Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Canada's Commitment to Anti-Racism

"Colin Powell, the Jamaican house-slave of the Empire who extinguished the lives of millions of people with his lies, died a painful death unable to breath (sic). If there was any good that came from this pandemic, it would be his death on the birthday of the prophet of Islam."
"I have a motto: Life is too short for shoes with laces, or for entertaining Jewish White Supremacists with anything but a bullet to the head."
"lol, I think Frogs have much less IQ than 77, and French is an ugly language."
"You know all those loud mouthed bags of human feces, a.k.a. the Jewish White Supremacists; when we liberate Palestine and they have to go back to where they come from, they will return to being low voiced bitches of thier (sic) Christian/Secular White Supremacist Masters."
Laith Marouf, Anti-racist champion 
The Liberal government has cut funding to an outside group it hired to deliver anti-racism training after it was discovered that one of the group's leaders made antisemitic remarks in social media posts. CBC

Nothing seems to stop this government from negotiating contracts with groups so obviously incapable of delivering programs they are assigned government funding for, after negotiating for their professional services on behalf of government programs. Two years ago it was the Trudeau Liberal government signing a contract with a charitable group whose status was questionable and whose ability to fulfill the guidelines of the program it was assigned to was negligible. A scandal ensued when it emerged the sole-source contract was a personal affair.

The current situation with Heritage Canada and Minister Ahmed Hussen (above) contracting with a group calling itself Community Media Advocacy Centre, to deliver an "anti-racism" seminar program to Canadian broadcasters, has erupted in scandal with the revelation that the group's head consultant is a flaming racist infamous for his social media statements replete with slanders against Israel and comments about 'Jewish White Supremacists', and the urge to kill Jews.

How the government agency could contract out such an important file without background-checking the principals involved is beyond belief. The group's chief consultant, Laith Marouf, is not entirely unknown as an individual whose slanders come straight from the gutter. His Twitter account had been suspended on grounds of "hateful conduct", and he quickly began another account where he continued to promote violence, blaming his problems on the "Zionist lobby".

As far as this man is concerned "Jewish White Supremacists" deserve only a "bullet to the head". A handful of people, made cognizant of the government hiring Marouf in the service of anti-racism was struck with disbelief. Mark Goldberg, a telecommunications consultant, accused Ottawa of "purveying hate on the public dime", noting this not being the only instance when Marouf had collected federal grants for "anti-racism" training.

Backing up 20 years, Marouf was barred from Concordia University for spraying anti-Israel graffiti on university property. Confronted by campus security he became violent, issued a death threat, and two security guards were slightly injured. The following year he was an organizer of a riot outside Condcordia University, preventing an on-campus address by former Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu. Marouf evidently was a Syrian national whose father had diplomatic immunity in Canada.

A Montreal student-run television station in 2013 suspended him as executive director because of accusations he plunged the station into "crisis" by his "dictatorial" leadership which "drove a lot of people away. A lot of people did not feel comfortable working in the space around him" a CUTV board member stated. In fulfilling the current contract with Heritage Canada, in May speaking in Vancouver, Marouf informed listeners the media was governed by "colonialism and racism", condemning "the Zionist apartheid regime", accusing Israel of a decades long campaign of "genocide".

He also accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of leading a "Nazi-Zionist" alliance conspiring for war with Russia which would favour Israel with an increased flow of Jewish immigration from the embattled country attacked by Russia. His cross-Canada anti-racism tour underway, in July Marouf posted photos of himself giving the middle finger at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington with his personal wish it might contain a "few million" more names.

His lawyer denies that his client is a bigoted racist Not at all. His client had no "animus toward the Jewish faith as a collective group".

"Antisemitism has no place in this country."
"We have provided notice to the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) that their funding has been cut and their project has been suspended."
"We call on CMAC, an organization claiming to fight racism and hate in Canada to answer to how they came to hire Laith Marouf, and how they plan on rectifying the situation given the nature of his antisemitic and xenophobic comments."
Minister of Inclusion and Diversity, Ahmed Hussen, Heritage Canada

 

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