Mississauga Mayor admonishes mosque opponent: 'You should be ashamed'

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Mayor Bonnie Crombie admonishes mosque opponent: 'You should be ashamed'

After hours of emotional debate that at one point had the mayor accusing one man of "hate-mongering," a Mississauga planning committee approved a re-zoning application last night that will allow a new 12,000-square-foot mosque to be built.

Hundreds packed Mississauga council chambers for Monday's Planning and Development Committee meeting to speak about plans to build the Meadowvale Islamic Centre on Winston Churchill Boulevard, across from Meadowvale Town Centre.

Some who spoke were opponents, who raised worries about increased noise and traffic.

Others were members of the local Islamic community, who said the new centre will provide a much-needed place of worship.

Mayor Crombie calls out mosque opponent

At times the debate became fraught and emotional. In one dramatic exchange, Mayor Bonnie Crombie called out one mosque opponent for his views.

During his deputation, Kevin Johnston expressed concerns about noise and traffic, then left the podium to cheers from the gallery. Crombie then asked Johnston to return to the podium, where she asked him about posts on his website Stop the Mosque.

The website currently lists Johnston's objections to the project as relating to noise, traffic, parking and policing. Johnston has also distributed Stop the Mosque posters in the community. The posters say the mosque will be "out of place in Canada" and say the project "sets women's rights back a century and achieves nothing."

Crombie, however, asked Johnston about other posts on his website, which have since been removed. They warn of increases in sexual assault, vandalism, kidnappings, and a loss of freedom of speech should the project be approved.

"Are you the author of this website?" Crombie asked Johnston in the exchange.

"I am," he replied. "It's what I believe but I'm not here to talk about that."

"Is this what you've been applauding for?" Crombie then asks his supporters in the gallery. Some respond by cheering.

Crombie then says: "This is heinous. This is hate-mongering Mr. Johnston. You should be ashamed of yourself."

http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/tor...osque-re-zoning-approved-at-council-1.3238236
 
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Divisive hatred-check
Islamophobia-check
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Old stocker status CONFIRMED


Edit: Das editing his massive hate post. This should be good.
 
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was it a kerfuffle?

anyway, nobody cares about mississauga. :lol:
 
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Locutus said:
was it a kerfuffle?

anyway, nobody cares about mississauga. :lol:
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I shop at that Mall once maybe twice a year, you think I want to have to reset the maps on my gps navigator to be able to find my way there, every time I go shopping because they want to build a bloody mosque?
Isn't there a nice little park across from the Port Credit arena, that they could use?
I'm sure that the residents in the area wouldn't mind the call to prayer over the speakers several times a day......
 
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Oh there's no doubt.

You've lost on the homophobic strategy and the climate change creditors are at the door.

In 10 years we will all be looking back how silly this tension between us and Muslims is, much like how racism is regularly condemned even though it still openly exists in small pockets of the western world.

We're just riding out the remaining bits of this roller-coaster.
 
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Seems to me there's a legitimate debate here about noise and traffic.

I don't suppose there's any way they could separate that from the Old Stock Canadian argument, is there?

I like it! It's kinda like Real American.
 
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Unlike other posters here I have years of first hand experience with Muslims in Canada-I used to work for a Muslim owned company and many of my colleagues were Muslim.

It's difficult for me to imagine a group of people more poorly suited for life in Canada-clothed in their medieval straitjacket of religious idiocy they have NFC how life is lived here, even worse are their 'leaders' some of the most mediocre individuals imaginable.

Only a rapid society wide secularisation can prevent serious problems in future-you read it here first.
 
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mentalfloss said:
Oh there's no doubt.

You've lost on the homophobic strategy and the climate change creditors are at the door.

In 10 years we will all be looking back how silly this tension between us and Muslims is, much like how racism is regularly condemned even though it still openly exists in small pockets of the western world.

We're just riding out the remaining bits of this roller-coaster.
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Where do you get this shjt?

bill barilko said:
Unlike other posters here I have years of first hand experience with Muslims in Canada-I used to work for a Muslim owned company and many of my colleagues were Muslim.

It's difficult for me to imagine a group of people more poorly suited for life in Canada-clothed in their medieval straitjacket of religious idiocy they have NFC how life is lived here, even worse are their 'leaders' some of the most mediocre individuals imaginable.

Only a rapid society wide secularisation can prevent serious problems in future-you read it here first.
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Many do not know how to use a flush toilet because in the ME not too many have running water.
 
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