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An article about Carleton U. by an Iranian journalist and documentary film maker.

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I had the great good fortune to meet Lila Gobi this week. A brilliant and insightful women from Iran who has made it her life’s work to document the effects of Islam in Iran on women’s rights and human rights in general as well as Islam’s effects around the world.

She wrote this op ed piece concerning the effects on Carleton University in Ottawa Canada by its Islamic students and organizations. I post her article here in full as a stand alone piece but taken in the larger picture of Carleton radio CKCU cutting off the show by Emrys Graefe and James Cohen because it spoke in ways that where in opposition to Sharia law as well as the recent debacle at Carleton of CUSA ending its support of a charity because the disease effects mostly ‘European white males’ I think this article is part of a larger tapestry that should be cause for alarm.

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Thank Goodness Ramadan is over!

( Aren’t Canadian universities supposed to be secular?)

Ramadan 2001, Tehran
My friends and I were not fasting, hiding in our car in a quiet neighborhood close to our university and having our lunch before going to an afternoon class. We tried to be careful not to attract attention. Suddenly somebody started banging the car’s window – it was a huge, scary Islamic Police officer who had caught us eating:
“ Eating in public during holy Ramadan? Pagan bitches…get out of the car! You’re going to get lashed to death for not obeying Allah’s laws…”
We knew how to deal with this unpleasant accident – some compliments on his muscular body, some money, fooling him by asking for his phone number in order to set a date for next weekend, and ran while we kept calling him a jerk. Of course, not everyone is so lucky to escape misery so easily in Iran where you can easily get lashed for not following Islamic law – women are still being stoned to death there for having sex outside of marriage.
As an Iranian woman who grew up under a fanatic Islamic regime (which seized power after killing a hundred thousand students and political activists fighting for democracy), I still have nightmares about being a woman in a religious environment where survival demanded that you pretend to be a good Muslim and follow the regime’s version of Islam I was forced to cover myself when I was 6 years old – even during the dog days of summer. I could hardly keep it on my head a whole day. Of course, my parents had no choice but to force me to wear it for my own safety and theirs. The risk of punishment was all to real, and all my non-Muslim friends were forced to cover themselves and read the Qur’an at school.
The Islamic rules were enforced most heavily during Ramadan when it was forbidden to eat or drink in public during daylight hours and all restaurants were closed. People who didn’t follow the Islamic laws and were caught for eating or drinking in public would be subject to the harshest punishments. Most of the people I knew among family and friends in Iran never fasted nor celebrated Eid at the end of Ramadan Muslims do in most Arabic or non-Arabic Islamic countries. Why? Because many Iranians outside of the regime never accepted Islamic culture as their own and were always fiercely proud of their ancient Persian heritage, a rich, complex and deeply-civilized culture that still lives and breathes and sings even though Islam was forced on Persia some 1400 years ago.
My recollection of Iran is a mosaic of nightmares of getting in trouble due to the harsh application of Islamic rules. I wanted to escape from the hell created by the Mullahs (Iranian spiritual-political leaders) to somewhere where religion and government were kept separate – where relationships between people and their God (if ones believes) is a part of private life and not publicly enforced; where there is respect for the dignity of human beings and personal choices; where and nobody has permission to force anybody else to heaven or coerce religious observance. I longed for a place that could be a new home where my neighbors would not have the right to ask about my religious background, a place where I could live freely without being scared of being punished for showing my beautiful hair, talking about love or drinking water in public during Ramadan.
Could this place be Canada, the country where I ended up as a refugee seeking escape from the fundamentalist Islamic regime in my country?
Ramadan 2005, Canada, Ottawa, Carleton University.
Everywhere I go, someone is talking about Ramadan. Some students suggest classes be cancelled after 6 p.m. Others want to postpone mid-term exams or the deadline for papers until after Ramadan is over. We have a cocktail party, and a student asks us not to bring non-Halal meat or pork. Another suggests not having lunch in front of people who might be fasting. Some Carleton University Students Association posters are torn down because they promoted safe sex in the Holy Month of Ramadan, which might have posed a problem for male students who were fasting (what about the female students?) Some students argued that women shouldn’t wear what they considered to be “sexy” clothing because it is a sin for Muslim men to look at sexually stimulating images while they are fasting.
All this scared the hell out of me. To where had I escaped? What happened to the pluralism and respect for personal choice that Canada is known for?
Compared to some other universities in Canada (i.e. McGill) which openly and unequivocally adopt secular values, Carleton allows religious groups more influence than is acceptable in the pluralistic, tolerant environment that a university should be. In a Canadian university that should be inclusive and tolerant, those of us who are not Muslim should not have Ramadan and all it entails forced upon us. As a woman who has endured, witnessed and documented some of the most extreme forms of misogyny, all justified in the name of Islam, I am troubled to see Ramadan arrive at Carleton University, bringing with it attempts by some students to restrict others’ rights – particularly those of women. Fasting is a personal choice. Those who believe doing fasting will help them grow personally are free to do it. But they have no right to force it on others. People of many religions practice fasting – Jews, Christians, Bahai;Hindus – but they do not all make it a public affair or force it on others.
At Carleton University some Muslim students need to accept that many student do not share their beliefs. The practice of Islam should not and does not require others to modify their behaviour to suit Muslims. Religion is a private matter, and many religions that have historically been dogmatic and intolerant have learned to co-exist peacefully and respectfully in Canada. That’s why Islam, as much as any other religion, is welcome here. So enjoy your freedom to be a Muslim. But don’t force it on me, and respect the rights of others to practice what they believe. If we yield to religious fanatics we will have lost our basic rights as human beings and Carleton will have become everything that a university should not be.

C.U.S.A. votes to scrap support for C.F. as they claim it ‘only affects white males’

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Yesterday, council members of the Carleton University Students Association (CUSA) voted almost unanimously to scrap ‘shine-a-rama’, a fund raiser to raise funds for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

WHY YOU ASK?

According to CUSA, cystic fibrosis only affects Caucasian men of European decent and Jewish men of Western European decent. Apparently they would prefer to support fund raising events where a disease affects a more diverse and inclusive demographic.

The dangers of irrational leftism and acute political correctness are evident in this example of shameless bias. It would seem diversity, inclusion, tolerance, fairness, anti-racism and anti-sexism policies and all the rest of these concepts-in-action are fit for everyone except of course……..

white guys.

At the moment, this is being covered on www.cfra.com which is an Ottawa based local radio station.

CUSA consists of twenty two council members one of which is a student studying journalism. The motion was presented at the meeting whereby only one councilor, the young journalist, voted against the decision to scrap the cystic fibrosis fundraiser, a popular and successful event generating thousands of dollars for CF research. It was this journalism student who broke the news to the local media and, to his credit, had the intestinal fortitude to expose the clear bigotry of these council members.

The fact that they don’t have even the slightest understanding or knowledge of this fatal disease is by far the least of what is so horrible about this story. The president phoned in the open-line radio show this morning and spent the call defending the decision with cheap, condescending rhetoric and unbridled arrogance. If her attitude is representative of the majority on council, then I can only conclude that ignorance is dominant. She also claimed that the motion cannot be revisited or rewritten, apparently a fait de complit. What nonsense.

With an outraged public, Ms. President became eager to distance herself from an obviously prejudiced decision. She denied the fact that this motion had not been publicized to councilors until the last minute and tried to convince the listening audience that CUSA’s desire to cancel shinerama was motivated by a desire to “do something different” in charitable fundraising. If that is the case, then why not have an additional fundraiser for another organization instead of canceling such a worthy event.

What’s the matter CUSA? Can’t chew gum and walk at the same time?

This case is not about diversity, inclusion or any other feel-good, PC catchphrase used by the enlightened. This is about hating white men. Pure, old fashioned racism and sexism. The point is not whether CUSA erred in their facts about CF. If the truth was that this disease did only affect white men would they then as an identifiable group in need be undeserving of help? It will be interesting to see exactly which medical condition CUSA will deem worthy of their support in the future.

Breast cancer? Nope; that primarily affects women and is not diverse enough. Prostate cancer? Nope; that affects only men-certainly no diversity in that. Sickle cell anemia? Nope; that affects people of African decent, also not diverse enough. They may have a tough time finding a suitable cause as disease, unlike themselves, does not discriminate.

They could however create their own charity to fund a drive to find a cure for say, stupidity or the eventual eradication of simple minded, misinformed, prejudiced people. How about a yearly fundraiser to cure misandry? Any of these would be suitable.

This disgusting display from CUSA is one more example of behavior that is completely contrary to liberal thought. The saddest part of all is the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation can no longer count on their support. While people suffer from this terrible disease the radicals at CUSA play politics with charity in the name of diversity.

Canada’s grand mufti-in-waiting is reinvigorated with a new mission

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Muhammed Elmasry of the Canadian Islamic Congress just can’t sit still. No doubt stung by the fact that he is now considered one of the nation’s consummate losers by having failed to succeed in all three Human Right’s Commission cases launched against Maclean’s magazine, he is now on a fresh, new mission. The biggest boil on the backside of Canada’s media butt may have been lanced, but it continues to fester.

“The first point that I did learn from this exercise is that Islamophobia is alive and well in Canada, in the media and also in politics,” he said. ” In all of this, we’ve been victimized”.

Since filing the complaints in three Canadian jurisdictions, Elmasry reflected that he made the right decision, taking full credit for sparking the debate and the ensuing massive public outcry. Yet, not one to miss an opportunity to blame others for his failure, he squarely cited inappropriate pressure by the media and politicians for the commission’s wrong decisions.

Elmasry seeks to lobby the government and to glean support from what he refers to as the “sympathetic ears in Parliament” to create a National Media Council, similar to the existing Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). The Council would oversee print and online media. Ostensibly, this group would provide an outlet for complaints and a forum for fairness and professionalism. The recent failure behind him, combined with renewed vigor, a beefed up ego and legal beagles in tow, his intention is to demand restrictions on what his organization considers a foul media.

Who exactly would define fairness and professionalism? The experts at the CIC and their league of Islamist cohorts? When we factor in the reality that an entire section of Dr. Elmasry’s web site is devoted to monitoring the media and endlessly scouring for perceived Islamophobic sentiment, this proposal is a frightening notion. His ideal of ‘hate-free free-speech’ is a preposterous idea that would discriminate against the reporting of the facts, the news and ultimately, the truth.

Consider this. In a lengthy document, the CIC has listed terminology that they believe should be discouraged and eventually removed from any reporting concerning terrorism or fundamentalism. Any journalist, reporter, writer or editor from any Canadian news outlet would be left condemned and deemed a bigoted rogue for using any of the listed offensive terms. Here is a partial list of offensive words the CIC considered as of 2002, as ‘anti-Islamic’, descriptions that are offensive to Muslims and by extension, Islam:

Armed Islamic group, Canadian-based Islamic extremist, Islamic regime, Islamic dictatorship, extremism, fighters, fundamentalists, hard-liner, insurgency, insurgent, suicide bomber, terrorist, terrorist cell, Islamic organization, Islamic government, activist and rebel. I believe these words used alone without the accompanying tags of Islam or Muslim may be o.k…..? The CIC would conclude that the inclusion of these descriptions would be the workings of a racist media whose only motivation is to create and foster cultural and ethnic disharmony and to victimize yet once again, Canada’s Muslim community. Reporting the facts is apparently a secondary hobby for the nation’s news outlets. 

Is it hateful to describe a person who has just set off a bomb in a crowded bazar aimed at innocents while screaming Allahu Akbar! an Islamic terrorist? Is it hateful to label an imam of a mosque who degrades western values and openly discourages the breaking of Canada’s laws an Islamic fundamentalist? Or, should future news headlines instead read:

“Some unnamed, not-a-white guy with a bomb kills 30. We cannot comment further. The sensitivity for, well-being of and protection for his identity, community, religion, culture and traditions must be maintained”. Or,

“Some unnamed, not-a-white guy in an unnamed building makes up his own rules. We cannot comment further. The sensitivity for, well-being of and protection for his identity, community, religion, culture and traditions must be maintained”.

I can in fact, use the term ‘white’ in these ludicrous headlines, since Elmasry asserts that offending white people is not as serious as offending minorities, particularly Muslims, because the white majority is “anchored”. “If somebody makes a joke that you’re white, who cares? he quips. 

Another segment in the lengthy analysis reads: “Anti-Islam in the media feeds ‘Image Distortion Disorder’ “. The CIC contends ‘ the distorted perception that Islam condones and encourages violence is largely created by the media and it leads to societal anxiety among Canadians. It is particularly dangerous in Canada within it’s multi-ethnic, multi-faith and multi-cultural populations and invariably leads to discrimination, hate-mongering, acts of vandalism and false accusations by the authorities’. 

Wait. Canada’s entire population consists of multi-ethnic, multi-faith and multi-cultural people. Are we to conclude then that all Canadians suffer from Image Distortion Disorder? 

Let me ask you this: if you cover dog shit with candied sprinkles, is it still dog shit?

In western nations Islamists work diligently to ensure that under no circumstances should Islam be connected to terrorism or extremism, an aim whose purpose lies solely in the unyielding desire for the distortion of fact. In short, the truth must become a lie and the lie must become a truth. The creation of a National Media Council would be a welcome addition in this endeavor. So would sharia.

I have heard many claim that groups like the CIC want to stifle free speech. Others claim they want to shut it down. I disagree. They have no intention of shutting down an existing press that they would gladly control. They do intend however, to manipulate the public into believing they have been so ridiculed, demeaned and targeted that additional restrictions on print and online media are necessary, with of course, the aid and guidance of a panel of Islamic experts… such as themselves. Additionally, a government seal of approval from the “sympathetic ear” crowd on Parliament Hill would help things along quite nicely. Extremism then would simply be inheriting an already well functioning institution, one to be re-fashioned, re-tooled and tweaked to suit radical Islam and the realities of sharia. There would be no stifling of free speech as long as the merits of Islam and the benevolence of the prophet were the priority. Any discourse deemed un-Islamic would simply not be tolerated. Welcome to Saudi Arabia.

Back to the candied dog shit. Dr. Elmasry also plans to lobby for a review of media concentration, ( I assume concentration refers to the ownership of Canada’s news outlets by Jews), calling it ” the antithesis of democracy”. Of course his famous statement of 2004 regarding Israelis as legitimate targets of terrorism was misunderstood, a mistake on the part of infidel ignorance. (I probably misunderstood the above white comment too).  

The CIC  I believe, is an organization obsessed with creating and promoting victimhood within the Muslim community. They and other groups of their ilk, are nothing more than political activist organizations working steadily on behalf of sharia. If, as Mr. Elmasry boasts that he indeed does represent 70% of Canadian Muslims, which may or may not be the case, then the majority are being represented by a fanatic of tremendous proportion and equal danger; a disservice to them far more damaging than any descriptions of terror or Islam. 

“I don’t want the media to be a public relations arm for the Canadian Islamic Congress. It’s unrealistic. Or to promote Islam. Or to promote Muslim causes. Or to be a propaganda tool for the XYZ issue. What I want is for them to be fair”  Professor Elmasry states.

Candied sprinkles anyone?

Grace

A series of articles about the UK. What has happened to our Mother Britain?

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Here are some tragic examples of utter cultural suicide. From the seemingly innocuous such as the renaming of some British pubs, some of which are centuries old so as not to offend their new Muslim overlords to the stripping of rights hard won over centuries of sacrifice in blood against tyranny.

First, a truly unbelievable bit of news brought to us by the Opinionator.

“There is an ongoing, concerted and documented History of Jihad against British customs and people laying the foundation for Eurabia. Even patriotic parades and bingo halls have fallen under the cutting blade of political correctness that is intent on wiping out any semblence of the indigenous British culture and cohesiveness.”

This is more serious than it appears. This is part of Islam’s war on history itself. In parts of Israel which are ruled by Muslims there are archaeological digs taking place where all artifacts recovered are destroyed in order to eliminate evidence that Jews where ever there. Islam using ‘offense’ to try and change British culture is no different as the destruction of Christian symbols in a recently discovered 4th century church in Saudi Arabia.

This is one of the fronts of Jihad. terror being one, finance another as in sharia banking and cultural jihad where political correctness is used to change any aspects of a host culture which is claimed to be offensive to Islam. This ends up in essence enforcing Sharia law on all nations where a minority of Muslims wield enough influence.

Then, as previously posted on Vlad, we have the dramatic rise of forced marriages in the UK by Muslim families contracting their daughters to marriages often to first cousins back in the home country and through family reunification programs we see a growing influence of rural fundamentalist Muslims coming in to the UK and exacerbating the problem but equally important is the diminishing principle of personhood of women in England.

A 21st birthday party was disrupted by ‘Asians’ (Brit speak for Muslims) wielding machetes. Birthday parties are haram (forbidden) in Islam.

Guests hurt in fracas at 21st birthday party

Published Date: 17 November 2008

A TWENTY FIRST birthday party at Nelson Cricket Club ended in three people needing hospital treatment after a group of uninvited men of Asian-heritage appearance turned up with weapons.

Two men were arrested and later released on police bail following the disturbance at the Seedhill club at 11 p.m. on Friday. Snooker cues were recovered by police and witnesses reported seeing a machete at the scene.

One man from the 100-guest party sustained nasty cuts to the head that required stitches, another had a suspected broken hand and a third suffered bruising.

Next…

There have been many stories about Islamic indoctrination of school kids across Europe. Of course we tend to notice the ones that meet two conditions. 1. the story is in English, so we mostly see stuff about English speaking nations and 2. stories where the mass media is actually allowed to publish. This piece is no exception so of course its a fluff bit making it look charming and like a field trip to some National Geographic cultural zoo. I dare these schools who send kids to Mosques to be Islamasized bring an adult or two to ask the important question about the faith and its customs instead of throwing candy at them.

One last one also from The Opinionator on the epidemic of rape by Muslims on non Muslim British women.

Sharia finance seems innocuous enough on the surface. Here is a tiny bit of what you may not know and some of the extent to which it is infiltrating the UK

Click the England categories tab on this blog and read back. History isn’t just changing its course. Its being entirely re written.

UK experiences dramatic increase in forced marriages.

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From The Gurdian.UK. Britain’s policies of multiculturalism ‘ubber alles’ shows how more fundamental rights of the individual (anathema to the leftists and Utopians) have been abrogated. Women’s right to basic personhood in any meaningful way in the UK is in danger in Britain’s rush to accommodate Islam.

Forced marriage cases up by 80pc this year as investigators find parents using ‘bounty hunters’

The number of forced marriages being investigated in Britain has risen by 80 per cent this year with parents using “bounty hunters” and bogus missing persons campaigns in a desperate bid to track down runaway children and make them wed.

By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 10:16PM GMT 21 Nov 2008

A special Government unit dedicated to stopping teenagers being married off by their families dealt with 300 cases in the first half of this year, up from 168 in the same period of 2007.

But the head of the Forced Marriage Unit, based at the Foreign Office, fears this could be just the tip of the iceberg as many victims are too scared to come forward and communities often close up to hide what is going on.

Wayne Ives also warned that heads of families are going to extreme lengths to get their children to marry, in some instances posing as officials to kidnap runaway brides or paying people to track them down.

His comments came as a new law comes into effect next week, which will make it easier for courts to stop ceremonies going ahead if it is feared that the bride and groom are being married against their wills.

A separate law will see the minimum age at which foreigners can come to Britain to get married being increased.

Despite the drive to tackle forced marriages, however, many feel it is still taboo because of fears of criticising immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh, who are involved in most cases.

Schools have refused to discuss so-called honour crimes in case they cause offence to ethnic minorities or religions, while MPs have been accused of failing to highlight forced marriage in case they lose Muslim votes.

In a recent speech to a Capita conference, Mr Ives told delegates: “We are talking about endemic abuse of the worst kind against young men and women which is happening right here and right now.”

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To the heart of the matter. Western governments war on truth.

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This article posted on The Religion of Peace speaks to the central dogma of what seems to be the unintended theme of most if not all of the posts here on Vladtepes for the past few days. Governments are actually falsifying data that matters a great deal in order to create the impression of working policies that are llikely suicidal. This one is exactly on that issue while the majority of the posts for the last few days allude to it, or deal with the consequences of it. Clearly large media is pacified in some way to guarantee the messages of political correctness and ‘multiculturalism’ (I use quotes for that as I still maintain its a paradox and cannot exist) etc. As the internet and especially blogs are the last bastion of true diversity of opinion and one in which facts may be presented that oppose official dogma, look for the ending of the internet as we know it soon as we see already in Canada and Australia

Andrew Bolt

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 06:19am

CHRISTINE Nixon has proved we still can’t hold a frank and honest debate on immigration.

Worse, our supposedly apolitical Chief Commissioner of Police has showed that by giving us false crime figures just before the federal election.

These were figures that made African refugees in Victoria seem law-abiding, rather than so law-breaking that as many as one in 10 Sudanese immigrants might have been investigated for alleged crimes.

In so misinforming us just weeks before the poll, Nixon not only helped to turn voters against the Howard government, but hid from us the terrible scale of a crime problem her police now struggle to contain.

And, most miserably, she fed a campaign of abuse against the immigration affairs minister, Kevin Andrews, that was so vitriolic it may have ended an honest man’s career.

Andrews, cautious and deeply Christian, had been gradually cutting our intake of refugees from Somalia and Sudan for some time, and in October last year explained why.

African refugees, particularly Sudanese, seemed to have serious trouble settling here, he said.

There were understandable reasons for this, of course: “Their level of education, for example, is a lot lower than for any other group of refugees. They’ve been in war-torn conflict for a decade, many of them. Many are young . . . and many have been in refugee camps for decades.”

No wonder their crime rate was high and their respect for our laws low.

But until we’d settled in those thousands we’d already taken in, we should be slow to take in more.

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Queens U. Taking it a step farther than a step too far.

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In the bad old days of the USSR, The government would appoint ‘political officers’ to ensure that any workplace had the correct politics, speech and thoughts for the state. This action of Queens U. seems dangerously close to that if it isn’t in fact exactly that. This is just a goose step away from making sure the internet, the last possible voice of dissent against galloping state-ism is made to conform. The MSM while occasionally pointing out some of the more outrageous changes to basic liberties and fundamental values of democracies and free nations do so at risk and usually in a fairly ‘Hey Martha! Look they are taking away all our rights, go get me another beer’ sort of way. Various government agencies and policies throughout the formerly free world have ensured no real opposition can be sustained for long.

Why do the strident leftists always preach visceral hatred of Governments yet want government to handle all aspects of life from what we eat or smoke to say and think.

Eeyore for Vlad.

Queen’s new ‘dialogue’ monitors

University hires students to facilitate discussions on social justice

Joseph Brean, National Post Published: Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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Masters student Daniel Hayward is one of the students hired by Queen's University to facilitate dialogue about social justice issues.Lars Hagberg for National PostMasters student Daniel Hayward is one of the students hired by Queen’s University to facilitate dialogue about social justice issues.

Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., has hired six students whose jobs as “dialogue facilitators” will involve intervening in conversations among students in dining halls and common rooms to encourage discussion of such social justice issues as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability and social class.

“If there’s a teachable moment, we’ll take it,” said assistant dean of student affairs Arig Girgrah, who runs the program. “A lot of community building happens around food and dining.”

She gave the example of a conversation about a gay character on television as a good example of such a moment.

“It is all about creating opportunities to dialogue and reflect on issues of social identity,” Ms. Girgrah said. “This is not about preaching. It’s not about advice giving. It’s about hearing where students are at.”

Jason Laker, dean of student affairs, said their activities will also include formal discussion sessions, perhaps after controversial incidents in residence, and open discussions of topical books or movies.

“They’re not disciplinarians. They’re called facilitators for a reason,” he said, adding that such a program is of particular value now that so much communication by young people happens over the Internet.

“It’s not trying to stifle something. It’s trying to foster something,” he said. “We’re not trying to be parental.”

Like dons, who serve as student authorities in residence, the six facilitators will receive full room and board and a stipend for the full-year commitment, and will receive regular training.

Ms. Girgrah said they represent a broad spectrum of social identities and are all upper-year or graduate students who live in university residences – a small minority at a school where most students move into rental housing after their first year. Ms. Girgrah said this status will give the facilitators “a little bit of credibility and perhaps some respect.”

Daniel Hayward, a 46-year-old Master’s of Divinity student, applied to be a facilitator believing the role would offer him an opportunity to connect with many different students.

“It’s an opportunity to interact with lots of people, hear their stories, about the experiences they’ve had, hear the questions they’re asking,” he said in an interview yesterday. “It’s not like we roam around the halls looking for people having conversations. If somebody is yelling something across the dining hall that’s a racial slur, yes, we will intervene in that situation.

“We are trained to interrupt behaviour in a non-blameful and non-judgmental manner, so it’s not like we’re pulling someone aside and reprimanding them about their behaviour. It is honestly trying to get to the root of what they’re trying to say – seeing if that can be said in a different manner.”

Touting the Intergroup Dialogue Program as “unique among Canadian universities,” but modelled on programs in the United States, an administration newsletter says it will promote “a lasting experience of inclusive community and shared humanity.”

It is just one of many recent efforts to promote diversity – such as gender-neutral washrooms, prayer space, and halal and kosher food service – at a school that is still smarting from a report on systemic racism two years ago that criticized its “culture of whiteness.”

The editorial board of the student newspaper, the Queen’s Journal, acknowledged the good intentions of this latest effort, but was skeptical of a program that “seems to be an inadequate, lack lustre attempt to deal with social inequalities.”

“It’s unlikely six facilitators in a crowd of thousands will have much impact on fostering dialogue in residences,” they write, adding that the facilitators could face “hostility” from students who feel they have been “cornered” or had their privacy violated.

National Post, with files from Katie Rook

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The Santa parade that wasn’t.

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Today, Toronto hosted it’s annual Santa parade. One hundred and four years ago, it was known as the Christmas parade. Christmas is no longer part of the name, I presume because the first six letters spell Christ and, well, Toronto being the bastion of all things politically correct, has removed anything referring to the Christian big man. Christians need not fret at this absence: the celebration of the birth of Christ is apparently to be reserved in the privacy of one’s home.

No where to be seen this year were any references to Christmas. No silver baubles, holly or elves. No Rudolph, Mrs. Claus, the other reindeer, pine trees or plum pudding. No toys, stockings or carols. No yuletide glee. No wreaths, Christmas hats or tinsel. Santa did make his appearance at the end flanked by non-Christmas ornamentation? I suppose he had to show up since the parade is named after him. Perhaps that will change when “Santa” is inevitably replaced with ‘Holiday’ or ‘Winter’ or ‘Season’ or ‘Eaton’s Centre’.

There were lots of polar bears, clowns, lobsters and penguins. Cats, yellow dogs, princesses, hockey players, bakers and chefs appeared on floats. One marching band played what sounded to me like a Mo-town tune and others played “Winter songs” (whatever they are). I did notice a ballsy Portuguese marching band playing “O come all ye faithful”. That took some guts; I doubt they’ll be invited back next year.

There was however a cultural diversity marching band………….

Recent past parades were so impressive that one commentating host boasted that Australia had come to study the Toronto ‘festive’ and left so bewitched they have adopted the same parade for Australia. Good on ’em mate.

Personally, I have to admit I love Christmas. I love the tradition, the celebration, the historical reference and the religious aspect. But then again, I am Catholic. I disagree with it’s cultural extinction as I would suspect many others do, including my Jewish husband. But then again, real diversity and tolerance is not found in boardrooms, city council mandates and studies, focus groups or activist organizations; it is found in homes where real people live. That’s chutzpa!

So now we know what cultural diversity really means. It means no culture at all.

Happy Channukah!

Grace

What is ‘freedom’ exactly?

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Today’s posting about the Toronto Mosque and the lawsuit through the HRC against UPS demands a clear defining of exactly what is meant by ‘freedom’ if we want to have any hope of defending western liberal democracy.

Freedom: A jurisdiction where people are not in danger of state persecution for their beliefs words ideas or politics.

Thats is it. An idea which is as important as it fragile. Freedom does not mean anyone is obliged to bend to the sensitivities of others in order not to offend them. UPS is not obliged to change its dress code to suit eight Muslim women who wish to wear a long shapeless dress anymore than a strip joint is obliged to hire a nun and let her work the pole in a full habit.

In a free society people have something rare and precious in the history of civilization and even human encampments. Choice.

A Nun can decide she wishes to spend her life in a traditional Catholic habit and take the consequences of the limitations that result. She can also decide not to wear the habit and work the chrome pole at the Playmate.

The same can be said of the Sikh who insisted he wear the turban while in the RCMP. He had that most precious thing the world has to offer. Choice. Instead he opted for the removal of the choice of others in the name of tolerance or ‘reasonable accommodation’ while in fact displaying gross intolerance to the rest of his country.

The eight Muslim women are free to ignore the rules of Islam and continue to work at UPS under their rules of dress or they are free to quit that job and dress like mail boxes should they choose to. This as I have stated already is a miracle of human accomplishment to allow this kind of latitude to people within a nation.

UPS is using the defense that a long flowing shapeless garment is dangerous in their work environment and Im sure thats true. It remains a gutless and pathetic defense. UPS needs none in fact. They have the right to demand whatever dress code for any arbitrary reasons they choose to the exact extent that people have the right to choose not to work for them. In fact the sacredness of the belief should ring an alarm bell rather than allow for greater accommodation. History is the great teacher of this.

During the Spanish inquisition people where not free for example, to practice Judaism. However Jews where free do not have the right to force the company cafeteria not to serve pork and keep kosher dishes. They are free to open a business of their own and have whatever rules they wish. This is perfect freedom and something we have achieved in the western world only recently and at great expense in blood and resources.

When a Jewish community center in Montreal demanded that a YMCA cover its windows so as not to distract students at the school they where way off the mark. The Jewish school if it felt it didn’t like the view was free and is free to frost remove or cover their own windows. This is freedom at its apex.

Islam by far is making the most demands for accommodations at the expense of the rest of society and for all nations in the world where Muslims are a little over one percent. The cost of twisting the logic of secular democracies to allow for this is a fast track back to the middle ages and as they where perceived to be, more than likely how they actually where. In fact its a fast track back to something much worse. Saudi Arabia as it is today and eventually, Somalia.

Video on Sweden. At least someone is watching there.

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Most of the events mentioned in this film clip have been documented on this blog over the past 8 months. Some of them I did not know about. Certainly Sweden is in deeper trouble than most of us are likely aware of. The larger danger of course is that the media is prevented from speaking about Islamic crimes. This political correctness we have maintained at Vladtepes, is the greater threat. One cannot even form an opinion if one is not given the information. This obviously is why we are not given it.

CBN News video from 2006 on Islam and the west. These guys actually get the whole pic!

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This is the first video I have seen on the question of Islam in the west which actually understands the whole issue. The relationship between political correctness and Islam and so on. Quite impressive for TV news.

A brilliant article on the mechanics of the UN rules against Islamaphobia

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PLEASE take the 5 minutes required and read this rather excellent analysis and history of how it came to pass that the UN was used by the OIC to obliterate free speech and the means to criticize the abominable. It cannot be over emphasized how important this article is and the implications and consequences to how civilization’s future history will unfold. As it states at the end (plot spoiler) ideas must not be deemed exempt from criticism.

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From Front Page Magazine.

Jihad Against Free Speech

By Deborah Weiss
 FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, November 06, 2008

The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is an Islamist supremacist organization. Composed of 57 member states with Muslim majority populations, the OIC is the largest Islamic body in the world. It is also the largest international organization of any kind, second only to the United Nations. It represents an estimated 1.5 billion Muslims across the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

The purpose of the OIC is to promote Islamic values, to revitalize Islam’s pioneering role in the world, to strengthen and enhance the bond of solidarity and unity among Muslim states, to support “the Palestinian struggle” and to defend Islam. Its charter claims that OIC works to promote peace, tolerance, and fight terrorism. However, its actions are dissonant with these claims, as it strives to define these words through the extraordinarily skewed views of radical Islam.

Since 1999, the OIC has been pushing incrementally and strategically toward its goal of internationally outlawing all criticism of Islam, Muslims, Muslim theocracies, and Islamic extremism. Subsequent to September 11, 2001, it professed concern about alleged backlash against Muslims.

In 2005, the OIC urged the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (“UNCHR”) to pass a resolution called “combating defamation of religions.” Although the title of the resolution referred to religions generally, the text cited concerns only Islam specifically. It lamented negativity towards Islam in the media and the use of broadcast, print and the internet to incite violence, discrimination or intolerance towards Islam and other religions. It revealed alarm over the backlash against Muslims since 9/11, and law enforcement measures that “target Muslims.” It expressed deep concern over statements which “attack” religions generally, and Islam and Muslims in particular, and concern over the ethnic and religious profiling of Muslim minorities. It alleged that Islam was frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism. Additionally, it proclaimed that defamation of religions plays a role in the denial of fundamental rights of the target groups.

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