Canada publishes ‘Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia’
Mar 10, 2025 12:00 pm
By Christine Douglass-Williams
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“The 60-page” propaganda report is “the latest creation of Amira Elghawaby,” all while antisemitism runs rampant in Canada. From the time that Elghawaby — the former communications director for the National Council of Canadian Muslims (formerly CAIR-CAN) — was appointed “Islamophobia” czar by the Trudeau Liberals, there was widespread backlash, and the Quebec government demanded her resignation. Still, she persists on her mission. Last year, Elghawaby also defended an antisemitic pro-Hamas rally at Mount Sinai hospital in Toronto, and she recently endorsed a Liberal government guide advising workplaces to learn about Islam from Muslims and permit special religious privileges for them.
When is enough enough? Canada under the Liberal Party is virtually a twin to the UK under the disastrous Keir Starmer — whose government is set to criminalize “Islamophobia” and equate criticism of Islam with “racial hatred.” The UK and Canada are foisting tacit Islamic blasphemy laws upon their citizens, in violation of the principles of free societies. The article below sums it up nicely by stating that “the state’s job isn’t to manage the public perception of any one religious group.”
So then why are the UK and Canada doing just that, and treating Islam as their preferred religion? The red-green axis is a massive threat to freedom.
Trudeau may be gone at last, but his policies and those of his party continue. In fact, it will likely be worse under new leader Mark Carney. See also HERE.
Elghawaby, while glorifying Islam continuously, condemns Israel as she fails to blame the real cause: Hamas:
Canada doesn’t need a guide to understand and combat “Islamophobia.” It needs one to understand and combat antisemitism as Hamas talking points circulate.
“Federal bureaucrat-activists strike again with ‘Understanding Islamophobia’ guide,” by Jamie Sarkonak, National Post, March 9, 2025:
The state’s job isn’t to manage the public perception of any one religious group. At least, that’s what is generally believed in Canada. But on Monday, that’s what the government did with the publication of “The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia.”
The 60-page report, the latest creation of Amira Elghawaby, the federal appointee tasked with promoting Islam in Canada under the guise of “combatting Islamophobia,” is not just a guide to understanding a particular type of discrimination.
It covers history (specifically, poor treatment of Islam by the West), the state of Islam in Canada, anti-Muslim violence and negative public perceptions and concludes by asking that more religion-conscious policies — tailored to Islam — be integrated into Canadian civil society.
Altogether, it’s the kind of document a secular government has no business producing, going far beyond promoting long-held traditions of pluralism and religious freedom.
It starts from the premise, commonly held by activists on the left, that the West is a fundamentally immoral faction in history: its record is marred by legacies of colonialism; of historic treatment of Muslims as barbaric outsiders; and so on. Though, historically, Islamic societies are guilty of the same sins, sometimes to a greater degree, as the West: imperialism, conquest, slave trading, as well as the belief that outsiders are bizarre, backwards and wrong.
The modern age gets a similar unbalanced treatment. The report scrutinizes negative perceptions in society of Islam: treatment of women (from clothing requirements to honour killings), extremism, political goals, and so on, framing harsher views of the faith as “myths” and presenting milder, more positive “facts” to dispel them……. |
