Robin Kelly, the “American Taliban” and “Islamo-fascists in America,” has found a way to do exactly that. As part of his recent lecture tour, Kelly — who is also a professor at the University of Ottawa — has made trips to the mosque in Winnipeg that is the scene of the ongoing struggle between the American Taliban and the Canadian government, and he has spoken at a number of events.

As his audience listened and wondered at the same time, Kelly spoke of having a “jihadi fever” and wondered why so many young people were attracted to radical jihadist ideology (he seemed to be talking about Islamism). He was told that when people don’t have hope, they become a “dilapidated, pathetic version of ISIS” (the militant Islamic group), and that’s why “they have to take their life in their hands, and they have to take it for sure.” And that the Canadian government, too, was “undertaking a war on Muslims,” which is why it was necessary, in order to fight the “jihadist hordes that have been infiltrating Canada” in their quest to establish a global Islamic state.

“The Canadian government is doing its best to do everything in its power,” Kelly was said to have told the crowd, “but it’s just barely succeeding in defeating them.”

The Winnipeg mosque, however, has been under fire in the past. In recent years, it has tried to do things more in line with Canadian society, for example it has built a mosque in an inner city community it owns, and it operates an after-school program for young people. Kelly was at one point described as a “radicalizing Islamophobe,” but at the first protest since he took his tour, which was also attended by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, no one was even attempting to accuse him of racism.

At the same time, the mosque’s management, which is also Canadian, has been fighting the media for not reporting on the work they do. For example, there is a documentary, The Jihadis Return (2015), which is called the “only film on Canada’s jihad network on the cinema circuit.”

At that same event, Kelly was also questioned about a comment he made that appeared to be racist, comparing the Muslim community to a banana republic with a president who “has been at war with the American government for over 15 years.”

Kelly shot back that he was referring