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Andrew Lawton: “You’d think there were Qur’an burnings on every street corner in Canada…”

June 16, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

Andrew Lawton writes:

With the announcement from Statistics Canada that police-reported hate crimes against Muslims increased in 2015 — the most recent year for which data is available — many are responding, perhaps predictably, as though there is an epidemic of hate in Canada. (…)

Discussing racial and prejudicial realities is important, but in a country of over 36 million, 159 incidents hardly speaks to a broader narrative.

Hate crimes against Catholics rose by 57 per cent — yet no one is talking about them. Where’s the parliamentary motion to condemn Catholiphobia? I haven’t seen the Archbishop of Toronto call for policy changes, either.

Catholicism lacks the grievance industry driving the narrative that Muslims are Canada’s most persecuted group.

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