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Canada: Leaked Memo to CBC journalists orders staff not to call 9/11 a terrorist attack

Aug 28, 2026 5:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams14 Comments

Consider: In 2015, a special U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund (USVSST) was established to compensate just that, victims of terror. 9/11 victims and their family members are paid from this fund. Out of the roughly 22,700 total eligible international terrorism claimants for the USVSST, over 13,000 are 9/11-related victims. The USVSST splits money for regular distributions as follows: 50% is strictly allocated to 9/11-related claimants. The USVSST Fund has already paid out nearly $7 billion to eligible claimants in six rounds of payments, where $1.41 billion went exclusively for 9/11 families.

Basem Boshra is ordering Canada’s state run broadcaster CBC’s journalists to lie about Muslims murdering thousands of Americans on 9/11. Add in the many more injuries and health fallout for emergency workers. If it were up to Basem Boshra, since 9/11 wasn’t a terrorist attack in his view, none of these victims of terror are actually victims, so they wouldn’t be compensated.

So what was the motivation of Basem Boshra? Did he agree with the mass murder of infidels on 9/11, and thus doesn’t view 9/11 as a terrorist attack? Is he undermining jihad terror to protect jihadists? How else might Basem Boshra be abusing his position to influence and shape news about jihad terror in Canada, under the banner of the state broadcaster, the CBC?

Photo: 9/11 attack, National Park Service,

Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

KINSELLA: 9/11 wasn’t a ‘terrorist attack,’ according to the CBC

by Warren Kinsella, Toronto Sun, August 26, 2026:

Terrorism.

The definition of that word is widely known and widely accepted.

The Encyclopedia Britannica people define it this way: “Terrorism is the calculated use of violence, or the threat of violence, to create general fear in a population and coerce a government or society to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals.”

By any reasonable and objective standard, that is what happened nearly 25 years ago, on September 11, 2001: Terrorism.

On that terrible day, four airplanes were hijacked by 19 terrorists. They piloted two of those planes into New York City’s World Trade Center, destroying both buildings and murdering 2,753 innocent people. Two dozen of them were Canadians.

A third plane hit the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. There, 125 people were slain — military and civilian. The 59 people on board the hijacked American Airlines flight were also killed.

A fourth plane, a United Airlines flight, slammed into a field in Pennsylvania after the hostages attempted to seize control from the four terrorists. Thirty-seven passengers and seven crew members were murdered.

Around the world, pretty much everyone accepts what the word terrorism means. The government of Saudi Arabia — where the majority of the 9/11 killers came from — officially call what happened on that day “terrorism.” No less than Osama bin Laden, who conceived of 9/11, used the word “terrorism” too — although, in his case, he usually applied it to those of us in the West, not him.

So, the word is understood to mean what it means: The use of violence to achieve some goal, political or religious or ideological. That is what 9/11 obviously, unarguably was: Terrorism by terrorists.

Memo sent to CBC News staff

Except, not at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

This week, I received a memo — presumably confidential — addressed to CBC News staff. It is authored by one Basem Boshra, who is the “Senior Director of Journalistic Standards and Public Trust at CBC News.” In Boshra’s memo, reporters are editors are told this:

“Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.”…

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Elon Musk blows a hole in Far-Left logic

 

Elon Musk Just Exploded One of the Left’s Favorite Smear Tactics With Some Common Sense

Jul 26, 2026 6:00 am By Robert Spencer16 Comments

New in PJ Media:

Elon Musk has just dared to shine the light of truth and accuracy upon one of the left’s favorite weapons of propaganda and manipulation.

Whenever mainstream media “journalists” want to make people dislike someone and reject whatever their victim may stand for, they start calling the person they want to destroy “far right.” The idea is to associate the victim with Hitler and fascism without saying anything that could end up being legally actionable, and the leftists have not hesitated to use the label for anyone and anything they don’t like, no matter how far from anything genuinely “far right” their target may be.

One notorious example is the media’s use of “far right” to try to defame everyone who dares to oppose its favorite religion, Islam, and to speak out against jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women. And so the late Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, who was a gay activist with leftist positions on everything except his refusal to accept the Islamization of the Netherlands and Europe, was “far right.” So is his political heir in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, whose party’s program aligns with the left on almost everything except its opposition to mass Muslim migration into Europe, and so he, too, is “far right.”

I myself believe in free speech, free enterprise, and free society, and reject racism, fascism, and the like, but when I started writing books about how Islamic jihad is a historic and present-day threat, I, too, became “far right,” and was placed on the blacklists of the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League, and defamed and deplatformed accordingly.

The whole thing has gotten so absurd that in a December 2024 article published in the aftermath of an Islamic jihad attack upon a Christmas market in Germany, the Daily Mail warned: “This Christmas market carnage will make a dangerous situation even uglier – and the Far Right will grow even stronger.” Yeah, that’s the biggest takeaway from a jihad attack that killed six people and injured over 300 others: the “far right” may take advantage.

The idea that anyone at all would have been worrying about the “far right” at that moment demonstrated how avid the establishment media is to divert attention away from Islamic jihad violence. If that required warning about a nonexistent threat and once again smearing people who were simply trying to stand against the prevailing madness, so be it.

Now, however, Elon Musk has had enough. The Hill reported Friday that in a recent interview, The Economist’s Editor-in-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes claimed that Musk “supports not just the populist right, but the far right — in fact, very fringe parties in some countries.”

Musk took issue with this characterization, saying: “No, I support the normal people. What you call the far right, falsely. Literally, you could go back 10 or 15 years and these policies were completely normal.”

Completely normal, as they had been for centuries, if not millennia.

There is more. Read the rest here.

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When your favourite commentators suddenly reveal a remarkable naivety, you have to wonder

 

You have to wonder if Soros' money is involved.

Tucker Carlson: ‘I Don’t Know Anyone Who’s Been Killed by Radical Islam.’

Dec 27, 2025 5:00 pm By Daniel Greenfield71 Comments

Tucker tells Soros alum that Islamic terrorism “doesn’t reflect the ‘lived reality’ of anyone I’ve ever met.”

By the time it does, Tucker, America will be long lost. 

In an interview with Harrison Berger, formerly of Drop Site News (which received $250,000 from George Soros), Tucker Carlson claimed that the recent TPUSA poll showing that a majority of attendees thought that “Radical Islam” was the greatest threat to America was really an Israeli “op”.

“I don’t know anyone in the United States in the last 24 years who’s been killed by radical Islam.” Tucker Carlson claimed.

How about the last 25 years? You probably know of nearly 3000 people in America killed by radical Islam. And hundreds more killed in the previous 10 to 20 years. 

And if you actually read the news from Europe, you would know of hundreds, if not thousands, of people murdered by Muslims, as well as many thousands of European girls raped or gang-raped by Muslims who could not even be classed as radical.

He argued that, “I believe in measuring reality a little more empirically” meaning that since, presumably Tucker didn’t know them personally, they don’t matter and don’t exist.

The podcaster went on to argue that video games and pornography were much more dangerous than Islamic terrorism which is really not an issue.

“So anyone who believes that lie, I feel sorry for, but it doesn’t reflect the ‘lived reality’ of anyone I’ve ever met.”

‘Lived reality’ is a leftist term suggesting that personal experiences and feelings of especially ‘oppressed groups’ matter more than the facts.

The people believing that ‘lie’ included the late Charlie Kirk who warned that “Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America”. Tucker has made common cause with the Left and Islam while echoing Obama and the Left in denying Islamic terrorism.

Tucker Carlson made his comments in an interview with Berger at ‘American Conservative’, a formerly conservative site which now hires Soros alums like Berger and promotes Islamic causes, and which had called for the creation of a ‘Palestinian’ state.

Perhaps some of these people don’t fall into Tucker’s ‘lived experience’, but they are the victims of Islamic terrorism.

This is Martin Richard, 8, who was killed by Muslim terrorists in the Boston Marathon bombings

This is the Chechen Muslim terrorist who killed him

This is Ann-Laure Decadt who was murdered in New York City by a Muslim terrorist. Tucker may not have known her personally, but her life still mattered.

This is the Muslim terrorist who killed her.

Why doesn’t Tucker want us to talk about this? As the authorities, who are very much in sync with Tucker, like to say after every attack, “no motive has been reliably established.”

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Candace Owens: “No matter how hard the GOP tries to make ‘radical Islam’ happen, the base doesn’t care about it”

Dec 27, 2025 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer45 Comments

“The base” may or may not care about it. I’ve been shouting into the void for decades myself. But I’ve also amassed here at jihadwatch.org over 90,000 pieces of evidence that “radical Islam,” or actually, mainstream, jihadist Islam, is a real threat, not one that “the GOP” is ginning up. In fact, “the GOP” cares about it only a bit more than Candace Owens herself does, even if it doesn’t share her hateful paranoia about the tiny Jewish state being the actual threat to the United States.

Certainly, I am not among the base of the GOP, however, I have been warning of the coming catastrophe that is Islam for more than 10 years. It is becoming very obvious that Islam is the vehicle that will be driven by the antiChrist during the Great Tribulation, which is only a few very short years away, if it hasn't already begun. That professing Christians like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens can't see that is very disturbing.

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