Anti-Muslim Postings: Donald Months and Print Media

anti-muslim postings: Have Donald Trump's months of pre-election anti-immigrant rhetoric led to a rise in racial intolerance in this country Photo Reuters We get the same Twitter feeds, we hear the same sound bites on television and radio and in the print media as well, according to Huffington Post Canada. Clearly the messages are crossing the border.'' And those messages do seem to be resonating with some Canadians, said Perry, pointing to a flurry of anti-Muslim postings on social media that followed last month's Quebec City mosque shooting. But has U.S. President Donald Trump's Muslim travel ban, his promise to build a wall on the Mexican border and months of pre-election anti-immigrant rhetoric led to a rise in racial intolerance in this country Or has such discrimination been bubbling below the surface within some segments of Canadian society, and Trump's world view and policies have merely validated such sentiments, granting like-minded people tacit permission to voice racist comments and perform hateful acts, where they might not have before I think absolutely the boundaries are porous, the borders are porous, so anything that happens in the U.S. obviously affects us,'' said sociologist Barbara Perry, a global hate crime expert at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Ont. I'm not a big user of social media, but even someone like me who's at arm's length can see the freedom people are feeling to express some pretty vicious and violent sentiments,'' she said, noting that the ability to remain anonymous makes it easier to voice politically incorrect'' opinions. More recently, former prime minister Stephen Harper spoke of Islamicism being the greatest threat to Canada and said during the 2015 election campaign he would consider banning the niqab for public servants. You might not say something out loud or you might not sign your name to something ... being expressed online, but if nobody can see your face because you've got a picture of a cute little kitty cat as your avatar, then you don't suffer repercussions, you don't think anyone's going to call you out in the same way they would in a more public and face-to-face venue.'' Simmering for years' sociology professor Still, it's important to recognize that Canada is hardly innocent when it comes to discriminatory attitudes and policies, said Rima Wilkes, a professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia, pointing to the maltreatment of indigenous people, the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act, and the internment of Japanese-Canadians and the refusal to accept Jews fleeing Nazi Germany during the Second World War. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.