Does Jagmeet Singh have a plan to combat Islamic jihad terrorism? Of course not. That would be “Islamophobic.”
Is Jagmeet Singh aware that Islam is not a race, and that people of all races are Muslims, and Islamic jihadis? Apparently not.
Is Jagmeet Singh aware of the history of his own Sikh religion vis-a-vis Islam and Muslims? Almost certainly not.
“NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has a plan to combat racism and Islamophobia,” by Rachel Browne, Global News, September 4, 2019:
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh discussed his party’s plans to address racism and discrimination during a town hall in Toronto on Wednesday night.
Those plans include beefing up police resources to investigate hate crimes and imposing a federal ban on carding.
He also called on the federal government to take a stronger stand against what he described as the “hateful, divisive, Islamophobic” rhetoric of U.S. President Donald Trump.
“One [of our commitments] is to be very clear around calling out and denouncing Islamophobia. That has already been done, and people do it regularly, so we need to go beyond that,” Singh told those in attendance at the event, the first in a series of election-related town halls hosted by the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), which advocates for Muslim communities across the country.
Singh’s appearance came amid low fundraising rates for his party, a mass exodus of candidates from the New Brunswick NDP for the Greens, and a dip in recent polling.
The NDP’s 2019 platform, unveiled in June, includes a section on “confronting racism” that includes the proposal for banning carding. The platform also includes increasing the number of hate crime units….