Trudeau: Opposition to “anti-Islamophobia” motion is sexism
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested that some of the opposition to Islamophobia legislation was an example of sexism.It could not be further from the truth that sexism is in any way involved in opposing MP Iqra Khalid’s anti-Islamophobia motion M-103.
A private member’s motion was passed in March by female Member of Parliament Iqra Khalid, that identified a “public climate of hate and fear” in Canada and demanded that Islamophobia be treated as a hate crime and be subject to prosecution under the Canadian criminal code.Scrutiny and criticism of any religion has never been deemed a crime in the West. If Islam is to be treated equally, then it should not be immune from criticism. Given the global crimes against humanity committed by jihadists and Islamic supremacists today, it is fundamental to scrutinize Islam. The Indonesian Muslim scholar Yahya Cholil Staquf, general secretary of the 50-million-member Nahdlatul Ulama, stated:
“Stop pretending that orthodox Islam and violence aren’t linked…The West must stop ascribing any and all discussion of these issues to “Islamophobia.” Or do people want to accuse me — an Islamic scholar — of being an Islamophobe too?”The inconvenient truth is that Islamic supremacists globally are persecuting Christians on a genocidal scale; killing other Muslims deemed not Muslim enough (over 11 million since 1948); abusing minorities and women; seeking to obliterate the Jewish state of Israel; and infiltrating Western nations (which they consider part of the House of War). Infidels are beheaded, an alarming number of “white girls” in the U.K. are raped and abused by Muslim grooming gangs because of their race and creed; gays are thrown off rooftops; beheadings and stonings are still sanctioned for crimes in Sharia states; women are worth less than men under the Sharia; FGM is practiced routinely worldwide; it is blasphemy to criticize or mock Muhammad; and it is illegal to challenge the Sharia, as it is regarded as divine law.
Questioning and public scrutiny of Islam are not the same as attacking all Muslims, and to criminalize so-called “Islamophobia” is an affront to democratic principles; free speech is a cornerstone of any free society. Canadians are not hatemongers, but are generally peaceful, accepting and tolerant. To impose anti-Islamophobia motion M-103 is a sad commentary on what the Trudeau government thinks of Canadians.
If Iqra Khalid’s Motion M-103 had been presented explicitly as an anti-Muslim bigotry motion, chances are high that Canadians would have accepted this motion, despite the fact that Jews and blacks are the biggest targets of hate crimes; but Khalid was rigid on that motion being an “anti-Islamophobia” one; thus dividing a once peaceful country. “Anti-Muslim bigotry” is prejudice and intolerance against Muslims; “Islamophobia” has been used in the same way, but also to refer to criticism of Islam. The claim is that to have any concern about any aspect of Islam (however justified) is to target Muslims; therefore one must not criticize it. M103 also declares Islam to not be connected to violence, intolerance and hate. It is important also to recall that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has an entire Observatory aimed at compelling Western states to criminalize “Islamophobia.”
It is not sexism against her to oppose motion M-103. To suggest such a thing is grasping at straws.
“Trudeau: Opposition To ‘Islamophobia’ Law An Example Of Sexism”, by David Krayden, Daily Caller, September 12, 2017:
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested that some of the opposition to Islamophobia legislation was an example of sexism.
Speaking Friday to a Women in the World conference in Toronto, Trudeau took aim at the official opposition Conservatives and accused them of not recognizing gender equality.
A private member’s motion was passed in March by female Member of Parliament Iqra Khalid, that identified a “public climate of hate and fear” in Canada and demanded that Islamophobia be treated as a hate crime and be subject to prosecution under the Canadian criminal code.
“Women who have made it, who have succeeded, who have gotten elected are now two years into it and wondering ‘Is this really what I signed up for?’ because of the nastiness, because of the negativity,” Trudeau said, according to the Canadian Press.
He said the Toronto-area Liberal MP “ended up experiencing death threats and a level of online violence and commentary and viral videos against her that were quite terrifying.”
Khalid went through a “very difficult time” and considered resigning as an MP, Trudeau said. Critics of her motion said it would be a threat to free speech in Canada.
Trudeau also suggested that the Conservatives are also exhibiting more “pushback” than are U.S. negotiators to the prime minister’s insistence that gender equality and climate change issues be enshrined in a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement.
“The pushback we’re getting is actually not from south of the border, the pushback we’re getting is from Canadian Conservatives who said ‘Oh no this is about economics, it’s about jobs. … It’s not about rhetorical flourishes of being good on environment or being good on gender,’” Trudeau said.
Trudeau suggested the Conservatives are a “supposedly responsible political party…that still doesn’t get that gender equality is a fundamental economic issue”……
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