Shabnam Assadollahi

‘Canada, When Terrorists Applaud You, It’s Time to Ask What You’ve Become’

‘Canada, When Terrorists Applaud You, It’s Time to Ask What You’ve Become’

When a senior Hamas terrorist praises your country by name, it’s not a diplomatic gesture. It’s not a political milestone. It is a stain. A warning. An indictment of a nation that has lost its moral compass, its democratic voice, and perhaps even its future.

Recently, Razi Hamed, a senior official of Hamas—a terrorist organization with the blood of babies and hostages on its hands—publicly thanked France, the UK, and Canada—my adopted homeland—for recognizing a Palestinian state. He called this recognition “one of the fruits of October 7.”

Let that sink in.

A man who helped orchestrate mass murder, rape, mutilation, and the kidnapping of civilians is claiming that Canada’s foreign policy is a direct reward for that barbaric assault. October 7 wasn’t just an act of terror. It was a grotesque display of sadism—yet now, it’s being used as a diplomatic credential. A stepping stone. A bloody calling card for political legitimacy.

Hamed declared, “We proved that victory over Israel is not impossible, and our weapons are a symbol of Palestinian dignity.”

Weapons—not diplomacy, not negotiation, not peace. And those weapons, as the world witnessed, were used on infants, on grandmothers, on young women dragged into Gaza. If this is what Hamas considers “dignity,” then any nation being praised by them should be sick with shame.

So what does it say about Canada—a country that once prided itself on being a beacon of human rights and democratic integrity—when we are applauded by one of the most violent terrorist organizations on the planet?

It says we’ve lost far more than a foreign policy debate.

We have lost our spine, our sovereignty, and our soul.

And at the heart of this disgrace are two names Canadians must never forget: Mark Carney and Anita Anand.

These are not leaders. They are functionaries of a collapsing liberal order, puppets of a technocratic elite determined to reengineer Canada in the image of their globalist fantasies. Carney—Wold Economic Forum’s newly installed Prime Minister of Canada—wants to turn Canada into a sterile prototype for elite governance, where citizenship is replaced by digital IDs, dissent by “disinformation,” and elections by engineered consensus. Anita Anand, his loyal top senior minister, has wrapped this authoritarian drift in the soft language of diversity and inclusion while methodically eroding the foundations of democracy, accountability, and truth.

Together, they have presided over a country where free speech is no longer free, where religious freedom is conditional, and where political opposition is routinely smeared as “extremist,” “racist,” or “Islamophobic”—especially when it comes from voices like mine who fled real tyranny and recognize it reemerging here in polished form.

Is this the Canada we escaped to? Or the one we escaped from?

I had warned that multiculturalism—when weaponized by ideologues—becomes a Trojan horse for tyranny. We are no longer welcoming the oppressed; we are empowering the oppressors. We are importing supremacist ideologies cloaked in the language of tolerance, and exporting our hard-won democratic values in return.

What is happening now in Canada is not just political drift. It is a controlled demolition of the free society our parents and grandparents built. Free speech has become hate speech. Dissent has become extremism. Debate has been replaced by compliance. Elections still exist, but they feel more like theatrical performances—rigged by media manipulation, corporate influence, and bureaucratic gatekeeping.

What comes next?
A CCP-style digital surveillance state where every citizen’s thought and transaction is tracked and rated for loyalty? Or a theocratic soft-totalitarian regime, masquerading as multiculturalism, steered by groups sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist Sharia ideologies that reject every Western democratic principle?

This is not paranoia. It is the logical outcome of policies that empower radicals, silence critics, and criminalize patriotism. And now, with Canada being applauded by a terrorist leader who sees October 7 as a diplomatic “achievement,” that outcome is no longer theoretical. It’s already unfolding.

To be clear: recognizing a Palestinian state is not inherently wrong. Many decent people believe in a two-state solution. But recognition without conditions—without the dismantling of Hamas, without the return of hostages, without an end to antisemitic incitement in schools and mosques—is not peace. It is complicity.

Mark Carney and Anita Anand may still call themselves progressives, but they are not progressive. They are agents of moral inversion, sacrificing truth for approval, clarity for ambiguity, and sovereignty for globalist applause. They do not defend Canada. They manage its decline—and worse, they are celebrated for it by murderers in Gaza and bureaucrats in Davos.

Canada was once a moral nation—respected for its courage, compassion, and conviction. We stood with the persecuted, not the persecutors. We welcomed those fleeing tyranny, not those scheming to re-create it here. But today? Our foreign policy is a trophy for terrorists. Our democracy is a shell. Our speech is regulated. Our dissent is surveilled.

And still, too many remain silent—either out of fear, indoctrination, or self-interest.

But I will not be silent.
Because I know what happens when silence wins.
I have lived it. I have fled it. I will not watch it rise again—here, in the country I love.

History is watching. And it will not be kind.

Canadians must decide—right now—who we are and where we’re going.

Will we be a free people, standing firm against terror, tyranny, and technocracy?
Or will we be the next cautionary tale, applauded by murderers, governed by cowards, and remembered as a nation that surrendered itself—one euphemism at a time?

Canada, wake up. Before it’s too late.

About the Author
Shabnam Assadollahi is a human rights advocate, freelance journalist and educator. As a teenager, she was imprisoned for eighteen months in Evin Prison for her activisim against the Islamic Republic. She later became a recognized voice on Canadian radio, hosting Radio Hamseda, Ottawa for eight years, where she amplified education, culture, and resistance to oppression. Her advocacy contributed directly to the closure of the Islamic Republic’s embassy in Canada in 2012—an important blow to the regime’s transnational repression network. She is the recipient of multiple human rights and women’s rights awards for her sustained efforts to expose abuses inside Iran and beyond its borders. Shabnam’s primary and heartfelt interest is to focus on the Iranian community and world events affecting women and minority communities.
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