Barbara Kay: Islamism — the threat to Canada you won't hear uttered by the Liberals

Since the October 7 pogrom by Hamas in southern Israel, Canada has seen a staggering surge in antisemitism, up 670 per cent in 2024, and in terrorism charges, up 488 per cent from April 2023 to March 2024. In both cases, the salient factor is Islamism.

Islamists, a small but influential fraction of Muslim communities, harbour the profound conviction that they “should deploy the necessary efforts not only to rule according to Sharia law but also to Islamize society, laws, governance, and all aspects of life…. across the Muslim world and beyond.”

Scholars in various fields, ranging from history to security studies, consider Islamism to be an existential threat to the security and cultural health of all western nations with rising Muslim populations. But “Islamism” is not a word you ever he