{"id":4387,"date":"2023-07-18T12:49:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2023-07-18T12:49:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:49:22","slug":"canadian-pm-trudeau-blames-american-right-wing-for-muslim-backlash-to-lgbt-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=4387","title":{"rendered":"Canadian PM Trudeau Blames &#8216;American Right-Wing&#8217; for Muslim Backlash to LGBT Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-75.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-4388\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-75.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-75.png 736w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-75-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-75-370x247.png 370w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-75-293x195.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-75-120x80.png 120w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-75-240x160.png 240w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-75-390x260.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau blamed the &#8220;American right-wing&#8221; for Muslim pushback against gender ideology and LGBT curriculums in Canadian public schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;First of all, there is an awful lot of misinformation and disinformation out there. People on social media, particularly fueled by the American right-wing, are spreading a lot of untruths about what\u2019s actually in the provincial curriculums,&#8221; Trudeau&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/justin-trudeau-blames-american-right-wing-for-muslims-opposing-lgbtq-curriculum-leave-our-kids-alone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;to Muslim parents at a mosque in Calgary, Alberta, last week. Muslim parents have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/calgary_city_hall_alberta_parental_rights_protest_muslim_minority_lgbt_education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">organized two protests<\/a>&nbsp;at Calgary City Hall in recent months to fight against LGBT indoctrination in public schools, shouting, &#8220;Leave our kids alone!&#8221; and &#8220;Our kids, our choice!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As in the United States, gender ideology in education has been a hot topic in Canadian politics. A recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/policy-713-lgbt-school-policy-235526920.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAG0-dx53fkgYYpwDjDapg-yoxhO8eZvmaldirxyaRb5eDR98khNlXH6tbbwgU65a51YMbHnpPfnWIsePHtDDMlwOaEDTQu8wf6Guf5p44XW-pSrWUZFxtd3d-DXWxxh1pBBwJ8Y1o7-RpiPVOVFXqpDcOTeu_4t48uvtRIEpDhaC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amendment<\/a>&nbsp;to New Brunswick schools&#8217; gender policies, which requires teachers to get parental consent to use a student&#8217;s preferred pronouns, has sparked much criticism from the pro-LGBT left, including Trudeau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Trans kids need to feel safe, not targeted by politicians,&#8221; Trudeau said, after which Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre told Trudeau to &#8220;butt out&#8221; of New Brunswick politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The prime minister has no business in decisions that should rest with provinces and parents,&#8221; Poilievre said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his remarks to the Calgary Muslim community last week, Trudeau blamed &#8220;the far right&#8221; for &#8220;weaponizing&#8221; LGBT ideology in education to drive a wedge between his government and the Muslim community, largely disregarding the community&#8217;s independent beliefs on the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;These are people on the far right &#8230; weaponizing the issue of LGBT, which is something that, yes, Islam has strong opinions on,&#8221; Trudeau said. &#8220;The same way that the religious right in Canada, the Christian right, has strong opinions against as well. They are using those fears to drive a wedge between a government that will always stand up for all your rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One individual responded to his comments: &#8220;I ask you, Mr. prime minister, please protect our culture, our belief, the sin that you are doing to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The video shows another example of how Trudeau routinely categorizes views different from his own as the result of right-wing disinformation, as opposed to the genuine views of Canadians who disagree with him,&#8221;\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/author\/lgoldsteinpostmedia\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0Lorrie Goldstein, editor emeritus of the\u00a0<em>Toronto Sun.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/canadian-pm-trudeau-blames-american-right-wing-for-muslim-backlash-to-lgbt-curriculum\/\">https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/canadian-pm-trudeau-blames-american-right-wing-for-muslim-backlash-to-lgbt-curriculum\/<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/handsoffmyrewards.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&amp;utm_medium=advertising&amp;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau blamed the &#8220;American right-wing&#8221; for Muslim pushback against gender ideology and LGBT curriculums in Canadian public schools. &#8220;First of all, there is an awful lot of misinformation and disinformation out there. People on social media, particularly fueled by the American right-wing, are spreading a lot of untruths about what\u2019s actually in the provincial curriculums,&#8221; Trudeau&nbsp;said&nbsp;to Muslim parents at a mosque in Calgary, Alberta, last week. Muslim parents have&nbsp;organized two protests&nbsp;at Calgary City Hall in recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4389,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/4389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}