The only difference between the Friday massacre of Muslims at two mosques in Christchurch and the 2017 massacre of Muslims in a Quebec City mosque is one of scale. Not terrorism by some Muslims, but “Islamic terrorism.”Tropes are never exactly the same. In Europe, euphemistic attacks on Islam and Muslims — couched in anti-immigrant, anti-multiculturalism rhetoric — became more daring and direct. By 2013, a poll showed a third of Canadians thought that Muslims — a besieged, beleaguered community — had too much power. A former columnist and editorial page editor emeritus at the Star, Haroon Siddiqui is Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University.

Source: thestar March 15, 2019 23:48 UTC