One of the things that strikes me when we talk about the Islamists, the Muslim believers in general, is that in North America we've come to a stage where we equate that with fundamentalism. But within the Muslim communities that I meet in Hamilton, where I have a vibrant Muslim community, there's a variety of countries that they come from, and you can see very distinct differences in their belief structures.
I'm heartened to hear what you've said about the two courts, their responses, and the fact that their responses were listened to. I think that's crucial. From this side we could look at Egypt and worry that there was a breakdown occurring there, because what we have to deal with quite often isn't just the media reports that come out.
When you equate where the government, today's administration, is compared to the attitudes of the ordinary person on the ground.... When we look at the situation of the Coptic Christians who have been attacked and have had instances of hate crimes against them, my feeling from the testimony we've heard here before is that it's at a level that's more what I would refer to as the grassroots, that they're not institutionalized attacks. I'm sure there's an occasional mullah that has pushed for it, but overall, the view of the Muslim community themselves probably would be abhorrence of that. How would you see that?