Since ISIS is said to be defeated shouldn't the refugees be asked to return to their own home countries?
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Egyptian singer charged with inciting debauchery with racy music video
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January 4, 2018
Updated:
January 4, 2018 9:57 AM EST
"Bos Omak" music video. (Screenshot)
CAIRO — Egyptian prosecutors have ordered the detention of a little-known female singer over a racy video posted online, the second female singer to face legal action within a month.
The prosecutors charged Laila Amer with violating public decency and inciting debauchery in the video, titled Bos Omak, or Look at Your Mother a pun on a popular Arabic profanity. She was arrested Wednesday.
Amer belly dances and makes provocative gestures throughout the music video. It shows her playing a downtrodden housewife complaining to her husband about his bossy mother.
Lawyer Ahmed Mahran, who filed a complaint with authorities over the video, said the clip contributed to “destroying morality and disseminating vice.”
Egypt’s musicians union cancelled Amer’s membership and said in a statement that her video was “an insult to the Egyptian people,” according to the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper.
Last month, Shaimaa Ahmed, another female singer whose stage name is Shima, faced similar charges and was sentenced to two years in prison, which was reduced to one year on appeal.
Ahmed’s video, titled Andy Zerof, or I’ve Got Circumstances, showed her dancing in her underwear and suggestively licking an apple and eating a banana before a classroom of young men.
Similar cases have been brought before Egyptian courts in recent years.
In 2015, an Egyptian court sentenced two belly dancers, known as Shakira and Bardis, to six months in prison following their conviction on charges of inciting debauchery. Their sentences were later reduced to three months.
Egyptian authorities have been criticized in recent years for their crackdown on dissent and freedoms. In September, they arrested dozens for waving an LGBT rainbow flag at a Cairo concert by a popular Lebanese indie rock band whose lead singer is openly gay. The band, Mashrou’ Leila, was later banned from performing in Egypt.
Egypt is a majority Muslim nation that has steadily grown more conservative over the past half century. However, it remains far more liberal than Gulf Arab nations, with a relatively vibrant arts and music scene.
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Egyptian singer charged with inciting debauchery over racy music video | Toronto Sun
Girls as young as 9 can marry, Turkish religious body's Islamic glossary suggests
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January 4, 2018
Updated:
January 4, 2018 9:32 AM EST
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By Suzan Fraser, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANKARA, Turkey — A suggestion by Turkey’s state religious affairs body that girls as young as nine could marry has sparked an outcry, including calls for an inquiry and the dismantling of the scandal-tainted organization.
Its online glossary of Islamic terms, which has since been removed, defined marriage as an institution that saves a person from adultery and said girls can marry when they reach puberty — as early as age nine, Turkish media reports said.
Our directorate has never in its history approved of child marriages and never will.
Diyanet
Turkey’s main opposition party has called for an investigation into the Directorate of Religious Affairs, or Diyanet, accusing it of inciting underage marriages. Social media users joined a campaign demanding the closure of the body that oversees mosques and imams and has frequently courted controversy.
Diyanet vehemently denied approving underage marriages, saying that “our directorate has never in its history approved of child marriages and never will.”
Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag accused the media of manipulating definitions in the glossary to make the government look as though it supports child marriages. Bozdag added that it was the religious body’s duty to interpret terms according to Islamic laws, not civic laws.
The Diyanet previously caused fury for issuing an online fatwa, or religious ruling, suggesting that a father can lust after his daughter. That fatwa was quickly retracted. In other rulings, the Diyanet has said Muslims cannot marry non-Muslims and that engaged couples cannot be left alone or hold hands.
The legal age for marriage in Turkey is 18. Women’s rights groups say underage marriage is widespread despite the laws and accuse authorities of not taking sufficient steps to protect girls from becoming “child brides.”
In 2016, the government scrapped a proposal that critics said would have allowed men accused of statutory rape to go free if they were married to their victims, following similar outrage.
Girls as young as 9 can marry, Turkish religious body’s Islamic glossary suggests | Toronto Sun
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Published:
January 4, 2018
Updated:
January 4, 2018 9:57 AM EST
"Bos Omak" music video. (Screenshot)
CAIRO — Egyptian prosecutors have ordered the detention of a little-known female singer over a racy video posted online, the second female singer to face legal action within a month.
The prosecutors charged Laila Amer with violating public decency and inciting debauchery in the video, titled Bos Omak, or Look at Your Mother a pun on a popular Arabic profanity. She was arrested Wednesday.
Amer belly dances and makes provocative gestures throughout the music video. It shows her playing a downtrodden housewife complaining to her husband about his bossy mother.
Lawyer Ahmed Mahran, who filed a complaint with authorities over the video, said the clip contributed to “destroying morality and disseminating vice.”
Egypt’s musicians union cancelled Amer’s membership and said in a statement that her video was “an insult to the Egyptian people,” according to the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper.
Last month, Shaimaa Ahmed, another female singer whose stage name is Shima, faced similar charges and was sentenced to two years in prison, which was reduced to one year on appeal.
Ahmed’s video, titled Andy Zerof, or I’ve Got Circumstances, showed her dancing in her underwear and suggestively licking an apple and eating a banana before a classroom of young men.
Similar cases have been brought before Egyptian courts in recent years.
In 2015, an Egyptian court sentenced two belly dancers, known as Shakira and Bardis, to six months in prison following their conviction on charges of inciting debauchery. Their sentences were later reduced to three months.
Egyptian authorities have been criticized in recent years for their crackdown on dissent and freedoms. In September, they arrested dozens for waving an LGBT rainbow flag at a Cairo concert by a popular Lebanese indie rock band whose lead singer is openly gay. The band, Mashrou’ Leila, was later banned from performing in Egypt.
Egypt is a majority Muslim nation that has steadily grown more conservative over the past half century. However, it remains far more liberal than Gulf Arab nations, with a relatively vibrant arts and music scene.
Egyptian singer charged with inciting debauchery over racy music video | Toronto Sun
Girls as young as 9 can marry, Turkish religious body's Islamic glossary suggests
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Published:
January 4, 2018
Updated:
January 4, 2018 9:32 AM EST
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By Suzan Fraser, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANKARA, Turkey — A suggestion by Turkey’s state religious affairs body that girls as young as nine could marry has sparked an outcry, including calls for an inquiry and the dismantling of the scandal-tainted organization.
Its online glossary of Islamic terms, which has since been removed, defined marriage as an institution that saves a person from adultery and said girls can marry when they reach puberty — as early as age nine, Turkish media reports said.
Our directorate has never in its history approved of child marriages and never will.
Diyanet
Turkey’s main opposition party has called for an investigation into the Directorate of Religious Affairs, or Diyanet, accusing it of inciting underage marriages. Social media users joined a campaign demanding the closure of the body that oversees mosques and imams and has frequently courted controversy.
Diyanet vehemently denied approving underage marriages, saying that “our directorate has never in its history approved of child marriages and never will.”
Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag accused the media of manipulating definitions in the glossary to make the government look as though it supports child marriages. Bozdag added that it was the religious body’s duty to interpret terms according to Islamic laws, not civic laws.
The Diyanet previously caused fury for issuing an online fatwa, or religious ruling, suggesting that a father can lust after his daughter. That fatwa was quickly retracted. In other rulings, the Diyanet has said Muslims cannot marry non-Muslims and that engaged couples cannot be left alone or hold hands.
The legal age for marriage in Turkey is 18. Women’s rights groups say underage marriage is widespread despite the laws and accuse authorities of not taking sufficient steps to protect girls from becoming “child brides.”
In 2016, the government scrapped a proposal that critics said would have allowed men accused of statutory rape to go free if they were married to their victims, following similar outrage.
Girls as young as 9 can marry, Turkish religious body’s Islamic glossary suggests | Toronto Sun
Isis may be defeated but the Muslim chaos continues- they have proven they understand since they expect to eventually have enough votes here in Canada to force Sharia Law upon us- but they SCORN the idea of letting us infidels enjoy democracy since our values run counter to Muslim beliefs! Therefore we must not be allowed any real choices!
Here is a nice article illustrating how out of touch LIE-berals and their news media whore pals are regarding the values of ordinary Cdns-with some comments of my own in brackets!):
Leitch understands Canadian values
Postmedia Network. First posted: Friday, September 09, 2016 06:41 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, September 09, 2016 06:46 PM EDT
Conservative leadership contender Kellie Leitch has sparked a fire storm with her suggestion that prospective immigrants should be vetted for "anti-Canadian values." THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick, File
So as it turns out, federal Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch’s call for toughening Canada’s immigration screening process is shared by the vast majority of Canadians.
That’s confirmed by a Nanos Research poll of 1,000 adults conducted Aug. 22-25 -- before Leitch raised the issue.
(SO Cdns wanted tougher immigration laws BEFORE Leitch spoke out.)
It found 74.3% of Canadians surveyed supported: “Making the screening process more onerous for potential immigrants from regions such as the Middle East to reduce potential security threats.”
That shows Leitch has struck upon an issue that concerns Canadians, while the Conservative leadership rivals who attacked her -- save for Tony Clement who also supports increased screening -- have lost touch with ordinary Canadians.
Leadership opponent Michael Chong even accused Leitch of resorting to “dog whistle politics” -- meaning using code language to appeal to racists within the Conservative party to further her candidacy -- simply for saying the idea needed to be discussed.
We’ll leave it to him to explain at upcoming Conservative leadership debates why his attack on Leitch sounded exactly like something the Justin Trudeau Liberals would say.
Back in the real world, all Leitch was suggesting was that the policies of the previous Conservative government she was a member of, should be enforced.
Under those polices, which are still available on the government of Canada website, the previous Conservative government advised would-be immigrants that: “To become a citizen, you must understand the rights, responsibilities and privileges of citizenship, such as voting in elections and obeying the law. You must also show, in English or French, that you understand Canada’s history, values, institutions and symbols.”
Among the values the previous Conservative government told would-be immigrants they must respect was, “The Equality of Women and Men.”
And specifically that: “In Canada, men and women are equal under the law. Canada’s openness and generosity do not extend to barbaric cultural practices that tolerate spousal abuse, ‘honour killings,’ female genital mutilation, forced marriage or other gender-based violence. Those guilty of these crimes are severely punished under Canada’s criminal laws.”
Leitch is saying that a potential immigrant’s acceptance of these Canadian values -- as described by the previous Conservative government -- should be factored into the decision about whether to grant his or her application.
That’s not dog-whistle politics. It’s just common sense.
(I supply here some questions of the sort that ought to be asked of immigrants:
(Do you believe that women are inferior to men in all things?)
(Do you believe that women ought not to leave the home without the permission of a husband-if she is married- and that unmarried women should not appear in public without a suitable close male relative as escort?)
(Do you agree that women who work outside the home should groped and sexually insulted until they quit and go home to preserve their modesty?)
(Do you believe that a woman who appears in public with her hair fully exposed and in western dress is being provocative and inviting sexually abuse?)
(Do you believe that women who ride public buses in India are inviting sexually assault? Even if a Male is escorting them?)
(Do you accept the more stringent interpretation of Sharia Law that requires that a woman who claims to have been raped must have TWO MALE witnesses to support her and without such male support she is simply crying `wolf` and probably INVITED the assault?)
(Do you agree that Muslim men are entitled-by permission of The Prophet- to have more than one wife-and thus it is permitted to lie to Cdn immigration officials about the status of your various family members-since immigration officials are simply interfering with your religious freedoms by demanding that you have ONLY ONE wife?)
(Do you believe that western imperialism is the greatest threat to world security and that America should be made to bleed-with the blessings of Allah?)
(Do you wish to see the entire world unified under a great Muslim Caliphate? Even if it means subjugating and enslaving or destroying any person who opposes the Caliphate and the will of Allah?)
(Do you believe that ISIS is entitled to keep sex slaves since there is no crime in mistreating `unbelievers`?)
(Is Isis entitled to kill prisoners captured in battle since they are unbelievers who are opposing the will of Allah?)
(Do you believe that once Muslims have enough votes, in Canada, it will then be proper to enforce Sharia Law across the entire land and over ALL Cdns and dispense with major chunks of the Cdn constitution related to the rights of women and religious freedom?)
(If a Muslim child mistreats a smaller/younger Jewish child in school, should this be regarded as a `hate crime` or should it be ignored as Jews are vile creatures who have abused Muslims-with Yankee aid-for decades and deserve such treatment?)
(If your son should offer crude insults to a Cdn female teacher, should he be punished for disobedience or is he simply reminding women that they ought to be in the home preserving their modesty and not working in a public place?)
(Do you believe the Cdn constitution is wrong when it specifies a separation of church and state-and that such separation should forbid Muslims from DEMANDING that school time and resources to be set aside for Muslim worship? And are Muslims being discriminated against by being denied such resources even though no other religion is permitted these things?)
(Do you believe that Cdn foreign affairs are in disarray and to correct our errors we ought to immediately drop our alliances with Britain and United States specifically and with NATO generally and immediately send aid and assistance to Hamas and Hezbollah?)
(Do you believe that the world would be a better place if all Israelis were “driven into the sea and that any person who defends Israel in even a small way is an unbeliever thus damned?”)
(Do you believe that all women are steeped `original sin` and inclined to be harlots and for that reason they should be compelled to undergo the painful and dangerous operation known as Clitorectomy-in which the female clitoris is surgically removed in order to quell female sexual urges and limit their sin?)
(Do you believe that a woman who offends her husband may be killed in order to maintain proper social order?)
(Here is the question we should be asking of our political leaders: “do you believe that demanding that immigrants answer the above list of questions is bigotry at its worst- or do you think that demanding that immigrants answer such questions and have them be judged on their eligibility for Cdn citizenship-according to the answers they give represents a defense of Cdn security and values? It is my belief that any politician who refers to making immigrants answer such questions as bigotry is AUTOMATICALLY UNFIT to lead in this land!)
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Go buy some more tinfoil- your `hat` is letting in the waves again!
Filipino strongman targets Kuwait sex hell horror
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Published:
January 18, 2018
Updated:
January 18, 2018 2:55 PM EST
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is mulling a ban on sending maids to Kuwait because of the physical and sexual abuse they endure.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
After three days of torture, the young woman was taken into the Kuwaiti desert and run over again and again until she was dead.
The chilling rape, abuse, suicide and even occasional murder of Filipino maids working in Kuwait have triggered Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to threaten a total ban on sending workers to the desert kingdom.
“I do not want a quarrel with Kuwait. I respect their leaders but they have to do something about this because many Filipinas will commit suicide,” Duterte said.
“We have lost about four Filipino women in the last few months. It’s always in Kuwait.”
More than 250,000 Filipinos work in the Arab nation.
Major labour exporter
The Philippines is a major labour exporter, with about a tenth of more than 100 million Filipinos working abroad.
The earnings they send home have bolstered the Philippine economy for decades.
But horror stories from Kuwait emerge on a near daily basis.
According to the Kuwait Times, one 23-year-old Filipino maid painted a bleak picture of her harrowing life. She described being throttled by her employer.
“It was around my neck. He was choking me. He was shouting, ‘You must work’,” she told the Times.
‘They make you work all day, all night’
Her friend added: “They are always shouting. They make you work all day, all night. They beat you. Then they don’t pay you.”
One woman was raped and tortured by her employer while another was killed when she was tossed from a window when it was discovered she wanted to leave.
“My advice is, we talk to them, state the truth and just tell them that it’s not acceptable anymore,” Duterte said. “Either we impose a total ban or we can have this corrected.”
Filipino strongman targets Kuwait sex hell horror | Toronto Sun
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Published:
January 18, 2018
Updated:
January 18, 2018 2:55 PM EST
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is mulling a ban on sending maids to Kuwait because of the physical and sexual abuse they endure.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
After three days of torture, the young woman was taken into the Kuwaiti desert and run over again and again until she was dead.
The chilling rape, abuse, suicide and even occasional murder of Filipino maids working in Kuwait have triggered Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to threaten a total ban on sending workers to the desert kingdom.
“I do not want a quarrel with Kuwait. I respect their leaders but they have to do something about this because many Filipinas will commit suicide,” Duterte said.
“We have lost about four Filipino women in the last few months. It’s always in Kuwait.”
More than 250,000 Filipinos work in the Arab nation.
Major labour exporter
The Philippines is a major labour exporter, with about a tenth of more than 100 million Filipinos working abroad.
The earnings they send home have bolstered the Philippine economy for decades.
But horror stories from Kuwait emerge on a near daily basis.
According to the Kuwait Times, one 23-year-old Filipino maid painted a bleak picture of her harrowing life. She described being throttled by her employer.
“It was around my neck. He was choking me. He was shouting, ‘You must work’,” she told the Times.
‘They make you work all day, all night’
Her friend added: “They are always shouting. They make you work all day, all night. They beat you. Then they don’t pay you.”
One woman was raped and tortured by her employer while another was killed when she was tossed from a window when it was discovered she wanted to leave.
“My advice is, we talk to them, state the truth and just tell them that it’s not acceptable anymore,” Duterte said. “Either we impose a total ban or we can have this corrected.”
Filipino strongman targets Kuwait sex hell horror | Toronto Sun
L'Oreal's history-making hijab model cancels campaign after tweet backlash
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January 23, 2018
Updated:
January 23, 2018 9:55 AM EST
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Model Amena Khan has cancelled her L’Oreal deal just days after making history as the first hijab-wearing woman to front a U.K. hair campaign.
The Muslim beauty took to Instagram on Monday and expressed “regret” over a series of tweets she posted in 2014, which were widely criticized as having “anti-Israel” sentiment.
“I… sincerely apologize for the upset and hurt that they have caused,” she shared of the since-deleted messages.
“Championing diversity is one of my passions, I don’t discriminate against anyone. I have chosen to delete them (tweets) as they do not represent the message of harmony that I stand for.”
Claiming her controversial posts are “detracting from the positive and inclusive sentiment” behind the L’Oreal Paris Elvive World of Care Campaign, she announced: “With deep regret, I’ve decided to step down…”
L’Oreal bosses released their own statement announcing, “We have recently been made aware of a series of tweets posted in 2014 by Amena Kahn, who was featured in a U.K. advertising campaign.
“We appreciate that Amena has since apologised for the content of these tweets and the offence they have caused. L’Oreal Paris is committed to tolerance and respect towards all people. We agree with her decision to step down from the campaign.”
Amena’s ads for L’Oreal product The Pink One launched last week.
The three tweets in question, screenshots of which have been circulating on social media, include comments such as, “Well, under international law, Israel is an illegal state”, and “Israel = Pharoah (Egyptian king). Both are child murderers.”
Amena also posted a message directed at Channel 4 presenter Jon Snow regarding a TV report he fronted, writing: “Your ‘children of Gaza’ piece was incredibly moving. Israel is a sinister state & the one who suffer most are innocent children (sic).”
L’Oreal’s history-making hijab model cancels campaign after tweet backlash | Toronto Sun
Maine town manager fired for touting 'white civil rights', gets $30,000 to not sue
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Published:
January 23, 2018
Updated:
January 23, 2018 2:51 PM EST
Town Manager Tom Kawczynski sits in the Jackman, Maine, town hall on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, before a select board meeting over his publicly espoused white separatist views. The Jackman Select Board voted unanimously to dismiss him.Jake Bleiberg / The Bangor Daily News via AP
PORTLAND, Maine — A northern Maine town manager who espoused white separatist views was fired on Tuesday and is getting $30,000 for agreeing not to sue the town.
The selectmen in the rural town of Jackman announced the decision after a closed-door executive session with Tom Kawczynski, the town’s top administrator since June.
Kawczynski has made comments bashing Islam and called for the preservation of white European heritage in northern New England. He also operates a website that touts racial segregation, describes itself as the internet home of a pro-white group and states that it’s time to “admit America was built by white Christian men.”
Kawczynski told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he’s unabashedly pro-white, but he feels his views have been mischaracterized. He vowed to continue making the case for what he called “white civil rights.”
“I, in conjunction with the Selectboard, agreed to a settlement to remove the good people of Jackman from the unwanted scrutiny, but I do not surrender my right to express my First Amendment rights,” Kawczynski said. “Including the right to have controversial opinions.”
Social media users have been calling for Kawczynski to quit or be fired. A post on the Jackman-Moose River Region Chamber of Commerce’s Facebook page stated that members of the local business community don’t share his views and called on the selectmen “to do what is needed.”
Kawczynski was paid $49,000 annually, and the town said he is getting $30,000 in severance. He said he signed an agreement to the severance package stipulating that he will not sue.
Elected officials in the town voted unanimously to fire him on Tuesday morning. The town said in a statement that its selectmen and Kawczynski have “agreed on the details of ending” his employment.
Kawczynski served as town chair in Lisbon, New Hampshire, for President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign. He told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he had no official role in the campaign, but was a proud supporter of the Republican president because of his pledge to “take care of the American people first.”
Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, said the organization is aware of the New Albion group promoted by Kawczynski, his group and his website. Kawczynski said the group has about 100 members and holds regular meetings in Maine and New Hampshire. Beirich said he should have stepped down before having to be fired.
“It’s unacceptable to see people in leadership positions espousing white nationalist views,” Beirich said.
Located along a stretch of road Mainers sometimes call “Moose Alley,” Jackman is a town of less than 900 people, nearly all of them white , near northwestern Maine’s border with Quebec, about 170 miles (275 kilometres) north of Portland. On its website , the town describes itself as a “tourist friendly region,” and some residents have said they feared the controversy over Kawczynski’s views could keep people away.
The town’s statement said elected officials intend to “move forward to do what is necessary to sustain a vibrant, welcoming tourist community such as Jackman.”
Maine town manager fired for touting ‘white civil rights’, gets $30,000 to not sue | Toronto Sun
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Published:
January 23, 2018
Updated:
January 23, 2018 9:55 AM EST
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Model Amena Khan has cancelled her L’Oreal deal just days after making history as the first hijab-wearing woman to front a U.K. hair campaign.
The Muslim beauty took to Instagram on Monday and expressed “regret” over a series of tweets she posted in 2014, which were widely criticized as having “anti-Israel” sentiment.
“I… sincerely apologize for the upset and hurt that they have caused,” she shared of the since-deleted messages.
“Championing diversity is one of my passions, I don’t discriminate against anyone. I have chosen to delete them (tweets) as they do not represent the message of harmony that I stand for.”
Claiming her controversial posts are “detracting from the positive and inclusive sentiment” behind the L’Oreal Paris Elvive World of Care Campaign, she announced: “With deep regret, I’ve decided to step down…”
L’Oreal bosses released their own statement announcing, “We have recently been made aware of a series of tweets posted in 2014 by Amena Kahn, who was featured in a U.K. advertising campaign.
“We appreciate that Amena has since apologised for the content of these tweets and the offence they have caused. L’Oreal Paris is committed to tolerance and respect towards all people. We agree with her decision to step down from the campaign.”
Amena’s ads for L’Oreal product The Pink One launched last week.
The three tweets in question, screenshots of which have been circulating on social media, include comments such as, “Well, under international law, Israel is an illegal state”, and “Israel = Pharoah (Egyptian king). Both are child murderers.”
Amena also posted a message directed at Channel 4 presenter Jon Snow regarding a TV report he fronted, writing: “Your ‘children of Gaza’ piece was incredibly moving. Israel is a sinister state & the one who suffer most are innocent children (sic).”
L’Oreal’s history-making hijab model cancels campaign after tweet backlash | Toronto Sun
Maine town manager fired for touting 'white civil rights', gets $30,000 to not sue
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Published:
January 23, 2018
Updated:
January 23, 2018 2:51 PM EST
Town Manager Tom Kawczynski sits in the Jackman, Maine, town hall on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, before a select board meeting over his publicly espoused white separatist views. The Jackman Select Board voted unanimously to dismiss him.Jake Bleiberg / The Bangor Daily News via AP
PORTLAND, Maine — A northern Maine town manager who espoused white separatist views was fired on Tuesday and is getting $30,000 for agreeing not to sue the town.
The selectmen in the rural town of Jackman announced the decision after a closed-door executive session with Tom Kawczynski, the town’s top administrator since June.
Kawczynski has made comments bashing Islam and called for the preservation of white European heritage in northern New England. He also operates a website that touts racial segregation, describes itself as the internet home of a pro-white group and states that it’s time to “admit America was built by white Christian men.”
Kawczynski told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he’s unabashedly pro-white, but he feels his views have been mischaracterized. He vowed to continue making the case for what he called “white civil rights.”
“I, in conjunction with the Selectboard, agreed to a settlement to remove the good people of Jackman from the unwanted scrutiny, but I do not surrender my right to express my First Amendment rights,” Kawczynski said. “Including the right to have controversial opinions.”
Social media users have been calling for Kawczynski to quit or be fired. A post on the Jackman-Moose River Region Chamber of Commerce’s Facebook page stated that members of the local business community don’t share his views and called on the selectmen “to do what is needed.”
Kawczynski was paid $49,000 annually, and the town said he is getting $30,000 in severance. He said he signed an agreement to the severance package stipulating that he will not sue.
Elected officials in the town voted unanimously to fire him on Tuesday morning. The town said in a statement that its selectmen and Kawczynski have “agreed on the details of ending” his employment.
Kawczynski served as town chair in Lisbon, New Hampshire, for President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign. He told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he had no official role in the campaign, but was a proud supporter of the Republican president because of his pledge to “take care of the American people first.”
Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, said the organization is aware of the New Albion group promoted by Kawczynski, his group and his website. Kawczynski said the group has about 100 members and holds regular meetings in Maine and New Hampshire. Beirich said he should have stepped down before having to be fired.
“It’s unacceptable to see people in leadership positions espousing white nationalist views,” Beirich said.
Located along a stretch of road Mainers sometimes call “Moose Alley,” Jackman is a town of less than 900 people, nearly all of them white , near northwestern Maine’s border with Quebec, about 170 miles (275 kilometres) north of Portland. On its website , the town describes itself as a “tourist friendly region,” and some residents have said they feared the controversy over Kawczynski’s views could keep people away.
The town’s statement said elected officials intend to “move forward to do what is necessary to sustain a vibrant, welcoming tourist community such as Jackman.”
Maine town manager fired for touting ‘white civil rights’, gets $30,000 to not sue | Toronto Sun
L'Oreal's history-making hijab model cancels campaign after tweet backlash
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Published:
January 23, 2018
Updated:
January 23, 2018 9:55 AM EST
(Instagram)
Model Amena Khan has cancelled her L’Oreal deal just days after making history as the first hijab-wearing woman to front a U.K. hair campaign.
The Muslim beauty took to Instagram on Monday and expressed “regret” over a series of tweets she posted in 2014, which were widely criticized as having “anti-Israel” sentiment.
“I… sincerely apologize for the upset and hurt that they have caused,” she shared of the since-deleted messages.
“Championing diversity is one of my passions, I don’t discriminate against anyone. I have chosen to delete them (tweets) as they do not represent the message of harmony that I stand for.”
Claiming her controversial posts are “detracting from the positive and inclusive sentiment” behind the L’Oreal Paris Elvive World of Care Campaign, she announced: “With deep regret, I’ve decided to step down…”
L’Oreal bosses released their own statement announcing, “We have recently been made aware of a series of tweets posted in 2014 by Amena Kahn, who was featured in a U.K. advertising campaign.
“We appreciate that Amena has since apologised for the content of these tweets and the offence they have caused. L’Oreal Paris is committed to tolerance and respect towards all people. We agree with her decision to step down from the campaign.”
Amena’s ads for L’Oreal product The Pink One launched last week.
The three tweets in question, screenshots of which have been circulating on social media, include comments such as, “Well, under international law, Israel is an illegal state”, and “Israel = Pharoah (Egyptian king). Both are child murderers.”
Amena also posted a message directed at Channel 4 presenter Jon Snow regarding a TV report he fronted, writing: “Your ‘children of Gaza’ piece was incredibly moving. Israel is a sinister state & the one who suffer most are innocent children (sic).”
L’Oreal’s history-making hijab model cancels campaign after tweet backlash | Toronto Sun
Maine town manager fired for touting 'white civil rights', gets $30,000 to not sue
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Town Manager Tom Kawczynski sits in the Jackman, Maine, town hall on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, before a select board meeting over his publicly espoused white separatist views. The Jackman Select Board voted unanimously to dismiss him.Jake Bleiberg / The Bangor Daily News via AP
PORTLAND, Maine — A northern Maine town manager who espoused white separatist views was fired on Tuesday and is getting $30,000 for agreeing not to sue the town.
The selectmen in the rural town of Jackman announced the decision after a closed-door executive session with Tom Kawczynski, the town’s top administrator since June.
Kawczynski has made comments bashing Islam and called for the preservation of white European heritage in northern New England. He also operates a website that touts racial segregation, describes itself as the internet home of a pro-white group and states that it’s time to “admit America was built by white Christian men.”
Kawczynski told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he’s unabashedly pro-white, but he feels his views have been mischaracterized. He vowed to continue making the case for what he called “white civil rights.”
“I, in conjunction with the Selectboard, agreed to a settlement to remove the good people of Jackman from the unwanted scrutiny, but I do not surrender my right to express my First Amendment rights,” Kawczynski said. “Including the right to have controversial opinions.”
Social media users have been calling for Kawczynski to quit or be fired. A post on the Jackman-Moose River Region Chamber of Commerce’s Facebook page stated that members of the local business community don’t share his views and called on the selectmen “to do what is needed.”
Kawczynski was paid $49,000 annually, and the town said he is getting $30,000 in severance. He said he signed an agreement to the severance package stipulating that he will not sue.
Elected officials in the town voted unanimously to fire him on Tuesday morning. The town said in a statement that its selectmen and Kawczynski have “agreed on the details of ending” his employment.
Kawczynski served as town chair in Lisbon, New Hampshire, for President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign. He told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he had no official role in the campaign, but was a proud supporter of the Republican president because of his pledge to “take care of the American people first.”
Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, said the organization is aware of the New Albion group promoted by Kawczynski, his group and his website. Kawczynski said the group has about 100 members and holds regular meetings in Maine and New Hampshire. Beirich said he should have stepped down before having to be fired.
“It’s unacceptable to see people in leadership positions espousing white nationalist views,” Beirich said.
Located along a stretch of road Mainers sometimes call “Moose Alley,” Jackman is a town of less than 900 people, nearly all of them white , near northwestern Maine’s border with Quebec, about 170 miles (275 kilometres) north of Portland. On its website , the town describes itself as a “tourist friendly region,” and some residents have said they feared the controversy over Kawczynski’s views could keep people away.
The town’s statement said elected officials intend to “move forward to do what is necessary to sustain a vibrant, welcoming tourist community such as Jackman.”
Maine town manager fired for touting ‘white civil rights’, gets $30,000 to not sue | Toronto Sun
A hijab wearing HAIR MODEL? HAHAHAHAHA!!! And Muslims offer up such SINCERE apologies- AFTER they get caught out!
Here is an article illustrating the creeping Muslim madness that is infesting Cdn colleges and universities:
Here is an example of the insanity taking over our places of `education`! With some comments of my own in brackets):
Dalhousie University makes ‘Emergency Hijab Kits’ available on campus
Postmedia News. Published: November 28, 2017. Updated: November 28, 2017 8:18 PM EST
Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ News/ Canada
Dalhousie University has made ‘Emergency Hijab Kits’ available to female Muslim students at multiple locations across the Halifax campus.
The fear is that female Dalhousie Muslim students are being targeted by individuals on and off campus and are having their hijabs forcibly removed. However, no such incidents have been reported to authorities.
(If there have been no reports of Muslim women being harassed then why the fear? Or should we assume this is LIE-beral Fake News designed to persuade the foolish and ignorant that LIE-beral `worries` about `Islamophobia` are real?)
The project was a joint venture between the Dalhousie Student Union (DSU) and Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group (NSPIRG) and launched earlier this month.
(IT might be fun top find out who is behind the NSPIRG group? I smell crude Muslim propaganda here! But asking questions about this group will trigger LIE-beral whines about Islamophobia- and LIE-berals will then wonder why we do not trust them? HAHAHAHAHA!)
According to a Facebook post, the kits were made necessary due to increased violence on Canadian campuses towards female visible minorities.
“In recognizing the increased incidences of violence towards Women of Colour on campuses across the country, we’ve created these kits so that anyone who has their headdress targeted can quickly get access to a replacement,” reads the announcement by NSPIRG.
(But Dalhousie says there has been no violence? And with the reference to “women of colour” should we assume the reverse racist loons of Black Lives Matter are also involved with Muslim radicals? How crude does Muslim propaganda have to become before it is laughed out of the room?)
Speaking with CBC News, Dalhousie Student Union President Amina Abawajy said, “This is a proactive measure, but it’s not unfounded,” claiming to have been made personally aware of multiple incidents by way of being a member of the Muslim community.
The kits contain the scarf itself, pins for securing the hijab, tips for bystanders and information on how to report incidents to authorities.
Organizers have offered to make them available to departments and offices throughout Dalhousie in addition to the DSU Info Desk, the NSPIRG office and Dal Security for 24/7 access.
(You can bet there is OUR tax money involved in this crap! We know Black Lives Matter gets govt grants for its “efforts to foster good race relations”- by creating an idiot climate of REVERSE BIGOTRY AGAINST WHITES!)
Dalhousie spokesman Janet Bryson told The Canadian Press that while the university has agreed to allow the kits, officials do not expect the kits to be used.
“The university has not had a case where someone has had their headdress targeted,” she said in an email. “Our expectation is that they won’t have to be used.”
(It is possible that Muslim and BLM bigots are planning ahead for future protests against our society and worry that Muslims may lose their head covering during increasingly violent protests sponsored by Muslims and BLM?)
However, Masuma Khan, a Dalhousie Student executive member who was recently embroiled in a controversy of her own, disagrees and believes such incidents are common.
Masuma Khan, a Muslim student leader poses in Halifax on Saturday, October 28, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
Comments made by Khan were placed under investigation by the university after she posted with the hashtag “#whitefragilitycankissmya–” in response to backlash over a motion to abstain from Canada 150 celebrations for “over 400 years of genocide.” The university later withdrew the complaint.
“I’ve heard many Muslim women talking about their hijab being yanked, spat on, or even pulled right off,” she said. “Sometimes you don’t even notice it, like you’re in class and someone will spit on you from behind and you don’t realize it until you’re fixing your hijab. It’s the most demeaning behaviour.”
A Halifax Regional Police spokeswoman said she wasn’t aware of any incidents related to head coverings being pulled off in the city.
(Yeah- clearly this hijab crap is just Fake News intended to insult and annoy whites! With the added bonus that Muslim women get a FREE hijab whenever they want it!)
Canadians don't want an anti-Islamophobia day: poll
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January 27, 2018
Updated:
January 27, 2018 6:26 PM EST
Mourners listen to paryers and speeches during the funeral services for three of the victims of the deadly shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre, at the Congress Centre in Quebec City, Quebec, February 3, 2017.MATHIEU BELANGER / AFP/Getty Images
Should Jan. 29 be set aside to combat Islamophobia?
That day — tomorrow — is the first anniversary of the mass murder at the Islamic Cultural Centre in Quebec City. Six Muslims were killed in this hate crime.
Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders in Canada would like to take a stand against intolerance and see Jan. 29th declared a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia.
A recent Forum Poll suggests that many Canadians are against this.
Forum Research polled 1,408 Canadian voters and found half (49%) disapproved of designating such a day. Almost 40% disapproved strongly.
Mourners walk out after a funeral service for three of the victims of the deadly shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre, at the Congress Centre in Quebec City, Quebec,on February 3, 2017.
Approval came from only 17% of those polled; strong approval was noted among 7%.
The same number — 7% — say they don’t know, while fully a quarter (26%) neither approve nor disapprove.
So who is on the nay side? That would be older, wealthier men living in the Prairies or Alberta, half with university degrees and 69% of whom support the Conservative party.
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (R) wipes a tear as he stands beside Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard during funeral services for three of the victims of the deadly shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, February 2, 2017. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday attended the funeral of two Algerians and a Tunisian man killed with three others in a mosque shooting, as he seeks to pull together a nation shaken by the hate crime. Up to 5,000 mourners were expected to pack a hockey arena in Montreal’s Olympic park for the funeral, while millions across Canada watch it on television.
Those who approve a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia are aged 34 or younger and support the Liberals or the NDP. They are also the least wealthy (26%).
The question asked was: Would you approve or disapprove of a national day of remembrance and action on Islamophobia?
Results based on the total sample are considered accurate +/- 3%, 19 times out of 20.
lbraun@postmedia.com
Canadians don’t want an anti-Islamophobia day: poll | Toronto Sun
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Published:
January 27, 2018
Updated:
January 27, 2018 6:26 PM EST
Mourners listen to paryers and speeches during the funeral services for three of the victims of the deadly shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre, at the Congress Centre in Quebec City, Quebec, February 3, 2017.MATHIEU BELANGER / AFP/Getty Images
Should Jan. 29 be set aside to combat Islamophobia?
That day — tomorrow — is the first anniversary of the mass murder at the Islamic Cultural Centre in Quebec City. Six Muslims were killed in this hate crime.
Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders in Canada would like to take a stand against intolerance and see Jan. 29th declared a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia.
A recent Forum Poll suggests that many Canadians are against this.
Forum Research polled 1,408 Canadian voters and found half (49%) disapproved of designating such a day. Almost 40% disapproved strongly.
Mourners walk out after a funeral service for three of the victims of the deadly shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre, at the Congress Centre in Quebec City, Quebec,on February 3, 2017.
Approval came from only 17% of those polled; strong approval was noted among 7%.
The same number — 7% — say they don’t know, while fully a quarter (26%) neither approve nor disapprove.
So who is on the nay side? That would be older, wealthier men living in the Prairies or Alberta, half with university degrees and 69% of whom support the Conservative party.
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (R) wipes a tear as he stands beside Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard during funeral services for three of the victims of the deadly shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, February 2, 2017. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday attended the funeral of two Algerians and a Tunisian man killed with three others in a mosque shooting, as he seeks to pull together a nation shaken by the hate crime. Up to 5,000 mourners were expected to pack a hockey arena in Montreal’s Olympic park for the funeral, while millions across Canada watch it on television.
Those who approve a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia are aged 34 or younger and support the Liberals or the NDP. They are also the least wealthy (26%).
The question asked was: Would you approve or disapprove of a national day of remembrance and action on Islamophobia?
Results based on the total sample are considered accurate +/- 3%, 19 times out of 20.
lbraun@postmedia.com
Canadians don’t want an anti-Islamophobia day: poll | Toronto Sun
Right on!
Here is another article illustrating how clouded over are the formerly “sunny ways” of Our idiot Boy Justin.With some comments of my own in brackets):
EDITORIAL: Justin Trudeau's dwindling support is a wake up
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The more they know, the less they like. That seems to be the Canadian public’s attitude towards Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, at least according to a new poll out from Angus Reid Institute.
For the first time since Trudeau became prime minister, more people disapprove of his job performance than approve. This signals that a line has now been crossed. Two years into Trudeau’s mandate, his support is flagging.
While 46% of people give Trudeau the thumbs up, 49% aren’t buying what he’s selling. Dig deeper and it gets worse.
There are more than twice as many people out there who strongly disapprove of his performance (29%) as there are those who strongly approve (13%). Those who dislike him are more passionate in their perspective than those who like him.
Here’s the worst part, courtesy of the polling firm’s release: “more Canadians say it is ‘time for a change’ in government (46%) than say Trudeau’s Liberals should be re-elected (32%).”
Ouch. The higher they are the harder they fall. These aren’t the numbers Canada’s selfie king is used to generating.
(The ugly reality for LIE-berals is this: that of all the Cdns eligible to vote- they stack up like this: 55 percent simly do not vote as they are either indifferent to all politicians or disgusted with all politicians and do not care who rules them. The other 45 percent of eligible voters divides roughly into 30 percent LIE-beral supporters and 15 percent Conservative supporters with a motley crew supporting Ndpers and others. Of that 30 percent of voters who support LIE-beraksl- virtually EVERY SINGLE ONE is a civil service union Hog! One employed Cdn in three works for one of the four levels of govt- they are ALL dedicated to LIE-berals- who buy those Hog votes with gobs of GRAVY!)
(So, LIE-berals- both Ontari-owe provincial and federal- were elected on a wave of Hog support- in exchange for promises of Gravy- promises that we cannot afford to honour as we are broke! LIE-beral efforts to supply the promised gravy have so enraged ordinary people that it looks very much like huge lots of Cdns who did not bother voting previously are now holding very strong opinions against greedy LIE-berals! Clearly that now enraged 55 percent of Cdns holds the balance of power- wirth LIE-berals terrified they will use that power!)
The main saving grace for the PM is that the poll reveals Canadians aren’t overly familiar with the opposition leaders. More than a quarter of Canadians still don’t know Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.
(Jagmeet can be disregarded as he has already had his 15 minutes of fame! Cdns are sick of govts that feather their nests extravagantly with borrowed money and Cdns do not want more NDP Bob Rae style fiscal “magic” of thr sort that former Ontari-owe NDP premier Rae pioneered and which Our idiot Boy Justin is imitating on a much larger and more damaging scale- both Rae and the idiot Boy had the same idea of trying to make us “rich” with borrowed money! Rae succeeded in doubling the Ontari-owe debt in 4 years! Things got so bad that NDP created the notorious “Rae Days” in which civil service Hogs were sent home for unpaid days off! Rae so blighted his political career that he quit NDP and joined the LIE-berals!)
This means it’s not the case that voters are desperate to run from Trudeau to someone else. They’re just unhappy with how Trudeau’s governing himself… and the country.
(The country is working towards an “anybody but LIE-berals” political epiphany!)
Liberal strategists shouldn’t use the lack of opposition support as a reason to downplay Trudeau’s dwindling popularity. The broader news should be a humbling moment for them.
(LIE-beral policy is collapsing in all directions. Even members of the LIE-beral Party are angry about the Omar Khadr Krap- that $10.5 million dollar deal with the devil! And with the $40 million more handed out to other suspected jihadists! And the great majority of Cdns are disgusted with the open border invitation Our idiot Boy has extended to illegals from around the world- with NO security checks and no concern with how those teeming tens of thousands will manage here without draining our resources for decades to come as they struggle with limited education and poor language skills. Cdns are well aware of the shameless LIE-beral vote buying policy.)
(Cdns are also aware that the LIE-beral carbon crap and trade scam only cleans wallets and leaves the dirt in the air- just like fraud riddled European carbon crap that LIE-berals have imitated so closely! And Cdns generally have NOT seen any benefit from the over $50 billion dollars in deficits that Our idiot Boy has run up in his first 2 years as P.M. But we do have proof of who will have to pay for that debt and we don’t like it! There is every reason to believe that most of the borrowed cash got channelled into civil service Hog pension funds! In 2012, Cdn media told us that federal Hog unions were expecting to collect THREE HUNDREDBILLION DOLLARS in pension top ups from LIE-berals and Cdns are becoming aware that the $50 billion plus deficits from the last 2 years are only a down payment- and a SMALL ONE AT THAT- on what LIE-berals have promised the Hogs so that LIE-berals can cling to power at any price!)
While Trudeau plunges the country into deficits and jet sets around the world he should wake up to the reality of how regular Canadians feel and think.
(Our idiot Boy is following in his fathers vile footsteps- struggling to destroy waht papa Pierre called “Cdn Imperialism”! By which he apparently meant the political and economic influence of white people with their support of democracy and capitalism! What other conclusion can be drawn from Pierre Trudope heaping fawning praise on Chinese Chairman Mao for- as Pierre wrote: “his genius in rushing 30 million people to the gallows” merely to eliminate potential political opponents! The Trudope family has repeatedly demonstrated they have NO loyalty to democratic principles or standard Cdn values!)
Angus Reid Institute also looked at the issues of top concern to voters. The deficit and government spending has now inched up to be the first place worry, tied with the economy.
We learned at the beginning of Trudeau’s term that he was never serious about running only “modest” deficits. Canadians are clearly increasingly bothered by their big spending PM.
Trudeau needs to take these concerns seriously and adjust his priorities accordingly.
(Good luck with that! Our idiot Boy is a budding dictator with a long family history of friendship with other dictators! WE have only to read the notorious “Love Letter to Castro” written by Sacha Trudope and printed- with a straight face- in the Toronto (Red) Star newspaper and later lampooned- as was richly deserved- in National Post! All the Trudopes claim bloody handed Cuban dictator Castro as a close family friend!)
India has 63 million 'missing' women and 21 million unwanted girls, government says
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The Indian government said Monday that there were more than 63 million women “missing” from its population, and that 2 million go “missing” across age groups every year due to abortion of female fetuses, disease, neglect and inadequate nutrition. There are also 21 million unwanted girls, the government said.
The 2017-2018 estimate, released as part of the country’s annual economic survey, reinforced the work of researchers and social scientists, who have argued that decades of son preference in India and its parallel in China, the One Child policy, have produced a man-made demographic bubble of excess males – those now under 25 top 50 million – in the two countries and may have long-term impacts on crime, human trafficking, the overall savings rate and the ability of these excess males to find brides.
“We know that the sex ratio in India is highly skewed,” the government’s chief economic adviser, Arvind Subramanian, said at a news event Monday, noting that the study further showed that Indians have a “meta” son preference, which means that if they have girls, they’ll keep on having children until they get a boy. This has led to an estimated 21 million “unwanted” girls in India, who often get less nourishment and schooling than their brothers.
The study, looking at numbers for 2015-2016, showed that the sex ratio for different states in India worsened even as incomes improved; sociologists have long argued that India’s son preference not only occurs in poor rural families but also in middle and upper-middle classes, where tradition dictates a son will carry on the family business or inherit property, though legally, a daughter can do so, too. In the northern farming states of Punjab and Haryana, for example, the sex ratio among infants to 6 year olds is 1,200 males per 1,000 females, even though they are among the wealthiest states.
“Perhaps the area where Indian society – and this goes beyond governments to civil society, communities, and households – needs to reflect on the most is what might be called ‘son preference’ where development is not proving to be an antidote,” the survey suggested.
The survey – which was given a pink cover as a nod to women’s empowerment – said that the country has made improvements in most overall gender indicators as the country’s wealth has grown, meaning women have better education and have greater agency over purchases and other decision-making in their households.
Yet the percentage of those working has declined over time, from 36 percent of women being employed outside the home, to 24 percent in 2015-2016, largely because rising incomes of men have allowed wives to withdraw from the labor force and focus on child-rearing.
India has 63 million ‘missing’ women and 21 million unwanted girls, government says | Toronto Sun
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The Indian government said Monday that there were more than 63 million women “missing” from its population, and that 2 million go “missing” across age groups every year due to abortion of female fetuses, disease, neglect and inadequate nutrition. There are also 21 million unwanted girls, the government said.
The 2017-2018 estimate, released as part of the country’s annual economic survey, reinforced the work of researchers and social scientists, who have argued that decades of son preference in India and its parallel in China, the One Child policy, have produced a man-made demographic bubble of excess males – those now under 25 top 50 million – in the two countries and may have long-term impacts on crime, human trafficking, the overall savings rate and the ability of these excess males to find brides.
“We know that the sex ratio in India is highly skewed,” the government’s chief economic adviser, Arvind Subramanian, said at a news event Monday, noting that the study further showed that Indians have a “meta” son preference, which means that if they have girls, they’ll keep on having children until they get a boy. This has led to an estimated 21 million “unwanted” girls in India, who often get less nourishment and schooling than their brothers.
The study, looking at numbers for 2015-2016, showed that the sex ratio for different states in India worsened even as incomes improved; sociologists have long argued that India’s son preference not only occurs in poor rural families but also in middle and upper-middle classes, where tradition dictates a son will carry on the family business or inherit property, though legally, a daughter can do so, too. In the northern farming states of Punjab and Haryana, for example, the sex ratio among infants to 6 year olds is 1,200 males per 1,000 females, even though they are among the wealthiest states.
“Perhaps the area where Indian society – and this goes beyond governments to civil society, communities, and households – needs to reflect on the most is what might be called ‘son preference’ where development is not proving to be an antidote,” the survey suggested.
The survey – which was given a pink cover as a nod to women’s empowerment – said that the country has made improvements in most overall gender indicators as the country’s wealth has grown, meaning women have better education and have greater agency over purchases and other decision-making in their households.
Yet the percentage of those working has declined over time, from 36 percent of women being employed outside the home, to 24 percent in 2015-2016, largely because rising incomes of men have allowed wives to withdraw from the labor force and focus on child-rearing.
India has 63 million ‘missing’ women and 21 million unwanted girls, government says | Toronto Sun
Yes- thanks for reminding us that LIE-beral immigration policy is a SCREWED UP MESS- with all manner of people coming here who think that dogs and women share the same general set of social rights and privileges! And these women haters come here courtesy of Our idiot Boy Justin- who never misses a chance to insist that he IS a feminist! Maybe somebody should explain the meaning of the word to him some day?
Some LIE-berals want to pretend that the immigrants coming here are not so dangerous as they really are- after all if LIE-berals made a comprehensive list of all the things immigrants wanted to change about us we would freak out! Consider:
Here is a sample of the propaganda that Muslims offer us as a way to allay our real fears of their rabid, anti western and anti female values! With some comments of my own in brackets):
The Women's Mosque evolves North American Islam.
Last Friday's launch of the first women's mosque in North America garnered worldwide attention. Women's mosques are rare anywhere in the world -- with the exception of China, where female imams and women's mosques have been in operation with little fanfare for the better part of two centuries.
(And hard core Chinese communists view religion as “the opiate of the masses” and devout citizens are regarded as tainted by primitive superstition and NOT considered reliable for high quality jobs! Muslims who live on the nirthern and western edges of Chinese society are more or less ignored by authorities!)
Not surprisingly, mosques that are open to engagement with American society, follow a flexible interpretation of the Koran within a North American context and involve women in governance tended to be deemed more friendly to women.
(Yes- a Muslim woman`s mosque is as rare a thing as a Roman Catholic that thinks women should be ordained as priests!)
Sana Muttalib and M. Hasna Maznavi, co-founders of the Women's Mosque of America, should be lauded for taking the bold and pragmatic step of providing a vehicle for Muslim women's empowerment. The goal is to complement existing institutions and provide women with the necessary tools to make a difference in their communities. They have decided to stay within orthodoxy, by having a female imam lead only women in prayer -- a practice that goes back to the time of the Prophet Mohammed. Women will be welcomed as they are -- with or without a hijab. The mosque will provide public lectures for men and women by female scholars.
(Yes- and Roman Catholics have also been accepting of Nuns within a certain framework that is very limited and basically offered as a sop to Catholic women who are angry and militant about being viewed as inferior- and steeped in original sin- by priests who have not forgiven Eve and that apple business! Anybody who thinks that a Women`s Mosque represents any sort of genuine reconciliation between Muslim values and the western rights of women are DREAMING IN TECHNICOLOUR! Muslims are very fond of offering up SMALL public concessions to western values while really consolidating their position and lulling stupid LIE-berals into complacency! It suits Muslims nicely that LIE-berals and gullible westerners should not be critical of Muslim values!)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/glob...evolves-north-american-islam/article22793877/
The West (and the East) may not reach (or can they reach?) to this high value as cited in the Quran; although it is for the wives of prophets in the first place, but also for other women:
Quran 33: 32-34, which mean:
(32. Wives of the prophet, you are not as other women in piety and God-fearing, then be not soft in your speech [to men], lest he in whose heart is a [psychological] disease be lustful [about you], but speak [to anyone asking you about the statements of the religion] honorable words [without violence or submission.]
33. And stay in your houses [with dignity], and display not your finery like [the manner of the Arab in] the 'former Ignorance' [time.] i
And perform the prayers, give the Zakat [alms] and obey God and His messenger.
God wants [with such instructions] only to remove the abomination from you, household [of the Prophet], and to purify you [from filth] with thorough purification.
34. And remember what is rehearsed in your houses of the revelations of God, and the admonition; surely, God is Most Kind, Most Aware.)
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33 i Do not go out as did the women in the time of the Pre-Islam ignorance (or Jahiliah); and do not show off your ornamentation as did women in the past do.
[This is about the ‘Former Ignorance’], while the ‘Later Ignorance’ will be before the coming of the Mahdi [: the Comforter or Elia or Elijah of the Last Days.] This is now its due time: when woman exposed her arms and her legs and she exceeded in the nakedness and the make-up more than the ‘Former Ignorance.’
God – be glorified – pointed out to this time in His saying in the Quran 68: 42, which means:
(On the day [of the sovereignty of the Awaited Mahdi: the Comforter] when the leg [of women] shall be bared, and they will be invited [by the Mahdi: the Comforter] to prostrate themselves [to God] but they cannot [comply.])
More explanation is in the link:
http://quran-ayat.com/pret/33.htm#a33_32
quran-ayat.com/pret/33.htm#a33_32
Here is the recitation of these great ayat of the Glorious Quran:
Quran 33: 32-34, which mean:
(32. Wives of the prophet, you are not as other women in piety and God-fearing, then be not soft in your speech [to men], lest he in whose heart is a [psychological] disease be lustful [about you], but speak [to anyone asking you about the statements of the religion] honorable words [without violence or submission.]
33. And stay in your houses [with dignity], and display not your finery like [the manner of the Arab in] the 'former Ignorance' [time.] i
And perform the prayers, give the Zakat [alms] and obey God and His messenger.
God wants [with such instructions] only to remove the abomination from you, household [of the Prophet], and to purify you [from filth] with thorough purification.
34. And remember what is rehearsed in your houses of the revelations of God, and the admonition; surely, God is Most Kind, Most Aware.)
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33 i Do not go out as did the women in the time of the Pre-Islam ignorance (or Jahiliah); and do not show off your ornamentation as did women in the past do.
[This is about the ‘Former Ignorance’], while the ‘Later Ignorance’ will be before the coming of the Mahdi [: the Comforter or Elia or Elijah of the Last Days.] This is now its due time: when woman exposed her arms and her legs and she exceeded in the nakedness and the make-up more than the ‘Former Ignorance.’
God – be glorified – pointed out to this time in His saying in the Quran 68: 42, which means:
(On the day [of the sovereignty of the Awaited Mahdi: the Comforter] when the leg [of women] shall be bared, and they will be invited [by the Mahdi: the Comforter] to prostrate themselves [to God] but they cannot [comply.])
More explanation is in the link:
http://quran-ayat.com/pret/33.htm#a33_32
quran-ayat.com/pret/33.htm#a33_32
Here is the recitation of these great ayat of the Glorious Quran:
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Yes- poor Torch light- just a typical Muslim dreaming of some day arriving in Paradise and being presented with 72 virgins- and there they all are- sitting there looking at each other and asking: "what do we do now"? And he does not know! Rape: it does a Muslim good!
Here is an article illustrating much that is wrong with allowing Muslims to immigrate to the West. With some comments of my own in brackets):
15-year-old asylum seeker arrested in fatal stabbing of ex-girlfriend at German drugstore
Associated Press, Published: December 28, 2017. Updated: December 28, 2017 2:46 PM EST
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A man lays down flowers at the entrance of the drugstore in Kandel, Germany, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017.Andreas Arnold / dpa via AP
BERLIN — A 15-year-old Afghan asylum seeker is in custody in Germany after allegedly fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend, a German of the same age, in a drugstore.
Authorities say the stabbing followed an apparently chance meeting between the two on Wednesday in Kandel, near the French border. The girl died of her injuries after being attacked with a kitchen knife.
(You would think that Muslim refugees seeking our charity would be on their best behaviour but that is western thinking and wrong! LIE-berals have sucked up to Muslims to such an extent that Muslims feel ENTITLED TO DEMAND ENTRY! And their arrogance is not minimized by their firmly held conviction that we are morally inferior and thus NOT entitled to pass judgement on them! The Muslim attacker in Edmonton was an asylum seeker. The 3 Muslims who raped a Swedish girl- LIVE on line- were also asylum seekers! And I vividly reacll news photos from Australian military base far out in the desert- where Muslim illegals are kept awaiting immigration trials- and the Muslims had gotten impatient and SEWN THEIR LIPS SHUT and gone on a hunger strike! Yeah- right- behaving like a radical LOON will help your case! Unless you are Muslim ENTITLED?)
A man lays down flowers at the entrance of the drugstore in Kandel, Germany, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017. (Andreas Arnold/dpa via AP)
Prosecutor Angelika Moehlig said Thursday that a judge ordered the suspect, who wasn’t identified, kept in custody on suspicion of manslaughter. She said the motive is still under investigation.
Police said the suspect arrived in Germany in April 2016 and had apparently been in a several-month relationship with the victim, who broke up with him this month.
The victim’s parents had filed a criminal complaint against him on Dec. 15 alleging slander and threats.
(So we are to understand that young Muslims may become murderously angry if some western slut rejects them? After all, we know Muslims do not think women should have any rights at all- not even to leave the house without male permission! How embarrassing is it to have all the other jihadists knowing that the shameless western slut has rejected the attentions of the morally superior follower of Allah! May Allah fill her vagina with fire as payment for her shame? Muslim rage would be comical if there was not so much blood spilled whenever they get pissed!)
Yes- abstinence makes it harder for LIE-berals to be held accountable in the future!
Feds to announce $3M to combat female genital mutilation in West Africa
Canadian Press
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Published:
February 5, 2018
Updated:
February 5, 2018 5:23 PM EST
A woman and her daughters stand in their home, in the village of Cambadju in Guinea-Bissau, the first in the country to renounce female genital mutilation/cutting.CNW Group / UNICEF Canada
OTTAWA — The federal government will announce funding of $3 million for a project aimed at eradicating female genital mutilation in West Africa.
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau is to make the announcement of the four-year initiative on Tuesday, making it the first government project to target the controversial practice.
The issue sparked domestic political discord in Canada after The Canadian Press revealed last year that references condemning the practice had been cut from a draft of the Immigration Department’s new citizenship guide for new arrivals.
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau speaks with media following an announcement in Ottawa, Friday June 9, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
The opposition Conservatives included the reference in their version of the guide while they were in power, and criticized the government for initially cutting it out.
The Liberals have since said the reference would be restored.
FGM is considered as gender-based violence and a criminal act in Canada and I think it's important to inform the new citizens that this cultural practice is absolutely not acceptable in Canada.
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau
Bibeau tells The Canadian Press that the reference belongs in Canada’s new citizenship guide so that newcomers realize the practice is illegal in Canada.
“FGM is considered as gender-based violence and a criminal act in Canada and I think it’s important to inform the new citizens that this cultural practice is absolutely not acceptable in Canada,” she said in a telephone interview Monday from Cotonou, Benin.
Bibeau has spearheaded the creation of a new feminist development policy, and she has been seized with trying to find a project worth funding.
She focused on Benin, a country with which she has a unique personal connection — she served in the West African country as an aid worker with the now-defunct Canadian International Development Agency in 1996-97.
She reunited with former colleagues there on Monday in advance of a planned announcement Tuesday of funding for a project to be run by CUSO International. The project will focus on two northern regions of Benin until 2021 and will include initiatives to combat sexual and gender-based violence.
We have to have these conversations with these communities to work on their beliefs and cultural norms and for them to understand it's a matter of rights, and health for women and girls.
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau
Bibeau said 60% of girls in northern Benin are affected by the practice.
“Our objective is to prevent 57,000 girls between zero and nine from being targeted and being cut.”
Overall, some 200 million women and girls in Africa, Asia and the Middle East are affected by the practice. The age range of affected girls is vast — from infancy to age 15.
Bibeau said more research is needed to determine the prevalence of the problem among new arrivals in Canada.
“We have to have these conversations with these communities to work on their beliefs and cultural norms and for them to understand it’s a matter of rights, and health for women and girls,” Bibeau said.
Gynecological surgeon Dr. Marci Bowers (C) begins the process of clitoral restorative surgery on a woman in Nairobi on May 11, 2017. CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images
An internal briefing note prepared for the minister, obtained by The Canadian Press, outlines formidable challenges in tackling the problem.
“Ending the practice requires collective and transformative processes that include government leadership and action as well as action by affected communities,” it says.
“It also requires policy and legal reforms that support gender equality, the empowerment of women and girls, and respect for their human rights.”
Bibeau said the government is looking at funding other related projects but has no imminent announcements.
Feds to announce $3M to combat female genital mutilation in West Africa | Toronto Sun
FUREY: M103 report makes Canada look like cesspool of intolerance
Anthony Furey
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Published:
February 5, 2018
Updated:
February 5, 2018 4:42 PM EST
Protesters rally over motion M-103, the Liberal anti-Islamophobia motion, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 21, 2017.Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ignore the M103 committee report at your peril. Sure, it’s over one hundred pages of mostly dull bureaucratic jargon. And it largely doesn’t live up to its hype.
There is no mention, positive or negative, of sharia law — as many of its critics cautioned against. Nor is there the same disproportionate focus on tending to the bruised ego of Sunni Islam, which is the tone that dominated the e-petition that first inspired the government motion that in turn kicked off this heritage committee report that was released the other day. Looks like the lobbying efforts on the part of concerned citizens was in large measure a success.
Read the full report here:
View this document on Scribd
But what remains is still troubling. There are few pockets of society that the report – titled “Taking Action Against Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination Including Islamophobia” – doesn’t malign as having racial and religious animus bred in the bone.
The witness testimonies, taken together, tell us it’s happening to broad swaths of people in our schools, the legal system, government, healthcare, the workplace and elsewhere. The infractions range in severity from graffiti to murder.
We seem to have a five-alarm fire on our hands, at least based on the report’s 30 recommendations. They cover pretty wide terrain. They call for the creation of new plans, guidelines, directorates, hiring practices, impact assessments and other such make-work endeavours.
Liberal MP Iqra Khalid makes an announcement about an anti-Islamophobia motion on Parliament Hill while Minister of Canadian Heritage Melanie Joly looks on in Ottawa on Wednesday, February 15, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
Now this all may come as a shock to Canadians throughout our increasingly ethnically diverse cities and towns happily going about their business in relative harmony with each other, that they are in fact broken to the core.
The report does though offer a bit of a wink in this direction. “As society has evolved and with the advent of human rights legislation and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, these overt forms of systemic discrimination have become rare. However, more subtle, often unintentional forms of systemic or institutional racism and discrimination continue to exist.”
So they’re not really talking about racist acts in the way most people think about them, like harassing people with racial epithets or outright violence. They’re referring to things like microaggressions.
Former minister suggests replacing Islamophobia... 1:21
When it comes to actual police-reported hate crimes, the number for 2016 was 1,409 incidents, which is slightly above the recent average. This includes things like racist graffiti. Threats and assaults make up 563 of these.
Now these numbers are not good if only because one such incident is always too many. However for perspective this is less than 0.1% of the 1,895,546 crimes (excluding traffic violations) for the year. It’s also important to note that those are reported crimes; the numbers that resulted in charges and convictions are much lower.
The question we then need to ask ourselves is not so much is this situation a bad thing (because it clearly is) but does it warrant the sort of moral panic that consumed the nation when reports first surfaced of an attack against an 11-year-old girl in a hijab? Does it require the sort of heavy-handed overhaul of our institutions that the report recommends and activists demand? Are we in fact this cesspool of discrimination the report makes us out to be?
Demonstrators protest against Islamophobia and for free speech clash at City Hall in Toronto, Ont. on Saturday March 4, 2017. (Craig Robertson/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)
It’s telling, to see where the government’s priorities take them and that they placed such a heavy emphasis on this one issue as to convene committee hearings and engage in regular national hand-wringing.
For context, in 2016 there were 381,594 violent crimes in Canada. This includes 777 cases of attempted murder, 3,395 cases of level 3 aggravated assault and 6,245 child pornography offences. That last category has increased by 233% over the past decade.
And yet despite these very real crimes that harm the lives of Canadians of no doubt every race and religion, our legislators have spent a disproportionate amount of time studying how intersectionality affects microaggressions, two words that my spell-checker is now trying to tell me don’t even exist.
Protesters clash in Montreal over anti-Islamophobia... 1:41
Given all of this, it should come as no surprise that one of the few really specific recommendations that came from these groups was a shameless request for more money for their activism and scholarship. That alone should cause us to pause and reflect on this whole ordeal, which at its height needlessly tore at our social fabric.
Whether it was intentional or not, the closing line of the report really gets at the heart of the matter: “While witnesses noted the significant achievements made in terms of equality and diversity, some acknowledged that Canada is not perfect and can do better.”
So, yes, let’s all agree to try our best to be respectful of each other and not wage microaggressions. But let’s collectively shut down the implicit argument furthered throughout this report, that Canadian society is some sort of hateful rot.
http://ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/CHPC/Reports/RP9315686/chpcrp10/chpcrp10-e.pdf
M103 report makes Canada look like cesspool of intolerance | Toronto Sun
Canadian Press
More from Canadian Press
Published:
February 5, 2018
Updated:
February 5, 2018 5:23 PM EST
A woman and her daughters stand in their home, in the village of Cambadju in Guinea-Bissau, the first in the country to renounce female genital mutilation/cutting.CNW Group / UNICEF Canada
OTTAWA — The federal government will announce funding of $3 million for a project aimed at eradicating female genital mutilation in West Africa.
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau is to make the announcement of the four-year initiative on Tuesday, making it the first government project to target the controversial practice.
The issue sparked domestic political discord in Canada after The Canadian Press revealed last year that references condemning the practice had been cut from a draft of the Immigration Department’s new citizenship guide for new arrivals.
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau speaks with media following an announcement in Ottawa, Friday June 9, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
The opposition Conservatives included the reference in their version of the guide while they were in power, and criticized the government for initially cutting it out.
The Liberals have since said the reference would be restored.
FGM is considered as gender-based violence and a criminal act in Canada and I think it's important to inform the new citizens that this cultural practice is absolutely not acceptable in Canada.
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau
Bibeau tells The Canadian Press that the reference belongs in Canada’s new citizenship guide so that newcomers realize the practice is illegal in Canada.
“FGM is considered as gender-based violence and a criminal act in Canada and I think it’s important to inform the new citizens that this cultural practice is absolutely not acceptable in Canada,” she said in a telephone interview Monday from Cotonou, Benin.
Bibeau has spearheaded the creation of a new feminist development policy, and she has been seized with trying to find a project worth funding.
She focused on Benin, a country with which she has a unique personal connection — she served in the West African country as an aid worker with the now-defunct Canadian International Development Agency in 1996-97.
She reunited with former colleagues there on Monday in advance of a planned announcement Tuesday of funding for a project to be run by CUSO International. The project will focus on two northern regions of Benin until 2021 and will include initiatives to combat sexual and gender-based violence.
We have to have these conversations with these communities to work on their beliefs and cultural norms and for them to understand it's a matter of rights, and health for women and girls.
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau
Bibeau said 60% of girls in northern Benin are affected by the practice.
“Our objective is to prevent 57,000 girls between zero and nine from being targeted and being cut.”
Overall, some 200 million women and girls in Africa, Asia and the Middle East are affected by the practice. The age range of affected girls is vast — from infancy to age 15.
Bibeau said more research is needed to determine the prevalence of the problem among new arrivals in Canada.
“We have to have these conversations with these communities to work on their beliefs and cultural norms and for them to understand it’s a matter of rights, and health for women and girls,” Bibeau said.
Gynecological surgeon Dr. Marci Bowers (C) begins the process of clitoral restorative surgery on a woman in Nairobi on May 11, 2017. CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images
An internal briefing note prepared for the minister, obtained by The Canadian Press, outlines formidable challenges in tackling the problem.
“Ending the practice requires collective and transformative processes that include government leadership and action as well as action by affected communities,” it says.
“It also requires policy and legal reforms that support gender equality, the empowerment of women and girls, and respect for their human rights.”
Bibeau said the government is looking at funding other related projects but has no imminent announcements.
Feds to announce $3M to combat female genital mutilation in West Africa | Toronto Sun
FUREY: M103 report makes Canada look like cesspool of intolerance
Anthony Furey
More from Anthony Furey
Published:
February 5, 2018
Updated:
February 5, 2018 4:42 PM EST
Protesters rally over motion M-103, the Liberal anti-Islamophobia motion, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 21, 2017.Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ignore the M103 committee report at your peril. Sure, it’s over one hundred pages of mostly dull bureaucratic jargon. And it largely doesn’t live up to its hype.
There is no mention, positive or negative, of sharia law — as many of its critics cautioned against. Nor is there the same disproportionate focus on tending to the bruised ego of Sunni Islam, which is the tone that dominated the e-petition that first inspired the government motion that in turn kicked off this heritage committee report that was released the other day. Looks like the lobbying efforts on the part of concerned citizens was in large measure a success.
Read the full report here:
View this document on Scribd
But what remains is still troubling. There are few pockets of society that the report – titled “Taking Action Against Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination Including Islamophobia” – doesn’t malign as having racial and religious animus bred in the bone.
The witness testimonies, taken together, tell us it’s happening to broad swaths of people in our schools, the legal system, government, healthcare, the workplace and elsewhere. The infractions range in severity from graffiti to murder.
We seem to have a five-alarm fire on our hands, at least based on the report’s 30 recommendations. They cover pretty wide terrain. They call for the creation of new plans, guidelines, directorates, hiring practices, impact assessments and other such make-work endeavours.
Liberal MP Iqra Khalid makes an announcement about an anti-Islamophobia motion on Parliament Hill while Minister of Canadian Heritage Melanie Joly looks on in Ottawa on Wednesday, February 15, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
Now this all may come as a shock to Canadians throughout our increasingly ethnically diverse cities and towns happily going about their business in relative harmony with each other, that they are in fact broken to the core.
The report does though offer a bit of a wink in this direction. “As society has evolved and with the advent of human rights legislation and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, these overt forms of systemic discrimination have become rare. However, more subtle, often unintentional forms of systemic or institutional racism and discrimination continue to exist.”
So they’re not really talking about racist acts in the way most people think about them, like harassing people with racial epithets or outright violence. They’re referring to things like microaggressions.
Former minister suggests replacing Islamophobia... 1:21
When it comes to actual police-reported hate crimes, the number for 2016 was 1,409 incidents, which is slightly above the recent average. This includes things like racist graffiti. Threats and assaults make up 563 of these.
Now these numbers are not good if only because one such incident is always too many. However for perspective this is less than 0.1% of the 1,895,546 crimes (excluding traffic violations) for the year. It’s also important to note that those are reported crimes; the numbers that resulted in charges and convictions are much lower.
The question we then need to ask ourselves is not so much is this situation a bad thing (because it clearly is) but does it warrant the sort of moral panic that consumed the nation when reports first surfaced of an attack against an 11-year-old girl in a hijab? Does it require the sort of heavy-handed overhaul of our institutions that the report recommends and activists demand? Are we in fact this cesspool of discrimination the report makes us out to be?
Demonstrators protest against Islamophobia and for free speech clash at City Hall in Toronto, Ont. on Saturday March 4, 2017. (Craig Robertson/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)
It’s telling, to see where the government’s priorities take them and that they placed such a heavy emphasis on this one issue as to convene committee hearings and engage in regular national hand-wringing.
For context, in 2016 there were 381,594 violent crimes in Canada. This includes 777 cases of attempted murder, 3,395 cases of level 3 aggravated assault and 6,245 child pornography offences. That last category has increased by 233% over the past decade.
And yet despite these very real crimes that harm the lives of Canadians of no doubt every race and religion, our legislators have spent a disproportionate amount of time studying how intersectionality affects microaggressions, two words that my spell-checker is now trying to tell me don’t even exist.
Protesters clash in Montreal over anti-Islamophobia... 1:41
Given all of this, it should come as no surprise that one of the few really specific recommendations that came from these groups was a shameless request for more money for their activism and scholarship. That alone should cause us to pause and reflect on this whole ordeal, which at its height needlessly tore at our social fabric.
Whether it was intentional or not, the closing line of the report really gets at the heart of the matter: “While witnesses noted the significant achievements made in terms of equality and diversity, some acknowledged that Canada is not perfect and can do better.”
So, yes, let’s all agree to try our best to be respectful of each other and not wage microaggressions. But let’s collectively shut down the implicit argument furthered throughout this report, that Canadian society is some sort of hateful rot.
http://ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/CHPC/Reports/RP9315686/chpcrp10/chpcrp10-e.pdf
M103 report makes Canada look like cesspool of intolerance | Toronto Sun