Deception, utilized in the ‘cause of Allah,’ is a legally permitted strategy found in the primary Islamic doctrine and jurisprudence. There are several forms of deception, which can be used in many ways.
Recommended by Islamic law as a ‘safe alternative’ to lying’ tawriya is when a speaker/writer asserts something that is technically true, but gives a misleading impression to the listener/reader. As such, the doctrine of tawriya permits deception in almost any situation provided that the lie is told in such a way that it is technically true.
Earlier this year Elmira Aghawaby, Canada's ‘Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia’, noted on several occasions that hate crimes (the stats are actually termed hate and ‘suspected’ hate) against the Muslim community rose by 71% between 2020 and 2021. (i)(ii)
She did not mention that in the same time period hate crimes against Catholics increased by 260% or that hate crimes against the Jewish community far exceeds any other. (iii)
Utilizing this same data, it is important to note that there were 487 hate crimes reported against a Jewish population of only 335,000. The Islamic population is 5.3 times larger, at 1.776 million. and reported 144 such crimes. This works out to one Muslim in 12,333 reporting a hate or 'suspected hate' crime, and 1 Jew in 688 (see chart below).
Jew hatred is therefore 18X higher per capita in than hate against the Islamic community - but Jews were given no Special Representative for ‘phobias’ against them, and neither were the Catholics.
Why is that? And why is it only now being admitted that there has been a steady rise in antisemitism in Canada? (iv)
It is worth remembering that the multi-culturalism celebrated in 1970’s Canada – at the time of the current Prime Minister’s father – was inclusive. Everyone welcome to celebrate together at folk fests instead of a multitude of special days for special interest groups. Canada Day represented all the people of Canada, united.
For a few, division and deception may be politically expedient - but is a special day and representative for ‘Islamophobia’ justified and does it serve to unite or divide?
Sources:
(1) Koran 2:225 https://legacy.quran.com/2/225
(2) Koran 66:2 https://legacy.quran.com/66/2
(3) Koran 5:89 https://legacy.quran.com/5/89
(4) Koran 9:1 https://legacy.quran.com/9/1
(5) Koran 48:29 https://legacy.quran.com/48/29
(6) Koran 3:28 [Tafsir Ibn Kathir Sura 3, p.49] https://archive.org/details/TafseerIbnKathirenglish114SurahsComplete/003Imran/
(7) Hadith (Bukhari 2692) https://sunnah.com/bukhari:2692
(8) Hadith (Bukhari 2947) https://sunnah.com/bukhari:2947
(9) Hadith (Bukhari 3030) https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3030
(10) Hadith (Nasai 3784) https://sunnah.com/nasai:3785
(11) Sharia, Reliance of the Traveller (r8.2, r10.2-3, Nuh Ha Mim Keller, Amana Publications 2015 https://archive.org/details/relianceofthetravellertheclassicmanualofislamicsacredlaw
(i) Speech to Senate Committee on Human Rights (3:57)
(ii) Special Representative twitter: https://twitter.com/AmiraElghawaby/status/1555328104738029568
(iii) Chart: Statistics Canada ‘Number of police-reported hate crimes motivated by religion, Canada, 2018 to 2021’ https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230322/cg-a004-eng.htm
(iv) PM Rise in anti-semitism: https://www.reuters.com/world/trudeau-says-canada-faces-scary-rise-antisemitism-after-war-middle-east-2023-10-18/
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