They're not here to integrate

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[00:00:00]said, "Well, no, we need to integrate, but we must not assimilate." And so, they're being very clear if you pay attention to what they're saying. And so, we have to ask ourselves as Canadians, as Westerners, we have our own system of laws and culture and so on so forth. And are we willing to defend that from people who want to use those systems to impose their own?

[00:00:20]>> I hate the word integrate. This is a tool used to beat the Muslim community with. We don't need to intimidate.

[00:00:32]Well, they say the mainstream media covers all the stories. Yeah. Covers them with a pillow until they stop breathing. My point is some things are easier for them to cover than others. I know my friend in Montreal, Alexa Lavois, for example, she would cover the massive pro- Hamas protests outside the large Catholic basilica, the big church in town, and how they would have their mass prayer right at the foot of the church. a shocking move of territorial dominance. Um, not a religious act, but a political one and something that deeply offended so many Quebecers. But Alexa Lavois was almost the only journalist to cover it. Why? Her videos received hundreds of thousands of views, which tells me that many Quebecers wanted to see that news. So why would the regime media, the mainstream media not show that? I mean, journalistically, it would be valuable. Commercially, it would be valuable to mark the record of what happened. Why would they not do it?

[00:01:31]Well, it's a complicated answer. There's probably a lot of answers. One is they didn't want the hassle from an increasingly strappy group of Islamic activists. They didn't want to be targeted. I remember more than 15 years ago when the Danish cartoons of Muhammad were published and caused riots around the world. I spoke to a very senior manager at Post Media. It was called something different back then. I said, "Why are you not publishing these cartoons? Why are you not standing in solidarity with the handful of us who did?" I was at the Western Standard at the time. And this big boss, I won't name him, said, "We have more than a dozen offices around the country. If we were to publish those cartoons, it would cost us," he gave me an estimate, hundreds of thousands of dollars in security for all their sites. It was simply fear. either fear of physical violence of or fear of political hassle or legal hassle these days or simply just fear of being called Islamophobic which brings us to the topic of this interview. Something extremely newsworthy happened in the last few days something that you would think every newspaper would cover from the CBC on down or would you say the CBC on up but in fact it was only our friends at Juno News who were there and an outstanding young journalist named Melanie Bennett.

[00:02:46]It was the meeting, a conference in fact, with the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Committee. A shocking event, several of whose speakers were turned away at the border because of their foul associations, their terrorist rhetoric.

[00:03:00]Joining us now via Zoom to talk about what she saw is our friend Melanie Benel. Great to see you again.

[00:03:07]>> Thank you for having me and thank you for calling me a young journalist.

[00:03:10]>> Well, you're everyone's young to me.

[00:03:14]I'm just having fun. No, listen. It's uh you are seasoned uh in in terms of your your focus and I think you take on complicated subjects. So you have uh uh more seriousness than your years would betray. Uh now tell me a little bit about what you did because it did make news in the wider media when some of the more radical speakers at this Muslim public affairs committee were turned away. But I didn't see anyone else and maybe I missed it. didn't see anyone else actually at look at what happened with the conference that attended. You you tracked it, you filmed it, you recorded it, you wrote about it. Take it away.

[00:03:53]Tell us what happened.

[00:03:55]Well, uh, before the MAC convention, there was a fair amount of media or, uh, reporting on speakers from this conference who had been turned away at the border or or didn't receive, uh, a visa for entry to Canada. And that was because of some of the affiliations or links that they have to organizations that are either considered extremist or possibly designated as terrorist entities in other countries, including the Middle East. And I thought, well, why not go listen? Why not go and see if it's, you know, something to be concerned about? And so I purchased a ticket and I went and I listened to the different speakers over the three days.

[00:04:42]It was the Victoria Day weekend. So, when everybody was out enjoying the 30°ree weather, I was at the conference listening to the different speakers and and I have to say that it was um enlightening to say the least.

[00:04:56]>> Well, I'm so glad you worked that long weekend. Thank you for that. Let me just stop for a second and ask you about what it was like. I if you had some if you have some trade craft you don't want to give away, then don't answer my question. But for example, did you attend with a hijab or a nicab or did you go with your hair uncovered? I'm just saying you may well have stood out.

[00:05:16]Again, if you want to keep your secrets so that you can use them again, feel free to mention it now. But I for some reason I thought you were auditing this via a Zoom camera at home. But but you actually attended in person, didn't you?

[00:05:29]>> No, of course not. I went in person.

[00:05:31]Like this is a conference for the public and there's no reason for the public not to attend. Uh so like I said, I purchased a ticket. I dressed in a respectful manner with, you know, modest clothing and a hijab. Um I used my name.

[00:05:45]I have no reason to be hiding. I was there to honestly I was there to learn and quite I did learn. Um and I'll say the interesting thing is that I attended the Muslim Association of Canada convention which had very little security. They were not concerned and for all of the talk of Islamophobia and oppression and so on so forth, they didn't have any concerns at all. They was very relaxed. Nobody, you know, I was obviously a white woman in in hijab nonetheless, but you know, a white woman. I didn't attract any particular kind of undue attention. One person who stopped me and had a conversation with me asked me if I was a Muslim. I said no. I was just being respectful and he was like, "Mah, very cool." Um, so, you know, there was no concern over me being there, which is fine. Why should they, you know, they're just holding a convention. Why should they be concerned? But the interesting thing is on the Saturday on the Sunday, pardon me. Um, I attended only for half a day the MAC convention and then I sped over to the tapse anti-ion world uh world anti-ionism conference and let me tell you that was a different scene altogether. The security was tight. They you know checked ID. There was um police and security. There was protests and you know people speaking to those protesters. It was very very very different environment. And so for me that was quite that was quite the contrast to experience those things though two two of those things in the same day.

[00:07:06]>> You're you're so right to point that out. Whenever there's an anti-semitic incident I feel like some of the Islamist groups in Canada feel the need to jump in and say oh Islamophobia too.

[00:07:15]And this is caught on amongst white politicians who feel it's as if they cannot say the word anti-semitism without immediately saying and Islamophobia. So a synagogue gets shot up. Oh, we have to stand on guard against anti-semitism and Islamophobia.

[00:07:32]Why? Why did you bring that in? Are you trying to offset what has happened to the Jews by And as you point out, there's no security necessary. There's not uh We haven't had a three-year anti-Muslim crime wave where literally every day a synagogue or a school gets vandalized or even shot. It It's so gross. the attempt to uh dilute what's happening to the Jews and you it sounds like you observed that firsthand. But let's get back to the conference. Um some of our viewers might be familiar with the name Hassan Albana. Now that's that's a name that's not in current events but it's in history. Tell me who Hassan Albana is, why he was praised so much as a role model at this conference and what it might mean for Canada in 2026.

[00:08:20]Well, listen. I'm not a Muslim Brotherhood scholar, but I can tell you that Hassan Albana is the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1920s. And as a young man, he decided to return to a more fundamentalist Islam after the fall of the Ottoman caliphate. It was a great insult to the uh the caliphate, the Islamic nation. They didn't have political power. And so he uh rose up through the ranks pushing a very politicized Islam. Um and during the on the last day actually I at the last minute decid I was actually going to go to a different session but at the last minute I thought I'm going to go to this uh youth activism lab called visionaries of the um uh visionaries of the um that's correct and the people leading this uh it started with 20 25 minutes um speech or promotion of the Muslim Brotherhood by an individual called Khaled Al Kaz of CMAC the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council um which is a lobby organization essentially and they work on policy and pressuring the government for for Islamic affairs, Muslim affairs. And he gave a 20 25 minute impassion speech encouraging the young people, so 12 year olds, 14-year-olds all the way up to young adults to take on the example of Hassan Albana and the Muslim Brotherhood. Um and and that that would be an example for their life how to how to lead a good life as a Muslim. And that was followed on uh by some other another session another lady who I haven't published on yet but at the end of the other session in this whole visionaries of the um they asked the children what is your vision of the perfect um where are we going wrong how can we do better this is like a vision board and you know people are on their phones answering what what their vision of a perfect um and as part of that you know you have justice you have uh diversity of all kinds of words like this but it also included did the word Jewree, which attracted no particular push back from anybody in the room. And by the way, there's so little concern about me being there or so little security. I just I just take pictures of it, you know, and this is what I shared on on X >> here. Let's show that on X. Just take a look right now. I mean, that's just sort of incredible. It's not a reference to Israel or there's a photo right there.

[00:10:35]So, these are the words that would have been the size of them, I presume, refers to how often they were said. So united, justice, strong, those would be the most common words. But Jewree, >> Jewree, >> Jew, that's the youth. And like I have to say after 20 minutes of priming about the Muslim Brotherhood. And by the way, the the youth, the young people in the crowd, they knew exactly exactly what that was and they were responding appropriately to the questions being asked about the Brotherhood in Albana.

[00:11:04]Um, after being primed with that, that's when they answered that the perfect was Jewree. And so we have that's very very concerning.

[00:11:11]>> Yeah. And I if again size refers to how many times it was referenced. So justice united and strong or bigger but Jew free is as large as peace or freedom or diverse. And Jewree is not a comment on Gaza or Israel. It's not an international matter. It's not a Z.

[00:11:28]They're not using the the fake euphemism of Zionism which they could say, "Oh, no, no, no. We got another day as Jews.

[00:11:35]We're just anti-ionist." Here they're just saying it. It's the Jews. or as as it was in said in in German udenrine one of Hitler's pro projects was to make Europe uden which means clean of Jews Jew free they really are using the same language and no one bats an eye >> no those adults in the room nobody said anything this was not unnatural why should they respond it was a question of well why would anyone respond this is totally normal this there's nothing unusual going on in the room >> that's just unbelievable And um they they may achieve their goal by the way uh either through violence or through driving out the the Jews from Toronto, from Canada. It's a fact that most of Arabia is a Jewree zone. There were Jews even in Saudi Arabia and even in Afghanistan, in Egypt, in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, all of those places are Jewree zones. So when they say that's their goal, it's not just a look into their heart. It's a reflection of what they have done over the last 1400 years in other places. Um there are also Christian free zones. I mean Constantinople is now called Istanbul. There's not a lot of Christians anymore. Uh Jew free today, Christian free tomorrow. I suppose let me ask you, was there any criticism of Christianity or was there any antipathy towards Christianity that you saw over the course of the weekend?

[00:13:04]>> No. So I didn't see that. Uh I did however it's funny you bring up the Middle East and being generally Jew free and generally Christian free because one of the big lamentations throughout the several days was this idea of colonialism and how that's a terrible insult to the the Islamic nation the umah just Islamic nations yet they talk about you know their um they talk about how can they bring that forward how can they impose that how can they bring basically Sharia into into Canada right so there was a lot of talk about col colonization and how terrible that was.

[00:13:38]But no, I and Islamophobia. There's a lot of talk about Islamophobia, but I didn't hear any. See, the thing is about these speakers is that the language that they're using is more carefully crafted.

[00:13:50]And I I must say they speak very much a just social justice language of freedom, of justice, of equality, inclusion, and all these things. but they do it in in service of the UMA, if you want to call it that, right? Um, and so I learned that they very much speak the language of the left, >> but they don't share the same dictionary. And so it's been very clear to me why the left likes these guys so much. And so the speakers aren't necessarily out there saying things like Jewree in this conference. This is why this came from young people. They're not as careful with their language. You know, they haven't been trained and so on so forth. So, you kind of have to read into what's being said. I mean, one of the se the clips that I posted on X, I don't know, maybe it's too long to play, but uh a speaker who was banned uh from the country who participated on Zoom, I believe his name was um Khaled Hanafi or I think that was his name. Um he was talking about the fact that too many Muslims had a nation consciousness as in they cared too much about the nations that they lived in and that they had to develop more of an ummah consciousness or an Islamic nation consciousness. And so this is kind of what I mean like it's more couched but you you have to sort of understand what they're saying but what they're saying is reject the idea of Canada, reject the idea of Britain, reject the idea of Europe like the you know forget these you need to have an um consciousness.

[00:15:14]you would need to advise advance the Islamic nation, right? That's what you have to prioritize above all else. So, you have to understand what you're listening to when you when you hear these sessions >> here. Let's play a clip of that uh that you posted on your Twitter account.

[00:15:28]Let's take a look right now.

[00:15:30]>> I hate the word integrate. This is a tool used to beat the Muslim community with. We don't need to integrate. You need to abide by the law. We need to abide by the law. We're Brit, we're British, Canadian, American citizens. We don't need to try harder or to live by whatever means in order to prove ourselves.

[00:15:50]>> More and more people here in the United Kingdom, their opinions are changing as a result. You can see it in America. Who would have thought Tucker Carlson of all people would end up becoming one of the biggest advocates for Palestine today or the likes of Candace or the likes of Marjorie Taylor Green where when AOC who used to be a darling AOC goes after Marjorie Taylor Green and people flip an AOC they tell her hey you were able to hug by the genocide don't do a purity test on Marjorie Taylor Green may Allah forgive you >> but at the same time is an imagination that told us how do you forget your own rights that you're not you're a minority do you even deserve these rights And so when something happens, I mean, subhan Allah, right before in between these two sessions, um I was checking in with some parents who are dealing with Islamophobia at their school in which their students are being targeted simply because they're Somali and simply because that they're Muslim. So the secularization of our faith has allowed us to really think about religion just belonging in private spaces. Religion being confined to your own private life as opposed to the public. Something that's within your heart and not meant to be shared. Something that's within the massagits but not lived out practically in the society that you're part of. Subhan Allah. But then at the same time it disconnects our understanding of how we understand our rights. I mentioned earlier about how is Allah that give you is Islam that gives you is and at the same time brothers and sisters Islam expects you to be an agent of change.

[00:17:17]>> You know there's an interesting statistic that I've heard many times in the United Kingdom that more British Muslims went to the Middle East to fight for ISIS which stands for the Islamic State than join the British army which is just astonishing. And I think they're following this point about don't join your nation, join the Islamic nation, the Islamic State, the UMA. Very interesting to me. Um, you know, you talked about how they're >> one thing actually before we move on to this topic, another thing that you might your audience needs to be aware of is that one another band speaker who who was there on Zoom. Um, after a question by the audience asking about how do we infiltrate the Western Wolves and he did say the Western Wolves. Um the part of the answer was listen, let's not let's stop talking about integration. I want to I want to stop talking about we we don't assimilate, we don't integrate, we follow the law and that's it. This is just a a cudgle used to beat Muslims with. Right? So and then another speaker in the same session said he sort of disagreed. He said, "Well, no, we need to integrate, but we must not assimilate." And so they're being very clear if you pay attention to what they're saying. And so we have to ask ourselves as Canadians, as Westerners, we have our own system of laws and culture and so on so forth. And are we willing to defend that from people who want to use those systems to impose their own?

[00:18:37]>> Here, let's play a quick clip of that.

[00:18:39]So I would like to address um some questions because I actually think they're they cover subhan Allah like broadly what all of the speakers have spoken about today and three I will read the questions as they are and then I hope summarize them and invite um in these four speakers to speak. So the first question was um how as young born and raised Canadians can we apply ourselves especially in politics to infiltrate the western worlds? Well, it's very interesting because um there is a mesh in the states. I've heard it called the red green alliances. You can see it Ilhan Omar uh who's a radical in her own way, but she's right at home with far-left, I'd say communists. You sure can see it in the UK where they're Green Party, has two co-leaders. One is a secular gay Jew and the other is a radical Muslim who dresses even though he's born in Sheffield dresses in the full Pakistani garb. You've just got this bizarre alliance. For now, they both believe in destroying the West.

[00:19:42]What it looks like afterwards is a huge difference. It's either a Sharia law or a total gay environmental utopia. I'm pretty sure I know which one of those is going to win if the battle gets kinetic.

[00:19:53]But in the meantime, they both hate the UK. And in Ilhan Omar's case, she hates the US. I think we're seeing a lot of that here, but they've just so far kept it fairly quiet. I mean, you have to go to one of their conferences to hear it.

[00:20:08]Was there any other media there? I mean, I presume there was some media from local Muslim uh news sources, but I I I know without even asking that you were the only English journalist there. Is that right?

[00:20:20]>> If there was, I'm not aware. Yeah, >> maybe there are other people.

[00:20:26]>> No, you know, I didn't even need to answer that ask that question. I know the answer to that. Well, um, do you think you'll be allowed to attend future conferences like that now that, you know, your name and your face are associated with your critical but accurate reporting? Um, do you think they're confident enough that they would say, "Sure, come on in. It's not like anyone's going to stop us." Or do you think they would say, "Ah, uh, there's a loose end here. Got to keep her out."

[00:20:49]>> Listen, this is not the first time that I've done this.

[00:20:52]And people call it infiltrate. I'll just point out there's no infiltration here.

[00:20:56]I bought >> right in walking in the front door with your real name >> going to a thing, right? I know I was fully aware. I didn't hide my name. I'm not I have no secrets to keep. Um so I knew full well going in that if I was going to write about it afterwards that there will never be an opportunity for me to do this ever again. I'm aware of that. Uh however, if other citizens would like to do a similar thing, I would encourage you to. But I would also encourage citizens to remember that we can sit at home complaining about things or we can actually participate in our own uh democracy, our own cities, our own municipalities and so on so forth, right? Like we can actually go. There's no reason why you can't do these things.

[00:21:40]Um I have to point out that this organization they are not street um street protesters. They are not screaming and shouting. Um they're very well educated, you know. They're very well spoken. The crowd was very polite.

[00:21:55]I mean even the questions they they didn't even raise their hands in that question. They wrote them down on a piece. Everything's very civilized, you know. So So no, I don't think anyone should be afraid of engaging civically with with people we may agree or not disagree with, >> you know. It's not like I walked in there and started shouting at people. I listened very respectfully and so I I would encourage other people if you're curious. You you should do it.

[00:22:18]>> Yeah. Well, I appreciate you saying that. That said, it did take a lot of courage for you to do so. You didn't know how it would go and uh and you went anyway. So, congratulations. Great journalism. The story, it's in Juno News headline exclusive. Islamic youth session promoted Muslim Brotherhood activism model. And I should say that the Muslim Brotherhood is banned in many countries as a terrorist group. Melanie Bennett, great work. Thanks for coming on the show.

[00:22:42]>> Thank you, Ezra.

[00:22:43]>> Our pleasure. Stay with us. Your letters to me next. Oh, hi guys. We interviewed Melanie Bennett about an hour ago, and when she finished the interview, she sent us a note that the conference that she had attended was lashing out at her, condemning her, and claiming that the Jewree comment wasn't from them. It was actually perhaps written by her. So crazy. such a pack of lies proving she was close to the target. Wow. Wow. Wow.

[00:23:12]I mean, no one shoots at a dead duck. I think she was doing a great job there.

[00:23:15]And it it's clear to me that the conference didn't want their secrets exposed. Just wanted to add that little addendum.