OTTAWA – Justin Trudeau is accusing the Harper government of deliberately stoking fear and prejudice against Muslim Canadians.The Liberal leader says Conservatives are employing the same kind of rhetoric that led to some of Canada’s most shameful displays of xenophobia: the internment of Ukrainian, Japanese and Italian Canadians during the two world wars, turning away boatloads of Jewish and Punjabi refugees, residential schools for aboriginal children.Since two Canadian soldiers were murdered by men with radical Islamist sympathies last October, Trudeau says the government has been blurring the line between the genuine threat to national security and simple prejudice.Prime Minister …read more
Source: National Newswatch
