In this interconnected world of ours, no news is foreign and no country is safe from the after-effects of earth-shaking events across the globe. This is especially true if such events take place in democratic countries bound together with respect for liberal secular rule of law, not religious dogma that reinforces medieval misogyny.

On Saturday, the people of India who share many of the institutions we Canadians hold dear, gave a shock to the ruling elites and chattering intelligentsia that has sent them reeling into their private clubs, shocked that the ordinary Indian had stood up to the Indian Mullahs who control the supposed Muslim Vote Bank and the traditional caste-based voting among the country’s Hindu majority.

In state elections of India, the prize of the largest state Uttar Pradesh (UP) is the crown and Prime Minister Modi’s right-wing BJP was supposed to bite the dust as various religion and caste-based parties joined hands to defeat Mr. Modi’s provincial team.

To sum up the shock verdict Indians gave to politicians pandering to the Muslim vote (about 30% of the electorate in some constituencies), the Muslim-majority city of Deoband that produced the ideology of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda had an 80% Muslim population, yet the only Muslim candidate on the list suffered a defeat at the hands of a Hindu running for the BJP.

Never in recent history have India’s Muslims so aggressively rejected the advice of self-styled Muslim community leaders invoking “Islamophobia” every time anyone objected to India’s archaic Muslim laws that permitted child marriage, instant divorce and “temporary marriage” of teenage girls to visiting Arab Sheikhs.

Now comes a random sampling of public opinion taken by The Forum Poll™ among 1,340 Canadian voters that does not bode well for Prime Minister Trudeau and his Islamophobia-promoting MP, Pakistan-born Iqra Khalid that raises the spectre of Canadians being vilified as racist of they criticise any aspect of Islamic Sharia Law or history.

Of the Canadians surveyed, 40% think the motion put forward by Khalid should remove the focus on one specific religion, while 31% said that all religions should be mentioned in the motion, and only (14%) say that the motion should be left as is.

The Forum Research poll reports that “More than seven-in-10 favour amending this motion in some way; even 71% of Liberal supporters would see revisions to it.“

Chances are the Islamist-inspired motion will go through Parliament as the opposition Conservatives seem to not have a spine while the NDP is only too happy positioning Islamists as victims.

But come election time, Trudeau should realize that if in India, voters can stand up against Islamism, then he may have a short lifespan in the renovated residence of the prime minister.