FASCIST "JOURNALIST" MARC THIBODEAU STEPS UP
HIS SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST ENSAF HAIDAR
FOR MEETING ROBERT SPENCER
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
An update on this story: as you can see below, now “journalist” Marc Thibodeau is pressuring Amnesty International to drop its support for Ensaf Haidar. Suddenly, because she met me, it is unimportant to this man that her husband is unjustly imprisoned in Saudi Arabia and awaiting lashings that could kill him. Thibodeau is showing himself to be the ideological kin of the Saudis who are persecuting Raif Badawi: they are punishing Raif for thoughtcrime, and Thibodeau is harassing Ensaf, also for thoughtcrime. Totalitarians all. If Raif Badawi is murdered in Saudi Arabia, will Thibodeau pop the cork on a bottle of non-alcoholic champagne?Another fascist, hard-Left “academic” Thomas Juneau, weighs in also in Thibodeau’s latest salvo, and also on Twitter:
Not a good idea: The wife of Raif Badawi (the liberal blogger jailed in Saudi Arabia), Ensaf Haidar, who lives in Quebec, hangs out with extreme-right Islamophobe Robert Spencer and refers to him as a "good friend". lapresse.ca/actualites/jus…
Follow up article in La Presse on this, quoting me: few people have heard of Spencer in Quebec, who, like other racists and Islamophobes, amalgamates all members of one group together and fails to differentiate between extremists fringes and the majority.lapresse.ca/actualites/201…
“Ensaf Haidar says she is being unjustly ‘demonized,'” translated from “Ensaf Haidar dit être injustement ‘diabolisée,'” by Marc Thibodeau, La Presse, February 26, 2019:_____________________________________________________________Ensaf Haidar believes that she has been unfairly “demonized” because of the friendly ties she has established with an American author who has been denounced as an “extremist” by several organizations fighting against hate propaganda.Saudi dissident Raif Badawi’s wife claims that an article from La Presse yesterday about her friendship with Robert Spencer was a “message to Islamists to attack” her.She warned that she would hold the daily responsible for “any harm” to her safety, that of her children or that of her husband, who has been detained since 2012 in Saudi Arabia.The Sherbrooke resident also criticized the credibility and conclusions of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which accuses Robert Spencer of stirring hatred against Muslims through his work.She has also retweeted the writings of author and activist Djemila Benhabib, who has accused another organization critical of Spencer, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), of being in the pay of fundamentalists. Ms. Benhabib serves as Vice President of the Raif Badawi Foundation.Repressed by the English governmentMs. Haidar again refused yesterday to answer La Presse’s questions about her friendship with Mr. Spencer, whom she met especially during a visit to Washington a few weeks ago.The American had been turned back by the British government in 2013 on the pretext that he was holding a speech on Islam likely to disrupt “intercommunity peace”.The SPLC notes that he has spent a good part of his life producing books and articles aimed at “demonizing and mistreating Muslims and the Islamic faith”.Spencer says he denounces “jihadist terror and sharia oppression” and has never written anything that encourages hatred “against anyone”.The coordinator of the section of Amnesty International of Estrie, Mireille Elchacar, who has worked for a long time with Ms. Haidar, said yesterday that her organization did not have any advice to give her regarding her association with the American author.“Ensaf is very happy to be able to use her Canadian citizenship and her freedom of expression” to put forward her beliefs, Ms. Elchacar noted.After Radio-Canada quoted Amnesty International about it in an afternoon article, Haidar was outraged online.“What are they trying to do? Why are they questioning Amnesty on this subject? I will also review my relationship with Radio-Canada! She wrote.“Not a good idea”Thomas Juneau, a Middle East specialist at the University of Ottawa, believes that Ms. Haidar’s friendship with Spencer is “not a good idea.”The American author is unknown in Quebec, but “occupies a fairly important media space among far-right Islamophobes” south of the border, said Mr. Juneau.“At the intellectual level, he should not be taken seriously at all. But he must be taken seriously at the political level,” notes Mr. Juneau, who is concerned that individuals like Mr. Spencer find online “a powerful megaphone” to disseminate their ideas.“Like Islamophobes in general, he tends to amalgamate extremists with the daily, moderate practice of the vast majority of Muslims,” he notes.
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Raif Badawi, Saudi blogger is still in prison Despite the fact that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (MBS) talks about reform and confrontation with extreme thoughts in his country, Raif Badawi is still in prison for criticizing the extremists. INTERVIEW WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES:SEE ALSO:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/fascist-journalist-patrick-
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EXCERPT:
"Even worse, La Presse has shown that it doesn’t care about Raif Badawi at all.
By repeating SPLC/CAIR lies about me, and trying to tar Ensaf Haidar as an
“Islamophobe” for meeting with me, they are making an all-out effort to
intimidate Ensaf into silence and/or to get her Leftist supporters to drop support
for her cause. This is what is the most despicable about this entire despicable
episode: Patrick Lagacé, Marc Thibodeau, and La Presse would rather see Raif
Badawi’s cause discredited (which they are working so hard to do) and Raif
himself die in prison than allow Ensaf Haidar to stray from the politically correct
reservation. This is the quintessential fascist impulse: dissidents must be crushed.
I knew journalists were a contemptible bunch, but Lagacé, Thibodeau and their
ilk are changing my view: I thought entirely too highly of them."
"Only silent acquiescence and dhimmitude, and constant respect for his jailers will free Raif Badawi, you see, in the expert opinion of Patrick Lagacé."
