Antisemitism from leaders of Canada’s “anti-racism” industry has been exposed several times, but without any significant followup. The Liberal government of Canada is funding these “leaders” to combat racism. There is a clear pattern of tolerating blatant antisemitism in Canada, while swiftly stifling and punishing those who tell the truth about Islamic supremacism and the global jihad. This latest report in the Post Millennial sounds like déjà vu: ‘Anti-racism’ consultant hired by Heritage Department-funded agency repeatedly made anti-Semitic comments. The Canadian Center For Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) tweeted:
The Heritage Department funds the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) to combat hate. Yet its senior consultant, Laith Marouf, has openly stated the most heinous hatred against Jews. The Heritage Department is the same department from which the anti-Islamophobia Motion M-103 emerged. Marouf, its anti-racism consultant, was busted for spewing the vilest antisemitism. According to the Post Millennial, Marouf is a Syrian-born “pro-Palestinian” activist, who “has previously made numerous anti-Semitic comments on Twitter,” but this one is perhaps the crudest and most revealing:
Marouf says that his motto is “Life is too short for shoes with laces, or for entertaining Jewish White Supremacists with anything but a bullet to the head.”
In another, he refers to so-called “Jewish White Supremacists” as “loud mouthed bags of human feces,” adding that if Palestine is “liberated,” they will “return to being low voiced b*tches of their Christian/Secular White Supremacist Masters.”
The Canadian Heritage Department is well known for its questionable anti-racism ventures. Back in January, Jihad Watch reported about Mohammed Hashem, the Executive Director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (which operates under the Heritage Department) in the aftermath of the jihad terror hostage-taking incident at a Texas synagogue. Here’s an excerpt from that report:
Ali is just one of many who are focusing on “Islamophobia” while ignoring and subtly undermining the antisemitism of the attack itself. Wajahat Ali has a counterpart in Canada: Mohammed Hashim, Executive Director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF), who slammed Israel in a tweet as he rambled about the antisemitic attack on the Texas synagogue….
Consider the ramifications of Hashim’s statement that “if Jewish orgs were less supportive of Israel then it would be easier to work with them.” Which Jewish orgs might those be? He does not say.
Mohammed Hashim was described in the Toronto Sun as the “spin doctor” behind the infamous Toronto Danforth shooter, Faisal Hussain, and a “driving force behind the National Council of Canadian Muslims,” an offshoot of CAIR. According to the Toronto Sun:
The man who has presented himself as the point of contact for the family of Faisal Hussain is a professional activist who has reportedly committed himself to “framing a new narrative of Muslims in Canada” and creating a “national political movement.”
Hashim went on to become Executive Director of the CRRF. This was the same foundation that the Trudeau government fired me from for writing for Jihad Watch and exposing the jihad ideology, which has nothing to do with race. Now, in the wake of the Texas synagogue jihad terror incident, Hashim takes a cheap shot at the state of Israel, while clumsily claiming that the incident made him feel as if his heart had stopped. He also added, not so subtly, that he’s “seen bloody carpets and bullet holes in a place you pray in.” Any guesses what he might be referencing? Talk about “spin.”
Back in 2009, Hashim was involved in pushing a national conference: “Students Against Israeli Apartheid“:
…..Everyone wonders why antisemitism is on the rise, while the central focus remains on “Islamophobia.”
Let’s not forget the broad definition of “Islamophobia” that was pushed by the Toronto District School Board (which has an antisemitism problem within it), with help from the National Council of Canadian Muslims. The definition labeled “fear, prejudice, hatred or dislike directed against Islam or Muslims, or towards Islamic politics or culture” as “Islamophobia.” Yes, “Islamic politics.”
One cannot even imagine the outcry if hate and calls for violence such as what Laith Marouf wrote were spewed against Muslims, but all this is tolerated in Canada against Jews, and by members of the so-called “anti-racism” industry to boot. In Canada, to criticize Islamic supremacists such as Marouf and stand against the global jihad swiftly brings accusations of “Islamophobia” from Muslim special interest groups such as the National Council of Canadian Muslims. Recently, the new chief of the Alberta Human Rights Commission and Tribunals, Collin May, was accused of “Islamophobic” commentary because of a book review he wrote in 2009 about a book by the author and scholar Efraim Karsh. May stated:
“[Karsh] defies the multicultural illusion regarding pacific Islam and goes to the heart of the matter. Islam is not a peaceful religion misused by radicals. Rather, it is one of the most militaristic religions known to man, and it is precisely this militaristic heritage that informs the actions of radicals throughout the Muslim world,” May wrote in his 2009 review.
May was absolutely correct, and evidence is copious to back up his statements, both historically and currently about normative Islam and the Sharia, which most Muslims regard as divine and immutable law. Unfortunately, in keeping with Sharia blasphemy laws, victims are not the priority, Muslim sensibilities are. The National Council of Canadian Muslims “is now working with May to see that he better serves Muslim communities.”
But where’s the outcry for the antisemitic hatred spewed by Islamic supremacists such as Marouf, who is receiving Canadian tax dollars via funding from the Heritage Department? Where was the followup concerning Mohammed Hashim?
Another incident from 2019 involved a university-sanctioned antisemitic Muslim voting guide which supports BDS and gets federal funding. The voting guide’s lead author, Jasmine Zine, received $24,923 from the government-run Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in 2018 for a project called “Mapping the Canadian Islamophobia Industry.” Zine is still mapping the so-called “Islamophobia industry,” and she is well known to regular Jihad Watch readers:
- Canada: Muslim professor who claims she was assaulted at conference has long record of “Islamophobia” propagandizing.
- Canada: “Islamophobia” prof claims she was assaulted at conference, media runs with claims without checking.
These individuals are openly pushing support of BDS and making comments such as “if Jewish orgs were less supportive of Israel, then it would be easier to work with them” and “Life is too short for shoes with laces, or for entertaining Jewish White Supremacists with anything but a bullet to the head,” yet Canadian taxpayers are forced to fund these individuals. And when they are exposed, no rebuke comes to them from the Canadian government.
