Yes, but even so, when Tarek Fatah testified at the M103 hearings he says he was treated so shabbily and with such hostility by Liberal and NDP members that one of them called him afterward to apologize. The Southern Poverty law Center put both Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Maajid Nawaz on its list of Islamophobe hatemongers. And does anyone think Irshad Manji will be testifying before the Islamophobia committee?
And that's nothing new. I've Tarek Fatah is the guy I always think of when I think of how Muslims could exist in a modern, progressive, pluralistic society. He's one of the good-guys. But the way most progressives talk about him, it's like he's the worst person since Hitler. I've seen him called an "Uncle Tom", and a sell-out, and "the Muslim that Muslim-haters go to to justify their hatred of Muslims" and "the 'Some of My Best Friends Are Muslims' Muslim". That's crap. The progressives by and large are so oversensitive to criticism of Muslims that anybody-- even a Muslim reformer like Tarek Fatah-- who'd dare criticize Muslims must be attacked and silenced.
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