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Siddiqui: The New War Over Multiculturalism
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 125439" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/800148--siddiqui-the-new-war-over-multiculturalism" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: navy">http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/800148--siddiqui-the-new-war-over-multiculturalism</span></u></a></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: navy">Siddiqui: The new war over multiculturalism</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">April 25, 2010</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">Haroon Siddiqui</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><img src="http://media.thestar.topscms.com/images/8b/82/2f031990457280bde9ed7a3a54a1.jpeg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: red">Members of the Sikh community take part in the annual Khalsa Day parade. A dispute in the Sikh community and the debate over the niqab in Quebec have sparked a new debate over the policy of official multiculturalism.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: red">Ron Bull/Toronto Star</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy"> </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">Throughout its history, Canada has been said to be going to the dogs because of bad immigrants. Good immigrants we've never had, as per populist parlance. It's only with the passage of time that the older batches of immigrants are deemed to have done some good for Canada. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">Doing the deeming include those who themselves were once derided as having been utterly unassimilable. But they forget that. Or remember it all too well, which is why they revel in taking their turn in reviling the newer arrivals.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">This pathology has meant denigrating the newcomers' religions, cultures and cuisine. The last we have learned to like. On the former, some remain unsure, especially about the newer, relatively unfamiliar faiths and customs.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">This brings us to the Sikh kirpan and the Muslim niqab — and multiculturalism, which is routinely blamed for anything that does not fit its critics' prejudices. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">Two rival Sikh groups fight at a Brampton gurdwara. Out come some daggers. Up goes the public cry that the kirpan be banned.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">Why not ban guns that are far more lethal? Or axes and hammers that were also wielded in the incident? Or metal cutlery, baseball bats, hockey sticks and other more readily available objects that are sometimes used to harm others?</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">In Surrey, B.C., some Sikhs organizing a parade warn two prominent Sikhs — Ujjal Dosanjh, Liberal MP, and Dave Hayer, Liberal MLA — to stay away, for their own safety. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">Dosanjh was viciously beaten in Vancouver in 1985 for courageously speaking out against Sikh militancy. And Hayer's father was murdered in 1998 just before he was to testify at the trial of Sikh suspects in the 1985 Air India bombing.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">Both politicians have tragic reasons to be angry at their community. Both are right, as is the federal Liberal party, to condemn the parade organizers. Both are also right to warn that militancy may be on the rise among Sikhs, especially in B.C.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">But Dosanjh is wrong to attribute that extremism to "the political correctness" of multiculturalism, which gives "extremists the space to nurture old grudges brought from their homelands."</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">If multiculturalism is the culprit, why is extremism not sweeping all our ethnic communities? And what's the explanation for the British and French having imported their old-country troubles here long before multiculturalism?</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">Yet, argues Dosanjh: "Multiculturalism has been completely distorted, turned on its head to essentially claim that anything anyone believes, no matter how ridiculous and outrageous, is okay and acceptable in the name of diversity."</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">That's just not so. What's acceptable is only what's permissible under the law. Those who cross that line, for whatever religious, cultural or thuggish reasons, face the music.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">In the Brampton case, police have charged three people. In Surrey, presumably no law was broken but the organizers, censured in the court of public opinion, have recanted and apologized. That's democracy at work.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">Sikhs are not the first ethnic group to fight among themselves, sometimes violently. Our history is littered with such examples, many predating multiculturalism. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">We should also not confuse the actions of some hooligans as the norm for a whole group, just as we don't equate white murderers as symptomatic of all whites. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">Dosanjh, an otherwise sensible politician, is spouting populist nonsense. He is a Liberal giving credence to illiberal notions of multiculturalism and its founding document, the Charter of Rights.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">But then, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is not much of a liberal, either. Take his support of Quebec's draconian bill to deprive all public services, even health care, to Muslim taxpayers who don the niqab. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">His position is distressingly similar to Stephen Harper's and Nicolas Sarkozy's and others in Europe toying with the totalitarian notion of anti-veil morality squads.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">Under Belgium's proposed anti-niqab law, violators would be fined up to 25 euros or jailed up to seven days. Sarkozy is pushing ahead with a niqab ban against the advice of the Council of State, France's top administrative authority, that a ban would be unconstitutional. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">Amnesty International also warned this week that a ban "would violate the rights to freedom of expression and religion of those women who choose to express their identity or beliefs in this way. . . . Women must not be compelled to wear a head scarf or veil, either by the state or by individuals; and it is wrong for them to be prohibited by law from wearing it" beyond being asked to lift their veils for security or ID reasons. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">Sarkozy's standing in the polls is low, as is that of Quebec Premier Jean Charest, Harper, Ignatieff and Dosanjh. They want to climb back up on the backs of vulnerable women or by being dangerously intolerant of multiculturalism, which is the law of the land in Canada. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">If the Liberals want to axe Article 27 of the Charter, let them propose a constitutional amendment, so we can have an honest debate.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><em><span style="font-size: 12px">Haroon Siddiqui writes Thursday and Sunday. </span></em></span><a href="mailto:hsiddiqui@thestar.ca"><em><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="font-size: 12px">hsiddiqui@thestar.ca</span></span></span></span></span></u></em></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 125439, member: 884"] [URL="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/800148--siddiqui-the-new-war-over-multiculturalism"][U][COLOR=navy]http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/800148--siddiqui-the-new-war-over-multiculturalism[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=6][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=6][SIZE=5][COLOR=navy]Siddiqui: The new war over multiculturalism[/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=6][SIZE=6] [/SIZE][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]April 25, 2010[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Haroon Siddiqui[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][IMG]http://media.thestar.topscms.com/images/8b/82/2f031990457280bde9ed7a3a54a1.jpeg[/IMG] [/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=red]Members of the Sikh community take part in the annual Khalsa Day parade. A dispute in the Sikh community and the debate over the niqab in Quebec have sparked a new debate over the policy of official multiculturalism.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=red]Ron Bull/Toronto Star[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Throughout its history, Canada has been said to be going to the dogs because of bad immigrants. Good immigrants we've never had, as per populist parlance. It's only with the passage of time that the older batches of immigrants are deemed to have done some good for Canada. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Doing the deeming include those who themselves were once derided as having been utterly unassimilable. But they forget that. Or remember it all too well, which is why they revel in taking their turn in reviling the newer arrivals.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]This pathology has meant denigrating the newcomers' religions, cultures and cuisine. The last we have learned to like. On the former, some remain unsure, especially about the newer, relatively unfamiliar faiths and customs.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]This brings us to the Sikh kirpan and the Muslim niqab — and multiculturalism, which is routinely blamed for anything that does not fit its critics' prejudices. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Two rival Sikh groups fight at a Brampton gurdwara. Out come some daggers. Up goes the public cry that the kirpan be banned.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Why not ban guns that are far more lethal? Or axes and hammers that were also wielded in the incident? Or metal cutlery, baseball bats, hockey sticks and other more readily available objects that are sometimes used to harm others?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]In Surrey, B.C., some Sikhs organizing a parade warn two prominent Sikhs — Ujjal Dosanjh, Liberal MP, and Dave Hayer, Liberal MLA — to stay away, for their own safety. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Dosanjh was viciously beaten in Vancouver in 1985 for courageously speaking out against Sikh militancy. And Hayer's father was murdered in 1998 just before he was to testify at the trial of Sikh suspects in the 1985 Air India bombing.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Both politicians have tragic reasons to be angry at their community. Both are right, as is the federal Liberal party, to condemn the parade organizers. Both are also right to warn that militancy may be on the rise among Sikhs, especially in B.C.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]But Dosanjh is wrong to attribute that extremism to "the political correctness" of multiculturalism, which gives "extremists the space to nurture old grudges brought from their homelands."[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]If multiculturalism is the culprit, why is extremism not sweeping all our ethnic communities? And what's the explanation for the British and French having imported their old-country troubles here long before multiculturalism?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Yet, argues Dosanjh: "Multiculturalism has been completely distorted, turned on its head to essentially claim that anything anyone believes, no matter how ridiculous and outrageous, is okay and acceptable in the name of diversity."[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]That's just not so. What's acceptable is only what's permissible under the law. Those who cross that line, for whatever religious, cultural or thuggish reasons, face the music.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]In the Brampton case, police have charged three people. In Surrey, presumably no law was broken but the organizers, censured in the court of public opinion, have recanted and apologized. That's democracy at work.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Sikhs are not the first ethnic group to fight among themselves, sometimes violently. Our history is littered with such examples, many predating multiculturalism. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]We should also not confuse the actions of some hooligans as the norm for a whole group, just as we don't equate white murderers as symptomatic of all whites. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Dosanjh, an otherwise sensible politician, is spouting populist nonsense. He is a Liberal giving credence to illiberal notions of multiculturalism and its founding document, the Charter of Rights.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]But then, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is not much of a liberal, either. Take his support of Quebec's draconian bill to deprive all public services, even health care, to Muslim taxpayers who don the niqab. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]His position is distressingly similar to Stephen Harper's and Nicolas Sarkozy's and others in Europe toying with the totalitarian notion of anti-veil morality squads.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Under Belgium's proposed anti-niqab law, violators would be fined up to 25 euros or jailed up to seven days. Sarkozy is pushing ahead with a niqab ban against the advice of the Council of State, France's top administrative authority, that a ban would be unconstitutional. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Amnesty International also warned this week that a ban "would violate the rights to freedom of expression and religion of those women who choose to express their identity or beliefs in this way. . . . Women must not be compelled to wear a head scarf or veil, either by the state or by individuals; and it is wrong for them to be prohibited by law from wearing it" beyond being asked to lift their veils for security or ID reasons. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Sarkozy's standing in the polls is low, as is that of Quebec Premier Jean Charest, Harper, Ignatieff and Dosanjh. They want to climb back up on the backs of vulnerable women or by being dangerously intolerant of multiculturalism, which is the law of the land in Canada. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]If the Liberals want to axe Article 27 of the Charter, let them propose a constitutional amendment, so we can have an honest debate.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][I][SIZE=3]Haroon Siddiqui writes Thursday and Sunday. 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Siddiqui: The New War Over Multiculturalism
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