There's certainly evidence of anti-Muslim sentiment in the USA. But don't try to paint the Americans as the cause of it in our own country. Canada's anti-Muslims sentiment is all our own.

Before Trump was on the radar, the Harper Conservatives were using sentiment against Muslims as a political tool. Meanwhile the Quebec government was on its own cultural pogrom, attempting to wipe out any signs of Muslim identity in Quebec society. And don't get me started on the hysteria over Muslim women wearing a veil.

The animosity and hatred we're seeing towards Muslims in Canada is not an American thing. They're not trying to make wearing a veil illegal. The animosity and hatred is in Canadians. We made it and we nurtured it and some have acted on it. It's one plus one equals two. Amazingly, there are those who deny the simple math,