June 2023 several reports of Muslim in Uganda and Nigeria are depicting Islam in a negative light. This fuels fear of Islam. Could it be that Muslims fuel Hate & Islamophobia.
Canadian Parliament passed 2017 a motion M-103 that categorically declares Islam is a religion of peace. Those equating Islam with terrorism are propagating Islamophobia.
There is debate among academics whether the reported rise in media reports of “Muslim” atrocities is in fact instigating, so called, “Muslim” attacks.
It has been long understood by academics and interfaith bridge building scholars that people that identify as Muslim and engage in terror or Murder are either mentally ill or are DeFacto not Muslim.
Fight Global Islamophobia. October 2021 US congress woman Ilhan Omar is introducing a bill to appoint a high ranking official. This official will monitor Islamophobia worldwide. This will be done by Envoy to Fight Global Islamophobia.
The Othering and Belonging Institute reports that 33% of Muslims have experienced Islamophobia. 94% complain that Islamophobia is affecting their emotional and psychological well being.
CAIR has reportedly documented 500 anti-Muslim hate incidents in 2020.
United Nations human rights experts say ‘Muslim hatred has reached epidemic proportions.’ The U.N. also reports to have found evidence of wide-scale human rights violations. Violations include extrajudicial killings, gang rapes, and arson. Rohingya villages and schools are suffering ethnic cleansing and genocide. It is reportedly being committed by the Chinese government.
Will NCCM urge articlearticle Justin Trudeau and lobby for Canada to create a ministry dedicated to the eradication of Islamophobia & the promotion of Muslim culture?
Cleveland, Ohio, USA – July 18, 2016: People participate in the “Stop Trump!” march on the first day of the Republican National Convention. The event was organized to protest racism and attacks on immigrants and Muslims.
Genocide of Nigerian Christians. Raymond Ibrahim is an American author, columnist, critic of Islam. Some say criticizing Islam is Islamophobe. His focus is Arabic history and language. He is the author of three books. His article about Christian geocide, some say is fans the flames of Islamophobia.
The following article was published on October 10th 2021
“We have never seen an evil government in this country like the one of today. The government is fully in support of thebloodshed in Nigeria. We are being killed just because we are not Muslims. These evil Fulani jihadists are enjoying the backing of the government to go about killing people, destroying their houses and farmlands, yet when we try to defend ourselves, the government will go about arresting our people. What kind of justice is this?” — Rev. Jacob Kwashi, Anglican bishop, during a funeral for 17 murdered Christians, Morning Star News, August 30, 2021.
Canadian Liberal Goverment passed a motion m103 preceded by a petition e411
Petition to the House of Commons
Whereas:
Islam is a religion of over 1.5 billion people worldwide. Since its founding more than 1400 years ago, Muslims have contributed, and continue to contribute, to the positive development of human civilization. This encompasses all areas of human endeavors including the arts, culture, science, medicine, literature, and much more;
Recently an infinitesimally small number of extremist individuals have conducted terrorist activities while claiming to speak for the religion of Islam. Their actions have been used as a pretext for a notable rise of anti-Muslim sentiments in Canada; and
These violent individuals do not reflect in any way the values or the teachings of the religion of Islam. In fact, they misrepresent the religion. We categorically reject all their activities. They in no way represent the religion, the beliefs and the desire of Muslims to co-exist in peace with all peoples of the world.
Samer Majzoub
We, the undersigned, Citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to join us in recognizing that extremist individuals do not represent the religion of Islam, and in condemning all forms of Islamophobia.
Initiated by Samer Majzoub from Pierrefonds, Quebec
Genocide of Nigerian Christians
Equating Islam with Killing or Terrorism is by Definition Islamophobia.
That, in the opinion of the House, the government should: (a) recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear; (b) condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination and take note of House of Commons’ petition e-411 and the issues raised by it; and (c) request that the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage undertake a study on how the government could (i) develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination including Islamophobia….
“There is an ongoing genocide in Southern Kaduna targeted at the indigenous Christians population…. Not a single church or school is left standing. Not a single herdsman has been apprehended all these years. It is unfortunate that… the western media do not believe that our lives are worth any news.” — Jonathan Asake, a former member of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, The Epoch Times, August 4, 2021.
“It’s tough to tell Nigerian Christians this isn’t a religious conflict since what they see are Fulani fighters clad entirely in black, chanting ‘Allahu Akbar!’ and screaming ‘Death to Christians.'” — Sister Monica Chikwe, Crux, August 4, 20
Conclusion
The reporting of Muslim militias killing Christians is affecting the perception of Islam being a religion of peace. This is in direct contravention of both m103 and e411. If the Canadian government wants to prevent Islam being equated with genocide it must censor all reporting of Christians being slaughtered by persons that identify as Muslim.
Over 3,000 Christians Killed in Nigeria in 2021, Highest in Years: Intersociety Report
The burnt First African Church Mission of Jos is pictured on July 6, 2015 in the central Nigerian city of Jos, Plateau State, after a twin bomb blasts killed at least 44 people the day before, following a wave of mass casualty attacks blamed on Boko Haram militants. The blasts happened within minutes of each other at a shopping complex and near a mosque in the religiously divided capital of Plateau state, which the rebels have targeted before. The bombings took the death toll from raids, explosions and suicide attacks to 267 this month alone and to 524 since Muhammadu Buhari became president on May 29, according to an AFP count. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)
