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Justin “Fidelito” Trudeau has once again shown himself to be among the cutting-edge Leftist leaders of the world and set an example for Canada’s neighboring colossus to the south by appointing the Canadian government’s first-ever “special representative for fighting Islamophobia.” What a relief, eh, that a government is finally tackling this phenomenon with the full power of the state! The only problem is that the record of such programs, at least in the United States, generally shows that when the government vows to stamp out something, it creates more of it instead. Remember the War on Poverty? The War on Drugs? Canada’s new war on “Islamophobia” is unlikely to be different.
Trudeau, according to a Friday report in the Washington Post, declared, “Diversity truly is one of Canada’s greatest strengths, but for many Muslims, Islamophobia is all too familiar. We need to change that.” In order to do so, he named a hijab-wearing Muslim woman, Amira Elghawaby, whom the Post describes as a “journalist, human rights advocate and member of the Canada Race Relations Foundation,” to head up this new government initiative. For her part, Elghawaby explained, “Muslims are sometimes caught between being perceived as a threat or as representing a problem to solve.” She added that “she hoped this moment would spur a national conversation about the value of Canada’s diversity.” Ah, yes, of course — diversity, which we are constantly told is our strength, and we have to keep on being told that, because the evidence of our senses so often suggests the contrary.
According to the Post, this new government official will “tackle racism, discrimination and religious intolerance faced by the Muslim community.” But why? What does racism have to do with “Islamophobia”? There are Muslims, and Islamic jihadis, of all races. Once again we see what appears to be a deliberate obfuscation of categories and a refusal to make basic distinctions. Is this because racism is universally stigmatized already, and so the quickest and easiest way to get Canadians to accept the spurious concept of “Islamophobia” is to suggest that it’s a form of racism? Of course.
The Canadian government’s “Islamophobia” rep has been appointed in response to a pressing need. “More Muslims were killed in hate-motivated attacks in Canada,” says the Post, “than in any other Group of Seven country between 2016 and 2021, according to a report by the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), which was cited by a Senate fact-finding mission on Islamophobia last year.” The new government representative will have $4.2 million in Canadian taxpayer dollars to keep this sort of thing from happening again.
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Peacelover says
I wish someone could and would just spread the news and footage of all the stuff ‘they’ have done over the past 1400 or is it 1500 years now(?) and are doing right now,all across the middle east and in Africa and anywhere else and in All the schools and everywhere else showing who ‘they’ are and what ;’they’ do. I know certain authors/people have tried to,online and off,some(I know one has,thank you Mr. Spencer)have visited colleges but people need to learn and the earlier the better who ‘they’ really are and what they really are and represent,which is Evil. Something truly has to be done to let the ignorant and unknowing know by putting it in their face to see. I know schools are trying to whitewash everything(I hope I used the right word) but seriously,they’ve taught about Nazi’s or at one time they did,people Need to learn the Truth about ‘you know who’ not for the sake of one nation but all the world. I wish the evil I am referring to could be eradicated and wiped from the face of the earth. Sick of ‘them’ And their beliefs.
Sorry for my ranting and if any of this didn’t come out right.. I guess I just felt the need to get it off my chest.
tim gallagher says
Well said, Peacelover. Islam is an evil and barbaric religious ideology which has done untold evil for 1400 years and the sooner people wake up to that fact, the better. I look at islam and think, OK, where is there anything good and of value in it and the answer is nothing good at all in it. Will enough people wake up in time? i doubt it, but hopefully they will.
kq6kq6kq6 says
I just wish we could get more good news about the fight against Islam. Jihad Watch has bad news on the left side of the column about Muslims. And it has bad news about the Far Left on the right column. How a column with GOOD news about the battles OUR side is winning.
tim gallagher says
I suppose that, unfortunately there is not all that much good news so far and islam seems to still have many people fooled about its nature. I do hope that enough people will wake up, and Jihad watch has helped wake me up over the years, (I didn’t know much about islam when I first started reading Jihad Watch) and then we will begin to get better news. There are just too many slow learners around. There are a lot of people, who will probably never read Jihad Watch, who do need to read it and face the truth about islam and also about its left wing supporters.
haroldpom says
Where do I complain about Muslim antisemitism and Palestinian Muslims killing Jews in Israel and being rewarded for doing so?