"If you want to live under sharia law, go back to the hellhole country you came from, or go to another hellhole country that lives under sharia law," says Mahfooz Kanwar, a member of the Muslim Canadian Congress. (Calgary Herald)
Read about Mahfooz Kanwar’s critique of official multiculturalism in Canada:
About one dozen families who recently immigrated to Canada are demanding that the Louis Riel School Division in Winnipeg excuse their children from music and coed physical education programs for religious reasons.
The families believe that music is un-Islamic – just like the Taliban believe and then imposed on the entire population of Afghanistan – and that physical education classes should be segregated by gender even in the elementary years.
The school division is facing the music in a typically Canadian way – that is, bending itself into a trombone to try to accommodate these demands, even though in Manitoba, and indeed the rest of the country, music and phys. ed are compulsory parts of the curriculum.
Officials say they may try to have the Muslim children do a writing project on music to satisfy the curriculum’s requirements. The school officials have apparently consulted the Manitoba Human Rights Commission, and they have also spoken to a member of the Islamic community suggested by those very same Muslim parents.
In any event, the school district is trying to find a way to adapt the curriculum to fit the wishes of these families, rather than these families adapting to fit into the school and Canadian culture.
Mahfooz Kanwar, a member of the Muslim Canadian Congress, says he has some better ideas.
“I’d tell them, this is Canada, and in Canada, we teach music and physical education in our schools. If you don’t like it, leave. If you want to live under sharia law, go back to the hellhole country you came from or go to another hellhole country that lives under sharia law,” said Kanwar, who is a professor emeritus of sociology at Mount Royal University in Calgary.
That might be putting things a little more forcefully than most of us would be comfortable with, but Kanwar says he is tired of hearing about such out-of-tune demands from newcomers to our country. “Immigrants to Canada should adjust to Canada, not the other way around,” he argues.
Kanwar, who immigrated to Canada from Pakistan via England and then the United States in 1966, says he used to buy into the “Trudeaupian mosaic, official multiculturalism (nonsense).”
He makes it clear, that like most Canadians, he is pleased and enjoys that Canada has citizens literally from every country and corner in the world, as it has enriched this country immensely. But it’s official multiculturalism – the state policy “that entrenches the lie” that all cultures and beliefs are of equal value and of equal validity in Canada that he objects to.
“The fact is, Canada has an enviable culture based on Judeo-Christian values – not Muslim values – with British and French rule of law and traditions and that’s why it’s better than all of the other places in the world. We are heading down a dangerous path if we allow the idea that sharia law has a place in Canada. It does not. It is completely incompatible with the idea and reality of Canada,” says Kanwar, who in the 1970s was the founder and president of the Pakistan-Canada Association and a big fan of official multiculturalism. Kanwar says his views changed when he started listening to the people who joined his group. They badmouthed Canada, weren’t interested in knowing Canadians or even in learning one of our official languages. They created cultural ghettos and the Canadian government even helped fund it.
“One day it dawned on me that the reason all of us wanted to move here was going to disappear if we didn’t start defending Canada and its fundamental values.” That’s when Kanwar started speaking out against the dangers of official multiculturalism. He has been doing so for decades.
So, it’s no surprise that Kanwar is delighted with the recent speech British Prime Minister David Cameron delivered to the 47th Munich Security Conference on Feb. 5.
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Yes, good sentiments but I would say that most Muslim newcomers to Canada, or UK or France etc, are not the ones who are demaninding the their new country of abode be an extension of their home. In fact, the reason they are coming is to enjoy the benefits of freedom and liberalism in Canada etc.
It is the 2nd and 3rd generation of Muslims who already live here, the ones who have failed to integrate into their adopted countries of their parents and the one they were born in – who are demanding an extension of “Muslim values” which they have created and are demanding.
We had exactly the same issues, concerning exactly the same subjects, in primary schools in inner-city Peterborough, UK, a decade ago.
The freedom is good. The United States and Canada are the last two countries on the planet that are still dabbling with Liberalism the way these two countries are. The time of this is just about over as demonstrated by the excessive deficit borrowing, spending and paying staggering interest to lenders abroad by the U.S. Obama Administration and having the taxpaying citizens be stuck with the tab. The United States and Canada too, do not have the money anymore to throw around to subsidize foreign visitors who do not go back to their home countries after their Passports expire. Everybody now has to pay their own way and obey the more than fair laws of the land.
The Tourist Babies that are born in the United States and in Canada are citizens of the country where the parents are from. This is a given and is defended strongly by those countries and people. The citizens of the United States and even Canada do not have to feel guilty if and when that family has to be deported for whatever reason. Once these people get it together and to get their issues ironed out to obtain or / and renew their passports to come to the United States or Canada, if they want to come back, they then can apply for legal status and start paying their way. Their tourist baby is a plus but they’ve got to obey the law, file their tax returns and pay their income tax, pay their hospital bills and of which they are free to buy health insurance in the free societies, pay their bills, pay tuition for school (no more freebees,) pay all fines and fees and stay out of jail. If the tourist babies and their parents can do this, then they can renew their documentation and stay in the States or Canada longer. If they do not meet the requirements, then back they go. The American and Canadian citizen taxpayers cannot subsidize the foreign visitors over a Hundred Billion Dollars a year any longer. It is the country where they are from responsibility if the foreign visitors cannot pay their own way. Subsidizing foreign visitors has caused much of the debt in the States and Canada over the past 31 years. By making everybody pay their way or they go back, would be a major way to help pay down the $14 Trillion National Debt in the States and to deal with the Immigration and Naturalization Law issues. It’s not Reform; it is Revenue that needs to be paid if you want to stay and is the strict enforcing and obeying of the Immigration, tax and criminal laws like all citizens must. This goes for any country in the world if you want live there. The free gravy run is over in the United States and I would suspect it will be soon in Canada too, once they sort it out. The States, Canada and Europe have been too good and now fiscal reality and responsibility will have to dictate the times, and not Liberalism or Globalism which has fallen way short of righteousness and fallen way short of the mark for what is good for God’s good Earth.