…a typical Friday at a middle school in the largest city in Canada. I forget which brand of tampon used to advertise itself with the pitch “Now with new [whatever] you can go horse-riding, water-ski-ing, ballet dancing, whatever you want to do”, but perhaps they can just add the tag: “But not participate in Friday prayers at an Ontario public school.”
h/t BL
The Toronto District School Board says it is meeting its obligation to accommodate students’ religious beliefs by allowing an imam to lead students in prayer on school property.
The board came under fire this week when a Hindu group that regularly criticizes Islam raised objections to Friday Muslim prayer sessions, which have been held inside a cafeteria at Valley Park Middle School in Flemingdon Park for about three years.
h/t rita
Publius piles on:
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Despite being the fourth largest visible minority group in Canada, blacks continue to be victims of racism and are under-represented in high-level positions including on Parliament Hill, Oliver said Monday, Canadian Multiculturalism Day.He’s a grandstanding fool. No one much cares what Senators have to say. Playing the race card gets you some decent headlines. What follows is such a stream of stale nonsense you’d be surprised to get it from the typical Dipper activist…
As for blacks being excluded from positions of power? Well let’s turn that issue around a bit. The black community accounts for about 2.5% of the country’s population. Roughly the same percentage as the combined totals of Portuguese and and Spanish. How many Iberians do you see in positions of power in this country? Rather few. This isn’t a product of bigotry. Most immigrant groups take time to climb up the socio-economic ladder. If those groups have persistently high drop out rates, like say Jamaicans and Portuguese [why do our media make so little of a group of whites doing poorly?], then it shouldn’t be surprising that this process is slower than for other groups, like say the Poles…
Raced based politics has no place in Canada. Some have certain tried to introduce it, mostly with limited success. Senator Oliver is not trying to fight racism, he is trying to institutionalize it. You fight racism by treating people as individuals, not as members of a racial collective. Oliver is also importing an American conceptual approach to race relations…
If Senator Oliver succeeds with his race hustling it will be for one reason: Cowardice. The non-black population is terrified of criticizing race based rhetoric for fear of being called a racist. The black population of being called Uncle Toms or Oreos. The real victims will not be Canada’s whites, Asians or Indians. It will the black population. There is nothing more pernicious to a group of people than to see themselves as victims, able to excuse every failure on some mythical “system” of racism. All this so an old man can grandstand to the media. Vanity.
[Huron University College] offers post-baccalaureate and professional degree programs in theology. The College recently accepted a $2-million endowment for a new Chair in Islamic Studies within the College’s historically Anglican Faculty of Theology. About half the money is to come via fundraising facilitated by the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), and the other, matching half from the Virginia-based International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). A cofounder of the latter group was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007-2008 trial of Sami al-Arian, an Islamist academic linked to jihadism.
When Scotland leads can Québec be far behind? Assuming, as seems likely at this point to be the case, the PQ wins the next provincial election surely they will find great inspiration (especially when they realize all those Dizzy Dippers can’t deliver Jack squat):
Salmond hails ‘historic’ victory as SNP secures Holyrood’s first ever majority
Salmond leads party to series of dramatic victories over Labour and Lib Dems, resulting in a majority in the Scottish parliament
The Scottish National party has won a majority in the Holyrood elections – a dramatic result that will allow its leader, Alex Salmond, to hold a historic referendum on independence for Scotland…
Jubilant at the “historic” scale of the SNP’s victories, he added that he would first demand much greater economic freedom for the Scottish parliament, including the right to set its own corporation tax and increase borrowing powers to £5bn. Then he would hold his referendum.
“Just as the Scottish people have restored trust in us, we must trust the people as well,” he declared. “Which is why, in this term of the parliament, we will bring forward a referendum and trust the people on Scotland’s own constitutional future.”..
Want to bet on the “Maple Leaf Forever“? (Update thought: Except maybe as the new national anthem?)
It’s been over 250 years since their monarchy has had to behead someone.
Casmo, Canada’s voice of the “SHIA” community states that one of its goals is “To encourage and support multiculturalism by integration and active participation of Muslims in Canadian civil society”
That explains the David Duke video featured on their site, “Mubarak and the Fall of the Zionist Dogs”…
Chimpanzee meat is for sale in restaurants and market stalls in Britain, it has emerged.
American readers may not realize it but if Prime Minister Harper had spoken at an event such as this he would have been in Canadian media:
Especially had he said something along these lines:
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Speaking at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Obama said his Christianity has been a “sustaining force” during times when doubt have been raised about his faith and that of his family.
“We are reminded that ultimately what matters is not what other people say about us, but whether we’re being true to our conscience and true to our God,” Obama said…
“Allahu Akbar” – it’s the new audience applause.
A few excerpts from another, er, killer post from Publius:
A Canadian Value
A Pequiste punctures a Canadian illusion:A group of Sikhs was turned away from the Quebec legislature for carrying ceremonial daggers in an incident Tuesday that served as a flashpoint in the province’s emotional debate about multiculturalism.
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Louise Beaudoin, the PQ’s designated critic for secularism, noted that the province’s politicians have never subscribed to the charter vision — in fact, many here view it as a threat to Quebec’s culture. Quebec is the only province that has never supported the Constitution.
“Multiculturalism is not a Quebec value,” Beaudoin told reporters.
“It may be a Canadian one — but it’s not a Quebec one.Some conservatives might be impressed by Louise Beaudoin’s militant rejection of multiculturalism. They should not be. Mme Beaudoin is not rejecting the cultural relativism offered by the multiculturalists. Instead, as a Quebec nationalist, she is asserting the superiority of her tribal culture over others.
The PQ is a party dedicated to the independence of Quebec on the basis of ethnic nationalism. While expressed, and practiced, in a far more civilized form than that seen in the Balkans, or the Middle East, it has as much intellectual validity as the primitive tribalism of those regions. An independent Quebec would be no freer, no strong, no safer and no richer a place than a Quebec within the Canadian union. There is no reason for it but ordinary chauvinism.
Superficially, Quebec nationalism may seem little different from the patriotism of the Rest of Canada…
Under the rubric of multiculturalism this friction is not seen as inevitable and understandable. Instead it is viewed as a product of deep seated bigotry. To the multiculturalist all cultures – and therefore all cultural values – are seen as equally valid. To object to one set of values is not ignorance, or a difference of opinion, but racism. The accusation of racism is tool, used quite often, to silence those making even the most innocuous comments about other cultures…
The Left has drawn the cultural battle lines to their advantage. Too many conservatives (and a few libertarians) have accepted its terms. We cannot fall for the trap. The Left has decreed that to oppose multiculturalism is bigotry. The instinctive reaction of some will be: “Fine, I’m a bigot. Make the most of it.”
Finding non-western cultures strange is not bigotry, it is human…
Further to Tarek Fatah,
“Fuck Canada Day” fame Omar Chaaban who was “ashamed to be Canadian,” now wants to be president of UBC students
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a reassuring message from a student there:
Don’t worry, the dude has no chance of winning. There’s three candidates in the race, and Omar is a distant third. Still though, it makes for hilarious debates; it’s fun having a controversial candidate in the running. The whole university knows about his fuck canada comments.
On the other hand there is insanity at this grove of academe:
A course at the University of British Columbia’s…
وهذا شقيقي محمد, وهذا هو آخر ممثلي الأخ محمد
h/t Manotick
Everyone is enjoying Toronto’s multi-cultural mix, and the restaurants are great!’ That’s exactly—exactly—what they used to say about Sarajevo.
Plus! Home for the holidays…
The suitcase contained two elephant tails, bloody sheets, five chicken feathers, chicken blood, a dried hedgehog, two dried chameleons, grass, seed pods, tree bark chips and a jug filled with soil, herbs and blood, authorities said.
Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have “utterly failed”, Chancellor Angela Merkel says.
In a speech in Potsdam, she said the so-called “multikulti” concept – where people would “live side-by-side” happily – did not work.
Mrs Merkel’s comments come amid recent outpourings of strong anti-immigrant feeling from mainstream politicians.
A recent survey showed that more than 30% of Germans believed Germany was “overrun by foreigners”.
…. most thought it meant “more pavilions at Folkfest”.
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