Powerful Nike commercial featuring athletes who are exclusively Muslim women.
Islamaphobia is the stupid word the MSM chose to apply to fear of and discrimination & racism against Muslims. Like any form of bigotry and racism, the misconceptions are based on ignorance. Although there are many Muslims in Canada, like any immigrant population, they are concentrated in spots here and there. A great many Canadians have not even seen a real live Muslim Canadian much less had a conversation with one. Apparently this makes fear an easy sell.
Here in Canada, apparently, we have dogwhistle politics, where politicians ride waves of fear to prominance. MP Kellie Leitch is seeking leadership of the Conservative Party based on “Canadian Values” that bear no relation to the values embraced by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The faulty justification for Islamaphobia is the belief that Islam represses women. The reality is that this is no more true of Islam than it is of Judaism or Christianity.
Seriously, is a woman willing to stand up to the Government of Canada because she doesn’t believe it has the right to require her to dress as it sees fit in need of protection?
When Canada adopts Proportional Representation we will be well on the way to eliminating the polarization and dog whistle politics that come from our medieval First Past the Post voting system.