Ughhh…
Via HuffPo:

Canadians can’t be blamed for missing the anti-Islamophobia motion that passed in parliament last week. If you Google it, you won’t get a single hit in mainstream media: not in CBC, not in Postmedia, not in the Globe and Mail, nowhere.

In fact, when this piece is published, it may be the first media piece talking about Canada’s successful anti-Islamophobia motion.

While you won’t find any coverage of the anti-Islamophobia motion that passed on Oct. 26, you will find articles about a similar motion that was defeated on Oct. 6.

Personally, I find it curious that a motion condemning Islamophobia that fails is news, while an identical motion that passes is not.

This may be a case of “anti-Islamophobia motion meets Islamophobic media.”

However you interpret it, the Muslim-Canadian community is denied an opportunity for empathy and recognition. In effect, much of the value of such motions stems from the public’s awareness of them. Without any exposure, such motions pass largely without effect.

In a similar way, Muslim-Canadians are right to feel slighted by the failure of any Canadian media — large or small — to give attention to this significant motion.

But just like many of Canada’s marginalized communities, this was just the latest affront. Rewind just three weeks earlier, when Conservative MPs prevented unanimous consent on the same motion. NDP leader Thomas Mulcair echoed the disbelief of many when he said, “I can’t see how anybody can speak out against a motion that seeks to condemn a form of hatred.”

Likewise incredulous, Liberal MP Omar Alghabra averred, “It’s troubling. [The motion was] a very non-partisan, symbolic, good, positive motion. And I thought it would be like [an] ‘apple pie and motherhood’ type of statement.”

It’s probably fair to say that refusal to support the Oct. 6 motion was an act of Islamophobia in and of itself.

Islamophobia is defined as “dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force.”