National Post re- letters re rape and "partying" Feb 25

Letters to the editor

I was appalled by the letters to the editor about rape and women’s dress Kourtne Robinson thinks that without wearing a tube top with no bra, high heels and makeup she cannot ever have “fun” again. Larry Comeau believes that “wanting to party” has nothing to do with rape and apparently little to do with sexual activity. Both letters indicate a lack of understanding that “fun” doesn’t have to include sexual play or titillation. It is not necessary to remove your bra to have fun. A woman who dresses up without a bra etc. to have fun is saying that she wants some sexual stimulus, although certainly not unwanted attention or rape While women might “just want to party”, 50% of men go to parties “just to get laid”. They will look at these braless women and judge them not to be virgins, not to value chastity, and not to value sex only within marriage or a loving relationship. 95% of the time they will be correct. The women will get the attention that they want because they promise 50% of the men that, if they like the man, the man will get what he wants. Perhaps our society, both men and women must redefine what is “fun” and begin to understand that the object of “wanting to party” should be primarily to meet a mate for a loving, long term and committed relationship.

Siddiqui in the National Post Feb 24, A21

Isn't it bad enough that Siddiqui writes for the Star without having him in the National Post?

He hates and demonizes the United States and Israel. He justifies and supports Islamism,and the worst of Muslim cultures,except its most violent forms, by saying that all cultures brought their past with them.. He justifies Muslim violence by pointing out that at some time Chirstians and Jews were violent as well,and he justifies current Muslim exclusiveness, and social separation by saying that other immigrants did the same thing.



Siddiqui has nothing to bring to the table except his own feelings that everyone that disagrees with him or criticizes some aspect of Islam is Islamophobic. His voice is not worthy of being heard.

Letter to National Post - Feb 18th re police officer and slut

Guess what? Wearing clothes that are designed to titillate males does so. It
arouses the men the wearer wants to arouse, men who are indifferent, and men who
the wearer definitely does not want to arouse. Fifty years ago women who dressed
to show off their sexual qualities were "asking for it". Nowadays a great many
men, especially from the middle east, still believe that any girl who shows off
her virtues is "asking for it". In Toronto the good it seems that political
correctness trumps the truth. The police officer just told these students the
hard facts of life. Let's not shoot the messenger.

letters to Globe re Feb 18th - immigartion, Manji. judges,

1. Good for Jason Kenney for reviewing our immigration criterion. Single people will adapt better than married people, those who speak Englsih or French will adapt better than those who don't, the young will adapt better than the old, and the technically or reasonably educated will adapt better than extremely well educated. Adaptability should be given much more weight and many more points on our immigration assessment scale.

2. Irshad Manji is right when she says that the challenge for Arab democracy starts at home. But cultures take years to change so she is effectively saying that there is no hope for Arab democracies or perhaps Islamic democracies in the near future. However what she and your editorial forget is that the Arab world doesn't want democracy. They want more wealth, freedom and human rights. These, however, are tied together, and like Manji says, are dependent on changes to the family culture more than on democracy.

3. It is unfortunate that Jason Kenney is critical of judges. However it is the judges' duty to interpret the law, not to make creative decisions, based, not on the law, but on their own views of what is good for our society. It is this new judicial intrepretation of a judge's role that is leading to the criticism.

Christian Copts

There are 18 million Christian Copts in Egypt. If the Egyptian Brotherhood takes power in Egypt this group will be persecuted, killed and forced to emigrate from Egypt by those of the religion of peace. Canada must consider taking in our 200,000 annual immigrants from this group and excluding all other immigrants until the 18 million Copts find safety either here or elsewhere.

Globe Feb 7th A1

Patrick Martin says that the Muslim Brotherhood long ago eschewed violence and concentrates on various social functions "with religious overtones"..
Unfortunately the "religious overtones" include Sharia Law which includes the oppression of women and religious minorities, and very violent punishments for those that break any law. As well it includes submission to Allah and of course his representatives, the imams. It is amazing what violence, mysogeny, bigotry, and anti-democratic policies can be hidden in the words "with religious overtones".

National Post Feb 7th FP19 - Daniel Pipes

Pipe Dreams

Daniel Pipes is just plain wrong in aasuming that because the West could develop democracy, Islamic countries can also do so, while maintaining Islamism and Sharia law. Our democracy and prior democracies were based on the importance of individual rights and obligations - if not for everyone, at least for those who were entitiled - usually white males who were members of the state. Islam does not permit such individualism. It depends on group rights - the umma. There is absolutely no history of Islamism working with democracy, although there are some countries where most of the citizens are secular Muslims and democratic. According to Lawrence Solomon (FP19 of Feb 5) about 75% of Egyptians want to impose strict Sharia law, that is Islamism, on the country. This means the oppression of women and religious minorities and subservience to the imams. It means that individualism and self-reliance will not be celebrated and so democracy will be impossible to maintain.