Spell Check

By Sniffles

It must be totally un-fun to be a Muslim American these days. Thanks to the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, American women in headscarves are getting harassed, American mosques are receiving threats of arson and mayhem, and — as usual — Republican Presidential candidates are going off the deep end. (P.S.: Please, Muslim Americans, take note: We Democrats will be happy to welcome you into our voting ranks next November.)

But even Canada isn't immune to this bad behavior. Up in Calgary, Alberta, commuters at one subway station stumbled upon disgusting (and totally misspelled) anti-Muslim graffiti on their way to work. Why are racists and bigots always so illiterate? By the way, the image above was not censored by us — but it doesn't take a lot of effort to imagine what the graffiti writers wanted to do to "Syrea."

Happily, however, a group of Calgarians responded by showing up with giant red hearts that bore messages of tolerance and inclusion:

And they even spelled stuff right!

So all is not lost. Because unlike their English-language-challenged fellow citizens, these folks are living the spirit that the late NDP leader Jack Layton urged on Canadians back in 2011:

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world." We cats PURR.