Dr. Sherif Emil is absolutely correct. His point about the hijab being “an instrument of oppression” is verified in Iran and other Sharia-adherent countries.
Female coverings originate from women’s position of inferiority, as stipulated in the Quran (contrary to those who insist that female coverings are “cultural”): This position is not only “oppressive,” but abusive as well.
Yet woe be unto anyone who states the truth about Islam in once-free societies such as Canada. They’re deemed “Islamophobic” and attacked by lobbies such as the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), which helped advance a definition of “Islamophobia” for the Toronto District School Board:
Fear, prejudice, hatred or dislike directed against Islam or Muslims, or toward Islamic politics or culture.
The NCCM –formerly CAIR-CAN — weighed in predictably about Dr. Emil’s article:
The Quebec Advocacy Officer for the NCCM, Lina El Bakir, said this type of article being published in a reputable journal is “infuriating.”
What’s “infuriating” is the NCCM’s interference with and stifling of the truth.
NCCM is also a recipient of Canadian taxpayer funds, in a 23-million-dollar Liberal government package associated with anti-Islamophobia motion M-103, which is supposedly designed to crack down on “hate.”
The Quebec Advocacy Officer for the NCCM, Lina El Bakir, went on an excessive tirade about “Islamophobia” and bigotry, all because of Dr. Emil’s statement about the hijab. She even raised the tragic deaths of four London, Ontario Muslims who were run over by a vehicle driven by a non-Muslim named Nathaniel Veltman.
“Online hate becomes real life violence,” El Bakir added calling back to the deadly attack on a Muslim family in London earlier this year and the Quebec mosque shootings in 2017.
It isn’t clear whether she is accusing Dr. Emil of “hate” merely for enunciating the truth about the hijab. As tragic as the mosque shootings and the deaths of the Muslim family were, so also is the genocide of hundreds of thousands of innocent Christians, murdered indiscriminately by jihadis in Africa and the Middle East, not to mention the victims of jihad attacks on the West. Two police officers were run over by a Muslim right after the London incident, leaving one dead. But that murder was given little attention by the media and politicians; a court mysteriously imposed an information ban on the first-degree murder charge against Umar Zameer, right before an “Islamophobia” summit.
No, Lina El Bakir, all Muslims will not be targeted for crimes in Canada because Dr. Emil criticized the hijab as “oppressive.”
The Canadian Medical Association Journal has done the politically correct thing and “apologized for the publication on Twitter and is ‘listening carefully to the critical feedback we’ve received.’” Too bad it does not listen to the cries of the countless women who have been jailed, assaulted, or murdered for choosing not to wear the hijab in Sharia-adherent countries.
As the West continues to lose its freedoms, the Muslim Medical Association of Canada (MMAC) is calling for an investigation of Dr. Emil. The bullying of Dr. Emil for offending Islam is absurd and reprehensible.