blah blah blah.

i don't want religionists running the country; this has nothing to do with his skin colour, and everything to do with his religion. sorry.

i would, have, will and will continue to treat white christian politicians exactly the same way. and, what's going on here is consequently exactly the opposite of what this article is claiming - i am refusing to treat this man differently than i would treat stephen harper or stockwell day or ted cruz or any other religious fanatic running for office.

what he's running up against is an absence of soft racism, the collapse of the expectation that people would give him a pass on his faith because he has dark skin - the refusal to look the other way when presented with a dangerous religious ideology, under the false banner of diversity.

no religion in politics. period.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/othering-jagmeet-singh-171101094423416.html

(and, fwiw, he was born in india and moved to canada as a child. but, that's not really important, here, other than to point out the ignorance of the author on the point.)

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.