Monday, December 28, 2009
The Holocaust and the masculinist, by Richard Martineau
Richard Martineau
Journal de Montréal
09/12/2009 06h52
Last Sunday, I told you that I do not understand why some groups of men portray Marc Lepine as a poor victim of evil feminists.
"That masculinist groups campaigning to get more grants to help people in distress is something I wrote. But to pity the fate of a lunatic who killed 14 women, there is a margin.
"The men can go do they not realize they shooting themselves in the foot by taking such a speech? They completely discredit their cause?"
IN DEFENSE OF MONSTER
This column brought me a nice email the group L'Après-rupture :
"Mr. Martineau, the team of L'Après-rupture like to thank you for your review. In most of us know, you send our message widely Inconvenient received ideas, thinking only about Polytechnique.
"Marc Lepine is a monster created by the radical feminist movement, a monster that this movement has recovered to better enrich themselves with money from citizens. We hope that before long, you can write on charges relating to possible criminal activities of certain feminist organizations ..."
You find this point of view twisted? Wait, you have not read anything ...
ILSA, SHE-WOLF OF THE SS
In the male domination, a documentary on radical masculinist Quebec filmed by Belgian director Jean Patrick, we say things even more twisted:
"Quebec is the opposite of the Taliban. The Taliban was the oppression against women. The Quebec, oppression against men ... "
"Feminism is a crime against humanity ..."
"We saw just as in Nazi Germany. And this is no more subtle than in Nazi Germany ..."
Well yes, my friends, men living in Quebec the same ordeal combined experience of European Jews in the 1940s.
This is EXACTLY the same!
Hordes of women dressed in pink patrol the streets of Limoilou and set fire to the tavern, they organize raids in Cages aux sports in the province, forcing men to wear a small brown penis in their buttonholes and send them to end their days in sexual reeducation camps run by bloodthirsty lesbians who make necklaces testicles and handbags scrotal skin.
TALIBAN, PQ
And just like Afghanistan under the Taliban, Quebec males are not allowed to attend school, can not go out into the street without being accompanied by their mother or their sister and are stoned 's they do not wear a hood in midsummer.
One wonders why American GIs do not organize a landing at Dolbeau to free us!
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Labels: Québec, Religion and fanaticism, Richard Martineau
The war against English, by Richard Martineau
Richard Martineau
Journal de Montréal
03/12/2009 05h58
Yesterday, in Le Devoir, the lawyer Julius Gray published a load rule against those who want to strengthen the law 101.
"Overall, it is time to stop the battle against the English," said the defender of individual rights.
What? There is a battle against the English? In Quebec? Tell me where it raged, Master Gray, for me, all I see is the opposite, ie a slow, painful erosion of French in Montreal.
EXCUSE MY FRENCH
My wife visited a "nail bar" in the city center. All information on products and services are in English only, and the clerk is unable to utter a single word in French.
We will park our car. The officer is unable to speak to me in my language, and throwing a tantrum when I ask him why he did not speak a word of French while working with the public.
We go into an activity center for children with our 20 month old son. All rhymes distributed during the workshop are English and 80% of the indications given by the instructor are in the language of Mordecai.
EN FRANCAIS ONLY
My wife points to a yoga class. The teacher does not speak a word of French, even if 75% of these people are speaking.
Last week, Montrealers were invited to an exhibition of hip young designers. Name of the event? The Smart Design Mart, "a unique platform comprised of a variety of talented young designers," said (in Klingon?) the invitation.
The website is unilingual English.
Two weeks ago, I went to a fundraising event for the benefit of a support organization for troubled youth. The indications were in English only and the organizers did not speak a word of French.
I go to a Italian restaurant: the host is unable to speak to me in my language. I go to a restaurant in Chinatown: unable to get served in my language.
I go to a furniture shop Service in English only.
All this in a few days.
A war against English, Master Gray? Really?
QUEBEC IS RACIST!
Have you read the survey that we published on the world of work in Montreal? You are unilingual English: you experience no problem getting a job. You are unilingual French: they refuse to hire you because you do not speak English.
Before yesterday, my wife enrolled in a class of stationary bike in a gym. The teacher speaks only English, even if 12 customers are speaking. My wife goes to see the girl at the front desk to complain about: the girl is a unilingual anglophone.
Back at home, my wife tells this story on Twitter.
Lesley Chesterman, a journalist for The Gazette, reads his entry and becomes crazy.
"I stopped following a Quebec media person on Twitter Because of all her Anglo bashing," she writes.
Then: "It's the only thing I hate about living in this province. It's racist and it drives me crazy. I'm tired!"
It is racist, now want to be served in French? Well.
NO PROBLEM
Meanwhile, Andre Pratte La Presse wrote that "the erosion of French in Montreal is a figment of the imagination, and Julius Gray says the time has come" to stop the battle against the English. " You're joking, or what?
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Labels: Canada, Québec, Richard Martineau
Swiss rolled, by Richard Martineau
Richard Martineau
Journal de Montréal
02/12/2009 06h54
After a controversial referendum, the Swiss have decided to ban construction of minarets. Personally, I think it's a bad way to fight against Islamism.
Banning the burqa? I would support this proposal without hesitation. Prohibit the wearing of headscarves in girls? 100% agree.
Denounce unreasonable accommodations that allow religious fundamentalists to practice gender segregation? Of course. Rage against the radical imams who preach hatred in their mosques? Certainly. And firmly.
But banning minarets, the aim is not political Islam. It would take religion at full strength, it is served to all Muslims that they will not know anything about them.
TWO TYPES OF VICTIMS
In my opinion, those who criticize the choice of Swiss are right to be indignant.
That said ... There are 1.5 million Christians in Saudi Arabia. Not only are these Christians have no right to build towers, but they were not even allowed to build churches and pray in public!
ANY non-Muslim religious practice is allowed in public in Saudi Arabia, and Catholic priests are routinely harassed or jailed.
Now, you read editorials denouncing racism, xenophobia and intolerance of the Saudis?
No.
Yet the religious persecution during which there is much worse than what is currently happening in Switzerland!
TURN THE OTHER CHEEK
Amazing how the West is quick to criticize but slow to condemn the atrocities committed by the other regions of the globe.
When it comes time to self-flagellation, we're here! But when it comes to attacking the racism and intolerance of others, we lower our eyes and turn away their eyes.
To punish the Swiss have voted Yes in the referendum antiminarets some Muslim businessmen threaten to boycott products from Switzerland and withdraw their assets in the country.
Christians around the world have they wielded such economic threat to the Saudis? No, on the contrary, it has never done much business with them! They are our allies, our partners!
That's the main difference between Muslims and Christians.
When they receive a slap, Muslims replicate. While Christians ask forgiveness and offer the other cheek ...
RADIO SILENCE
Currently, journalists and political analysts SWISS publish open letters in SWISS newspapers to criticize the referendum result SWITZERLAND.
They climbed the barricades to defend the religious freedom of their fellow Muslims.
They are where the Saudi Muslims who defend the rights of Christians persecuted in their country?
Nowhere.
What happened in Switzerland may be distressing. But there was a vote. A referendum. A democratic process. People have been entitled to the chapter, they were able to discuss, share, discuss.
While in most Muslim countries, democracy is a dead letter.
Intolerance, daily. And silent accomplice.
A VIEW OF THE SPIRIT?
A word on language, in conclusion.
Recently, in La Presse, André Pratte wrote that the erosion of French in Montreal is a figment of the imagination.
I do not know where is Mr. Pratte, but I invite him to follow me for a week. Almost everyday, I stumble to Anglophones who totally fuck with my language.
I'll give examples in the coming days. Story to show you that Mr. Pratte is taking his ideas to reality.
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Labels: Islam, Religion and fanaticism, Richard Martineau, Switzerland
When the police curve back (2), by Richard Martineau
Richard Martineau
Journal de Montréal
18/11/2009 06h43
Yesterday I told you the story of the police chief of Windsor who had to publicly apologize to the Muslim community in Ontario because one of its agents had searched the wife of a radical Islamist wanted by the FBI during a police operation.
This column brought me several reactions, including an email from a policeman SPVM.
WHAT "DAMAGE"?
"I have been accused in police ethics for speaking with the wife of a Muslim, told me the agent who wishes to preserve his anonymity.
"The man wanted to talk to me after an intervention that had involved earlier in the day. He phoned the station and asked what my partner and I were going to meet with him.
"It was presented at the time requested, but the man was not present. His wife told us. The lady was hesitant, talkative and somewhat unaware of the situation. We were courteous to her, and we recorded this event in our report.
"A few months later, we received a letter from the Commissioner of Police Ethics accusing me of abusing my power over the woman in question. Although no complaint was made against me and my partner, the police of Montreal still has apologized to the lady for the "damage" caused for this "unfortunate" incident ...
"The worst is that I have never met or consulted about this complaint. However, the police apologized on my behalf because I did my job!"
INTIMIDATION
Every time I tell stories of accommodations, I get emails accusing me of racism and xenophobia.
It's an old trick: we leave the word "racist" when someone dares to criticize the religious extremists in the hope that someone will take his hole and close the mouth.
I have bad news for you, boys: it does not work with me. If it worked, it's been a long time that I should write more, the number of emails I get insulted every day.
In fact, I would say that it has the opposite effect. The more you attack me, the more I want to write on the subject.
I'm not eating meat for eight months, I still kept my head pig.
BAD PUGLIA!
A few days ago, I said I did not understand why the police gave tickets to young people who make the squeegee.
This earned me several emails from people screaming against "that damned lousy who ask for money".
A man wrote me that her son was beaten up by the homeless. I understand his anger. But when I was young, I got beaten up by some Englishmen. Does it mean that all Englishmen are savages? Of course not.
Just as Muslims are not all Islamists. Remember the documentary of Paul Arcand, Les voleurs d'enfance? Arcand was walking in a park frequented by homeless and asked the young people present who were awarded by host families.
The vast majority raised their hands.
Contrary to what some people think, young people living on the street are not rich kids who are poor.
These are often young skinned alive. And they should be disgusted because they ask for money?
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Labels: Arab World, Islam, Montréal, Religion and fanaticism, Richard Martineau
Sunday, December 27, 2009
When the police curve back, by Richard Martineau
Richard Martineau
Journal de Montréal
17/11/2009 06h46
Like the stories of accommodation? You'll love it.
On 31 October, at the request of the RCMP and the FBI, police in Windsor, Ontario, have arrested two Islamist radicals who are suspected of having links with an extremist group of Detroit: Mohammad Al-Sahli, 33, and Yassir Ali Khan, 30.
PUBLIC APOLOGY
During this operation, a police officer searched the wife of Ali Khan.
However, this kind of contact between a man and a woman is considered highly inappropriate by Muslims. As explained by counsel for Ms. Khan, "Muslims have no right to have physical contact with a man who is not part of their family. If a Muslim woman must be searched during a police operation, it must be searched by a policewoman, not by a policeman."
Result: Members of the Muslim community have asked the Ontario Police Chief Windsor public apology.
What did the chief? Has he defended his troops? Has he said the imams of the municipality that was not there to meet religious regulations archaic, but to make arrests and to protect public safety?
No. He held a press conference and presented his most sincere apologies to the Muslim community.
"Next time, he said, we will arrange for a properly trained officer may be present during such operations ..."
AWARENESS WORKSHOPS
You coat the compromises that have been granted by the SAAQ?
This is nothing compared to what is happening in Ontario.
For now on, the Muslims of Windsor wanted by the police can choose the sex of the officer who searches, arrest them and handcuffed.
In 2007, the Windsor Police have been entitled to "workshops to raise awareness of cultural difference" to know how to stop people from different religions. When these "workshops", the police were able to discuss with representatives of 12 different communities.
"But this has clearly not been enough," said Chief of Police in Windsor. We will organize other workshops of its kind ... "
One of these "workshops" will be moderated by a member of the Islamic Association of Windsor.
HIDE THE MEN!
Do you know what we should do? We should withdraw all men schools, CPE, gyms, public service and police stations. That way, the Muslim women would not be bothered sexually.
They are assured of always falling on a woman when they are dealing with these services.
We would move the guys in the basement and we would ask them to open envelopes or sorting mail.
THE NOSE HAIR
Here, while we're on the subject of burlesque accommodations, I have a good, alleging the magazine Courrier International:
"There are about ten years, a debate triggered by a rabbi concluded that we could pick his nose during the Sabbath. The discussion had focused on the fact that in the context of this activity, it could happen that one tore the hairs of the nose or it is forbidden to cut hair and hair on the Sabbath ... "
"Another rabbi proclaimed that Jews could not wear Crocs shoes for the day of Atonement, because they were too comfortable on this day of fasting and meditation ..."
This is not great?
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Labels: Arab World, Islam, Ontario, Religion and fanaticism, Richard Martineau
Tintin in Helvetii, by Joseph Facal
When the media-political tribe is unanimous, I instinctively distrust. After verification, the reality is always more complicated.
The pollsters did not see it coming: In a referendum, 57.5% of Swiss have voted for the ban on building new minarets.
A minaret is the tower top which called on Muslims to prayer five times a day. There is no requirement that a mosque has one.
Outside Switzerland, the reactions were immediately fuse: a vote "hateful," "shameful", a "return of fascism." Nothing less.
Switzerland seems indeed very ill. There are only four minarets on mosques 200. A municipal regulation would probably have sufficed. The placards equating the minarets of the missiles were profoundly dishonest. The Muslims have reason to feel unfairly targeted? Yes.
The minarets were obviously a pretext. The referendum has expressed discomfort with a majority that sees a religious community grew exponentially strongly assert the public square. Similarly, in Quebec, the reasonable accommodation crisis was not really about women in pantyhose doing gymnastics.
For the Swiss political scientist Michael Hermann, a high score also means that voting xenophobic right wing added a vote secular feminist left. The Islamist ideologue Tariq Ramadan has also given a tremendous impetus to the camp's ban Assuming that the minaret was an affirmation of identity and political and not a religious requirement.
Switzerland has only 7.8 million inhabitants, like Quebec. In 1970, there were 16 000 Muslims in Switzerland. In 1980 the number had increased to 57 000. Today is 400 000. The question arises: can we integrate such volume so quickly, without a small company feel hustled?
No, precisely because it incorporates more. Therefore, the cycle is unemployment, poverty, exclusion, discrimination, anger, crime. The Washington Post on April 29, 2008 reported that in France, for example, between 60 and 70% of the prison population is Muslim, composed mostly of children of immigrants.
Turkey is a Muslim country that has most harshly criticized Switzerland. Did you know that until 2003 it was forbidden to build places of worship for non-Muslims? As Turkey now wants to join the European Union, it has repealed the ban and it has become more subtle.
In Ankara, the municipal regulation now requires that places of worship have a minimum area of 2500 square meters. In a country 99% Muslim, other religions are necessarily poor. They have therefore not afford to build so large or if they have, the city told them that there is not enough space for such big projects.
The Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, has already written that the minarets were the "bayonets" of Islam. It's reassuring.
In all Western societies, the poor integration of immigrants and the fatal multiculturalist ideology fueling a real identity problem. To deny or reduce it to an indictment against the majority, ensuring that when this unease is expressed, it will come out all wrong.
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Labels: Arab World, Islam, Joseph Facal, Religion and fanaticism, Switzerland, Turkey
And if we change which good people we live with, by Djemila Benhabib
Published in Le Soleil, December 9, 2009
In few words the author summarizes the campaign preceding the referendum: "Virtually the entire political class in Switzerland, the right to the left, ecologists to pastors, gauchos bosses, had led the way to call to vote no. We pulled the heavy artillery usual person appears for the ban has been accused of xenophobic, racist, intolerant and Islamophobic .. "
The image of this small and rich enclave in the heart of Europe known for its fondue, raclette its, chocolate, and envied around the world for its ski resorts and peaceful lakes, which are mirrored landscapes and gardens bucolic, would it changing? What about his human flora? The Swiss have they mutated biological accelerated to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of Darwin's theory of evolution? The Swiss, normally so "pragmatic" to ignite four minarets? Would they simply cowards or more courageous? And they were neither one nor the other? Could they simply fear that the meteoric rise of political Islamism around the world and especially in Europe?
One thing is certain, the Swiss have just created a precedent dealt a blow to the popular folk policy. In fact, their overwhelming vote to ban minarets is not so much a victory of the extreme right a political defeat, unable to refocus the debate on the fundamental values of democracy, namely secularism, l Equality between men and women and equal opportunities. It is clear that this vote reflects a difference of more and deeper between the right people and right-minded elite who swallows, this time very difficult, the pill. Does this mean annul the vote as some claim? And why do not people change? What is thought?
The straw and the beam ...
Yet everything had been put in place so that we "vote right". Virtually the entire political class in Switzerland, the right to the left, ecologists to pastors, gauchos bosses, had led the way to call to vote no. We pulled the heavy artillery usual person appears for the ban has been accused of xenophobic, racist, intolerant and Islamophobic. Some allies have even been called in reinforcements: Ambassador of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is invited to campaign for the "no" after being roundly criticized Switzerland. What has been told the journalist Vincent Pellegrini: "That's really the story of one who sees the mote in the eye of the neighbor and not the beam in his own"! The OIC, where swarm dictatorships and Islamic theocracies, who led a fierce campaign to roll back around the world - and the United Nations in particular - the rights of women and homosexuals, who does everything to reduce the freedom expression and conscience in the name of respect for religions, traditions and cultures, has leapt to defend democracy in Switzerland.
During the campaign, the good people was careful to express their feelings. Mum's the word. Anyway, why bother? For well-meaning, the problem is simple: how the existence of four minarets it threatens the peace of the Swiss? It sounded Jean Charest speaking accommodate the Company's automobile insurance and Quebec (SAAQ) and its Bill 16 or Françoise David, who defends the body and soul the Islamic headscarf in public service in Quebec FFQ or who, hand in hand with Muslim presence, is leading the campaign. Take a tour to Iran and see how much freedom women have in an Islamic theocracy, even in Algeria, which frankly does not look like the land of the mullahs and the plight of women is unenviable. At least for the right people is clear. We can not reduce democracy to a grocer's accounting.
Ugliness and cowardice ...
Whether the burqa in France, the four minarets in Switzerland, in some cases to accommodate the SAAQ or the wearing of religious symbols in the Quebec public service, we can not reduce its many manifestations to "epiphenomena , micro-problems or to perceptions." Everyone knows that the problem lies elsewhere. Numerous studies, reports and books show that Switzerland has been infested with Islamists and that to Geneva as political Islam of the Muslim Brotherhood has an address sponsored by Said Ramadan, which is none other than the son of founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna and the father of Tariq Ramadan. The first Islamic center - one in Geneva - has been a model for many Islamic centers established since the early 1960s in Europe with the support of Saudi Arabia. Switzerland will in effect assume a dual role in the Islamist strategy: that of "safe" and instead preferred to their propaganda. From that nobody wants to talk. Neither the policy nor the "right-thinking", as it was named Elizabeth Badinter. To the good people, the beauty of the minarets could not hide the ugliness or speeches which are held or the cowardice and especially not the complicity of the right-thinking. May only the good people be heard!
Djemila Benhabib, author of My life cons-Quran (VLB éditeur), winner of the French writers of America and finalist Governor General's Award in 2009.
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Labels: Djemila Benhabib, Europe, Islam, Religion and fanaticism, Secularism
Muslims should learn to build bridges with others instead of claiming the minarets, by Raheel Raza from the MCC
When the church bells ring in Saudi Arabia, the minarets will rise up in Europe.
TORONTO -
The Swiss have said no to mosques with minarets in a referendum that has just taken place. Nearly 58% of voters were against the minarets. In certain regions of the sequence, the proportion reached 70%! Leaders of the Muslim world have condemned the referendum as usual and have proposed a boycott of Swiss products. Are we going to stop eating cheese and Swiss chocolate or stop buying Swiss watches are renowned for their accuracy?
The referendum is indeed an important occasion for Muslims to seek to understand the deeper meaning of the Swiss rejected it as a warning to undertake major internal changes. Tariq Ramadan, a popular preacher who has recently visited Canada, spoke eloquently of the beauty of Islam, but he always forgets to mention the internal problems that beset the Muslim communities in the West, particularly in Europe: problems that slides under the carpet when addressing large audiences.
And therein lies the problem. Yes, Islam is a beautiful message for me and many Muslims. But it is not as good to many people and that is what we must learn to recognize and accept. The beauty of Islam must be demonstrated in our daily interactions with others, and not aggressively projecting our religion or we cover the face.
We have become people who plan aggressively "Muslimness" and we are the only religious group to use constant religious references with non-Muslims who have no idea what we mean. In so doing, we demonstrate a lack of vision and we continue to show intolerance towards "the other", while making unreasonable demands.
In Canada, they say that "he who sows the wind reaps the storm". Well in Europe, the tide is turning so quickly that if Muslims do not wake up, they will be swept into an abyss from which they are responsible.
The solution is simple.
It is difficult for Muslims to understand and accept that Islam is not the only faith that its message is not the only cause. Islam is the last, the youngest of the three Abrahamic monotheistic religions, yet Muslims are the most spoiled and those who behave the worst. Muslims can only advance if they do not seek out to other religious groups.
Muslims must also understand that criticism of their actions, their behavior is not Islamophobia (a term often used indiscriminately). Islamophobia is the "fear of Islam." Yes, the fear of Islam and Muslims and we do nothing to mitigate or eliminate this fear. Our impulse to defend Muslims, whatever they do is train to discredit us. We are not the guardians of our faith. Our only obligation is to learn to live in peace and harmony with all others, what we do very poorly. For example, it is rare that Muslims take time to discuss how treaties are non-Muslims in Islamic countries. If Muslims could practice their religion in the West and were treated as third class citizens, they would know better what discrimination and harassment mean really. We love to scream at "racism" at every opportunity, but they are silent when others are abused. Thus, in Switzerland, the minarets banned. Does this have any consequences for Islam? No. The first mosques had no minarets. They were added to many mosques after the death of the prophet, when Islam was becoming a political regime. But what is more important from a spiritual point of view is that the Creator does not live in domes or minarets, but in our hearts. Before starting to build minarets, first learn to build bridges with others.
Raheel Raza was one of three panelists for the public lecture organized by Point ROCKING October 2, 2008 in Montreal entitled Political Islam threatens our freedoms is also a member of the Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC), the only Muslim lobby Canadian which is not sponsored by foreign interests or by one or other of the countries of North Africa, Middle East, Persian Gulf countries or the Muslim world in general.
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Labels: Canada, Europe, Islam, Religion and fanaticism, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland
Hurray the Swiss, by Jacques Brassard
What a fabulous democracy than Switzerland! No, but you realize! The Swiss, in a proportion of 57.5%, have decided to ban the construction of new minarets (the towers of mosques in the top of which the muezzin calls to prayer) on Swiss territory. And this, in a referendum, the result of a popular initiative. As Jacques Demers say: "Chapeau! Swiss!"
I open a parenthesis on the referendum process of popular initiative. It doe's not exist here. In Quebec, only the National Assembly, on proposal of the Government, can trigger a referendum. During some discussion on democracy in Quebec, some players have already proposed to make it possible, as in Switzerland and in several U.S. states, the referendum initiative. The trigger might be, for example, a petition containing a specified number of signatures. I must confess that I was not at the time, very hot to go in this direction. However, I am announcing that I changed my mind. Quebec should adopt such a procedure. "The Swiss show us, writes Marc Lebuis in his excellent site, tipping point, something that Quebecers could do to counter their disconnection Ave political leadership, institutional and academic Quebec: claim right to hold referendums in order to remove the hands of our decision makers the power to make major decisions affecting seriously the fate of Quebec. All this is not just Islam as such, but also reform education, the course Ethics and Religious Culture, immigration policies and the principle of accommodation." According to you, the results are they similar to those of the Swiss referendum on minarets? Personally, I am convinced. And I am also certain that the reaction of our Želite right-thinking, multiculturalists, nerd-progressive preachers of "living together" flatten ventriste would be the same as that of the European oligarchies slavishly Islamophile and viciously Christianophobia: full of indignation contempt for the people considered ignorant, intolerant and racist. This divorce between the people and Želite is a widespread phenomenon in the West.
But is it a crime so heinous that the Swiss have committed? Nonsense! The minaret is not an essential element of the mosque. That of Jerusalem, for example, has none. Therefore, writes Barbara Kay, National Post, "Switzerland does not mosques, which are the site of activity and religious practice. She banished that is perfectly understood in Islamic countries as a symbol of cultural domination." Multiply the minarets in the West to civilization Judeo-Christian roots, is, for Muslims, a demonstration of their willingness to impose a conqueror, not only ostentatious religious symbols (minaret burka) but, more seriously, values contrary to ours. This is called the stealth jihad is a process of Islamization of Western societies. In Paris, for example, there are now streets are blocked at the hour of prayer to allow hundreds of Muslims to spread their mats and prostrate themselves. In Paris!
The most shocking in all this is to see Muslim leaders offended and cry to the oppression and discrimination on the grounds that freedom of religion and worship is shamefully flouted. There is something deeply repugnant in this attitude when we know that in the Muslim world, freedom of worship, often legally and practically does not exist. "In Muslim countries, writes Pierre-Andre Taguieff, Christians are particularly discriminated against and persecuted when they have not been expelled. In some Muslim countries in the name of Islam perpetrated massacres of civilians, targeted as Christians." He continues: "In Muslim countries that religious freedoms are the least respected: Judaism and Christianity are housed in the same boat. When Islam is state religion, intolerance is institutionalized violence against non-Muslims allowed, even encouraged, totalitarianism or watching reign."
Everywhere in the Muslim world, Christians are persecuted and often killed, their churches burned, their priests murdered. In Nigeria, there are hundreds of Christians were killed. In Pakistan too, the Islamists opened fire on worshipers gathered and burned their places of worship. In Iraq, the Christian community is endangered. And in the West face of this persecution, only silence and indifference. The "good conscience" who resent the Swiss vote on minarets (Foglia as, for example), they have never outraged the massacre of Christians in the Muslim world? The progressive self-righteous and well-talkies were they ever shocked the inferior status of Christians in Muslim countries (they are dhimmis, that is to say, inferior beings that have fewer rights than Muslims )? Do you? Why worry about those silly believers arrears? After all, they are only "cathos," as Ms. Bazzo disdainfully calls, the incarnation of the Quebec goche bon chic bon genre. Where, even worse, they are only remnants of the Age of Darkness, as the Copts in Egypt. So, sleep in our media and intellectual Želite is no upset because they were persecuted because they were bullied and because the murders.
But banning the construction of minarets, then there really any crime, regardless ignomonie, what meanness! Pour nos zélites frileuses et poltronnes, c'est du racisme, du sectarisme, du fascisme. For our Želite timid and cowardly, it's racism, bigotry, fascism. However, the Swiss vote does not affect the freedom of religion of Muslims, the minaret is not essential to a mosque. But we must understand and decode the message many of Helvetian. What Swiss reject, through the prohibition of construction of minarets, Islam is also a retrograde, primitive, hostile to the fundamental rights of the individual, anti-democratic and committed to a code of law (Sharia) incompatible with the founding values of the West.
Taj Hargey is the Imam of the congregation of Summertown, Oxford. This is called a "moderate Muslim", a rare species that would probably declare the species endangered. "When European Muslims, he writes, unthinkingly endorse this perverted theology by claiming compliance with a Sharia medieval character, justifying the honor killings, stoning and forced marriage, defending the uniqueness of 'Islam and the formation of separate communities, they cause fear and exacerbate hostility towards Muslims. When European Muslims are praised as little Koranic doctrines that wearing niqap, they exclude themselves from ALL OF THE COMPANY." These words of the comforting hand of a Muslim imam. The problem is that the imams of the milling are scarce and Islamic communities in the West are largely dominated by radical Islam and jihad and are therefore involved and compromised in the war deliver the Islamo-fascists against Western civilization. And will not believe it's different in Quebec and Canada. At home, the Muslims are refractory to integration into the host society. And with immigration levels adopted by the State of Quebec, the situation will only get worse.
JACQUES BRASSARDPublié on the blog of former minister Jacques Brassard Parti Québécois
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Labels: Canada, Islam, Jacques Brassard, Québec, Religion and fanaticism, Switzerland
Friday, December 04, 2009
Minarets: the forbidden Switzerland, Quebec adds to its churches, by Francis Chartrand
On 29 November, the Swiss voted overwhelmingly in favor of banning construction of any new minaret on their territory. The debate is most passionate since the phenomenon of mass immigration has risen sharply in the Country. The latter has recently been about 400 000 Muslims on their territory, or about 4% of the population. Unlike Quebec, which amends its charter without even some politicians do not realize it, Switzerland it requires a referendum for the amendment of this new option.
The instigators of today's vote argue that the construction of minarets is not protected by freedom of religion because they have "no religious significance". They add that the minarets are "symbols of a desire to impose a politico-religious threat - in the name of the alleged freedom of religion - the constitutional rights of others."
What about Quebec?
In Quebec, we remain discreet about the construction of minarets. However, one should not believe that there is none. In Thetford Mines, one of them has emerged recently. It seems that in the wake of reasonable accommodation and the new market is the new course on ethics and religious culture, the place has seen fit to add a minaret at the church. Far from being discrete, the minaret, projecting height dominates some gables and the tower competition. Do not point the Muslims especially the corner with his finger, because it is a Catholic priest, which led to this project has agreed to build it.
Islam subsidized
Yes! At the same place where successive Catholic Masses, celebrations Anglican, visiting rabbis, there are also the Islamic feast of sacrifice. Last year, the event was organized by an organization funded by our money!
It describes itself as "a community home and socioeconomic integration of immigrants. It makes the link between the immigrant population in the region of Chaudière-Appalaches and the needs of companies and organizations". Their site features the logos of sponsors: the Caisse Desjardins, the City of Thetford, the Cégep de Thetford, United Way, the Economic Development Corporation, CDIC to name a few. However, these sponsorships are used to organize religious activities such as the Feast of the Birth of Prophet Muhammad. Nothing, however, about the greatest Christian holiday, Easter.
I hurt my culture.
Are we going too far? Quebec has called policy of positive discrimination. Thus, at equal competence, a public or private organization can afford to hire a woman than a man. Same for the question of visible minorities.
With the imposition of the ethics and religious culture, the same logic is repeated. Those who wish to preserve their own culture will be taxed until the missing person by the opening of fundamentalist secularism and multiculturalism. The zealots of the new state religion functionalize this climate pluralistic religious to impose their whims and to enjoy financial.
A question now arises: is it that Quebec is entitled to his own culture? Should we deny all traces of history and the Christian cultural heritage of Quebec on behalf of openness to multiculturalism and a supposed better life together?
It is time we woke up and it also calls us the right to exist and be respected as we are!
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Labels: Art and culture, Francis Chartrand, Québec, Religion and fanaticism
Cult of personality excessive in American schools?, by Marie-Eve Martineau
Relatives of several U.S. states (New Jersey, Maryland) complain of the excessive politicization of their schools. It would, indeed, the children sing odes to the glory of Obama. One of the songs, which incorporates an air well known in the United States, changing the name of Jesus with that of Obama.
In the case of New Jersey school director initially refused to comment on the video merely to condemn the capture of the video ... We learn, moreover, that the song also boasts equal pay was part of celebrations of the Month Black History in the United States.
Words of the first song
Mm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said red, yellow, black or white
All are equal in His sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
Yes!
Mmm, mmm, mm
Barack Hussein Obama
Words of the second song
Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!
For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say "hooray!" [February 2009?]
Hooray, Mr. President! You're number one!
The first black American to lead this great nation!
Hooray, Mr. President we honor your great shots
To make this country's economy number one again!
Hooray Mr. President, we're really proud of you!
And we stand for all Americans under the great Red, White and Blue!
So continue ---- Mr. President we know you'll do the trick
So here's a hearty hip-hooray ----
Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!
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Multiculturalism, "hybridization", "cultural hybridity", a new theoretical illusion in the social sciences, by Francis Chartrand
We mention below some excerpts of a text by Pierre-Andre Taguieff, research director at CNRS.
Hope elites, fear of the masses
We know that globalization is a complex global process whose first characteristic is to accelerate exchange, transfers and mixtures, and thus to undermine the substantial collective identities, making them unstable and temporary, fueling fears and uncertainties territorially in the masses, and gives rise to hope in the world of transnational elites.
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The magic word miscegenation
The speech of praise globalization or globalization, ignoring the growing anxiety caused by the dissolution of social institutions and national specificities, foregrounds these supposed positive characteristics that seem healthy to oppose racist attitudes of rejection racial mixtures, reification of collective identities and closing exchanges between cultures or "dialogue of civilizations." The globalizers happy to see an overall advancement of tolerance and "openness to the other, the promise of a universal rapid reciprocal listening cultures, processes that ordinarily renowned as "rewarding".
The positive assessment of the phenomena of cultural syncretism has increased among theorists of globalization using the metaphor of "hybridity" of the "hybridization" or "miscegenation" (Clifford, 1994; Pieterse, 1995 ; Werbner, 2004). Idea seemed simple, even light: globalization is a "hybrid", it would be in itself a racist mechanism, in that it tends to remove the specter of miscegenation that form the core of modern racist thought in same time it would erase the ethno-racial entities improperly erected in absolute or a species-time.
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Hybridity valued at extreme
Hybridity is so valued in the extreme, as human experience, method of invention and creation, and also as a lifestyle characterized by its "wealth" and "openness". That suggests that there is "mixed" is the highest form of human existence. The "blend", metaphorically general, tends to be a method hello. The word "miscegenation" itself is a magic value: it is invoked as a driving force.
Simplistic metaphors racialising
The metaphors chosen and indefinitely sought by critics, sociologists and anthropologists have all the connotations biologizing or racialist "mixture", "crossing", "hybridization" or "hybridity", "miscegenation". They presuppose the existence of a first or original state, a state of non-judged blend happily exceeded (this is even a "progress"), characterized by the "purity" of the entities in question (the "race" to "culture" through the "ethnicity"). A state of nature, we can say "wild" that animal husbandry and horticulture were the first eliminated by breeding techniques voluntary "races" and "varieties, and the practice of a controlled cross. As shown by Robert Young (1995), uses the concept of cultural hybridity presupposes the existence of a cultural past that is "pure", something like a state of natural culture, without mixtures. Sociologist and political scientist Stuart Hall argued against such use of the term hybridity in that it refers to a "process of bringing together cultures initially autonomous unit which would then be combined to give rise to hybridization "(Hall, 2009, p. 29). Despite intentions "racist" declared their users, these metaphors mixtures racialisent what they refer.
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Postmodern myth of mestizo beauty
Mixophile discourse presupposes the existence of "races", to "cash" or "cultures" originally "pure" first state that would virtually "passed" by the state resulting mixtures, alloys or amalgams. In the contemporary praise the "beauty of the mestizo (Hocquenghem, 1979) refers the echo of that of" race "the most beautiful," Caucasian "as Blumenbach (1795 and 1804), expressing a the obvious aesthetic of his time (Bindman, 2002, pp. 190-201; Baum, 2006, pp. 73-92). The aesthetic ideal is certainly now quite different: the beauty of the mythical "pure races" has given way to the mythical beauty of "mestizos". But in the celebration of the mixture or mixed it receives remanence uncontrolled old fascination with pure or homogeneous. In praise of impurity echoes that of purity. An echo is an echo reversed.
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From mixophilie to Francophobia and self-hatred
In his book in praise of "mestizos" Hocquenghem marie denunciation of homophobia to Francophobia assumed, as evidenced from the subtitle of his pamphlet: "Reflections of a Francophobe. Explicitly linked or not to a form of sociocentrism negative or inverted patriotism (philoxenia), praises the "progressives" of the "France Métis" were commonplace in the 1980s. Thus Jacques Chirac, during a trip to the Caribbean, saw fit to launch his audience supposedly "crossed": "We are all mestizos" (quoted by Le Monde, September 15, 1987). Using the rhetoric of unanimity is an expensive form of collusion at all demagogues. Two anti-racist slogans, posing as mixophiles definitions of the French nation, have been widely broadcast during the second "March for Equality" (1984): "France is like a moped. To move forward, he must blend of "Super, France march in the mixture (Taguieff, 1988, p. 381). The French anti-racism, hitherto blind to color in the name of egalitarian universalism of republican tradition, has evolved into an anti-racism mixophile advocated miscegenation as a standard major (Taguieff, 1995, pp. 53-81). But there are mixing and blending. Ideally mixophile was actually set on the type of mixed race White / Black, incarnating par excellence in the face of the Afro-American (or "too black" or too "white").
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Some have ventured to include President Sarkozy in the circle of miscegenation happy, describing it as "a little French blood mingled. But the absence of "African roots" now appears to be a handicap, at least in the media space dominated by the standards of pop-ethics of "miscegenation".
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Praise naive fusion redeeming reason Métis
But in many contemporary authors celebrate cultural hybridization, we found a rather naive praise of redeeming the merger and a merger by stealth, which often takes the shape of a eulogy of creative confusion. Measured in his analysis, Stuart Hall advanced the proposition that "cultural hybridity" is changing British society in a positive way: the simple fact that a process of mixing affects cultural production leads him by the British company to reflect on the fact that it is not culturally homogeneous (Hall, 1995). This would be a "progress". Other theorists mixophiles less cautious ahead of the hi "heterogeneity mestizo," where they think they see an output of "continuous reconstruction" (Nuss, 2002, p. 111).
We can go further in the neo-religion of redemptive miscegenation. Some anthropologists militants, followers of "the image blend of Magic" (Cunin, 2001), calling for the adoption of a "reason mestizo (Amselle, 1990), leave to withdraw a few years later the" fantasy "or the "trap" of miscegenation (Amselle, 1999 and 2000).
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Behind the scenes: cosmopolitanism, a source of anguish
Behind the scenes "crossed" is that these cities "cosmopolitan" is an inexhaustible source of fears or anxieties, fueling a "paranoia mixophobique" (Bauman, 2007, p. 119). And products "mixed race" are part of the decor companies globalized market: the new "cosmopolitanism merchant" is a high consumption, especially because of its effects "sleeping" or "tranquilizers" (Canclini, 2000a), hybridity in his speech advertising in bars and trendy restaurants ( "hybrid") in its cultural industries (the "hybrid music" are everywhere) (Hutnyk, 2005).
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The mixing product uniformity and conformity
Hence the paradoxical result: it is through the global spread of normative cultural hybridity that is made a cultural homogeneity that does not meet very little resistance. Hybridization is the global juggernaut that produces homogenization and leveling of cultures, the final abolition of cultural diversity. Opposes the hybridization process supposedly "progressive" if the big concepts of identity or cultural difference, disqualified for "racism", "nationalism", "essentialism" or "communalism"? The battle seems lost. What is certain is that in this world "crossed" in perpetual motion, the new elites' hybrid and transnational, and mobile deterritorialised "nomads" without definable identity, are like fish in water (Spivak , 1999). This world is made for them, not for the people attached to their languages, their landscapes, traditions. Their celebrations are surinvités professional media, with the implicit ideology which they are ill. The speech of praise exchanges, and mixtures of perpetual change is reputed to be "modern", that is to say current and contemporary, therefore inherently good. This is an expression of intellectual conformism of our time (Taguieff, 2007, pp. 595-620).
Miscegenatry speechless at the refusal of cultural hybridity
Moreover, the racist who had converted to the religion of "cultural hybridity" are speechless before certain forms characterized by "denial of cultural hybridity, for example Muslim women in many European countries (including France and Great Britain). How to interpret this rejection of normative mixophile supposed seductive, especially for Muslim women?
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Advertising discourse and conceptual poverty sociologists
The epistemological lesson we can draw from such an over-employment of contemporary vocabulary of "crossing" and "mixed" (the "mixed" and "diversity" to "blend" and the "hybridity") overemployment which brings out a tongue of wood used by the celebrations of globalization as input in a brighter era is that the metaphorical uses of words in the attractive economic situation does not replace the difficult conceptual elaborations, or the patient building of models theoretical assumptions rebuttable. The language of advertising, it must be remembered, should not be confused with the constructed language of scientific knowledge. If it should not "take the straw words to the grain of things" (Leibniz), do not take the sparkle of metaphors for scientific theorizing. The "crosses" to "connections" through the "hybridization" and "mixing" does not attend it not a vain display of misleading metaphors, unthought, dangerous effects of uncontrolled senses, expressing impotence conceptual sociologists and anthropologists face the consequences of cultural globalization?
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Surveys show that Europeans are tired "of minarets", by Noemie Cournoyer
Europeans have had enough "of minarets"
Polls indicate that the French, Belgians, Dutchmen, Spaniards and Germans have the feeling of being in disagreement with the majority of elites and media. Instead of listening to the wisdom of majorities, one of the foundations of the democratic spirit, the elites are trying to show that people are intolerant, xenophobic and racist as was the case in Quebec with Bouchard-Taylor.
We prefer to call to analysts, academics and non-elected officials of our governments, the UN or worse, the OIC, the bloc of Islamic countries which persecute their several religious minorities and prohibit building places of worship other than mosques. Several of these countries will even prohibit the mere maintenance of places of worship exist. Representatives of these Islamic countries have absolutely no lesson to give to the world on human rights, including freedom of worship and conscience.
The readers of Le Monde, Le Figaro, L'Express, Le Soir, Spiegel, 20minutos, DN Globo ... are tere xenophobic from extreme right, racist and intolerant?
Some media representatives and unelected public service in Quebec and Canada they will again call on these experts or spokespersons of the academic or cultural communities?
Several commentators on the print and electronic media give voice to people who say they are "frightened by the radical positions" of Swiss. They denounce what they consider to be "a lot of falsehoods and amalgam".
The Government of Quebec (or Canada) Will it appeal to these specialists in public communication, experts pluralism citizen, management controversies and religious rhetoric in reconfiguring space contemporary audiences to reinterpret the results of polls yet clear and votes of citizens to block the wishes of the majority?
Probably Richard Martineau, who gave the best explanation to understand this 1 which is actually happening in Europe in his column: The return of the beast, published in the Journal de Montreal June 25, 2009:
"The traditional parties have their hole, close the mouth and dare not deal with issues a little bit difficult, for fear of being cheated in the mud.
What happens then to voters who feel uncomfortable LEGITIMATE against the rise of radical Islam? For citizens who wonder whether their country can afford to absorb all the immigrants it receives? For people experiencing problems with the unreasonable demands of certain groups?"
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Labels: Europe, Islam, Noémie Cournoyer, Religion and fanaticism, Switzerland
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