Author: Bambi

At least one dead person and 15 injured…

When will this senseless violence stop?!!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/nov/03/vienna-austria-synagogue-terror-attack-police-live-updates

https://www.dw.com/en/austria-terror-attack-multiple-casualties-after-shooting-near-vienna-synagogue/a-55478882

Well said, Mr. Macron (in German and French) and Mr. Blanchet!

Are Islamists reading? Will they listen?

Mr. Trudeau, how does your example of screaming fire fire in a movie theatre apply here? Do you see now that it was irrelevant?

Of course, as a sensitive human being and a devoted dad, you do not like to see innocent people suffering.

So, please name the elephant in the big room of Europe and be firm with Islamists.

Islamists do not understand the language of kindness. They perceive it as weakness. Please be courageous and unite with Mr. Macron in his fight for our security and freedom.

Merci/Thank you for re-considering your position!

Below, you can read that Mr. Legault said the following today:

“We cannot accuse people who have made cartoons of justifying violence in this way. I really totally disagree with Mr. Trudeau, we have to protect freedom of expression”.

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/11/02/liberte-dexpression-legault-totalement-en-desaccord-avec-trudeau

Here is a quick reaction by journalist and sociologist, Dr. Mathieu Bock-Côté:

Mr. Blanchet is preparing a press conference, but already the English CBC is writing against him, letting us think that he is digging a valley “between Quebéc and Canada’s values“, so to speak:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/blanchet-values-quebec-trudeau-1.5786269

This so-called “wedge” (to use the CBC own word) it is Mr. Trudeau (sadly supported by Mr. Singh) who is responsible for it. Instead of defending freedom of expression, he seems to be telling us that his cherished “diversity” will limit our freedom of expression. Shame on you Mr. Trudeau. Bambi is saying this and she is part of this so-called diversity in Canada. She is of Lebanese origins. Thus, Arab too. She is the closest you can get to a Muslim (she even has Muslim relatives). Yet, she thinks you are totally wrong. Please re-consider and re-choose our values, Mr. Trudeau!

To conclude this post, thank Goodness there is still common sense (and courage) in our so-called free, democratic world.

Merci Québec!

Sadly, Mr. Robert Fisk died of a stroke today.

Bambi is sad. She just learned from her own sister’s tweet (journalist Roula Douglas) about the death of this 74-year-old veteran journalist for whom she has the utmost respect and a sort of attachment to. She will try to explain why in the following paragraphs.

Bambi will always remember this sad date of November 1st in the future, as it coincides with a happy day for her (celebrating the birthdays of loved ones!).

Mr. Robert Fisk has covered the Lebanese civil war since its start in 1975 until its end in 1990. If everyone knew the Middle East well, it was him!

The Lebanese civil war was ugly and devastating. Mr. Fisk could have lost his life there (or elsewhere in hot places, including Ireland if Bambi is not mistaken as well as the Middle East). He survived wars and wrote many articles and books.

Thank you for telling the tragic stories of the people of Lebanon and of the Middle East. Thanks for having loved Lebanon and Beirut the way you did. Beirut also loved you back!

Mr. Fisk earned many major British awards. Well deserved!

In addition to the Lebanese war, he covered the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, and the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets.

Bambi read his famous Pity the Nation, Lebanon at war (short-listed for the NCR Book Award) in 1990 at the time she immigrated to Canada, three months before the end of war. She is holding it now in her hands whilst writing this post… Thank you Mr. Fisk for such an elegantly written AND moving book!!

With your death, it is as if a whole book (not just a chapter) of Bambi’s life symbolically died with you (she was less than 3 years old when war started. She was 17 when it ended; you lived in her birth capital throughout its craziest times… mind you, the current times are also ugly).

May you rest in peace, Mr. (and Dr.!) Fisk. May you memory be eternal.

May your legacy inspires newer generations of journalists, the real ones (not the so-called journalists without rigour, respect of facts/truth, and depth…).

These Torontonians are urging Canada to boycott France for defending freedom of expression. Is there anything more pathetic than that? Oups, surely, there is Mr. Justin Trudeau and SADLY the still silent Left in English-Canada.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/members-syrian-community-centre-protest-france-windsor-1.5784786

Are those Syrians demonstrating in Windsor to boycott France and against freedom of expression in France so used to freedom in their birth country that they want to replicate it in their host country?

Or do some of them adhere to Islamism (that has hijacked the Muslim religion)?

What about those demonstrators in Toronto, yesterday?

Of course, let’s be clear here, Bambi thinks that even Islamists have a place in a society and deserve to express their opinions.

The problem with Islamists (like other radicals) becomes problematic when their number increases AND perhaps also when their new country is not mindful of the risk of their toxic vision of the world.

As Mr. Macron explained yesterday, some Islamists in France are preaching that men are not equal to women, young girls not equal to young boys, and that France is not good, encouraging to detach themselves from it.

Bravo for Mr. Macron for finally doing something (policy) to address this increasingly problematic issue in France.

There is no place for chopping heads in democracies.

There is no place for Sharia law (or any other law, religious or not) besides the laws of a secular country.

There is no place for a minority wanting to impose its own values on the majority.

Freedom of expression protects us all, including Muslims who are the first victims of Islamism (up to 80% of Islamic terrorism).

So, please stop the intimidation on France and stop being ridiculous in Canada.

If Bambi is wrong about the above, is the Imam below Islamist? Listen to him in both English and Arabic, preaching from Victoria, BC. Check his words about Mr. Samuel Paty (teacher beheaded in France for having discussed freedom of expression in his course and whilst doing so showing the cartoons of Charlie Hebdo). Thank you Rebel News for this article/video that we would have never found in the mainstream media:

https://www.rebelnews.com/canadian_imam_calls_french_beheading_victim_a_filthy_excuse_for_a_human_being

For those who do not know it, Charlie Hebdo is a satirical newspaper. It makes fun of all political leaders (including Mr. Macron) and all religions (especially Catholicism and including Judaism, Islam, etc.).

As explained by Mr. Macron in his interview to El Jazeera (Bambi’s earlier post), the French government does not fund newspapers [contrary to Canada where our newspapers are now propaganda machines— just as an example, read all the titles and articles about Mr. Trump and you get the idea; of course, much easier and safer than writing about our own national incompetence].

The French government will not tell newspapers what to publish.

The French government is secular.

French people are free to practice any religion or to be observant or not.

Sadly, radical Islamists do not accept the French values and are intimidating the country by using methods as radical as chopping heads of innocent people.

Manipulated by external political freaks of the world (e.g., the Neo-Sultan of Turkey), some Muslims of the whole world, including us in Canada, are asking to boycott France and French products over those cartoons.

The last time Bambi checked the map, France was still in Europe (= the Western world). So, to all those are imposing their own vision of Islam on France, hands off! Leave innocent people and respect the French values. Thank you France for defending freedom of expression.

Whether France realizes it or not, it is doing it for all of us. It is also paying a price for all of us.

According to Bambi’s non-expert citizen opinion, the tragedy is not the criminality of Islamists who committed the barbaric acts.

The tragedy is the silence of our PM and with him a whole left that has become hijacked by dogmatism and collective stupidity.

This is the tragedy, not just of France engaged in a tough combat.

The tragedy is the direction and relative speed of the Canadian boat whilst sinking.

Unless Mr. Trudeau et al. wake up and see that danger, we will all sink together.

The interview below was conducted in French.

Bambi does not know if it has been translated into English or could be found sub-titled.

She will share with you some translated quotes from the last part of the interview (of course, they were said as responses to questions. So, one must keep the context in mind).

Mr. Macron is a lucid, wise, direct, and articulate politician.

It is refreshing to watch a smart interview, thank you!

In English first:

“France’s message: It is not in the name of your religion that you can leave your citizenship AND It is not in the name of your citizenship that you can fight a religion.

Building the same representation of the world together.

This is why I am really saying it with a lot of humility and friendship in the true sense of the term for all Muslims: Make no mistake about what freedom of speech is. Freedom of speech is by no means something that is done to target or hurt you.

But help me defend freedom of expression because it is this freedom … it is only with this condition that we can live with each other. Otherwise it would be against each other.

What feeds fear is incomprehension.

What breeds hatred is ignorance.

And the tyrants of this world keep it going.

The most effective weapon against these tyrants, these extremists in the long term is knowledge, it is understanding, it is knowledge of the face of the other in all its aspects, in all its traits, it is this capacity to look at the face of the other with in what it is different from mine, it is all these civilizations with each other, men with women …

Create research chairs on Muslim civilization, on French civilizations, etc., allow academic controversies [Bambi will add here: what a contrast with our Canadian approach of censorship!].

A difficult fight to lead, difficult in the weeks to come because today some men and some women have decided the worst in this fight against ignorance, which is a fight of hate. I need all women and all men, whatever their religion.”

In the original French now:

«Le message que porte la France: Ce n’est pas au nom de ta religion que tu peux sortir de ta citoyenneté ET ce n’est pas au nom de ta citoyenneté que tu peux combattre une religion.

Bâtir la même représentation du monde ensemble.

C’est pour cela que je le dis vraiment avec beaucoup d’humilité et d’amitié, au sens propre du terme, pour tous les musulmans:

Ne vous méprenez pas sur ce qu’est la liberté d’expression.

La liberté d’expression ce n’est en aucun cas quelque chose qui est fait pour vous atteindre ou blesser.

Mais aidez-moi à défendre la liberté d’expression parce que c’est cette liberté… ce n’est qu’avec cette condition qu’on peut vivre les uns avec les autres. Sinon, cela serait les uns contre les autres.

Ce qui nourrit la peur, c’est l’incompréhension.

Ce qui nourrit la haine, c’est l’ignorance.

Et les tyrans de ce monde entretiennent cela.

L’arme la plus efficace contre ces tyrans, contre ces extrémistes, dans la durée c’est la connaissance, c’est la compréhension, c’est la connaissance du visage de l’autre dans tous ces aspects, tous ces traits, c’est cette capacite de regarder le visage de l’autre avec dans ce qui l’a de différent avec le mien, c’est toutes ces civilisations les unes avec les autres, les hommes avec les femmes…

Créer des chaires de recherche sur les civilisations musulmane, française, etc., permettre les controverses académiques [Bambi will add here : what a contrast with our Canadian approach of censorship!].

Combat ardu à mener, difficile dans les semaines à venir parce qu’aujourd’hui certains et certaines ont décidé du pire dans ce combat contre l’ignorance qui est un combat de haine; j’aurais besoin de toutes les femmes et tous les hommes, quelque soit leur religion».

In Bambi’s mind, one thing is as clear as water: The worst PM she has ever encountered in her three decades as a Canadian voter is Mr. Trudeau.

OK, she is guilty of having believed in his potential for competence, as our PM. She voted for him the first mandate. However, she proudly did not repeat her mistake the second time, despite the remaining incredible talent in his party that she has traditionally voted for (Luckily, there is something called learning in life ?).

Well, this being said, below is a thoughtful article by Dr. Mathieu Bock-Côté published in the Journal de Montréal today (you should also see all the media articles worldwide, especially from Paris. Journalists there, real ones not propagandists like our end, did not seem to be impressed with his “mediocrity” to use the words of Bock-Côté).

Who knows? Perhaps he is just being naïve or paralyzed by fear (with a reason. Islamism is dangerous).

Is he pandering to his Muslim permanent residents and future Canadian citizens, as potential voters (especially with his announced mass immigration yesterday)?

We cannot help not to wonder if such cold calculation could be made by desperate politicians to hang on to power.

Is he too globalist (like Islamists since their nation is not the “global world” or their own country, but rather their religion)?

Is he just too politically correct?

Or maybe too rigidly multiculturalist in his mindset (dogmatic finally like Islamists, even in this noble approach to citizenship)?

Is he aspiring to becoming the Secretary General of the UN? one day (if so, he thinks that it could help to please Islamists)?

Anyhow, Mr. Trudeau, we and the whole world need your courage. When will you open your eyes?

Mind you, Mr. Macron started as a globalist as well, if Bambi is not mistaken, but he recently demonstrated that he is wise and more courageous. He had no choice but to see the risk of this civilizational war on his country with lucidity. It is sadly in his face.

Mr. Macron put his country’s values (freedom) first in order to protect his citizens from Islamists and literally stand up for his country’s future existence. By doing so, he is also protecting our own right to freedom of expression in the so-called free world (contrary to you). For that, he should be thanked and supported, not let down by you.

Anyhow, enough of Bambi’s blahblahblah and here is the article in question:

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/10/31/un-tout-petit-homme-nomme-trudeau

“We could have thought that Justin Trudeau had hit rock bottom. That it couldn’t be more mediocre.

Sadly, we were wrong.

In the current global crisis affecting freedom of expression and the possibility of publishing Muhammad’s cartoons, he sided with the Islamists. He may pretend to multiply the nuances, his position is clear.

Islamism

I quote his words: “Freedom of expression is not without limits. We are not allowed, for example, to cry fire in a crowded movie theatre.”

In other words, the kid from Ottawa compares criticism of religions to a criminal act.

He also says that freedom of expression should not be used to hurt people.

Let us translate: he gives way to the tyranny of the susceptible who see in every criticism a hate speech. He forgets that the freedom of expression, the freedom to criticize all dogmas, whatever they are, is the foundation of our civilization. No group has the right to impose its conception of blasphemy on others.

Trudeau is nonetheless true to his multiculturalist convictions. For him, “minorities”, whom he sanctifies, have the right to set taboos in public life. They can decide whether the title of a book can be pronounced. Or if we can make fun of religions.

Trudeau wants to give Islamists the right to define in what terms we can talk about Islam. You might think that the fear has something to do with his position.

Whoever wants to censor cartoons so as not to displease the Islamists submits to them. Are we to understand that the price to pay for the establishment of Islam in the West consists, for the latter, in sacrificing its freedoms?

Cowardice

France is the target of Islamist aggression. And Justin Trudeau betrays his ally by spitting in his face.

He is a very small man.

He’s a coward.”

Well, those who read this blog know that Bambi has a little pleasure in life, which consists in replying to Mr. Nasrallah ?. The latter is the Chief/Leader (or Secretary General) of the Hezbollah in Lebanon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology_of_Hezbollah).

Further below, you will see a screenshot of the speech text, published in the Naharnet.

Bambi’s comments are in bold.

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Nasrallah: We hope the PM-designate in cooperation with the president will manage to form a government as soon as possible and we will facilitate the process as much as possible.

No comment.

Nasrallah: The time is for cooperation and openness, not bickering.

?

Nasrallah: We will spare no effort to help facilitate the formation of the new government.

No comment.

Nasrallah to France: You should address the source of the problem.

Who are you to blame France? What gall!

Nasrallah: No one in the Islamic world is seeking new rivalries. Muslims want to lower the number of rivalries in the world… France must rectify the mistake and this would not be submission to terrorism.

Which mistake? And why the threat?

Nasrallah: When the issue relates to a certain sect or to Israel or the Zionists, freedom of expression stops… Freedom of expression in France and Europe is not ultimate.

What is this nonsense, Mr. Nasrallah? What are you trying to insinuate here? Stop lying and distorting the reality of France. JUST stop!

Nasrallah: There are instances of repression of freedom of expression in France and Europe, such as what happened with French philosopher Roger Garaudy.

You are absolutely right. Even holocaust deniers have the right to express their opinion.

Nasrallah to West: The use of these (extremist Islamist) groups as tools must stop or else you will keep paying the price.

Why are you threatening the Western world? Are you talking about yourself?

Nasrallah addressing West: The beheadings started in our countries through the people that you supported.

Is Syria your country now, Mr Nasrallah? Bambi thought it was Lebanon like her birth country ?. Or your country is about Islamism in the whole area?

Nasrallah: You in the West protected this (extremist Islamist) ideology ten years ago. You helped them come to Syria and Iraq. You helped equip and finance them.

There could be some remote or limited truth to it. Mr. Obama sadly encouraged them. Perhaps other Americans too to fight Sovietism.

Nasrallah addressing West: Instead of blaming Islam and the Islamic nation for these terrorist acts, let’s search for your responsibility for these acts and these groups.

Islamic nation is your dream, isn’t it? Other dreamers walked after the Friday prayer in Lebanon today. They also dream of an Islamic nation. Same fantasy, but with a different Muslim perspective. Yours more like Iran. Theirs like Turkey (or Saudi Arabia). Everyone forgot about the beauty of the Lebanese makeup, which is multi-confessional with 17 other sects/religion than yours. Plus, most of the Lebanese people are not that religious as you pretend to be. They prefer secularism.

The tragedy of Lebanon, Israel, and now France is that a minority of religious folks is imposing its vision/values on the rest of the more secular population.

France, which is secular, values freedom of expression; this includes the right to blasphemy. Those who do not like it should not immigrate there, period.

France is in Europe, Mr. Nasrallah, not even in the Middle East. France is NOT your country. So, please leave it alone. Leave it as a safety option for Muslims and Arabs who want to escape the craziness of the Middle East!

Nasrallah: The sanctities of nations must be respected.

What do you mean? Nations are secular. France is a secular country, whether you like or not. Lebanon too!!

Nasrallah: Some Muslims certainly harm Islam and its prophet through their terrorist acts and killing of people.

Absolutely! Wise words.

Nasrallah addressing French authorities: There is nothing called Islamic terrorism or Islamic fascism.

If you say so (always too funny, Mr. Nasrallah, even when upset ?). How do you call chopping heads of innocent teachers, elderly people, and young mothers? Do you have a better term?

Nasrallah: It is unacceptable for French authorities and others to blame Islam and Muslims for this crime. This is an incorrect, unrealistic and unethical approach.

They are NOT blaming Islam or Muslims. Stop playing on the words and stop exciting our crowds. They blamed criminality called Islamist terrorism.

Nasrallah: This incident is rejected by Islam and the Islamic religion, which forbids the killing of innocents.

Islam does, thankfully, but sadly not Islamism that has hijacked it. You must know it even better than Bambi ?.

Nasrallah: We strongly condemn the Nice incident and Muslims everywhere have also condemned it.

BRAVO Mr. Nasrallah. Wise of you!!! Is this an “incident” to you?

Nasrallah: The current problem between French authorities and Islam and Muslims concerns all people and not only a single country.

It concerns first and foremost France! Surely, none of your business!!!

It concerns the Western world, where sadly we have reckless leaders like our own Canadian PM, who do not want to defend freedom of expression (including the right to blasphemy). A carte blanche to folks like you. A carte blanche to the neo-Sultan too. Very sad.

Leave France French and Western. Do not impose your own vision on others, as you are sadly doing with tiny bankrupt yet beautiful and multicultural Lebanon.

You do not speak for all Muslims.

Muslims have the right to chose to be observant or not.

Observant does not have to mean obedient like sheep.

Nasrallah: Muslims cannot tolerate any insult addressed to their prophet.

No one insulted Prophet Mohamed. Plus, even if they did, so what? Live with it.

Stop the insanity please, Mr. Nasrallah... Muslims have a brain and now is the time to critically and wisely use it.

In the video below (La Presse), we hear Mr. Trudeau talking about the limits of free expression:

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique/2020-10-30/caricatures-de-mahomet/la-liberte-d-expression-a-ses-limites-selon-trudeau.php

Tu illustrate his non-sense, he gives a totally irrelevant example as an analogy to what happened in France (the decapitations).

To score his point, he seems to be telling us that yelling “fire fire” in a movie theatre where there is no fire is exactly the same problem of Islamism in France and… by extension, in the whole world (including both Canada and Lebanon!).

In France, heads of innocent people where chopped.

In Lebanon, eyes of soldiers were taken out of their faces during their sleep (sorry to be graphic).

Other Lebanese police officers and army members have been kidnapped to Syria.

Many died. Many are still missing.

Some may have been lucky to survive, who knows?

The Lebanese authorities were much more courageous than Mr. Trudeau in dealing with this tragedy that made so MANY families and a whole nation suffer :(.

So once again, how does your fictional movie theatre example compare to real-life Islamism, Mr. Trudeau?

With all due respect, you are totally wrong.

We all know it, including your former and potential Muslim or Arab voters.

You may think that you will gain the vote of a part of the population, but you will lose more than you think.

You will lose more votes of those Canadians from the invisible minority (you already lost Bambi’s vote :)). More seriously, your will lose your own (OUR!!) country.

Please wake up, Mr. Trudeau, to courageously defend democracy.

Free expression does not have ANY limit.

Its only limit is the direct incitement to violence.

This would be called criminality.

Thankfully, we have criminal laws to protect citizens in that case.

So, no Mr. Trudeau, hurting the feelings of people is not a limit on free speech!!

This is rather the excuse you are naively giving to Islamists to justify their criminality… and mildly yet seriously to all the so-called triggered marginalized people to intimidate the silent majority. Enough please!

Lebanon President, Mr. Michel Aoun, immediately stood up for France.

He offered his condolences to France and its people on his personal behalf and on the behalf of the Lebanese people. Well done, Mr. Aoun.

He also offered the injured citizens wishes for a smooth healing (sadly, they died later. The words of one of the victims were: “Please tell my children that I love them” :(, as per CNN).

On behalf of the USA, Mr. Donald Trump also stood up for France and named the elephant in Mr. Trudeau’s room. Yes, it is called Islamism and it kills innocent people, including Muslims.

What did Mr. Trudeau do?

As a reminder, it took him 10 days to be forced by the Bloc Québécois‘ motion to denounce the decapitation of the French teacher, Mr. Samuel Paty.

Today, he could not afford to remain silent for that long since the barbaric attack in Nice (symbolically at a church) and at the French embassy in Saudi Arabia (French territory abroad in other terms) was in the face of the whole world.

He denounced the terrorist attack on Twitter, but he omitted the word “Islamism” in both languages.

Luckily, we have an opposition that is more direct (even if it is also into political correctness or hypocrisy). Mr. O’Toole immediately named France’s nightmare in sensitive words in French (thank you) and in English in a video that he posted on his Twitter account.

Mr. Trudeau, did you already forget your words on July 14, 2020? You praised our friendship with France. Aren’t “closest friends” supposed to courageously and directly support each other as needed, to cite your own tweet/re-tweet!?

Well, it is NOW that our friends need us!

Please, show them (and show us) that you can genuinely be a good friend.