Western Standard - March 23, 2026


CORY MORGAN SHOW： Say it out loud. The problem is Islam.


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In this episode of the Corey Morgan Show, Corey talks about the growing problem of anti-Islamic hate and violence around the world, and how we need to do more to stop it. He also talks about what we can do about it.

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00:00:00.000 Good day and welcome to the Corey Morgan Show.
00:00:29.560 if you're in alberta spring has really sprung now we're well into the double digits the
00:00:34.300 roads are flowing and i know from looking out my back window and the snow goes down and i get to
00:00:40.000 realize just how much i missed from those bloody three dogs i have in the backyard so i got a
00:00:45.380 really fun weekend ahead of me in the yard cleanup still i'll take that i can't stand winter i got no
00:00:50.720 use for it i'm looking forward to seeing the leaves turn green and uh and my bees flying
00:00:56.320 around getting stuff done i might be seeming a little crabbier and groggier than usual i just
00:01:00.480 got in from consort last night i was at another one of those independence meetings speaking up in
00:01:04.720 there another great large crowd and uh running across people set up at those signing stations
00:01:10.000 all over the place there's really something crazy going on in alberta with that it's going to be one
00:01:14.480 heck of a year uh let's see a little while i'm going to have matthew tobon he's from unapologetically
00:01:20.000 jewish name kind of says it all he's in canada and pushes back against anti-semitism and things
00:01:26.240 such as that. There's just been so much going on with that. I just wanted to speak to somebody and
00:01:31.460 say, well, what the heck can we do about it? You know, this is becoming a problem, but it's easier
00:01:36.000 to say that we just want it to stop. Well, how do you get this sort of thing to stop? So we'll have
00:01:40.020 a good discussion in a little while about that. But for starters, I'm going to provoke a religion
00:01:44.160 that's usually tolerant and not prone to provocation or getting worked up, and that's
00:01:49.460 Islam. So let's talk about them. And I'm going to begin by quoting the wisdom of Mr. Bean, 0.97
00:01:54.460 also known as Rowan Atkinson this is from him he said something online just to criticize a person 0.87
00:01:59.860 for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous but to criticize their religion 0.96
00:02:05.920 that is a right and that is freedom and that's where I just want to start that because we know 0.97
00:02:10.400 as soon as you start talking about Islam somebody's gonna call you a racist I'm not talking about any
00:02:15.440 race I'm talking about a religion and it is my right and obligation to criticize religion when 0.99
00:02:22.140 needs it so let's get on with critics critiquing the world's most troublesome religion and that
00:02:26.940 is islam i mean we've got synagogues and jewish schools they're being targeted by violent attacks
00:02:31.420 around the world as the bullets are flying and the bombs are detonating media and government
00:02:35.340 agencies are tying themselves in knots to avoid speaking about the root of the problem and that
00:02:39.980 root is islam islamic terrorists have tossed bombs at police and demonstrators in new york cnn
00:02:45.020 responded with a headline saying two pennsylvania teenagers crossed into new york on a saturday
00:02:49.820 morning for what could have been a normal day in joining the city during abnormally warm weather.
00:02:54.140 But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested
00:02:58.000 for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zoram Mamdami's house.
00:03:04.000 They made it sound like the terrorists were part of the anti-Islamic protesters. They neglected to
00:03:08.140 mention that the terrorists yelled Allahu Akbar before attacking, as most terrorists tend to do.
00:03:13.280 A man named I.M. Mohamed Ghazali, who had ties to Hezbollah, drove a car into a Michigan synagogue with a truck packed with fireworks and gasoline.
00:03:23.220 He was thankfully killed before he could detonate things.
00:03:25.800 CTV dutifully reported on the incident with the headline,
00:03:28.980 Investigators work to determine the exact reason for the attack at a Michigan synagogue.
00:03:34.900 Really?
00:03:35.880 As if there was any question about the motivation.
00:03:37.960 Or in Amsterdam, there's another beauty.
00:03:39.460 A bomb was set off at a Jewish school.
00:03:41.040 writers post a headline saying explosion lightly damages jewish school in amsterdam
00:03:46.480 lightly damages that's right up there with mostly peaceful we saw when race riots were burning
00:03:50.960 american cities a few years ago they made it sound like the attack on the school is more like
00:03:54.640 a backed up toilet or something you know minor damages i mean what was it if a few fingers or
00:04:00.240 legs were blown off we'd call it moderate damages these attacks have to be taken seriously meanwhile
00:04:05.280 thousands gathered in toronto for the annual islamist hate fest called al-quds day where they
00:04:09.840 call for the death to jews and usual stuff block streets and entrances 0.98
00:04:13.680 entrances to buildings with islamic prayers the toronto star called it a pro-palestine rally 0.96
00:04:18.880 but it was anything but in response to all of these incidents around the world though this was
00:04:22.720 the cherry on top the canadian security and intelligence service issues a post saying today
00:04:28.000 we stand against islamophobia and all forms of hatred as canada's security and intelligence agency
00:04:34.640 See, if CSIS really believes Islamophobia is a threat to Canadians, we truly aren't being protected by them.
00:04:41.420 No mosques have been attacked. There's no anti-Islamic stuff going on, guys.
00:04:46.320 By definition, a phobia is an irrational fear of something. 0.95
00:04:49.460 Islam is responsible for the vast majority of terrorist acts around the world. 1.00
00:04:52.820 Every Islamic-dominated country on Earth commits human rights violations the Western world would never consider tolerating in its borders. 1.00
00:04:59.480 Islam's use is a justification for subjugation of women in the murder of LGBTQ people throughout the Middle East, 0.98
00:05:05.340 and no Islamic nation tends to live in peace with any non-Islamic neighbours.
00:05:09.680 Fearing Islam isn't irrational. 0.56
00:05:12.140 Look, that's because the root of Islam isn't just to go out and spread the good faith like other religions.
00:05:16.600 The word Islam itself means submission, and it mandates its followers to either convert or kill people of other faiths. 1.00
00:05:23.080 There's no option for peaceful coexistence.
00:05:25.500 And don't take my word for it, take theirs, right from the Quran itself. 0.98
00:05:29.180 Here's some choice quotes.
00:05:30.640 Surah 3, 151, we shall cast terror into the hearts of all those who disbelieve. 0.99
00:05:35.620 Surah 2, 19, 1, we'll kill them, and they're meaning non-Muslims, whenever you find them. 1.00
00:05:41.440 Kill them, such is the recompense of the disbelievers. 1.00
00:05:44.700 Surah 9, 5, then kill the disbelievers whenever you find them, capture them and besiege them, 1.00
00:05:51.040 lie and wait for them in each and every ambush. 0.53
00:05:53.840 the book is replete with such statements and quotes, and they aren't ambiguous in their
00:05:57.920 demands. This isn't a matter of interpretation. Apologists point out that the Old Testament
00:06:01.940 and religious texts from other faiths have some violent and intolerant passages and dictates as
00:06:05.500 well, and that's true. But the adherence of those faiths have undergone reformations, and they'll
00:06:09.580 practice literal interpretations of their books as Islamists do with the Koran. You never heard 0.99
00:06:15.340 a person yelling, Jesus loves you, or Shalom Alekhem before detonating a bomb, or shooting
00:06:21.080 citizens of people on a beach, or dozens of people on a beach. The term we always hear is
00:06:26.640 Allahu Akbar, which is rather distinct to Islam. I understand that the majority of Muslims don't 1.00
00:06:31.760 become radical, but the volume of those who do from that faith is disproportionately high and
00:06:36.540 is causing problems around the world, and it has to be called out because it's an inherently
00:06:40.520 problematic faith. Pretending there isn't a problem or that other religions have the same 0.99
00:06:45.420 issues and problems isn't addressing the issue. The world has to stand up and confront radical
00:06:49.780 Islamists, it must be made clear that their medieval ideals have no place in the modern world 1.00
00:06:53.760 and won't be tolerated in Western nations. That means it's time to narrow immigration allowed from
00:06:58.360 certain nations. And deportations of practicing Islamist fundamentalists must start to happen if
00:07:03.100 that's what's going to take. Quarantine the nations that produce Islamist extremists until they find 1.00
00:07:07.480 the Reformation which has eluded them for the last 800 years. And never pretend that any other
00:07:11.700 faith kills cartoonists and riots over beauty pageant winners. That's the exclusive domain of 1.00
00:07:16.540 is lamb and we have every reason to fear it all right that's what's got me going today hey how's
00:07:21.780 it going you jinxed us what's that well you said spring is here that means we're going to get
00:07:26.640 dumped on again like we're getting some more snow this weekend a little bit it'll be a dusting just
00:07:31.940 enough just as i start to pick up all that dog poop there you go give you another weekend to uh 0.57
00:07:36.800 to do it let it you remember that uh march 17th snowstorm or years ago like paralyze this city
00:07:42.840 there's like two feet or so there's been so many i mean i know march is prone to those just that
00:07:46.840 last kick in the the groin we get from winter but either i'm still going to celebrate a little bit
00:07:51.160 of warm yeah it's plus 17 today we'll take it yeah so you've been driving here in foro in alberta
00:07:56.840 going to all the small towns i think we're sending out pictures uh what have been your favorite what's
00:08:01.720 what's stood up boy a favorite it's hard to say you know hannah was neat you know i i've i worked
00:08:07.800 there a number of times in the 90s but i never went beyond the little area of hotels and gas
00:08:12.920 stations on the highway i never actually went right into the town itself and it's just
00:08:16.520 i like those old towns i mean they're they're dying you know there's empty business fronts
00:08:20.360 all over the place and others falling down but you see creative coffee shops and businesses
00:08:24.680 and other spots still springing up or trying to make something of themselves so i just like touring
00:08:29.400 all those little things get off the highway a bit and have a look there's they're neater than you'd
00:08:32.040 think it's good to see the entrepreneurial spirit of albert is still alive yeah well and i'm sure
00:08:36.600 with those buildings when they're falling apart they don't have to pay a heck of a lot of rent
00:08:39.160 the landlord's just happy if utilities are kept up but you know make a go of it get creative
00:08:43.400 exactly so uh right now up in edmonton the provincial government is uh holding an embargoed
00:08:49.160 press conference with media on their new rules that they're bringing in about made so it should
00:08:55.320 be uh should be fairly uh interesting uh our website right now is leading off with a in-depth
00:09:01.480 investigation into made and how it's taken over from palliative care uh there's no more doesn't
00:09:07.320 seem to be much palliative care anymore it's straight from oh i feel sick all right you must
00:09:11.880 die type stuff so yeah that's an interesting read that's quite a cough there yeah you might need a
00:09:17.580 little treatment yeah uh we've got a couple great videos uh a semi-train stalled on the tracks near
00:09:25.560 taber uh yesterday and a locomotive just plows right through it that's quite amazing and we got a
00:09:33.960 somewhat lack of intelligent abbotsford kid who decided he was gonna go on a high-speed chase
00:09:40.360 with police while his his friends videotaped it from the back seat he ends up losing control and
00:09:46.040 hitting a gravel truck and the best part of the story for me is it was his stepmom's car
00:09:51.880 so he's got a bit of explaining to them yeah rough life experience at least with these things i mean
00:09:56.520 you know acts of foolishness and danger but you know we will report on the ones where at least
00:10:01.960 they didn't get killed yeah his buddies in the car with him are saying hey bro don't kill us
00:10:06.840 don't kill us i mean come on man uh we've got the head of ceo or ceo of tc energy saying that uh
00:10:15.000 even mark harney's uh attempted applications for building pipelines is way too slow
00:10:21.720 no surprise there new figures today showing gases up uh 24 since the uh since the iran war started
00:10:30.120 that's gonna hurt you driving in from out of town oh you got a little little vehicle yeah
00:10:35.080 my little hyundai anyways it's cheap on gas you know if nothing else i mean as much as i wanted
00:10:40.200 the giant gas guzzling SUV that independent media income just no it's not yeah I've also got one of
00:10:46.280 them little civics so that's a good thing you're not going to the states at this point because gas
00:10:51.500 is soaring yeah no we got our trip hopefully it comes down a little bit before my next winter
00:10:54.960 escape because yeah when we're pulling that fifth wheel you can almost see the gas gauge moving when
00:10:58.520 you're doing that yep uh the bi-monthly or by by two monthly Angus Reid poll on premier popularity
00:11:06.000 is out today uh david eby and free fall uh daniel smith actually going up so that's interesting
00:11:14.000 hey the calgary zoo's got a new polar bear oh it's exciting we remember the last one uh died
00:11:19.200 after it was drowned by its cellmate yeah um so they've got a new one that they're gonna
00:11:24.800 try and bring in and see if they can't have it survive and uh the bank of canada held its
00:11:31.200 overnight rate steady at 2.25%. Well, I guess, you know, thank heavens for small things. I mean,
00:11:38.760 we know that typically when inflation starts to run, they crank up those interest rates to try
00:11:44.720 and cool it down. Those of us that have mortgages coming up would have liked to have seen it go down
00:11:50.300 a little bit. 2% has a nice ring to it. Wish you the best on that one. People better renew as fast
00:11:57.320 as they can i got a feeling we're not gonna see some good inflation numbers in a little while
00:12:01.640 no i've got an appointment on saturday right on well hope it goes well for you thank you
00:12:06.040 right on can i use you as a co-founder to my credit yeah okay well if you really don't want
00:12:13.160 to get renewed that might i won't mention your name then okay that's usually a safe bet and
00:12:18.360 things in general social circles with me anyway there you go all right thanks for the update
00:12:22.040 dave up see you later for the pipeline that is our news editor dave lots of stories on the go lots of
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00:13:11.080 william commenter roble saying dave nailer he's put away his canada uk flags pin well you know
00:13:15.720 You know, Dave was born in the UK.
00:13:17.200 He's, you know, speaking of unapologetic backgrounds,
00:13:19.280 he likes to celebrate both sides,
00:13:22.240 but he's certainly a proud Albertan and proud Canadian.
00:13:24.900 It's not like he's selling us out to the overseas folks
00:13:29.880 on the other side of the pond.
00:13:31.780 Let's see what else we got going on.
00:13:34.460 Care Bear talking about it.
00:13:35.740 I imagine it's in response to my monologue on Islam.
00:13:39.260 You know, look at Europe. 0.99
00:13:39.940 It's a dumpster fire. 0.77
00:13:40.860 They've destroyed it.
00:13:41.580 Yeah, and this work is difficult, right?
00:13:45.040 The problem is volume. The problem is adaptation. It is a culture that comes with Islam that's incompatible with the modern world. It really is. It doesn't mean a person can't get over that, that they can't adjust from that and adapt from that. 1.00
00:13:59.040 But that takes coming into a newer environment, a newer society where you can work free of those things.
00:14:06.560 When you flood it in, in a massive uncontrolled flow, and that is what happened with Europe,
00:14:11.620 and that's what's happened with Michigan and some other areas where you take a bunch from North Africa
00:14:17.020 and others and dump them into an area without time to integrate,
00:14:20.740 is you get insular populations and you get social clashes and things only become worse.
00:14:28.540 we can look to Europe to see how bad it can get. Maybe we can get that fixed before it gets to
00:14:34.440 that point. Also, Care Bear saying Islam is a political ideology. It's true. That's a little 1.00
00:14:39.500 bit of, you know, I mean, I believe religion is fair game for critique as well. But Islam is more 1.00
00:14:45.020 of the interpretation and building the ideology around the religion. And that's why I use that
00:14:50.320 term predominantly throughout, rather than talking about necessarily, say, Muslims and so on. I'm
00:14:54.580 more often to speak of Islamists and so such. And of course, like everything, there's different
00:14:59.400 sects. I mean, there are, you know, fundamentalists and crazy people of every faith. I mean, I don't 0.84
00:15:06.280 know, there's some crazy Christians who like playing with rattlesnakes and stuff like that 1.00
00:15:10.080 and everything out there. But the main thing is when we're looking at the volume of difficulties 0.97
00:15:17.340 we're having, there is one that's kind of standing above the rest. And we're so scared to call it
00:15:22.520 out. We're so scared to discuss it. We're so terrified of critiquing it. And that's why I
00:15:29.180 just wanted to get right out and poke that bear off the start, because we do have to talk about
00:15:33.140 it. I'm tired of pussyfooting around. We aren't seeing a bunch of Hindu protesters riding in the 1.00
00:15:39.900 streets weekend after weekend after weekend, targeting other particular faiths and groups
00:15:46.440 and things such as that. We don't have, you know, Buddhists causing these difficulties 1.00
00:15:52.400 out on the streets. No, it tends to be Islam. Ah, here's one. Terry Davis saying Zionist 0.96
00:15:59.580 Christians. Yikes. Yes, yes, indeed. Let's talk about Zionism for a second, you know, 1.00
00:16:04.460 because people like using that as a substitute word for Jews. It really is. Looking at the base 0.96
00:16:11.460 of what Zionism is. It is the belief that Jews have the right to a homeland in Israel. That's
00:16:18.040 what it is. Does Israel have the right to exist? If your answer is yes, then you're a Zionist. 0.85
00:16:26.160 That's really the bottom line of what that whole thing is. I mean, that doesn't mean you can't or
00:16:31.540 shouldn't critique the government of Israel and some of the actions it's done or things like that.
00:16:36.680 No, absolutely, you can still critique those things, of course.
00:16:40.780 But does Israel have the right to be there? 1.00
00:16:43.340 Because if you oppose Zionism, then you mean it should be gone. 0.94
00:16:46.800 And, you know, that discussion's been on for a long time.
00:16:50.940 They've been there a long time.
00:16:54.140 You know, somebody who can expand more on that will be my guest.
00:16:56.820 He's going to be here in a moment, actually, and things such as that.
00:17:00.120 But I tire of people using the word Zionist just as a shield to cloak the word Jew.
00:17:06.680 Geez, at least just being honest, Andy, Sam, I can use the word. I mean, don't beat around that
00:17:11.340 bush. Sadly, a lot of people actually have stopped beating around that bush. So let's bring in my
00:17:16.100 guest, Matthew Tobe. I've been looking forward to this. He's from Unapologetically Jewish, 1.00
00:17:21.400 and we'll discuss some of these issues going on, particularly in Canada. With that, he should be
00:17:27.000 in in a moment. There he is. Hey, how's it going, Matthew? Not bad. Great. How you doing?
00:17:31.580 Good, good. I appreciate you taking some time to talk to us today. I imagine you've got
00:17:35.900 a lot to cover uh these days there's always been but this last uh few months well even a few weeks
00:17:41.460 in particular it's just been horrific so i mean maybe just to begin with though if you kind of
00:17:47.520 explain yourself and your organization you know what you what your mandate is and what you're
00:17:51.400 looking to do yeah so unapologetically jewish started off uh back essentially internally
00:17:57.880 through october 7th uh as you know protests started happening and i got more involved in
00:18:03.900 community advocacy and then solely working with the police on issues and then back in uh august
00:18:09.980 of 2025 i decided there's only so much one person can do on their own and started taking the steps to
00:18:17.260 start an organization called uh unapologetically jewish and the mandate we put behind it because
00:18:22.460 i'd already been doing police board deputations i'd already been speaking to mps and mpps
00:18:27.500 you know just in passing and to get more things happening we registered the organization
00:18:33.580 and decided to take it one step further so the first thing we did was uh look at who wasn't
00:18:38.780 doing certain things and the toronto police really worked acting a lot uh to stop you know the weekly
00:18:44.300 protests that were happening and we launched a club tribunal a human rights tribunal against
00:18:51.580 the city of toronto the toronto police board and the toronto police you know that was our first
00:18:57.660 mandate to work to ensure that law enforcement was doing their job and the second mandate was
00:19:03.900 to work with legislators not to change policy or make laws but really to just educate them
00:19:10.540 but what we're actually seeing because what you see on the news what you see on tv what you see
00:19:15.660 even on social media is not always what's actually happening so that was the other mandate and the
00:19:19.820 last mandate was to work with community to build more leaders and build more advocates and build
00:19:24.540 more strength amongst the community. And things, you know, I guess it's just been a shock since
00:19:31.420 October 7th, or maybe not so much a shock for some people, but it really stripped the veil off
00:19:35.080 of a lot of people. And it's unfortunate. I think a lot of initial protesters perhaps were upset over
00:19:40.820 the actions of Israel and the war and items such as that. But when we start seeing cafes targeted
00:19:46.860 or particular communities targeted where people live, you don't know if the person behind that
00:19:51.820 door supports Israel's actions or doesn't. The problem they had was that the person behind that
00:19:55.960 door was Jewish. And this had gone on in Toronto for so long. You know, if we'd have had any other 0.82
00:20:02.680 group, it seems where we're targeted a community based on their ethnicity, the police would
00:20:07.180 intervene and say, this is inappropriate. This is intimidation. This is a problem. But they just
00:20:11.640 took a hands-off approach with this. How do you respond to that? Well, they really did. And they,
00:20:16.400 The challenge that everybody's running into is, you know, showing up in communities that have a high-dense, you know, Jewish population. 1.00
00:20:26.340 It is for fear and intimidation.
00:20:28.900 And the police have taken this, let's just de-escalate situation using the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to stand behind.
00:20:36.920 And, you know, what we're learning, and let's be honest, nobody ever really mentioned the Charter of Rights for a long time.
00:20:43.300 You know, from when we first got it up until probably 2023, it wasn't really, you know, talked about as often as it is now.
00:20:51.640 And we're not as educated as we should be behind the charter.
00:20:55.680 So they're allowing these things to happen, the intimidation to happen, the harassment to happen, without actually truly understanding what's behind the charter and what it's meant to do.
00:21:04.440 So getting a little deeper in, I mean, we've been hearing about kids having problems in schools or post-secondary educations.
00:21:11.100 It's been awful seeing some of the treatment of, again, you know, just Jewish kids and students that they just want to move through. 0.99
00:21:16.180 They aren't taking part in the conflict.
00:21:17.680 They got nothing to do with it.
00:21:19.900 But, I mean, how does the Jewish community, I guess, do more outreach?
00:21:24.040 I mean, part of the issue is it's a very small minority, something of an insular community.
00:21:31.200 I mean, they're social, but they don't, you know, the practices almost seem mysterious, I think, to people outside of it.
00:21:36.240 and that can kind of lend itself to conspiracies and mistrust and things like that is is there a
00:21:41.400 role i guess maybe just to let people know you know it's not a strange secret society they're
00:21:45.520 actually just normal people well it's like anything right you know the it's not as much
00:21:50.560 that it's insular and you do have many different uh you know beliefs of of somebody's own personal
00:21:58.100 belief within the religion so it's you know if somebody who is extremely orthodox is going to
00:22:02.220 follow rules amongst you know that that that are judaic laws and judaic rules based on we're kind
00:22:09.740 of guessing what we really need to do like how strict does it have to be to the other side of
00:22:15.100 the spectrum being like we're culturally jewish we're jewish and we don't want to go to synagogue 0.99
00:22:20.400 we this is how we live our life and we're jewish so there's it's such a spectrum of what people do
00:22:26.220 and what's happening is you see somebody you know you picture somebody who's walking to synagogue
00:22:31.440 on a Saturday morning, who's wearing a black hat and black, you know, black suit and this,
00:22:36.320 and it looks strange. It's, you know, almost as strange as if, you know, you walk past a synagogue
00:22:42.280 or a church on a Sunday morning, uh, when people used to get dressed for church, right? People
00:22:47.960 still go to church, but we've kind of lost that level of, of, um, wanting to look the part to,
00:22:55.860 you know, dress up in your Sunday best. Sunday best is a pair of Lulu's and a rude sweatshirt
00:23:00.760 now right so there's not as much mysticism but what it really is is understanding what the
00:23:07.880 religion is and education is a huge part of it and i think that i know my organization wants to bring
00:23:13.000 out to more people to understand that most almost all the holidays have to do with something that
00:23:18.660 happened in the past that we're just kind of you know retelling the story you know the story of
00:23:23.100 passover coming up pretty soon you know aligns ironically every single year roughly around
00:23:28.820 Easter time because those two stories happened simultaneously centuries apart right so it's
00:23:35.100 this understanding that Passover is really the retelling of the story of Exodus yeah well and I
00:23:42.180 like how you know just the title of your group is unapologetically Jewish you know I think for a lot
00:23:47.500 of people's instinct to be more you know what we're just going to closet ourselves keep the
00:23:51.880 head down don't make waves and just don't even advertise maybe even take the mezuzah off the door
00:23:58.560 uh you're going the other way of just saying no we're here you know that there's no fear in
00:24:05.020 expressing and taking part in the community and and i i think that's more of an approach rather
00:24:09.380 than um i wouldn't call it hiding but that's how people would view it oh there they go underground
00:24:13.540 we kind of go into our bubble don't you know we grew up in a you know in a way of especially my
00:24:20.080 generation with our parents or grandparents you know coming from europe being survivors of the
00:24:23.920 holocaust it was put your head down do well in school don't make waves and we'll just be fake 0.96
00:24:29.160 great and we as we see it hasn't done much for us either uh in in this climate so being unapologetically
00:24:36.080 jewish really is just being jewish you know i met with a great mp from uh edmonton and she said to
00:24:42.100 me i love your name it being unapologetically jewish is like being unapologetically canadian
00:24:47.940 right that's really what it is we're all unapologetically who we are there's nothing
00:24:54.700 wrong with being proud of who we are and what our history is whether you're a Sikh or or a Christian
00:24:59.740 or a Muslim or a Jew we're all we should be proud of our heritage and where would that our Canadian
00:25:05.800 heritage yeah and and there's part of the the the I guess a little bit of shame that most Canadians
00:25:12.340 are not most Canadians but some Canadians are starting to feel I mean we're getting called out
00:25:15.480 from Israel and some of the others as a hotbed of anti-Semitism.
00:25:19.320 I mean, this is a nation that's prided itself on multiculturalism,
00:25:22.540 on tolerance, on having a mixture of all sorts of faiths and races.
00:25:27.960 And suddenly we're actually looking like one of the less safe spots
00:25:31.440 to be in the world.
00:25:32.640 You know, it's some people stating outright it could be less safe
00:25:36.320 to be a Jew in downtown Toronto than in Jerusalem these days. 0.63
00:25:40.120 Maybe in this last couple of weeks, not so much.
00:25:42.140 But in general, it's...
00:25:43.940 would even say nowadays you know you're right and it's it it has changed over the last 30 40 years
00:25:51.440 it has changed anti-semitism has always been around it design is always very there's always
00:25:56.040 been some form of jew hatred it was kind of like got squashed down now it's the forefront but we
00:26:00.880 have to talk about the fact that it's not just jews that we're not you know we're talking about
00:26:06.020 the jewish community a lot you know no one's talking about as much about the over 100 churches
00:26:10.920 that have been burnt down there's a there's a huge we're not speaking up it's like just
00:26:15.400 don't say anything and it'll stop and being unapologetic means all of us you know being
00:26:20.780 unapologetically jewish means not saying anything other than who we are and the the anti-semitism of 0.92
00:26:28.480 today is a lot more ideologically driven when we're looking at you know the line being that
00:26:36.620 we're all on stolen nightly there's so much i can go on for hours there's so much on on just the
00:26:41.380 confusion we're living in now when we're not in the canadian uh space we used to be at least i
00:26:46.200 say you know to a lot of people i wish we kind of could go back to that 1988 calgary olympics
00:26:51.800 canadian yeah that was a certainly just seemed to be a simpler time and everybody just got
00:26:58.640 together and had a good party uh you know and and it's some of the irony i mean i one of the things
00:27:05.240 that I guess recent events have made a lot of people realize is that the far left and the far
00:27:11.080 right have something in common where they both just seem to have an issue with Jews. And it seems
00:27:15.060 with a lot of them you talk to, they actually wouldn't know one if they were talking to one,
00:27:17.840 but they're concerned about it. But their actions become actually very problematic or potentially
00:27:23.960 dangerous. But some of that hypocrisy gets to me. You talked about the land back, stolen land,
00:27:29.560 things like that. The irony of that tends to come from a lot of the far left, I guess,
00:27:34.120 the activists and they're saying you know the indigenous people this is their land nobody else
00:27:38.040 has a claim to it your guests your squatters your colonists well if we want to look at the history
00:27:43.080 of who's been in israel a long long time and much longer that predates muhammad by quite a ways that
00:27:49.240 would be the jews but but then when it comes to that they say no you don't belong there either
00:27:53.480 where on earth are jews supposed to go i see one of the commenters one of those goofy ones too 0.83
00:27:57.880 saying well they don't belong in israel and they don't belong in europe but where are they supposed 0.92
00:28:01.640 to go well that's that's the argument you know back in in in the 30s they used to you know spray
00:28:09.960 paint or not spray paint paint across jewish stores in germany you know we used to say you
00:28:14.600 know when it was the mandate of palestine go back to jews go back to palestine and now it's jews go 0.94
00:28:20.360 away and so where are we supposed to go and that that's part of the problem that everybody sits
00:28:25.320 there and we look at it you know if there wasn't a state of israel you know it would be i really
00:28:31.800 truly believe it'd be a lot worse because we have that place uh but the the idea of the indigeneity 1.00
00:28:37.800 is it's a hard one you know because as we're seeing now you know history is kind of you know
00:28:44.600 it used to be said that what was the same history is you know written by the victor but it seems to
00:28:49.480 be history right now is being rewritten in real time there is no victor the victor's gonna be
00:28:54.840 whose story wins no and it's an ugly history so what though legislative legislatively can we do
00:29:04.280 i mean i mean the charter is important i'm a bit of a free speech purist even if i hear stuff from
00:29:07.960 people it's just odious and nasty i mean when you're intimidating and targeting a particular
00:29:12.600 community i think a line is being crossed you know when you're physically there though if you're in
00:29:16.360 a public square and saying awful things well maybe you have that right where do you think
00:29:20.840 think though the government can go to try and counter some of this this ugliness that's been
00:29:23.960 surfacing i i really think a lot of it again comes down to education speaking up against it
00:29:29.380 you know hate has no place here no form of hate that's up there with a mass shooting and then
00:29:34.100 thoughts and prayers right there there needs to be some sort of action i think the first action
00:29:38.140 has to be we will not tolerate this type of hate here that's number one and but then you know like
00:29:44.500 i've got kids you boys can't do that or this will happen right there's that consequence that comes
00:29:51.060 with it and you know i'm a i'll be honest with you i'm a big free speech act advocate i really
00:29:57.040 believe in it i think the charter was there written at a different time let's be honest it
00:30:01.660 was written early 80s you know uh it was amazing we didn't have rights until then apparently uh so
00:30:07.800 when they wrote that out it was a different time they put in the right things the problem now is
00:30:13.340 because we don't we aren't used to what's happening now they're trying to bring in these 0.86
00:30:17.660 new laws i'll be honest with you i'm not a a supporter of things like c9 i think we have the
00:30:23.900 laws enforce the laws keep the laws as they are i think the challenge is honest to goodness
00:30:28.940 education it comes from education we don't know what we don't know and having the conversation
00:30:33.400 one of the things unapologetically want jewish wants to do is meet with mps and work with them 0.98
00:30:38.880 in ottawa but also go to mp's communities and their writings throughout the country because
00:30:43.860 let's be honest there are not there's 350 000 jews across this country there are 42 million
00:30:49.600 people in the country there are a lot of areas where a left far left or far right may say i hate
00:30:55.060 jews like you said they've never met one so let's go to the communities where they're at and say hi
00:30:59.820 i'm not a threatening guy i'm just a guy who really loves my kids loves hockey
00:31:05.500 not a big fan of baseball yeah yeah fair enough no and and we've got to draw a line in the sand
00:31:14.280 somewhere the problem is when these things are left they fester and they escalate like we are
00:31:17.820 now seeing bullets going into schools uh if if somebody isn't caught and held to account on this 0.91
00:31:24.740 they're going to get more bold some lunatic is going to put a bullet in the person pretty soon
00:31:28.980 and that's just the worst possible outcome we could have and yet none of these acts it seems 0.94
00:31:34.100 against any synagogues or Jewish schools
00:31:36.140 have managed to get an arrest or conviction.
00:31:38.280 It might be tough because it's a sneak in the night.
00:31:40.360 I understand that and such.
00:31:42.780 But boy, you know, to hold somebody accountable
00:31:44.740 for some of these things would be a good start.
00:31:47.400 It will be, but that goes back to what, you know,
00:31:50.240 local police, Toronto police could have done
00:31:52.460 right from the get-go when things were happening
00:31:55.060 in these protests where there was so much hate
00:31:57.520 being spoken and said, you know, breaking laws.
00:32:01.020 You know, I'm not saying, you know, saying I hate Zionists or I hate Jews.
00:32:07.580 Is it nice to say no?
00:32:10.320 Right.
00:32:10.600 There's a there's a big difference often between anti-Semitism and just being vile and rude.
00:32:15.360 Right.
00:32:16.260 So we need to make sure that if they had started at the beginning and held people accountable for breaking laws at the time, whether that was graffiti in a wall or lighting smoke bombs on the street.
00:32:27.460 If we stop that simple action, which is a law being broken, then it wouldn't escalate.
00:32:33.020 So now you have, you know, synagogues being shot at, schools being shot at.
00:32:36.820 What happens next?
00:32:38.100 Because they are, every step emboldens you to go further, right?
00:32:41.340 You get closer and closer to the fire every time.
00:32:43.940 Yeah, well, at least again, getting back to education too. 0.84
00:32:46.740 I mean, we've got some goofy North American student who says,
00:32:49.480 globalize the Intifada, probably doesn't actually understand what they're asking for.
00:32:53.020 Or even a lot of other people hearing it might not understand what they're asking for.
00:32:56.440 illegalizing their ability to say that might not be the way to go but maybe let the public know
00:33:00.700 just what that is actually calling for because it's something most people i think don't want
00:33:05.480 to participate in normally no and the and the education behind it is if you know entifada
00:33:11.660 has it you know it might actually technically from the root of it mean shaking up or insurrection
00:33:18.220 but what happened from that word right so if you look at that first entifada back in the 80s
00:33:23.620 you know it was rock throwing it was you know uh stabbing here and there let's just go with the
00:33:31.080 rock throwing we're seeing the rock throwing now you know cold call to a school and say there's a
00:33:35.520 bomb there or shooting up a synagogue middle of the night that's starting to escalate and that's
00:33:40.140 what the intifada is and then it starts to take its toll what happens if you look at something
00:33:45.020 like in detroit you know last week what happens to a church that has the church of zion
00:33:51.460 right yeah now are they a target it grows and it spreads so that's really again education
00:33:58.580 is the key what is intifada what is it that we're doing what was it and how does it play out
00:34:04.040 here and at home yeah and unfortunately i mean a lot of people just like to say well that's a
00:34:09.140 problem for them that's a problem overseas that's a problem over there well no we're seeing the
00:34:13.000 problem here whether you want to see it here or not it'd be nice to see it somewhere else but it's
00:34:18.120 not uh you know that went quickly as you said there's a whole lot we could cover and talk about
00:34:22.520 i appreciate you coming on to take some time to talk with us about this though and the work you've
00:34:26.720 been doing before i let you go where can people find you and and what your organization's been
00:34:30.460 doing so the uh the organization is called unapologetically dash jewish.org all our
00:34:38.140 information is there if you want more information is out of our newsletter and what we're doing now
00:34:41.980 is just working towards a human rights tribunal uh to hold the police account to do their job
00:34:47.060 And let's be honest, that's to do their job for everybody, all citizens in Toronto and everywhere else who feels they're not doing it.
00:34:55.320 And then the next step is to make sure that we're looking to make sure we educate the community properly.
00:35:01.340 And that's when I say community, it's not a Jewish community. 0.83
00:35:03.540 It's our city, provincial and national community to get back to what we grew up as being a melting pot.
00:35:11.620 Right. Well, thank you very much again.
00:35:13.820 and I hope we get to talk again soon
00:35:15.640 and hopefully it's not about, you know, we'll talk about
00:35:17.720 progress made rather than
00:35:19.200 the escalation that we're seeing today
00:35:21.000 wonderful
00:35:21.800 great, thank you
00:35:23.680 so one more time guys, yes that is Matthew Tobe
00:35:27.400 of Unapologetically Jewish
00:35:29.360 nice, straightforward name
00:35:31.640 and as you can see, reasonable
00:35:33.480 rational discussion can be
00:35:35.640 had, we can find
00:35:37.340 better ways, we have to
00:35:39.220 something, something really
00:35:41.520 bad is going to get, oh and here's somebody
00:35:43.320 Okay, so somebody says you should watch Candace Owens' latest interview.
00:35:46.660 Okay, Candace has lost her mind. 1.00
00:35:49.600 Candace Owens also thinks the Jews were responsible for 9-11. 1.00
00:35:53.180 So that's the kind of crap Jews are dealing with. 1.00
00:35:56.660 The conspiracy pap and baloney and garbage. 1.00
00:36:00.380 And it's garbage, but don't worry. 1.00
00:36:01.620 You have the right to spew your garbage, just as Candace Owens does. 1.00
00:36:05.920 But it's not leading to anything good now, is it? 0.99
00:36:08.520 It certainly isn't.
00:36:10.160 All right, let's see what else is happening in the news.
00:36:12.300 We'll get on with some things.
00:36:13.320 The Academy Awards were held last weekend.
00:36:17.360 That's all I got to say about that.
00:36:19.500 All right, let's see.
00:36:20.740 We got the appeal coming up.
00:36:22.580 Speaking of government overreach and problems and rights and things such as that, the Emergencies
00:36:28.920 Act, you know, which has been ruled multiple times now that the federal government did
00:36:34.300 not properly apply it.
00:36:35.900 And I refer to it online a lot and usually as martial law because that's exactly what
00:36:42.020 it is.
00:36:42.700 You know, they changed the name of that from the War Measures Act to the Emergencies Act, which can broaden the applications.
00:36:50.520 But the reality of it is, is what it is, is suspending people's rights to deal with an immediate problem or emergency.
00:36:59.240 And there's a role for an Emergencies Act or martial law.
00:37:03.560 Again, what if a foreign country invades? 0.99
00:37:05.540 What if another Carrington event happens?
00:37:08.560 There's a big flash.
00:37:09.680 All the power gets wiped out.
00:37:11.160 You know, there's no electricity for a week and we've got riots and things are going nuts and people are, you know, consuming each other in the streets.
00:37:17.940 Might have to suspend things until you can get that under control or flooding or a natural disaster or a zombie apocalypse.
00:37:25.700 But a bunch of people protesting in Ottawa with bouncy castles didn't reach that bar.
00:37:31.260 It was an annoyance, but it didn't reach nearly enough, highly enough to justify invoking the Emergencies Act.
00:37:40.400 That was Justin Trudeau panicking.
00:37:42.980 And they had all of the tools to deal with the Ottawa protests at their disposal already.
00:37:48.960 They had all the laws already.
00:37:51.380 I mean, you know, it's a longer discussion as to how much longer they should stay there.
00:37:55.240 I think it was at a point where it was time for that protest to move on.
00:37:58.920 Every protest, part of the problems they have, whether it was Occupy of the Past or some of the other things,
00:38:03.820 they get in, they make their point, and then they don't have an exit strategy.
00:38:07.260 They don't know when it's time to kind of head for the door.
00:38:09.580 And that was part of the problem with the Ottawa, the convoy, was there was a lot of them starting to entrench and there was kind of no end game that we're going to see.
00:38:16.440 So, you know, eventually there was going to be a move to remove the protest.
00:38:20.500 But there were laws on the books for blocking streets or, you know, for parking too long or things like that, that gave police authorities the ability to get in and deal with that.
00:38:33.680 But that wasn't enough for Trudeau.
00:38:35.340 He wanted to go after and seize people's bank accounts.
00:38:37.460 He wanted to seize their property.
00:38:38.360 They wanted to press tow truck drivers, force them, force labor, because that's part of the 0.99
00:38:44.960 things they were talking about, forcing tow truck drivers to come out and tow vehicles away.
00:38:49.100 And the courts have found that they weren't justified. But now, Carney is appealing it
00:38:56.220 all the way up to the Supreme Court now, appealing it. And that gets worrisome. Richard Wagner,
00:39:03.600 one of the Supreme Court justices, he's already been pretty vocal about what he thought of the
00:39:08.340 convoy. You see the bias from him already. He called it anarchy. He talked about taking
00:39:13.960 citizens as hostage. So I don't know how much of a good judgment we're going to get from that man 0.99
00:39:20.020 when they put this forward to it more. I was on a speaking tour with Tamara Leach and Sheila
00:39:25.320 Gunn-Reed. We covered a lot of things. It's funny because again, Tamara spent nearly 50 days in jail
00:39:30.240 without bail over her part in the, uh, uh, uh, truckers convoy protests. And you stand next to
00:39:39.900 her, you know, and, and she's just a very diminutive, though a strong and, and, and powerful 0.59
00:39:43.940 woman, but she's certainly presenting no threat to society, but we can't keep our most violent 1.00
00:39:49.280 criminals behind bars. And they were terrified that they might release her without bail
00:39:53.860 too early and somehow it was going to bring the world to an end. That small woman put the 0.98
00:40:01.380 government, her and Chris Barber and others into an abject panic. That's what happened is they
00:40:06.880 panicked, they hit the panic button and they improperly invoked martial law. Now, if you look
00:40:14.360 in Korea, South Korea, there was an incident where their former prime minister improperly invoked
00:40:19.680 martial law there too. And in response to that, they've given him a life sentence. Yeah, they
00:40:24.660 have. They actually, some countries do recognize that leaders can be held responsible for things
00:40:32.200 they've done to the citizens. We don't do that here. Our prime minister of the time is running
00:40:39.160 around in beaches with a pop star now. You know, he's left the mess behind and he's gone on his
00:40:45.840 merry way. And we'll see what happens with this, with them appealing it. You'd think they'd just
00:40:53.180 let this go into the trash and just, it's into the history and okay, it got ruled against us.
00:40:59.600 But it tells me that Carney might want to use that Emergencies Act again. I mean,
00:41:04.740 the Emergency Act is still there no matter which way it rules, but it just means you're going to
00:41:08.500 have to have a better justification before you ever use it. So how casually does the Carney
00:41:13.580 government want to use it? What are they worried about? What do they think is going to come in?
00:41:19.100 Kind of something food for thought, isn't it? We'll watch that appeal closely.
00:41:22.740 Here's another beauty. I can't pronounce this necessarily right. Bejum Bashirin. This is a
00:41:28.440 woman who was in her eighties. She came to Canada to visit family. She doesn't, she's not Canadian. 1.00
00:41:33.360 She's American. But while she was in Canada, she had a stroke and her medical bill came to
00:41:40.220 over $110,000. So now we got CTV doing a big sob story and talking to her family. Oh my Lord,
00:41:47.840 this poor woman's stuck with this bill. My family is stuck with this medical bill and everything 1.00
00:41:51.260 else. Look, I do feel bad for her, but I travel a fair amount. You know what I do? I buy insurance.
00:41:58.580 When I go to the United States for a month in winter to escape the snow, I buy health insurance
00:42:04.460 so that if something happens to me down there, I'm not stuck with the bill.
00:42:09.380 When I went to Israel, I bought health insurance.
00:42:12.960 So if a rocket happened to blow me to pieces,
00:42:15.360 well, at least we had the insurance to move the pieces back to Canada.
00:42:18.360 That responsibility was mine.
00:42:20.840 This, we can't even get enough health care for the Canadian citizens who are here. 1.00
00:42:25.100 And then to have the family now that they're asking questions,
00:42:29.620 they're demanding answers is what they're saying,
00:42:31.240 because of the bill this woman got stuck with. 1.00
00:42:32.960 what what's complicated about this the the health care system can barely serve the citizens we can't
00:42:40.820 afford to be providing it free for everybody who comes to visit i understand she had the stroke
00:42:46.980 it's not like we turn her away from the hospital of course not you have to treat her you have to
00:42:50.260 save her life but then she's up on the bill that's too damn bad you should have bought insurance we're 0.97
00:42:55.780 not talking about somebody who was 16 years old and healthy and came over for a weekend and tripped
00:43:00.720 and broken arm. We're talking about a woman in her mid 80s. I mean, I'm not a doctor, but I know
00:43:05.980 the law of averages. When you're getting up in that area, you're starting to have a higher risk
00:43:09.900 of a medical episode happening. So why didn't you have insurance? Well, you thought you were
00:43:14.160 going to save some money. Well, you didn't. But either way, hey, they're a family stuck with a
00:43:19.720 big bill and they're worried. I can understand they're trying to get out of the bill or reduce
00:43:23.240 it. Fair enough. But why is CTV carrying their water? Why is CTV turning this in to make it sound
00:43:29.720 like these people are victims. They're people in a bad circumstance, but they're victims from their
00:43:34.480 own irresponsibility. And they certainly aren't our responsibility. We've got enough responsibility
00:43:40.120 for ourselves and fellow Canadian citizens. But this just keeps going on and on. Nobody's
00:43:45.900 responsible for anything, it seems. Let's see, one more thing. Let's hit in BC. We got a new
00:43:50.480 reporter out there, Alex Zoltan. He's been fantastic, very prolific. Check him out on X.
00:43:54.800 You'll find his stuff out there. And of course, his story's in The Standard. He's been really
00:43:58.500 hitting on the political front because bc's legislature is just i mean politically it's a
00:44:03.760 it's a gong show but if you're into politics it's a fascinating thing to watch too one of his recent
00:44:09.180 stories was now this one one bc or one center bc a new central centrist political party it's falling
00:44:16.060 apart their leader left it it's just interesting we see these in province after province we do the
00:44:20.680 same thing or now it says center bc so many names with all these things when a party says we're the
00:44:25.920 center we watched that with the alberta party in alberta for what 10 12 years the center that
00:44:31.960 everybody says that everybody's at tends to get about four or five percent electorally it's
00:44:37.020 happening in bc too guys people vote for something center is standing for nothing it's not saying
00:44:43.740 you're in the middle it's saying you just want to be mushy all the time and it doesn't work
00:44:47.700 whatever you want to spin your wheels on those sorts of things their leader just quit so now
00:44:52.140 they got a party with no seats and no leader. I suspect it'll disappear and some clown will start 0.96
00:44:57.060 some new centrist party, uh, yet again to hit that. Uh, one more good news story to Clack 0.95
00:45:04.520 Capital. Finally, Doug Ford congratulating a Vaughn resident who shot an intruder in his house with
00:45:09.560 his legally owned firearm. And yes, the man was not charged. That's nice. That's refreshing.
00:45:15.080 That's different for Canada. Don't break into people's homes and you won't get shot. A simple
00:45:20.040 rule of life and especially if you don't have health insurance and you aren't from the country
00:45:23.920 I don't know what the case was in this one I doubt it was that old woman all right guys that's enough 1.00
00:45:27.940 for today we've covered a lot thank you very much for tuning in be sure to watch the pipeline tonight
00:45:32.760 like share do all that social media sort of stuff we can beat the legacy media and bypass them and
00:45:39.000 get that information back and forth between ourselves and I do thank you guys for the
00:45:41.940 comments it was a lively discussion on there today if nothing else we'll see you on the next one next
00:45:46.240 week.