'Systemic Islamophobia' In Tax Audits. Really?

Then why go to the trouble of forging emails and text messages in hundreds of pages of fabricated documents to try to prove it. . . unless it wasn't true?

This newsletter was suppose to be in your inbox yesterday, but there were. . . developments. It’s Sunday, so this still counts as a weekend Real Story Special, and there’s a lot to digest so you might want to put your feet up.

This newsletter is about a whole lot of under-the-radar manoeuvres in and around Ottawa that raise some pretty scary national-security implications. It’s also about the Trudeau government’s active hand in making things worse.

Real Story subscribers will be pretty much up to speed on the way Team Trudeau’s “post-national” plans for Canada ended up leaving this country dangerously exposed to foreign interference from Beijing, and left Chinese-Canadians at the mercy of Beijing’ powerful influence-peddling and dissent-monitoring operations in this country, in the bargain.

This newsletter is about how vulnerable Canadian Muslims have been rendered similarly friendless, and how the Islamic institutions that wield power over them are protected, defended and quite often directly funded by the Liberal government.

It’s got to the point that Canada’s intelligence, police, anti-money-laundering and anti-terror-financing agencies are on one page, and Prime Minister Trudeau is on the other.

This newsletter is going to deal with fairly sensitive and explosive material, much of it unreported, so there are some things I need to quickly get out of the way.

The first thing: If you’re one of those characters that gets worked into a lather on the premise that Muslims are taking over this country or Muslim people are congenitally incapable of absorbing “Canadian values” or whatever, listen up. You are my enemy. The sociopathology of hysterical anti-Muslim bigotry is very real in Canada, and it gets people killed.

The second thing: As I’ve been hearing for years from friends and sources who happen to be Muslim, there’s a very real problem within this country’s Muslim-centred institutions: Islamist hate preachers, Islamist strong-arming, foreign influence operations and fundraising for terrorist groups overseas. There is nothing Islamophobic (if the term is meant to mean “animated by anti-Muslim prejudice”) about saying so, out loud and often.

Iranian-Canadians are well aware of the long and terrifying reach of the Khomeinist regime and its ancillaries in the terrorist-listed Hezbollah organization and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Canada. The regime’s reach runs through some powerful Shia institutions. In Sunni congregations, the Muslim Brotherhood (the Nazi-era fountainhead of the terror-listed Hamas organization) exerts a growing influence, thanks at least partly to its generous friends in high places (see The Liberals are funding hate. How else to describe the speakers at this Toronto convention?).

A third thing is that all this is well known to the RCMP and to CSIS and to a handful of journalists, among whom there is sometimes an understandable reluctance to dig too deeply into the phenomenon because of the aggravation it invites (and wow, the aggravation). Some things just end up unreported. There are exceptions to this rule. Don’t start banging on about “the MSM” in comments below.

It would help you through what follows if you draw two important distinctions. The first is that Islam is a religion; Islamism is a theocratic political ideology. The second is that Islamic institutions, while they may not be necessarily Islamist, are not owed the benefit of the doubt about whether they genuinely represent the Muslims on whose behalf they claim to speak. Muslims who really are singled out for their faith and persecuted by governments around the world cannot turn to Muslim-majority states or their leading clerics to defend them.

Just last week, in aid of the Beijing regime’s genocidal persecution of Xinjiang’s Uyghur Muslims, the World Muslim Communities Council (WMCC) brought 30 “Muslim scholars” from 14 Muslim-majority countries - notable among them Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates - on a kind of goodwill tour of Xinjiang. The WMCC parrots Beijing’s line that China’s persecution of the Uyghurs is about combatting terrorism.

On a guided tour of Urumqi last week, a delegation of 30 Islamic scholars from more than a dozen countries lent support to Beijing’s genocidal persecution the Uygur Muslims of Xinjiang. It’s all about “anti-terrorism,” they say. - Global Times propaganda photo.

Whose Side Is The Trudeau Government On Here?

In recent years, the Research and Analysis Division of the Canada Revenue Agency’s Charities Directorate has been engaged with Canada’s intelligence agencies, the RCMP, border-security officials and Department of Finance investigators in the effort to shut down money-laundering and terrorist-financing operations that abuse Canada’s tax regulations, skirt Canada’s sanctions laws and jump national-security guardrails.

The fact that terrorist-financing operations are often run under a “Muslim” cover and exploit the generosity and vulnerability of Canada’s Muslims should not be surprising. It is not evidence of “Islamophobia” when federal agencies act accordingly, and it’s certainly not evidence of discrimination of the “systemic” variety.

In the weeks before the Trudeau government came to power back in 2015, the Department of Finance went public with a major analysis: Assessment of Inherent Risks of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in Canada.

The assessment noted that the “most likely” destinations for money laundered to support terrorism were Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Lebanon, Pakistan, the Palestinian Territories, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen. That’s still pretty much the case. All but two of these countries are Muslim-majority states.

The terrorist groups identified with “a Canadian nexus” in the Department of Finance assessment were three Al Qaeda groupings, Al Shabaab, Hamas, Hezbollah, various foreign fighters/extremist travellers, ISIS, Jabhat Al-Nusra, “Khalistani Extremist Groups” and the remnants of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in India and Sri Lanka.

Systemic racism is a real thing, but it’s true that the names of these terror groups are not suspiciously Lutheran-sounding. It’s not Islamophobic to notice this, and it’s especially unhelpful for Prime Minister Trudeau to insist that “Islamophobia” is embedded in the agencies charged with the responsibility to shut down money-laundering and terror-financing in Canada. But here we are.