Western Standard - Say it out loud. The problem is Islam.

00:00:00.000 Good day and welcome to the

00:00:29.980 the cory morgan show if you're in alberta spring has really sprung now we're well into the double

00:00:34.820 digits the roads are flowing and i know from looking out my back window the snow goes down

00:00:40.920 and i get to realize just how much i missed from those bloody three dogs i have in the backyard so

00:00:46.420 i got a really fun weekend ahead of me in the yard cleanup still i'll take that i can't stand

00:00:51.380 winter i got no use for it i'm looking forward to seeing the leaves turn green and uh and my bees

00:00:57.340 flying around getting stuff done i might be seeming a little crabbier and groggier than usual i just

00:01:01.820 got in from consort last night i was at another one of those independence meetings speaking up in

00:01:06.140 there another great large crowd and uh running across people set up with those signing stations

00:01:11.420 all over the place there's really something crazy going on in alberta with that it's going to be one

00:01:15.900 heck of a year uh let's see a little while i'm going to have matthew tobon he's from unapologetically

00:01:21.420 Jewish. Name kind of says it all. He's in Canada and pushes back against anti-Semitism and things

00:01:27.740 such as that. There's just been so much going on with that. I just wanted to speak to somebody and

00:01:32.840 say, well, what the heck can we do about it? You know, this is becoming a problem, but it's easier

00:01:37.400 to say that we just want it to stop. Well, how do you get this sort of thing to stop? So we'll have

00:01:41.420 a good discussion in a little while about that. But for starters, I'm going to provoke a religion

00:01:45.560 that's usually tolerant and not prone to provocation or getting worked up, and that's Islam.

00:01:51.420 So let's talk about them. And I'm going to begin by quoting the wisdom of Mr. Bean, also known as Rowan Atkinson. This is from him. He said something online. Just to criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticize their religion, that is a right and that is freedom.

00:02:09.740 And that's where I just want to start that, because we know as soon as you start talking about Islam, somebody's going to call you a racist.

00:02:15.660 I'm not talking about any race. I'm talking about a religion.

00:02:18.860 And it is my right and obligation to criticize religion when it needs it. 0.99

00:02:23.980 So let's get on with critiquing the world's most troublesome religion, and that is Islam. 1.00

00:02:29.540 I mean, we've got synagogues and Jewish schools. They're being targeted by violent attacks around the world.

00:02:33.960 As the bullets are flying and the bombs are detonating,

00:02:36.220 media and government agencies are tying themselves in knots

00:02:38.660 to avoid speaking about the root of the problem, and that root is Islam. 0.90

00:02:42.740 Islamic terrorists have tossed bombs at police and demonstrators in New York. 0.75

00:02:46.140 CNN responded with a headline saying,

00:02:47.860 two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York on a Saturday morning

00:02:51.480 for what could have been a normal day and joining the city during abnormally warm weather.

00:02:55.460 But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change

00:02:57.880 as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs

00:03:00.680 during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zoram Mamdami's house.

00:03:05.380 They made it sound like the terrorists were part of the anti-Islamic protesters.

00:03:08.480 They neglected to mention that the terrorists yelled,

00:03:10.980 Allahu Akbar, before attacking, as most terrorists tend to do.

00:03:15.320 A man named Ayyem Mohamed Ghazali, who had ties to Hezbollah,

00:03:19.420 drove a car into a Michigan synagogue with a truck packed with fireworks and gasoline.

00:03:24.580 He was thankfully killed before he could detonate things.

00:03:27.180 CTV dutifully reported on the incident with the headline,

00:03:29.980 investigators work to determine the exact reason for the attack at a Michigan synagogue. Really?

00:03:37.300 As if there was any question about the motivation. Or in Amsterdam, there's another beauty. A bomb

00:03:41.200 was set off at a Jewish school. Writers post a headline saying, explosion lightly damages Jewish

00:03:46.120 school in Amsterdam. Lightly damages. That's right up there with mostly peaceful. We saw when

00:03:51.080 race riots were burning American cities a few years ago. They made it sound like the 0.98

00:03:54.760 attack on the school is more like a backed up toilet or something. You know, minor damages.

00:03:59.980 I mean, what was it if a few fingers or legs were blown off?

00:04:02.660 We'd call it moderate damages.

00:04:04.540 These attacks have to be taken seriously.

00:04:06.100 Meanwhile, thousands gathered in Toronto for the annual Islamist hate fest called Al-Quds Day,

00:04:10.720 where they call for the death to Jews and usual stuff, block streets and entrances to buildings with Islamic prayers. 0.97

00:04:17.940 The Toronto Star called it a pro-Palestine rally, but it was anything but.

00:04:21.840 In response to all of these incidents around the world, though, this was the cherry on top,

00:04:25.060 the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service issues a post saying,

00:04:28.620 today we stand against islamophobia and all forms of hatred as canada's security and intelligence

00:04:35.560 agency if cesis really believes islamophobia is a threat to canadians we truly aren't being

00:04:41.100 protected by them no mosques have been attacked there's no anti-islamic stuff going on guys

00:04:46.900 by definition a phobia is an irrational fear of something islam's responsible for the vast 1.00

00:04:52.480 majority of terrorist acts around the world every islamic dominated country on earth commits human 0.99

00:04:56.900 rights violations the western world would never consider tolerating in its borders islam's uses 1.00

00:05:01.460 as justification for subjugation of women in the murder of lgbtq people throughout the middle east

00:05:06.680 and no islamic nation tends to live in peace with any non-islamic neighbors fearing islam isn't

00:05:11.900 irrational look that's because the root of islam isn't just to go out and spread the good faith

00:05:17.040 like other religions the word islam itself means submission and it mandates its followers to either 1.00

00:05:22.060 convert or kill other people of other faiths there's no option for peaceful coexistence 1.00

00:05:26.780 don't take my word for it take theirs right from the quran itself here's some choice quotes surah 0.99

00:05:32.300 3 151 we shall cast terror into the hearts of all those who disbelieve surah 2 19 1 we'll kill them 0.99

00:05:39.980 meaning non-muslims whenever you find them kill them such as the recompense of the disbelievers 1.00

00:05:46.140 Surah 9.5, then kill the disbelievers whenever you find them, capture them and besiege them, 1.00

00:05:52.420 lie and wait for them in each and every ambush. The book is replete with such statements and 0.90

00:05:57.740 quotes, and they aren't ambiguous in their demands. This isn't a matter of interpretation.

00:06:01.840 Apologists point out that the Old Testament and religious texts from other faiths have some

00:06:04.940 violent and intolerant passages and dictates as well, and that's true. But the adherence of those

00:06:08.860 faiths have undergone reformations and don't practice literal interpretations of their books

00:06:13.940 as Islamists do with the Koran. 0.99

00:06:16.260 You never heard a person yelling,

00:06:17.900 Jesus loves you or shalom aleichim

00:06:20.680 before detonating a bomb 0.92

00:06:22.040 or shooting citizens of people on a beach 0.99

00:06:24.840 or dozens of people on a beach.

00:06:26.520 The term we always hear is Allahu Akbar,

00:06:29.500 which is rather distinct to Islam.

00:06:30.820 I understand that the majority of Muslims

00:06:32.920 don't become radical,

00:06:34.180 but the volume of those who do from that faith

00:06:36.340 is disproportionately high

00:06:37.840 and is causing problems around the world

00:06:39.680 and it has to be called out

00:06:40.880 because it's an inherently problematic faith,

00:06:43.080 pretending there isn't a problem or that other religions have the same issues and problems 0.78

00:06:47.520 isn't addressing the issue. The world has to stand up and confront radical Islamists. It must be made 0.85

00:06:52.400 clear that their medieval ideals have no place in the modern world and won't be tolerated in

00:06:56.180 western nations. That means it's time to narrow immigration allowed from certain nations and

00:07:01.020 deportations of practicing Islamist fundamentalists must start to happen if that's what's going to 0.64

00:07:05.160 take. Quarantine the nations that produce Islamist extremists until they find the reformation which 0.98

00:07:09.800 has eluded them for the last 800 years and never pretend that any other faith kills cartoonists 0.89

00:07:14.880 and riots over beauty pageant winners that's the exclusive domain of islam and we have every reason 1.00

00:07:19.580 to fear it all right that's what's got me going today hey dude how's it going you jinxed us

00:07:24.340 what's that well you said spring is here that means we're going to get dumped on again like

00:07:30.200 we're getting some more snow this weekend a little bit it'll be a dusting just enough just as i start

00:07:34.600 to pick up all that dog poop there you go give you another weekend to uh to do it you remember

00:07:39.500 that uh march 17th snowstorm years ago like paralyzed city there's like two feet or so

00:07:45.260 there's been so many i mean i know march is prone to those just that last kick in the the groin we

00:07:49.980 get from winter but either i'm still going to celebrate the little bit of warmth yes plus 17

00:07:53.820 today we'll take it yeah so you've been driving here in foro in alberta going to all the small

00:07:59.180 towns setting we're sending out pictures uh what have been your favorite what's what stood out

00:08:03.740 Oh boy, a favorite. It's hard to say. Hannah was neat. I worked there a number of times in the

00:08:11.460 90s, but I never went beyond the little area of hotels and gas stations on the highway. I never

00:08:15.360 actually went right into the town itself. I like those old towns. I mean, they're dying. There's

00:08:20.880 empty business fronts all over the place and others falling down. But you see creative coffee

00:08:24.920 shops and businesses and other spots still springing up or trying to make something of themselves. So

00:08:30.020 I just like touring all those little things. Get off the highway a bit and have a look. They're

00:08:33.080 neater than you'd think. It's good to see the entrepreneurial spirit of Albertans is still alive.

00:08:36.860 Yeah, well, and I'm sure with those buildings, when they're falling apart, they don't have to

00:08:39.820 pay a heck of a lot of rent. The landlord is just happy if utilities are kept up. But, you know,

00:08:43.400 make a go of it. Get creative. Exactly. So right now up in Edmonton, the provincial government is

00:08:49.100 holding an embargoed press conference with media on their new rules that they're bringing in

00:08:54.340 about MAID. So it should be fairly interesting. Our website right now is leading off with an

00:09:02.340 in-depth investigation into made and how it's taken over from palliative care uh there's no

00:09:08.020 more doesn't seem to be much palliative care anymore it's straight from oh i feel sick all

00:09:12.500 right you must die type stuff so yeah that's an interesting read that's quite a cough there yeah

00:09:18.180 you might need a little treatment yeah uh we've got a couple great videos uh uh semi-train stalled

00:09:26.020 on the tracks near taber uh yesterday and a locomotive just plows right through it that's

00:09:32.500 quite amazing and we got a somewhat lack of intelligent abbotsford kid who decided he was

00:09:39.380 gonna go on a high-speed chase with police while his his friends videotaped it from the back seat

00:09:45.620 he ends up losing control and hitting a gravel truck and the best part of the story for me is

00:09:51.460 it was his stepmom's car so he's got a bit of explaining to him yeah rough life experience at

00:09:56.980 least with these things i mean you know acts of foolishness and danger but you know we will report

00:10:01.860 on the ones where at least they didn't get killed yeah his buddies in the car with him are saying

00:10:07.220 hey bro don't kill us don't kill us i mean come on man uh we've got the head of ceo or ceo of tc

00:10:14.340 Energy, saying that even Mark Carney's attempted applications for building pipelines is way too

00:10:22.000 slow. No surprise there. New figures today showing gas is up 24% since the Iran war started.

00:10:31.720 That's going to hurt you driving in from out of town. Good thing you got a little vehicle.

00:10:36.420 Yeah, my little Hyundai. Anyways, it's cheap on gas, you know, if nothing else. I mean,

00:10:40.440 as much as I wanted a giant gas-huzzling SUV.

00:10:43.340 That independent media income just doesn't work.

00:10:45.780 No, it's not.

00:10:46.700 I've also got one of them little Civics.

00:10:50.400 That's a good thing you're not going to the States at this point

00:10:52.360 because gas is soaring.

00:10:53.440 Yeah, we got our trip.

00:10:54.400 Hopefully it comes down a little bit before my next winter escape

00:10:56.740 because when we're pulling that fifth wheel,

00:10:58.220 you can almost see the gas gauge moving when you're doing that.

00:11:00.600 Yep.

00:11:01.260 The bi-monthly or bi-two-monthly Angus Reid poll on Premier Popularity

00:11:07.500 is out today.

00:11:08.120 uh david eby and free fall uh daniel smith actually going up so that's interesting hey

00:11:15.740 the calgary zoo's got a new polar bear oh it's exciting we remember the last one uh died after

00:11:20.940 it was drowned by its cellmate yeah um so they've got a new one that they're gonna uh try and bring

00:11:27.140 in and see if they can't have it survive and uh the bank of canada held its overnight rate steady

00:11:33.620 at 2.25 percent well i guess you know thank uh heavens for small uh things i mean always we know

00:11:40.900 that typically when inflation starts to run they crank up those uh interest rates to try and cool

00:11:46.420 it down so those uh those of us that have mortgages coming up would have liked to have seen it go down

00:11:52.420 yeah two percent has a nice ring to it well wish you the best on that one yeah people better renew

00:11:58.260 as fast as they can i got a feeling we're not going to see some good inflation numbers in a

00:12:02.420 a little while. No, I've got an appointment on Saturday. Right on. Well, hope it goes well for

00:12:06.620 you. Thank you. Right on. Can I use you as a co-signer? To my credit? Yeah. Okay. Well,

00:12:13.580 if you really don't want to get renewed, I won't mention your name now. Okay. That's usually a

00:12:19.380 safe bet and things in general social circles with me anyway. There you go. All right. Thanks

00:12:23.080 for the update, Dave. See you later for the pipeline. That is our news editor, Dave. Lots

00:12:28.220 of stories on the go, lots of stuff happening. This is what I'd like to remind you guys, shake

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00:13:09.540 for the uh uh endorsement there uh william commenter roble saying dave nailer he's put

00:13:14.900 away his canada uk flags pin well you know dave was born in the uk he's uh you know speaking of

00:13:19.300 of unapologetic backgrounds. He likes to celebrate both sides, but he's certainly a proud Albertan

00:13:25.160 and proud Canadian. It's not like he's selling us out to the overseas folks on the other side

00:13:31.920 of the pond. Let's see what else we got going on. Care Bear talking about it. I imagine it's in

00:13:38.020 response to my monologue on Islam. You know, look at Europe. It's a dumpster fire. They've destroyed 1.00

00:13:42.820 Yeah. And this work is difficult, right? The problem is volume. The problem is adaptation.

00:13:50.440 It is a culture that comes with Islam that's incompatible with the modern world. It really 1.00

00:13:55.980 is. It doesn't mean a person can't get over that, that they can't adjust from that and adapt from

00:14:00.120 that. But that takes coming into a newer environment, a newer society where you can

00:14:06.320 work free of those things. When you flood it in, in a massive uncontrolled flow, and that is what

00:14:12.340 happened with Europe and that's what's happened with Michigan and some other areas where you take

00:14:16.840 a bunch from North Africa and others and dump them into an area without time to integrate is you get 1.00

00:14:22.540 insular populations and you get social clashes and things only become worse. We can look to Europe to 1.00

00:14:31.140 see how bad it can get. Maybe we can get that fixed before it gets to that point. Also, Care Bear

00:14:37.580 saying Islam is a political ideology. It's true. That's a little bit of, you know, I mean, I believe 0.83

00:14:42.140 religion is fair game for critique as well, but Islam is more of the interpretation and building 0.76

00:14:48.540 the ideology around the religion, and that's why I use that term predominantly throughout, rather

00:14:53.720 than talking about necessarily, say, Muslims and so on, I'm more often to speak of Islamists and so

00:14:58.280 such, and of course, like everything, there's different sects, I mean, there are, you know, 0.87

00:15:03.840 fundamentalists and crazy people of every faith, I mean, I don't know, there's some crazed 0.87

00:15:08.400 Christians who like playing with rattlesnakes and stuff like that and everything out there. 0.99

00:15:12.580 But the main thing is when we're looking at the volume of difficulties we're having,

00:15:19.620 there is one that's kind of standing above the rest. And we're so scared to call it out. We're

00:15:24.240 so scared to discuss it. We're so terrified of critiquing it. And that's why I just wanted to

00:15:31.140 get right out and poke that bear off the start because we do have to talk about it. I'm tired

00:15:35.540 of pussyfooting around. We aren't seeing a bunch of Hindu protesters riding in the streets weekend 0.99

00:15:41.800 after weekend after weekend targeting other particular faiths and groups and things such

00:15:48.480 as that. We don't have, you know, Buddhists causing these difficulties out on the streets. No, it tends 1.00

00:15:56.540 to be Islam. Ah, here's one. Terry Davis saying Zionist Christians. Yikes. Yes, yes, indeed. Let's 0.95

00:16:03.860 talk about Zionism for a second, you know, because people like using that as a substitute word for

00:16:09.640 Jews. It really is. Looking at the base of what Zionism is, it is the belief that Jews have the 0.89

00:16:17.800 right to a homeland in Israel. That's what it is. Does Israel have the right to exist? 0.96

00:16:24.040 If your answer is yes, then you're a Zionist. That's really the bottom line of what that whole 0.98

00:16:30.340 thing is. I mean, that doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't critique the government of Israel

00:16:34.640 and some of the actions it's done or things like that. No, absolutely. You can still

00:16:39.560 critique those things, of course. But does Israel have the right to be there? Because if you oppose

00:16:45.740 Zionism, then you mean it should be gone. And, you know, that discussion's been on for a long time.

00:16:52.340 They've been there a long time. You know, somebody who can expand more on that will be my guest. He's

00:16:58.340 going to be here in a moment actually and things such as that but I I tire of people using the

00:17:03.440 word Zionist just as a shield to cloak the word Jew. Geez at least just being honest Andy Sam 1.00

00:17:09.920 might use the word. I mean don't beat around that bush. Sadly a lot of people actually have stopped

00:17:15.340 beating around that bush. So let's bring in my guest Matthew Tobe. I've been looking forward

00:17:19.640 to this. He's from Unapologetically Jewish and we'll discuss some of these issues going on 1.00

00:17:25.160 particularly in Canada with that he should be in in a moment there he is hey how's it going Matthew

00:17:30.780 not bad great how you doing good good I appreciate you taking some time to talk to us today I imagine

00:17:36.560 you've got a lot to cover these days there's always been but this last few months well even

00:17:42.420 a few weeks in particular it's just been horrific so I mean maybe just to begin with though if you

00:17:48.560 kind of explain yourself and your organization you know what your mandate is and what you're

00:17:52.780 looking to do yeah so unapologetically Jewish started off uh background essentially internally

00:17:59.440 after October 7th uh as you know protests started happening and I got more involved in the community

00:18:05.920 advocacy and then solely working with the police on issues and then back in uh August of 2025 I

00:18:12.820 decided there's only so much one person can do on their own and started taking the steps to

00:18:18.680 started an organization called uh unapologetically jewish and the mandate we put behind it because

00:18:23.880 i had already been doing police board deputations i'd already been speaking to mps and mpps you know

00:18:29.320 just in passing and to get more things happening we registered the organization and decided to take

00:18:35.800 it one step further so the first thing we did was uh look at who wasn't doing certain things

00:18:41.320 in the toronto police really worked acting a lot uh to stop you know the weekly protests that were

00:18:46.360 happening and we launched a club tribunal a human race tribunal against the city of toronto the

00:18:54.200 toronto police board and the toronto police you know that was our first mandate to work

00:19:01.080 to ensure that law enforcement was doing their job and the second mandate was to work with

00:19:06.360 legislators not to change policy or make laws but really to just educate them but what we're

00:19:12.520 actually seen because what you see on the news what you see on tv what you see even on social

00:19:17.960 media is not always what's actually happening so that was the other mandate and the last mandate

00:19:21.800 was to work with community to build more leaders and build more advocates and build more strength

00:19:26.760 amongst the community and things uh you know i guess it's just been a shock since october 7th

00:19:33.480 or maybe not so much a shock for some people but it really stripped the veil off of a lot of people

00:19:37.560 and it's unfortunate i think a lot of initial protesters perhaps were upset over the actions

00:19:42.680 of israel and the war and items such as that but when we start seeing cafes targeted or particular

00:19:49.720 communities targeted where people live you don't know if the person behind that door supports

00:19:54.120 israel's actions or doesn't the problem they had was that the person behind that door was jewish

00:19:58.920 and this had gone on in toronto for so long you know if we'd had any other group it seems where

00:20:05.160 we're targeted a community based on their ethnicity the police would intervene and say

00:20:09.180 this is inappropriate this is intimidation this is a problem but they just took a hands-off

00:20:13.780 approach with this how do you respond to that well they really did and they they're the challenge

00:20:19.180 that everybody's running into is you know showing up in communities that are that are highly have

00:20:25.340 high dense you know jewish population it is for fear and intimidation and the police have taken

00:20:31.240 this let's just de-escalate situation using the charter of rights and freedoms to stand behind and

00:20:38.600 you know what we're learning and let's be honest we nobody ever really mentioned the charter of

00:20:43.320 rights for a long time you know from when we first got it up until probably 2023 it wasn't really you

00:20:50.700 know talked about as often as it is now and we're not as educated as we should be behind the charter

00:20:56.960 so they're they're allowing these things to happen the intimidation to happen the harassment to

00:21:00.720 happen without actually truly understanding what's behind the charter and what it's meant to do.

00:21:05.880 So getting a little deeper in, I mean, we've been hearing about kids having problems in schools or

00:21:10.400 post-secondary educations. It's been awful seeing some of the treatment of, again, you know, just

00:21:15.180 Jewish kids and students that they just want to move through. They don't have to take a part in 0.99

00:21:18.580 the conflict. They got nothing to do with it. But I mean, how does the Jewish community, I guess,

00:21:24.080 do more outreach? I mean, part of the issue is it's a very small minority, quite something of

00:21:31.380 an insular community. I mean, they're social, but they don't, you know, the practices almost

00:21:35.340 seem mysterious, I think, to people outside of it. And that can kind of lend itself to conspiracies

00:21:40.340 and mistrust and things like that. Is there a role, I guess, maybe just to let people know,

00:21:44.540 you know, it's not a strange secret society, they're actually just normal people?

00:21:48.740 Well, it's like anything, right? You know, it's not as much that it's insular, and you do have

00:21:54.080 many different uh you know beliefs of somebody's own personal belief within the religion so it's

00:22:01.460 you know if somebody who is extremely orthodox is going to follow rules amongst you know that

00:22:06.500 that are judaic laws and judaic rules based on we're kind of guessing what we really need to do

00:22:12.680 like how strict does it have to be to the other side of the spectrum being like we're culturally

00:22:18.700 jewish we're jewish and we don't want to go to synagogue we this is how we live our life and

00:22:23.180 we're jewish so there's it's such a spectrum of what people do and what's happening is you see

00:22:30.020 somebody you know you picture somebody who's walking in synagogue on a saturday morning

00:22:33.880 who's wearing a black hat and black you know black suit and this and it looks strange it's you know

00:22:39.920 almost as strange as if you know you walk past a synagogue or church on a sunday morning

00:22:45.440 when people used to get dressed for church right people still go to church but we've kind of lost

00:22:51.420 that level of of um wanting to look the part to you know dress up you know in your sunday best

00:22:58.880 sunday best is a pair of lulus and a rude sweatshirt now right so there's not as much

00:23:05.000 mysticism but what it really is is understanding what the religion is and education is a huge part

00:23:11.320 of it and i think that i know my organization wants to bring out to more people to understand

00:23:16.440 that most almost all the holidays have to do with something that happened in the past that

00:23:20.960 were just kind of, you know, retelling the story, you know, the story of Passover coming up pretty

00:23:25.600 soon, you know, aligns, ironically, every single year, roughly around Easter time, because those

00:23:31.680 two stories happened simultaneously, centuries apart, right? So it's just understanding that

00:23:37.400 Passover is really the retelling of the story of Exodus.

00:23:42.320 Yeah, well, and I like how, you know, just the title of your group is unapologetically Jewish,

00:23:47.620 You know, I think for a lot of people's instinct, it'd be more, you know what, we're just going to closet ourselves, keep the head down, don't make waves and just don't even advertise, maybe even take the mezuzah off the door.

00:24:01.620 You're going the other way of just saying, no, we're here.

00:24:05.220 You know, there's no fear in expressing and taking part in the community.

00:24:08.400 And I think that's more of an approach rather than, I wouldn't call it hiding, but that's how people would view it.

00:24:13.980 Oh, there they go, underground.

00:24:15.000 we kind of go into our bubble don't you know we grew up in a you know in a way of especially my

00:24:21.400 generation with our parents or grandparents you know coming from europe being survivors of the

00:24:25.160 holocaust it was put your head down do well in school don't make waves and we'll just be fake 0.96

00:24:30.520 great and we as we see that hasn't done much for us either uh in in this climate so being

00:24:36.680 unapologetically jewish really is just being jewish you know i met with a great mp from uh

00:24:42.360 edmonton and she said to me i love your name it being unapologetically jewish is like being 1.00

00:24:47.880 unapologetically canadian right that's really what it is we're all unapologetically who we are

00:24:54.600 there's nothing wrong with being proud of who we are and what our history is whether you're a sikh

00:24:59.960 or or a christian or a muslim or a jew we're all we should be proud of our heritage and

00:25:05.960 forward to that our canadian heritage yeah and and there's part of the the

00:25:10.520 I guess a little bit of shame that most Canadians, 0.99

00:25:13.820 or not most Canadians, but some Canadians are starting to feel.

00:25:15.840 I mean, we're getting called out from Israel and some of the others

00:25:18.660 as a hotbed of anti-Semitism.

00:25:20.720 I mean, this is a nation that's prided itself on multiculturalism,

00:25:24.020 on tolerance, on having a mixture of all sorts of faiths and races.

00:25:29.220 And suddenly we're actually looking like one of the less safe spots

00:25:32.840 to be in the world.

00:25:33.780 You know, it's some people stating outright,

00:25:36.380 it could be less safe to be a Jew in downtown Toronto

00:25:39.160 than in uh jerusalem these days maybe in this last couple of weeks not so much but in general

00:25:44.200 it's i wouldn't even say nowadays you know you're right and it's

00:25:48.200 it has changed over the last 30 40 years it has changed anti-semitism has always been around

00:25:55.860 there's always been some form of jew hatred it was kind of like got squashed down now it's the

00:26:01.640 forefront but we have to talk about the fact that it's not just jews that we're not you know we're

00:26:06.820 talking about the jewish community a lot you know no one's talking about as much about the over 100

00:26:11.940 churches that have been burnt down there's a there's a huge we're not speaking up it's like

00:26:16.580 just don't say anything and it'll stop and being unapologetic means all of us you know being

00:26:22.180 unapologetically jewish means not saying anything other than who we are and the the anti-semitism

00:26:29.700 of today is a lot more ideologically driven when we're looking at you know the line being that

00:26:38.020 we're all on stolen land like there's so much i can go on for hours there's so much on on just

00:26:42.660 the confusion we're living in now when we're not in the canadian uh space we used to be at least

00:26:47.460 i say you know to a lot of people i wish we kind of could go back to that 1988 calgary olympics

00:26:53.220 Canadian. Yeah, that was a certainly just seemed to be a simpler time and everybody just got 0.99

00:27:00.040 together and had a good party. You know, and it's some of the irony. I mean, one of the things that

00:27:06.800 I guess recent events have made a lot of people realize is that the far left and the far right

00:27:12.740 have something in common where they both just seem to have an issue with Jews. And it seems

00:27:16.460 with a lot of them you talk to, they actually wouldn't know if they were talking to one,

00:27:19.180 but they're concerned about it. But their actions become actually very problematic or potentially

00:27:25.320 dangerous. But some of that hypocrisy gets to me. You talked about the land back, stolen land,

00:27:30.960 things like that. The irony of that tends to come from a lot of the far left, I guess,

00:27:35.560 in the activists. And they're saying, you know, the indigenous people, this is their land. Nobody

00:27:39.280 else has a claim to it. Your guests, your squatters, your colonists. Well, if we want to

00:27:43.960 look at the history of who's been in Israel a long, long time and much longer, that predates

00:27:48.920 Mohammed by quite a ways that would be the Jews but but then when it comes to that they say no 0.69

00:27:53.240 you don't belong there either where on earth are Jews supposed to go I see one of the commenters 0.95

00:27:58.300 one of those goofy ones too saying well they don't belong in Israel and they don't belong in Europe 0.97

00:28:01.880 where are they supposed to go well that that's that's the argument you know back in in in the 0.82

00:28:07.720 30s they used to you know spray paint or not spray paint paint across Jewish stores in Germany

00:28:14.480 you know we used to say you know when it was the mandate of palestine go back to jews go back to 1.00

00:28:19.580 palestine and now it's jews go away and so where are we supposed to go and that that's part of the 0.98

00:28:25.640 problem that everybody sits there and we look at it you know if there wasn't a state of israel

00:28:29.900 you know i really truly believe it'd be a lot worse because we have that place uh but the the

00:28:37.840 idea of the indigeneity is it's a hard one you know because as we're seeing now you know history

00:28:45.120 is kind of you know it used to be said that what was the same history is you know written by the

00:28:49.440 victor but it seems to be history right now is being rewritten in real time there is no victor

00:28:55.280 the victor's gonna be whose story wins no and it's an ugly history so what though legislative

00:29:04.240 What legislatively can we do? I mean, I mean, the charter is important. I'm a bit of a free speech purist. Even if I hear stuff from people, it's just odious and nasty. I mean, when you're intimidating and targeting a particular community, I think a line is being crossed, you know, when you're physically there. Though, if you're in a public square and saying awful things, well, maybe you have that right. Where do you think, though, the government can go to try and counter some of this, this ugliness that's been surfacing?

00:29:25.780 i i really think a lot of it again comes down to education speaking up against it you know hate has

00:29:32.280 no place here no form of hate that's up there with a mass shooting and then thoughts and prayers

00:29:36.240 right there there needs to be some sort of action i think the first action has to be we will not

00:29:40.620 tolerate this type of hate here that's number one and but then you know like i've got kids

00:29:46.720 you boys can't do that or this will happen right there's that consequence that comes with it

00:29:52.760 But, you know, I'll be honest with you, I'm a big free speech advocate.

00:29:58.180 I really believe in it.

00:29:59.280 I think the charter was there, written at a different time.

00:30:02.340 Let's be honest.

00:30:03.000 It was written in the early 80s, you know.

00:30:04.880 It was amazing.

00:30:05.980 We didn't have rights until then, apparently.

00:30:08.820 So when they wrote that out, it was a different time.

00:30:12.180 They put in the right things.

00:30:13.660 The problem now is because we aren't used to what's happening,

00:30:17.920 now they're trying to bring in these new laws. 0.93

00:30:19.520 and I'll be honest with you, I'm not a supporter of things like C9.

00:30:23.780 I think we have the laws, enforce the laws, keep the laws as they are.

00:30:28.260 I think the challenge is, honest to goodness, education.

00:30:31.120 It comes from education.

00:30:32.060 We don't know what we don't know.

00:30:33.680 And having the conversation, one of the things that Unapologetically Jewish wants to do 0.96

00:30:37.580 is meet with MPs and work with them in Ottawa,

00:30:40.760 but also go to MPs' communities and their ridings throughout the country.

00:30:45.060 because let's be honest there are not there's 350 000 jews across this country there are 42

00:30:50.700 million people in the country there are a lot of areas where a left far left or far right may say

00:30:56.080 i hate jews like you said they've never met one so let's go to the communities where they're at 1.00

00:31:00.700 and say hi i'm not a threatening guy i'm just a guy who really loves my kids loves hockey 0.95

00:31:06.900 not a big fan of baseball yeah yeah fair enough no and and we've got to draw a line in the sand

00:31:15.680 somewhere the problem is when these things are left they fester and they escalate we are now

00:31:19.480 seeing bullets going into schools uh if if somebody isn't caught and held to account on 0.93

00:31:25.940 this they're going to get more bold some lunatic is going to put a bullet in a person pretty soon

00:31:30.380 and that's just the worst possible outcome we could have and yet none of these acts it seems

00:31:35.500 against any synagogues or jewish schools have managed to get an arrest or conviction it might

00:31:39.840 be tough because it's a sneak in the night i understand that and and uh such but boy you know

00:31:45.120 to hold somebody accountable for some of these things would be a good start it will be but that

00:31:49.740 goes back to what you know local police toronto police could have done right from the get-go when

00:31:55.660 things were happening in these protests where there was so much hate uh being spoken and said

00:32:01.020 you know breaking laws you know i'm not saying you know saying i hate zionists or i hate jews

00:32:08.040 is it nice to say no right there's a there's a big difference often between anti-semitism

00:32:14.440 and just being vile and rude right uh so we we need to make sure that if they started this at

00:32:20.680 the beginning and held people accountable for breaking laws at the time whether that was

00:32:25.300 graffiti in a wall or lighting smoke bombs on the street if we stop that simple action which is a

00:32:32.280 law being broken that it wouldn't escalate so now you have you know synagogues being shot at schools 0.60

00:32:37.160 being shot at what happens next because they are every step emboldens you to go further right

00:32:42.440 you get closer and closer to the fire every time yeah well just again getting back to education

00:32:47.720 too i mean we get some some goofy north american student who says globalize the intifada probably

00:32:52.320 doesn't actually understand what they're asking for or even a lot of other people hearing it

00:32:55.920 might not understand what they're asking for illegalizing their ability to say that might

00:33:00.240 not be the way to go but maybe let the public know just what that is actually calling for

00:33:04.800 because it's something most people i think don't want to participate in normally no and the and

00:33:09.680 the education behind it is if you know entifada has it you know it might actually technically

00:33:16.240 from the root of it mean shaking up or insurrection but what happened from that word right so if you

00:33:23.040 look at that first intifada back in the 80s you know it was rock throwing it was you know

00:33:30.000 stabbing here and there let's just go with the rock throwing we're seeing the rock throwing now

00:33:34.000 you know cold call to a school and say there's a bomb there or shooting up a synagogue middle

00:33:39.120 of the night that's starting to escalate and that's what the intifada is and then it starts

00:33:43.840 to take its toll what happens if you look at something like in detroit you know last week

00:33:49.120 what happens to a church that has the church of zion right yeah now are they a target it grows 1.00

00:33:57.280 and it spreads so that's really again education is the key what is intifada what is it that we're

00:34:03.120 doing what was it and how does it play out here and at home yeah and unfortunately i mean a lot

00:34:09.200 of people just like to say well that's a problem for them that's a problem overseas that's a problem

00:34:13.040 over there well no we're seeing the problem here whether you want to see it here or not

00:34:17.520 it'd be nice to see it somewhere else but it's not uh you know that went quickly as you said

00:34:22.240 there's a whole lot we could cover and talk about i appreciate you coming on to take some time to

00:34:25.520 talk with us about this though and the work you've been doing before i let you go where can people

00:34:29.920 find you and and what your organization's been doing so the uh the organization is called

00:34:34.480 unapologetically-jewish.org all our information is there if you want more information sign up

00:34:41.200 our newsletter and what we're doing now is just working towards a human rights tribunal

00:34:45.920 uh to hold the police account to do their job and let's be honest that's to do their job for

00:34:50.560 everybody all citizens in toronto and and everywhere else who feels they're not doing it

00:34:56.560 and then the next step is to make sure that we're looking to make sure we educate the community

00:35:02.160 properly and that's when i say community it's not a jewish community it's our city provincial

00:35:08.160 and national community to get back to what we grew up as being a melting pot right on well well

00:35:14.080 thank you very much again and uh i hope we get to talk again soon and hopefully it's not about

00:35:18.320 you know we'll talk about progress made rather than uh the escalation that we're seeing today

00:35:22.400 that'd be wonderful all right great thank you so one more time guys yes that is matthew tobe of a

00:35:29.440 unapologetically jewish nice straightforward name and as you can see reasonable rational

00:35:36.000 discussion can be had we can we can find better ways we have to or something something really bad

00:35:43.200 it's gonna get oh and here's somebody okay says somebody says you should watch candace owens latest 0.71

00:35:47.600 interview okay candace has lost her mind candace owen also thinks the jews were responsible for 0.99

00:35:53.920 9-11 so that's the kind of crap jews are dealing with the conspiracy pap and baloney and garbage 1.00

00:36:01.600 and it's garbage, but don't worry, you have the right to spew your garbage, just as Candace Owen 1.00

00:36:06.180 does. But it's not leading to anything good now, is it? It certainly isn't. All right, let's see 1.00

00:36:12.460 what else is happening in the news. We'll get on with some things. The Academy Awards were held

00:36:16.380 last weekend. That's all I got to say about that. All right, let's see, we got the appeal coming up

00:36:23.880 speaking of government overreach and problems and rights and things such as that. The Emergencies

00:36:30.320 Act, you know, which has been ruled multiple times now that the federal government did not

00:36:35.920 properly apply it. And I refer to it online a lot and usually as martial law, because that's

00:36:42.620 exactly what it is. You know, they changed the name of that from the War Measures Act to the

00:36:49.040 Emergencies Act, which is going to broaden the applications. But the reality of it is, is what

00:36:53.400 it is, is suspending people's rights to deal with an immediate problem or emergency. And there's a

00:37:01.480 role for an emergencies act or martial law. Again, what if a foreign country invades? What if 0.76

00:37:07.340 another Carrington event happens, there's a big flash, all the power gets wiped out, you know,

00:37:12.800 there's no electricity for a week. And we've got riots and things are going nuts. And people are,

00:37:16.780 you know, consuming each other in the streets, might have to suspend things until you can get

00:37:23.020 that are under control or flooding or a natural disaster or a zombie apocalypse. But a bunch of

00:37:27.920 people protesting in Ottawa with bouncy castles didn't reach that bar. It was an annoyance,

00:37:34.480 but it didn't reach nearly enough, highly enough to justify invoking the Emergencies Act. That was

00:37:42.140 Justin Trudeau panicking. And they had all of the tools to deal with the Ottawa protests

00:37:48.200 at their disposal already. They had all the laws already. I mean, it's a longer discussion as to

00:37:55.220 how much longer they should stay there. I think it was at a point where there was time for that

00:37:59.420 protest to move on. Every protest, part of the problems they have, whether it was Occupy of the

00:38:02.900 past or some of the other things, they get in, they make their point, and then they don't have

00:38:07.780 an exit strategy. They don't know when it's time to kind of head for the door. And that was part

00:38:11.540 of the problem with the Ottawa, the convoy, was a lot of them starting to entrench, and there was

00:38:16.360 kind of no end game that we're going to see. So, you know, eventually there was going to be a move

00:38:19.640 to remove the protest, but there were laws on the books for blocking streets or, you know, for,

00:38:25.520 for, for parking too long or things like that, that gave police authorities the ability to get

00:38:32.600 in and deal with that. But that wasn't enough for Trudeau. He wanted to go after and seize people's

00:38:38.300 bank accounts. He wanted to seize their property. They wanted to press tow truck drivers, force

00:38:44.760 them. Forced labor, because that's part of the things they were talking about, forcing tow truck 1.00

00:38:47.880 drivers to come out and tow vehicles away. And the courts have found that they weren't justified.

00:38:54.200 But now, Carney is appealing it all the way up to the Supreme Court now. Appealing it,

00:39:02.940 and that gets worrisome. Richard Wagner, one of the Supreme Court justices, he's already been

00:39:08.100 pretty vocal about what he thought of the convoy. You see the bias from him already.

00:39:12.140 He called it anarchy, talked about taking citizens as hostage.

00:39:17.980 So I don't know how much of a good judgment we're going to get from that man when they put this forward to it more.

00:39:24.240 I was on a speaking tour with Tamara Leach and Sheila Gunn-Rean.

00:39:27.220 We covered a lot of things.

00:39:28.100 It's funny because, again, you know, Tamara spent nearly 50 days in jail without bail over her part in the trucker's convoy protests. 1.00

00:39:38.520 and you stand next to her, you know, and she's just a very diminutive,

00:39:43.760 though a strong and powerful woman, but she's certainly presenting no threat to society. 1.00

00:39:48.640 Boy, we can't keep our most violent criminals behind bars,

00:39:52.160 and they were terrified that they might release her without bail too early,

00:39:56.800 and somehow it was going to bring the world to an end.

00:39:59.540 That small woman put the government, her and Chris Barber and others, into an abject panic.

00:40:07.140 That's what happened is they panicked. They hit the panic button and they improperly invoked

00:40:13.340 martial law. Now, if you look in Korea, South Korea, there was an incident where their former

00:40:19.060 prime minister improperly invoked martial law there too. And in response to that, they've given

00:40:24.540 him a life sentence. Yeah, they have. They actually, some countries do recognize that

00:40:30.120 leaders can be held responsible for things they've done to the citizens. We don't do that

00:40:37.340 here. Our prime minister of the time is running around on beaches with a pop star now.

00:40:43.060 You know, he's left the mess behind and he's gone on his merry way. And we'll see what happens with

00:40:52.080 this, with them appealing it. You'd think they'd just let this go into the trash and just it's

00:40:58.380 into the history, and okay, it got ruled against us, but it tells me that Carney might want to use

00:41:03.640 that Emergencies Act again. I mean, the Emergency Act is still there, no matter which way it rules,

00:41:08.400 but it just means you're going to have to have a better justification before you ever use it.

00:41:13.380 So how casually does the Carney government want to use it? What are they worried about? What do

00:41:18.720 they think is going to come in? Kind of something food for thought, isn't it? We'll watch that

00:41:22.460 appeal closely. Uh, here's another beauty. Uh, I can't pronounce this necessarily right. Bajam

00:41:28.400 Bashirin. This is a woman who was in her eighties. She came to Canada to visit family. She doesn't,

00:41:33.440 she's not Canadian. She's American. Um, but while she was in Canada, she had a stroke

00:41:38.680 and, uh, her medical bill came to, uh, over $110,000. So now we got CTV doing a big sob story

00:41:47.820 and talking to her family. Oh my Lord, this poor woman stuck with this bill. My family is stuck 0.99

00:41:51.460 with this medical bill and everything else. Look, I do feel bad for her, but I travel a fair amount.

00:41:56.880 You know what I do? I buy insurance. When I go to the United States for a month in winter to

00:42:02.240 escape the snow, I buy health insurance so that if something happens to me down there,

00:42:08.460 I'm not stuck with the bill. When I went to Israel, I bought health insurance.

00:42:14.420 So if a rocket happened to blow me to pieces, well, at least we had the insurance to move the

00:42:18.600 pieces back to Canada. That responsibility was mine. This, we can't even get enough health care

00:42:24.540 for the Canadian citizens who are here. And then to have the family now that they're asking

00:42:30.300 questions, they're demanding answers is what they're saying because of the bill this woman

00:42:33.640 got stuck with. What's complicated about this? The health care system can barely serve the 0.57

00:42:41.100 citizens. We can't afford to be providing it free for everybody who comes to visit. I understand

00:42:47.380 she had the stroke it's not like we turn her away from the hospital of course not you have to treat

00:42:51.220 her you have to save her life but then she's up on the bill that's too damn bad you should have 0.74

00:42:56.340 bought insurance we're not talking about somebody who was 16 years old and healthy and came over for

00:43:01.020 a weekend and tripped and broke an arm we're talking about a woman in her mid-80s i mean i 0.99

00:43:05.820 i'm not a doctor but i know the law of averages when you're getting up in that area you're starting

00:43:10.320 to have a higher risk of a medical episode happening so why didn't you have insurance

00:43:14.880 well, you thought you were going to save some money. Well, you didn't. But either way, hey,

00:43:20.040 they're a family stuck with a big bill and they're worried I can understand they're trying to get out

00:43:23.640 of the bill or reduce it. Fair enough. But why is CTV carrying their water? Why is CTV turning this

00:43:30.380 in to make it sound like these people are victims? They're people in a bad circumstance, but they're

00:43:35.280 victims from their own irresponsibility. And they certainly aren't our responsibility. We've got

00:43:40.560 enough responsibility for ourselves and fellow canadian citizens but this just keeps going on

00:43:46.760 and on nobody's responsible for anything it seems uh let's see one more thing let's hit in bc we got

00:43:51.700 a new reporter out there alex zolton he's been fantastic very prolific check him out on x you'll

00:43:56.380 find his stuff out there and of course his stories in the standard he's been really hitting on the

00:44:00.440 political front because bc's legislature is just i mean politically it's a it's a gong show but if

00:44:06.760 you're into politics it's a fascinating thing to watch too one of his recent stories was now this

00:44:11.520 one one bc or one center bc a new central centrist political party it's falling apart

00:44:17.820 their leader left it it's just interesting we see these in province after province we do the

00:44:22.100 same thing or now it says center bc so many names with all these things when a party says we're the

00:44:27.340 center we watched that with the alberta party in alberta for what 10 12 years the center that

00:44:33.360 everybody says that everybody's at tends to get about four or five percent electorally it's

00:44:38.420 happening in bc too guys people vote for something center is standing for nothing it's not saying

00:44:45.140 you're in the middle it's saying you just want to be mushy all the time and it doesn't work but

00:44:49.280 whatever you want to spin your wheels on those sorts of things their leader just quit so now 0.79

00:44:53.540 they've got a party with no seats and no leader i suspect it'll disappear and some clown will start 0.95

00:44:58.480 some new centrist party yet again to hit that. One more good news story to clap it off. Finally,

00:45:07.040 Doug Ford congratulating a Vaughn resident who shot an intruder in his house with his legally

00:45:11.320 owned firearm. And yes, the man was not charged. That's nice. That's refreshing. That's different

00:45:17.120 for Canada. Don't break into people's homes and you won't get shot. A simple rule of life. And

00:45:22.700 especially if you don't have health insurance and you aren't from the country. I don't know

00:45:25.680 what the case was in this one. I doubt it was that old woman. All right, guys, that's enough for 0.99

00:45:29.560 today. We've covered a lot. Thank you very much for tuning in. Be sure to watch the pipeline

00:45:33.800 tonight. Like, share, do all that social media sort of stuff. We can beat the legacy media and

00:45:39.700 bypass them and get that information back and forth between ourselves. And I do thank you guys

00:45:43.060 for the comments. It was a lively discussion on there today, if nothing else. We'll see you on

00:45:47.140 the next one next week.

00:45:55.680 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - March 18, 2026

Say it out loud. The problem is Islam.

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