Salim Mansur has written a most important new book:
Charles Adler and Ezra Levant discuss this book with its author. Lorrie Goldstein has published a review of the book.
Incidentally, would Salim Mansur be given a fair shot at a TV interview if Sun News TV didn’t exist?
Not only would he not be given a fair shot, I’d bet he won’t be given any shot. I’d certainly be interested in seeing him interviewed by somebody in the Canadian lamestream media.
Professor Mansur presents as a quandary for liberals- an ethnic and religious minority who exposes the flaws within Islam and political multiculturalism.
So, no, he would not get a fair shake if Sun TV News did not exist.
I always enjoy reading Professor Salim Mansur’s articles and find him to be very knowledgeable.
No, he would not be given any fair interviews by MSM, especially the CBC, as he does not tout the multicultural or political correct lines that liberals love to spout.
Heard him briefly on SunMedia with Charles Adler. He knows his stuff, and can communicate well.
Not only would he not be on TV without SUN, without the web and Amazon.ca he’d be screwed for selling his book.
I very much doubt Heather Reisman is going to sell his book at Chapters, or if she does it’ll be hidden in the stacks like Ann Coulter. Ain’t going to be a “Heather’s Pick”, know what I mean?
There is no such thing as a multicultural society. A society has a culture. It can have subcultures, but they are not competitive with the primary culture.
There are geographic regions designated as a nation that contain more than one culture. These are generally in an eternal death duel between or among the different groups who live there. That is not a culture, that is a disaster.
A repudiation of Multiculturalism is long overdue, however, the government, in this case a Conservative government with a Majority, has to take action on this file. To allow these policies to continue will most certainly put end to the Canada our forefathers fought for. It’s insidious, it’s a path to a fragmented land mass instead of a unified country.
Trudeau decided to go beyond bilingual/bicultural to Multicultural in Canada outside Quebec of course. This does not produce a strong united country with common bonds, it does the opposite.
Phantom – If it were in Chapter’s eponymous dung-heap it wouldn’t be worth buying; kind of a rule of thumb!
Salim Mansur is a Muslim from Calcutta who is very courageous to stand on campus and criticize Trudeaupia. Multiculturalism attempted to broaden Two Solitudes into 200 solitudes, thereby making Quebec pur laine and diminishing the heritage of independence in the ROC (especially Ontario) by splitting it into ethnic silos and making it more government dependent ; essentially creating voting blocs supported by a patronage system of government.
Cultures that were brought to our shores were propped up by a Multiculti government turning them into parasites on their successful new host country.
We need to return to the idea that people are equal but cultures are not equal and that the government should get out of the way and let Darwin do his work….i.e. let adaptation flow naturally.
“Incidentally, would Salim Mansur be given a fair shot at a TV interview if Sun News TV didn’t exist?”
That’s a self-answering question.
More specifically, we reflexively know the bulk of the Canadian media is political, partisan and aligned against the Majority of Canadians in its promotional messaging of every social engineering meme the elite are pimping at any given time. Mansur has written a pivotal essay denouncing a major social engineering show piece as an abject failure. In his analysis he eludes to the fact that the regime of politically correct multiculturalism relied on massive amounts of evangelistic propaganda and fear of indictment by the state to keep it in force. Multicultural theory forces the government to put us into interpersonal relations under a set of imposed conditions which defy human nature, social/historical realities and offend our sense of fairness and true justice.
Any such regime so constructed is doomed to failure when it hits a point where its enforcers are repressing us (in this case the majority) and creating real injustices with the power of the state (vexatious prosecutions). Soon the state and its enforcement organs and justice systems are held in wide public disrepute. At that point the state had best rethink its regime because a wedge had been driven between the law and its adherents. Multiculturalism has become a contemptuous regime of oppression, fear and injustice and we are at the point where Canadians will start holding the rule of law in disrepute due to the constant injustices fanatical Multicultural policy enforcement creates.
Mansur hit the ball out of the park on this essay. But the powers that be will not talk about it, they have become so reflexively repressive of dissent they will actively black list Mansur while openly renouncing him in their propaganda network.
Buy the book anyway and talk about it in spite of the control freaks. Seek truth. In the environment of politically motivated denial that we live in, simply challenging the fallacy of ideological sacred cows becomes a revolutionary act.
I fully agree with nomdeblog’s points about the results of multiculturalism.
It balkanized all of Canada, but did so particularly in Ontario, which is the hub of immigration destination. And, particularly Toronto, which was reduced to multitudes of vote-rich isolate ethnic ghettoes, all beholden to the Liberals for special grants for community centres, low cost ‘settlement’ loans, school services etc.
The result, as pointed out, are isolate and often adversarial ‘blocs’ of ethnics, competing with each other for govt funds and special benefits.
Another result is that these newcomers do not identify with Canada but retain their identification with ‘the old country’. They have simply added a new geographic locale to their old geographic one..and expect to live by the same rules and modes of behaviour as before.
Quebec, alone of all the provinces, obtained exclusive control over its own immigration, and thus managed to define newcomers as part of the global francophone community, and, to reduce to a national minimum, the ratio of ‘visible minorities’.
Harper, a gradualist, rather than a revolutionary, is moving slowly, bit by bit. He’s introduced new immigration rules that are focused on a requirement that the newcomer acknowledge the Canadian culture and laws. He’s re-inserting a Canadian identity (the Royal Navy etc); he’s focusing on the North as an integral part of the Canadian identity…etc..
Remember, the Charter, which set up both bilingualism and thus Quebec dominance in the federal govt, and multiculturalism as privileged over individual rights (yes, it did both)..is The Law. Harper can’t confront this directly; he has to move, bit by bit, behind its Front.
The comments on Goldstein’s article show that too many koolaid drinkers are still gulping mighty quaffs. Sad. “Young Canadian” may yet grow up but by then the Dippers and “liberals” will have done even more damage to our country. How large a majority does Mr. Harper need before he will actually begin to turn this boat around?
larben, I weep for the state of publishing in this country.
I -like- book stores. I spend lots of time and more importantly -money- in them. Of late I find more and more that the Chapters/Coles/Indigo chain simply doesn’t have anything I want to read in it other than Hotrod Magazine.
This is bad, since of course Chapters IS the entire Canadian book biz. They bought or bankrupted every other outlet, I have no place else to go.
More and more I’m forced to shop on Amazon and other web sites. I don’t like to, because Amazon.ca has a really wanky design and frankly I’d be happier buying from a Canadian store where I can hold in my hand the thing I’m going to buy.
But really, its becoming a waste of time to shop at Chapters. Idiots.
Phantom @ 8:35 “I very much doubt Heather Reisman is going to sell his book at Chapters, or if she does it’ll be hidden in the stacks like Ann Coulter. Ain’t going to be a “Heather’s Pick”, know what I mean?”
You could well be right as Heather has a penchant for banning books.
I see David Solway recommending this book with a remark on the front cover. Solway is a valuable voice given too little attention by conservative blogs, although he writes a hard-hitting weekly column for frontpagemag.com and occasional pieces on pajamas media. Not too often one hears a distinguished Canadian poet and literary critic speaking truth from the right.
http://frontpagemag.com/author/david-solway/
Phantom, you could try McNally Robinson if there is a store near you. I have not shopped at a Chapters or one of their subsidiaries for many years.
OMG, ET and I actually agree on something 100%. Bravo! Hell hath frozen over! 🙂
There, there, Skip. It will pass, just a glitch, all good things come to an end…
Nomdeblog >
Spot on.
On another note, India understands the multiculturalism mess better than anyone. They have hundreds of cultures, languages and problems the world doesn’t understand or hear about. This is one reason that their caste system within their religion and society is so important and functional for them, it creates some form of societal order in the multicultural chaos.
Everyone in India, “knows their place”, it’s a collective apartheid which creates invisible barriers between thousands of class distinctions keeping a general harmony for the most part. The key is the Hindu religious structure that allows the “have not’s” to accept their lot in life as less than their “betters”.
This took thousands of years to refine, an impossibility to ever occur in Canada. Multiculturalism will destroy all western nations eventually. On the flip side western influence is also creating chaos to these same foreign cultures as we introduce our ideas of freedom, equality, atheism, materialism etcetera to them.
My take on multiculturalism – great if you’re buying your own beer and bratwurst – bad if you’re using it to enslave or kill people, typically women.
After centuries of increasingly enhanced individual rights under the term liberalism, it is odd that the only political home of liberalism is the Conservative Party of Canada.
The rest of the crew eagerly promote collective rights with the zeal of despots.
‘… Ontario, which is the hub of immigration destination. And, particularly Toronto, which was reduced to multitudes of vote-rich isolate ethnic ghettoes, all beholden to the Liberals for special grants for community centres, low cost ‘settlement’ loans, school services etc.’
The liberal lock on the immigrant vote has loosened … Rob Ford won decisively in Toronto; Federal Conservatives have picked up seats in GTA … things have changed … Let’s not forget that the CPC are poor communicators and a lot more needs to be done to ensure that NDP/LPC get no more seats from GTA … immigrants are socially conservative and have a lot in common with the CPC’s views
My take on multiculturalism – great if you’re buying your own beer and bratwurst – bad if you’re using it to enslave or kill people, typically women.
After centuries of increasingly enhanced individual rights under the term liberalism, it is odd that the only political home of liberalism is the Conservative Party of Canada.
The rest of the crew eagerly promote collective rights with the zeal of despots.
Liberalism explained by a far right bigot :p sure, why not? Like reading Mein Kampf in order to understand Judaism.
rizwan – agreed, Ford won in Toronto, to control the socialist ‘tax-and-spend’ agenda of David Miller, the leftist mayor, and his gang. And Harper and the CPC made big gains in Toronto.
But, even though the rhetoric is that immigrants are primarily ‘conservative’, don’t confuse their view of ‘conservativism’ with the Canadian view of ‘conservativism’.
The immigrants may be ‘social conservatives’ and reject same-sex marriage, abortion, etc but these, quite frankly, are peripheral areas in the Canadian Conservative ideology.
The CPC is focused around fiscal and economic policies of low taxes, a promotion of small and medium private owned businesses, reducing the debt, balancing the budget..and a focus on individual freedoms. Freedom of speech, freedom to be responsible and self-supporting.
Many immigrant communities expect the govt to operate as some kind of Magical Cauldron, dishing out benefits and other largesse without end. And they are quite hostile to other ethnic groups, feeling that they have to fight to get these monies. And, immigrant communities carry out their own economies via extensive black markets to avoid taxes
And, they expect the federal govt to carry out their ‘home battles’ on their behalf, i.e., the Tamils who occupied Toronto highways insisting that Harper sanction Sri Lanka.
What the CPC is gradually doing, is upgrading the type of immigrant Canada is accepting, insisting on skills and a commitment to Canadian values, and, within the communities, focusing on enabling economic self-development rather than welfare dependency. This is working – and the attitude of expecting the govt to ‘give us everything’ is slowly changing.
Phantom, the Chapters I was in a month or so ago had a whole section of Margaret Atwood books prominently featured with the hot sellers up front. A tribute to the clout of Doug Ford, perhaps. 🙂
“….immigrant communities carry out their own economies via extensive black markets to avoid taxes”
Another reason the HST was doomed to fail eventually in BC by way of the HUGE and exponentially growing Chinese/ Asian population.
The lefties have no concept of why their multicultural delusions are never going to work; the other cultures won’t let it happen.
I grew up being taught that Canada is a mosaic and that the blending of different cultures is a good thing. I still believe that.
When I drive around my town of 300 people (yep – village) I see romanian people speaking romanian, philipino’s pushing their babies around, french people speaking french, aboriginal people with braids. I like this. It makes my community bigger and better.
I always get a kick out the people who say multiculturalism doesn’t work – but then have no friends outside either their income bracket, skin pigmentation, country of origin, or english as a second language. How do they know if it works or not if they’ve never tried? What do we start to do – imprision people if they don’t fit in with what we consider ‘Canadian’?
Awfully smug for a hick, aren’t you, Andy? People who say multiculturalism doesn’t work have seen a bit more of the world than you have. You ought to shut up until you know what you’re talking about.
What we shold start to do is imprison loudmouthed shithead hicks, in my opinion. Since you asked and all.