“The Canadian Muslim Congress” Canada’s Worst Enemy and its Hidden Agenda

By Abir A Chaaban

The National Post published an article titled Survey shows Muslim population is fastest growing religion in Canada. The article quotes what is called the “the Canadian Muslim Congress". A Muslim organization organized by Pakistani Muslims claiming representation of all Muslim communities of Canada that do not wish to be represented by another Muslim organization.The Canadian Muslim Congress is an organization that aims at domination and control. It aims at the construction of a religious identity of Muslims who are secular which is an oxymoronic conceptual paradox. The Congress claims to speak of behalf of secular Canadians of Muslim origin without being legitimately granted such delegation by any secular Canadian citizen . It thus, alienates Canadian citizens and strips them of their individuality.

Going to the comments section of the National Post article, the battle was between the Jews and any secular Canadian from an Arab or Muslim origin. The attack was against this that argued that this Congress is a representative of the Pakistani group that runs it. At the comments sections, I was attacked of being a terrorist. I was called names. I was also asked to leave Canada by the Jewish individuals that used foul language and aggressive methods to intimidate any individual that argued against the Wahabi-Salaf, and Pakistani practice of Islam, or forwarded the notion that Wahabi-Salaf radical sect or the Pakistani version of Sunnis does not represent all sectarian Muslim groups in Canada.It is important to note that the Jews have a similar organization in Canada called “the Jewish Congress".

The Canadian Muslim Congress and the Jewish Congress are ideological organizations with a hidden agenda. Their aim is to construct a sub-identity of the Canadian citizen. Such identity is established based on racial birth into a specific religion. These organizations aim at taking control of the secular, public and individual citizen, and undermine the value of the Canadian citizenship. They aim at creating sectarian divisions within Canada based on organizing religious ideologies that are outwardly secular, and implicitly violent. The question is where is the media and government taking the Canadian citizen that cherishes her freedom and autonomy, and why have Pakistani Muslims become the representative of secular Middle Eastern citizens in Canada.


I came to Canada because it promised the dream of freedom, autonomy, individuality, self expression and opportunity. I was received with anger and hostility. I was accused of being the perpetrator of a crime I did not carry-out. I was persecuted for a wrong I did not commit. I was denied the freedom that I once had. I was forced to live in fear. I became a group not an individual. I was denied my freedom to believe or not believe. I was framed, colored and converted to a religion I did not even know before I came to Canada. I was painted to be someone I was not and I never recognized. I became lost when I knew who I was.

In Canada, I learned that I came to a culture that must construct multiple identities and is incapable of being simply Canadian. This was not any different from Lebanon a country that is incapable of constructing a Lebanese identity and strives on constructing sectarian antagonism. I came to a culture that does not believe in individuals, but in groups. This was no different from Lebanon's sectarian grouping. I came to a culture that oppresses you by categorizing you based on religion, even if you do not have a religion. In Canada they call it multi -cultural communities. In Lebanon they call it multi-sectarian communities. I see it as a culture of multi-oppressive communities. A culture whose survival depends on constructing religious antagonist identities of superiors and inferiors based on religion and ideology.

I did not come to Canada to emerge into an Arab Canadian or to a Muslim Canadian. I came to Canada to be an autonomous individual Canadian citizen. I came to Canada to be an individual and not to join yet another sectarian or cultural group. I was neither an Arab nor a Muslim before I came to Canada. I am now forced to become and identify with communities that I never knew, and I do not wish to know. If I wanted to become an Arab Canadian I would have moved to Arabia. If I wanted to be a Muslim Canadian I would have chosen to live in a Muslim State. I came to Canada from a secular state and I cherished my secularism back there. Why should Canada force me into becoming a religion or a religious group that is oppressed when I was originally free. I came to Canada escaping a civil war and not escaping oppression. I hoped to live in a peaceful state not a state that promotes the very causes of the civil war I escaped.

Canada must know that the categorization of groups based on religion, race and origin are the core causes of civil conflict. Is this where Canada wishes to go?