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National Post editorial board: Islamism’s war on women

On Monday, three Muslim women spoke at the Heliconian Hall in downtown Toronto at an event titled “Islamism’s war against women.” Journalist and activist Raheel Raza argued that the legal code known as Shariah has no basis in religion — but rather is a political artifice created as a means to leverage the Islamic faith into a tool for totalitarians and misogynists. Marina Nemat, an Iranian-Canadian woman who was tortured at Tehran’s Evin prison as a teenager, described how Iran’s revolutionaries exploited Islamist fervor to transform her pluralistic, cosmopolitan nation into a medieval prison state. Finally, broadcaster/activist Natasha Fatah lamented that even now, and even in Canada, we often are blind to Islamism’s true face: In the name of “tolerance,” we permit the sort of degradation of Muslim girls women that would be completely unacceptable if perpetrated against whites.
The crowd at the Heliconian Hall, consisting of people of many different faiths, plainly was inspired by what they heard. And many had a simple question: What can ordinary Canadians do to help ensure that Islamist values do not take root in Canada?
The answer: Voters should tell politicians — the ones knocking on doors in the lead-up to the Oct. 6 Ontario election, for example — that this is an issue they will vote on.

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