Very well said.  I have never seen Ms. Khan express most of the ideas her detractors ascribe to her.  Interestingly, The Guardian hired an outside firm to analyze their readers' comments.  The data indicated that when it came to news and opinion articles, negative comments were disproportionately high for articles written by women, people with brown skin and "non-traditional" names.  Sheema Khan hits all three of those categories!  Often, rather than respond to her content, people pop off with remarks about the evils of Fundamentalist Islam, the terror of Sharia Law, the horrors of multiculturalism, and how "those people" just don't integrate (I recall the same being said of Italians in the 60s.)  I find her columns often insightful and have never once seen her attack Canada; many of the posters are simply tilting at a brown, female, Muslim windmill.

Cue the frowny faces!  :)