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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2017-06-28, Page 44 Huron Expositor • Wednesday. June 28, 2017 Seaforth Huron Expositor Denouncing PUBLISHED WEEKLY — EST. 1860 P.O. Box 39, 53 Albert Street Clinton, Ontario NOM 1L0 phone: 519-482-3443 www.seaforthhuronexpositor POSTMEDIA CURTIS ARMSTRONG Group Director of Media Sales 519-376-2250 ext. 514301 cr czrinstraxj@postmeciacom Fi SHAUN GREGORY Multimedia Journalist sgregory@postmedia.com 519-482-3443 Ext. 527305 NANCY DEGANS Media Sales Consultant ndegans@postmedia.com 519-482-3443 Ext. 527306 TERESA SMITH Front Office TSmith@postmediacom 519`482-3443 ext. 527301 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 YEAR $50.00 (47.62+2.38 GST) 2 YEAR $95.00 (90.48+4.52 GST) SENIORS 60 WEEKS $50.00 (47.62+2.38 GST) 120WEEKS $95.00 (90.48+4.52 GST) Publications Mail Agreement No. 40064683 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT P.O. 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For more information or to file a complaint go to www. mediacouncil.ca or call toll free 1-844-877-1163. Member of the Ontario Community Newspaper Association and the Canadian Community Newspaper Association. We acknowledge the1+1 financial support of the anaaa Government of Canada. intolerance of all forms in Canada cycle of violence is ramping up in the West. Radical Islam has spurred jihadist violence. And misguided responses to it have resulted in assaults against innocent Muslims. All of these incidents are wrong. They need to be roundly denounced. We also need to talk about why they are happening and seriously address the problem. On Sunday evening, a man drove his van into con- gregants in front of a mosque in London. And on Monday, a suspected jihadist tried to ram his vehicle into police in Paris. These stories should be shocking, surprising and make us angry. But they've become almost commonplace. This shouldn't be the case. We should be outraged whenever a jihadist strikes and whenever an innocent Muslim is assaulted. Canadians like to pretend this is an issue that only hap- pens elsewhere -- in Europe or in the United States. We wish that was true. Tragically, it is not. It's been a couple of years since the attacks in Saint- Jean -Sur -Richelieu and on Parliament Hill. Other attacks since have been thwarted by law enforce- ment, like the VIA Rail plot and the Strathroy incident. But other problematic inci- dents, large and small, have happened in recent months. Six people were killed and others injured following a shooting at a mosque in Montreal. Several radical imams in Canada have called for the deaths of Jews. Recently, a cab driver in Toronto made a serious threat to our columnist Tarek Fatah. A woman east of Toronto was charged after harassing. an innocent Muslim women on the street. The threat of radical Islam is real. Violence towards reg- ular Muslims is also real. But how do we address these challenges? Increas- ingly, they are not isolated incidents. They are signs of a deeper problem. As our Canada 150 cele- brations near, people across this country are talking about Canadian culture and values. There is no space for jihadist sentiment in Can- ada. Their vision of the world is a backwards one that all Canadians must unapologetically reject. This includes politically correct politicians who shy away from the subject. Likewise, the misguided notion that assaulting our Muslim neighbours is any- thing but unCanadian. We need to address the cycle of violence before it worsens. Statement from PC Critic for Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Lisa Thompson on National Aboriginal Day The following is a statement from PC Critic for Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Lisa Thompson on National Aboriginal Day: "Today we celebrate the cul- ture, heritage and history of Ontario and Canada's First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples. 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