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Niqab Emerges as Polarizing Issue in Canadian Election

October 3, 2015




niqab-citizenship-zunera-ishaq.jpgZunera Ishaq, 29, left, came to Ontario from Pakistan in 2008. She refused to take part in a citizenship ceremony because she would have to show her face due to a December 2011 policy requiring candidates to remove face coverings during recitation of the oath.

With an election looming Oct 19, Canadian
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has deliberately alienated 
a million Muslim Canadians, a constituency
his party has assiduously courted in the past. Why?
Polls show that many more Canadians, especially in Quebec, 
support this policy of depriving Muslims of their religious freedom.   




In a close three-party race, socialist NDP have suffered by taking principled stand.




(Updated from March 13, 2015) 
by Henry Makow Ph.D.



A trivial but highly charged symbolic issue has emerged as potentially decisive in the Canadian election campaign: whether Muslim women should be able to wear a face cover at Canadian citizenship ceremonies. 

The governing Conservative government tried to ban this but were overruled by the courts. They have opted to appeal. In practice, only two Muslim women have demurred from taking the citizenship ceremony.

Last March, Prime Minister Stephen Harper cast this as a women's issue and went out of his way to insult all Muslims:

"Why would Canadians, contrary to our own values, embrace a practice at that time that is not transparent," he said,[one] "that is not open and, frankly, is rooted in a culture that is anti-women?"

Muslims reacted with outrage. Harper's statement implied they weren't welcome as citizens, and Muslim women were too stupid to know their culture was "anti-woman."  Harper contradicted Canada's oft-stated protestations of "diversity" and multiculturalism.

Even though Harper pretends to be a Christian and social conservative, he seems ignorant of the religious purpose of the niqab. It's a sign of the woman's modesty and consecration to her family and religion. Would he also ban wearing the Cross or Star of David?  That is where his logic leads. (In fact, the previous Quebec government tried to do just this: prevent civil servants from showing any religious affiliation.)

In the current campaign, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair was the only leader capable of recognizing the symbolism of this ban. Despite its popularity in the NDP power base of Quebec, he opposed it.  It is saying in effect, you cannot become a Canadian if you wish to observe your religion. Mulcair accused Harper of "playing a very divisive game with the Niqab."

mulcair.jpeg
(left, Thomas Mulcair, no doubt Illuminati too, but still uses the term "principle.")

NDP support has declined in Quebec but Mulcair, to his credit, has stuck to his guns. He has earned my support for this principled stand alone. He also opposes Harper's repressive anti terror bill and the TPP deal. 
My view is that if you let people immigrate, you have to respect their religious freedom. If you wish to retain cultural character, restrict their numbers.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau also opposes the niqab ban but hasn't been as outspoken, and is benefitting from Mulcair's stand.

Meanwhile the opportunistic Harper has doubled down promising a law banning "barbaric practises" on the part of Muslims and a snitch line.

Calgary Mayor Nahid Nenshi, a Muslim, called the Conservative policy "ugly and disgusting."  


I have come out against letting Winnipeg police officers wear turbans.    For me, there is a big difference between observing the standards and traditions of a police force and making religious conformity a condition of citizenship itself. If a country wants to keep its cultural character, it should limit the alien cultures it admits. 
  


HARPER OPPORTUNISM 

As for "diversity," Harper proves that it is a flexible excuse to promote certain people and policies at certain times.

For example, in Aug. 2013, in response to Quebec's proposed "values charter," Harper said,
"And our job is social inclusion. Our job is making all groups who come to this country, whatever their background, whatever their race, whatever their ethnicity, whatever their religion, feel at home in this country and be Canadians," he said. "That's our job."


shg.jpg(left, Stephen Harper) 

What changed? Opportunism and another factor. Harper is a longtime Zionist sycophant. Divide and conquer is the time-tested tactic of the Illuminati. Clearly Harper's central banker masters have demanded he demonize Muslims in the eyes of gullible Christians. Harper staged a false flag terror event last October and is trying to shepherd an unpopular repressive new anti-terror bill through Parliament.

Harper said, "almost all Canadians oppose the wearing of face coverings during citizenship ceremonies." He has calculated that his stand will win him more votes than not. I hope his ignorance and opportunism backfires. 

By calling Muslim culture "anti women," he is guilty of hate speech. He has displayed his ignorance and damaged his dubious cause. 


 Related -  Makow- The Truth About Diversity

Canadian defense minister tweets hoax photos from anti-Muslim hate sites:
Muslims in Canada have strongly condemned their country's defense minister for tweeting hoax photographs purporting to depict enslavement and oppression of women and girls by Muslim men. This comes amid accusations that the government is deliberately stoking anti-Muslim sentiment in the country.   http://tinyurl.com/pcxmkzl

 




Scruples - the game of moral dillemas

Comments for "Niqab Emerges as Polarizing Issue in Canadian Election"

Celine said (October 4, 2015):

The niqab is a personal/cultural choice and not a religious obligation. If it were an obligation, muslim women in Egypt, Turkey, Algeria, etc. would be wearing such a face cover and that is not the case. In some muslim countries, women wear the niqab not by choice, nor by religious precept, but because it is forced upon them by relatives or some religious leaders. In most of these countries, women are not allowed to decide their own future (education, work, marriage, etc.).


Dan said (October 3, 2015):

This is an example of an election distraction from real issues, created by the political parties themselves.
Canadian politicians manufactured it. Harper provided the provocative sound bytes. CBC and Canadian media ran with it.

Like throwing a piece of meat to distract guard dog, politicians and media throw such bones every election time. While the Canadian public chases and barks at their own tails, the real matters of grave concern to Canadians won't get discussed.


Cecil said (October 3, 2015):

The issue is White Genocide. If there was not mass immigration the Niqab could NOT be an issue. PEriod.

The West including Canada is a culture created by a specific people and it will be destroyed if that people is dispossessed. Europeans everywhere have the self-evident right to secure their homelands for themselves, without regard to the claims others make upon it.

Gradually the juxtaposition between reality and the propaganda is unbearable and unsustainable. I am fed up with seeing whites build and do the heavy work of civilization and subsidize everyone else. It is beyond disgusting, it is a farce. The game on another’s dime must end. Enough.

Every politician should be made to answer a basic question: Do you support White Genocide?

Nobody says any Chinese city should not have huge areas that are all-Chinese. Only concentrations of white people in traditionally white countries are condemned. If you support the present policy of flooding all White countries with third world non-whites YOU are anti-WHITE. Diversity equals White Genocide.

China is 90% Han Chinese. If China’s elites decided to import the third-world to make the Chinese a minority in their own country, would that not be Genocide? As official Chinese newspapers gloated (like the Star, Maclean’s, Time, the Economist and many others have tacitly done) about “the changing face of China” would the growth of the Chinese economy be unaffected? The ‘rulers’ would be rightly held accountable for high treason and Genocide. Africa for the Africans, Asia for the Asians, White countries for EVERYONE!?

That’s White genocide! Enough.


Mohammed in South Africa said (March 14, 2015):

It's clear that lots of non Muslims (mostly whites from the west) don't have much understanding of Islam or if they do, they are intentionally misleading others with stupid remarks/comments. ie- they are just trolls.

In response to Andrew, there's a difference between HIJAB & NIQAB. Hijab is when the entire body is covered but the face is open & this is what the lady in Canada was wearing when the judge refused to hear her case. Niqab is when the face is covered & only the eyes are exposed.

In response to Sandra, Taqiyya is practiced ONLY by Shias, who are NOT Muslims, despite their claims that they are Muslim or many non Muslims' taking them to be Muslims. There is a BIG difference between the fundamental beliefs of muslims & Shias.

What need is there to see the face of a woman walking in the street? and, according to Islam, a veiled woman is allowed to unveil in the presence of other females-irrespective of whether they are Muslims or not its only for strange males-those other than her father, brothers, uncles & sons that she needs to cover herself.

So, before people make comments which are visible to the entire world, they should ensure they know what they're talking about.


Sally said (March 14, 2015):

Henry, re the 'beat up' about Muslim women's dress - I notice nowhere in the west has there EVER been a condemnation of nuns' traditional clothing. Yet what is the difference?

The difference is that Muslims and Christians are to be set against each as decided by the Globalists in the Hegelian manner of thesis - antithesis - synthesis ie divide and conquer (after weakening both sides significantly to make them pliable to the plan of a New World Order, with its occultic 'a thousand points of light' as George Bush smugly pronounced).

Fact is we're all under attack by the secret societies (Jesuit controlled at its root - listening to Lauren Moret) and need to see through the farce of divide and conquer and the lies that fly out of the mouths so comfortably of psychopaths and their sycophantic, underling deviant personalities.


Sandra said (March 14, 2015):

First of all, I'm not a fan of Harper or all the other BS politicians and their machinations.

Magda said, "This is a choice that leaves our beauty firmly placed within the spheres of our family, our spouses and at parties with our female friends."

That is taqqiya, Henry. Taqqiya is what they say for OUR consumption. It is not what is really going on.

You, Henry - place a mask/covering of any kind on your face and body and walk down the street or into a public building filled with people. How do you feel? I'll tell you how I would feel: that I can size up all the non-veil-wearing public - but they don't know who or what I am. That places me at a great advantage.

When little kids come to the door on Hallowe'en with their disguises, that doesn't faze me. But when they are accompanied by an obvious adult also wearing a face and/or body covering, I am thoroughly creeped out. It may be the next door neighbor, but then maybe not...

Magda replies:

Dear Sandra,

I feel very sorry that you choose to live in a space of fear that wills the control of others. I am sorrowful that Canada is now being pushed towards ignorance and confusion for the ends of warmongers and chaos creators. Perhaps you can travel a bit and check out some neat Muslim or Muslim majority countries like Malaysia, Turkey or Morrocco so you can put a stop to this virus of hatred and fear......Remember who is invading whom and who has spread chaos and lies about Islam and the Muslim world.......

Prophet Muhammad's promise to Christians Everywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WQpEAcdlIo


CR said (March 14, 2015):

Looks like it's time to move to Russia. The gay and lesbian thing was bad enough, but now drag queens and cross dressers are the latest fashion. I can't think of any logical (benevolent) reason to promote this type of deviancy. The article you linked on the new clean & clear spokesman is disturbing, he started "transitioning" to female at 6 years old? What kind of parents are those? That sounds like child abuse to me. It's like the old saying, give them an inch and they'll ask for a foot. Once sodomy is legal then the doors are open to anything.


MM said (March 14, 2015):

It's pretty simple, Harper's owners see the writing on the wall, they know he's done next election, so like a good NWO soldier he's doing what he can to keep the "Us vs. Islam" dialectic going so Canadians will accept a police state in order to keep us safe from those "barbarous Muslims".

I see each political party in the west as having their role to play in implementing the NWO agenda. The right wing parties do the war mongering, the left do the social engineering.

Harper has gone as far as they dare go right now for his side of the job, next it will be Trudeau's turn to continue the war on the family, morals, ethics, etc. No matter who wins elections these days, we the people lose.


Andrew said (March 13, 2015):

Anti-mask laws date back to the 1920s when many southern US States passed Anti-Ku Klux Klan Laws. Klansmen whose members typically wore white linen hoods to conceal their identities were the targets but they were allied in other cases. Many US States and countries around the world passed and enforce no masks laws during street demonstrations. These laws have proven difficult for DAs to prosecute and although arrests are sometimes made like at Occupy Wall Street, most charges were dropped.

I’ve travelled six Islamic countries. I’ve seen only a few veiled women in Istanbul during Ramadan. And only after the call to evening prayer. Never seen any in America.

I agree. What Harper said was anti-Islamic defamation calculated to inflame resentment against Islam in general.

Radical Islam was created by British Intelligence and subversive elements which created the Masonic Islamic Brotherhood in the 1890s. Today all so-called radical Islam is as phony as al-Qaeda and ISIS which were created by CIA and financed by US and UK Allies in the fraudulent WAR ON TERROR.

See Robert Dreyfuss’ DEVIL’S GAME (2005) pp. 1-50 about how CIA, MI6 and Mossad created all elements of so-called Fundamentalist Islam.


H said (March 13, 2015):

At times like this, countless Henry Makow essays come to mind --- which have already established what Western Values are in reality! ... Those women clapping behind Harper are the same dupes who l-o-v-e taking degradation as emancipation (and would naturally, now, want Muslim women to be just as degraded)! ... A Freemasonic PM whose domestic and foreign policies are steeped in secrecy talks about "transparency" of other cultures?! ... How exactly does Harper define "openness" ... by allowing/ coercing everyone to be a lesbian like his wife or Kathleen Wynne?!

Someone should ask Harper what kind of value system makes a nation stage hoaxes, perpetrate lies, and arm/ fund fraudulent CIA/Mossad/CSIS/SIS/NATO mercenaries like ISIS to deface Islam! I guess "killing Islam" is the most profitable and top career-builder right now!

It's clear why honorable men like Arthur Topham are facing jail-time for stating that "Canada is Hypocritical Nation"! I remember meeting an extraordinary man in Toronto, once, who approached me for a chat and then shared his life story. He told me that about 60 odd years ago, when he moved with his parents to Canada from the UK, he soon found that Canada was already morally dead! ... Most certainly, the perceived "values" in a place depend on the central criteria and moral aptitude of the beholder. And ONLY God's Revelations provide those central criteria/ standards, not the whims and 'unspeak' of ARROGANT Freemasons (false Zio-Judeo- Christian-West) who are out to destroy God Ordained Order!

And where are the likes of ADL and B'nai Brith to say anything about Harper's abysmally shameful Hate Speech?! [Oh! Unless Talmudic "shamelessness" IS what Harper reckons to be the Canadian way/value?]


Richard E said (March 13, 2015):

Reference article: "What is behind Harper's hate speech?" I got a better on, no Jew can wear the Yamaha (Bennie) at their citizenship swearing in..


Magda said (March 13, 2015):

Thank you for bringing up this important issue Henry. As a Muslim woman who wore the face veil for about a month a few years back it is offensive that the government would butt their nose in such a personal matte; it is a dialogue between myself and my inner spirituality. I began wearing the regular head covering back when I was 21 whilst in university and I remember telling a non Muslim friend on a bus on the way to my university about my decision.

What the heck is the Harper government doing interfering with our rights and choices. Who is he to dictate what is anti-woman and what is not. In fact his provincial faith based world view is definitely the only anti-woman or anti human thing we see. Whether he likes it or not we are a people who use Mary peace be upon her as a role model........who wish to participate in society as woman who conduct ourselves with honor and modesty and that means deal with my mind and not my body.

This is a choice that leaves our beauty firmly placed within the spheres of our family, our spouses and at parties with our female friends. For Muslims, marriage is the only legitimate venue for sex and reproduction. A view that being civilized is based on how little or how much clothing someone wears is subjective.......a choice for the individual.
Having said that in our society we should all dress how we please and stop interfering with the rights of others giving them a message that they are 'only free to look like us'. The Harper government with its crazy end time belief system is deliberately sowing discord among Canadians and this is definitely an Anti Christian endeavor, can you imagine Prophet Isa/Jesus peace be upon him endorsing such a view?

Here is a message for Harper and ilk back off ........we Muslims await Prophet Jesus/Isa peace be upon Him as well and believe his coming will bring a reign of peace. It is Christian end timers like you who are being played by the Satanic ones to spread your hatred, carnage and destruction and yet if you believe this is the way to obtain God's favor your are as deluded as your pay masters.


Henry Makow received his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto in 1982. He welcomes your comments at