Posted on 01/31/2007 1:07:49 PM PST by forty_years
"Oh, Canada!" Or should I do my impersonation of René Lévesque singing, "Ô Canada! mon pays, mes amours?" The town of Herouxville, Quebec has taken a stand against the "multi-cultural" crap of giving special dispensations to Islamists. Merci beaucoup! Désirent ardemment Herouxville de phase! You think it would be common sense for any human community to agree that throwing acid on your wife is a bad thing, but not much in Sharia makes sense. The blind fools who push extremist, dogmatic multi-culturalism on us would allow anything, as long as it doesn't offend anyone. [Freudian interpretation: These fools subconsciously believe that they'll be spared Islamist throat-slitting by placating Muslims.] Here's the skinny from Reuters:
Immigrants wishing to live in the small Canadian town of Herouxville, Quebec, must not stone women to death in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them, according to an extraordinary set of rules released by the local council.The declaration, published on the town's Web site, has deepened tensions in the predominantly French-speaking province over how tolerant Quebecers should be toward the customs and traditions of immigrants.
"We wish to inform these new arrivals that the way of life which they abandoned when they left their countries of origin cannot be recreated here," said the declaration, which makes clear women are allowed to drive, vote, dance, write checks, dress how they want, work and own property.
"Therefore we consider it completely outside these norms to ... kill women by stoning them in public, burning them alive, burning them with acid, circumcising them etc."
Gee, ya' think? Sounds pretty reasonable to me. Don't worry, the hand-wringing has already begun:
The declaration, published on the town's Web site, has deepened tensions in the predominantly French-speaking province over how tolerant Quebecers should be toward the customs and traditions of immigrants.
Er, ah... To be politically correct and sensitive, dear Reuters: That's "Québécois" -- je me souviens.
http://netwmd.com/blog/2007/01/31/1327
My town would just ban anyone who needs to be told not to throw acid on women. If you complain about it, we throw acid on you.
Sound fair?
Is "in private " ok ?
Jeez, so what are we gonna do on weekends, now that they've prohibited all the things that make life worth living.
You mean they're actually going to enforce the law, even against Muslims? How novel.
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