FURTHER POSTED RESPONSES TO COMMENTS ON DOUG SAUNDERS' COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
"We have already made huge compromises to accommodate ancient practices [of Muslims]"
Oh please, such ignorance.
How about our allowances for ultra-orthodox Jews' nasty treatment of women's rights? Such women cannot divorce their husbands for fear of losing their children in a male-dominated, backward kangaroo court of rabbis. And our law permits this.
How about our allowances for the pathetic state of many traditional Mennonite women? in their ugly baggy black dresses with doilies on their heads?
How about our allowances for Catholic priests who've raped and abused children by the thousand? They should all have been arrested and tried to face hard time in prison.
All the special ranting about Islam is just Islamophobioa - in other words, pure unbalanced prejudice.
And much of it serves the interests of Israel - by stoking up unreasonable hatred of Muslims - and helps Israel to continue its terrible abuse of millions of souls.
Oh please, such ignorance.
How about our allowances for ultra-orthodox Jews' nasty treatment of women's rights? Such women cannot divorce their husbands for fear of losing their children in a male-dominated, backward kangaroo court of rabbis. And our law permits this.
How about our allowances for the pathetic state of many traditional Mennonite women? in their ugly baggy black dresses with doilies on their heads?
How about our allowances for Catholic priests who've raped and abused children by the thousand? They should all have been arrested and tried to face hard time in prison.
All the special ranting about Islam is just Islamophobioa - in other words, pure unbalanced prejudice.
And much of it serves the interests of Israel - by stoking up unreasonable hatred of Muslims - and helps Israel to continue its terrible abuse of millions of souls.
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"Wake up Canada. Wake up and smell the coffee. No we must not do what happened in Norway. Nip this in the bud right now in the right way. "
Sounds like a fire-breathing fundamentalist tent-preacher out scaring the flock into leaving big bucks in the offering plate.
This writer sounds as sick as Breveik.
Breveik was directly influenced by the very Islam-hate this person is preaching.
The writer not only displays ignorance and hatred but misses the facts of the Breveik case completely.
Sounds like a fire-breathing fundamentalist tent-preacher out scaring the flock into leaving big bucks in the offering plate.
This writer sounds as sick as Breveik.
Breveik was directly influenced by the very Islam-hate this person is preaching.
The writer not only displays ignorance and hatred but misses the facts of the Breveik case completely.
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"No, not nearly all, or even a majority - but enough to worry about - much as Iran ended up as a theocracy though previously under the Shah its citizens were moderate and highly secularised"
Yes, and the Shah's SAVAK secret police pulled out people's finger nails by the thousands in their torture chambers.
I guess that doesn't count for much in your set of concerns, just so many apologists for Israel were too happy to see Mubarak go on with his 30-year tyranny and secret police.
And what about the ultra-orthodox control of so many of Israel's laws and policies, even to the great discomfort of many secular Jews?
And what about the very notion of a "Jewish state"?
No different in many respects to Iran.
Of course there's a pretense of democracy, but you cannot have a "Jews-only" democracy, except if you have a very bad sense of humor.
And, regardless of the form of government, when a vicious-minded majority suppresses the rights of a minority, you have genuine democratic values entirely missing.
Majorities in ostensibly democratic states can easily suppress a minority, and they have done so many times. South Africa was a democracy, if you were white. The American Confederacy was a democracy, if you were white.
To protect against that very situation, Canada has a Charter of Rights and America has a Bill of Rights.
But Israel can never produce such a document because its basic assumptions are inimical to the concept.
