigwigs were really, really looking forward to having some fun in the sun in Rio de Janeiro this year,
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with the air conditioners running at full blast, mind you,
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given all that hellacious, freezing cold weather they had to endure in Poland at last month's Climate Change Summit.
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Meanwhile, yet more Toronto-based fruitcake vegans were doing their best to put a restaurant out of business
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for having the temerity to serve horse meat by staging protests outside La Palette on Queen Street.
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This group is called the Grassroots Antispeciesism Shift.
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That's supposed to read as an acronym that spells out the word GRASS.
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But, because grassroots is one word, the acronym actually spells out the word GAS.
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And given the hot air coming out of their mouths and the broccoli-scented flatulence coming out of their tailpipes,
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By the way, if the GAS folks ring a bell, it's probably because of their protests directed at another Toronto restaurant last year, Antler.
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We covered one of their anti-Antler wine fests back in March.
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Because we don't, first of all, I don't see you have sharp teeth, like all the animals who eat meat, right?
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If you were a meat eater, you would chase the squirrel without any tools and just using your bare hands and your teeth, you would eat it.
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There is no right way to kill someone who does not want to die.
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There's no right way to kill someone that does not want to die.
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So these animals that are being consumed in this restaurant and in every other restaurant, or for clothing, for entertainment, they don't want to die.
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Now, you know, it's funny because I've seen these kind of signs at, like, anti-abortion rallies.
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This is irrelevant, I believe, for this protest.
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So right now we're talking about animal rights.
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So I would, you know, answer any questions you have regarding that.
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Yeah, not exactly Mensa Club material, is it now?
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The thing is, the vegans' master plan went south big time.
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Instead, it's now hard to get a reservation at Antler.
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I predict the same thing was going to happen regarding La Palette as sympathetic meat eaters descend en masse to make a statement with their wallets.
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Speaking of publicity, the mainstream media really seems to have its priorities in order regarding protests these days, doesn't it?
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A handful of Looney Tunes vegans assemble to try and force an eatery into bankruptcy or to lecture a foreign head of state.
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And hey, the Live Eye team is immediately dispatched.
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But when some 2,000 trucks descend upon Nisku, Alberta to protest the Trudeau government's grotesque mismanagement of the pipeline file,
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well, something that should be treated as a front-page story all across Canada is instead relegated to the back pages or ignored completely.
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Then again, with that $595 million media bailout package pending, the mainstream media doesn't want to embarrass their main beneficiary, Justin Big Buck's Trudeau.
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So, as vegan zealots demand that we must adopt their dietary ways,
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and demand that President Bolsonaro must embrace a corrupt UN globalist agenda,
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Oh, there's plenty of time to cover these pathetic lost causes.
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I mean, these vegans, they're so cosmopolitan, so intellectual, so hip.
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But when there are protests by salt-of-the-earth truckers rightfully demanding that this federal government
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get off its collective arse and greenlight much-needed multi-billion-dollar pipeline projects
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so that they can go back to work and make the oil sands great again,
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well, that's just a bunch of rednecks and deplorables out in the hinterland fussing over stuff they don't really understand, right?
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So, three cheers for the veganites, who are clearly getting enough nutrients even though they avoid meat consumption.
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As for the mainstream media, no need to rock the boat, guys.
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It's not with those much-coveted taxpayer-funded welfare checks about to arrive in the mailbox any day now.
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Well, voters of Ontario rejoice if you're tired of the same old, same old political parties,
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Yes, say hello to the province's newest political organization, the Islamic Party of Ontario.
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And joining me now to analyze the merits of a party that prefers Sharia law to the Canadian Constitution
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is Candice Malcolm, the founder of the True North Initiative.
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Now, Candice, I've got to tell you, when I initially heard about this Islamic Party of Ontario,
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it was literally on January the 1st, although I had to check my calendar to make sure it wasn't April the 1st.
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Candice, who is behind this party, and what is his agenda to begin with?
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Well, I have to say, I felt the same way, David.
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When I first saw people kind of passing along this party platform on social media,
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I read it and I thought it was a joke or a hoax or something like that,
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like people pretending to be Islamists but who didn't actually believe this kind of stuff
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because, you know, the content of the platform is crazy.
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It's calling for, you know, kind of like 11th century morality, banning alcohol and all kinds of stuff that is just really bizarre.
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But lo and behold, this is a real political party.
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And the individual behind it is a sort of a kind of unknown guy in Toronto.
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And in the past, he's even taken shots and gone after Tarek Fatah, who is the sort of progressive Muslim.
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And so, you know, it's really interesting that this is coming up.
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And this is where we are in Canada, where we have political parties proposing, you know,
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very different kinds of ideas and morality here in Canada.
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And for Tarek Fatah, this individual has called him an Islamophobe,
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even though Tarek is a Muslim the last time I checked.
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I guess he's not the right kind of Muslim.
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But, you know, Candace, you do say it's a real political party, and so it is.
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I mean, if we project ahead four years to the next Ontario provincial election,
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what does the over-underline in terms of how many votes this joke of a party gets?
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Well, I hope it remains a very, very small fringe party.
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But this is kind of the concern that we have in Canada.
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You know, this is Justin Trudeau's post-national Canada, where we don't have a core identity
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And so because of that, we kind of welcome everyone and everything.
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You know, that can be great when it comes to, you know, cuisine and different types of celebrations,
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But when it comes to people and politicians who want to set laws in our country,
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you know, having a group of people that want to impose Sharia law, the party platform says
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that they believe that Sharia is the natural governing force in Ontario, that Canada should
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live under the supremacy of their God, Allah.
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And, you know, it has everything that you would expect from Sharia law, including bans on adultery
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and drug use and alcohol against, very against same-sex marriage and gender identity and all
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So, you know, I think it's going to be an interesting thing to watch how progressives and how the
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left and how liberals like Justin Trudeau act and react to a political party.
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You know, on the one hand, you know, the people on the left, they love diversity and they love
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welcoming people and saying that Canada has no identity, so we have to, you know, adhere
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to other people's identity and to respect everyone's culture, while at the same time
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going after their sort of prized, you know, social causes, pet causes, like identity politics.
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So, you know, it should be interesting to watch.
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Hopefully it does remain a small fringe party, though.
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And, you know, I think you've nailed it here in terms of a very important point, Candice.
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When you look at what the Justin Trudeau liberals, or the left for that matter, en masse stand
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for, freedom of the press, freedom of expression, women's rights, gay rights, and on and on it
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goes, these values are toxic to the people behind the Islamic Party of Ontario.
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Sharia law has no tolerance for these kind of liberal freedoms.
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So, like I said, it just seems so perversely ironic to me that liberals support the kind of
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diversity, some of which is completely against liberalism to begin with.
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Like, you'll have liberals defending Sharia law and saying, oh, it's just a personal values,
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And then you have the people who actually believe in Sharia law saying, no, no, it's going to be the
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It needs to govern not just all Muslims, but all people.
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And a fundamental aspect of Sharia law is that women have lower value than men, that
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non-Muslims have lower value than Muslims, and that sort of basic lifestyles in Canada,
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like, you know, being gay or being divorced, is just totally not allowed.
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And so, yeah, it's going to be an interesting, you know, to see these two forces collide.
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But also it shows you how, David, how people from other parts of the world with truly barbaric
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and evil ideas take advantage of our freedoms and our liberties, you know.
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They take advantage of free speech in Canada and free political association to try to push
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a political party that would end those things, that would end freedom of association and
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And, you know, this is sort of a fundamental problem that we find ourselves in here in
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You know, and it's funny, Candice, when I've interviewed Islamists, and I always find the
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key question is, how compatible is Sharia law to Canadian law and the Canadian Constitution?
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And typically the answer is, it's about 98% compatible.
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And maybe it is, but you know what, Candice, I'm really, really worried about that 2% that's
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not compatible, like, oh, I don't know, stoning adulterers, perhaps, right?
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Well, and that's another interesting point, David, is that usually Islamists are much more
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They usually try to kind of hide their agenda and say like, oh, no, you know, we just want
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And meanwhile, you know, they're doing all sorts of nefarious things in their mosques or in
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other languages away from the sort of mainstream behind closed doors.
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Well, this is kind of the opposite, which is why I thought it was a joke at first.
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This is a political party putting it all out there.
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And maybe it's a good thing to sort of shine some light so that Canadians can see some of
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the sort of, you know, unfortunate and nefarious aspects of political Islam.
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And, you know, Candice, you're reading my mind.
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You made an excellent point, and it was the question I was just about to ask you.
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The way I look at things, and you tell me if I've got this right, I would say that the
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majority of Canadian Muslims that want nothing to do with Sharia law and perhaps even fled
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countries to get away from that garbage are embarrassed by this.
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Conversely, those hardcore Islamists aren't happy with this guy, too, because like you
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said, they like to work within the system to change the system very quietly, almost as
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So I don't think they relish this guy getting all this kind of attention for putting it all
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out there in terms of what he wants in terms of an ideal Canadian Islamist society.
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I think that there's a lot of truth to that, that most of the Muslims that I know and interact
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And one of the things they love about Canada is the freedom not just to practice a religion,
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but a freedom not to be religious, not to practice a religion.
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And the last thing they want is the tenants of the authoritarian governments that they fled
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And then, yeah, the other side is that they want to, you know, the true Islamists and the
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people who are a force for pushing Islam, political Islam in Canada, don't like to do it out in
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So it's pretty surprising that this individual has popped up.
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I think, I don't know if he's sort of a mainstream figure in Muslim communities in and around
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Scarborough and Toronto, but, you know, he's putting himself out there.
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So we'll have to wait and see how many, how many members he'll get, you know, maybe there
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is a constituency for this kind of political party.
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I kind of worry about it, you know, the idea of a political party based on sort of religious
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fundamentalism isn't necessarily new in Canada, but we haven't really seen a party like this
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And I worry that it'll have an impact that, you know, it'll create a bunch of other little
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copycat political parties and groups coming up and pushing, you know, this.
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And, you know, Candace, it's one thing for any nut bar out there to propose some kind
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of ideology in terms of running a country, running a government.
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But, you know, the nitty gritty of government, I think, is doing all the little things that
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Building infrastructure, picking up the garbage, you know, plowing the streets of snow.
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And when I look at the platform, for example, liquor and gambling, i.e. lottery tickets,
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that would be all banned under the Islamic Party of Ontario.
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So I'm thinking the LCBO last year took in more than $2.1 billion in profits.
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The OLG, I think they were around the $2 billion mark.
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So we're writing off almost $5 billion right off the bat.
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But how would this guy replace that kind of revenue, especially in a province that has
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Well, I think you've probably given it more thought than they have.
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But, you know, it's one of those things that if you're a French party, you can just propose
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the craziest ideas without actually having to make any of it make sense.
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And, you know, if these guys had their own way, who knows?
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It'd probably be a whole new taxation system where non-Muslims would be taxed at different
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rates than Muslims, as is difficult and, you know, common practice throughout the Middle
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But hopefully we won't ever have to explore those ideas in Canada.
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Do you want to convert to Islam, Menzoid, so you avoid paying the higher tax rate?
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Candace, one last question, because we're almost running out of time here.
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What do you make of the lack of mainstream media coverage of this party?
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And I bet their producers and their editors would say, oh, this is fringe.
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Yet I can't help but think if somebody else out there started a, you know, white supremacy
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party of Ontario or what have you, they would be all over it and condemning its values and
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What do you make of the near total absence of mainstream media coverage of the Islamic
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Well, that's sort of typical mainstream media practice when it comes to anything regarding
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They'd rather keep it from Canadians, which frankly is the reason why, part of the reason
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And people are looking to alternative sources like the Rebel or the True North Initiative to
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get their news because they know that the mainstream media is afraid to touch these issues.
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If this was a white supremacist party or a Nazi party or probably even, you know, a Mormon
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party of Ontario that was proposing the similar kinds of morality, you know that there would
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be the sort of hit pieces and hate pieces in the CBC, Toronto Star, et cetera.
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But because it's Muslims and it's Islam, the media treats it with kid gloves and they don't
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want to be critical and they, you know, just have a very difficult time reporting it, probably
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because of some of the issues that we discussed here, how, you know, it contradicts core liberal
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But at the same time, they have to promote multiculturalism and they can't criticize another
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So it puts them in a dilemma and they just prefer to ignore it, which does a disservice to Canadians.
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Again, that's why I think more and more people are tuning into alternative and independent
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We're only into day three of 2019 and the liberal, you know, lust for hypocrisy and the
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Candice, thank you so much for joining us on this issue.
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We'll have to monitor this party, especially on election day in about four years and see
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what kind of support there is out there for a Sharia, a pro-Sharia party called the Islamic
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Thanks again and happy new year to you, Candice.
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More of the Ezra Levin show to come right after this.
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You know, I'm still chuckling over a CBC story about a United Church in Calgary that's displaying
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what's being described as a different take on the nativity scene, which is to say that if
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you drop by the Red Deer Lake United Church, you will come across a, quote, inclusive cross-cultural
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display that includes an indigenous wise man, end quote.
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According to the CBC, Reverend Nick Coates says he was expecting congregants and others to
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push back, but everyone has loved the updated and reimagined version of Christ's birth.
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I mean, we are talking about the United Church here, whose unity seems to be driven by the
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In any event, one of the Meiji is Canadian astronaut Roberta Bondar, who holds out the
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Milky Way constellation to symbolize the gift of knowledge.
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The Meiji with the dreadlocks is American musician Michael Franti, who brings the gift of music.
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I think they would make me cross the street, actually.
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Oh, let's not forget to mention the wise man who is meant to look like Assembly of First
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And forget about such old school gifts as gold, frankincense, and mirth, because Bellegarde's
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Hey, if I'm the baby Jesus, I'm kind of feeling a little gypped right now.
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By the way, shockingly, the baby Jesus is still depicted as a baby.
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You know, to be honest, I was expecting Bumblebee from the Transformers movie franchise to be playing
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Oh, and there seems to be no outrage about cultural appropriation here.
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By contemporizing some of the traditional imagery and by decolonizing some of the characters,
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the hope is to create a scene that sparks curiosity, engagement, and wonder.
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I hope this nativity can cause people to stop, engage, and wonder,
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Call me a crank here, but I thought Christmas was about the birth of Christ.
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I mean, have you ever noticed how the word Christ is actually part of the word Christmas?
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Hey, lots of feedback from my commentary two weeks ago about that wacky reimagined nativity
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It's the United Church, the most unchristian, progressive, leftist denomination out there.
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I'm not even sure one can call the United Church a Christian church anymore.
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It's kind of devolved into a goofy cult, really.
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Now let's see their Birth of Muhammad version.
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Um, no, Kiefer, you will not see that kind of display.
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That sort of imagery tends to bring out the Grinch in certain folks.
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How would they like it if we modified Canadian Indian totem poles with Mickey Mouse, Foghorn
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Leghorn, Speedy Gonzalez, Yosemite Sam, and the like?
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Oh, man, Scott, could you imagine the outcry over that sort of reimagining?
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Not to mention the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Warner Brothers.
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Brother, I know you may not want to leave, but I have a room for you at my place in Texas
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Well, I'll tell you what, Kal-El, can I get back to you in late October after the federal election?
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Which is to say, if there isn't regime change in the Great White North, well, giddy up, partner.
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Well, that's it for this edition of the Ezra Levin Show.