Canada’s the Muslim Voting Guide is back in the news. It’s a taxpayer-funded research project published last October 18 “by the Canadian Islamophobia Industry Research Project at Wilfrid Laurier University.” Describing it as disgraceful is an understatement. It is also “weird,” according to Canada’s deputy minister of industry, Simon Kennedy….

“The guide criticized opposition MPs for activities that ‘foment the kind of fear and moral panic that leads to violence and hate’, and was oddly successful in its application for $24,923 in funding.”

It is also noteworthy that the lead writer of the Muslim Voting Guide is Jasmine Zine. Jihad Watch has written plenty about her, too:

Jasmine Zine of Wilfrid Laurier University was removed from a seminar I spoke at for bad conduct: she was screaming and creating a disturbance. She then drove around the grounds for two hours after being thrown out of the conference, in front of students she brought with her. She accused conference organizers of being “Islamophobic.”

A B’nai Brith Canada press release in late October, “Canadian Muslim Voting Guide: Federal Election 2019,” exposed Islamic antisemitism and an insidious attempt to influence Muslims (especially young Muslims) in Canada’s recent elections. B’nai Brith said this about the Muslim Voting Guide:

B’nai Brith Canada is deeply concerned after learning that a federal grant was used to produce a guide instructing Canadian Muslims on how to vote in last Monday’s national election. The “Canadian Muslim Voting Guide: Federal Election 2019” was released by the Canadian Islamophobia Industry Research Project at Wilfred Laurier University on Oct. 18, just three days before Canadians went to the polls. Its front cover acknowledges support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), a federal agency that assigns research grants. Disturbingly, one of the six “key issues” for Canadian Muslims unilaterally selected by the authors of the Voting Guide is support for the anti-Israel and antisemitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement (pages 18-20). The Voting Guide purports to assign a “Fail” grade to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for recognizing that BDS is a form of antisemitism that harms Jewish students on Canadian campuses, and gives the same failing grade to Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer.

B’nai Brith also noted:

Research by B’nai Brith shows that the Voting Guide’s lead author, Jasmine Zine, received $24,923 from the SSHRC in 2018 for a project called “Mapping the Canadian Islamophobia Industry.”

Wilfred Laurier’s “Islamophobia” exposé is aligned with the Saudi-funded Bridge Initiative at Georgetown University. The “Islamophobia” “Fact-Sheets” issued by both Wilfrid Laurier and the Bridge Initiative are aimed at defaming anyone whom the researchers (Zine et al) deem to be “Islamophobic” (including me). Canadian taxpayers should not be paying to advance defamation and antisemitism. It is “weird” at best, as well as criminal under Canada’s existing hate laws.

News recently emerged that the Bridge Initiative wanted to relitigate trial of the Hamas-linked charity, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF). This is unsurprising given the fact that the HLF identified the Muslim Brotherhood networks in the U.S.; many also operate in Canada.

“Muslim voting guide grant was ‘weird’: deputy minister,” Toronto Sun, February 18, 2020: