FATAH: Islamic call to prayer turns ugly
Tarek Fatah
Published:
May 20, 2020
Four weeks ago, when Toronto City Councillor Paula Fletcher facilitated the Islamic call to prayer at a Toronto mosque, she described it as “beautiful†and “East End Love.â€
As the former leader of the Communist Party of Manitoba, she must have known of Mao Zedong’s most well-known quote, “A single spark can start a prairie fire.â€
The fear of many Muslims that the mixing of state and religion would cause irreparable damage to our society, and that the loudspeaker had absolutely nothing to do with Islam, fell on deaf ears. We Muslims who stood up to some of the medievalists within our ranks found ourselves being labelled as ‘Islamophobes’ by the country’s left-liberal and even conservative political establishments.
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