I’m writing this note from Gate A51 of the Montreal airport. I’m about to get on a flight to Paris, France.
That might strike you as a rash thing to do, the day after Muslim terrorists launched five attacks around that city, murdering at least 129 people and injuring 352.
I won’t lie — it wasn’t an easy decision, especially when my young kids asked me if I’ll be safe “from villains”.
But the truth is, we’re not safe now, even in Canada. We’ve had terrorist attacks in our country too — just last year, a Muslim terrorist murdered Corporal Nathan Cirillo at the National War Memorial, and stormed his way into Parliament, in a hail of bullets. It seems like every month police stop another terrorist attack just in the nick of time, whether it’s the plot to blow up VIA Rail, or the CN Tower, or the legislature in Victoria, B.C. And we know that dozens of Canadian Muslims have gone to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State’s terrorist army over there.
I’m afraid the main difference between us and France is that we’ve just had better luck. So far, at least.
Both Canada and France are on the enemies list of the Islamic State. Because all infidels are. Especially those that believe in freedom, and the separation of mosque and state, and the equality of men and women — Canadian values.
That’s what "Islamic State" means: they believe the entire world should live under sharia law, where the Koran is the constitution and democracy is abolished. They’re as brutal as the Nazis were, and their plans are no less ambitious.
And that’s why I’m going to Paris. Along with a videographer from The Rebel, I'm going to see what a beautiful city, a pillar of Western Civilization, looks like when it's under siege by radical Islam. And to learn lessons from Paris, before we have to learn them ourselves the hard way in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, — or your home town.
According to authorities, at least two of the Paris terrorists came to Europe amongst the hordes of unscreened Muslim migrants claiming to be “Syrian refugees”. And yet Justin Trudeau stubbornly insists on bringing in 25,000 Muslims from Syria’s war zone in the next month, promising to fly them to Canada even before they’re screened.
So I want to talk to Parisians about the waves of unscreened Muslim men who have streamed into their country first. And I want to talk to the Muslim men themselves — to ask them their candid views on democracy, the west, and terrorism.
In short, I want to have the kind of honest conversation about radical Islam, migration and terrorism that is virtually banished from the mainstream media.
Seriously, last night, as the terrorists were still rampaging, the Globe and Mail’s John Ibbitson publicly declared that this terrorism “must not change our refugee policy”. Is he mad? And the Globe’s Doug Saunders actually attacked anyone who had said “pray for Paris”, calling it a “cruel slogan”.
His morality is so perverted, that he chose to condemn Christians praying for life, rather than Muslims praying for death.
The CBC is even worse. Did you know they actually have a formal editorial policy not to use the word “terrorist”? The say using that word would mean taking sides.
Do you see why I feel I have to go to Paris? Because I know that I just can't trust a word the mainstream media says about the threat of Muslim terrorism in the west. I have to go to see for myself, to ask questions for myself. And I promise to share what I learn with you, on our independent news network, TheRebel.media.
Like millions of people, I grieve for the victims of the Paris mass murder. But I also know that it’s not enough to grieve, and put a picture of the Eiffel Tower on my Facebook page and say something like "Je Suis Paris". It’s not enough.
We need to know the truth about terrorism and the risks of mass Muslim migration. And we need to understand the inevitable logic that if we don’t change the path we’re on, we’re likely to end up where we’re going.
And I fear that will look like Paris.
Ezra Levant
P.S. I’ll have updates every day. I don’t know exactly what I will see in Paris; but I think it’s fair to say I’ll show you things that you simply won’t find on the other news media. They are too busy excusing terrorism to do their jobs as reporters.
P.P.S. We’ve created a special e-mail list to send you regular updates from Paris. You can sign up here.
http://www.ucobserver.org/faith/2015/11/michael_coren/
I think not. His plan did not pan out to completion… Undoubtedly the goal was to kill as many as possible. The life of one innocent Canadian is as important as many… But try telling that to the left, who disregard the importance of an individual in favor of looking at the COLLECTIVE.
I was responding to Ezra’s post, where he only mentioned Cirillo in the same context as the Paris attack and that’s bullshit. One person tragically getting killed in any capacity – terrorist or random killer isn’t the same as a mass murder like say Sandy Hook.
And one nutjob in Canada isn’t the same as massive planned attack with apparently three teams that went into the Paris attack. Don’t get wrong – death is horrible on any level, but Cirillo’s death isn’t remotely the same as the Paris attack and shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath.
I am sure that many, like MARIE SOFIE, are “just perplexed as to why secular Westerners (potentially Westerners of others faiths as well?) aim to protect and support Islam”.
Recently, Phil Zuckerman, a self-described atheist and professor of secular studies at Pitzer College in California, had the courage to answer and let the cat out of the bag as to why “it is okay for those on the left to critique, mock, deride Christianity, but Islam gets a free pass”.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/atheist-okay-disparage-christians-islam-limits-because-fear
According to Zuckerman, it’s acceptable to criticize Christians but not Muslims, because he does not “fear” retaliation from Christians, but he does fears retaliation from those adhering to Islam:
“I know what keeps me from critiquing Islam on my blog is just fear. I’ve got three kids. So I know I can say anything about Christianity or Mormonism, and I’m not living in fear, which is a testament to Christianity and Mormonism, and that’s wonderful. I would never write the same kind of stuff that I do about certain religions – Judaism, Christianity, LDS, whatever – as I would about Islam – just straight up fear.”
Well, thanks Professor Zuckerman for enlightening us as to one reason why this insidious hypocrisy exists – the left is a bunch of cowards . However, I would contend that it is not just abject cowardice to which Prof. Zuckerman subscribes, but also has much to do with the socialist ideology of the ‘progressives’, many of whom make comments at this site. They look upon the Islamists as useful ‘friends’, functioning much like a battering ram to further transform Western civilization, grounded in capitalism and Judeo/Christian values, so as to help hasten the emergence of their beloved socialist utopia.
Eagles of Death Metal is one of my brother’s favorite bands. He showed me their video for “I Really Wanna Be in LA” some years ago… He goes to these goddamn concerts in Toronto, I never go to those things anymore, despite liking hard rock music. It horrifies me how unsafe we are, how unsafe our families, women and children are… All done by the folks claiming to be acting in our best interests. PARLIAMENT, you folks have shit the bed.
Coulda, woulda, shoulda. That’s not what happened. This wasn’t Canada’s 9/11 and people need to stop equating it as such.
The fake right CINOS also like to use Islamists. The obvious threat they present allows for legislation to curtail civil liberties, allow people to be spied on and arrested arbitrarily. You can bet that ten years down the road, maybe even five, this legislation that was justified for “getting the terrorists” be used against Libertarians, gun-owners, free-market advocates, Christians, all under the premise that they are “terrorists”.
I wish that not one Muslim had ever set foot here. But I see parties of all stripes, including so-called “Conservatives” waving them in by the tens of thousands for the last fifteen or twenty years.
Notice all the RIGHTS that were in that sentence…
Peter, I would seek to move to Russia, where I can carry a weapon for self-defense, where my govenrment would actually attack Islamists rather than fund them, where George Soros is not welcome… Only that I’m quite sure that the same leftists and CINO nation-builders have plans to overthrow Russia, there is NOWHERE on Earth to fully escape these globalist plots.
Richards statement;
Canada, your willful ignorance makes this suffering possible. ( He is stating that the left and their equal rights for everything has gotten out of hand).
Richards statement;
The free-reign you’ve given to the idiots in Parliament has caused a Christian genocide in Syria, as well as several orchestrated terrorist attacks, including the one that just passed. ( This is stating, that because we are too worried about insulting anyone, we have turned into “a yes boys state” and he is starting feel we are going to be crushed very soon).
Richards statement;
You “progressive” world-peace types have been asleep at the wheel. ( this statement I agree with 100%. Yes we have been asleep at the wheel for way to long, it is time we wake up as Canadians and stand a post. Get into the fight, have strong pride for the nation, and the fellow Canadians that died for our freedoms).
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/08/west-training-syrian-rebels-jordan
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canadian-military-in-jordan-for-exercise-amid-reports-assads-forces-in-syria-on-verge-of-breakthrough
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/canada-has-given-5-3m-to-syrian-opposition-to-support-rebel-efforts-to-counter-assads-propaganda-source
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/ayoub-badi-libyan-freedom-fighters-toronto-canada
http://www.international.gc.ca/development-developpement/humanitarian_response-situations_crises/syria-syrie.aspx?lang=eng
There are some, that even to this day, still feel that supporting “the opposition” in Syria is the “Canadian” thing to do… Despite the Christian genocide, numerous terrorist attacks, and massive waves of “refugees” it has generated. Now we stand on the eve of war with Russia and China, and you fools still demand Assad step-down so you can install an Islamist puppet government, as was done in Egypt.
There is guilt among those who are politically unaware as well. You have a responsibility to know what your government is doing on your behalf. You have a responsibility to reject blind-support of a given political party, when all of them are demanding the same destabilization of a secular country.
The number of folks here who are truly good Canadians can be counted on one hand.