Today's Scene: We don't get to choose the battle. We only get to choose our side.

I said this years ago and I say it again today: 

 We don't get to choose the battle. We only get to choose our side. 

Right now, Canada finds itself dealing with Islamophobia and the anti-Muslim Bill 21 law in Quebec. This isn't an issue that anybody really wanted to deal with right now, at this time of wars and pandemics. 

But it's here, it's happening - we don't have a choice about that. 

We only get to decide whether we agree with what Quebec is doing, or whether we support Trudeau's appointment of Special Representative Amira Elghawaby to combat Islamophobia. 

Chantal Hebert thinks Trudeau has shot himself in the foot by appointing someone who is apparently controversial in Quebec. 

I, on the other hand, do not. :

Don't think we have a problem with Islamophobia in Canada? Check the comments under any critical post about Amira Elghawaby, the federal government's new appointee.

She deserves better. https://t.co/yw6vZ9rhY0

— Max Fawcett 🇨🇦 (@maxfawcett) February 1, 2023

Quebec continues its bizarre campaign to convince everyone that the real problem with Islamophobia is that it's terribly, terribly offensive to have suggested that it exists in Quebec and in Quebecers. #cdnpoli https://t.co/OY54mmdvDJ

— Jeff Rybak🍁 (@JeffRybak) February 3, 2023

That @AmiraElghawaby is not supported by Quebec is actually to her credit. It means that she, unlike so many Canadian politicians, has the chutzpah to state the obvious about Quebec's regressive, hateful, anti-Muslim laws. Good for her! #CDNpoli #GoodTrouble

— Matt Hopkins (@RealMattHopkins) February 5, 2023

I mean, can you imagine how crazy it’ll be if @JustinTrudeau, under pressure from a bad-faith right, fires the Muslim woman he himself appointed to address Islamophobia because she previously called out…Islamophobia? https://t.co/VNPwFRyTtN

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) February 4, 2023