[ April 17, 2024 ]
Punitive sharia enforcement in a once free country.
The plaintiff, Mohamad Abdallah Fakih, is the founder and CEO of Paramount Fine Foods, a Middle Eastern restaurants and food chain operating in Canada, USA (Florida, New York), UK (London – Paddington, Brixton and Gloucester), Lebanon (Beirut), Pakistan (Karachi), and the Ivory Coast (Abidjan). Rachel Ehrenfeld writes here, Fakih’s relationship with Justin Trudeau seems very close. Trudeau was invited several times to Paramount Fine Foods, and he has joined the Canadian Primer’s political and charitable activities. Fakih called Trudeau “my good friend,” and said “ I have personal and direct relationship with Justin Trudeau.” Trudeau called Fakih “my friend” and “the best of Canada.”
Born in Tairdebba, the small Shiite village in south Lebanon – home also to Imad Mughniyeh, former Hezbollah Chief Commander – Mohamad Fakih has managed skillfully to translate his meteoric business success to political power by establishing close relationship not only with Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau, but also with other Liberal ministers, members of Parliament and local politicians.
Story continues below advertisementDismissing the idea of entering politics, it appears that Fakih favours rubbing shoulders with people in power to promote his community and business targets, as well as his political agenda.
For the Liberal Party Fakih is a one of the most valuable political asset that can help in mobilizing the Muslim and the Arab communities to vote for reelection of the Trudeau government in 2019 elections.
But Fakih should reconsider his partnership with Islamic Relief Worldwide and Islamic Relief Canada. Tom Quiggin, a Canadian intelligence expert, has recently sent to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police a request to launch a investigation into financing terrorism. It is based on a new report that shows that Members of Parliament and Ministers have been sending taxpayers’ money to organizations that fund extremism and terrorism. According to Quiggin, one such organization is Islamic Relief Canada, which recived funds from a variety of government programs.
Islamic Relief Canada, according to its own annual reports, “works independently and in partnership with Islamic Relief Worldwide and other local and international partners to fund ongoing programs.” Quiggin noted that seven different independent and reliable sources have stated their views that Islamic Relief Worldwide has been funding terrorism including Hamas. Islamic Relief denies terrorist links.
Canada: Paramount Fine Foods owner awarded $2.5M in hate speech (Islamaphobia) lawsuit
By Meredith Bond, City News, May 13, 2019:
The owner of Paramount Fine Foods, Mohammad Fakih, has been awarded $2.5 million by an Ontario judge after suing Kevin Johnston and FreedomReport.ca for defamation.
Fakih sued Johnston (above) and the Freedom Report back in July 2017 for several incidents including a series of videos which spewed “hateful Islamophobic remarks.”
In the decision made by the Ontario Superior Court, a judge ruled the statements made by Johnston met all three elements of defamation.
Justice Ferguson said Fakih and his restaurant were “the clear targets” of the defendant’s hateful expressions and “the remarks are facially defamatory and would tend to lower Paramount Fine Foods and Mr. Fakih’s reputation in the eyes of a reasonable person.”
The judge also ruled the defendants statements “shared all the essential hallmarks and attributes of an expression that is not worthy of protection.” The decision also states the hateful Islamophobic remarks have no basis in fact.
Johnston has been ordered to remove or destroy any copy or reference to the videos and content identified in the lawsuit and they are permanently restrained from coming within 100 metres of Fakih, his residents and his family.
They are also banned from making any contact with, recording or attempting to record Fakih and his family and posting any defamatory statements concerning Fakih or Paramount Fine Foods.
The lawsuit states between July 23 and Aug. 1, a series of eight videos were posted by Johnston on the Freedom Report that made a number of malicious and false statements against Fakih and Paramount Fine Foods.
Some of the statements include: “The restaurant is in the middle of an industrial area ‘for the sole purpose of allowing Islamic discussion whether it be terrorist talk or not,” “You have to be a ‘Jihadist or have raped someone else’s wife as a condition of entry to the Restaurant,” “Mr. Mohammad Fakih wants to be part of giving money to convicted terrorists.”
He also called for a boycott of Paramount “until they come clean on terror involvement.”
The lawsuit also said the videos included the restaurant’s facade and logo and a photo of Fakih altered to show blood on his hands and face.
When a libel notice was served to Johnston, he responded by broadcasting more malicious content, including calling Fakih a “radical Muslim” and a “radical Muslim terror funder.”
The suit also states before the videos were posted in April of 2017, Johnston approached Fakih when he was at the Erin Mills Town Centre with his three children, aged four to 13. Johnston began accusing Fakih of supporting terrorism and took pictures and videos of Fakih’s children. He also followed Fakih and his family to the parking lot. The incident was reported to police.
Since the videos were posted, Fakih says he is often approached at public events by strangers who comment about the statements made by Johnston. He also recalled in October 2017, his eldest son returned home from school and said he had been harassed by other students who had seen the videos online.
The lawsuit also claims Johnston’s videos have had an effect on Fakih’s business and Paramount’s employees.
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18 Comments
4 years ago
Dayummed good thing that I don’t live in New Sweden (formerly country called “Canada”). My eighteen rentals, not to mention my personal residence would have a new moslem owner. UNFREAKINGBELIEVABLE. If calling for a boycott, in the U.S., was a “hate crime” … there wouldn’t be a Left Wing-Nut Regressive left with a net worth over ten cents. I knew that it was bad, in New Sweden … but I had NO idea how bad it really is.
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
I’d rather sell everything I own and hire a hit man — in for a penny, in for a pound.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Another one of my maternal grandmother’s statements, right up there with “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride”. Just for clarification purpose, not the part about the hit man.
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
It’s an English expression. I don’t know where the hell I heard it, maybe from Monty Python in my youth.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
That one is as old as the hills …. It was before the flood.
4 years ago
It looks very much like we are still experiencing in our lifetime how the
aging Meryl Streep in a remake of “Holocaust” entitled “Islamophobia”
plays the role of one of four wives of a caring Pasha, who is prevented
from her brave self-loathing way of life by paranoid right-wing populists.
4 years ago
Don’t they make a cute couple?….
Proud CANADIANS have one more chance maybe our last chance,
to vote (shiny pony) Turdeau and his muslim ass kissing liberal government out of office in October.
For the sake of our children and our grandchildren.
4 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
not going to happen. canuks are all BRAIN DEAD and these maggots are the MAJORITY ALONG WITH OTHER FOREIGNERS HERE TO STAKE THEIR CLAIM OFF US AND THE FORMER CANADA WHILE TAKING OUR MONEY , USING OUR ‘LAWS, DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL WHORES’ TO BUILD THEIR OWN COUNTRIES, GOVERNMENTS AND COURTS WITHIN- AND CANADIANS HAVE ALLOWED THIS FOR MANY DECADES NOW.
It is all over for canuks because quite simply, there are too stunned and lazy to be bothered fighting for themselves.
deserve to be wiped off the planet! just too stupid to live!
4 years ago
Did you guys know that 40% of U.S. millennials already favor the government restricting or banning “offensive” speech against minorities? Probably 80% of young Canadians support that up north:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/20/40-of-millennials-ok-with-limiting-speech-offensive-to-minorities/
4 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
The entire white western world have lost their minds and so will all be eradicted by the end of this century!
Perhaps that is for the best as clearly all too dumb to live!
4 years ago
enemy inside!!
4 years ago
Reply to
Roma Mikhasev
well inside and has been for some time now and growing. They simply don’t come more PATHETIC OR BIGGER LOSERS THAN CANUKS!
4 years ago
Canada has become a nest for the jihadists and their allies and sycophants hatching all types of nefarious plots that are a threat to the US as well as Canada. Lawsuits like this are designed to suppress citizen efforts to identify and expose jihadist organizations such as Paramount Foods and its owners. I expect there are all types of crimes being organized behind this business front that need to be ferreted out, exposed and prosecuted.
4 years ago
yup, good old canukistan under mohammad trudeau!
the biggest islamic terrorist sewer outside the middle east!
Canuks still don’t get that trudeau is a full out islamic pro terrorist/jihadi and won’t until their heads are on the block which I guess will be sometime after october when he gets in again and FULL sharia is imposed while these barbaric maggots bring full jihadi upon us and at that point there will be NOT ONE THING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT!
I WARNED AND WARNED AND WARNED BUT SADLY CANUKS DON’T WANT TO WAKE UP AS LONG AS THEIR ENTITLEMENTS CONTINUE TO FLOW AND THEY CAN MERRILY SHOP UNTIL THEY ARE ALL BANKRUPT- WHICH ACCORDING TO THE LATEST NEWS, THEY ARE IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND GROWING!
Big shock!!!!
what a land of LOSERS AND COWARDS! If I weren’t ‘Canadian’ (whatever the hell that is these days) I’d want to slaughter you all myself because you DESERVE IT!
4 years ago
lol meanwhile islamics spew their hate, contempt, death threats at us, the JEWS and everyone else every day up here with no fear of charges , jail or anything else, canuks of course are too busy shoppping to care!
4 years ago
Some day soon, we will have to build a wall on our Northern Border also.
4 years ago
Boooooring.
