Sunday, March 12, 2017

Anti-sharia hysteria based on unfounded fears



The sharia bogeyman lurks persistently around conversations about Muslims in North America.

In Canada, alarms about the menace of “creeping sharia” are sounded regularly. For instance, M-103, a non-binding parliamentary motion condemning Islamophobia, has been demonized on the website of anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller as an attempt to “enact Islamic Blasphemy Laws in Canada creating a de facto Sharia compliant state.” This is an allegation widely echoed in other fear-mongering about the motion.

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