Re: No privileging for Muslims in immigration or armed forces

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Posted by Naresh Raghubeer in Ottawa Citizen on 17:31:56 2007/07/19

In Reply to: Fast-track Muslim immigration, get more Muslims in Can Forces posted by Idris Ben-Tahir in Ottawa Citizen

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Today's Citizen More News Stories Local Updates Fogerty rocks Gatineau police seize 100 marijuana plants and find explosives Prosecutors urge judge to revoke Black's bond More Local Updates No special status The Ottawa Citizen Published: Thursday, July 19, 2007 Re: We need more Muslims in the Canadian Forces, July 16 Idris Ben-Tahir's rambling opinion article on Afghanistan takes us down a garden path strewn with familiar anti-Americanisms ("carpet bombings") and conspiracy theory (everything for oil). Then, contrary to the Canadian Constitution and military practice and tradition, we're invited to give privileged treatment to Muslims in the Canadian Armed Forces. Under cover of facilitating activity in "the Muslim world," Mr. Ben-Tahir wants us to overturn our integrated, pluralistic, egalitarian national and military standards by managing -- for the first time in history -- armed forces recruitment and placement on the basis of religion. And one religion in particular, Islam. Email to a friend Printer friendly Font: * * * * This, in turn, says Mr. Ben-Tahir, requires changes in immigration practice to fast-track Muslims into Canada -- and into military service. And the product of all of this? An apartheid military system that will rejoice in having a separate, self-contained Muslim "Crescent Regiment." One of Mr. Ben-Tahir's selling points for this unprecedented Muslims-only restructuring, is revealing: "[T]he Afghans would be more inclined to let Canadian Muslims work without hindrance." The message is the Canada's entire military effort must accommodate and reflect the racial and religious bigotry of foreign zealots repulsed by contact with, say, Canada's Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish or atheist soldiers. It is vital that Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor and Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Rick Hillier not fall for any of this. Such initiatives would be entirely in line with what moderate Muslims describe as stealth-Islamism -- efforts to reorder Canada and Canadians in the image of radical religious fundamentalism. The defence minister must make it clear that there is no place in the Canadian Forces for ghettoizing recruits and granting special status on the basis of religion. Naresh Raghubeer, Ottawa Executive director, Canadian Coalition for Democracies © The Ottawa Citizen 2007 Ads by Google Cheap Car Hire Discounted car hire in Canada Book now for great savings www.unioncarrental.co.uk/mates Ottawa Hills Homes Search 1000's of listings anytime, anywhere. Find your next home here! www.toledohomelistings.com Ottawa Warrants Access Ottawa County Warrants Here Anonymous & Confidential Searches www.CourtRecords-Online.org Inside the canada.com Network . Plane crash probe Crash site investigators comb ... Watch Video Publisher acts on Harry Potter leak Copies of the final Harry Potter... 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