Analysis: With Muslims now making up five per cent of Canadians, politicians are responding to their leaders’ activism over the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Many Muslim leaders in the West have been flexing their electoral clout since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas’ war.
U.S. President Joe Biden, British Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have been warned by thousands of Islamic representatives that their support for Israel, however much they mix it with concern for Palestinians, will cost them access to mosques and their votes.
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2/ 83% of Canadian Muslims sympathize mostly with the Palestinians, says @angusreidorg poll.
Muslims account for 10% of the population of Greater Toronto, and up to 26% of voters in a dozen of that megalopolis’s ridings.
In Metro Vancouver, they comprise 4.2% of residents.— DouglasTodd (@DouglasTodd) March 22, 2024
