Katherine Kersten, Star Tribune, “‘Accommodations’ could open door to more demands”:
Last week, I wrote about Minneapolis Community and Technical College’s proposal to install ritual washing facilities to facilitate Muslim prayer. Is this a tempest in a teapot, as some have suggested?
Canada, our neighbor to the north, is farther down the “accommodations” road. A glance north can shed light on whether prayer spaces and ritual washing facilities are likely to satisfy activists for long.
Last month, the Canadian Federation of Students issued a report, titled “Final Report of the Task Force on Needs of Muslim Students,” that calls for sweeping changes at the country’s institutions of higher education. The federation represents more than 500,000 students across Canada, about half of the nation’s total. While the report focuses on Ontario, its conclusions are applicable across the country and internationally, said Jesse Greener, the Federation’s Ontario chairperson.
Some recommended changes could affect all students. For example, the report criticizes Canada’s loan-based system of financing higher education and calls for outright grants to students. “Education related government loans should not accumulate interest,” it says, since Islam “opposes usury and involvement with interest-bearing loans.” Other changes would be more focused. The report endorses “women-only” time at athletic facilities, and urges colleges to “provide curtains or screens over the observation windows” when women are using the pool.
The report calls not just for Muslim-only prayer space but for “multiple prayer spaces” with “easy access” from all over campus. All new building plans should include prayer space and ritual washing facilities if necessary, it adds.
Food service workers must learn to prepare halal food, which is ritually slaughtered and otherwise permissible under Sharia law. After preparing non-halal food, staff must “change sanitary gloves and wash cutlery and surfaces” to avoid contaminating halal food.
What if a campus fails to make these changes, and others like them? It is guilty, says the report, of “Islamophobia”—an “emerging form of racism,” according to the Ontario Human Rights Commission. Islamophobia includes more than clearly inappropriate behavior such as violence against Muslims or unreasonable suspicion of them. It can be as “subtle” as a remark that includes a “stereotype” or betrays the speaker’s “lack of understanding” of Islam (such as the notion that Sharia law treats women as second class citizens). Just “one comment” of this kind can create a “poisoned” learning environment for Muslim students, the report says.
As Rusty at Jawa Report notes:
Some recommendations, such as preparing halal food seems reasonable. Forbidding interest, religious segregation, gender segregation and the likes in the name of “understanding” are nothing more than an endorsement of Islamic supremacy.
—Or, to put it in proper terms, nothing more than the imposition of Sharia law—and the corresponding demand that the host nations adapt their laws to those that track with Koranic dictates. All with the imprimatur of the Canadian Federation of Students.
Most striking about this is the way Muslim identity groups, with the help of their multicultural supporters and progressive academics, have learned the language of grievance politics, and are able to use that language to try to stoke western guilt. Under the guise of “tolerance,” they assert that failure by the host country to adopt the trappings of Muslim culture is itself racism. Or, to simplify the calculus for those Canadians who are always looking to “accomodate”: failure to adopt Muslim culture is racism; which, in turn, means that Canadian national policy that doesn’t jibe with Islam is racist on its face.
But wait, it gets worse:
“Islamophobic” comments will soon land Canadians in serious trouble, if the federation has its way. The report outlines a comprehensive system “to encourage and facilitate a culture of reporting Islamophobia on campus. Anti-discrimination officers should be notified whenever such a comment is made, it says.
But the report makes clear that systems like this will not eradicate Islamophobia from Canadian campuses. To remove stereotypes, faculty, staff, students and administrators must all learn “the tenets of Islam,” it said. “Education modules” for professors should incorporate a focus on “Islam and Islamophobia,” while student activities could range from more courses on themes of the Qur’an and the Islamic world today to “socials, programs and other initiatives” to teach about Islam. Everyone on campus should learn to recognize his or her “collective responsibility to identify and stop Islamophobia.”
Throughout this process, however, Islam must not be taught from a “Western perspective.” This qualifies as Islamophobia, because it “misrepresents Islam.”
[my emphasis]
Again, allow me to translate: failure to comply with the imposition of Koranic tenets on Canadian campuses will result in mandated reeducation; as a preemptive attempt to avoid reeducation, faculty, staff, students, and administrators will be expected to take courses glorifying Islam and justifying its teachings.
But these courses are not to be “academic” in nature—at least not in the traditional sense of the word, given that they must be taught from the perspective of the true believers. Teaching Islam from a “Western Perspective”—which is itself a form of racism, given that it is Islam filtered through the unclean Western modes of thought—is not allowed, meaning that the Orientalism of Said has gone from one particular argument for epistemological “authenticity” (the logical and linguistic assumptions for which I’ve criticized here ad naseum) to the only authentic way “knowledge” is to be disseminated.
The Muslim narrative, that is, will have become the “orthodox” narrative, should this system go into effect—and from there, the next step is to begin finessing civic law and policy to bring it more in line with Koranic teachings.
This is, in effect, a revolution from within—using the incoherent assumptions of multiculturalism along with the pernicious policing methods of political correctness to insinuate a new master narrative into a host culture.
When this begins happening in the US, I believe we’ll finally see the kind of uprising—likely in the form of civil disobedience and a market movement away from public universities—that needs to happen before we can begin to extricate ourselves from the kind of “progressive” thinking that has allowed an opportunistic theocratic movement to infiltrate and undermine liberalism and pluralism.
(h/t CJ Burch)
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update Hmm. Coincidence?
Pupils and teachers have been told by an official body not to stare at Muslims for fear of causing offence.
A document intended to educate against religious intolerance and sectarianism urges teachers to “make pupils aware of the various forms of Islamophobia, ie stares, verbal abuse, physical abuseâ€Â.
From the Sunday Times UK (h/t Dan Collins), describing a report issued by Learning Teaching Scotland.
One question: does my robe come with a hookah?
Retroviral meme.
First Bryan Adams and now this.
Fuck those guys in the ear.
In the Ear 2525
“When this begins happening in the US, I believe we’ll finally see the kind of uprisingâ€â€likely in the form of civil disobedience and a market movement away from public universitiesâ€â€that needs to happen before we can begin to extricate ourselves from the kind of “progressive†thinking that has allowed an opportunistic theocratic movement to infiltrate and undermine liberalism and pluralism.”
We can hope and dream, but “civil disobedience” may not an “uprising” make. And I am not entirely confident that Muslims might not find a large number of ready allies among American conservatives who share their hatred of “liberalism and pluralism.”
Yes, them damn conservatives are just waiting in line to surrender. Give us sharia, they lisp.
Especially those fucking Baptists! I hate those fuckers!
RLP,
You got the wrong side, baby.
I’ve been saying this for a while, and stuff like this shows I have a point: the “liberals” are going to convert. Not all of them to be sure, but it doesn’t need to be all of them (or any of them, it seems) to leverage Islam to the top of the heap.
And what of the poor lad whose religious tenets require him to slap ham steaks on lunch tables?
I really tried not to laugh, honestly.
Why, that’s just how it is in the theocracy called Utah. All non-Mormons who move into the state are required to receive the missionaries into their homes, and if after the seven “discussions” the newbies refuse to be baptized, they are compelled to pay 15% of their income as tithing to the LDS church (members pay only 10%).
Furthermore, coffee machines and tea bags are forbidden in all public places, and extra taxes are applied to coffee makers, teapots, and “civilian” underwear. Green Jello-O with shredded carrots is mandatory in all school lunchrooms.
Students in Utah are required to read the LDS scriptural canon and must attend at least one church-sponsored activity per quarter.
Anyone who is spotted out and about on Monday evenings and is not accompanied by family members is fined $2000 for not observing Family Home Evening.
Mocking of the LDS faith is strictly forbidden; fines and jail time await depending on the severity of the blasphemy and the depth of the hurt feelings.
Oh. And pigs have propellers here, too.
TW: It’s a matter of advanced design58
Americans will wake up to this eventually. As soon as there is a beer and Canadian Bacon shortage.
Since they are both strictly forbidden by Allah, and even the delicious smell of that dirty pig meat and frothy brew are offensive.
But then again, they’ll be putting burkas on those Canadian women…
Beh, it’s a push for Americans
Now, if we could just get some burkas to cover up the big hair, excessive make-up, and massive post-polybirth hips on Dicentra’s Utah Mormon chicks…
No, just a hookah smoking caterpillar… but your robe should have big pockets to hold a cellphone – you might want to call Alice, you know.
J
(hope the robe hides the privates )
BTW, I meant no disrespect to Dicentra’s people. I actually love the Mormon girls and am very comfortable dating them…It’s so comforting when you’re not the ONLY one crying after sex…
Speaking of which, I sure miss my mother, may she rest in peace…now THERE was a lady that could properly fill out a burka!…And her ankles always got an extra look from the Mullahs during prayer…In fact, I think that was evetually the reason we stoned her…
I wonder if, like the elementary school programs that have popped up around the US, “learning the tenets of Islam” involves professing “there is no god but Allah and Mo’ is his prophet”.
Uh, you must have different definitions of “liberalism and pluralism”, because by mine, those are definitely what conservatives are for. Classical liberalism, not the debased Marxism that masquerades as liberalism today. And pluralism is celebrated by mainstream conservatives.
More importantly, you’re not gonna find too many conservatives all that sympathetic to Islam. Dinesh D’Souza wrote a book positing that conservatives should ally themselves with “traditional Muslims” against cultural liberalism; the reactions I’ve heard to that idea range from “no” to “hell no”. The reasons range from recognition that what American conservatives want to conserve is still infinitely more liberal than what “traditional Muslims” want, to recognition that Islam isn’t exactly friendly towards other religions.
And I seem to recall that conservatives were much more willing to reprint the Mohammed cartoons than liberals…
Ah, its nothing, Rob, misrepresenting conservative thought is mandatory evidently.
…”begins”…? University students have been taught to calumniate their American heritage for a couple of generations now. And LGF’s been chronicling instances of shariazation for years now. Can any top-drawer, secular university muster the pith and moral substance to say No to the multi-culti trojan horse now, if they couldn’t do it after 9/11? I don’t know. I do know that it’s later than we think.
OT: Here’s an amazing phone call to the Neal Boortz show, from an Army Ranger home on leave.
I’m amazed at how quickly we in the West seem to be sliding ever faster down hill.
Will a Paladin rise up to lead us against the mohamadean dogs?
So when do the Anglican Church of Canada clergy get the stone walls pushed over on them?
TW: The ummah demands results73, dammit!
I, for one, welcome our new pork-free misogynist overlords.
Or something.
Personally, I will not be satified until the American Al-McDonalds change their hours to honor Ramadan…and some decent falafels on the dollar menu for Moh’s sake.
Well…it does come with advantages.
Hillary forced to wear a Niqab at all times and only allowed to go out in public when Bill decides to get some air?
Yeah…I’m down with that.
Of course, there would have to be exceptions, like for Hooters girls for example.
Mohammed had all kinds of exceptions for his personal behavior “revealed” to him.
I’ll be that was among them.
Does anyone know if Canadian muslims can put the puck in the net? Not much else matters in that country when you get right down to it, eh.
..and how how is it that American cable companies have no channel dedicated to goats? In my hometown we got at least 3 completely goat-themed channels (4 on a clear day), and that was just with bunny-ears that my father fashioned from an infidel wire hanger.
Seriously, you have channel for weather, 8 ESPNs, dozens of channels for news, hundreds of channels to pay to see American whores rubbing their bloated synthetic milk sacs, yet nothing of goats.
…and you wonder why we hate you.
TW: what is “hot16” Do you not know that I am offended to be forced to type such obvious smut?
Yes, we have no problem putting “puck in net” as you put it.
Look at our fertility rate!!
I “check” my wife “into the boards” quite heavily every night.
Sometimes I even sneak one into the “crease” when her guard is down.
Suddenly, I have a burning urge to buy a Desert Eagle.. And lots of ammo.
Hey, I’ve got an idea…if you don’t like American Colleges the way they are—go the fuck home!!!
My College Menu for Next Week:
Monday: BLT Sandwich and pork rinds
Tuesday: Roast loin of pork with matza dumplings
Wednesday: Ham and Cheese Hoagie w/pork and beans side
Thursday: Italian sausage
Friday: Kosher hot dogs and Falafel (most of the whiners will be out praying and won’t attend anyway)
The problem with this is that once you have studied the tenets of Islam, you realise that they are the half-remembered oral histories of the Judaeo-Christian tradition, amended to fit the political needs of a Meccan merchant.
Muslims are not forbidden to be “around pork”, nor is interest the same thing as usury.
After pork, alcohol. After alcohol, what? And where does this leave the Hindus? Why should they be obliged to be near people who eat beef?
The only ray of hope to come out of this evil nonsense is that it will, as Jeff suggests, create a backlash of such vigour that Islamofascism will be driven back under the stone beneath which it dwelt in festering but impotent rage for the previous 600 years.
I have advocated it before and I do so again. It is incumbent on all right-thinking men to wink lasciviously at every burka-clad female they encounter in a public place. Otherly inclined right-thinking women who wish to wink can do so too.
DON’T LOOK AT ME!
I keel you!
So this is it, then. We’re going to die.
What I want to know is, how is this new Canadian fad going to square with the last one? That is, the whole program to accept homosexuals, and gay marrage.
Seems to me there is bound to be some “re-education” in a severe form there soon.
furriskey,
I wholeheartedly endorse your sentiment, but I gotta ask…
are you seeing those over there now?
I have yet to see a burka clad chick in public here in sunny California, but perhaps I should begin rehearsing my reaction.
Just in case.
Infidel who calls himself (or herself) “lee”
You must not go to your famous California beaches then, for I have seen many beautiful daughters of Allah (praise his name and whatnot) down when the great waters meet the sand.
It has become a great scandal in our culture, these foolish young women who want to be like Americans tanning their eyelids and flaunting precisely waxed eyebrows.
Now, while I must admit that a tidy set of eyebrows and bronzed eyelids peeking out from a burka at the beach does put a “hump in my camel” so to speak, I do not condone such enticements.
If there were more rocks at the beach, I would surely stone these girls myself.
Maybe they’re all house-bound.
HA! Undoubtably!
I live very near the geographical center of the state, plenty of turbans, but they are mostly Hindus.
The Hindus dress their women in brightly colored, flowing pant sets, and make them take my money when I buy gas.
The raisin farmer across the road from me told me to call him Bath, very nice guy. I think he’s Punjabi, from India.
If he were muslim, the fact that he also has a semi-trailer rig, gone for varying times, would make me wonder more.
Your daughters….how much for your daughters????
Lee,
There are a lot in London. I live in Asia, where it varies. But Malaysia is the most fundamentalist Muslim state outside the Middle East that I have encountered.
On a good day they wink back.
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
(If this was over on a certain moronblog full of geeks, somebody else would have made that joke a long time ago.)
Real geeks would use the line:
RESISTANCE IS USELESS!
or
RESISTANCE IS USELESS!
Yes, those damn geeks are just waiting in line to surrender. They want sharia so bad they can taste it.
Especially those fucking programmers! I hate those fuckers!
Wait? Programmers fuck?
Who knew.
Blame Canada.
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Mandatory re-education, I declare! The way he placed that statement in front of my nose – now, whenever I’m naked in the morning and …
Restart that. I mean, now, whenever I’m reading Protein Wisdom in the morning I’ll forever remember that remark!
As for protecting ourselves, I would suggest starting by cooking bacon. A LOT. mmm, bacon.
Favorite recent discover: reduced-fat bacon. It has 40% less fat than regular bacon. Three pieces for the same calories as two.
More proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
I haven’t seen a burqua (yet) here in Detroit , but a few weeks ago I saw two in the full Niqab regalia-Chador with the head piece with slits for eyes.)
Most people have the decency to do their tea-bagging in the privacy of their own homes or strip clubs, dicentra.
Guess you don’t have many Black Muslims around. I drive through North Philly on my way to school and see more than a handful damned near every day. I think what they wear (the full covering, all black) is more properly called a niqab, though, but I’m not sure.
ALL HAIL THE BURKINI!!!
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Man, that’s hot. For the wearer, anyway.
Somehow this is not off topic…
Those BASTARDS! Now they’re using furniture labels!
Is there no perversion they will not stoop to?
…
But – isn’t it illegal to remove that label?…
Oh, good grief: memo to the government: if we all wanted to be Muslims, you would’ve noticed the lines at the lobotomy clinic a long time ago.
Can you get back to the business of providing that whiff of grapeshot for those who need it, or are we going to have to vote for Ross Perot again?
I just checked the label on my dining room table, and it said “Cracker Barrel”.
Yikes!
BWAAHAHAHAHA…….first good belly laugh of the day! Thanks R.L.Page you are one funny dude.
So, if I convert to Islam and have kids… that means my family doesn’t have to pay interest (beyond the inflation rate) on the kids’ college loans.
Truly, God is greater.
I saw one of those bhurka-clad thingies yesterday at the mall. It was the first time in my life I had seen one in person–the full facial veil and all. For some reason, it made my blood run cold….
comes86—uh, no.
David,
I too, thought that was a brilliant move.
Who knew the Koran had such foresight! Is there a section in the Koran on the Productions Possibilities Curve and instead of guns vs butter what do they use? Martyers vs Virgins?
Conservatives are for Mo Profit, not Prophet Mo.
But is it organic? And what about the Vegans, you Racist! BecauseoftheIntolerance, Amen.
Hate Speech.
Since when is Islam a race?
Guess yer a not very confident kinda guy. So all of the troops fighting the war on terror are birkenstock wearing Islam appeasing liberals, and the guys whining “why do they hate us” were marching to the John Birch Society meeting?
So if there is to be forced religious indoctrination, when does Holy Mother the Church get its crack at all of the staff, faculty and other hangers-on?
And I presume that the LBGT? support group will be required to attend the Islam-a-thon? One hopes.
Will Food Service Staff be required to make grilled cheese sandwiches and fish sticks on Friday during lent? No wait! We can shut down the dining halls and everyone can fast for that meal in solidarity with the Christofascists/ Papists!
Don’t knock Canada. They gave us Shania Twain, Wayne Gretzky, and a few decent beers.
On an equally serious note, why does anyone seriously advocate extending any sort of tolerance to those who show the rest of us none?
It never works out well.
As a wise man once noted:
“A lesson in manners punctuated with a punch in the nose tends to stick with you.”
Would you settle for a section on how to wipe your ass with 3 stones?
The Islamics need to learn the “tenets of the Bible” (or for that matter, the Ambercrombie and Fitch catalog) so that they can conform to the social mores of the locale, just like they expect in Muslim countries.