Just One Religion, One Ideology, One Form of Nationalism
Oh dear, more political incorrectness. Intolerable in the extreme. Of course it is also rather intolerable that among us ordinary Canadians lurks a netherworld of sinister intention; people who have devoted themselves to the religion-inspired belief that they must conspire to slaughter those among whom they live to deliver a divine message.
It is unfortunate, but it is also a fact of life that not everyone is nice. Nor nicely inclined toward others. Of course, they do their utmost to mask their intentions, since that too is the name of the game. They're the hunters, we're the game. We're nice people and we simply will not bring ourselves to believe that an underground coterie of terrorists live among us.
They have succeeded in infiltrating society at every level, including politics, the military and government offices. Of course, people who believe such naive and blatantly devious urban myths are sadly obsessed with unreality; they betray paranoid personalities. Or not. Not, actually. They're the ones who see the symptoms and the incidents for what they are.
But! It remains politically incorrect to use certain phrases, to express certain beliefs, to speak of a conspiracy of sinister intention whose purpose is to make life a misery for us. We're nice people, best not to forget that. Who would want to harm us? Right.
In any event, we have a Prime Minister who hasn't hesitated to express his own un-politically-correct opinion in a very public forum. He spoke of "Islamicism", pointing out that that scourge poses the greatest security threat to Canada. And in response he is prepared to arm and to encourage police vigilance, to offer security agencies greater anti-terrorism powers.
Cue the opposition. "We don't have to single out just one", squawks the temporary leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. "I think if you look at the outbursts of extremism around the world, I don't think that you can limit it to just one religion, or ideology or form of nationalism." This is what is referred to as mealy-mouthed ostrichism.
Not to be outdone, the NDP's foreign affairs critic tossed in his take, that as the tenth anniversary of the unspeakable events of 9/11 arrive on the calendar it should be a "time for reflection", as to the manner in which we may build a "more inclusive society to end extremism." To that end, Paul Dewar is prepared to travel to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Yemen, Iran, Somalia, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt.
He will wait for Bob Rae to join him for the last leg of the trip, to Gaza for a confab with Hamas.
It is unfortunate, but it is also a fact of life that not everyone is nice. Nor nicely inclined toward others. Of course, they do their utmost to mask their intentions, since that too is the name of the game. They're the hunters, we're the game. We're nice people and we simply will not bring ourselves to believe that an underground coterie of terrorists live among us.
They have succeeded in infiltrating society at every level, including politics, the military and government offices. Of course, people who believe such naive and blatantly devious urban myths are sadly obsessed with unreality; they betray paranoid personalities. Or not. Not, actually. They're the ones who see the symptoms and the incidents for what they are.
But! It remains politically incorrect to use certain phrases, to express certain beliefs, to speak of a conspiracy of sinister intention whose purpose is to make life a misery for us. We're nice people, best not to forget that. Who would want to harm us? Right.
In any event, we have a Prime Minister who hasn't hesitated to express his own un-politically-correct opinion in a very public forum. He spoke of "Islamicism", pointing out that that scourge poses the greatest security threat to Canada. And in response he is prepared to arm and to encourage police vigilance, to offer security agencies greater anti-terrorism powers.
Cue the opposition. "We don't have to single out just one", squawks the temporary leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. "I think if you look at the outbursts of extremism around the world, I don't think that you can limit it to just one religion, or ideology or form of nationalism." This is what is referred to as mealy-mouthed ostrichism.
Not to be outdone, the NDP's foreign affairs critic tossed in his take, that as the tenth anniversary of the unspeakable events of 9/11 arrive on the calendar it should be a "time for reflection", as to the manner in which we may build a "more inclusive society to end extremism." To that end, Paul Dewar is prepared to travel to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Yemen, Iran, Somalia, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt.
He will wait for Bob Rae to join him for the last leg of the trip, to Gaza for a confab with Hamas.
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