The Huffington Post:
……… That sums up the headlines we’ve seen about Canadian Muslims over the past few months. And when it comes to the reality of our Muslim community, it’s a reflection about as accurate as a funhouse mirror.
What Canadians don’t hear enough about is the positive contribution Muslims citizens are making to our society and to the world. The distorted narrative is hardening Canadian attitudes towards our own citizens. An Angus Reid poll in October, 2013 found that 54 per cent of Canadians have an unfavourable opinion of Muslims. If surveyed today, we fear that number may even be higher.
According to the most recent Canadian census, Canada has more than one million Muslims citizens — they’re our country’s fastest growing religious population. And with a median age of 28, they’re also our youngest. Yet sadly, when we searched Canadian news articles online using the keywords “young Muslim,” seven of the top 10 articles that came up concerned violence and radicalism.
