Thursday, December 18, 2008
Quebec - Exit Christmas?
In the advanced settings, it was hot gorges at the beginning of the last election, the head of who ADQ had likened the current Ethics and Religious Culture multiculturalism to work at the censorship of Christmas and its symbols in Quebec schools. Nonsense, repeated chorus of parrots regime that eventually do more to the trial of Mario Dumont. The events confirm yet the insight of the head adequacy, whose absence is already being felt, which had seen that multiculturalism is an ideology that unfolds laminated by large swathes national identity does in no spare.
The edition of Le Devoir, 11 December confirmed a release followed another. In the first, it was announced the Prime Minister to the illumination of Christmas tree of the National Assembly. In the second, we announce a "slight modification". There is talk now of the Christmas tree. Then a third novel, to crown it all: the Prime Minister giving his name to the fir in question. Translate the sequence of events: the communication experts of the Prime Minister had the impression of committing misconduct by reminding the community that the holiday is associated with Christmas, a Christian feast. Then the prime minister, fearing the so-called important in a "slippage identity", quickly restored the tradition his rights despite the pluralistic zeal of his ministers. At Claude Béchard the palm of political correctness: "We must respect the culture must respect the opening of everybody. In Quebec, we are an inclusive society. [...] That is the Quebec, openness and respect for each tradition. "
Revealing slip
But this is far less than the awkwardness of telling slip. Because there was a certain irony to as a "slight modification" symbolic abolition of Christmas. Two thousand years of history go by the wayside, forcing multiculturalism. But multiculturalism has never hesitated to confuse openness to others and the denial of self. It should not be surprised, because the Christmas controversy took shape in Quebec for some years now and through most western societies. In the U.S., we speak of the "Christmas War" as the holiday season have become an opportunity for the most hard multiculturalists to resume their struggle for our lamps by their founding traditions.
But the multiculturalists have a new argument, directly from the Bouchard-Taylor commission and its report: that of secularism "open", which require open public space to all religions, at least to close to all. We must decipher this Orwellian language to know what this is about: the "secularism" of Quebec is mainly the official code name of a disinvestment in the public domain of all content associated with Quebec cultural history. In this context, Catholicism is a religious tradition among others in a pluralistic Quebec. Exit Christmas! Quebec to build the dream which the pluralistic, it will go back in history to Dial zero, as if four centuries of history did not want to say anything. All benchmarks mark traditional public space must be removed. In the name of progress, of course.
A people
Is it heretical to recall that Quebec is not a virgin land, rather than a blank page on which you could doodle? Quebec is not a society without memory but a people, a historic community whose cultural heritage is crossed by a peaceful Catholicism and fortunately secularised, but fundamental to the morphology of national identity. The history of Quebec does not start in 1960, still less with the recent conversion of its elite multiculturalism, and it is from this history deeply rooted in four centuries must deploy Quebec society and public space in which she spoke. Christmas update each year that identity recalling the Western roots of the Quebec people. Christmas fight against the neutralizing or relativizing its place in public space, is working to desoccidentalization Quebec, is working at its liquefaction identity.
The controversy reasonable accommodations which lasted from 2006 to 2008 was not a farce. Far from it. It will instead unveiled the collective work of deconstruction of national identity led by the elite in Quebec. That they are able to neutralize the popular outrage across the Bouchard-Taylor commission does not change the fact that multiculturalism continues to deploy in Quebec through ideological diversion of our collective institutions to put its service. It will have to resolve to fight openly against multiculturalism and its lawyers, however powerful they are. It will be the trial of a deadly philosophy which already ABIME Quebec and making it more and more foreign to Quebeckers.
Mathieu Bock-Côté, Ph.D. candidate at UQÀM
Labels: Action Démocratique du Québec, Québec, Religion and fanaticism, Secularism
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