Creeping Trumpism, Bill 62, and the Rohingya in Walkom's World

Vincent J. Curtis

24 Oct 2017

RE:  With Bill 62, Trumpism gains a foothold in Canada

Bill 62 is Quebec's answer to thrusting Sharia Suprmacism in people's faces.  The first stirrings of legislation for banning the wearing of burkas, niqabs, and other facial coverings in public occurred in the 2015 Federal election.  Toronto Star columnist Thomas Walkom decried Bill 62 as "creeping Trumpism," which requires Trumpism to have existed in Canada before Donald Trump was even a candidate for the Republican nomination.

Columnist Thomas Walkom, after showing hopeful signs of lucidity recently, has relapsed into terminal progressive incoherence.  As even he admits, the business of what to do about facial coverings in Canada preceded the candidacy of Donald Trump; but another example of that business is held forth as a sign of “Trumpism.”  Effects precede causes in Walkom’s World.

It must be that Donald Trump and Trumpism are now reduced to meaning, “something undesirable,” words you assign to impart opprobrium to the matter at issue. [Readers of George Orwell will get the reference. - VJC]

Facial coverings of women is not mandated in Islam; all the Islam requires is modesty in feminine dress.  Facial coverings are cultural in origin, not religious; and so to say that banning facial coverings is anti-Muslim is to confuse the accidental with the essential.  If Bill 62 is only going to affect 100 or so women, it can’t be anti-Muslim given the tens of thousands of Muslim women it does not affect.

Bill 62 is the banning of a cultural practice that has no place in Western society, and it is hardly a Toronto Anglo’s place to tell French Quebec how to regulate cultural practices in La Belle Province.  English Canada accepted Bill 101, the Charter of the French Language, so it can accept Bill 62 also.  Besides, Quebec is only following France’s lead in regulating this cultural aspect, as they are entitled to do, given the recognition of Quebec as a distinct society.

Walkom is no doubt utterly mystified as to why the Buddhists in Burma rose as one to drive the Rohingya out of their country and into Bangladesh.  Another sign of rising Trumpism perhaps?

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So, what is the next cultural-religious practice of Islam that progressives will defend in the West - Female Genital Mutilation?