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Great White North
How Canadian Tolerance Became Intolerance
2004-08-18
... This is a clear case of "tolerance" gone wild and becoming intolerance — and it is a double one. On the one hand, Muslims in Canada (at least some of them) claim that, in the name of Canadian "tolerance" and "multiculturalism," they have a right to live by their own legal rules (sharia), which is by definition intolerant (to non-Muslims), "morally conservative" and gives Muslims a legal domination over all others. On the other hand, the Left — of which feminism, here, in Europe and in Canada is one of the strongest contingents — believes in erasing religious moral standards, indiscriminate "equality" between sexes and to gays, bisexuals, etc. The problem for Western leftist politicians and their media sidekicks is that, sooner or later, their gay, feminist and "tolerant" constituencies would rebel and prove that they are still more numerous at the ballot box than those immigrant Muslims who cannot adapt.
Posted by:tipper

#2  Perhaps we should take them at their word, however this means that they *must* abide by sharia and appropriate punishments shall be meted out for all crimies (theft, etc)
Posted by: Brutus   2004-08-19 12:03:54 AM  

#1  I don't think this guy has a very good handle on Canadian politics and identity. Take this statement:

Its official ideology is "multiculturalism." Canadians may not like the term, but that is the ruling Liberal Party’s entrenched policy since the premiership of the late Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the 1970s.

Most Canadians love the term. Being multi-cultural means you are sophisticated and nuanced. It allows you to strike a contrary pose to the uni-culturalists, i.e., the intolerant and culture free Americans. If you want to read informed analysis of the folly of multi-culti Canada, start and end with Mark Steyn. Excessively tolerant Canada is a long way away from an open break with the enemy within. I put this in the same category as the American Jewish community continuing to disproportionately support the Dems. If you refuse to believe there is actual evil in the world, you are unlikely to change your mind until it breaks through your front door.

[Hey Steyn: I know you lurk here. Get your buddies at the Western Standard to drop their US rates. Believe it or not there are some of us Yanks (as opposed to Western Canadians in US exile) that would subscribe. But it's not going to happen at C$150/year.]
Posted by: Classical_Liberal   2004-08-18 10:30:29 PM  

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