When the concept of “multiculturalism” was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant “more pavilions at Folkfest”.
Story here.
When the concept of “multiculturalism” was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant “more pavilions at Folkfest”.
Story here.
Why is it that muslims can come to this country and bring their 7th century beliefs and dress and culture with them, and try to force us to comply, yet when we go to their country, we have to embrace their customs. It will soon be Christmas and this year let us all offend a muslim and leftist by using the Nativity Scene, wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and not shop in any store that has happy holiday displayed. The west was recently warned to convert to Islam or face the consequences. The only good thing the PM of Iran has done is purge liberal professors, students and teachers. Can’t wait to see all the cbc reporterettes in burquas on the news.
OT. When will John Karr confess to the murders at the pig farm in BC.
You know, I hate to say it, but… that outfit could be a lot of fun if you were, you know, into some kinky role playing.
Wink. Nudge. Say no more.
I wonder if they make them for couples?
Imagine the comments:
“Why does that lady have four feet and a smile?”
…so there I was wearing my burka and suddenly the religious police decended upon…
*blink*
Oh look a shiny thing!
You know, I hate to say it, but… that outfit could be a lot of fun if you were, you know, into some kinky role playing.
Actually, on that front, it kind of reminds me of the red surgical gowns used in the movie “Dead Ringers”. Was Cronenberg consulted on this design?
Go to bloody Hell jacobin! Imagine a Muslim woman telling any man that today, yesterday or tomorrow and still have her head! You may also note that many Muslim women are traipsing our streets with exactly that total cover-up, usually in black. It’s a tragedy of life for those poor souls, while the freaking men go about in Western garb looking cool in 21st century. Again let me say, go to bloody hell!
Hold the phone!
Look at the eyes in the photo!
And then look at Kate’s photo in the sidebar!
Kate — is that you in the gown?
Or was this a Kate-o-shop entry?
Just wondering.
Funny how mute(except of course the obligatory racist accusation)the left becomes when their self-described claim of being’defenders of the oppressed’is actually put to the test.
Here’s the clear message they are sending muslim women who are currently denied equality and even some basic human rights here and across the globe…tough sh*t.
BTW,the young women forced into submission and arranged polygamist marriages in Creston B.C. are far overdue for a rescue.
What do those self-righteous cows at SOW actually do with all that government supplied money?Other than constantly attack the honorable role of mother/wife in this country that is.
reading right wing neonazi posts like yours Liz here at smalldeadanimals is bloody hell
Denis, nitpik all you want, those brave women you listed were all exemptions to the rule, and fought tooth and nail for there accomplishments
and my mistake, i stand corrected “Canadian women won the full right to vote in 1918”
and why was it they couldn’t vote in the first place? because the “christian” establishments ruled by men labeled women has “lesser than man” and therefore weren’t human enough to vote
and what triggered that social change was the fact that during WW1 women realized they could do whatever men could do, and they fought for there G-d given right, it wasn’t simply GIVEN to them
and it’s ironic that the harpercrites of canada are very much on par with the taliban, wanting to control and impose there “evangenital christian” beliefs onto other canadians, like being against gay marriage, abortions, against multiculturalism etc…
This lady is such a slut and a whore! I can see her EYES!!!! Where is her veil?! Any man who gazed into this womans eyes would be too tempted to resist her. She should be raped and stoned!!!!! In fact why is she outside her houes? Where is her man escorting her? This liberal loose lusty lolita is no true Muslim!
If you deny Muslims the right to their religion you are an intolerant racist!!!!
By the way, you will all join Islam or you will die by the sword! See, we really are a religion of peace.
Cardstonkid
that was funny 🙂
but seriously, there are over 1.2 billion muslims in the world, and most are not fundamentlist like the taliban
if fact the U.S is friends with most of them
pakistan
iraq (hehe)
turqey
egypt
libya
saudi arabia
UAE
kuwait
qatar
lebanon
etc
Denis, nitpik all you want, those brave women you listed were all exemptions to the rule, and fought tooth and nail for there accomplishments
You seem to ignore the fact that the society of the day allowed these women to protest and invoke change instead of having them jailed or killed. The ability of western (i.e., post-reformation Christian) culture to tolerate differing opinions and change when faced with compelling reason is one of its strengths (and at the same time maybe its great weakness?). Has western, Christian society always been perfect? No – but it has produced the best results so far.
I would also remind you that it has been the Christians of past years that have helped effect some of the great social changes, not exclusively (or even predominantly) the secularists.
Jacobin,
WWI had bugger all to do with women’s voting rights. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union started to campaign for women’s voting rights in 1902. Notice that this was both a Conservative and Christian group.
“The woman suffrage movement in Canada had its beginning in 1878 under the leadership of Dr. Emily Howard Stowe, who was one of the founders and the first president of the Dominion Women’s Enfranchisement Association.”
Women didn’t just come to the realization they were equal to men all of a sudden. They’d been fighting for equality for millennia.
Here are the first western nations to extend full voting rights for women:
1893 New Zealand
1902 Australia
1906 Finland
1913 Norway
1915 Denmark, Iceland
Notice that this trend pre-dates both world wars…
Notice also that the countries that were first to allow women to vote are all countries that enjoy the fruits of the Christian heritage. In other words, Christianity was not a hindrance to women’s rights and was in fact, the value system that gave it a catalyst. Women (and every other group you can name) have more rights in the countries with Christian heritage than any other place. Period.
Jacobin, you are an ignorant, foolish and stupid person. Your rants here only make yourself look bad. You should do more to educate yourself before you open your mouth. To equate the Taliban with any group of Canadians save the small number of Islamofascists in our midst it supreme rhetorical excess. These sorts of slurs don’t reflect badly on their target. They reflect badly on you.
“and it’s ironic that the harpercrites of canada are very much on par with the taliban, wanting to control and impose there “evangenital christian” beliefs onto other canadians, like being against gay marriage, abortions, against multiculturalism etc…”
Some secular humanists also believe in these values; they are not restricted to Christians.
You do not require religious belief to champion traditional marriage or the right of the unborn.
Multiculturalism has been and will be a failed policy in perpetuity.
And yes, since I don’t support multicultarilism, that brands me a racist. But at least I am a racist who hates everyone equally.
The fastest way to get rid of a troll, and a stupid one at that, is to cut off their oxygen supply. No response, I know, it’s so tempting, but, after a few more death rattle posts, they are dead. Gone. As zombies of their former life on this site they leave to find some other conservative site to play with. It’s the natural cycle of things in cyberspace.
I thought I’d mention it. And the fact that like all of the women posting here, including Kate, and all of the women that went before me in my family, we’d have been out of burqas a long time ago if that was our initial immigration outfit. I have a cousin who’s a nun, retired after 30 years of teaching, she’s got a really nice wardrobe. She gets her hair done on a regular schedule. She travels. Her mind is open and accepting. She’s a wiz at finances. The difference between a cult and a religion is its ability to adapt with dignity. That pathetic creature in her cloth coffin has zero chance of Islam freeing her.
“but no country has he right to force it’s own culture upon others using bombs and guns no matter how much we disapprove of there culture”
– That’s right. During WWII we should have let Hitler do what he wanted in Europe and Africa. After all it was their European culture to kill Jews, disabled people and homosexuals right? And todays places like the Congo, Somolia, Sudan, those places don’t matter we should ignore them too because they’re black people and killing each other is what they’re culture is all about right?
History is full of people having to fight to get personal freedom. If you think European cultures just changed without any wars then you need to read some history.
As to the unfortunate women who have to wear bags on their heads and are treated worse than dairy cattle when it comes to their health. It amazes me to no end that liberals are so quick to condemn discrimination in our so called western cultures – yet are so quick to allow discrimination in other cultures in Canada just because of their skin color. Its just amazing.
Jacobin,
Go to the left’s blog sites such as Rabble or Babble. You may notice that no-where on the site is a Conservative allowed to give their opinion without being bounced from the site.
The right allows discourse from the left without censorship. The left wing blogs do not.
Think about that for a while and see if settles into any area of your brain.
jaco, let me make a few suggestions:
“it’s own culture” – you mean “its”
“there culture” – you mean “their”
Now, finish your carrots and you can have pie.
ok
i was wrong about the timing of “The woman suffrage movement in Canada” still it points to a time not to long ago that wasn’t too kind towards women right here in canada
however, no one seems to be able to answer this simple question
WHO ARE THESE ISLAMIC TERRORIST?
it’s ironic that the harpercrites of canada are very much on par with the taliban, wanting to control and impose there “evangenital christian” beliefs onto other canadians, like being against gay marriage, abortions, against multiculturalism etc…
Hoo boy. Yeah, that’s a very Talibanesque agenda indeed.
But anyway: since you’re apparently in favour of the slow encroachment of sharia, what the heck do you care, anyway? Harper not fashionably ethnic enough to get away with such a hellish (and caricaturized) agenda? Or is Harper just not extreme enough? I mean, for ex., being opposed to gay marriage – but in favour of a “civil union” option – is so pussy compared to the Muslim preference for jailing or killing gays outright…
hey dudley
if muslims are so evil, why is the bush administration so buddy-buddy with saudi arabia, pakistan etc…?
and my mistake, i stand corrected “Canadian women won the full right to vote in 1918”
i was wrong about the timing of “The woman suffrage movement in Canada”
Jacobin, you deserve points for admitting when you’re wrong. However, you lose them and a few more for posting such easily disprovable statements in the first place.
Do you ever wonder what else you’re wrong about? You should.
I thought it was a Casper Cartoon.
jacobin: We appear to have struck a nerve here. That’s very telling. Neo-Nazi? Don’t think so fella. Neo-Nazi’s are a socialist movement, not a fit with the “Right” side of things. Get a grip and come back later, much later.
harpercrites “alliance party” are very much aligned with fascism
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“Do you ever wonder what else you’re wrong about? You should”
–i have no problems admitting when i’m wrong, and i learn from it, however not one of you harpercrites can do the same, and that will be your downfall come next election
–and i was wrong by a decade, (big fucking deal)
the fact remains, women in canada not that long ago were treated like second class citizens (my bad) they weren’t citizens because they couuldn’t vote
–and 100 years ago, isn’t ancient history!
i sat with my 3 daughters, trying to explain to them how a religion can treat women so bad(understand, they are 12, 15 and 19 and could not care less what happened 100 yrs ago)…and i could not do it…the words were not there…they just stared at that picture in amazement…my daughters now understand why we are in afghanistan…
“Who are the Islamic Terrorist(s)?”
Well some of the dead ones were in those planes that flew into the Twin Towers, others are those who planned to smuggle bomb making materials on to passenger flights, probably most of those attending training schools in Pakistan, Hezbollah,…
Oh right, those are just Mossad agents impersonating Islamic Terrorists.
my daughters now understand why we are in afghanistan…
oh for fuck sakes kingstonlad, things won’t change in afghanistan because of our bullets and bombs
and after afghanistan, should we attack saudi arabia?
and why is it for pakistan to mistreat it’s women? bush has no problem with pakistan
1…do u kiss your mother with that mouth?
2…if a woman wants to wear that crap…fine, if forced to do so, under threats of death, etc., as an ex canadian soldier i feel it is our duty to protect that innocent person
if u do not have what it takes to stand on the line, shut up and leave the real work to the ones that have the courage to stand up for their convictions
STOP FEEDING THE TROLLS
sorry
“2…if a woman wants to wear that crap…fine, if forced to do so, under threats of death, etc., as an ex canadian soldier i feel it is our duty to protect that innocent person”
–right, so why not attack saudi arabia kingstonlad?
“shut up and leave the real work to the ones that have the courage to stand up for their convictions”
–will your daughter that is 19 join the canadian armed forces and go to afghhanistan?
Well even if you don’t believe in guns and bombs, Jocobin, when was the last time you at least rallied in front of the Iranian [..insert communist/islamic fundamentalist islamic state here…] embassy against their treatment of women and civil rights? Hmmm? Never? I thought so.
The left is hypocritical. You can get hundreds of morons out to protest against GW Bush, but its as quiet as a frigging night in northern baffin island whenever anyone decides to protest the mistreatment of women by the fascists in […insert fundamentalist islamic state here…].
the thing is lang
there are human rights abuses done by almost every country on the planet
the difference is, now that all the reasons for which ‘W’ has gone to war for, have been exposed as lies
first it was WMD’S
then it was Iraq-Al Qaeda Connections
after it was regime change
then only thing left now is human rights abuses
so i ask again, is pakistan next?
what about china? saudi arabia? pick a country any country
stop feeding?
a good move…he’s making them look like cowards.
“…he’s making them look like cowards”
–i don’t see your ass in afghanistan, put your money where your mouth is
Served militia, long time ago, I’m almost 60 now.
But I wouldn’t serve in this bullshit war.
dave m
are you a bush supporter?
The first and best method of subjugating a persons will and self-worth is by removing their identity. In fact the Muslims that subscribe to the Islamic principles of covering up their women have mastered this form of abuse. Mentally and physically these woman have been brainwashed into this subjugation. It is most unlikely and a bit naive to think that they have ‘a choice’ in the selection of there clothing. I guess there choice would be a beating or wear the outfit, not much of a choice.
Jacob
Your ridiculous attempts at equating our civilization and history with the Arabs is laughable. I am afraid like many left-wingers you are of the view that all civilizations are equal. This is not in fact the case. Some civilizations are just more equal and better then others. Also comparing a woman’s struggle for equality to an Arab woman’s is at best disingenuous and at worst, an insult to Arab women. Even before Western woman could vote, etc here they were certainly not slaves, stoned to death or mutilated by there partners.
I see that your jumps in logic are becoming more and more disjointed as the post goes on. Perhaps you should sit back and ask yourself this question along with your last post:
What came first: Jihad or the Western worlds foreign policy?
Bush?
No.
He’s the worst thing to happen to the world in 50 years.
And I could never vote for a slimy dishonest punk kid like harper.
I just thought you were making the other commenters look like fearful cowards. As in:
“Oh my god. Oh my god. culturally sensitive hospital gowns. they’re going to kill us. we’re all going to die>”
“Your ridiculous attempts at equating our civilization and history with the Arabs is laughable”
–not at all, i don’t approve of the taliban form of government, however to equate them with all other arab countries is a lie
–first, the taliban to my knowledge are not arabs
secondly, many other muslim countries are very much secular, women in iraq under saddam for example, were allowed to vote, become educated etc.. you could even buy playboy magazines in bagdad
egypt, lebanon, turqey the list goes on
Jacobin, you bet he is a Bush supporter, as are we all here.
And we eat people like you as an hours d’oeuvre.
now, are you going to behead us, a la jacobins did during the terror in France two hundred plus years ago?
WImpy
the only beheading i do is force feeding you truth via the keyboard until your head explodes
david m
my apologies
It’s a terrible thing what’s happened to this country…lots of people…the people who talk here for example…who are afraid of the world.
And yet they put on tough guy masks in the hopes that the mask will eventually remake the man. These guys are weenies.
If kingstonlad was my neighbour and gave me that crap he spouts here, I’d throw his ass off my property. Wouldn’t count on him for back up in a fight either.
Dave M
i couldn’t agree with you more!
First, in the matter of nosocomial sartorial style, I’ve often advocated a hospital “poncho” i.e. a blanket with a slit in the centre to poke one’s head through along with a simple belt. It could serve as a warm, modest cover while allowing access for examination/procedures and do double service as, well, a blanket. For one thing, the hospitals I’ve worked in are so freakin’ cold and the standard hospital gowns so flimsy that hypothermia becomes a real concern.
As for accommodating the cultural sensitivities of everyone who comes through the door, I say “stuff it”. We don’t have the time and the system doesn’t have the resources to waste on burdensome cultural whims. We can, and do accomodate within reason, but there’s a limit. You got off at this country, we didn’t get off at yours. As for the outfit displayed, it’s a joke. While purporting to be for patients undergoing medical procedures, I’m hard pressed to imagine what medical procedure could be performed on someone wearing such an outfit — an ultrasound? an electrocardiogram? a transthoracic echo? a central line? Heck, I’d be hard pressed to examine or start a large bore IV on this person let alone prep them for a thoracotomy. So spare me the nonsense. Singapore demands that all persons, including muslims, show their faces, have facial photographs on their ID, and remove sunglasses when entering a bank. And guess what — the muslims comply because Singapore won’t put up with their BS. It’s about time we did the same.
Jacobin,
Judeo-Christian society has been evolving nicely for 2000 years. How many years ago were men granted the right to vote? Not that long before women – it’s been a long, slow process – interrupted by the odd war, revolution, civil war, etc., but it works.
If the US is on “good terms” with Pakistan, Saudi Arabia et al, it’s out of necessity. It’s called “realpolitic”.
You’ve obviously picked up a smattering of English since you’ve been here (I loved your”exemption to the rule”), but no understanding of our culture.
I suggest you consider one of two options, since it seems that you’re hell bent on imposing sharia law on the rest of us:
1. Go back where you came from
2. Go fuck yourself
how about?
3. you explain to me, how afghanistan is different than pakistan and saudi arabia when it comes to women’s right?
See 1. and 2. above.
Also note classic post above from Sooz:
“I don’t want to become a human set of drapes sitting in the corner waiting for my male relative to escort me outside the house.”