Muslim columnist accuses Canuck PM of pandering to Muslims... and Sikhs... and everybody except straight white males

Ed. here. We don't usually give this space over to a repost, in full or in part, of an opinion column written by someone else, but Agent 6 (PBUH) has sent us the link to "Dividing Canada into vote banks, one tribe at a time", by Tarek Fatah (a Muslim), in the Toronto Sun, 25/6/19. Agent 6 says Mr Fatah "accurately describes Canada’s immigration/political problems...calls a spade a spade." So he does. This piece is so good that we're going to run most of it (edited slightly for brevity), and hope that Mr Fatah and his employers will take it as a compliment and not ask for a royalty. Hey, Walt doesn't make any money on this!

The slow and steady ghettoization of Canada's urban political scene is gathering pace. Ethnicity, religion and tribalism is being promoted as a tool in the upcoming October elections, instead of debating competing visions about Canada’s future. Political commentators in the media, academics in universities and vote-hungry politicians may have become numb or blind to what is unfolding, but the rest of the world and most immigrants like me are watching our democracy being used to promote religious hatred, ethnic division and extremism overseas.

On Monday, a leader of India’s opposition Congress Party, Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh lambasted the Trudeau Liberal government over "its overt and covert support to the Khalistani movement." In a statement issued in New Delhi, Singh said, "It was more than apparent that Canada had been extending its support to Khalistanis despite New Delhi’s protestations."

To gain insight into what Amarinder Singh is talking about, one needs to take a peep into the city of Brampton just northwest of Toronto, which is a microcosm of all that ails urban Canada and how the federal Liberal Party plays a role in unwittingly inflaming racial and religious minority community divisions. All five Liberal Party candidates in that city are Sikhs, the party effectively shutting its door to the myriad of other citizens who just want to be Canadian and are not bound by religious ties to a Temple, Church or Mosque. This has led to Brampton's Hindu community throwing their weight behind the opposition Conservatives.

Elsewhere on June 21 in Toronto, many prominent Liberals appeared alongside a group called 'Canadian Muslim Vote', where Justin Trudeau himself implied opposition Conservatives were Islamophobic and racist, sending the partisan Liberal Party Muslim tribe into a thunderous applause. Notwithstanding Minister Maryam Monsef's shout-out at the event that "Muslims are rocking it in Canada," Trudeau's remarks were disgraceful as was the conduct of his Muslim vote bank who gave their handsome leader a thunderous standing ovation.

Canadian Muslim Vote? What next? Imagine a Canadian Jew Vote? How about a Canadian Catholic or Buddhist Vote? Why not Hindus as well? Shouldn’t they too rally their troops and get prepared for a medieval showdown with Muslims in our cities to rival the horror of the 1947 Partition? Now the head of the Quebec Council of Imams Hassan Guillet has also joined the Liberal bandwagon from the Montreal riding of Saint-Léonard–Saint-Michel. He told Postmedia "the Muslim community is as big as the Italian community. The demographic changed enormously."

Footnote from Walt: In case you think Tarek Fatah is making this up or simply afraid of Muslims, check out "Don’t underestimate the political power of Canada’s Muslim community", by Seher Shafiq [What part of Ireland is he from? Ed.] in the Toronto Red Star, 25/6/19, the same day that Mr Fatah's column appeared.

Another footnote from Walt: Also on June 25th Mr Socks' government unveiled its shiny new "Anti-Racism Strategy", as recommended by M-103, a motion proposed MP Iqra Khalid, who is both female and... wait for it... Muslim. M-103 was just a recommendation. Now comes the law, including a definition of Islamophobia as "includ(ing) racism, stereotypes, prejudice, fear or acts of hostility directed towards individual Muslims or followers of Islam in general. In addition to individual acts of intolerance and racial profiling, Islamophobia can lead to viewing and treating Muslims as a greater security threat on an institutional, systemic and societal level." Hmm.