October is Canadian Islamic History Month.
To mark the occasion, Canadian Heritage broadcast a video message with Ms. Amira Elghawaby, “Canada’s first special representative in charge of combating Islamophobia.”
A “GREAT FRIEND” OF QUEBEC
Does the name Amira Elghawaby sound vaguely familiar to you?
Normal: As Jean-François Lisée recalled in Le Devoir on January 31, it was she who wrote in the Ottawa Citizen: “The majority of Quebecers seem to feed not on the primacy of law, but on negative opinions towards ‘Islam’ !”
She was the one who wrote on her Twitter account that she “feels like throwing up” when she hears specialists say that French Canadians were victims of British colonialism!
It was she who wrote in the Toronto Star: “Quebecers don’t want to admit there are problems in their society”!
It was she who wrote (again in the Star) that Pauline Marois “exploited a deep-seated paranoia about the Other” when she proposed her charter of values!
She wrote that the province of Quebec “will never change and will remain a static bastion of French culture and identity that denies the role and presence of First Nations and minorities”!
She said that François Legault is one of the politicians who “flatter the xenophobic tendencies” of their people!
In short, it is she who is destroying anti-Muslim hatred by increasing hateful remarks against Quebecers!
What about homophobia?
What message did Ms. Amira Elghawaby convey in the video to launch Canadian Islamic History Month?
That “hatred and discrimination in all their forms have no place in Canada.”
That’s well said!
But I’m thinking about it…
What does Ms Elghawaby think of the homophobic and transphobic insults directed at members of the LGBTQ community by veiled Muslim women a few days ago?
Does this make her, to use her own words, “vomit”?
In his eyes, does this show that there are “problems in his community”?
Is this evidence that the Muslim community is intolerant?
“As Minister of Diversity and Inclusion, I stand with Special Representative Amira Elghawaby to ensure that Muslim people in Canada feel safe and respected,” Minister Kamal Khera said in the same video.
And aren’t members of sexual minorities entitled to respect, Minister?
All monotheistic religions are sexist and homophobic.
All.
The Muslim religion included.
How can the Minister of Diversity and Inclusion denounce the anti-Muslim hatred that “feeds” too many Canadians without simultaneously condemning the hatred of women and homosexuals that is at the heart of all monotheistic religions…including Islam?
FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
I also join the Minister in wishing all Muslims a happy Canadian Islamic History Month.
But I want to remind you that in Canada we have the right to criticize religions.
All religions.
