10 Apr 2017
Dr. Raza Khan is the head of the Muslim Brotherhood Association of Hamilton. That makes it his duty to bring about, at a minimum, an end to the possibility of blaspheming of Islam in Hamilton without repercussion. An end to the right to blaspheme Islam is the first and most important stage in the imposition of Sharia compliance in civil law. Most people experience this imposition as a limitation to free speech in certain areas; and a civil penalty for being labelled "Islamophobic." The obviousness of this aim is masked by a larger movement called progressivism which seeks to deny free speech to anyone whom they disagree with on any number of issues, and Islamophobia is often subsumed in this more general crushing of free speech.
A route to injecting a fear of being labelled an Islamophobe in Hamilton is to decry the general and rising atmosphere of hatred and racism in the city, an entirely fictitious assertion that is supported by other racial groups (such as Black Lives Matter affiliates) for their own purposes. Having laid the premise for fear of hatred and violence founded upon a reaction to racism, combined with the fear of being labelled Islamophobic, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood of Hamilton then asks for possession of the levers of power that he cannot get through the ballot box. The Muslim Brotherhood wants a seat on the Hamilton Police Board, from which pressure for greater sharia compliance can be exerted in the confusion created by progressivism.
Having rejected Hellenic reasoning in the 11th century because Islamic theologians discovered that such reasoning pointed out weaknesses in Islamic theology, Muslims are not at their best when trying to make a reasoned argument. In an article demanding greater diversity on the Hamilton Police Services Board, a very small body, the spokeman of the Muslim Brotherhood of Hamilton couldn't resist saying that the Jewish Holocaust of World War II was less bad than advertized, and suggested that other groups suffered comparably. He then turned to a minor and irrelevant squabble between two board members, raised the matter of the rising tide of hatred that is growing and building throughout the world (not Hamilton, the world!) and concluded that the Hamilton Police Services Board needed more diversity in order to better represent our "village."
Now, the Police Services Board is there to provide civilian oversight to policing policies; it is appointed, not democratically elected; and is primarily intended to represent the interests of the city and provincial governments that fund the police department. The couple of members of the Board who are not politicians or political hacks are on the board because of their expertise in actual policing. The Muslim Brotherhood evidently believes it can corrupt civil policing to their purposes with a seat on the Board.
When Dr. Raza Khan writes of all the hatred that is building
and growing throughout the world today, he doesn’t look to his own minority as
a source of it. (The bombing of the Coptic Christian churches in Egypt, St. Mark and St. George, occurred the day before his article appeared.) He does provide a long list of minorities that are
allegedly subject to this hatred, and the one group he conspicuously failed to
mention was Caucasians.
There are plenty of minorities in Hamilton. My list
would include Polish, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, German and
Hungarian. There is a small group of Latins of Spanish origin who are too
small in number to count as “a minority.” In the 1901 census, my
ancestors recorded that they were of the Welsh and “Scotch” minorities, while
their neighbors were variously Irish, English, and American. The idea of
a minority is pretty elastic.
Dr. Khan’s complaint that the Police Board needs diversity
reminded me of a story of a boy who wanted mixed jelly beans. He was
given two beans and told to mix them himself.
Dr. Khan’s thesis is the belief that skin color or being of
a racial group makes that person representative of that skin color or racial
group. This is absurd on the face of it. Old Adolf simply doesn’t
represent my views on anything except dogs, despite his being a white
male. Likewise, I think my MP is bonkers on a host of issues despite his
being white, male, old, and eloquent. Inquire about Clarence Thomas as a
black or Sarah Palin as a woman.
Given the few seats available on the Police Board, to
satisfy Dr. Khan are going to have to look for individuals with some pretty
weird combinations of features. Just how many black, crippled, Jewish
lesbians are there available to choose from for the Police Board? To say
nothing of homosexual Hindus with a liking for turbans and who speak Gaelic.
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