This new government official will tackle racism, among other things. 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.
We are told that “more Muslims were killed in hate-motivated attacks in Canada than in any other Group of Seven country between 2016 and 2021.” That’s dreadful, if true, but it leaves unanswered questions. Were all of these Muslims really killed because of “Islamophobia”? We only seem to have the word of the CAIR-linked National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) on this, and they’re hardly an unbiased voice. Does the Canadian government simply want to give you the impression that they were in order to justify its efforts against this phenomenon? And how is a new “special representative for combating Islamophobia” going to prevent further murders? Nevertheless, no doubt Canadians will now be inundated with taxpayer-funded material about how wonderful Islam is. In the nature of things, however, there will still be human disputes, and some of them will involve Muslims. Now that “Islamophobia” has been established as targeted by the government, these disputes will all be ascribed to “Islamophobia” and offered as evidence of how urgently needed this “special representative” really is. Thus the Canadian government’s “Islamophobia” department will enjoy ever-increasing budgets.
Since the Canadian government is now officially committed to efforts to convince us of the wonderfulness of Islam, it is not likely to look kindly upon critics of the religion, including foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women. Will Amira Elghawaby make any efforts to protect Canadian citizens’ right to oppose jihad terror and Sharia oppression, and distinguish such criticism from the alleged hatred that supposedly leads to these murders of Muslims, or will she endeavor to make the case that any and all criticism of Islam, and even of jihad terror, endangers Muslims and must accordingly be silenced and prosecuted? My money is on the latter. But this is a preposterous claim that, if followed out logically (which of course it never will be, as this “Islamophobia” business is fundamentally illogical), would preclude any criticism of anything as possibly leading to violence. In practice, it will preclude all criticism of anything the Left favors. In the Left’s mythology, Leftist criticism of traditional values, Christianity, etc. never ever leads to violence.
“Trudeau appoints first representative for fighting Islamophobia,” by Niha Masih, Washington Post, January 27, 2023:
Canada has appointed its first special representative for combating Islamophobia, to tackle racism, discrimination and religious intolerance faced by the Muslim community, which has experienced targeted attacks.
“Diversity truly is one of Canada’s greatest strengths, but for many Muslims, Islamophobia is all too familiar,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement, as he announced the appointment on Thursday. “We need to change that.”
Amira Elghawaby, a journalist, human rights advocate and member of the Canada Race Relations Foundation, was named to the position and will provide advisory support to government initiatives.
“Muslims are sometimes caught between being perceived as a threat or as representing a problem to solve,” Elghawaby told reporters. She said she hoped this moment would spur a national conversation about the value of Canada’s diversity.
In 2021, the country was jolted by what the police called a “targeted” hate crime when a man was accused of using a car to mow down five members of a family in Ontario because of their Muslim faith, killing four and injuring a 9-year-old-boy. Authorities described it an “act of mass murder” rooted in “unspeakable hatred.” It reopened the wounds of a 2017 tragedy when a gunman opened fire on worshipers at a mosque in Quebec, killing six and injuring 19.
More Muslims were killed in hate-motivated attacks in Canada 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.
These attacks led the Canadian government to host a summit on Islamophobia in 2021, which recommended the creation of the role that was announced this week. Nearly 1.8 million Muslims reside in Canada, making up 4.9 percent of the population in 2021.
Elghawaby is expected to serve for four years and have a budget of $4.2 million, reported the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. News.
Sanober Umar, a professor at York University in Toronto who studies issues affecting the Muslim community, said that Muslims in Canada face biases in media coverage, police violence, legislation targeting markers of faith and disparaging attacks in public spaces.
Many Muslims, she said, do not come forward to report hate crimes due to a mistrust of authorities.
“This position is a hopefully optimistic symbol of the fact that the Canadian government is listening to Muslim concerns and will take tangible steps to address the racist roots of these issues,” she said.
The NCCM said in a statement that the appointment marked a “major turning point” in the fight against Islamophobia….
Wellington says
Arguably, the term, “Islamophobia,” is the most deceitful term in our era (yet others are the “LGBTQ community” and “systemic racism”). And the term “Islamophobia” comes with all kinds of deleterious consequences for Western Civilization to the extent that such a term is taken seriously—and which it never should be.
Big picture: The West is now overwhelmingly led by a bunch of fools and idiots. Trudeau in Canada comes to mind. So does the Marxist Pope, Francis I. So does that extraordinarily selfish and talentless man, one Joe Biden. And how about others like Macron and that immensely destructive recent Chancellor of Germany, one Merkel by name? And then there is the woeful UN which should have been disbanded long ago.
Compounding all this is that a Neanderthal like Putin continues to make noises about Holy Mother Russia and all that rot and the country he should have never invaded is itself replete with corruption and authoritarianism. Meanwhile, a China which seemingly will never have a regard for human rights keeps trying to assert its sorry-ass authoritarianism self on the world stage.
And on and on with one dysfunctional and freedom-crushing behavior again and again—in Africa, Latin America, certainly in the forever decrepit Islamic sphere of mankind, et al. What a fucked-up species we are. There are a few bright moments here and there such as ancient Athens, the British Empire (and yes, it was the most decent empire in history and one knows this or should know it) and America. But evermore these lone bright lights seem to appear as only a momentary brightness in the sorry history of mankind.
All of this is dismal beyond all measure. Easily so. So very tired of man as a whole never learning. And I see no end in sight to this self-made debacle.
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“And I see no end in sight to this self-made debacle.”
Yes, that is the punchline.
Self-made.
NONE of these debacles had to happen…
Peacelover says
+ All very well put Wellington
somehistory says
This makes me think: the next person appointed to combat “criminal gangs” in some large city should be a member of one of the criminal gangs. And the Mafia should have a member of that crime family in charge of combatting organized crime.
mozlums **see** this fake phobia everywhere…they invent episodes of it with the falsifying of attacks on women wearing the ugly scarf and some *redneck* or White guy rips it off and taunts the mozlum…
and they *see* it when some mozlum who traveled to turkey, syria, afghanistan or pakistan is questioned for a little while when he returns to an American airport.
And it crops again on college campuses when some mozlum leaves a note on his dorm door saying he’s a terrorist; and they see it when a professor says anything about islam in a history, art, English, math class when appropriate;
and if a professor is discussing “great religions”…and doesn’t list islam, mozlums **see** it then.
mozlums **see** the fake phobia when a woman is told wearing her scarf is too dangerous in her job, ..for her or the persons with whom she must have some interaction ..medical, nourishment, production, etc.
This hag will **see** the fake phobia everywhere and it doesn’t exist anywhere. It’s pandering to mozlums by an idiot mozlum lover. No good will come of it …unless it opens the eyes of the public and they **see** that it is all a fake and a weapon being used against them.
Like i. elmi, fake i. omar, uses it in Congress in the U.S. against the American public.
tgusa says
What happened? Back in the day the people of western countries didn’t need special representatives to combat this that and everything else. Today the left needs special representatives everywhere throughout their society. The left will rail about White supremacy but in fact it is White leftists who have an inferiority complex which leads to the need for special needs administrators. An inferiophobia complex if you will.
somehistory says
Those with inferior personalities who would promise to do an inferior job, were given positions in which they have excelled. at doing an awful, inferior, job;…and inferiority in anything, leads to unhappiness. Unhappiness can be another word for misery and misery loves company. They are miserable in their doing of inferior jobs and want the rest of us to suffer along with them.
tgusa says
Yes somehistory. Just for kicks I experimented with being a leftist. Unfortunately, no matter how hard I tried, I just could get myself to go that low so I gave up.
somehistory says
tugsa, I’ve never tried to be one, but I’ve worked with a few and found that they will try to put the kibosh on the work of others, while they finagle praise and a raise for their own failures.
somehistory says
and good for you giving up.
tgusa says
Giving up on that was the easiest thing I have ever done. Just as with leftism, no real effort required.
gravenimage says
Canada: Trudeau appoints ‘special representative for combating Islamophobia’
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Appalling pandering.
And what do we know about Amira Elghawaby? She has claimed that France wanting to defend against Jihad terror is wrong:
“France is undermining civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism and Canada should say so”
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/11/03/france-is-undermining-civil-liberties-in-the-name-of-fighting-terrorism-and-canada-should-say-so.html
She makes Muslims seem like the victims when a Muslim beheaded a teacher in France. Just appalling. She says that going after Muslims murdering people is “go[ing] after them for the crime of being Muslim”. She has said that that Canada should not stand in solidarity with France against Jihad murder.
tgusa says
gravenimage. It is not pandering it is fear. Fear of them. However, western establishments have not yet realized that they no longer have the support of the traditional populations who have been forced to share their space with them. That is not just one fatal mistake that is two fatal mistakes. Where this all leads who knows. But no matter what we must to never stop relentlessly applying pressure to what is reality a fake leadership.
kq6kq6kq6 says
The Muslims fly planes into our buildings. They drive trucks into our pedestrians. They stab us in the backs on buses. They shoot Jews in their synagogues. They blow up our banks to steal our money. They rape our women. But it is we infidels who are the ones with the problem (Islamophobia).
somehistory says
In their corrupted brains, the processes of what goes for thought, says we should thank them for killing us, raping us, lying to us, stealing from us, blaming us for their problems ,threatening us and never criticize or complain.
We are expected to bow down and praise them; and when we don’t, then it’s a “phobia.” And those of us with a “phobia” are in need of being murdered.
libertyORdeath says
“Diversity truly is one of Canada’s greatest strengths…”
You would think that if this was actually true, they wouldn’t have to constantly reinforce this odd perspective by incessantly chanting a version of the “diversity is strength” mantra at us every chance they get.
You know what they say about “big lies,” though…just keep repeating it until the sheep baah along mindlessly that diversity is strength while they watch the slow motion train wreck in action.
Time is definitely running out my freedom loving friends in the great white north. National suicide MIGHT be avoided with swift and decisive action. Remember that regardless of how much they tell you otherwise, a vast majority of Canadians are opposed to mass migration, the great replacement, and the cultural suicide that comes with it.
https://youtu.be/rGIY5Vyj4YM
OLD GUY says
Amazing the stupidity of Trudeau, thinking that Islam is in Canada to make Canada a better place to live for Canadian citizens. I wonder if he will have a problem with Islamophobia after they rape and murder his family right before his beheading. Islam wants to control the world, PERIOD!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Canada is completely lost. Either we need a wall, or better yet, merge-and-resplit the US and Canada. All Democrat and Liberal parts will be one country, called Canada, and will include Eastern Canada from ON on east, as well as CA, OR, WA, IL, CO and all states from MD to ME. Either Washington or Ottawa can be the capital. The rest of it can be the US, have a distributed capital in various cities, and be governed under the US constitution. Have a population exchange b/w the 2 where everyone on the Left to Center-Left moves to Canada, and everyone on the Right to Center-Right move to the US. Then build a wall b/w the 2. Canada can take in everyone from Mexico to Argentina, as well as all of Africa, while the US can have restricted, merit-based legal immigration while giving first priority to its own citizens