As noted in recent media reports, a conference in Quebec for Muslim youth organized by a group called “Collectif 1ndépendance” has just been cancelled.

“Islamophobic” events routinely experience the sudden cancellation of venue (e.g. the upcoming visit of Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll to Denmark and Sweden) due to security problems, but it’s unusual for an Islamic event to suffer the same fate.

A reader in Quebec offered these observation about what happened in Montreal:

It was cancelled for security concerns, but whose security?

There was a comment posted under the video for about one hour, and then it was deleted. It was a threat of a lawsuit because the video shows briefly (at the beginning), minor children in the school run by the Al Rawdah mosque in Montreal. These images come from their own promotional material!

Djemila Benhabib is presently being sued for comments she made on a radio program regarding that school. The Muslim Brothers have deep pockets to pay for lawyers and intimidate people.

The conference in Montreal was cancelled because of “risk of trouble to public order”. People in Quebec are waking up to Islam and various groups were planning to protest, including Femen Quebec. Thousands of protesters were expected. The police were planning to send 150 officers, plus the cavalry, plus a helicopter, in addition to officers securing the basement of the Convention Centre and the two metro stations leading to it. Lots of taxpayers’ money because of these nuts.

The Islamists were totally taken by surprise. Even some moderate Muslims were planning a protest, and they were severely criticized by the Quebec Council against Islamophobia. This council seems to be an outfit of radical leftists and hardcore Islamists.

The video mentioned above is a scathing report detailing the associations — including the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, and the Muslim World League — of the organizers of the planned conference at the Palais des congrès.

Many thanks to “Watsilavit” for making this video, Christian Brunet Levitan for the French transcript, CB Sashenka for the translation, and Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Below is an article from The Montreal Gazette about the cancellation of the event:

Montreal Muslim Youth Conference Cancelled After Controversy

The organization that runs the Palais des congrès has cancelled a Muslim youth conference, scheduled for the coming weekend, based on what it described as a “security review.”

The conference, titled Entre Ciel et Terre (Between Heaven and Earth), was scheduled to be held at the popular Montreal conference centre Sept 7 and 8.

But the Société du Palais des congrès, the organization that runs the centre, issued a brief statement on Saturday stating it was cancelled “following a recent security review.” No specific security concerns were outlined.

While the release provided a media contact “for more information,” that person responded to The Gazette’s request for clarification with the following statement: “A spokesperson will be available September 3.”

The conference was organized by a Montreal group called Collectif 1ndépendance. A description on its website describes the conference as a chance for youth in the Muslim community to “exchange and share” opinions.

In a statement on its Facebook page posted on Monday, the group acknowledged it was aware of the decision and would be providing instructions for conference attendees “for refund of tickets.”

The group, which did not respond to requests for comment made throughout the weekend, made no mention of rescheduling the event elsewhere.

Le Collectif québécois contre l’islamophobie, a local non-profit organization that aims to fight Islamophobia in Quebec society, said in a release that cancelling the conference one week before it was scheduled to take place “sets a dangerous precedent for rights and freedoms in Quebec and in Canada, especially those of ethnic and religious minorities.”

The planned conference was at the centre of a controversy earlier this month when Agne’s Maltais, the provincial minister responsible for the status of women, asked the federal government to bar some of the invited speakers from entering Canada.

In a letter, Maltais asked the speakers be barred because “they transmit values that go totally against the principals of equality between men and women in Quebec.” One of the speakers, French citizen Nader Abou Anas, has made particularly strong statements in the past about women, saying they should wear a head scarf, avoid revealing clothing and refrain from wearing makeup or perfume.

The board of directors that run the Societé du Palais des congrès follow a mandate set by Quebec’s tourism minister.

At least one group recently told reporters it planned to demonstrate at the Palais des congrès if a couple of the invited speakers were allowed to present.

Last Tuesday, federal Public Security Minister Steven Blaney told reporters he would not order that the speakers, based in Europe, be prevented from entering Canada.

In its Facebook post on Monday, Collectif 1ndépendance dubbed the events of the past two weeks “a beautiful adventure.”

Video transcript:

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