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I suppose it is only fair to say that Canada is considered to be one of the happier cases when it comes to integrating minorities into their society, but even the Canadians are having to deal with the international phenomenon of radicalized Muslim youth. I only wonder if this is still a growing phenomenon, or is it outdated reporting?
Is it too happy to think that Islamism has been flatlining? Is one getting carried away that there has not been any significant attacks in our country? Though, there is the new scare report about credible intelligence that Islamists are considering surgically implanted bombs to get around our heightened airport security. And lord knows that the Middle East is still boiling over and the developing tendencies do not look very promising.
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And herein lies a common misconception amongst “mainstream” Canadians: They’re convinced that, in the average Muslim household, it’s the parent who represents conservatism and tradition, and the Canadian-born children who are modern and fighting against this oppression. This is a falsehood.
Many of our parents, who immigrated here from Muslim countries in South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, did so specifically out of their respect for Western values. Elder Muslims may be modest and socially conservative in their personal lives. But, by and large, the parents in Muslim-Canadian households believe in the core values of this society. Their values systems were not based on religion but on political freedom and the desire to separate religion and state.
It’s their children – in desperate need for identity – who have turned to conservative, hard-line and politicized Islam for the answers. This trend to embrace a politicized Islam has led to bloodshed in many parts of the world and is growing rapidly – and going unchecked – in Canada.
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Muslim youth have fooled themselves into believing there was a golden age of Islam they’d like to bring back to Canada, a golden age that could bring us all into the Dark Ages. And their parents don’t know what to do.
-- NATASHA FATAH for The Globe and Mail
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(Courtesy of PolitiCartoons)
Is it too happy to think that Islamism has been flatlining? Is one getting carried away that there has not been any significant attacks in our country? Though, there is the new scare report about credible intelligence that Islamists are considering surgically implanted bombs to get around our heightened airport security. And lord knows that the Middle East is still boiling over and the developing tendencies do not look very promising.
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And herein lies a common misconception amongst “mainstream” Canadians: They’re convinced that, in the average Muslim household, it’s the parent who represents conservatism and tradition, and the Canadian-born children who are modern and fighting against this oppression. This is a falsehood.
Many of our parents, who immigrated here from Muslim countries in South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, did so specifically out of their respect for Western values. Elder Muslims may be modest and socially conservative in their personal lives. But, by and large, the parents in Muslim-Canadian households believe in the core values of this society. Their values systems were not based on religion but on political freedom and the desire to separate religion and state.
It’s their children – in desperate need for identity – who have turned to conservative, hard-line and politicized Islam for the answers. This trend to embrace a politicized Islam has led to bloodshed in many parts of the world and is growing rapidly – and going unchecked – in Canada.
...
Muslim youth have fooled themselves into believing there was a golden age of Islam they’d like to bring back to Canada, a golden age that could bring us all into the Dark Ages. And their parents don’t know what to do.
-- NATASHA FATAH for The Globe and Mail
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(Courtesy of PolitiCartoons)
