Saudi - Canada Dispute Screws up Bigger Islamic Project

Vincent J. curtis

12 Aug 2018

Saudi Arabia joins Iran and Abu Dhabi among Muslim countries with whom Canada has profound diplomatic differences.  The Islamic Republic of Iran has yet to provide a satisfactory accounting of the torture, rape, and murder of Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian citizen of Iranian descent, at the hands of agents of the Iranian state.  Saudi Arabia has imprisoned a woman’s rights activist, Samar Badawi, for activities which the Saudi authorities deem hostile to the regime.  In the latter case, Prime Minster Justin Trudeau describes the Canadian side of the dispute as the application of Canadian values to Saudi Arabia.

Canada’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland, tweeted out her support of Saudi women’s rights activists and called upon the Saudi regime for their immediate release.  The Saudi regime reacted strongly, expelling Canada’s ambassador, recalling its own, and ordering its students to leave Canada immediately.  (We can still buy their oil, but they won’t buy our wheat.)

So far as I am concerned, good riddance.  Canada has next to no interest in these and other Middle Eastern countries, and the less we have to do with these brutal regimes, the better.

What is odd is that “Canadian values” are freely applied by Liberals to the internal affairs of Muslim countries but their application by conservatives here in Canada is regarded as abhorrent and certainly as impolite.  It was only last year that Dr. Kellie Leitch was run out of polite society for her campaign for applying “Canadian values” in Canada, particularly in the realm of immigration.  Leitch was condemned as a closet Islamophobe for her effort to stop creeping Sharia supremacism in Canada, and yet the actions of avowedly Sharia law regimes cause grave diplomatic problems with multiple Liberal governments.

Stephen Harper was accused of playing on Islamophobia when he insisted that the swearing the oath of citizenship be done in the Canadian style, i.e. with face uncovered rather than masked in accordance with Sharia law  Both France and Quebec have been condemned as Islamophobic for passing laws against face coverings consistent with French values of laicité. 

When confronted with the realities of Sharia, the liberal mind is appalled; and yet, for votes and for the applause of post-modernist progressives, liberals offer Motion 103 and condemn others who want to protect Canada from Sharia supremacism.

The pulling of Saudi money and Saudi Arabians from Canada is a good thing, and the less Sharia in Canada, the better – however it is achieved.  If the Trudeau Liberals apply Canadian values throughout the rest of the Islamic world, perhaps we will be much less troubled by Sharia supremacism.  We want Sharia law countries to pull their money, their diplomats, their Wahhabi Imams and their nationals out of Canada – for this is consistent with the truest of Sharia law, not to sojourn in the land of the infidel.

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