Speaking Volumes
"The fact that Ohio housewives will determine who should occupy the White House to decide on such weighty issues as dealing with the Middle East, Iran's nuclear program or U.S. relations with Russia is quite amusing, and revealing. This is what American democracy is all about. But for now, Hurricane Sandy, as a divine slap on the face of arrogance, is smashing its way through the Eastern Coast of the U.S."Triumphalist schadenfreude. Emanating from where? Why, Toronto, that bastion of Canadian multiculturalism, that cosmopolitan city, that friendly neighbour of the United States of America. Or, more specifically a website celebrating itself as the "newsmagazine of the Islamic movement". Well, like the United States, and not nearly as devoted to it as they are, Canada holds freedom of expression in high regard.
Crescent International
Which is to say in Canada by law freedom of thought, of expression, of religion, and of assembly, among other freedoms, are held to be an expression of our basic liberties. And such offensive claptrap that assigns women to lowly roles within society, lacking intelligence and discernment, along with the belief in a divine entity visiting a deserved tragedy on a hubristic state can be expressed.
Of course in the process of expressing such beliefs those who host them identify themselves as idiots of the first water. Their expressed hostility to a world power attempting to sort out the invidious machinations of rogue governments marooned in viciously delusional antipathies toward one another on the basis of tribal custom, religious intolerance and social abuse as tyrannies and theocracies threatening one another, speaks volumes about their values.
The website, operated by the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought, speaks additional volumes about 'contemporary Islamic thought', which leads one to understand that the pure Islam of historical heritage has not seen a departure from its medieval origins in general hostilities to the non-Muslim world to achieve a 'contemporary' version of Islamic thought.
Its director, Zafar Bangash lays no claim to having written the post. "We have a number of bloggers that put on stuff on our website but that particular writer perhaps felt that it was a slap on the face of the U.S. government and its policies", he explained to an inquisitive reporter attempting to secure an angle for a revelatory story. That explanation did nothing whatever to disassociate the newsmagazine from the expressions revealed.
And although Mr. Bangash refused to elaborate, choosing instead to hang up on the reporter, that act too spoke volumes.
Labels: Canada, Communication, Islam, Tragedy, United States, Values
posted by Pieface @ Friday, November 02, 2012
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