Jason Lee

Spain scored three goals against Saudi Arabia in the first twenty minutes of the game. Saudi Arabia poured in fortunes and did everything possible to build a competitive team, yet nothing changed. They lost 7-0 a decade ago, and they’re losing big to Spain today. Nearly every Arab team lost big this World Cup, as they have in almost every World Cup, the lone exception being Morocco, whose players overwhelmingly come up through European clubs. But why? The reason isn’t a lack of resources. It’s a lack of excellence. Islam builds an appearance-based culture. Your worth is tied not to what you are, but to how you perform the role in front of others. In this system, appearance outranks substance every time. A known prostitute in a hijab survives public judgment better than a decent woman without one. A known pedophile who knows how to hide is more respectable than a homosexual who comes out. A criminal who is publicly obedient to the commandments of the religion outranks a decent human being who simply isn’t religious. So whatever you build in this culture, you build for the appearance of it. You invest in the surface without grasping that underneath every real achievement lies a vast architecture of substance the surface is supposed to rest on. That’s why you can hire the best coach, build the finest stadiums, pay the highest wages, and still lose, every time. Because your players are the product of a culture that gives the minimum required to look the part, never the maximum regardless of outcome. A culture saturated with a religion that demands the minimum to avoid punishment, rather than the maximum regardless of reward, will produce the same result in every field. That is the danger Islam brings to the West. It is a cultural disease that kills excellence slowly, hollowing out a civilization until nothing genuine is left beneath the surface.

Following a very difficult meeting with my accountant, I just found out how much it is going to cost me in terms of an "exit tax" to leave Quebec and Canada. No human being in a free society should have their hard-earned money stolen in this manner. I'm genuinely numb. I'm speechless.

Canada has received reports of appalling mistreatment of Canadians who were detained in Israel. Consular officials in Türkiye are providing consular support to Canadians, including facilitating urgent medical assistance.