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Under pressure, Ontario House Speaker Ted Arnott has just revised his keffiyeh ban at the Ontario Legislature in Queen’s Park, saying that “they can now be worn inside the precinct, but remain forbidden in the legislative chamber.” But as expected, that wasn’t enough for Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Sarah Jama: “NDP MPPs walk out of Ontario legislature as Sarah Jama is asked to leave over keffiyeh,” CBC News, May 6, 2024:
Ontario House Speaker Ted Arnott says people will be allowed to enter the Queen’s Park legislative building while wearing a keffiyeh, but the scarf remains forbidden inside the chamber. MPP Sarah Jama put on a keffiyeh as Monday’s question period started and was asked to leave.Members of the NDP caucus, Joel Harden and Kristyn Wong-Tam, also put on scarves and left in solidarity with Jama.
Jama was kicked out of the far-left New Democratic Party (NDP) caucus in October and became a sitting independent MPP in the legislature over the Palestinian issue. Two days after Hamas savaged innocent Israelis on October 7, Jama, who was the Hamilton-Centre NDP MPP at the time, posted her support for Palestinians, and wrote of “the generations long occupation of Palestine” by Israel. Yet she made no comment about Hamas or its attack. She was subsequently (and surprisingly) ejected from the far-left NDP caucus. But her zeal for the “resistance” didn’t subside. If anything, it grew. Last month, Jama was asked to leave the chamber for wearing the keffiyeh, but refused to do so. In defiance, Jama has stated that “she will continue to wear the garment, despite the ban.”
Most disappointing:
Leaders of all four political parties, including Premier Doug Ford, have called for the ban’s reversal and the NDP has tried twice to get unanimous consent to allow members to wear the scarf, both of which were unsuccessful due to a handful of dissenting Progressive Conservative members.
Jihad Watch covered Ford’s call to reverse the keffiyeh ban HERE. Ford knows little, if anything, of the garment’s historic meaning, and why it is so highly offensive. It symbolizes the Palestinian “resistance” against Israel, that is, efforts to obliterate the Jewish State “from the River to the Sea.” The kaffiyeh is a call to Palestinian revolutionaries to unite in the goal of Israel’s annihilation.
Meanwhile, the National Council of Canadian Muslims (formerly CAIR-Can) wrote:
Sarah Jama is now a hero to the pro-Hamas activists; in fact, she’s a powerhouse among “resistance” revolutionaries.
Jama also joined the McMaster University campus encampment and called aloud to “globalize the intifada.”
The woke useful idiots who stand by Jama are clueless about what the Palestinian jihad (and more broadly, the global jihad) is all about. It’s about Islamic conquest, with a 1,400 year history. Hamas has openly stated its goal of global conquest. Recently, in a protest in Hamburg, over a thousand Muslims chanted “Allahu akbar” as they demanded an Islamic caliphate. As the battle over the keffiyeh plays out in the Ontario legislature, it is imperative to firmly stand by its ban, and not further embolden the Palestinian “resistance.”