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Vincent J. Curtis

10 June 21

RE: “The attack on a Muslim family in London could have happened anywhere” Page 1 editorial written by niqab wearing Spec reporter Maria Iqbal.  June 10, 2021.

The page 1 editorial insisting that the murder-by-vehicle could have happened anywhere else besides London, ON, has all the insights of a bumper-sticker.  And all of the perspective of a Day Zero, born yesterday fanatic.  There is a massive media campaign going on to stampede public opinion, and this article is just another twig in the fire.

We don’t even know that the motivation was hatred of Muslims.  Before Islam was prominent in Canada, the 1960s and early 1970, there was notable prejudice against immigrants from Pakistan, “Pakis” as they were derisively called.  Those people were non-Muslims who were driven out of Pakistan by rising Islamic fundamentalism.

The family mown down in London were Pakistani, and the women alleged were wearing full traditional garb.  For all we know the trigger of the fatal attack could be anti-Pakistani immigrant prejudice, not anti-Islamic prejudice.  But no matter, anti-Islamic prejudice is the flavor of the month, and if you’re going to smear Canadian society with the feces of racism, that’s the one that stinks the most.

Smearing Canadian society as a whole is what this article, and the campaign of which it is a part, is all about.  It is the mirror image of what motivated the London killer: all of this kind is contemptible - except white society substitutes for the immigrant.

This polarizing stuff sharpens division, is unhelpful, and uninformed.

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