18 Nov 2015
The Hamilton Spectator's normally sound editorial cartoonist, Graeme Mackay stepped in it today by drawing a cartoon that shows Canadians like myself trying to frighten away a boatload of Muslim refugees from Canada's shore. This cartoon follows the Spectator editorial policy of supporting Islam regardless of circumstances and of making ad hominem attacks against those who disagree with them. In addition to this cartoon, the Spectator republished as a news story an editorial written by Toronto Star reporter Amal Ahmed Aibaz. In the story, Aibez, who is an Egyptian immigrant to Canada and who wears a hijab, relates a incident in which a woman accosted her in a washroom and told her to remove her hijab. The story was headlined, "Whoa, because I wear a hijab, I'm a terrorist? I can't even kill a spider."
My comments are below:
Today’s editorial cartoon by Graeme Mackay illustrates once
again the failure of the Spectator to put a cogent argument. The cartoon
shows a life raft full of frightened women and children coming to land on
Canada’s shore. On the shore are raging rednecks frightening these people
and demanding that they leave.
If the cartoon were at all accurate, the life raft would be
full of young, military-aged men, not women and children. The shore they
would be landing on would be Greek or Italian. If a life raft full of
Muslim women and children were to turn up on Canada’s shore, having crossed the
Atlantic Ocean, I would be all for taking them in.
The portrayal of evil rednecks on Canada’s shore depicted in
the cartoon is another example of the Spectator making attacks on the character
of people who disagree with them. In logic, this is called an ad
hominem attack.
Let me cast the editorial position of the Spectator as I,
one of those rednecks, see it: you are whoring my country to satisfy your
moral vanity.
The problems of the Middle East are not our problems, and we
should not make them so. We have too nice a country now to mess it up
importing other people’s fights. Anyone familiar with the 1,400 year conflict
between Islam and the Christian West, ought to realize the foolishness of
creating an indigestible Muslim community in our midst. If you want to
see the effects of that policy, look at Europe.
Elsewhere in the paper today is an editorial piece by a
self-pitying Muslim woman who recounted an event in a woman’s washroom. A
women told her to get rid of her hijab and a shouting match ensued.
This Muslim woman was originally from Egypt but has lived in Canada since she
was six years old. Apparently, we are supposed to accept this symbol of
solidarity with the Palestinian cause as though it were part of her culture,
that she can’t help it, and that she is not a terrorist. Well, the hijab
forms no part of Egyptian culture, and having lived in Canada since she was
a child makes one wonder where she picked up on the idea of wearing it.
The fact is that while she is not a terrorist, she is an
Islamic Supremacist. She is not integrating into Canadian society but
deliberately standing apart from it. Most importantly, she forms a part
of the landscape in which terrorists can hide.
That is the fear of bringing in large numbers of Muslims
into Canada: not only may there be terrorists among them but the Muslim
community imported creates the place in which terrorism can be incubated and
can hide here in Canada. This is not an irrational fear, because it is
actually happening in Europe.
I wish the editorial board of the Spectator the best of luck coming up with rational arguments.
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