The Entity Formerly Known As CAIR-CAN's 5 Point Formula For Maintaining Peace and Quiet In Canada

I bet you won't be surprised to learn that its five point "solution," issued late last month, involves curbs on free speech in the name of preventing "Islamophobia" as well of a variety of measures which enshrine Muslims alone as society's perennial victims and which muddy the waters re Islam's core doctrine of jihad and the part it plays in inspiring today's holy warriors/avid caliphatists (my bolds):

First, the federal government should immediately partner with Canadian Muslim communities to fashion an effective strategy to combat extremist narratives. This new brand of terror promotion is a contemporary phenomenon that few know how to tackle. The previous government did provide limited funding for an initiative called Extreme Dialogue which highlights the experiences of a mother of a young Canadian who was killed fighting overseas for extremist groups and the experiences of a former white supremacist. There was also some funding provided to explore community resilience through workshops and public fora. We need more of this, implemented strategically across the country. 

Second, community stakeholders must come together to find new ways to teach about acceptance and to promote multiculturalism. Again, leadership is key: for example, provincial ministries of education must ensure that teachers are using the resources that national organizations like MediaSmarts and others provide to ensure curricula are taught through a lens that allows young people to identify stereotypes and to challenge popular misconceptions. We need to create safe spaces for our increasingly global classrooms. 

Third, police services must bolster hate crimes units and their responses. Victims are often reluctant to report and it’s important to provide both adequate resources and support. Perpetrators must also be swiftly brought to justice. 

Fourth, Islamophobia must be considered as offensive and as socially unacceptable as any other hatemongering out there, whether anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia or sexism. This means that even in political discourse, there must be a responsibility to ensure that questions about refugees, for example, are not giving people license to air anti-Muslim sentiments and fuel suspicions about people fleeing the very same type of terror we witnessed in Paris. 

Fifth, it’s time to take the Islam, out of ISIS. Most of the world calls this terrorist movement Daesh and ISIS has been widely condemned by Muslim scholars and institutions worldwide. Muslims and Islam should not be synonymous with a group of barbaric criminals. It hurts our communities, it hurts our children, and it only bolsters their false claims. Even law enforcement agencies agree that language has the power to cast suspicion over entire communities, and provide a veneer of credibility to the terrorists’ claims. 

Finally, Canadians must choose “love over fear,” to echo the touching sentiments expressed in a Montreal metro earlier last week by three young men who posted a video of their solidarity. Holding each other’s hands, a Muslim originally from Egypt, his friends from Paris and New York, did what many Canadians must do now—defeat the extremist narrative by coming even closer together.

All of that amounts to nothing more than this outfit's sharia-tinged wish list, and its recommendations, even if fully implemented, would to squat to put the brakes on the jihad, which is global in scale and out of control.

Update: You can always count on the "progressives" at the Toronto Star to buy in to the NCCM "victim" narrative. In today's editorial, for instance, the paper insists that "Denying anti-Islam sentiment won't solve problems."

What about those who deny Islam's anti-infidel sentiment? How, exactly, does that solve problems?