June 24, 2016 10:31 AM ET
His political opponents in the Conservative party gave their opinions also, with Defence Minister Jason Kenney calling Trudeau’s remarks “outrageous and beyond the pale.”
Trudeau brought up the attacks in a speech to McGill University alumni in Toronto March 9 when he made comparisons to Canadian Muslims and the Jews of the 1930s, giving his little “dig” at the Harper government for what he referred to as a policy of exemption and of sowing worry. Yes. That’s right, because the Muslims of today are as equally persecuted under Harper as Jews in Germany in 1930’s were under Hitler’s Nazi’s? He wasn’t using his “thinkin’ brain” that day. Maybe there was a Jewish student in the room who was extremely offended.
“We should all tremble to listen to the same rhetoric that resulted in a ‘none is too many’ immigration plan towards Jews in the ’30s and also ’40s being utilized to increase worries versus Muslims today,” he mentioned.
Later on in the speech, Trudeau struck the Harper government for appealing a court decision that allowed a Muslim female to use a face-covering niqab throughout a citizenship swearing-in ceremony.
Harper claimed that the majority of Canadians would most certainly consider it offensive that someone would actually hide their identity right at the time they are swearing-in to become a Canadian citizen.
It’s none of the government’s business to tell women exactly what they can or could not put on, or to limit their freedom of religion, Trudeau stated in his speech, whose said his “theme” was liberty. Apparently not.
“It is a harsh joke to assert you are liberating individuals from oppression by determining in legislation what they can and also can not wear.
“All of us understand just what is going on here. It is absolutely nothing much less than an attempt to play on individuals’s concerns as well as foster prejudice, directly toward the Muslim faith.
“This is not the spirit of Canadian liberty, my friends. It is the spirit of the Komagata Maru. Of the St. Louis. Of ‘none is too many.'”.
The Komagata Maru incident happened in 1914 when a Japanese ship cruising from India with possible Oriental immigrants was averted from Vancouver as well as compelled to return.
The SS St. Louis was a ship that came from Germany in 1939 with 937 refugees running away from the Nazis. It was refused entry to Canada, the U.S. as well as Cuba. It ended up being forced to return to Antwerp, where its passengers got off and were taken in by various other nations. It’s approximated that 254 passeneger never survived were the Holocaust. Which is an absolute travesty. Too bad Trudeau didn’t attend “real” post-secondary, then maybe he’d know what he was actually quoting.
“None is too many” is referring to a statement by a senior Canadian immigration official, but not until 1945. He was talking about the number of Jews that Canada would allow into the country.
CIJA CEO Shimon Fogel stated that in refuting against bigotry and bias, “Mr. Trudeau conjured up a dark chapter in our history when he made reference to the ‘none is too many’ policy of the 1930s as well as 1940s. The comparison is regrettable, distracting from the essential message he was aiming to convey. We view this comparison as incorrect as well as unacceptable, and we will certainly communicate that view to Mr. Trudeau’s office.
“Canada’s decision to limit Jewish immigration before the Holocaust was the product of a period in which Jews faced considerable social and also institutional discrimination in Canada. Jewish Canadians were made to be subject to quotas, restricting admission to university programs, in addition to straight-out restrictions from countless social clubs and also corporations. Signs in public parks went so far as to state: ‘No pet dogs or Jews allowed.’
“On the other hand, it is our experience that discrimination today is appropriately responded to– instead of cultivated– by the vast majority of Canadians. This includes discrimination experienced by Muslims who, like all minority teams, unfortunately deal with a degree of prejudice from some aspects of Canadian society. When it pertains to racism, as well as bigotry, in Canada, there is very little comparison between 1939 as well as 2015.
“With this regard, we keep in mind that the federal government of Canada has properly and also regularly distinguished between limited, extreme, terrorist aspects of the Muslim community and also the more comprehensive Muslim community. This difference is mirrored by the more than 300,000 Muslim immigrants that have been welcomed to Canada in the past 10 years, and also no less by remarks provided by Defence Minister Jason Kenney who showed his support for the Muslim community as recently as last Saturday.”
During an interview with Maclean’s, Kenney said, “To compare anti-Semitic immigration restrictions during the Holocaust to a request that individuals take the public citizenship oath publicly, displays a monstrous lack of judgment on [Trudeau’s] part.
“The facts greatly belie everything he said or intimated … This is a government that has preserved the highest immigration levels in our history since taking office — nearly 300,000 Muslims have actually immigrated to Canada.
“Perhaps Mr. Trudeau has some legit difference of opinion on allowing the self-effacement of women when they are doing a public citizenship oath, yet to even make the suggestion that this is similar to anti-Semitism throughout the Holocaust is quite bizarre and also contemptible.”
Self-effacement? Muslim woman are not “self-effacing.” They may state “it’s their choice” and “it makes them feel good.” But that’s ONLY from one or two reasons. One. Brainwashing since birth. As we know, Islam is a cult. What is the “Key” to any cult? Make the people believe that what you are telling them is the law of a higher power or there’s threat of some source. Two, fear. People have to have a “fear” in order to live as those women do. Do you think they’ll ever say it’s NOT their will? With their Masters watching their every move?
B’nai Brith Canada called Trudeau’s comparison of Canada’s present migration plan to that of the 1940’s “wholly inappropriate.” – As would any person with half a brain.
“Each year, B’nai Brith Canada holds a Holocaust remembrance ceremony on Yom Hashoah to honour those that perished at the hands of Nazis — such as the passengers aboard the MS St. Louis that were barred from entering Canada,” said Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer of B’nai Brith Canada. “Mr. Trudeau is the latest in a lengthy list of political leaders who get trapped, coming up with highly-inappropriately and offensive Nazi-era comparisons because they use the term ‘none is too many’ carelessly.
“Such language is divisive and only does an disservice to Canadians thinking about handling pressing concerns of the day. We have to locate the balance between liberty and also security without resorting to imprecise historic parallels that have no bearing on fact.
“The threat of radicalization and jihadist horror is actual. We need to all collaborate to resolve that hazard while being part of a forgiving and pluralistic culture.”
The FSWC additionally criticized Trudeau. The whole world should!
“I am unclear just what Trudeau had meant to imply by saying the use of a niqab throughout the citizenship oath, is equal to the reversing of Jewish refugees and also their murder at Auschwitz. Nevertheless, tossing the Holocaust right into a political argument is worrying,” claimed Chief Executive Officer Avi Benlolo.
“It was a reckless allegory that might quickly lead to divisiveness and some friction between the communities. I urge Trudeau to be a lot more responsible with his illustrations as well as avoid comparing the encounters of diverse cultures. The emphasis of our leaders ought to be to promote inclusivity, civils rights, women’s legal rights as well as autonomous liberties, and to maintain the values upon which our nation was started, for which so many Canadians battled and died to protect.”
Nevertheless, none of the groups censured statements by Public Security Minister Stephen Blaney, who on March 10, decided to conjure up the Holocaust to support the Conservative federal government’s suggested anti-terror bill.
After appearing before a parliamentary committee studying the bill, Blaney said “the Holocaust did not start in the gas chamber, it started with words,” and that the proposed legislation is required in the protection of Canadians from a “jihadist threat.”
He was later asked by press reporters why he made the reference to the Holocaust, Blaney apparently “provided a rambling answer,” finishing off with, “We need to take into account that currently the terrorists are targeting every person. And that’s why we require Bill C-51, to protect Canadians against this general threat by terrorists.”.
NDP MP Randall Garrison said that Blaney’s Holocaust comparison was “over-inflated rhetoric” and claimed “there is no equivalence to anything we’re talking about right here today to the Holocaust.” He prompted Blaney to withdraw the comment.
Fogel later on defended Blaney’s remarks, to a point though.
“Minister Blaney was speaking to an element of the legislation that focuses on the power of words and referenced Rwanda as well as the Holocaust in that context. Thinking about the genocidal declarations provided by the Ayatollah calling rather literally for a new Holocaust targeting Jews, and the activities of ISIL together with their declarations, any type of conversation regarding the rationale for legislation that would address such language and its potential toxic influence is not completely misplaced,” Fogel said.
“That said, politicians run an obvious risk when they conjure up the Holocaust when debating policy, and we typically think that such references are well avoided as they distract from the real problems.”
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