Is Islamophobia for real or just fear-mongering?
The answer of course is Canada. Our impact on Canada has forced almost every urban secondary school to allocate space for makeshift mosques and, at times, cafeterias where Islamic clerics go to give sermons to ensure gender segregation and lecture our youth on how to reject the western way of life.  No Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, Jew or Bahai demands special prayer rooms inside workplaces, universities, or washrooms to accommodate mid-day washing rituals Muslims undergo. No manager dare say no to our request and, if they do, Lord help them en route to the Human Rights complaints office. Everything we ask we get, including call to prayers on mosque loudspeakers in neighbourhoods where the majority of the population is not even Muslim. Pious and religious Muslims who pray five times a day invoke a verse that refers to Jews as people who have incurred the wrath of Allah and Christians as people who have been led astray.  The actual verse of the Quran says:  Guide us to the straight path  The way of those upon whom you have bestowed your grace  Not the way of those who have earned your wrath  Nor of those who went astray  From the Quran published in Saudi Arabia to its interpretation by the 8th century jurist Ibn Kathir, all claim that these words or derision are meant to describe Jews and Christians. If its true that Islamophobia exists in Canada, then our country is not alone. Wherever we Muslims live or have moved as a minority, the fact is it is our behaviour in relations with the majority and our contempt for the host communitys religion and civilization has aroused in them this supposed irrational fear of our faith Islam or our presence as Muslims. Be it in France or Russia, The Philippines or India, Mozambique or Nigeria, wherever we exist, a tiny minority of Islamists are bound to emerge, take leadership and trigger conflict with the kaafirs (derogatory word for our non-Muslim neighbours). And we dont have to go far to gauge the contempt we have for the non-Muslim, be it Hindu or Jew, our main targets. At the vigil in London, Dr. Munir El-Kassem, an Islamic cleric who once served as the chaplain of the London Police Service, revealed his pent-up feelings by drawing a parallel between the Palestinian-Israel conflict and the tragedy that descended on London. No matter what, the solution to Islamophobia lies within us. Lets not wear the Muslim Brotherhood political flag on our heads and then pretend it is a command from Allah. Stop dressing up as medieval Arabs when visiting mosques. Stop defending polygamy and child marriage as fundamental Islamic rights, and above all stop trying to sneak Sharia Islamic law into Canada by brokering the Muslim vote bank because there isnt any such thing. Photo Credit : Getty Images  Email: tarek.fatah@gmail.com  Twitter: @TarekFatah  Like this: Like Loading...