In this episode of Stand on Guard, my friend Camille L. Sheikh joins me to talk about the events of October 7th, 2019, and why we need to resist the globalist forces that want us to focus on issues that we can t control.
00:00:01.000Welcome back to another episode of Stand on Guard. I'm your host, David Creighton, and it's my pleasure to have back after way too long, my friend, Muslim leader, Camille L. Sheikh, and we've got so much to talk about, but we're just going to be back in mere moments.
00:00:18.680So we are in a very precarious position in this country. We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
00:01:00.000There's a lot of things going on in this country, and I just watch your episodes, put a like, and if I can get 10 minutes of watching your episode, that's a good day for me, right?
00:01:09.460Well, I'm staying busy with this broadcast as well as the new media I work for, and I also do a stint every week on Redacted.
00:01:20.000I did a broadcast recording this morning with Clayton Morris about the budget, of course, which we can talk about.
00:01:29.640But I wanted to talk at the beginning, just so we get this out of the way, because it's the elephant in the room, of course, the war in the Mideast.
00:01:40.500I remember saying to you when this whole damn thing began, I said, one of the attendant casualties of this war is not going to be just the Israelis or the Palestinians or, God forbid, other people in that region.
00:01:59.180It's going to be the wonderful unity that we have built in this country between Muslims, Christians, and Jews, and what we put together for that million person march last September.
00:02:13.920And as we demonstrated what we put together, what we demonstrated to the world, not just Canada, I just knew that was going to be not annihilated, not ended, but it was going to be upset by these globalist forces that want us to be distracted, that want us to fight about foreign wars,
00:02:41.300that want us to keep our eyes on issues that we can't control instead of the ones that we can control here in Canada, such as gender ideology.
00:02:51.660So, briefly, your thoughts on that, Cumin.
00:02:55.000Well, I mean, Canadians have all kinds of opinions, and I believe, I truly believe in idea meritocracy.
00:03:05.160As long as Canadians can agree and disagree in a healthy environment where, hey, you're a human being, you're my fellow Canadian, I'm going to disagree with you there, I'm going to go on social media, I'm going to be transparent, and feel free to disagree with me, but let's engage.
00:03:21.780As long as that dialogue doesn't come to chirps and insults and smears, I think it's a healthy university dialogue.
00:03:33.040You know, I mentioned this with you offline, David, you know, two people can say completely opposite things in university, but if they prepared their case and arguments, you would like both, and you would say, hey, you know what, that person made a point, this person made a point.
00:03:50.820Like, Thomas Jefferson says it best, freedom in society is the freedom to agree and disagree freely, and if we can't do that, we don't have a nation.
00:04:01.440And, you know, obviously, you know, a lot has happened since October 7th, but a lot has happened in the Middle East since 1948, and I don't want to go down that rabbit hole.
00:04:11.680It's a big one, and you could see, go on social media, you can see it all, you can see all the footages.
00:04:16.680Because you conclude, Canadians are well-educated people, you conclude whatever you want to conclude, but take a look at it with an open heart and an open mind, and listen to everybody.
00:04:32.220And you know what, the reason why I cancelled October 21st, and I got heat for it, and you were there, David, I got a lot of heat for it, by good people, because I knew the streets were going to be upset for a few months.
00:04:48.160I knew people are going to be outraged, you know, there's a genocide happening, all that kind of stuff.
00:04:52.920I don't want to get into the details, but at some point, you need to allow Canadians to figure it out for themselves.
00:05:03.720October 21st, we cancelled a million people March Part 2, but we gave people six months to engage, discourse, agree, disagree, and guess what we were doing in the six months?
00:05:16.680We were expanding the million people March organization, you're seeing some of the activities, we're adding more Canadians to it, more Christians, we've added Sikhs to the organization.
00:05:32.240And, you know, I think any good organization, David, for it to grow, they need to be able to navigate through the tribulations of what society throws, and you need to be patient, you need to be level-headed, and you need to be calm at all times, even when you are getting the heat yourself.
00:05:54.560And I took a lot of heat, you've probably seen it, and, you know, I also, in that cancellation, hurt good people, but now, those same people are saying, how did you know, you know, thank you for doing this, it gave us time to reflect, you know, there was potential riots in the streets, I don't want to, I don't want civil unrest in this country, I want people to come together.
00:06:18.500And they saw the method to the madness, and those same people are coming back and saying, hey, you know what, we like this, and we're 10 months old, we're still in our infant stage, I'm not going to compromise our efforts, and this is why we did what we did.
00:06:33.300Well, we need to focus on Canada, and that's what I said at the time, I thought you made the correct decision, because passions were high, the potential for huge distraction was there, the potential for people to be fighting about other issues.
00:06:48.500I don't want to get into those other issues, but the potential for people to be fighting about things that we cannot control, we're there, and we need, we needed to focus on gender ideology, and hands off our kids.
00:07:01.860So that's, I'm glad to hear we're back on track on this, I'm ready to go with you again, but I want to play a clip here, because in the interim, since we have been doing other things, since we've been waiting to get back to business on this issue,
00:07:18.500Pierre Polly, of leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, has made some very interesting statements, he has said, for instance, that he believes women's locker rooms, change rooms, should be for biological women, should not be a shock for people, but that takes political courage these days to say that.
00:07:39.320He said he supports about 100% of what Premier Daniel Smith of Alberta has put forward in terms of limiting, at least limiting, the odious effects of gender ideology, by saying, no, 12-year-olds can't get a sex change, no, we're not going to give puberty blockers to 14-year-olds.
00:08:03.600Without their parents' consent, and remember that.
00:08:06.520I got a lot of those complaints on my desk.
00:08:08.300So I applauded Daniel Smith for doing that, and we haven't had a chance to even discuss that or acknowledge it in our discussions, but I also applaud what Pierre Polly has been saying repeatedly now, not just once.
00:08:25.700He started out with this at a Christmas interview he did with Rex Murphy, where he said, I want the Conservative Party to be the mind-your-own-business party.
00:08:37.020And he says, I want parents to raise their children.
00:08:40.740And I said, oh, my God, this is what I've been waiting to hear from a politician in Canada.
00:08:47.300Stop telling me that the state has a right over my children.
00:08:51.360Stop telling me that parents have no right to raise their children in the religion and the ideology and the politics that they choose and not the one that state chooses.
00:09:01.440I just want to play a brief clip here from Pierre Polly.
00:10:04.780He's the mind-your-own-business party.
00:10:06.820Let parents do what they need to do to raise their children.
00:10:11.200And whether you're a Christian, whether you're a Muslim, whether you're a Jew, whether you're a Sikh or a Hindu, I think we can all agree with that.
00:10:19.800And I've attended some of his acts, the tax rallies.
00:10:23.660And, you know, of course, I'm very opposed to the carbon tax.
00:10:27.560What really interested me was when he starts to talk about the Canada we grew up in.
00:10:33.120And he's talking about people who go to work because they think they're going to make some money and not have it taken away by the government.
00:10:40.020People who raise their children because they know they're going to be raising their children, not the state.
00:10:44.480And I said, this is not just Trudeau bashing.
00:11:16.700But the notion that politicians, and I've been hearing it a few times now, I think your tremendous work and the work of our teams from coast to coast are starting to tell politicians, you're going to need to start talking about this stuff.
00:11:36.320Remember, when that trans bill was passed in the House of Commons, all politicians were standing to an ovation, including conservatives.
00:14:20.400I don't know if you've seen that announcement in the feeds.
00:14:24.440But our organization is looking to penetrate every school in the country with parents that hold trustees accountable and that hold the school accountable and teachers.
00:14:36.780Because the truth is 98.5% of Canadians are heterosexual, and these laws – I know you guys are hypersensitive, the LGBTQ community, the radical part of the LGBTQ community.
00:14:52.220I know you're hypersensitive, but you're really infringing on heterosexual rights in this country, especially children's rights.
00:15:01.560Because a child cannot make a decision at six years old whether they're male or female.
00:16:49.140Well, I was saying the other day in one of my broadcasts that we have come to the point where so much of the school curriculum is nothing but sex and sexuality.
00:17:04.820How do we expect children to learn the skills, the knowledge they need for their life when we're indoctrinating and inundating children with information not only that they should not be receiving at that age, but questionably whether it's information they should ever be receiving in their life.
00:17:29.260But the schools should not be enforcing, should not be pushing this down their throats.
00:17:35.060And I really think the solution is to get the education system out of this business entirely, to get the state out of this business and to say, no more.
00:17:50.320These are private matters between parents and their children, and we will not have the school doing this anymore.
00:17:56.340We will not have the education system usurping the rights of parents.
00:17:59.960I think that's where we were going with this, and we need to put the freedom back into the family and to the individual.
00:18:09.220And I think this is what is catching fire today with people, because they remember a Canada where you went to school and you weren't taught all these radical extremist ideologies.
00:18:27.060And you are today, and we're all being told what to think.
00:18:30.360And, of course, you know, since we've last talked, the most dangerous thing Trudeau has introduced, and he's introduced so many dangerous things, has been the online harms bill, which I'm talking about every day.
00:18:44.160Because if it is passed, it could put people like me out of business, not just doing a little broadcast like this, but writing as an independent journalist, writing for new media.
00:18:57.660Writing as I see fit, writing as my publication or my broadcaster or my media outlet sees fit, writing as any social media platform sees fit, because it is going to put a lot of people out of business and gag a lot of us.
00:19:15.700And I was talking to John Carpe just yesterday.
00:19:20.440Of course, he's the president of the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms.
00:19:24.380He has done not only some tremendous work in trying to raise consciousness about this Online Harms Act and the effect it's going to have if it's passed, he's done some tremendous work in gender ideologies as well, because he sees this as a clear and present danger to our individual freedom and the state interfering in our lives.
00:19:45.720So I think we really need to present this, not like we're bellyaching, but this is the clarion call to freedom.
00:19:57.780Well, I mean, you know, this is the candidate we used to know.
00:20:31.400And, you know, you mentioned the sexual indoctrination books.
00:20:37.340We have people, executives in this movement that went to schools and that and they're relatively new to the movement, but they've been fighting this with other movements.
00:20:47.700So we've added people from other movements.
00:23:12.640I may disagree with that tattoo on your face or whatever, but it doesn't matter what I think.
00:23:18.300Why are you forcing your ideals in the schools?
00:23:23.040Similarly, you as an evangelical Christian, you have your own flag.
00:23:28.260Me as a Muslim on my mask, there's a Muslim flag, but there's also a Canadian flag.
00:23:32.720And that tends to be a little bigger than anything else.
00:23:36.080So why don't we just agree and just put the Canadian flag in public schools that represents the LGBT, the evangelical Christians, the Muslims and the Hindus and everybody else.
00:24:12.580And honestly, I've been working around the clock with our teams to build it and build that cohesion, because whether it's a conservative government, a liberal government, a PPC, I don't know what the next government is.
00:27:25.180Even though education is a provincial responsibility, Trudeau is always meddling in that sphere.
00:27:31.640He also meddles in the health sphere, which is once again a provincial jurisdiction with his euthanasia program, which is absolutely odious.
00:27:42.140Yeah, that made program, that scares me.
00:28:16.500You know, you talk about the state of this country and what is considered normal these days by some people.
00:28:25.600Only because people like you and I are sometimes cowed into silence, are told it's not politically correct to say anything.
00:28:35.400But a story that struck me as being one of the outrages of the last couple of months was a church in Calgary that celebrated Easter Sunday, the most sacred day of the year for Christians.
00:28:52.140With a drag show in their church service.
00:28:56.680And I thought, if that is not emblematic of how corrupt and how incredibly salacious and how incredibly irrelevant so many churches have become in this country because they have become tone deaf to standards.
00:29:27.620But what I found incredibly disturbing is the latest, and I'm a Muslim, and I'm outraged by this, a Muslim Canadian feeling for my fellow Christian Canadians.
00:29:37.960Apparently, you can't read the Bible publicly because it's blasphemous in certain things.
00:29:47.520So, Trudeau, I don't know if you've heard this, that, you know, it's like, okay, so now you're telling people they can't read their Bibles in their churches.
00:29:57.580And for decades, I had a public page as a Muslim, and I'd say, I made sure, I said, as a Canadian Muslim, don't tell me happy holidays, wish me a Merry Christmas, and I will wish you a Merry Christmas back.
00:30:13.640We don't need to be politically correct on that.
00:30:16.440We need to acknowledge and respect each other's faiths.
00:30:19.580Now, we have a community here, and again, I'm not painting all of them with the same brush.
00:30:26.440I disagree with the community wholeheartedly.
00:30:29.540I disagree with the lifestyle, as they disagree with mine, but I did have gay subordinates, and I did have gay bosses in the past, and I've worked with them, and we had a working relationship, and we were professional, okay?
00:30:48.020It's disagreeing and agreeing and living a freedom of consciousness, but to go out there and say you're being oppressed while you're parading in the streets naked, you know, sexual books in the school.
00:31:06.120Now you're forcing the stuff on our kids.
00:31:08.020Now, all of a sudden, you want us to change our faith, whether it's in the mosque or in the church or in the Gurdwara, whatever it is, you want us to change the fabric of our beliefs because your feelings are going to get hurt?
00:31:23.32020 years ago, I remember, or 25 years ago, when I left school, Carleton, I remember it was about equal rights.
00:31:32.500You wanted the equal right to vote, to get married.
00:31:35.260I didn't think your vote was affected if you were gay, but, you know, that's news to me.