Post 106—Refugees Beating up Canadian Students?

Support Trump?

I’m not sure what’s up with me these days. I wrote about Donald Trump in the previous blog in a somewhat but hesitant positive spirit. I understand Trump has his supporters, but I have never yet met one who admitted to the status of Trump supporters. Here in BC that’s so politically incorrect it takes some courage to go as far as I did, not to say recklessness. Just to prevent any misunderstanding on this score, I am not advocating a vote for him at this point. It partially depends on whom he might run against. But a candidate who would be free from lobbyist pressures would certainly constitute a serious choice for me, all other things being equal, which they are not!

Coyne vs Levant

And here, in this next blog, I am writing about Ezra Levant, a Canadian rebel journalist who operates the online alternative newspaper < TheRebel.media >.  As it takes courage to suggest there could be a lighter side to Trump, so the same for Levant. No one less than Andrew Coyne, a journalist for whom I have the highest respect, berated Levant in no uncertain terms on my birthday, of all things (Vancouver Sun, February 18, 2016, p. B2). He wonders whether Levant should be considered a journalist, but if he is, “he is a stain on the trade.” He peddles “bile.” His writings are characterized by “strange personal vendettas, the recklessness with the facts, the blatant propagandizing, the frequent lawsuits…. It’s inconceivable.” He is “widely despised.”

A Third Rebel

Well, I’m going to take a chance on Levant, partially because, like both Trump and Levant, I am a rebel at heart. Just ask my almost life-time employer, Christian Reformed World Missions in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (No, I’m not an American!)  But also because the subject is an important one. The strong emphasis on multiculturalism displayed by the two Trudeau Canadian Prime Ministers, I have always felt, ignores the fact that new comers to the country, whether immigrants (of which I am one) or refugees, often bring with them an insistence on their own culture to the disadvantage of Canadian culture. Trudeau Jr.’s accepting 25,000 refugees without due diligence is, I surmise, partially due to discounting the negative cultural impact of some, if not many, new comers. I have a strong feeling that more Muslim new comers insist on giving or even demanding space for their culture/religion than any other. 

All that said, here comes a report from Ezra Levant:

Refugees Beat up Canadian Students in Halifax

Over the weekend, the Halifax Chronicle-Herald published a shocking report that newly arrived Syrian “refugees” at Chebucto Heights Elementary School were beating up Canadian students.

Canadian kids were being bullied, even choked by Muslim students, who made throat-slitting gestures. And the school was hiding all of this from the public, even from parents.

Not surprisingly, the news story went viral. 

But soon the Chronicle-Herald started making changes to their story, taking out key facts. Then they just deleted the story entirely from their website — replacing it with a short note explaining that the subject was too sensitive.

And then this morning, they published yet another alibi, explaining that one of the reasons they took the story down was that “anti-Muslim groups” had been “sharing the article”. So they decided to do what the school had been doing: cover it up.

Even as they admitted that a fourth witness had come forward.

What’s really going on in Halifax? Why are journalists hiding the news instead of reporting it?

Aren’t you curious? 

I sure am. The Chronicle-Herald’s bizarre attempt to un-tell the story says there’s a lot of pressure on them to shut up.

When it comes to Syrian “refugees”, I simply refuse to trust the mainstream media anymore.

So we sent one of our top reporters, Faith Goldy, to Halifax to get the facts directly. Not through the filter of the mainstream media.

Faith and our cameraman arrived late last night, and they got straight to work. Their mission: to find out whatever the truth is, and report it. No censorship. No political correctness.

Click here to watch Faith’s first report from the scene. And answer me this: who do you trust to tell you the truth — Faith, or the politically correct editors of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald?

That’s as far as I will go with Ezra’s story until we hear more, hopefully also from mainstream media. I advise you to keep your eye on this story yourself from both media streams. Perhaps the development of this story will decide for me between Coyne and Levant, though I am unlikely to drop Coyne and hopefully will not have to drop Levant either. I find it enlightening to read both “sides of the coin,” with apologies to Coyne for the pun.  

However, as an immigrant kid myself, I can also think of another take on this story. As kids we would get involved in some shenanigans in the neighbourhood that our parents, still steeped in “old country” culture, would never hear or think about. We sometimes lived in totally different worlds from theirs and could get into trouble. The case of these Muslim kids could be as innocent as that, though to the host community it would look like “typical” Muslim stuff and they blew their stack, yelling “There, you see, that’s what happens when you allow Muslims into the country!" At the same time, of course, it did indicate what these kids might have learned in their home culture—and that was not pretty!—that they brought with them into Canada.  

Follow Up 

It’s a few days later since I wrote the above and I have not yet published this post. So, here comes the post along with this follow-up from Levant:

An incredible scoop. But instead of condemning the bullying, the Halifax Regional School Board condemned the newspaper. And instead of following up on the story, other journalists across the country called the Chronicle-Herald “racist” for even talking about it.

So the Chronicle-Herald deleted the story. They didn’t retract it; they didn’t say they got their facts wrong. They just wanted to un-report what they had reported.

Well, that’s not real journalism. That’s propaganda.

So on Sunday night, I flew to Halifax with a cameraman from The Rebel. And we reported the story the old-fashioned way — knocking on doors, making phone calls, showing up at the school, talking to parents, talking to school officials. With no preconceptions: we would follow the facts wherever they led us.

It took us two days, but we got the whole story — and now you can get it,only on The Rebel.

Syrian kids do bully Canadian kids in Halifax — it’s practically a daily occurrence. The school board knows all about it — but they just keep telling the students and teachers to keep quiet. 

It’s the story the Chronicle-Herald tried to tell, before they were silenced — and the story the rest of the mainstream media refuse to tell.

Well, the story needs to be told. And you can watch it right now with your own eyes, in the words of the families who were victimized twice: first by schoolyard bullies, and then again by the school’s cover-up.

Click here to watch a short summary of my investigation. And if you want to see the whole, hour-long documentary, sign up as a premium member, to never miss a minute. 

Well, in terms of length, you got your money's worth today!                                     

Post 89--Pegida—Germans and Refugees

            

           The following is about a German organization known as PEGIDA. I have taken            it over from Wikipedia and therefore cannot vouch for 100% accuracy. I realize            I am taking a great risk in posting this document, for PEGIDA has a bad name              in the media. But that media is mostly liberal, leftist in orientation and generally            condemns the sentiments expressed in this post without giving it a fair hearing.              Some of the statements below are purely local German politics for which I     

           cannot vouch either. Some of it is definitely questionable and would need    

           greater nuance before I would support it. Nevertheless, the document as a                      whole draws our attention to some refugee issues that the liberal mainline           

           politicians and media tend to hide, obscure or flatly deny, if not ridicule. 

I believe you, my readers, have a right to hear the PEGIDA folk themselves out and make up your own mind. And then see what you can take away from it and apply to Canadian refugee policy. You will note that in the document PEGIDA recommends Canada’s refugee policy. So that their perspective can’t be that bad, right?

Unfortunately, much of Canada’s policy is based on a totally inexperienced and quick-to-talk Prime Minister, who has forced himself into an unceasing process of chipping away at his questionable campaign promise of hauling in 25,000 refugees before the end of 2015. How could Canadians fall for such immaturity? 

It can only be explained in terms of the “monster” that Harper portrayed himself to be, a monster Canadians wanted to get rid of at all costs. Well, they did. I’m glad we got rid of the “monster,” but I’m not so sure we did not simply replace him with another type of monster, one who has shown himself either to be ignorant during his campaign or deceitful or, perhaps worst of all, populist; not sure which. Whether ignorant or deceitful or populist, as one who sought the leadership of a nation, any one of these three would turn him into a monster Prime Minister. Perhaps the jury is still out on that one.

I want it understood that I welcome refugees. A hundred of them are at the moment my next-door neighbours, having been put up in a hotel. I see them every day. I stop to welcome them and chat with them as much as language allows. Before long, an unceasing flow of refugees will be the neighbours of my church, the First Christian Reformed Church of Vancouver on Victoria Drive and Tenth Avenue. A welcoming centre is under construction next door to this church and I have voted for that church to support a chaplain cum social worker to help the Centre “process” refugees, a move the Centre itself welcomes with open arms.

But I do resist careless acceptance of refugees without rigorous due process.  Previous recent posts on this blog have indicated that it is often lacking in rigour.  I don’t need to repeat all that.

I do remember years ago, when I would visit friends and relatives in my “old country,”  The Netherlands, that I predicted that with the end of the Cold War, Islam would become the West’s next challenge. I warned my listeners that the guest workers they were importing at the time, would become serious problems for Europe in the future. They dismissed me as a “red neck.”  Some of them recall those discussions and no longer apply that epithet to me.

So, here then a brief Wikipedia introduction to PEGIDA and then its document translated from its own German words.  Read it. Think about it. Reject the inappropriate and then insist on policies for our own Government that are based on actual facts and have an eye for potential dangers.

Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident^{[note 1]} (German: Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes), abbreviated PEGIDA or Pegida, is a German anti-Islamisation^[1][2][3] political movement founded in Dresden in October 2014. The organisation team in Dresden usually holds demonstrations every Monday, at a location and time specified beforehand on its Facebook page, against what it considers the Islamisation of the Western world, calling for more restrictive immigration rules, particularly for Muslimswho refuse to integrate (see Item 16 of its Position Paper). Offshoots of Pegida have been formed in various countries.

10 PEGIDA Demands on German Asylum Politics

On 11 September 2015, Pegida posted 10 demands on German asylum politics on its Facebook page, as reported by heute.^[62] Although an official Pegida translation exists on its Facebook page, the following is an improved version that harks back to the original German:

1.) We call for an immediate stop on asylum seekers, and we call for a German asylum emergency law - now!

Our asylum laws were conceived after the war for the manageable quantity of approximately 2,000 refugees per year and not for the million we expected to reach in 2015!

2.) We call for strict border controls! We demand IMMEDIATE suspension of the Schengen Agreement - on all of Germany's borders!

Other EU countries already monitor their national borders again - even though the completely failed Dublin procedure is a burden rests mostly on Germany's back. The temporary reintroduction of border controls during the G7 summit has proven that border controls hinder illegal border crossings, the flourishing business of the smuggling mafia and the entry of criminals.

3.) We demand that the group of "safe countries of origin" be expanded to ALL Council of Europe member countries!

This Council of Europe has 47 member countries with 830 million citizens and over 1,800 European officials.

All member states have committed themselves to the preservation of democracy and rule of law as well as the recognition of fundamental human rights. That should be enough to count these countries as safe countries!

4.) We call for a TEMPORARYLY LIMITED right of asylum for war refugees!

Of course, real war refugees and accepted asylum seekers are to be granted temporary protection and full coverage on a MODEST scale. But once the situation in the home country improves, the refugees have to leave our country again.

5.) We call for a binding limit on the annual reception of asylum seekers, set namely by ourselves, the host country Germany!

This vital question about the future of our country must be carried out by means of direct democracy - through a referendum!

6.) We demand honesty, at long last, in the integration debate and the end of the red-green^{[note 3]} social-romantic tale of wanting to integrate masses of male, African asylum seekers here!

No one wants that. The green socialists use the refugees to create a red-green job wonder for bachelor graduates of chatter sciences here. The pathological altruism and do-gooders with feigned empathy are moral invisibility cloaks, which cover the highly lucrative migrant market.

7.) We demand that all rejected asylum seekers and hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants be deported at once, as logic would have it!

Again: We call for MASS deportations - and do it NOW!

8.) We demand that the refugee problem be resolved locally, in their own cultures!

Our so-called representatives of the people should show some backbone and take Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to task.

These wealthy, huge Sharia paradises are much better suited to accommodate the crowds of Muslim asylum seekers than a Europe of unbelievers! And we need, at long last, asylum audits right in the countries of origin. Applications for asylum in Germany have to be decided by fast-track procedure locally even in North Africa!

9.) We demand that foreign criminal, who stand in alliance with Islamic terrorist organizations be deported immediately!

This naturally also includes the adopted "sons and daughters" of German Minister of Internal Affairs de Maiziere, all these jihad returnees and all known and violent Salafists - these people also deserve to be deported from Europe immediately!

10.) The expected resistance from Brussels about any changes in German immigration and asylum policies must be answered with exit from this bullying dump EU.

The future French President Marine Le Pen has summarized it concisely in the demand for "the destruction of this EU"

It’s only this radical way which works! This EU will never be able to reform - who would rationalize away his own highly paid job?

Asylum seekers driven by nothing other than economic reasons are NOT welcome! Christian refugees, especially those who are oppressed by murderous Islamists, are absolutely welcome in Germany and we provide the shelter, food and life support they need, because this is a natural German trait. To all others: STAY OUT!

We, the people of the European nations, need to unite, to conserve and to defend our values, our culture, our freedom. We need to unite against the self-declared kings and queens in Brussels. We, the German people, need international support against our own politicians in our German parliaments.

Our politicians want to change the current form of government of the Federal Republic of Germany substantially, they want to abolish the German state and replace the German people with a multicultural society, they want to establish a multiethnic state on German soil - this behaviour is high treason!

Well, there it is. Plenty of food for thought.  You now have it directly from the horse’s mouth—from PEGIDA, not me!  Does the paragraph above this one not remind you of Trudeau Sr? And now of our current Jr?  I am not sure I'd call it "high treason," but we should ask what it is we are seeing—the inexperience of youth or populism or what? Are we sure we want to go there?  Do we know what that might look like?  Or are we just barging into the unknown and gambling with the future of an entire nation--of our children and grandchildren?

I’m off to one of the largest annual conferences in downtown Vancouver: Missions Fest Vancouver.  I’m on their Board and thus have plenty to keep me busy over the weekend. See you next week. Perhaps I'll give you a report.