No cherry picking- The law does adapt as we have both pointed out. For children - declarations etc. We both have strong and differing opinions on confronting your accuser.
And cherry picking ain't a hobby of mine.
Ontario Court rejects the right to wear niqab
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No cherry picking- The law does adapt as we have both pointed out. For children - declarations etc. We both have strong and differing opinions on confronting your accuser.
And cherry picking ain't a hobby of mine.
Well, by all means, let's ban all symbols of oppression to women. That should be interesting. lol.
How about we stick just to the ones that most men and women agree are not acceptable.
You've (we've) come a long way, baby. ;-)
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Them's fightin' words, bub. :lol:
I think you still might have to take off your stupid fishing hat in court; plaid shirt probably passes the dress code.
By the way a stupid-looking "fishing hat" isn't really just a fishing hat. It's all purpose.
That was the "ideal" when enacted 40+ years ago but, in my estimation, it has not been beneficial for all Canadians as a whole. I suggest we need to be Canadians only not: French C, or Iranian C, or Polish C, or Indo C, or Honduran C or Chinese C...and it goes on and on. It has created a patch work quilt of "special ethnic groups' many of whom want to, and do, re-create their cultures within Canada and not all of the customs/traditions are wonderful.
You should live here in Greater Vancouver and know about the Indo Canadians throwing acid in daughter and daughter in law's faces or families just right out murdering their women folk because that is how it is done where they come from if they decide the girls dishonoured their family. The murder rate has soared here in the past 30 years and much of these can be attributed (traced) to various immigrant and 1st generation ethnic groups who take pride in holding us near hostage with some very violent customs.
Before you say that not much of it happens, drive by shootings,extreme spousal abuse and more has increased radically, so much so we do not get excited anymore unless it is in our neighbourhood. No neighbourhood is exempt...all of GV gets it. This is not the land we lived in 30 years ago even. There are not enough filters.
One of the major reasons I live in Greater Vancouver is that the world comes here. I enjoy meeting, and be-friending, folk from all over the world. When we have a party it looks like it is in the UN: Chinese, Fijian, Iranian, English, French, Icelandic, Fillipino, Indian, Native Indian and more nations are represented here in our home. We really enjoy and value our differences, especially when it is a potluck dinner!! but we are all Canadian, together, in the end.
We need to just be Canadian together.
Off Topic: husband just arrived home with French beer. He had a bottle of :La Fin du Monde: and said it is the best ale he has ever had. I told him I was sending a message to a Frenchman so he wanted you to know he loves the French beer making.
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Go on a ride along with the cops sometime. It's one domestic after another after another and race doesn't matter. It's alcohol, drugs and money behind the majority of the calls.
Gopherland is called Turtle Island by Native Americans of this region.
Oh by the way, re the niqab, as we all know from my posts which quoted the Koran, a woman is not to wear one. And as you know the Koran refers to the Bible as the Book because it is considered sacred to Muslims.
In the Bible hiding of the face was not done by pious women but was done by prostitutes: Genesis 38: 14,15.
Therefore, pious Islamic women are not to wear niqabs!
Oh by the way, re the niqab, as we all know from my posts which quoted the Koran, a woman is not to wear one. And as you know the Koran refers to the Bible as the Book because it is considered sacred to Muslims.
In the Bible hiding of the face was not done by pious women but was done by prostitutes: Genesis 38: 14,15.
Therefore, pious Islamic women are not to wear niqabs!
North America is Turtle Island not your state.
Interesting about hiding the face, though.
Ok. I tried to find stats to back up my claim and was unable to do so. Demographics suggest that while immigrant women are more prone to domestic violence initially the rate of these crimes decrease later. I suspect I live too close to Surrey and Delta, both across the Fraser River from us, and was unduly influenced by reports. I will leave this alone due to the fact that I discovered I have no idea what I am talking about in this matter.
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Drugs, alcohol, money.
What are the odds new, young immigrants who are struggling would fight over money, alcohol or drugs?
The problems are the same but the language is different.
What are the odds new, young immigrants who are struggling would fight over money, alcohol or drugs?
The problems are the same but the language is different.
Interesting find that new immigrants suffer more abuse at the onset and then it declines.
Likely a combo of reasons for that such as high stress levels upon the men to find employment, coupled with that fact that the woman has no one to turn to while he abuses her.
His stress levels drop and she has people she can tell once they have been here for a bit. And he also learns it is not culturally acceptable and that she has legal recourse.
Likely a combo of reasons for that such as high stress levels upon the men to find employment, coupled with that fact that the woman has no one to turn to while he abuses her.
His stress levels drop and she has people she can tell once they have been here for a bit. And he also learns it is not culturally acceptable and that she has legal recourse.
Are you sure you're not showing a bias? It seems to me that when you say "Canadian," you mean British Canadian.
Let us say a person was covered in bandages head to toe because of an acid attack. Would we force the person to risk infection and take them off so that an identification could be made? When did Canadians become so incapable of identifying a person without seeing their face?
This isn't even about religious freedom. What purpose does seeing the person's face serve? Once you have identified an individual, what difference does seeing their face make? Taking a person's right to "face" their accuser literally is patently absurd. This is just a case of a defense lawyer abusing a witness's compulsions to skirt justice.
Or was the judge actually so clueless that he couldn't tell who the woman was? Because unless he really couldn't identify the woman, I don't see what the point was.
This isn't even about religious freedom. What purpose does seeing the person's face serve? Once you have identified an individual, what difference does seeing their face make? Taking a person's right to "face" their accuser literally is patently absurd. This is just a case of a defense lawyer abusing a witness's compulsions to skirt justice.
Or was the judge actually so clueless that he couldn't tell who the woman was? Because unless he really couldn't identify the woman, I don't see what the point was.
My understanding from what I have read is that she has not always worn the niqab and that she isn't particularly religous. Having said that, we know that it's not a religious custom but cultural so the whole thing is moot!!
JMO