Islamophobia

Letter February 19, 2017
Demanding an end to hate does not entail the end to freedom of expression

TORONTO: Conservatives who are fuming about a motion in the Canadian Parliament to curb anti-Islam hatred that is growing like fire need to reexamine their principles and values. Muslims deserve respect like everyone else. The hate against them which led to the Quebec massacre must stop. It is not asking too much for a victim to say to the bully, “I can’t take it anymore.” We are not in a jungle where the beast follows its natural instinct to terrorise the weak. Demanding an end to hate does not entail the end to freedom of expression. These people ought to be deradicalised from their crooked way of thinking, as if Muslims were cow meat on the menu at the dinner table.

Abubakar N Kasim

Published in The Express Tribune, February 19th, 2017.

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