A recent media report about a threatening email sent to Muslim students at the University of Calgary is deeply unsettling — but, for many of us, not entirely surprising.

The message targeted the Muslim Students’ Association, leaving students shaken and questioning their safety in a space that is meant to foster learning and belonging.

As an Ahmadiyya Muslim woman, I read this story with a familiar weight. Our community is guided by the principle of “Love for All, Hatred for None,” a motto that calls us to respond to hostility with compassion and service. Yet, like many Muslim communities, we often find ourselves navigating suspicion, hostility and misrepresentation.

Such incidents underscore a difficult truth: Islamophobia does not differentiate between sects, cultures or personal interpretations of faith. It flattens our diversity into a single narrative — one that too often casts us as outsiders.

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What resonated most with me was not only the threat itself, but its emotional aftermath. One student spoke about feeling unsafe in a country........

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