Christine Douglass-Williams

Christine Douglass-Williams is a Canadian blogger, author, former television journalist and board member of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, who was fired for her writings on the blog Jihad Watch.

Background Douglass-Williams emigrated as a child from Trinidad and Tobago to Canada. She is of mixed-race background, with a quarter each of Indian, Scottish, Chinese and black ancestry.

Career Douglass-Williams is a nine-time international award-winning journalist and television producer, with her awards including Telly, Videographer, and Omni Awards. She conducted over 1,700 live interviews on a daily call-in show On the Line on the former CTS TV and was a fill-in host on 100 Huntley Street, and has also been on the board of governors of the Gatestone Institute, a senior advisor to the Hudson Institute, and served as the Public Affairs and Media Consultant for the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem – Canada.

Termination from CRRF Douglass-Williams was appointed to the board of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) in 2012, but her writings on the blog Jihad Watch starting not long after eventually led to her being terminated from her position in 2017. She wrote the piece after travelling to Iceland with Robert Spencer to speak at a conference on Islam and the future of European culture in Reykjavík. Citing her book, Douglas-Williams later claimed to "differentiate between Islamists and human rights-respecting Muslims who thrive to live peaceably and equally among Westerners."