If that's true, then why is the media so focused on the fact that Islamophobia is so pervasive within Canadian society as a whole? Are they implying that most Canadians are also members of an "extremist anti-muslim group"?

On that note, if this community has no Muslims and enough members of an extremist anti-muslim group to sway the vote...is it really the best location for a Muslim cemetery? How long before we have a new (politically motivated) headline regarding racist graffiti?

Instead of focusing on this one town, why aren't the Muslim groups actively looking for a more appropriate location? We have no shortage of space. They either must believe all Canadians are hardcore bigots (which is more or less the equivalent of calling all Muslims barbaric terrorists) or they are playing politics. Either way, they are moving Canada further away from multiculturalism, and fanning the flames of the very attitudes they are protesting. 

By "they" I mean the activists, not Muslims in general.