Liars or Idiots? Take your pick to describe John Greyson and Tarek Loubani on their return to Canada

It sounds like it could be a scene from some of the incoherent, taxpayer-financed, homoerotic drivel that John Greyson tries to pass off as "film making." Two dark, lean men, after release from the sweaty confinement of a crowded prison cell, find themselves adulated to the point where they have to towel each other off following a series of sloppy tongue-baths from fawning interviewers.

That scenario did not spring from another dreadful John Greyson screenplay. It was instead scripted by the shallow, uncritical, vapid personalities in Toronto's mainstream news media as they fell over one another to verbally fellate the two Canadians who were imprisoned in Egypt as a result of their own recklessness and stupidity.

Over the last few days, John Greyson and Tarek Loubani have presented to the media what appears to be a well-rehearsed explanation for their presence at a Muslim Brotherhood riot in Egypt that resulted in their arrest, and an unconvincing depiction of themselves as "social justice" activists and humanitarians. Sickeningly, the open-mouthed "journalists" at the CBC and CTV gobbled with absolute credulity everything the pair of extremists offered.

Fortunately, most Canadians are a good deal more insightful than their "intellectual and moral superiors" in mainstream news media who decide what the news is and how it should be carefully filtered to the lesser, non-media public.  And a good thing too, because Greyson and Loubani's tale of their Egyptian woes, just like any other John Greyson script, doesn't make any sense.

When asked what they were doing at the protest that led to their arrest, Loubani and Greyson say that they "misread" the situation and that they thought the protest wouldn't have turned violent.

The protest they decided to "observe," the one that they got caught up in and were arrested for attending, was a declared Muslim Brotherhood "Day of Rage." So Lubani and Greyson would have us believe they thought they would participate in that as-of-yet unheard of phenomenon, a non-violent Muslim Brotherhood Day of Rage??

It seems like a particular type of journalist was chosen to conduct interviews with the fanatical duo. Not all journalists at the CBC and CTV are bubbleheads, but did any of the ones selected to question Loubani or Greyson challenge them on what should have been an obvious canyon of implausibility in their tale?

Not a single one.

One can only speculate whether some prearranged agreement with the media to whom they spoke stipulated that any challenge to their unlikely story was off the table.

It's well worth noting that if Greyson and Loubani are to be taken at their word, it means that pair who are fixated with the issue of Israel and Palestine do not, by their own admission, know much about the geopolitical situation in the region around the subject of their pathological obsession.

That's very, very significant.

Because the Israeli/Palestinian dilemma cannot be rationally understood outside the wider context of the much larger Arab/Israeli conflict. So evidently, the idiots Greyson and Loubani have embroiled themselves in a campaign to demonize Israel without any comprehensive understanding of the issue as a whole. That would make them completely typical of most of the vapid characters so embroiled in anti-Israel campaigns.

Oh, wait! As they have insisted from interview to interview, Greyson and Loubani are pro-Palestine but most definitely are not anti-Israel.

In that, they are telling another lie.

The only apparent method Greyson has ever chosen to promote Palestinian national self determination is to try to destroy Jewish national self-determination.

Short of murdering an Israeli child by bashing its head against a rock, a method of activism favored by some highly regarded "pro-Palestinians," it makes one wonder where that enigmatic line is that separates what a deluded character like Greyson does from being anti-Israel. He is a leader of  the depraved bigots calling themselves Queers Against Israeli Apartheid that promote the vile slander accusing Israel of being an apartheid state. He hypocritically subjects Israel to double standards and a form of vilification he reserves for no other nation in the world. Greyson has supported a boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel that many in even the genuine pro-Palestinian camp regard as transcending the line between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.

Exactly what Greyson has done for Palestinians that does not exclusively manifest as demonization of the Jewish State is something more elusive than the Loch Ness Monster, which at least some people claim to have seen.

Though the CBC and CTV reporters were either too uninformed or star-struck to refute any of the preposterous answers, anyone who bothers to check facts will learn that Greyson and Loubani provided their own undoing.

Loubani's assertion that aid is desperately needed in Gaza is outright ridiculous.

The "desperate" need for aid to Gaza that a lie that narcissistic activists use to justify their adventures as low-risk conflict tourists. Gaza has markets abundantly filled with a variety of foods, luxury malls, fine-dining restaurants and five-star hotels. There is abject poverty in Gaza, but there is also abject poverty in Chicago, Bangladesh and Guadalajara. And unlike impoverished Asians and Latin Americans, the Palestinians are the second highest per capita recipients of international aid in the world, next only to the war-torn Republic of Congo. As far as the "starving Palestinians" go, it is a well known medical fact of which Loubani is or should be aware that Palestinians, including in Gaza, have one of the highest global obesity rates.

Loubani claims Gaza is under "occupation." The occupation ended in 2005. Instead of using the removal of Israeli troops as an opportunity to build a peaceful and prosperous society, Gaza responded with an incessant barrage of missiles against Israel, which have provoked periodic responses. The "siege" Loubani claims Gaza is under is actually a blockade, which would end if the Palestinians stopped shelling Israel and unequivocally recognized its right to exist.

But Gaza, under its rulers Hamas, has done neither of those things as they steadfastly cling to their anti-Semitic Charter which calls for the genocide of Jews. Among its hateful degeneracy which borders on the comical, Hamas actually posits international conspiracies between Jews, Freemasons and (believe it or not!) The Rotary and Lions Clubs.

There is so much that is untrue and absurd in Greyson and Loubani's account, it could take enough space to fill a dozen blog postings.

The most regrettable part of this is that it is to blogs and only one of our national media organizations one needs to look to find the truth about those radicals, since they won't even be asked hard questions by the so-called journalists at Canada's tax-funded state broadcaster.

Calling "bullshit" on the CBC's lies and activist journalism in support of Loubani & Greyson

Have you ever heard a tale from a pathological liar that is so mind-numbingly stupid you wondered why they even bothered to tell it?

You know, one of those lies that is so obviously, demonstrably untrue that by telling it to you, they either have complete contempt for your intelligence or are such idiots that they don't realize that their attempt at deception is completely transparent.

That's what I heard yesterday night from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about their rationale for concealing the fanatical activist and lawbreaking history of the two Canadians, Tarek Loubani and John Greyson, who had been imprisoned in Egypt since August.

In his report yesterday about the return of the two Muslim Brotherhood-enabling radicals to Canada, CBC reporter Ron Charles treated viewers to this little gem:

`While the men were in jail, great care was taken back home not to reveal too much about them for their safety. Few people mentioned that Greyson is a prominent Gay filmmaker, pro-Palestinian activist and member of a controversial group called Queers Against Israeli Apartheid. He was to have been part of a failed flotilla of boats carrying activists in 2011 intending to breech Israel`s blockade of Gaza.``

Think for a moment how incredibly facile that CBC assertion sounds.

Greyson is an openly Gay York University professor who has gobbled up vast sums from the Canada Council and other tax-funded bodies to make his homoerotic pseudo-artistic trash. He even has a long-standing Wikipedia entry that highlights his so-called "filmmaking" career as well as his radical anti-Israel activism.

Tarek Loubani has a history of lawbreaking and involvement with the terror-supporting group International Solidarity Movement that is easily accessible on the Internet.

Greyson has a long history of Hamas-enabling fanaticism

Beyond that, bloggers and Sun News were reporting on the truth about Greyson and Loubani`s background from Day 1 of their arrest.

So for the CBC`s explanation for why they covered up Greyson and Loubani`s background to be plausible, it would mean that Egyptian prosecutors were incapable of typing the two men`s names into a Google search.

What then is the real reason media like the CBC and the Toronto Star hid the background of Greyson and Loubani, not from Egyptians, but from their fellow Canadians who get their news from those sources?

The answer is obvious. The left-wing media are sympathetic to Greyson and Loubani. The CBC and the Star, for the last two months, have been manipulating Canadians into thinking the duo were "innocents" caught "in the wrong place at the wrong time" to contrive pressure on our, not the Egyptian government, to act on their behalf.

Greyson in particular is part of a narrow clique of Canada Council darlings including overrated Canadian media personalities Atom Egoyan and Sarah Polley. The CBC and Star were more than happy to manipulate the news and hide facts from the public to keep their friends happy and agitate for the public to pressure the government to act on behalf of two fanatics.

Don't get me wrong, I too thought the government should have advocated for them to receive just treatment in Egypt and even made an appeal for them (sarcastic as it may have been).

But I knew who John Greyson and Tarek Loubami really were.

We now know that Greyson and Loubani's story is just that, a story, and it's full of holes.

Why were they breaking curfew to attend a banned Muslim Brotherhood rally that turned into a violent riot?

Why were they carrying surveillance equipment, including mini-drones, and offering the implausible excuse that it was for the transport of medical supplies?

Whereas the CBC and The Toronto Star didn't want anyone to find that out.

This goes to show that what we see from the CBC is not fair, objective, unbiased journalism, but activism pretending to be reporting.

Now that Margaret Wente at the Globe and Mail has finally broken ranks and gave a more detailed account of the duo's past, and enough Canadians have seen reports from Sun Media and elsewhere, people are getting the idea of what was going on and there is a backlash.

It would be nice if that backlash was strong enough to get the CBC to actually do its job properly, or as an impetus for it to be sold to someone who could see that it does.

The Loubani/Greyson return story is in the comments

Check out the comments on the return of John Greyson and Tarek Loubani to Canada tonight.

Average Canadians are busting up the consensus media's love-fest for the fanatical pair of Hamas' useful idiots.

See:

The Globe and Mail  ...and more still at The Globe and Mail

CBC

CTV

Even the heavily moderated comments at al Starzeera are a surprise 

UPDATE: In a televised report, even the CBC is asking questions the rest of us were asking (and answering)  a long time ago.



One bizarre assertion of the CBC is that Greyson & Loubani's background was concealed by the Canadian media because it might endanger them

What a crock of shit.

Is the CBC so arrogant that they think Egyptian prosecutors aren't capable of doing a Google search like bloggers and Sun Media did to report on their background?

The background of Greyson and Loubani was concealed by their buddies in the mainstream media to manipulate Canadians into supporting the undeserving duo.

Plus: The National Post did a roundup of letters to the editor about the pair. It seems National Post readers weren't too impressed with their antics.

More on those burdens on the Canadian taxpayer, John Greyson and Tarek Loubani

Yesterday, Michael Coren and I discussed those two exploiters of the Canadian taxpayer, John Greyson and Tarek Loubani.

There are a few post-scripts to the interview.

As we noted in the interview, the Globe and Mail's columnist Margaret Wente wrote an article a few days ago, one of very few outside Sun News,  that provided factual background information on Greyson and Loubani and was harshly critical of the duo.

She concluded her column with:

In this case, the government – one that Mr. Greyson and Mr. Loubani viscerally despise – applied the heat at the highest level. Foreign Minister John Baird even met with his Egyptian counterpart. These two should kiss Mr. Baird’s feet. But I wouldn’t hold my breath.

As it turns out, Wente was completely correct. Yesterday, Greyson and Loubani released a nauseating video in which they thanked their supporters, but did not offer a single word of thanks to the Canadian government, or the rest of us who have now paid exorbitant costs to exculpate them from the consequences of their narcissistic conflict tourism.

Also, during the conversation, Michael made the significant point that Islamic news service al Jazeera, will expunge parts of the background of western useful idiots who invest immeasurable amounts of time into vilifying Israel, to make them more palatable to their religious Muslim audience. The example he used was the notorious Jenny Peto, in the case of whom, her openly "queer" background never came up.

The fact that Peto is one of Greyson and Loubani's most ardent supporters, and that she shares their beliefs is significant.

At a sparsely attended rally at Ryerson University earlier this week that drew more media than spectators, Peto was one of the people tied in with the organizers, including Greyson's sister Cecilia and Ryerson "Social Justice" professor Winnie Ng. It was unusual for Peto to be front and center at such an event recently. Prior to late 2010, she was at the forefront of Canada's anti-Israel fanaticism, but the exposure of an anti-Semitic thesis she wrote for the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education made her an embarrassment to them.

The thesis, which was both facile and laughably absent of actual research even brought the academic standards University of Toronto into disrepute. Essentially, her thesis, which paralleled the sort of writing one can find from neo-Nazi authors, asserted that Jews are privileged racists who use the Holocaust to perpetuate the myth of their own victimhood while advancing the cause of an "oppressive" Zionist Jewish state.

The anti-Semitism of her thesis was condemned by, among others, Ontario Liberal Cabinet Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins, who is not a right-wing reactionary by anyone's standards.

Jenny Peto's new look at the "John and Tarek" rally
has a strange familiarity

Michael referred to the "Freudian subtext" of Peto, a Jewish, atheist, anti-Israel fanatic who authored an anti-Semitic essay and coincidentally, three years ago, I wrote a piece about that titled, "You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to connect these dots."

There is an even wider Freudian subtext to people like Greyson and Peto, untalented Gays who have dedicated themselves to the demonization of the only country that respects Gay rights and minority religious rights in the middle east. The lies they tell about Israel reveals nothing about Zionism or the Jewish state, but it reveals a great deal about their own unresolved personal issues.

Hey Look! After Sun Media and bloggers have been doing it for 2 months, the mainstream media finally gets around to telling the truth about fanatics Greyson & Loubani

Margaret Wente in the Globe and Mail:

John Greyson and Tarek Loubani have been portrayed as innocents abroad, humanitarian do-gooders who were caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. This picture is inaccurate and incomplete. The two are hard-core anti-Israel activists who’ve been mixed up in Middle East politics for years. They should have known what they were getting into.

When they were arrested, the two were on their way to deliver medical equipment to a hospital in Hamas-controlled Gaza. The whole world knew that the situation in Egypt was highly volatile. The government was determined to shut down the Muslim Brotherhood (an ally of Hamas) and unlikely to look kindly on a couple of foreigners who decided to film a bloody crackdown.

Jon Kay in the National Post:

Egyptian military authorities have been co-operating with Israel in controlling the flow of weapons and militants to and from Gaza for years. But till now, Western pro-Palestinian activists generally have preferred to play down this fact. The case against Israel works best when it is presented as a simple morality play about indigenous Arabs battling neo-colonialist Jews. And so the fact that many Arab leaders in the region (including not only those in Egypt, but also Lebanon and Jordan) share Israel’s fear of Palestinian militancy is seen as an embarrassment to the conceit of anti-Zionist solidarity. 

(to be fair to John and the NP, they did do a couple of articles touching on the radical fanaticism of Greyson and Loubani before.)

I think Jon's article is overly optimistic in its assessment that the Greyson/Loubani saga will refocus the Canadian radical left away from its anti-Israel depravity onto real human rights crises, but he does make some very valid observations about the other facets of this episode. 

Sun News, as its viewers are aware, has been providing the complete story on Greyson and Loubani from the start:

CBC reports Hamas' useless idiots Greyson and Loubani cannot leave Egypt while investigation into possible charges continue

The pair checked in for a flight to Frankfurt on Sunday, but were prevented from boarding the plane after their names appeared on a "stop list" issued by prosecutors, airport officials said.

The two retrieved their luggage and were free to leave the airport.

Their inclusion on the no-fly list was described Monday as a "bureaucratic glitch" by Greyson’s partner, Stephen Andrews, in an interview on CBC Radio's Metro Morning.

It was thought Greyson and Loubani would be free to return home sometime this week, but on Monday morning, CBC’s Middle East correspondent Sasa Petricic tweeted that may not be the case:

New twist in Greyson/Loubani case. Now Foreign Min says Cdns NOT free to leave #Egypt bcse investigation continues into poss charges
— Saša Petricic (@sasapetricic) October 7, 2013

Greyson and Loubani, an emergency ward doctor, were arrested Aug. 16 during the violent demonstrations..

More at CBC 


Background HERE

My appeal worked! Egypt releases nitwit Canadian activists Greyson & Loubani

Evidently, my appeal on Monday to Egyptian authorities convinced them it was a waste of time to hold on to the buffoons John Greyson and Tarek Loubani any longer. Rather than being a terrorist threat, they are clearly a pair of clowns who are too incompetent to pose a threat to their national security.

This release was about time, too!  Greyson was complaining that a great torment he had to endure was that the Egyptians were ridiculing him. 

Damn those Egyptians! Ridiculing John Greyson is my job!

And I bet I don't get a word of thanks from the duo when they return! John Baird may have helped too...



Background HERE and HERE

UPDATE:  Ezra Levant writes:

What were they really doing over there? Why were they in a riot?

The Media Party is passionately incurious. And now that the two celebrity activists were released without charge, we’ll likely never know.

The loony lawbreaking history of Canadian fanatics John Greyson and Tarek Loubani

More about the fanatical Canadian duo's dodgy story HERE

Greyson and Loubani's detention in Egypt shows the Canadian left are hypocritical colonialists at heart

After two weeks of a fruit juice diet they dubbed as a "hunger strike," John Greyson and Tarek Loubani have decided to resume eating solid food while remaining detained in a Cairo prison. It must have finally dawned on the pair of narcissistic activists that the Egyptian authorities don't really care if they were to starve themselves to death.

If anything, were Greyson and Loubani to die in prison, it could serve the Egyptians' purposes by providing an example to other activist dilettantes intending to come to their country to interfere in a volatile domestic political crisis.  But of course it would never have come to that. Greyson and Loubani are the type to make self-promoting, but not suicidal gestures.

To understand the antipathy Egyptians have towards Greyson, Loubani and foreigners like them, it helps to know a little about Egypt in the months leading up to their arrest. The Muslim Brotherhood is a totalitarian, misogynistic, homophobic, jihadist group that, during its brief time controlling Egypt under the government of Mohammed Morsi, attempted to snatch dictatorial powers for themselves.

The "anti-democratic" coup by the army denounced by western supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and their useful idiot accomplices was in fact a response to enormous demonstrations of millions of Egyptians calling for Morsi's removal. These protests were far larger than even those that instigated the end of Hosni Mubarak's presidency, with almost half of Egypt's voting population calling for new elections. 

Thought Mosri`s removal had widespread support from Egyptians, after a taste of power,  the Muslim Brotherhood is committed to seizing it back, by any means, including violence, though public opinion in Egypt remains strongly opposed to them.

During this time, the Gaza strip, controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood sub-group, Hamas, has been a staging point for terror attacks against Egypt in the Sinai.  Egypt has come to consider Gaza an enemy and has almost completely cut off links between them and that Palestinian territory.

It was amid all this that John Greyson and Tarek Loubani decided to enter the fray by ignoring a Canadian travel advisory about travelling to Egypt in order to ignore another Canadian travel advisory about travelling to Gaza.

Greyson and Loubani are hardcore anti-Israel zealots whose activism has lent tacit support to Hamas. The duo, individually, have cost the Canadian taxpayers large sums through their staged histrionics that required diplomatic service intervention.

But this time, instead of dealing with Israel, a liberal democracy which respects rule of law and due process, they provoked the authorities in a country where such protections are barely in place.

Unable to make their way to Gaza, Greyson and Loubani were stuck in Cairo for a few days. These two were by no means innocents abroad. Greyson is a leader of the fanatical, anti-capitalist nitwits Queers Against Israeli Apartheid and Loubani has worked with the International Solidarity Movement, a group that has voluntarily acted as human shields for terrorists and approves of "armed resistance."  On the day of their arrest, they had joined a Muslim Brotherhood `Day of Rage`demonstration, following which they were arrested and detained.

There are conflicting reports from the pair and their supporters, many of which strain credulity, but so far no cogent explanation of what would have possessed two Canadians waiting to engage in alleged "humanitarian work" to get involved with an Islamist protest that had been declared illegal by Egypt's government.

Remarkably, in advocating for their comrades Greyson and Loubani,  the Canadian radical left that professes "anti-colonialist" and "anti-imperialist" politics have engaged in condescending behavior that mirrors that of any contemporary so-called imperialist and colonialist.

Stephen Harper has declared that “in the absence of charges, Dr. Loubani and Mr. Greyson should be released immediately" which, coming from the Canadian Prime Minister, is a forceful statement. But hypocrites on the radical left who routinely decry Canada's "imperialist" interference abroad want what would be considered  their white-supremacist, hegemonic will in the `critical race theory` of which they are so fond, to trump Egypt's legal process.

Greyson's and Loubani's supporters in Canada, including perennial activists like Judy Rebick and the fatuous polemicist Naomi Klein, are demanding Egypt release their friends regardless of the circumstances.

On the far-left media outlet Democracy Now, Klein said, "in Stephen Harper’s statements, he’s left himself this very unsettling loophole, where he keeps saying, "In the absence of charges, these men should be freed." ...we haven’t heard our government say, "These men are innocent. They were doing their jobs. They must be released right now." And that’s what we’re waiting for. "

Foreigners are not at all popular in Egypt right now, thanks in part to Barack Obama's foreign policy blunders in dealing with the government, but also for their perceived interference in the internal affairs of a very proud nation. Another factor is that even a cursory survey of Egyptian news sources readily reveals that the Muslim Brotherhood, which Greyson and Loubani are accused of assisting, are widely considered by Egypt`s media and public to be a terrorist group. Compound that with the fact that the pair were en route to offer help to Gaza, controlled by another group the Egyptians consider terrorists and upon whom they are reportedly about to launch a large scale military strike.

Imagine how Canada's pompous declarations must sound to Egyptians. It would be as if two Jihadi terrorists planning an attack in Canada were arrested here and the government of Sudan demanded we ignore our own legal process and release them immediately.

Only a fool would expect Egypt to act any differently to such demands than we would under those circumstances.

Klein goes further, declaring that Canada should essentially declare a trade war and embargo on Egypt unless they accede to her demands to release Loubani and Greyson.

Greyson and Loubani are a pair of radicals who got in way over their heads, but did so of their own volition and against their own government's advice.

Two western fanatics decided to go to the Middle East to interfere in the internal affairs of other people in another country where they were not wanted . When Naomi Klein's friends do it, she calls them "humanitarians."  But if it were anyone else, one can safely assume the radical left would be denouncing them as "imperialists" and "colonialists" who got what they deserved.

Egypt should release the pair of Canadian useful idiot terror enablers

Word has come down that Canadian radical activists John Greyson and Tarek Loubani, currently imprisoned in Egypt, have been accused of murder.

I find it hard to believe those two nitwits would actually have killed anyone.

They did, however. decide to go to a violent demonstration that the Egyptian authorities declared illegal. In what strains credulity, they claimed they were just going to check out a protest on a Muslim Brotherhood declared "Day of Rage," which invariably meant that the recently outlawed Islamist organization was planning violent attacks on the government. 

That degree of idiocy from Greyson and Loubani is something I can believe. Doing that as foreigners and expecting to be able to use their Canadian passports as a "get out of jail free" card demonstrates a degree of arrogance and stupidity that is quite typical of our country's self-entitled activists. 

But this time it backfired big time.

Greyson and Loubani originally went to Egypt to use it as a transit station to enter the Muslim Brotherhood-controlled Gaza strip. If the duo's past is any guide, their purpose was to lend tacit support to Hamas by depicting Gaza's population as oppressed victims. However the territory they intended to support has been used in recent weeks as a launching pad for terror attacks against Egyptians.

It's hardly surprising that Egypt's government was less than sympathetic to foreign meddlers in their internal affairs. Particularly ones who, even with what may have been good intentions on the part of Loubani, by their own admission provided support to a banned group.

It is possible that Egypt has decided to use Greyson and Loubani as examples to dissuade other foreign agitators from interfering in their internal politics. Right now, thanks to the thoroughly inept diplomacy of Barack Obama, the US and westerners in general are more despised in Egypt than ever. Egypt rose up as never before, even under the rule of Hosni Mubarak, to rid themselves of the oppressive yolk of the Muslim Brotherhood's rule. Obama's ill-informed, equivocal statements that seemed to support the Brotherhood generated thorough contempt, not only for him, but for all outsiders in Egypt. 

Greyson and Loubani do indeed deserve contempt for their useful idiot enabling of terrorists, their arrogance and their stupidity, but they do not deserve to die.

Unless there is genuine evidence of their guilt, Egypt would serve its own purposes better by deporting Greyson and Loubani and never allowing them back, rather than handing them a victory by turning them into undeserving martyrs. 

Whole truth? Hardly: Media Party spins quite a tale about its two latest heroes

Ezra Levant reveals more of the facts that the mainstream media is hiding about its new darlings, the fanatics John Greyson and Tarek Loubani. 

My heartfelt plea for the return of John Greyson & Tarek Loubani

See also:

John and Tarek's Excellent S&M Adventure

and

On Canada's second-rate arts community's concern about their fourth-rate colleague's detention in Egypt

John and Tarek's Excellent S&M Adventure

Egyptian authorities have a "solid basis" to charge Canadian Muslim Brotherhood enablers John Greyson and Tarek Loubani, according to a report in today's Toronto Star.

Greyson and Loubani are hardcore anti-Israel activists who were delayed in Egypt en route to Gaza, which is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood-linked terror group Hamas. Greyson's purpose evidently was to make a propaganda film featuring his friend Loubani.

Relations between Egypt and Gaza are extremely strained as the Hamas-controlled territory has been the source of terror attacks against Egyptians in  recent weeks. In response, Egypt has mostly sealed off Gaza and demolished most of the smuggling tunnels out of the territory that led to the Sinai desert.

The pair were arrested during a Muslim Brotherhood "Day of Rage" demonstration and Egyptian authorities allege the Canadian duo were in a Mosque that was a staging point for anti-government violence.

Along with Loubani, York University film professor Greyson, whose work is fixated on homoerotic themes, issued an emotive statement today which reads less like a record of fact than a melodramatic depiction of a sado-masochistic fantasy:

from John Greyson`s
"The Making of Monsters"

"That's when we were: arrested, searched, caged, questioned, interrogated, videotaped with a 'Syrian terrorist', slapped, beaten, ridiculed, hot-boxed, refused phone calls, stripped, shaved bald, accused of being foreign mercenaries. Was it our Canadian passports, or the footage of Tarek performing CPR, or our ice cream wrappers that set them off? They screamed 'Canadian' as they kicked and hit us. John had a precisely etched bootprint bruise on his back for a week."

The coup that removed Muslim Brotherhood President Morsi from Egypt had widespread support among the Egyptian population. After his democratic election, Morsi proceeded to subvert democracy by awarding himself dictatorial powers that exceeded those held by Hosni Mubarak.

It seems to have eluded the pair of anti-Israel fanatics that Egyptians might not be as enamored as they with a group who simply shared their goal of eliminating the Jewish state. Egyptians may despise Israel, but it poses no danger to them while also serving as a useful scapegoat. Whereas the Muslim Brotherhood represents an immediate threat to all Egyptians who don't want to live under the boot heel of Sharia Law.

Greyson and Loubani are currently on a fruit juice diet they are depicting as a "hunger strike," and mounting pressure from Canadian authorities may result in Egypt releasing them.

When that does happen, get ready for a sickeningly sanctimonious road show from a pair of self-declared martyrs that will make most forms of torture look mild by comparison.

Janice Fiamengo: It’s Time to Stop Whitewashing Tarek Loubani and John Greyson

Their associates in both the academic and film communities have called for the men’s immediate release, with author and script writer Michael Ondaatje, for example, speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival last week about artists having “a special responsibility to protest when human rights are violated.” Canadian filmmaker Sarah Polley told how Greyson had “inspired and mentored” so many young filmmakers. A petition demanding their freedom has been signed by over 100,000 people.

What has been missing from all of the coverage, however, is an accurate account of the political motivations of the men, including their support for the destruction of Israel and possible links to the terrorist entity Hamas.

More HERE 

Hamas' useless idiots Greyson & Loubani switching to Theresa Spence weight loss program

Something anti-Israel fanatics John Greyson and Tarek Loubani evidently didn't count on is that, not counting hardcore Egyptian Islamists, the military coup that removed the Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi from power has widespread support among Egyptians.

Protests larger and more intense than anything previous, including what some had called the largest mass protest in the history of the world, made up of up to 20 million people, a quarter of Egypt's population, rallied in Cairo to call to an end to the Muslim Brotherhood's tyranny. Morsi, in true fascist fashion, tried to undermine democracy by giving himself autocratic powers more sweeping than anything claimed by Hosni Mubarak.

Egyptians despise the Muslim Brotherhood and their proxy group Hamas, which is wreaking terror against Egypt in Sinai. It must have come as a shock to Greyson and Loubani that Egyptians would be distinctly unimpressed that they intended to go off to support Muslim Brotherhood-ruled Gaza.

Now supporters of the pair of Hamas terror enablers want Canada's Prime Minister to personally intervene on their behalf or they have threatened to only drink fruit juice for the rest of their 15 day detention period.

From the Globe and Mail:

Dr. Tarek Loubani and John Greyson planned to stop eating on Monday to protest the extension of their detention for another 15 days, said a friend, Justin Podur. The two will drink only fruit juice.

Humans can easily survive on fruit juice for 15 days, particularly under the inactive circumstances afforded by incarceration.

I expect Egypt will want to rid themselves of the useless Canadian idiots in the not distant future. If Egypt wanted to perform an altruistic act of humanitarianism, they should consider extracting a promise from Greyson to stop making the horrible, tasteless, boring creations he has the audacity to describe as "films."

Unfortunately, it's unlikely anything in this world will prevent Greyson from going on some self-promoting, sanctimonious tour when he returns, in which he will be interminably described as a hero. Because among his circle, incredible stupidity and vapid hypocrisy are as close to heroism as they are likely to get.



Background HERE

Useful idiots Greyson and Loubani have their Egyptian vacation extended

Hamas York University Film Professor John Greyson and his pal Tarek Loubani will be detained by Egyptian authorities for another 15 days, it was reported today.

No charges have been filed against the duo, but the Egyptian government has accused them of conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Background HERE and HERE. 

The Hypocrisy of Using TIFF as a Political Platform

So filmmaker John Greyson's friends use the platform of TIFF to clamour for his release from an Egyptian jail. Academics, actors, writers and other filmmakers of international repute. That's what friends do for friends, right?

But hold on for a minute. Let's review some of that equation.

Let's first talk about the sheer hypocrisy of using TIFF as a platform, and then we'll focus on working in the field and getting arrested in the first place.

This is the same John Greyson who, in 2009, used the same TIFF platform to make a very vocal protest against the Festival's "City to City" spotlight on Tel Aviv.

And in protest he withdrew his short film, Covered.

Greyson criticized "the opportunism of TIFF, which seems increasingly eager to court dubious partnerships, such as the Israeli consulate's 'Brand Israel Campaign,'" and asked about "the extent of Israeli sponsorship."

More HERE 

On Canada's second-rate arts community's concern about their fourth-rate colleague's detention in Egypt

A number of the mediocrities who comprise the bulk of Canada's film and arts community are publicly bemoaning the fate of York University Film Professor John Greyson, who is currently imprisoned in Egypt on charges of aiding the Muslim Brotherhood.

The journalist and film critic Rick McGinnis noted that, "only in English Canada, where we made an industry out of making unwatchable films, would someone like Greyson have the temerity to call himself a filmmaker - and said industry respond in the affirmative."

It's unlikely that many of the people declaring their support for a fellow "filmmaker" could even name one of the horrendously bad excuses for movies that Greyson created, let alone has actually seen one. But there is a good reason that the Canadian film industry's posturing, ill-informed dilettantes who dabble in activism want Greyson back.

I know one director who told me, referring to one of the foremost of Greyson's supporters, "I would rather have hot needles shoved into my eyes than have to watch another Atom Egoyan movie." That critique may be a touch hyperbolic. Having three or four fingernails slowly ripped out would certainly be a more enjoyable use of time than watching another of Egoyan's tedious, plotless exercises in self-indulgence, but the particular torture he mentioned seems excessive. Still, his main point is valid.

In a nutshell, it helps to have inept hacks like Greyson make asinine, interminably tiresome garbage in the guise of "film making" so that the awful, excruciatingly boring movies of someone like an Atom Egoyan or Sarah Polley don't look quite so bad by comparison.

Unless one of the names of either Robert Lantos, Don Carmody, or Martin Katz are on a Canadian film, it is almost assured to be an agonizingly painful experience.

John Greyson may be a pleasant enough person on the self-congratulatory cocktail circuit among the leeches who drain arts grants from Canadian taxpayers to make complete crap that no one wants to see. But the reprehensible goals behind Greyson's so-called activism suggest he is a terrible human being.

Greyson is a Gay man who has devoted immeasurable energy into trying to deligitimize the only country in the middle east that would not persecute him for his sexual orientation. As a prominent part of the vapid, hysterical, anti-Capitalist cretins calling themselves "Queers Against Israeli Apartheid" he has lent tacit support to the misogynistic, homophobic Muslim Brotherhood group Hamas. His aim has been to try to undermine a democratic country that is attempting to defend itself from Islamist fanatics with genocidal aspirations towards Israel.  Greyson has encouraged a boycott of Israel that immediately brings to mind the Nazi-era  boycotts of Jews.

It is ironic that in his pathological detestation of Israel and his efforts to befriend the miscreants in Gaza who would like to destroy the Jewish State, Greyson evidently overlooked that there are people in Egypt who detest the Muslim Brotherhood even more than the Israelis. Now, after years of propagandizing a lie about the oppressiveness of Israel, Greyson is being treated to a mild sample of what "justice" looks like in the Middle East outside of the democratic state he is so intent on demonizing.

This episode explains much of the cowardly hostility towards Israel of which people like Greyson make such a show. They know that despite their lies and propaganda, Israel will always treat them fairly and humanely, and so there is no real risk in their publicity stunts like trying to run through an Israeli naval blockade.

Of course, these ironies will undoubtedly be lost on the many fatuous, untalented blowhards in Canada who define themselves as "artists."

It's unlikely John Greyson had either the courage or the wherewithal to actually engage in the terrorist crimes of which he stands accused in Egypt. Perhaps the Egyptian government just decided to do film fans a favor by locking Greyson in a hole. But whatever the reason for his current predicament, the pompous York professor is likely to be back in Canada soon and feted by the vapid members of the  "arts community" as a "hero."

Nothing could be less true. Greyson is no more a "hero" than he is a "talented filmmaker."

Plenty of propaganda and indoctrination, but apparently one thing John Greyson didn't teach his students was how to make a decent movie

York University's anti-Israel fanatic John Greyson is currently in jail in Egypt for charges* including helping the Muslim Brotherhood's terrorist activities.

A few of his students and colleagues at York produced a short video appeal for his release. In viewing it, in which they describe the things they learned from Greyson, it becomes apparent one thing he did not teach them was how to make a decent motion picture.

But why should anyone expect that he would? There's nothing in his filmography to suggest he has that knowledge or ability.

As the old saying goes, those who can, do; those who can't teach; and those who can't do or teach are activists who proselytize in their classes at York University.

The video appeal includes snippets from anti-Israel propaganda that Greyson has produced and directed which his students praise.

Evidently he has misused his role as a York Film Professor to spread the hateful poison of his extremist political activism.

Egypt will probably let Greyson go soon. Unless he actually was involved in activities supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, they should have no interest in holding on to him.

Why anyone would want to keep John Greyson around for a second longer than they have to is indeed a mystery.




*NB: Greyson has not been formally charged, but the implication from the Egyptian authorities is that he was arrested for being involved with Muslim Brotherhood activities. He was arrested on a Muslim Brotherhood `Day of Rage` filled with riots and killings.

The truth about the Canadian fanatics arrested and killed in Egypt that the mainstream media won't tell