Trudeau makes Islamophobia worse

Vincent J. Curtis

30 Jan 2018

RE: PM pledges to fight Islamophobia

Of all his self-abasing acts of apology, one of the worst has to be his pledge, yesterday, to end Islamophobia in Canada.  To begin with, Mr. Trudeau needs to read his father’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which protects “freedom of thought.”

If a Canadian has an irrational fear of Islam, it is his constitutional right to have it, and it is constitutionally problematic for Trudeau fils to use the power of government to oblige a change in a person’s beliefs.

Islamophobia would not exist in Canada but for choices in immigration policy starting in the 1980s.  That was when Canada began to admit Muslim men and their multiple wives into Canada, turning a blind eye to the practice of polygamy.  It got worse after 9/11, when the political class of the entire western world responded to the radical Islamic terrorist outrages in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania by increasing immigration from the Muslim world.  Mr. Trudeau himself ordered the taking in of 25,000 Syrians, practically none of whom were Christian.

We can be certain than none of these refugees and immigrants live in Mr. Trudeau’s neighborhood, either the one in Ottawa or Montreal.  He did, however, enjoy the hospitality of The Aga Khan.

The forced and unnecessary change to Canadian demographics quite unsurprisingly caused alarm among some of those who follow world events.  Their concern was met with accusations of racism and Islamophobia by the likes of Mr. Trudeau.  They were told that they had to adapt, while the immigrants were put under no obligation to assimilate themselves to Canadian culture.  "Diversity is a strength," they were told, quite irrationally.

You have to wonder whose country this is: the people who built it into the desirable place it became, or the immigrants who come to enjoy Canada and want it to accept Sharia supremacism?

If Mr. Trudeau wants to end Islamophobia in Canada, he can begin by not making the problem worse himself.  Stop immigration from the Muslim world, and put pressure on the Muslim immigrants here to assimilate into Canadian culture.  And he should stop antagonizing people with accusations of “Islamophobia.”

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