Police slammed for apologizing to Ottawa Muslims During Ramadan arrests.

You know the PC culture is bad when everyone comes down on you as being too politically correct.

OTTAWA — There is one law for all Canadians, and no religious group should expect special treatment when it comes to enforcement of the law, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday.


The remarks were made in response to reports that RCMP officers had apologized for arresting Muslims on terrorism-related charges during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.


On Aug. 25, the RCMP and Ottawa Police arrested two Ottawa men — Hiva Muhammad Alizadeh, Misbahuddin Ahmed — on terrorism-related charges. A third man, Khurram Syed Sher, was arrested elsewhere.


The next day, Aug. 26, the RCMP and city police staged a special, hour-long meeting with members of Ottawa's Muslim community with the ostensible purpose of ensuring them that their community was not regarded with undue suspicion despite the arrests. However, at least one officer was heard apologizing during meeting for the arrests having occurred during Ramadan, which ran last year from Aug. 12 to Sept. 9.

Prominent members of the Muslim Canadian Congress applauded the prime minister's remarks, saying it is about time that senior government officials emphasized the unitary nature of Canadian law, and that religious sentiment cannot be allowed to interfere with the law.


"He (Harper) is right," said Salma Siddiqui, vice president of the Congress. "We have one law in Canada and it applies to everybody. We need to stop all this political correctness."


"The notion that in Ramadan you can't arrest people is so foolish," Tarek Fatah, a founding member of the Congress, told a Calgary radio station.