On Sept. 11, three religious groups set aside conflicting ideologies in a crusade against Islam in Toronto schools, for the third time in less than two months.
On Sept. 11, three religious groups set aside conflicting ideologies in a crusade against Islam in Toronto schools, for the third time in less than two months.
islamophobia is a term used to any who criticize islam, but it wont work because regardless of the name calling like racist, bigot, ilsamophobe, ect. islam will still be criticized and scrutinized no matter the name calling. there is a growing backlash against islam all over the western world. laws are getting introduced banning sharia law and immigration from muslim countries are coming to a stop. until islam joins the 21st century and violent passages of the koran are removed, things will continue as they are.
For those who haven't read the Qur'an, simply read the book. Take out a highlighter and highlight those lines that counsel the believer to despise infidels, and you will find a book that is just covered with highlighter. The Qur'anic texts deals 61% on how to treat the non believer & kafir. THIS IS POLITICAL. Why would any rational person give it 100% religious protection?"There is no such thing as Islamophobia. Bigotry and racism exist, of course—and they are evils that all well-intentioned people must oppose. And prejudice against Muslims or Arabs, purely because of the accident of their birth, is despicable. But like all religions, Islam is a system of ideas and practices. And it is not a form of bigotry or racism to observe that the specific tenets of the faith pose a special threat to civil society. Nor is it a sign of intolerance to notice when people are simply not being honest about what they and their co-religionists believe.
How interesting that an article about Islamophobia is followed by a comment reflecting the problem.
Islam is no more "backward" than Christianity and Judaism. All three of these monotheistic religions have their reactionary and extremist elements. Christian fanatics who bomb abortion clinics and murder Doctors are every bit as odious as their Muslim counterparts.
Before we demand that Muslims re-write the Koran as their price for admittance to the "21st Century," we should start with the Bible which contains passages supporting genocide and slavery, as well as calling for the murder of men "who lay down" with other men. The point is not that Christians necessarily believe in genocide, slavery or the murder of gay men, any more than Muslims do. What we demand of others we must first expect of ourselves.
It's also interesting that people making these types of arguments most often preface their remarks with statements like "bigortry is bad" and "I'm not a racist, however..." as a way to deflect the entirely justified accusations of bigotry and racism arising from their argument that Islam and Muslims are a "threat" to western societies. However, subjecting an entire religion and community to double-standards that we do not apply to ourselves is the very definition of bigotry.
A 'mainstream journalist who spoke off the record' ??
I see this issue in the news all the time, doesnt seem that any mainstream journos are ignoring it at all.
In fact if this issue were not getting a lot of press and media oxygem, mediacoop would not be talking about it .. would they?
It's very amusing when a fringe media blog talks about 'mainstream journalists'. The mainstream journalists that they themselves want to be part of, but have been rejected from.
Its interesting then, that we covered every major story about the G20 protests live, about 6 months before the 'mainstream' got a hold of it. Same with the abuses of Canadian Mining Companies, and indigenous issues. Actually if you look at who does alt journalism, that's not the career path you describe at all, I personally have sent off exactly 0 applications to the Toronto Sun, the Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star or any other mainstream media outlet. We do often cover things NOT getting a lot of press.. see the Vancouver media coops series on women in the dowtowne ast side. If you don't like our politics, that's fine, you'd do better attacking us there. Seems to me that with almost no budget on many topics we give the mainstream a run for their money. And lets not talk about the quality of journalism from the mainstream either - they do cover these issues, but they aren't allowed to say that they are cranks and racists for some unknown reason.
A 'mainstream journalist who spoke off the record' ??
I see this issue in the news all the time, doesnt seem that any mainstream journos are ignoring it at all.
In fact if this issue were not getting a lot of press and media oxygem, mediacoop would not be talking about it .. would they?
It's very amusing when a fringe media blog talks about 'mainstream journalists'. The mainstream journalists that they themselves want to be part of, but have been rejected from.
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Liberals and "progressives" have worked so hard to have every last ounce of religion removed from the public school system - yet you all seem to be jubilant to allow Imams onto school property to indoctrinate Muslim youth. HYPOCRITES!
You mean the public school system that puts up gives Christian holidays off and has an entire, public- funded Catholic system in it? THAT system got rid of every once of religion? Look, I not for public funding of religion in any way, but I am for the freedom of individual students to practice their religions, whatever they are. I know that in MY school, paid for by the government, we had mandatory religious indoctrination every single day. I'm against that. But I'm not against optional religious practices if students themselves choose to practice them.
Hi; this paper took me 8 months and hundreds of hours of research. It compares Canada's immigration system to America's and the civil war currently raging across the European subcontinent.
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Here's some additional info you might find fascinating...
2011 Labor Force: 18.7 million(Globe and Mail Newspaper)
2011 unemployment Numbers: 1.4 million(Stats Canada)
2002 Labor Force: 6.5 million (Stats Can/Who Gets In, By: Daniel Stoffman/2002)
2002 unemployment Numbers: 525,000(Stats Canada)
Job Creation 2011: 240,000(Benjamin Tal/ CIBC World Markets)
Job Creation 2010: 372,000(Benjamin Tal/ CIBC World Markets)
Job Creation 2012: 15,000/month/180,000(BMO economists)
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