Uproar over Amira Elghawaby appointment proof of need for someone like her in the job. If Islamophobia can’t be frankly confronted in Quebec, of all places, there’s no point in having a national representative on the issue. Opinion by andrewphil
for appointing someone he smeared as “anti-Quebec, anti-Jewish and anti-police.”
who is a human-rights activist as well as being Jewish. They cited a poll showing 88 per cent of Quebecers who hold anti-Muslim views supported Bill 21, and wrote that “unfortunately” most Quebecers seemed at that moment to be swayed “by anti-Muslim sentiment.” Elghawaby’s other supposedly offensive comments have also been twisted out of shape. As for being “anti-Jewish,” her appointment was welcomed by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, the country’s leading Jewish organization, as well as by Irwin Cotler, Canada’s special representative on antisemitism. If she’d taken anti-Jewish positions, you’d think they’d have noticed.
As a human-rights activist she challenges Canadian complacency, but that hardly disqualifies her from serving as a “champion, adviser, expert and representative” on fighting anti-Muslim hatred. On the contrary.
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