Wednesday, October 13, 2010

The overlooked side of multiculturalism

A very disturbing column recently appeared in the Sun Newspaper [Sunday, October 10th edition] under the heading “Gay-bashers thrive in modern-day Netherlands” by Ezra Levant. Levant attributes this as follows:
“Amsterdam isn’t gay. Now it’s Muslim, too. A million Moroccans and Turks have immigrated to the Netherlands, and sharia law rules the streets.”
He goes on to say:

“If you doubt it, then you haven’t been paying attention. Actually that’s not fair. Gay bashing is front-page news only when it’s committed by a straight, white male.

“The media is terribly uncomfortable writing about gay-bashing by minorities. It’s the same reason why Canadian feminists are so eerily quiet about honour killings of Muslim girls.”

According to an “offender study” by the University of Amsterdam, there were 201 reports of anti-gay violence in that city in 2007, but researchers believe that for every reported case there were 25 unreported ones. Moreover, Two thirds of the predators are Muslim youths.

In addition the violence is committed in the heart of the city, and often in broad daylight. “It’s a direct date to the Dutch government to show who rules the streets,” Levant writes.

“In 2008, 10 Muslim youths broke into a fashion show, dragged gay model Michael du Pree off the stage and beat him bloody. Last month, several lesbians were hit by beer bottle thrown at their heads as they marched in a parade to protest violence against gays."
Ten years ago Pim Fortuyn sounded an alarm bell when he said, “I don’t hate Islam. I consider it a backward culture.” In 2002 Fortuyn was assassinated.

Next, Theo Van Gogh, a descendant of artist Vincent Van Gogh, made a movie about Islam’s treatment of women. A 26-year-old Moroccan shot him eight times and left a dagger in his chest with a letter threatening Western governments and Jews.

To both Sociologists and Political Scientist it has been trite knowledge for as long as these disciplines have existed that immigrants bring with them their “cultural baggage,” for better or worse. It has also been trite knowledge that immigration moderates the labour supply and modifies wages; ergo it is good for business. It goes without mentioning, as well, that immigrants get to vote the minute their Canadian citizenship is declared, and politicians are well away of this ‘happenstance.’

However, as in the Amsterdam experience, these paltry benefits may come at a cost to even those who promote Canada’s Alice-in-Wonderland version of multiculturalism as being the “Kingdom of Caring” (รก-la-The Care Bears).

Along the lines of ‘culture,’ hands-up all those who have heard of the “Avro Arrow;” Louis St. Laurent; D’arcy McGee; or Samuel Steele. Hmmm, so much for Canadian history.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

It's confirmed: The Eagle of State is really a turkey

I admit that I don’t understand metric, and haven’t since Pierre Trudeau introduced it back in the 1970s. In my opinion it was merely an underhanded concession to the major oil companies so that we wouldn’t understand $5 dollar-a-gallon gasoline [at the time gasoline was around 34¢ per gallon].

Moreover, can you imagine the confusion this causes our American cousins south of the border. It can be 80 degrees Fahrenheit down there, and the minute they cross the international dividing line it drops 54 degrees to 26 degrees Celsius!

Oh, and there’s a deception regarding the weather, too. For example, the meteorologists are all saying that it is 20C out there today (68F), but with the wind it feels more like 15C (60F). My take on weather forecasting is this: 1) If they are forecasting good weather they’re generally wrong; 2) If they’re forecasting bad weather they’re generally right; 3) The good weather is always coming ‘tomorrow,’ and; 4) When it gets here it’s never what we expected [see above].

And speaking of ‘dumb’ things. Yet another politician has proven that the unemployment stats are short one otherwise unemployable. This jerk is proposing that it should be illegal for teenagers (under 19 years) to possess or light-up a cigarette—as if we need another stupid law or more regulation in our lives.

But seriously folks, has this myopic pipsqueak given any thought regarding enforcement? Already the majority of teens have said, “Good luck,” to it, and at that rate there aren’t enough jail cells in the entire system to accommodate them all—and at what cost? It is obvious therefore that 360-degree thinking is not big at Queen’s Park or on Parliament Hill.

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