Comments on: Election coverage: Samira Laouni

By: Non-Issue or New Islamist Threat? Headscarves and the FFQ « Muslim Lookout

Non-Issue or New Islamist Threat? Headscarves and the FFQ « Muslim Lookout — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:06:22 +0000

[...] a message that Samira Laouni (a community activist and former NDP candidate whom I’ve discussed before) posted on a Muslim discussion board, related to the upcoming FFQ meeting (quoted from this [...]

By: Non-Issue or New Islamist Threat? Headscarves and the FFQ « Muslimah Media Watch

Mon, 18 May 2009 08:02:11 +0000

[...] message that Samira Laouni (a community activist and former NDP candidate whom I’ve discussed before) posted on a Muslim discussion board, related to the upcoming FFQ meeting (quoted from this [...]

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:52:52 +0000

Well, well… I cannot vote for the NDP because it is even more centralist than the LPC, plus as a fierce laïcist I oppose any religious symbols in the political sphere – such as former Bloc québécois MP Raymond Gravel wearing a clergyman collar in the Commons, or candidate Laouni wearing a scarf for a debate inside an University; to say nothing, of course, of having a crucifix in Quebec’s National Assembly (a novelty of the thirties that followed the Lateran Accords). « Church and State are two parallels that each go their way and shall never meet. » (Giolitti). So I would not vote for candidate Samira Laouni, obviously enough.That said, the aggressive desinformation campaign against her really stinks. To me it is not the Dutrizac interview of Laouni that is a problem : I love provocation and hate political correctness. No, for me the problem began the following day, when radio host Dutrizac – who is first of all very ignorant, thus very easy to manipulate – made that strange follow-up interview with someone from a strange group called Point de bascule. No professional reporter should ever accept this kind of half-baked nonsense, presenting a political activist to listeners as if the guy was some kind of scientific expert. Read pointdebasculecanada.ca carefully : these guys have the same objective than the islamists they so despise : to start a religious war. If there could be a “vicious circle of fascism and antifascism” (Giustizia e Libertà’s Carlo Levi), well then following the same pattern there appears to be a vicious circle of islamism and anti-islamism. Pointdebascule is exactly the type of reaction AlQaida wanted to create in Western countries.

By: You’re either with us, or you’re with the Islamists « Muslimah Media Watch

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:01:28 +0000

[...] Tags: Islamism, Raheel Raza trackback I referred to this article in the comments section of my piece on the coverage around Samira Laouni’s candidate for NDP MP of Montréal-Bourassa, but I [...]

By: Krista

Krista — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:13:31 +0000

Yeah. Everything about that article is annoying. I’m writing a post on it for this week, so go read that too. But I also wanted to make one more comment about the article in relation to Samira Laouni. One of the people featured in it is quoted as saying that “Islam is my private life, my conscience…[but] my faith does not take precedence over my duties…to Canada and its constitution, which I embrace freely.” I swear there is almost an identical quote said BY Samira Laouni towards the end of her 98.5fm interview… I’ll try to find it and post it soon. Somehow she still gets seen as an Islamist though? Grrrrr…

By: Sobia

Sobia — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:47:40 +0000

@ Krista:

re:article

Holy Crap! What an Islamophobe! I’m so sick of people getting away with Islamophobia and mindless fear-mongering. And I am SO GD sick of only the MCC being seen as good Canadian Muslims. I have respect for Mr Fatah, but I am so sick of them being the only good Muslims and the rest of us all being Islamists.

I’m so mad at the article!! This article basically says that if you are not one of the Muslims mentioned in the article then you are a Islamist.

And yeah, any kook who can call El-Farouk Khaki an Islamist definitely does not have all her marbles and SHOULD NOT be trusted.

By: mochaccinochai

mochaccinochai — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:35:15 +0000

Oh dear God…the National Post is such right-wing propaganda I don’t know how anyone can take it seriously.

By: Krista

Krista — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:13:27 +0000

Holy crap! Here she goes AGAIN: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/02/195888.aspx. Plus she also manages to label Toronto Centre NDP candidate El-Farouk Khaki as an “Islamist.” I know El-Farouk personally, and laughed out loud when I read that. If he’s an Islamist, then I’m DEFINITELY an off-the-charts extremist.

By: krista

krista — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:13:34 +0000

Yes, but (his flawed understanding of shariah law aside), I just don’t think it’s EVER appropriate to joke about “what would happen if I raped you.” But yeah, it sounds like that’s probably typical of that particular interviewer.

For anyone interested in updates, Barbara Kay, who’s the same woman who wrote the National Post column that I referred to in my piece, really doesn’t seem to have anything better to do then bash Samira Laouni. First, she calls on Jack Layton to fire her (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/26/193779.aspx), and later, she stands up for the interviewer, who is supposedly the victim of a “witch hunt” from people who have spoken out about his treatment of Ms. Laouni (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/29/barbara-kay-quebec-shock-jock-is-accused-by-the-usual-suspects-of-a-hit-job-on-a-hijab.aspx).

*banging head against wall*

By: vincent

vincent — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:16:41 +0000

This interviewer is complete rubbish, the station itself is a parody. But remember he mentionned rape to prove a point on shariah law