Poking the Camel's Nose into the Tent

Vincent J. Curtis

26 Jan 2018

RE; Islamophobia is alive and well (Hamilton Spectator, Jan 26, 2018)

For someone raised and educated in Canada, Dr. Raza Khan seems strangely unaware of certain facts of recent Canadian history.  In particular, the threats to national unity since the FLQ crisis of 1970 and the admission that Quebec constitutes a distinct society within Canada come to mind.  What Khan wants English Canada to do is intervene on behalf of Muslims in Quebec on a cultural matter, the central point of Quebec’s distinctness.

Khan seems to care more about Muslims in Quebec than he does about the unity of Canada.

Khan seems also quite unaware of other facts.  For example, the murderer of those fourteen women at the Ecole Polytechnique was originally named Gamil Gharbi and was the son of an Algerian Muslim who so abused his wife that she left him and renamed their son.  At the time, we did not associate the misogyny inherent to Islamic culture with these murders, but now we can see that dots connect.  Khan doesn’t realize that we now know of the misogyny and anti-Semitism inherent in Sharia law, the core tenets of Islamic society.

It is wrong indeed that six men were killed while worshiping in a mosque in Quebec, but similar outrages on a larger scale occur monthly in the Middle East, to say nothing of the outrages perpetrated against Coptic Christians in Egypt by Muslims.  Okay, Canada is not the sh*thole that these other countries are, but what accounts for the difference?  The dominant culture.

Khan seems to think that Sharia supremacism can be insinuated into Canadian and Quebec culture, and thrusting outrage and perpetual offendedness are his means of getting the camel’s nose into the tent, so to speak.

Khan and his friends need to take a number and wait in line.  And there are plenty of other grievance-mongers ahead of him in that line, starting with the aboriginals.  If Khan really wants domestic peace in Canada, he could start by blending in, and stop thrusting Islamic differences, self-pity, and claims to special privilege in the faces of those of the dominant culture.

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