Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
letter to NP re racism
Sinem Ketenci, a woman of Turkish origin, claims she cannot be racist because "she, as a racialized woman, cannot be racist." It is time for the majority of Canadians to look honestly at our minorities and people of colour,and the "oppressed" people of other lands and admit that they may be racist against whites, Christians, Jews, and other races, religions, or tribes. Being "oppressed" or a minority or "people of colour" doesn't make them free from prejudice or evil. Multiculturalism does not mean giving a free pass to harmful ideas or culture of minorities, or of people with different cultures or religions who live in foreign lands. The faster we realize this, the better off Canadians will be.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Letter to National Post Sept 17th 2009
1. Stopping Violence Against Women
Instead of Irwin Cotler’s pompous list of things to be done to protect women, the simple inclusion of women’s rights as part of human rights and the continuous publishing of anti-women laws and activities, in the same way that Israel’s activities are continually publicized, would be effective. For once let political correctness and charges of Islamophobia and racism be avoided and any group, whether white or black, Christian or Muslim be targeted as offenders against both human rights and women’s rights.
Families eating together.
Father de Souza is right about the blessings from a family sitting down to supper together. However instead of just extolling its virtues, why doesn’t Father de Souza simply point to the Jewish tradition of having family Friday night dinners together and suggest that Christians simply steal Jewish tradition and absorb it into Christianity? Wouldn’t it be good if religions could simply say that a tradition in another religion is excellent and decide to institute it as part of their own tradition? Surely such honesty and openness would be good for everyone.
3 It takes one to know one.
Carter has shown his anti-semitism by his unrelenting and extremely unrealistically and overblown criticisms of Israel. It indicates he is a bigot and a racist. Now he is accusing all Americans who disagree with Obama as being racists and bigots. It takes one to know one.
Instead of Irwin Cotler’s pompous list of things to be done to protect women, the simple inclusion of women’s rights as part of human rights and the continuous publishing of anti-women laws and activities, in the same way that Israel’s activities are continually publicized, would be effective. For once let political correctness and charges of Islamophobia and racism be avoided and any group, whether white or black, Christian or Muslim be targeted as offenders against both human rights and women’s rights.
Families eating together.
Father de Souza is right about the blessings from a family sitting down to supper together. However instead of just extolling its virtues, why doesn’t Father de Souza simply point to the Jewish tradition of having family Friday night dinners together and suggest that Christians simply steal Jewish tradition and absorb it into Christianity? Wouldn’t it be good if religions could simply say that a tradition in another religion is excellent and decide to institute it as part of their own tradition? Surely such honesty and openness would be good for everyone.
3 It takes one to know one.
Carter has shown his anti-semitism by his unrelenting and extremely unrealistically and overblown criticisms of Israel. It indicates he is a bigot and a racist. Now he is accusing all Americans who disagree with Obama as being racists and bigots. It takes one to know one.
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