Bad Optics: A Canadian Islamic Congress Islamic History Month Event at National Defense Headquarters? Really?

Yes, really:

Title: ISLAMIC HISTORY MONTH CANADA CELEBRATION
Location: National Defense Head Quarters Concourse
Description: Join the Defence Visible Minority Advisory Group (DVMAG-NCR) on 12 October 2011 at 1000 hrs in the NDHQ Concourse to celebrate Islamic History Month.
ISLAMIC HISTORY MONTH CANADA CELEBRATION
Guest Speaker – Shifa Tauqir
Keynote Speaker – Senator Salma Ataullahjan
Guest Speaker – Professor Houchang Hassan-Yari
Cultural Food Tasting and Performances

Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2011-10-12

Cultural food tasting and performances, eh? How, er, multicultural.

Does it seem to you, as it sometimes does to me, that we've sold our soul for the chance to sit at a table and pass some tasty samosas?

BTW, here's a poem by guest speaker Shifa Tauqir. Make of it what you will:

Changing Identities

I am an ant. You are a giant. Times are changing. You are growing. I used to crush you. Now, I am overpowered. Will this process ever be reversed? Will I ever become me again? I want to be a bird.I want YOU to be a bird.

 M'kay. I'm a bird. Tweet tweet.