Kathleen Wynne, the Mosqueteria Candidate

Tarek Fatah reveals how Ontario's premier-elect (elected by handful of hacks and activists) reached out to a very special segment of society:

As Ontario Liberals converged on Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens to elect their new leader, Kathleen Wynne’s team sent out a mass e-mail to delegates seeking their support. Nothing extraordinary, except this message was filtered so it would not reach all delegates, only the roughly 100 Muslims among them.

Here is part of that message: 

“Dear Muslim Delegates, Assalamu Alaikum: 

“We appeal to you all to join us in supporting Kathleen Wynne to become the leader of OLP and thus next premier of Ontario … She had openly defended Muslims’ religious rights for Friday prayers in Valley Park Middle School in her riding.” The bulk e-mail was followed by a direct letter from Wynne to Muslim delegates touting her credentials, specifically noting her support for “the Muslim prayer issue at Valley Park Middle School.” The fact many Liberal Muslims had vociferously opposed the mosque-in-school initiative was lost on Wynne. 

This was actually a case of a Liberal candidate choosing to abandon Liberal Muslims in a bid for Muslim support. 

The e-mail touting Wynne as a good-for-Muslims-candidate was signed, among others, by Abdulhuq Ingar, the man behind the establishment of the Mosque in Valley Park Middle School.

Assalumu Alaikum to you, Ms. Wynne. And how odd of you, a feminist and a lesbian, to try to appeal to those who practice gender segregation. (I hear that at the Valley Park mosqueteria, chicks are barricaded behind the guys, chicks on the rag sit at the very back, and lesbians aren't allowed into the room. ;) )


I don't see any lesbians--or feminists. Do you?