If you haven’t been keeping up with Jeff Goldstein, then you owe it to yourself to pay him a visit. Man’s been on a roll.
People are paying attention to movements north of the border. Jeff is paying attention to them:
(T)o put it in proper terms, the imposition of Sharia law, and the corresponding demand that the host nations adapt their laws to those that track with Koranic dictates—all with the imprimatur of the Canadian Federation of Students.
Most striking about this is the way Muslim identity groups, with the help of their multicultural supporters and progressive academics, have learned the language of grievance politics, and are able to use that language to try to stoke western guilt. Under the guise of “tolerance,” they assert that failure by the host country to adopt the trappings of Muslim culture is itself racism. Or, to simplify the calculus for those Canadians who are always looking to “accomodate”: failure to adopt Muslim culture is racism; which, in turn, means that Canadian national policy that doesn’t jibe with Islam is racist on its face.
There’s more of course – I never promised you taut prose – but it’s well worth the time you spend on it.
Like this story, concerning a middle school student (just south of the northern border) who placed a ham steak – in a bag – on a table next to some Somali students. Pretty much a “hate crime,” according to the school administration and the local press.
Quotha Jeff:
In fact, this malignant positioning of a ham steak can’t help but escalate into something like, say, the firebombing of mosques, or the videotaped beheadings of Muslim students filmed in the AV room of the Junior high.
Of course, Kosher-keeping Jews who’ve assimilated into public schools have been subjected to sightings of the unholy alliance of meat and cheese, the arrogant parading (by unclean Goyim) of ham sandwiches—even, in some cases, the presence of breakfast sausages!—for what seems like decades.
But then, they control the world. So a bit of religious inconvenience is a small price to pay in exchange for ownership of world’s banks, the western media, the Hollywood and New York entertainment industries, and having practically cornered the market on orthodontics.
Whereas Muslims? They must be treated like exotic plants. And sometimes you have to squash a few bugs if your goal is to keep the soil around the protected plant “pure.”
Think of it as horticultural dhimmitude—helped along, of course, by PC puppets and a multicultural ethos in which bureaucrats have become increasingly risk averse, and are willing to criminalize anything that could possibly give offense, provided the offense is against certain protected groups.
Hate used to be made of sterner stuff.
And my LORD can be immersed in a jar of urine or sculpted naked in chocolate, and I’m told that I must understand that it’s someone’s precious freedom of expression.
The next time this happens, please, some artist quickly do an identical image of the prophet M nearby and let’s see what happens.
Lex, I guess I am a racist then. I will not subject my beautiful wife or the nieces I love to the humiliation of hiding their heads or keeping their mouths shut to make someone else comfortable.
Lex, I hail from Lisbon, Maine, the two bordering Lewiston immediately to the south. Rte 196, the highway connecting Lewiston to Lisbon, is named the Staff Sergeant Thomas Field Memorial Highway. Field, you might recall, was one of the Special Operations soldiers killed in Mogadishu in 1993 (http://www.nightstalkers.com/tfranger/memorial/field/index.html). His was the body that was dragged through the streets and displayed for the cameras.
I suggest that instead of a slice of ham, local residents should throw down a photo of SSgt Field. I’d like to see what the Hate Crime Nazis have to say about that.
Juxtapose that “Brave New World” to the north with this:
http://wpherald.com/articles/4346/1/Canada-reinforces-claim-to-high-Arctic-with-military-trek/Canadian-military-team-completes-17-day-trek.html
How did a society that invented/popularized ice hockey get on such a slippery slope?
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I fear we will one day become fed up with this crap, and then they’ll see hate. I fear the backlash, when we at last start standing up for the last few tattered shreds of rights we still have.
I fear.
Interestingly enough, these Lewiston Somalis didn’t come from Somalia, they came from… Minnesota! They are kith and kin to the Minneapolis taxi drivers who don’t take passengers who are carrying alcohol or have seeing-eye dogs. They are welfare queens of the highest order, and have Catholic Charities as their enabler. In Lewiston they have been exceedingly ill-mannered, demanding a lot and giving nothing back, and making enemies everywhere they go. Any attempt to restrain their demands brings a horde of do-gooders down upon the city, as in the article above. Hence the following joke:
BLUE PIGEON
The mayor of Lewiston was very worried about a plague of pigeons in his city. Mayor Gilbert could not remove the pigeons from the city. All of Lewiston was full of pigeon droppings. The people of Lewiston couldn’t walk on the sidewalks or drive on the roads. It was costing a fortune to try to keep the streets and sidewalks clean.
One day a man came to City Hall and offered the Mayor a proposition. “I can rid your beautiful city of its plague of pigeons without cost to the city. But, you must promise not to ask me any questions. Or, you can pay me $5 million and ask one question.”
The Mayor considered the offer briefly and accepted the free proposition.
The next day the man climbed to the top of City Hall, opened his coat, and released a blue pigeon. The blue pigeon circled in the air and flew up into the bright blue Maine sky. All the pigeons in Lewiston saw the blue pigeon. They gathered up behind the blue pigeon. The Lewiston pigeons followed the blue pigeon as she flew southward out of the city. The next day the blue pigeon returned completely alone to the man atop City Hall building. The Mayor was very impressed. He thought the man and the blue pigeon had performed a wonderful miraculous
feat to rid his city of the plague of pigeons.
Even though the man with the pigeon had charged
nothing , the mayor presented him with a check for 5 million dollars and told the man that, indeed, he did have a question to ask and even though they had agreed to no fee and the man had rid the city of pigeons, he decided to pay the $5 million just to get to ask ONE question.
The man accepted the money and told the mayor to
ask his question.
The Mayor asked: “Do you have a blue Somali?”
WHY is always about THEM?! I’ve had it – DoorKeeper I am already there, fed up with this crap. No backlash from me – I fear reprisals from them.
But this has to stop and NOW. But there is hope – there was an article on CNN.com last night(which I can’t seem to find today) that talked about how cab drivers working for the Minnesota airport system will be fired if they refuse to carry passengers with dogs (Muslims see them as unclean apparently). So at least in a tiny corner of the world, someone decided to take a stand…
The article about the Minnesota Muslim cab drivers wasn’t on CNN.com, it was an article on Reuters.com, which I found thru BlondeSagacity.
Okay. My obligatory reply.
Personally, I’m not buying it. Its just too ridiculous at too many levels. Although I would have gladly taken an interest-free grant as opposed to a loan when I was in university. Wouldn’t you?
I know this isn’t the point, but with at least a perceived lack of funding in almost all areas of post-secondary education, its not like either the feds or the provinces are going to pony up more funds for this kind of fooishness. Although I will have to check into this reference of “Islophobia” from the Ont Human Rights Commission. Perhaps they have lost what’s left of their minds?
I know the point is in the asking, no demanding of such…. it strains my abilities to use the word “accommodations” here…. But I wouldn’t fret it too much, we’re not quite the sheep you may think we are. And I can assure that when my youngsters commence post-secondary education, the moment they were required to take such a course, the appropriate human rights complaint or judicial review application will be initiated. Not that I believe that will be necessary because it wll never go that far.
B2 to answer your question, having invented ice hockey as you noted, we are fairly comfortable in the Great White North. You would protect your sovereignty in a heart beat. Why would you expect any less of us? Good fences make good neighbours, no?
Besides, it wouldn’t be good to get into too much of a sheep mindset, woud it? Not in today’s world.
Ham steaks???? Are they serious? This is too ridiculous to even garner further thought.
Hey Michelle. Those passages up north will come in handy when global warming opens them up, eh? Wasn’t an American (Naval Officer to boot) first on scene up thar? Finders keepers? Just kidding.
Sheep country? Nah, don’t get your “you know what’s” in a wad. Your Sheep demographics are about the same proportions as in the US with one additional “distractor”- IE, 3 separate countries in one- French Canadian, Far North native American and Others.. Here we just have Yankees, crackers and left coasties! LOL.
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William Baffin was USN?
Cheers
Blue Somali, Ha Ha