SOG24： Exclusive Interview with Bahira Abdulsalam #1MillionMarch4Children ｜ Stand on Guard Ep 24
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Summary
The Million Person March is slated for September 20th, 2019, and a million people are expected to attend. In this episode, I speak with Bahira Abdul Salam, the Master of Ceremonies and organizer of the march, about the march and what it's all about.
Transcript
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Welcome back to another episode of Stand on Guard with David Creighton.
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I am your host, David Creighton, and I'm very pleased again to welcome Bahira Abdul Salam
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back to the show, and we're going to talk about the Million Person March that is slated
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for September 20th, and just after this brief intro.
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So we are in a very precarious position in this country.
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We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
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So as we were discussing before we went on air, I think one of the primary reasons that
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you wanted to do this second interview and that I want to do it is to ensure that people
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know that this march is not going to be captured by any political party.
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We're not out there, and I will be there as the master of ceremonies and marching, but
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I'm not there to endorse any political party, and I'm not there to oppose any political party.
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I'm there to support parental rights and to oppose gender ideology.
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At this point, it creates a lot of confusion because this movement is huge.
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So we have people coming, Canadians from coast to coast, and they have one objective, and
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our objective is protection of our children and ensuring the parental rights.
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However, this could be considered a gain for any political party if this movement belongs
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We disagree to be endorsing a specific party because we believe that this is what is going
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to protect this movement and make it authentic and make it inclusive for everyone.
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So we are welcome, all politicians, all political party leaders, all, everyone who believes in
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If you really believe that this is something that you believe in, and even if you are in
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the opposition, in the, in the affiliated with the government, please come and endorse us,
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and, and, and at the same time, we are not, uh, trying to, um, like, uh, limit freedoms of
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If anyone really, they have affiliation with a party, it's okay.
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However, I disagree with my party about those kinds of policies.
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So, uh, our, um, movement will not be, um, uh, directly affiliated with one political party,
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We are, uh, neutral and everyone is welcome to join us.
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Uh, we are for all Canadians or, or from all political affiliations, from all the religious,
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And, um, so I believe this is what is going to make it grow and, uh, protect this movement.
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I, I did an interview yesterday with, uh, a former liberal MP.
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Uh, he's, uh, he's now the president of Canadians for affordable energy.
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So he focuses on, on Trudeau's climate change plan and, and his attempts to make energy impossible
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to afford, but it was so refreshing talking to Dan.
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I, I got to know Dan very well during the marriage debate quite some time ago.
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I was very involved in an organization called Defend Marriage to keep marriage between a man
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and a wife, and that was, uh, a seminal year in my career.
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I took, I took time off from my, from my job to fight for this issue.
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We call them the pro marriage liberals who voted against his own government because he
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really, as a Roman Catholic, he felt he could not support the same sex marriage bill.
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And he is continuing to be a principled member of society by opposing just about everything
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And he says, yes, I was a liberal MP for 18 years.
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And he represented, uh, three writings, actually.
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They kept changing the, the name of the constituency, but it was basically Scarborough.
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So he was a Toronto area MP who had very socially conservative views, and I'm certainly going
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to invite Dan to participate in this march because I think it's exactly, he represents exactly
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what you just said, that there are liberals out there who are not comfortable with children
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They're not comfortable with a prime minister who says parents who suggest that they have
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the right to be informed about their children's gender decisions are far right or shouldn't
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And so I know there's a lot of liberals out there who disagree with that and, and want to
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So I am going to invite Justin Trudeau to attend this event, as well as Jagmeet Singh.
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I can't see how either will attend because it's completely contrary to their agenda.
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But in the interest of saying this is a nonpartisan event, I think they should be invited and at
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least given a chance to say, no, I'm not going.
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But, uh, interestingly, uh, conservative leader, Pierre Polyev came close to endorsing the march.
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He was asked whether or not he was going to be participating.
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And he said he didn't know enough about it, but that he certainly thinks parents should
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be the final arbitrators of, of what their children are seeing and doing and participating
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Question number one is that, uh, what do you think about the million person march and will
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I understand that, uh, it's parents who are frustrated with government, uh, imposing, uh,
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Uh, my view is that parents should be the final authority on the values, uh, and the lessons
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Uh, I believe in parental rights, uh, and parental rights become, come before the government's
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And certainly as far as making any decisions about changing quote unquote their gender, that
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that should be something the parents should be involved in and not teachers.
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So I think that's, that was, uh, that was highly positive.
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And I'm, I'm going to invite, uh, Pierre Polyev, but once again, Pierre Polyev is not going
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So I think that's, that's very important to emphasize.
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Uh, I also wanted to touch on the interfaith element of this because I think that's so important.
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Uh, I don't think there's a, a large segment of the population who thinks this is a Muslim
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only march, but we certainly want to make sure that that's not the case.
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This is, this is an opportunity for people of faith in Canada to unify and, and to get
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together and to oppose something that many faiths disagree with.
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Yeah, so I wanted to comment about, uh, the first, uh, uh, point, uh, about the, uh, liberals
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and, uh, how, uh, the government is changing the way or the original message of the liberal
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And, uh, uh, I, I totally, uh, it is very clear that this is not the, uh, how liberal or
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So, uh, um, uh, having a people who, uh, share our message from the liberal party, I believe
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that we have, uh, a lot of, uh, uh, members of, uh, I have been, uh, affiliated with the liberal
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party myself and this has been my position all the time.
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This is very clear, but, uh, uh, uh, so we are inviting them.
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And what I see is that many politicians and many people who belong, belong to a party,
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they may be not, uh, willing to speak publicly about their own perspective, their own, um,
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like, um, uh, thoughts, express their thoughts, uh, because it may contradict with their party.
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So this is, uh, it's, it is not, this is not freedom of expression.
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So we are encouraging everyone to be authentic, to be true to themselves, true to their values.
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And, uh, we should, uh, we shouldn't be, um, like, uh, blindly following our party's direction.
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No one should agree 100% with their party direction.
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So this is, uh, uh, definitely, um, this is something that I see that it is, uh, it is
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really strange that, uh, uh, uh, like people who have political affiliation, they can have
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their own decisions they have, uh, which can contradict with, uh, with the party, uh, policy
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So, um, uh, this is, uh, so that inviting all of them, uh, we are, we are inviting all of
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We'll be happy to have, uh, everybody, even, uh, who do not agree with us, even those who
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have, uh, concerns and, uh, who want to ask us, uh, questions or to have conversations.
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And I think this is, uh, one of the main objectives of this march is to bring people together and
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to, uh, create like stronger connections between, uh, uh, people who are in this, um, is in this
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march and to, uh, to send a very strong message to the government and to the, to officials and
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to make them accountable about their decisions.
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And if there's any doubt that this remains a critical issue for Canadians, I, I don't know
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if you saw the story last week out of Saskatchewan, but the Saskatchewan, excuse me, Ministry of
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Education is going down the same route as the New Brunswick Ministry of Education and saying
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parents must be informed that this is not a decision the schools, the teachers, the state
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And the reaction, the immediate reaction from the teachers union in Saskatchewan was to not
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just criticize this decision, but to completely suggest that teachers are the ones who should
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Teachers are more important in children's lives than the parents.
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Hello, my name is Samantha Becott and I am the president of the Saskatchewan Teachers
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Federation on behalf of the 13,000 teachers across Saskatchewan.
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I'm here to express our deep frustration and disappointment regarding the minister of
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education's recent announcement of new parental inclusion and consent policies.
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Every day, teachers work tirelessly to create inclusive learning environments where all students
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However, this policy not only handcuffs teachers' ability to build trust, it also dangerously
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threatens the safety and well-being of Saskatchewan students.
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This knee-jerk reaction to an isolated incident is a significant overstep by the government.
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It not only politicizes our classrooms, but it also takes us down a dangerous path without
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any consultation with teachers or the public at large.
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I strongly encourage all teachers, parents, and students to reach out to your MLA and express
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your disappointment with these outdated policy changes.
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It is essential that we stand together to protect the rights and safety of our students.
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That is the teachers who are the ones doing the real work here.
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And the teachers are the ones who should be making decisions on behalf of students.
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Now, it just amazed me that anybody could be that frank in making stupid statements.
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It's like, could be that honest about how authoritarian they are.
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And, you know, a lot of people have said to me, why are you going after Justin Trudeau?
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Because education is a provincial concern in Canada.
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Well, it's because Justin Trudeau is driving this agenda as our prime minister.
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And unfortunately, here in Ontario, we have a premier who is supposedly a conservative,
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but is more on side with Justin Trudeau than just about any other premier in Canada.
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I supported Doug Ford replacing the last liberal administration.
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I said absolutely nothing during the last provincial election because I was so disgusted with Doug Ford over his behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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But I'm even more offended by the way he insists every student in Ontario observe Pride Month.
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And then if you don't, you're guilty of hatred.
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So I'm sure you would agree that we, it's not just Trudeau.
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We've got some very, very concerning premiers in this country.
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And, like, the problem is more complex than anybody can imagine.
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It's a plan that has been put in place very long time ago.
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And it's an international plan to, and demonstrations are going on all over the world right now, in Australia, in England, in the United States.
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So I believe that the origin of this is coming from the United Nations and the Human Rights Code that is, and there are some interest groups.
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And those interest groups are influencing the Canadian politics.
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And they are trying to have politicians, push politicians in different parties that will, like, execute their plan.
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And having this march is sending a very strong message.
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And I believe that those changes have been, or those success stories in Saskatchewan, and, like, regarding the parental rights and removing all the sexualization of children in schools,
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are a result of activists who have been working very hard.
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And the push of the people to protect their children and raising our voice and standing together and being united, this is, it resulted in successes, in success stories.
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And this will continue to happen, and this will, hopefully, we will have the whole country.
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And so I think that it is, yeah, like, there is the power of people, and there is another power, or those groups who are funding political campaigns,
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who are pushing their views and their interests on some of our politicians, and controlling our government policy.
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So it's like pushing back between people and those powers that are pushing or imposing on people, on us, those kind of, like,
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it is, they are going to make money out of that, they are going to benefit from different industries that are unethical,
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and they are not helping human beings, they are not helping children, on the contrary.
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And I believe this is one of the reasons we have those teachers that announced very, like, surprisingly, their views,
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Who is funding those teacher associations, and what is the benefit that they are going to gain out of it?
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Well, I think, too, we haven't even mentioned one of the real villains in this whole gender ideology campaign, and that's Big Pharma.
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The pharmaceutical companies are making billions of dollars off of creating a false, fake crisis of gender dysphoria that doesn't exist for 99% of these children,
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insisting that they have, that they have intense anxiety about their gender, and must change that gender.
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And they're doing this for a strictly profit motive, because they're making billions of dollars.
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They're making billions of dollars off of this.
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And I think it's absolutely contemptible that they are getting away with this, and they're justifying this by saying that they're protecting children,
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It is just so, it's inverting the truth so that they can continue to do their dirty work.
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And it's, I certainly am going to be going after Big Pharma as much as I can, because I don't know if you ever watch, if you watch TV today,
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I mean, and most of us are watching so much on social media, we don't watch a lot of TV anymore.
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But it's like 75% of the ads on television, especially during newscasts, are pharmaceutical companies.
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And it's amazing how, while they're telling you this is a miracle drug that's going to relieve you from your affliction,
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the small print is telling you that you could die of a heart attack, have a stroke, or something,
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or some other catastrophic event if you take the drug.
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And yet, they are driving the advertising right now.
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And it's absolutely astounding that this is continuing, and they are in bed with the activists on this,
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Yeah, so I believe that there are different industries.
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One of them that you have mentioned, the pharma industry.
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And there is another industry, which is the, like, prostitution industry.
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And by opening a sexual relationship, by teaching students that,
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So, by teaching students that their human rights are having access at any age,
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at any age, and what they do is how to make a world and how to protect this,
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or to hide this religion, I think this is, it's not serving as people,
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it's not serving our children, it is opposing all religious values.
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It is only helping those kind of industries that benefit from, like,
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And destroying the family also, it's for their gain.
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Well, you know, that's a perspective I wasn't even thinking of, but that's very true.
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It's the sexualization of children, yes, is aiding the whole sex industry.
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And it's, I often say, too, that if children are allowed to consent by themselves
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about changing their gender, then you know what's coming next.
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Children will be allowed to make decisions about having sex at 12 years old,
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and it will no longer be illegal for adults to have sex with children.
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And that's, as far as I'm concerned, that's the next stage of the sexual revolution,
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is the normalization and legitimization of pedophilia.
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They have been talking about it in parliamentary committees I have attended,
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where they've tried to suggest pedophilia is a totally normal sexual activity and behavior,
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and it should be legal, because these people have a human right to do this.
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And, of course, as soon as a human right is granted, whether it's falsely granted or not,
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it becomes a vested interest and becomes very difficult to repeal or to stop.
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And that's why I say to parents that this is incredibly important that you retain your rights as parents,
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because parents and other totalitarian societies lost those rights.
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And if we lose that right, the chances of getting it back are very small,
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because then we have granted a human right to people who it is really no right to have.
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Teachers have no right to make decisions on behalf of parents.
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So what I want to wrap up by saying that I want this to be a truly interfaith March,
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and I'm going to be devoting a lot of my time in the next three weeks as we come up to September 20th.
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There's a couple of other events around the date that I don't think are helpful,
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And I'm going to be reaching out to evangelical Christians,
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and conservative Roman Catholics who I have worked with on abortion and marriage over the years,
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And if you have any problem with sharing the stage with other faiths,
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And I want to encourage evangelical Christians, all Christians,
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but I'm going to be reaching out to the ones who are most likely to oppose gender ideology
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and to oppose this whole program and to say you need to be there.
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Just like you're there every year for the March for Life on Parliament Hill,
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And I think it's going to supersede anything we've ever seen in this country.
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We need to be there for people, like a Sikh, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a atheist,
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a whole kind of religious, social, people from social backgrounds.
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So, I just wanted to comment about the minor attractive person,
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because this is how they are going, planning to normalize pedophilia.
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They redefine the concepts to make it more acceptable.
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So, be careful if you hear this term, MAP, or minor attractive person.
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This means that it is someone or it's a group that is normalizing pedophilia.
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And this is one of the main reasons that we see the sexualization of children
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who are at a very young age in schools, and we will never allow this to happen.
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No one will accept this to happen, and this has to stop all over Canada.
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And we have a very wonderful team who are working day and night
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So, I'm inviting everybody to join and register.
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The date is Wednesday, 20th of September at 9 a.m.
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The location is mostly the parliamentary legislative buildings in all provinces,
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city halls, town halls, and specific addresses and locations
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I'm always updating people about the progress of this march.
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And we are opening the door for any organization,
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This march will be the start for ending the crisis that we have.
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So, we need to be careful, understand it, raise the awareness,
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But we'll probably do this again before the march
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or any donations from any persons or any organizations.
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like they are providing kind of volunteer work so far.
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If we are going to announce our needs for fundraising,
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we found some kind of hijacking to the name of Kamalit Shaikh
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and some people asking for donations on his behalf.
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Kamal, he didn't ask and he doesn't have any fundraiser.
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Don't give any money for any organization on our name.
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We find that, like, there are all kinds of pushback
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And I'm going to put every bit of energy I have into it.