Francis Chartrand for Rivière-des-Mille-Îles

13/05/2009 04h46

Yesterday, La Presse, journalist Michèle Ouimet says: "The veil is a delicate subject that awakens the old xenophobic background of Quebecers."

We can not be clearer.

You are against the wearing of headscarves in public? You find that the Islamic veil is a sign of oppression of women?

You are xenophobic.

THE SPECTRUM OF RACISM

Forgive me back about a third time in succession, but as a man who has the fate of women at heart (I am the father of two daughters, after all, and I am married to a woman from head), I can not remain silent in the face of such assertions.

I'm tired of seeing the editorialists and columnists raise the specter of racism and xenophobia as soon as it calls into question certain cultural practices and / or religious.

Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has been threatened with death because she condemns Islam and wearing the veil. She is racist?

Quebecer of Algerian origin Djemilah Benhabib has been threatened with death at the age of 20 because it condemned Islam and wearing the veil. She is racist?

The original Canadian Irshad Manji Uganda is threatened with death because she condemns Islam and wearing the veil. She is racist?

Iranian writer Chahdortt Djavann is threatened with death because she condemns Islam and wearing the veil. She is racist?

The Somali Ayaan Hirsi Ali was threatened with death because she condemns Islam and wearing the veil. She is racist?

All these women are racist, right? They wake up all the old xenophobic background of their people?

THE TRUE COURAGE

There's a limit to shout racism mistakenly and through!

The five women that I have to appoint you risk their lives every day to DEFEND THEIR BELIEFS FEMINISM.

It's even more courageous than anything made by Michèle Asselin, Françoise David during their life, right?

What is the most daring, in your opinion? Take the Islamic world to back and be a fatwa, or advocate for Quebec Solidaire and be interviewed by Jean-Luc Mongrain?

These liberal feminists have shown exemplary courage. Yet the pope of the Fédération des femmes du Quebec have never taken their experiences and testimonies into consideration when they voted to allow the wearing of headscarves in public service.

NEVER.

It is as if these women had experienced anything, say anything, no writing.

Must be done, right?

Tell us that those five women?

That the veil is not a simple piece of cloth, as we repeat the proponents of multiculturalism Gnan-Gnan, but a flag that Islamists planted on the head of women to tell the world: "Look, we're here! And we're getting there! "

The newspapers said that people who consider the Islamic veil as a sign of oppression "awaken the old xenophobia bottom of Quebecers."

But what of our old bottom of naivety, our old background bonasserie?

Ah yes, it's true: we do not need to wake up, that one. Because he never slept.

He is always ready to whip our conscience and condemn us to hell as soon as we dare unfold the back.

And criticize the clergy.

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Labels: Islam, Religion and fanaticism, Richard Martineau

# posted by Francis Chartrand @ 11:33 PM