Multiculturalism Takes Two On The Chin

The second one, by an immigrant himself and a Muslim, Salim Mansur.

Feds want immigrants to provide upfront evidence of fluency in English or French

It's time to undo multiculturalism mistake

"Forty years ago, in October 1971, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau introduced multiculturalism as an official policy for Canada.

Seventeen years later, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservatives turned Trudeau’s policy into the Multiculturalism Act of 1988.

In other words, it was not merely Trudeau but Canada’s political elite, supported by the intellectual and media elites of the country, who adopted without much questioning a policy that was, at best, dubious and deeply flawed as the law of the land.

Canada was the first of the advanced liberal democracies in the West to turn multiculturalism — an idea without philosophical substance — into official policy.

Four decades later, some of those democracies — Germany, Britain, France, the Netherlands — have openly expressed regrets as their elected leaders publicly admitted the failure of official multiculturalism in securing social harmony, or advancing national interest.

In my recently published book — Delectable Lie: A liberal repudiation of multiculturalism — I discuss at some length why this policy reflected an act of bad faith on the part of Trudeau and company, and how it continues to be detrimental to the vitality of a liberal democracy.

The bad faith resided in the ridiculous proposition that all cultures are equal. This is the keystone of multiculturalism as an idea, and it is untenable."

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"It takes someone with a college degree to accept silliness of this nature as higher knowledge."

RTWT

Blogroll Changes

Just finished taking some dead links out and updating one which had changed completely, but is still there and active.

Check it out. Joel Johannson, who used to blog at Proud To Be Canadian, is now part of group blog called Bold Colors, which features a combination of Canadian and American authors. There's currently an excellent article by Michael Coren and one equally cogent from Salim Mansur.

I've got some more work to do in the blogroll. So stay tuned.

Three New Canadian Bloggers

...on my blogroll. All of them will drive a leftie insaner:

Bullet Proof Courier

Bullet Proof Courier is a staunch supported of Ezra Levant's courageous drive to restore to all of us our freedom to speak our minds. Definitely a no-no if you're of the left persuasion.

Dr. Roy's Blog

I've been reading and commenting at Dr. Roy's blog for at least a year or two, but only discovered yesterday that I had neglected to put him on my blogroll. He was only in my "favourites" list. Shame on me.

He's a very loyal Canadian, and a staunch defender of the monarchy. He's also a Christian. And he's brown to boot - born in India. All of that, especially his faith and the fact that he refuses to play "victim" despite his pigmentation, qualifies him as a target of vitriol from the rabid left.

Raheel Raza

And Raheel. Awe inspiring Raheel. Pay this woman some attention.

A full nine years after 9/11 we've all justifiably wondered where the "moderate" Muslims are. She's the genuine article. They are out there, but they rarely get a hearing. And no wonder. They are subject on a daily basis to fatwas and death threats from the Religion of Peace.

Lefties don't want you to know that, either. They hold fast to their delusions that we right thinking folks are all a bunch of bigots and all Muslims are vicitms. This ruins everything for them, while those moderate Muslims will tell you the apologist mindset of the left works against them.

She's making waves not only in Canada, but in the USA. For example, she's come out strongly against the Ground Zero mosque.

Actually, Raheel is not a blogger but a spokesperson working on a long uphill battle to be free to speak her mind. Check out the links on the top of her website, especially under the "Articles" and "Media" headings. She needs our support.

Welcome to my blogroll, all three of you.

And while I'm on the topic of moderate Canadian Muslims, don't forget Salim Mansur. I don't think he has his own blog, but his writings do appear regularly at Proud to Be Canadian, along with other enemies of the left like Ann Coulter. A Muslim moderate who whines about victimhood is not a moderate. Mansur gets this with crystal clarity.

Can you hear the howling and gnashing of teeth from the left? It's getting fainter and fainter, but, with life support supplied by the Liberal and NDP parties, the beast is still alive.

More From My Favourite Muslim

Stop quibbling over terror profiling

"These alleged terrorists are not emerging from the ranks of the desperate poor, hungry and homeless. They come mostly from the aspiring middle class background of immigrant families, and their education ironically makes them readily susceptible to the sort of identity politics that thrives on the cocktail of Third World resentments and grievances.

As I have written on numerous occasions, Islamism is a political ideology dressed in religious garments. It is a modern phenomenon — a totalitarian movement alongside the two other similar movements from the last century, fascism and communism — and appealing to those college educated Muslims who feel acutely distressed by the disparity between their native culture and the modern West."

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"This is the politics of Muslim victimhood. It blames the West, deemed rapacious, and those Muslims considered misguided, or worse, who have the temerity to embrace modernity, for the faults of Muslim failure as an individual, or as a people collectively."

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"There is ample evidence, if proof is still needed, that homegrown terrorists in the post-9/11 world are predominantly Muslim males primed by Islamist ideology.

Since Muslims have failed to effectively counter Islamism, it is long overdue for governments in the West to implement more robust measures of information gathering about that segment of the Muslim immigrant population most susceptible to Islamist ideology.

In other words, time to quibble over “profiling” is long past. This is not a matter of becoming “illiberal,” for liberalism, which I hold dearly — as I do my faith tradition as a Sunni Muslim — is not a suicide pact."

Our common security requires a clear understanding of where our threat emanates from, to focus on that threat with necessary resources, and to remove blinders of political correctness that only weakens our efforts in defeating Islamism."

The leftards among us would beg scream loudly, jump up and down, with eyes bugging out, spittle spewing and face reddened, to differ.

ht Blazing Cat Fur and Dr. Roy