No Stoning, Canada Migrants Warned

“We wish to inform these new arrivals that the way of life which they abandoned when they left their countries of origin cannot be recreated here,” … We consider it completely outside norms to… kill women by stoning them in public, burning them alive, burning them with acid, circumcising them etc.”

Because of recent culture clashes, a small town in Quebec, Herouxville (population 1300), has made a public declaration stating their community norms and that declaration has been branded as “racist” by their fellow countrymen. A community leader, Councillor Andre Drouin, replied that the rules were not racist, but were reminding newcomers that in his town women are allowed to drive, vote, dance and own their own homes and that Sikh children may not carry ceremonial daggers to school, even though the Supreme Court has ruled they can. “We invite people from all nationalities, all languages, all sexual orientations, whatever, to come live with us, but we want them to know ahead of time how we live,” he said.

Among those declaring the Québecois as “racist” was Salam Elmenyawi of the Muslim Council of Montreal: “I was shocked and insulted to see these kinds of false stereotypes and ignorance about Islam and our religion.”

This warning came soon after a Toronto judge ordered a Christmas tree removed from a court so as not to offend non-Christians and a Montreal gym was required to install frosted glass after a Hasidic synagogue complained that seeing people exercising was offensive to them. To top it off, a Montreal police officer who wrote a song called “That’s Enough Already” is being investigated for urging immigrants in Quebec to assimilate. The lyrics of his song include the lines: “We want to accept ethnics, but not at any price… if you’re not happy with your fate, there’s a place called the airport.”

Is the new Canadian norm now “down with Christianity and free speech, as it may ‘OFFEND’ someone, somewhere, and up with ‘TOLERANCE’ of any religion or creed that is not Christian-based”?