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Saturday, December 27, 2008
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break
Nomeansno in Slovenia. Fuck yesss
Footage from the shows on the live record was uploaded too.
Sound quality is better on these but I'm such a sucker for the other performance right now.
Kay, back to boring the internet.
Footage from the shows on the live record was uploaded too.
Sound quality is better on these but I'm such a sucker for the other performance right now.
Kay, back to boring the internet.
in brief
I want to go more in depth about the ridiculous Toronto Life article on Aqsa Parvez' murder** later but first I want to nitpick this:
But there is growing concern that recent waves of Muslim immigrants aren’t integrating, or embracing our liberal values. Aqsa’s death—coming in the wake of debates about the acceptability of sharia law, disputes over young girls wearing hijabs at soccer games, and the arrest of the Toronto 18—stoked fears about religious zealotry in our midst. Is it possible that Toronto has become too tolerant of cultural differences?
I thought I was done arguing about "sharia in Ontario" since that issue died here like three years ago but I still run into people all over the internet and the press that totally misunderstand the issue.
Ontario at the time had separate courts set up to handle family issues like divorce according to religious law for religious groups like Catholics and Jews. Muslims at the time just wanted into a system that other religious groups already had in Canada as was their right. The McGuinty government then in the wake of the controversy this generated, abolished all the religious courts. For some reason this always gets framed as an issue of Muslims not being able to "integrate" and trying to impose their ways on a secular Western country, when in fact what they were actualy trying to do was be integrated into the existing system.
Anyways, I'm glad the courts were abolished, though not about the circumstances that pushed our leaders to actually act. The idea of separate institutions for different religious groups is a throwback to the days before the waves of immigration to the country in the 1960s, when the only groups of influence in the country were Protestant Anglos and Catholic French Canadians. It's more reflective of the bi-cultural system than the multicultural model that followed it, and with the few religious groups trying to gradually expand it to include them it becomes a matter of which groups are the biggest and thus hold the most sway. Besides that, accomodating the Catholic minority in this way today just doesn't make sense since Quebec has since become by far the most secular part of the country; the Catholic school boards have been abolished there and if you want your kid to get a religious education you have to pay for it out of your own pocket. Yet in Ontario we still fund Catholic schools with public money.
**The deadline has passed for submissions now but this is worth a look.
But there is growing concern that recent waves of Muslim immigrants aren’t integrating, or embracing our liberal values. Aqsa’s death—coming in the wake of debates about the acceptability of sharia law, disputes over young girls wearing hijabs at soccer games, and the arrest of the Toronto 18—stoked fears about religious zealotry in our midst. Is it possible that Toronto has become too tolerant of cultural differences?
I thought I was done arguing about "sharia in Ontario" since that issue died here like three years ago but I still run into people all over the internet and the press that totally misunderstand the issue.
Ontario at the time had separate courts set up to handle family issues like divorce according to religious law for religious groups like Catholics and Jews. Muslims at the time just wanted into a system that other religious groups already had in Canada as was their right. The McGuinty government then in the wake of the controversy this generated, abolished all the religious courts. For some reason this always gets framed as an issue of Muslims not being able to "integrate" and trying to impose their ways on a secular Western country, when in fact what they were actualy trying to do was be integrated into the existing system.
Anyways, I'm glad the courts were abolished, though not about the circumstances that pushed our leaders to actually act. The idea of separate institutions for different religious groups is a throwback to the days before the waves of immigration to the country in the 1960s, when the only groups of influence in the country were Protestant Anglos and Catholic French Canadians. It's more reflective of the bi-cultural system than the multicultural model that followed it, and with the few religious groups trying to gradually expand it to include them it becomes a matter of which groups are the biggest and thus hold the most sway. Besides that, accomodating the Catholic minority in this way today just doesn't make sense since Quebec has since become by far the most secular part of the country; the Catholic school boards have been abolished there and if you want your kid to get a religious education you have to pay for it out of your own pocket. Yet in Ontario we still fund Catholic schools with public money.
**The deadline has passed for submissions now but this is worth a look.
Why is it when people disagree with female commentators it so often takes the form of a statement of how stupid she is coupled with a comment on how hot she is? It's so predictable but there's something very telling about this. Just so you know though; if you do this, you're never funny.
And yes I know youtube comments are the lowest form of everything.
And yes I know youtube comments are the lowest form of everything.
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