A Mask on the Prairie

Peter Goodchild writing at IWC makes mincemeat of CBC's  love affair with headchoppers.


From January 2007 to April 2012, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) aired a television comedy series entitled “Little Mosque on the Prairie.” Its underlying message seemed to be that Muslims who immigrate to Canada are “just plain folks” and that any Canadian who believes otherwise is a benighted redneck. In contrast, in June 2009, in Kingston, Ontario, Mohammad Shafia murdered his wife and three of his daughters in an act referred to, sometimes with deliberate irony, as  an “honor killing”

....How much further from real Muslim life can anything get? And what is one to make of it all? As Canadians, we are expected to be infantile, and our greatest emotional displays are supposed to be reserved for hockey. We should thank CBC’s “Little Mosque” for dumbing us down and for keeping us in our place....
....Meanwhile, the world’s Muslim community is on the move. According to the “Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life,” the global Muslim population is expected to rise from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030, twice the rate of the non-Muslim population, although at a slower pace than in previous decades. The Muslim population in Canada will rise from about 940,000 in 2010 to nearly 2.7 million in 2030.


While I was living in the small country of Oman, south of Saudi Arabia, from 2008 to 2011, training Omanis to become English teachers, I discovered that it is a serious mistake to portray Muslim culture as “funny and heart-warming.” It may be good, it may be bad, but it is not “funny and heart-warming.” That is because there is no such thing as “moderate Islam” versus “radical Islam.” Christianity comes in various designs, but after working with Muslims from half a dozen countries I learned that Islam comes in only one form — the one that was invented in the seventh century and has remained unchanged since then.....

via: CIReport