When good people encounter evil, whether as a manifestation of human nature or political outcome, they feel frustration. It would be worst if they didn't take matters in their stride. It would be very unattractive if people just shrugged and said, "Well, isn't it too bad, a bunch of men and women are being mowed down by the Canadian government! But hey, there is nothing we can do, so what about dinner?
Even though doing nothing is preferable to doing something wrong, to do nothing after a mass-murder of rights and freedoms of Canadian citizens, would seem unbearably callous. And that's how it happens, in order to seem caring rather than callous, we end up doing the wrong thing.
The wrong thing will be, unless we the students of University of Toronto intervenes, new measures of state control over our clothes, our jewelry! Possibly extending to monitoring not just what is on our bodies but also what is inside our minds. Hijab, Niqab, crucifix, turbans will become the state's passkey to the nation's beliefs and our speech. The measure to control our bodies and our minds will resolve our freedoms, our human dignity without increasing fairness or equality. What the state will increase though, is our sense of alienation, discrimination, insecurities, a broken country and a broken pride.
In the 21st century, Canada is moving towards a tragedy. It takes a tyranny to enact total prohibitions. Its most tyrannies not democracies that eliminate freedoms of belief and dress. I want to ask Prati Quebecois this: What is the reason for this state monopoly? What free government decides the wardrobe for its people? Which draconian law denies women access to universities, health care and employment? No, what this party is proposing is a crime, its violence, it is insanity that they want to legalize and nationalize. The Muslim Student Association of UTSC denies the motion to pass Quebec Charter of Intolerance and Debasement.
Even though doing nothing is preferable to doing something wrong, to do nothing after a mass-murder of rights and freedoms of Canadian citizens, would seem unbearably callous. And that's how it happens, in order to seem caring rather than callous, we end up doing the wrong thing.
The wrong thing will be, unless we the students of University of Toronto intervenes, new measures of state control over our clothes, our jewelry! Possibly extending to monitoring not just what is on our bodies but also what is inside our minds. Hijab, Niqab, crucifix, turbans will become the state's passkey to the nation's beliefs and our speech. The measure to control our bodies and our minds will resolve our freedoms, our human dignity without increasing fairness or equality. What the state will increase though, is our sense of alienation, discrimination, insecurities, a broken country and a broken pride.
In the 21st century, Canada is moving towards a tragedy. It takes a tyranny to enact total prohibitions. Its most tyrannies not democracies that eliminate freedoms of belief and dress. I want to ask Prati Quebecois this: What is the reason for this state monopoly? What free government decides the wardrobe for its people? Which draconian law denies women access to universities, health care and employment? No, what this party is proposing is a crime, its violence, it is insanity that they want to legalize and nationalize. The Muslim Student Association of UTSC denies the motion to pass Quebec Charter of Intolerance and Debasement.
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