tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601639312234106733.post9112035366355939684..comments2023-11-10T22:27:47.359-05:00Comments on Eye on a Crazy Planet: Harper, Trudeau, the niqab, and multiculturalismRichard Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239826441964023625noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601639312234106733.post-37998341286342023542015-03-12T10:12:26.658-04:002015-03-12T10:12:26.658-04:00Interesting addendum Truepeers. Thanks.
I think w...Interesting addendum Truepeers. Thanks.<br /><br />I think we should reiterate that it really is a minority of Muslims who live in cultures where the niquab is a prominent feature. Although it's increasing. <br /><br />A number of Muslim counties became more liberal and westernized in the aftermath of WW1 and Ataturk's reforms in Turkey. By the late 1960's, the majority of women in Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Iraq etc. at least among the middle class in urban centers, would be indistinguishable from western women.<br /><br />But the Iranian Revolution and its export of Islamism was the catalyst for a new Dark Age in the Muslim world. Even though some of the results are Sunni groups at odds with Iran. <br /><br />The concern of which we must remain aware is that the Iranians want to extend that Dark Age over here. And unlike Justin Trudeau, who has the attention span of an infant, the Islamists are thinking in terms of centuries.Richard Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10239826441964023625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601639312234106733.post-46814197631412406182015-03-11T17:53:01.992-04:002015-03-11T17:53:01.992-04:00Anonymous "knows" that thinking is passe...Anonymous "knows" that thinking is passe. If you have to engage in an actual argument (that shows you have read and understood your interlocutor) it's just a sign you have yet to absorb, on a spiritual level, the implicit and imperative truth of a victimary religion that Richard calls "multiculturalism". In short, what RK is missing is an analysyis of how J Trudeau's thinking is a form of puritanical religiosity that wants to assimilate all understanding of human affairs to a claim that we victimise the other. Multiculti is really a singular cult that sacralizes victim status.<br /><br />As for the "medieval remnant" consider that in the traditional agrarian socities from which almost all Muslims come, only a tiny percentage were aristocrats who could ostentatiously cover their women. Most women had to do the drudge work, typically in the fields, since the men were better than that. Such women could not afford to cover their faces and get stuff done. So the niqab is really less a medieval than a modern indulgence, part of the ideology with which Muslims become literate and try to respond politically to their culture's marginal position in a global economy that has nevertheless produced enough wealth that many women can stay at home and only go out covered. The covering is part of a very modern attack on a Western-led globalisation. As such Trudeau proves himself an appeaser, refusing to see Muslims as active agents often at war with people like him, or at least those who support, by work in face to face economies, his lifestyle.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601639312234106733.post-30551572634251764972015-03-11T15:34:46.959-04:002015-03-11T15:34:46.959-04:00It might be ironic if what was written in the abov...It might be ironic if what was written in the above comment was accurate, but evidently the anonymous commenter didn't comprehend a word of what was plainly written in the post.<br /><br />Normally, I don't publish anonymous comments but every once in a while, I'll put one up to demonstrate the complete lack of critical thinking among some people who religiously subscribe to multiculturalism or feel the need to pathologically defend all things Islamic. <br /><br />It's not Muslims per se or a member of any race that's the issue. It's the determination not to assimilate and the totalitarian aspect of a minority, but a significant minority of Muslims.<br /><br />As I wrote in this post, and have written many times before, it's that repression and tyranny that most Muslims came to Canada to escape, and we should welcome those who do. But it's suicidal to welcome those who come here unwilling to integrate, or those who expressly come for the purpose of undermining our values.<br /><br />But I can see how that would be too complicated for someone who supports Justin Trudeau to understand.Richard Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10239826441964023625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601639312234106733.post-6509280171469538862015-03-11T14:30:14.916-04:002015-03-11T14:30:14.916-04:00Your screed reminds me of the sort of thing you...Your screed reminds me of the sort of thing you'd read 80 or 90 years ago complaining about the government allowing "Asiatics", Jews, eastern Europeans and Italians it - especially Jews because many of them were radical socialists, communists, anarchists and other radicals etc trying to overthrow our civilization. Today's cranks say much the same things as cranks from 100 years ago - all that's changed is instead of complaining about Jews, Chinese and Indians they complain about "Muzzies". It's pretty ironic that someone probably wrote an article that sounds a lot like yours arguing against your ancestors coming into the country. Funny, eh? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com