Sweet Wahida Says Muslims Are the New Jews (And Jews are Sorta Like the New Nazis)

I think I understand why the Canadian Islamic Congress was so keen to get the government to designate October as Islamic History/Heritage Whatever Month. It was to try to put the brakes on all the "Islamophobia" that's out there, the kind that has targeted Muslims in the same way that the Nazis once targeted Jews. The CIC's Wahida Valiante 'splains it all in this tres informative Media Matters piece. Here's my favorite part, the section where everyone criticising Islam is a Jew--even the ones who aren't (Jewish):

Samuel Huntington's co-religionists, Daniel Pipes (Middle East Policy Advisor), Steve Emerson (Jihad in America), and Bernard Lewis (Roots of Muslim Rage) have lead the sustained media assault on Muslims in North America and on Islam as a religion. For more than a decade they have pumped out denigrating and demonizing images of Muslims as "the others," juxtaposing them with idealized images of "civilized" Americans. It is no coincidence that Bernard Lewis, America's foremost Islamophobic spokesperson, wrote his article "Roots of Muslim Rage" immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union (Atlantic Monthly, September 1990). Samuel Huntington followed in 1993 with his infamous "The Clash of Civilizations" (Foreign Affairs): he obviously modelled his title from missionary Basil Matthews' 1926 book "Young Islam on Trek: A Study in the Clash of Civilizations."

Their obsession with Islam has caused them somehow to retard their thinking processes to the point where they are compelled to repeat the same formulas again and again. Regrettably, others have joined in on the vitriol against Islam and its adherents. Novelist V.S. Naipaul, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for his anti-Islam book, after September 11, 2001, reacted to that tragedy with his own hawkish diatribe on clashing civilizations,in which he grandiosely affirmed Islam's supposed calamitous effect on world "civilization."

Hence the need for an Islamic History/Heritage month, to counteract all the, er, "Jewish" aspersions. (Huntington and Emerson members of the tribe? News to me, but maybe they changed their named from Horowitz and Emerstein, eh, Wahida?) Funny that a government so strongly pro-Zionist would be the one to okay the thing.