On November 27, 2014, the Canadian French-language television program Enquête interviewed Miloud Chennoufi, an Algerian-Canadian economist and writer. During the interview, Mr. Chennoufi talked about the “moderate” Muslim Brotherhood’s influence in Canada and the “Islamophobia” of the investigative website Point de Bascule.

Many thanks to Point de Bascule for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

00:10 Marc Lebuis, editor of Point de Bascule, a website monitoring the world of radical Islam

00:15 Marc Lebuis, editor of the Point de Bascule website

00:18 Good morning Mr. Martineau.

00:19 Good morning.

00:20 Some media refer to Marc Lebuis and his website Point de Bascule.

00:31 Certain media see me as a reference. Others are more reluctant to tackle the subject in depth.

00:40 Since 2007, Marc Lebuis has warned about the danger of radical Islam in Canada. He says that he works with ten contributors or so.

00:48 We do not target Muslims; we do not target Islam in general. We target the organizations and their leadership. It’s very important to stress that.

00:57 The organization that concerns him most is the Muslim Brotherhood.

01:00 This religious group took power in Egypt after the demonstrations of the Arab Spring and it was later overthrown by the army.

01:09 Some claim that the Muslim Brotherhood has supporters in Canada who belong to well-structured associations.

01:17 If the current trend continues, it won’t be easy to live in Montreal in a few years.

01:22 There are people here who want to implement sharia and who openly claim,

01:26 or quote high profile scholars who declare that, at the appropriate time, when the conditions are ripe,

01:33 it is justified to resort to violence and coercion in order to advance… in order to change wrongs by force, as they say…

01:41 What do they consider wrong?

01:42 Wrong is what goes against sharia principles.

01:46 Their agenda is to implement sharia and, ultimately, to establish a caliphate governed by sharia.

01:55 Establishing a caliphate in Canada. It would be a territory led by a caliph that’s governed by Islamic law, the sharia.

02:02 That’s what the armed group Islamic State claims to have established in Iraq.

02:07 What to think of this idea of establishing a caliphate in Canada?

02:12 No, they’re unable to do so in Muslim majority countries. In Muslim majority countries, who is opposing them? Other Muslims. So, can you imagine… in Canada?

02:27 Miloud Chennoufi teaches the history of the Middle East at York University in Toronto.

02:31 He also teaches at the Canadian Forces College. He knows of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East and what it does here.

02:37 The Muslim Brothers in Canada, they are the Muslim Brothers who’ve always been present in the West.

02:41 They’ve been very moderate. A moderate Muslim Brother still has conservative opinions.

02:51 But Muslims at large, how many are they in Quebec? Two percent? How many?

02:54 Three [percent].

02:55 Two, three percent, OK. Within these two, three percent, how many are Muslim Brothers?

02:59 So, we end up with less than one percent of the entire population. Far less than one percent of the population.

03:09 What is this liberal democracy that worries about the actions of less than 0.5% of its population?

03:21 Miloud Chennoufi knows both Montreal-based websites Poste de veille and Point de Bascule.

03:26 It’s clear that they have a political agenda.

03:29 Their political agenda, sometimes, is clearly Islamophobic.