Glavin: Amira Elghawaby seemed the perfect appointee to combat 'Islamophobia' — except for all the politics

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Current controversy aside, the Trudeau government\u0027s move was doomed from the start.

No matter what you might think about Elghawaby or about her harshest detractors — among whom you can count members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s own cabinet — the appointment was doomed to turn out badly, no matter who’d been picked for the post. The whole point of Elghawaby’s job — who she’s supposed to represent, exactly, and what she’s expected to be combatting — has been obscured in a shambles of pious boasts, half-truths and cynical disinformation.

At the same time, it’s not hard to make the argument that Trudeau hasn’t shown much mettle in forcefully challenging Quebec on this front himself. Today, Elghawaby told Quebeckersthat her words “have hurt the people of Quebec … I have heard you and I know what you’re feeling.” The whole point of Elghawaby’s job … has been obscured in a shambles of pious boasts, half-truths and cynical disinformation.

the former Conservative government of Stephen Harper as having done more harm to the image of Canadian Muslims than al-Qaida’s atrocities in New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001.Article content

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