by Tarek Fatah
On June 9, 2021, following a horrific attack on a Muslim family by a truck driver in London that killed four family members, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared his intention to appoint Canada’s first special representative on combatting Islamophobia.
On Jan. 30, 2023, Trudeau made good on his promise when he appointed Hijabi Islamic activist Amira Elghawaby, an official at the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), formerly the Canadian Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN), the group whose American parent organization CAIR got listed as an ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ in a terror funding case in the U.S.
At the time, I asked Trudeau in these pages not to waste money on funding those who are sworn enemies of western civilization, gender equality, LGBTQ rights, individual liberty, freedom of speech and conscience and all the things that make us proud as Canadians and humble enough to not gloat about it.
Suppose there was a need to fight Islamophobia (whatever that word means). In that case, it should start first with Canadian Muslims denouncing their supremacist belief in the superiority of their religion over all other faiths.