It April last year, it emerged that Canada’s Supreme Court wouldn’t hear a challenge to Quebec’s secularism law (Bill C-21), which restricts religious symbols at work. In 2019, Quebec Premier François Legault “shrugged off” complaints that the anti-religious symbols law encouraged “Islamophobia,” and he was right to do so.

At that time, the National Council of Canadian Muslims (formerly CAIR-CAN, an offshoot of CAIR) vowed to continue the fight in court. They are living up to this promise, with help from CAIR.

CAIR “offered the American Muslim community’s support” for the Muslim teacher in Canada who was removed from her classroom for wearing the hijab. The NCCM is also “gathering signatures on a petition to have Prime Minister Justin Trudeau intervene.” The NCCM and the Trudeau government collaborate together against “Islamophobia.”

According to a Leger poll, “anti-islam sentiment” was the main reason behind support for the Quebec secularism bill, but no one is simply “anti-Islam.” They are anti-Islamic supremacist, that is, against the political, supremacist, aggressive, and violent aspects of Islam, but not against all Muslim individuals, some of whom reject this political system. 

Considering what Islam teaches and what the NCCM, helped to formulate as a definition of “Islamophobia” at Canada’s largest district school board, the Toronto District School Board, it is no wonder that suspicion arises; the bill is unfair in its current form to all people of faith. The definition of “Islamophobia” that the NCCM helped formulate labeled “fear, prejudice, hatred or dislike directed against Islam or Muslims, or towards Islamic politics or culture” as “Islamophobia.”