Of course they didn’t. It doesn’t matter what she has said or done, because she is on the side of the dominant Left. And to look too closely at her past would have been “Islamophobic” in itself.
“André Pratte: Did no one vet anti-Islamophobia rep’s past?,” by André Pratte, National Post, February 3, 2023:
We were told by the Prime Minister’s Office that Amira Elghawaby was appointed as Canada’s first Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia “following an open, transparent, and merit-based selection process.” It is beyond my comprehension how such a process would not have involved a simple web search to see whether Elghawaby had said or written something that could be embarrassing for the government or her, or both. For instance, writings that would have revealed a simplistic view of Islamophobia in Québec?
As should have been expected, such a search is exactly what journalists did in the minutes following the prime minister’s announcement. What did they find? That in an op-ed regarding Bill 21, of which she was the co-author, she wrote that “the majority of Quebecers appear to be swayed not by the rule of law, but by anti-Muslim sentiment.” Then on Twitter, reacting to a statement by a University of Toronto professor who asserted that French Canadians were “the largest group of people in this country who were victimized by British colonialism,” Elghawaby wrote: “I’m going to puke.”
This led Quebec’s National Assembly to demand that her contract be rescinded. Always looking to nurture his nationalist base, Premier François Legault accused the prime minister of “endorsing the contempt toward Quebecers.” Even Justin Trudeau’s Québec lieutenant, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, said he was “hurt and upset” by Elghawaby’s views.
This unfortunate controversy was entirely predictable. Are Amira Elghawaby’s credentials so impressive that, despite some of her writings, appointing her was a good decision? At the very least, the government and the new special representative needed to prepare for the uproar and quickly provide both a clarification and an apology. This was not done until Wednesday, a week after Elghawaby’s appointment. With the speed of today’s news cycle, one week is an eternity. In Québec, her credibility lays in ruins….
DHZ says
It’s not Trudeau’s fault that Canadians elected someone completely unprepared to lead a group of less than two people much less a country.
somehistory says
The creep is mozlum…what else should anyone expect?
They talk and complain and whine endlessly about a fake fear, claim it happens every minute of the day and night, that everyone hates them (closer with that, I’m thinking) and at the same time, they show they have **real fear** of the Truth and a vile hatred for anyone not exactly like them…even other mozlums, their own offspring, wives, etc.,
And any mozlum investigating, or *combatting* this fake phobia, is going to be just like this creep….biased in the extreme and a liar.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
Muslims have a bad case of:
Truth-o-phobia
somehistory says
James, they really should *fear* the Truth, as Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, and no one comes to the Father except through me.”
They lie about Jesus and the Father, so they are not going to receive “Life in abundance.”
These lying mozlums are on their way out. If they knew anything Truthful, they’d be shaking in their boots….or sandals.
James Lincoln says
Yes, somehistory.
That’s another way to look at it.
Jayell1 says
Anyone who invokes ‘islamophobia’ is totally untrustworthy, since this clearly plagiarised conceptual fabrication-of-convenience has no basis in reality and only serves as an easy get-out for those wanting to defend islam but who don’t have any genuine intellectual ammunition to back them up apart from crudely insulting their opponents by suggesting that a rejection of their ‘religion’ is the consequence of some kind of mental/intellectual impairment. So that seems to discount the vast majority of supporters of the so-called ‘Religion of Peace’.
Major Tom says
Islamophobia……sniff…sniff…….smells like Shariah……..