By David Rubin, INN
Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau, after less than a month in office, is hastily living up to his reputation as the northern Obama. His announcement that he is determined to keep his campaign pledge to welcome in at least 25,000 Syrian migrants is raising many eyebrows, as the terrorist threat from such newcomers becomes more and more apparent with the most recent Islamic terrorist massacre in France.
President Barack Hussein Obama, who grew up as a Muslim, has also announced similar intent concerning the immigration, much to the dismay of some thirty American governors who have voiced strong opposition. Obama’s plan comes as no surprise, given that he has long been animated by his desire to make the United States a more Muslim nation, but what is Trudeau’s excuse? Doesn’t he see what is happening across the ocean on the European continent?
The current invasion of Europe by the tsunami of Muslim immigrants will rapidly hasten the transformation of Europe from a modern, polite civilization into a third world Islamic civilization. In the short term, we will see the strengthening of the right-wing anti-Islamification parties throughout Europe. The accusations of “Islamophobia” will increase as the very rational fear of Islam will be called racist by those who wish to see a worldwide Islamic takeover.
Canada and the United States are not far behind, which brings us back to the question of why a leftist like Trudeau would encourage a surge of Islamic immigration. Is it solely a result of the pretentious “caring” of the Left, which supposedly feels the “pain” of these refugees? Well, no, and actually the proverbial cat is crawling out of the bag. For a number of years, there has been a strange collusion between the Left and the Islamic ideologues. Both are trying to transform Western Civilization from a primarily Judeo-Christian one into a society of their respective choosing. The Muslims want to create an Islamic Caliphate, in which Islam would rule all. The secular Left wants to create a sort of nouveau Pagan, hedonistic society in which same-sex marriage, abortion on a whim, and fanatic animal rights would be the norm. This worldview would seem to be at odds with that of the Muslims, but it is the hatred of Judeo-Christian civilization, and also of Israel that binds them together.
Ultimately, the secular Left would suffer severe oppression from the Islamic Caliphate, of an intensity that would destroy their lives. Persecution of homosexuals, of women, and sexual abuse of children would quickly become the norm. But since most secularists believe in living for today, why worry about it now?
Barack, Trudeau & Jean de La Fontaine: il etait une fois …
The Scorpion and the Frog
One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river.
The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn’t see any way across. So he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back.
Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream.
“Hellooo Mr. Frog!” called the scorpion across the water, “Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?”
“Well now, Mr. Scorpion! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?” asked the frog hesitantly.
“Because,” the scorpion replied, “If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!”
Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. “What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!”
“This is true,” agreed the scorpion, “But then I wouldn’t be able to get to the other side of the river!”
“Alright then…how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?” said the frog.
“Ahh…,” crooned the scorpion, “Because you see, once you’ve taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!”
So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. The scorpion crawled onto the frog’s back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog’s soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current.
Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog’s back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.
“You fool!” croaked the frog, “Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?”
The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog’s back.
“I could not help myself. It is my nature.”
Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.
Self destruction – “Its my Nature”, said the Scorpion…
Stupid Jews! Now I am starting to sound like Shy Guy – miss him!
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amily they are sponsoring get settled upon their arrival.
“This will not be a small project. We will be responsible not only for raising enough money to show the Canadian government that we can support a family for a year; we will also be responsible for everything from meeting them at the airport to finding them a place to live, from helping them learn English to helping them find work and schools,” Moskovitz warned his congregants in his High Holiday sermon.
Undeterred, congregants with skills or connections in education, social work, medicine and real estate have voluntarily stepped up to assist.
Several hundred Syrian refugees wait to cross into Turkey at the border in Suruc, Turkey, on Sunday, September 21, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
Several hundred Syrian refugees wait to cross into Turkey at the border in Suruc, Turkey, September 21, 2014. (AP/Burhan Ozbilici)
The rabbi expects relationships that do not yet exist between Vancouver synagogues and local mosques and Muslim organizations to develop as a result of the refugees’ Jewish sponsors helping them to connect to their religious and cultural communities as they settle in.
This may be a positive byproduct of the sponsorship process, but Moskovitz said that when it comes down to it, religion is not really a factor in the effort to help Syrian refugees.
“We are not looking at the religion of these families. We are looking at them as human beings,” he said.
There is a great sense of pride among Temple Sholom’s members about the sponsorship, and there has been an ever-greater sense of clarity in the last week that it is the right thing to do.
“This has to be the Jewish response after what happened in Paris. We need to see the world though a lens of empathy. We shouldn’t blame a refugee crisis for terrorism, when really we should be blaming terrorism for a refugee crisis,” said Moskovitz.
And they are teaming up with other enemies of the Jewish people to make this happen!
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Although small and not officially affiliated with the Reform movement, Beth Israel Synagogue in Peterborough is raising funds to sponsor a refugee family. The congregation is working together with a local Jewish-Christian-Muslim interfaith group called The Abraham Festival on the project.
“Our synagogue is acting as the fiscal agent and issuing the tax receipts to donors,” said Beth Israel president Larry Gillman.
“We’ve already identified a family we want to help through the Canadian government, and we are working together to bring them here.”
At the same time that Gillman’s congregation has been keeping an eye on what is happening far away in Syria, it has also reached out to help their local Muslim neighbors. Beth Israel has offered its building as a temporary prayer and meeting space for the 1,000 worshipers at Peterborough’s Masjid al-Salaam mosque, which was the target of an arson attack on November 14, the day after coordinated terrorists attacks on Paris carried out by Islamic State militants. Peterborough police chief Murray Rodd has characterized the arson attack as a hate crime.
Larry Gillman, president of Beth Israel Synagogue, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. (Courtesy)
Larry Gillman, president of Beth Israel Synagogue, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada (Courtesy)
“To my mind, it was clearly a hate crime. There is no question about it,” Gillman told The Times of Israel.
Members of the mosque will hold prayer at a Peterborough church today and will begin using space at the synagogue next week. The Jewish congregation is welcoming the Muslim worshipers for as long as it takes for their torched mosque to be repaired. The damage has been estimated at $80,000. In the meantime, a community crowdfunding effort has raised $30,000 in excess of that amount for the repairs.
Gillman said that Peterborough Jews have always been concerned about security, but that they continue to see Canadians as peace-loving people and to have faith that their community is made up of good, kind individuals.
“The attack on the mosque wasn’t a total surprise. You can’t be surprised about something like that in the world we live in. Some crazy person in Peterborough perpetrated a hate crime, and it could have been directed at our synagogue. That’s why we need to stand together with people of all faiths in our community,” Gillman said.
According to Moskovitz, the Vancouver Jewish community is also on alert and has security systems in place.
“We feel tremendously secure here in Canada, but we are at the same time vigilant,” he said.
Focusing on the positive, Temple Sholom’s members are gearing up to help the
It is definitely on the way with the help of Canadian Jews. 🙁
Vancouver, British Columbia’s Temple Sholom and Peterborough, Ontario’s Beth Israel Synagogue couldn’t be more different. One is the largest Jewish congregation in one of Canada’s largest cities, while the other has a membership of only 35 families, employs no professional clergy, and attracts at most 100 worshipers for High Holiday services.
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Yet, these two disparate synagogues at opposite ends of the country are representative of the efforts being made by Jewish congregations across Canada to help Arabs affected by war far away in the Middle East and Muslims targeted by hate crimes close by.
Unlike the United States, which has severely restricted the entrance of Syrian civil war refugees (just 1,854 have been absorbed since 2012), Canada has already resettled 23,000 Iraqi refugees and has announced a plan to accept 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of this year, after having absorbed several thousand already. Jewish congregations and community organizations are actively — alone or in concert with other Canadian groups — sponsoring Syrian refugee families.
Rabbi Dan Moskovitz of Temple Sholom, Vancouver. (Courtesy)
Rabbi Dan Moskovitz of Temple Sholom, Vancouver (Courtesy)
Temple Sholom’s senior rabbi Dan Moskovitz has been on the vanguard of this effort, both within his own congregation and as chair of a national association of Reform Rabbis. In early September, Moskovitz brought the idea of sponsorship to his Temple’s board, which unanimously accepted it. Shortly thereafter on the High Holidays, the rabbi delivered an impassioned sermon referencing everything from Holocaust history to Rosh Hashanah liturgy to Abraham Lincoln. A single follow-up email that went out to congregants raised the $40,000 required for sponsoring one refugee family in just a few days.
While support for the sponsorship was overwhelmingly positive among Temple Sholom’s 720 member households, Moskovitz told The Times of Israel that up to five percent of the congregation expressed concern or opposition to the plan.
“I met with all of these members, either individually or in groups. They were mainly people who are from the Former Soviet Union who were worried about importing people who hate Jews or could act violently against Jews,” Moskovitz said.
The rabbi reported that following the conversations, these individuals either agreed with the sponsorship plan, or at least decided not to try to block it.
Other Jewish congregations in Vancouver were also asking themselves what they could do to help alleviate the Syrian refugee crisis. Moskovitz saw this as a unique opportunity for Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Renewal congregations in the city to collaborate. The subject was discussed among members of the Rabbinical Association of Vancouver, and as a result other synagogues have joined Temple Sholom in sponsoring refugee families. In order to fast-track the process, the congregations are partnering with the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver and the Anglican Diocese of British Columbia, which has been pre-approved by Canadian authorities as a sponsorship agreement holder (SAH).
According to Moskovitz, almost all of the 20 medium-to-large size Reform congregations in Canada are sponsoring one or more Syrian refugee families. The group is also working to form partnerships with Reform congregations in the US that are unable due to current US policy to carry out similar sponsorships. Moskovitz expects the American congregations’ involvement will be to prepare and send necessary supplies and care packages for the families resettling in Canada.
The sanctuary at Temple Sholom, Vancouver.
We are about quality and not quantity, so I don’t mind disowning these ones from the flock if I had the right to do so. Who will be my worst enemies? These misguided idiot Jews or the ones they are bringing here? Too bad they didn’t decide to put their time and money into the survival of the Jewish people.
daddy was a european type socialist , son is a european type socialist ………. the liberal party are european type socialists
@ Max:
I would suggest that those Liberals who are totally repulsed by what Trudeau is about to do (and I’m sure that there are some), walk across the floor in parliament and join the Conservatives.
Trudeau is known to be pro Palestinians.
Majority of Canadians oppose Trudeau’s plan to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees over in just six weeks: poll
….and 29 percent oppose bring in Syrian refugees any time , ever.
Given this – it’s very strange how Trudeau even got elected. Something the sheeple should ask themselves – how did that happen?
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/majority-of-canadians-oppose-trudeaus-plan-to-bring-25000-syrian-refugees-over-in-just-six-weeks-poll
The US is only taking in 10,000 Syrians for the year and as the informed know most Governors of each State have said that they don’t want them.
Send them to Dearborn – at least they will be all in one place – keep an eye on them with the rest of the subversives there.
25,000 migrants is the equivalent of 250,000 migrants to the USA (due to the population of the USA being approximately 10 times that of Canada). To do this within 6 weeks means that there is no way to properly vet the migrants, so although I’m a Canadian expat, I now doubt that I will return, since I’m living in a country that does not tolerate Muslim violence.
@ Per:
Money, probably; but firearms? doubtful. Trudeau has not yet passed a “2nd Amendment” in Canada.
Not a “downhill spree” but “the downhill spree”.
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Going to out-Sweden Sweden.
Going more depraved than the UK.
We will make Paris look like Elysium.
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North America was the last holdout – every last vestige that was us will be trashed an obliterated.
It will not suffice to welcome the ISIS to Canada, they will also have to be supplied with money and firearms.
Canada had it made. So did the USA,once. Humanity has a need to destroy what is good these days. Perhaps it was always that way. Oh, Canada, on a downhill Muslim spree…
Replacing Harper with Trudeau is a classic example of moving from the penthouse to the outhouse. The consequences will be poverty and tyranny.
Yes, it is …and the oligarchy’s news media is ramping up the propaganda against “Muslim Backlash” totally glossing over the problems of Islamification.
The TV shows someone complaining about backlash while wearing a Niqab – an Islamic tool of oppression against women and flagship symbol of groups like Al Quaeda and ISIS.!!!! It’s no accident – the media is conditioning the public to accept the “new normal”.
Oppression against women suddenly has become a Canadian value installed backed and supported by Trudeau who just withdrew the appeal against the court decision that allowed Niqabs to undermine Canadian Society – re-iterating the lien that Niqabs are hunky-dory with Trudeau and are the new Canadian value.