Muslim convert attacked while wearing niqab in Toronto
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Shades of “White Slavery Panic” in Conservatives’ targeting of niqab
The Conservative Government, which closed Status of Women offices and refused to launch an inquest into Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls, is attempting to argue that it is standing up for women’s rights. They argue that it is Muslim women alone who face misogyny in this country, while “old stock” Canadian women are doing just fine.
This strategy of blaming “the other” for violence against women while allegedly standing up for the rights of women reminds me of what has been termed the “White Slavery Panic” in Canada during the 19th century. Beginning in the 1880s, religious reformers feared that groups of immigrants to Canada – particularly non-white, male immigrants – were forcing “vulnerable” white women into prostitution. Social reformers believed that helpless country girls were moving into Canadian cities to find work in factories or stores and were being “seduced” into prostitution by foreign immigrants. As a result of this panic, the Canadian Parliament adapted the criminal code in 1892 and made it an offence to procure chaste women under the age of 21 for “unlawful carnal connection” within Canada. It also became illegal for women to become prostitutes.
The Canadian public was so outraged by the threat to white womanhood that the city of Toronto launched an investigation in 1913. However, the investigation found there was no such thing as organized white slavers in the city and that many of the lurid stories in books and news articles on the topic had been fabricated.
Shades of “White Slavery Panic” in Conservatives’ targeting of niqab | National Newswatch
The Conservative Government, which closed Status of Women offices and refused to launch an inquest into Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls, is attempting to argue that it is standing up for women’s rights. They argue that it is Muslim women alone who face misogyny in this country, while “old stock” Canadian women are doing just fine.
This strategy of blaming “the other” for violence against women while allegedly standing up for the rights of women reminds me of what has been termed the “White Slavery Panic” in Canada during the 19th century. Beginning in the 1880s, religious reformers feared that groups of immigrants to Canada – particularly non-white, male immigrants – were forcing “vulnerable” white women into prostitution. Social reformers believed that helpless country girls were moving into Canadian cities to find work in factories or stores and were being “seduced” into prostitution by foreign immigrants. As a result of this panic, the Canadian Parliament adapted the criminal code in 1892 and made it an offence to procure chaste women under the age of 21 for “unlawful carnal connection” within Canada. It also became illegal for women to become prostitutes.
The Canadian public was so outraged by the threat to white womanhood that the city of Toronto launched an investigation in 1913. However, the investigation found there was no such thing as organized white slavers in the city and that many of the lurid stories in books and news articles on the topic had been fabricated.
Shades of “White Slavery Panic” in Conservatives’ targeting of niqab | National Newswatch
You're a putz. Conbots aren't the only ones. When I brought up the NDP and their misuse of funds, you declared they did not misuse them despite a court ruling to the contrary.
It would be easier to take your comments more seriously if you weren't such a blind, partisan jackwad.
Why does my mind keep thinking of mountains and molehills?
The boy is really getting frantic in his hate of Harper as election day approaches....
He will have to seek professional help when Harper wins.....
The boy is really getting frantic in his hate of Harper as election day approaches....
He will have to seek professional help when Harper wins.....
Leave her alone, her load is already too large to bare, her colossal stupidity.