Opinion: Muslim leaders should've condemned Hamas instead of fomenting hate

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https://nationalpost.com/opinion/muslim-leaders-shouldve-condemned-hamas-instead-of-fomenting-hate

If they had spoken out against terrorism, their advocacy of the Palestinian cause would carry much more weigh

Part of the reason we are seeing division, hatred and unrest in the streets of Montreal, Toronto and other communities across Canada is due to the collective failure of Muslim leaders, in Canada and around the world, to condemn the despicable Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians.

It was a horrific and cowardly attack by a terrorist group — not by all Palestinians, Arabs or the wider Muslim community. It should have been condemned and contained immediately. Muslims who pride themselves as followers of a peaceful religion should have empathized and consoled the grieving Jews.

Muslim political and religious leaders, barring rare exceptions, chose to contextualize, equivocate and, in most cases, justify Hamas’s barbarity. What we have, as a result, is widespread hate bordering on violence in Canada — a country where communities have historically lived side-by-side in peace.

The situation got worse due to the statements made by community leaders like Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s special representative on combating Islamophobia, who did not hide her partisan and divisive outlook by clearly siding with the protesters on Canadian streets, characterizing them as “peaceful demonstrations,” even though we have seen people supporting Hamas, calling for genocide against Israeli Jews and harassing and intimidating Jewish-owned businesses.

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They're right.

The correct thing to do would have been to unreservedly condemn the attack.  "This is not to be tolerated, those who participated or orderd the attack must be caught and punished".   Period.  No 'not a vacumme' or  "well i understand why.." or  "gosh i think some isreal guy killed some palestinians in 1948 so... justified? "

But because they didn't. - and because they didn't speak out about the demonstrators celebrating the deaths, now it's hard to take ANYTHING they say seriously when they talk about how there's  'human rights" violations going on and all they did was promote hatred that will not get their people anywhere.