Fired by the Canadian Government for Criticizing Islam · Multicultural Canada · A Weak Link in the Battle Against Islamization

Those who would stifle free speech are drawing ever closer to home. For the forces of tyranny – whether communist, fascist, globalist, or Islamic – know that unfettered free speech is the front line of defense against subjugation of the individual to the domination of the collective. Constraining free speech is thus always the first step to crushing the human right to freedom of belief and conscience.

Canadian Christine Douglass-Williams, who writes for the online publication Jihad Watch, a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in California directed by Robert Spencer, knows this full well and, unfortunately, first-hand. Douglass-Williams, an immigrant to Canada from the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, served as an appointed Director on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) from 2012-2017, when she was summarily removed under specious accusations of “Islamophobia.” As a visible minority in Canada herself, Douglass-Williams is deeply dedicated to principles of individual liberty, equality for all before the law, and defense of the rights of minority populations. And yet, because she wrote (on her own time) at Jihad Watch to warn her adopted country and the West in general of the documented, self-avowed doctrinal commitment of Islamic Law (shariah) to ban and punish harshly the exercise of just such human rights, the Queen’s Privy Council on the advice of Canada’s then-Heritage Minister Melanie Joly, terminated her appointment as a Governor in Council Appointee on December 20, 2017.

Deeply concerned about the precipitous slide of our northern neighbor towards authoritarianism, especially with regard to free speech about the alarming influence of the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood and the broader global Islamic Movement on Canadians’ ability to enjoy the intrinsic human rights guaranteed to them in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Center for Security Policy asked Christine Douglass-Williams to document her experiences. This monograph, Fired by the Canadian Government for Criticizing Islam - Multicultural Canada: A Weak Link for Islamization, is her deeply personal account—but it is also something much more important. For while the arbitrary and discriminatory treatment of an individual Canadian citizen is a story worth telling in its own right, it is the broader implications for the future of free expression, free speech, and all other individual rights intrinsic to human beings everywhere, that makes Douglass-Williams’ work here so valuable.