A story out of London has it that a newly minted police recruit, a Muslim woman, declined to shake the police chief's hands during the graduation ceremony, citing religious prohibitions regarding touching a man other than her husband or close relative.
We know that Islam is getting more muscular, advancing its "rights" at every turn.
I'm not sure if that is what was going on here, but it seems to me an elegant solution would have been for the woman simply to have gone out and bought a handsome pair of white gloves.
In fact, since she presumably doesn't plan on touching any males during the course of her police work, it might not be a bad idea for her to have several pairs.
In Canada, meanwhile, our attempts to accommodate multicultural diversity have included:
- the RCMP bending to allow Sihks to wear turbans instead of the traditional mountie hat
- schools bending to allow Sihk students to wear hidden knives, and muslim students to have prayer rooms and prayer times, while banishing the Lord's Prayer and anything else that reeks of Christianity, such as Christmas carols
- a Toronto councillor of Asian heritage was allowed, as I recall, to forgo swearing allegiance to the Queen, since the woman's loyalty was to Canada, but not to Canada's sovereign
- meanwhile, in the name of tolerance and diversity, Christian marriage commissioners have been fired for declining, on religious grounds, to marry two men or women
- Simon Fraser university is dropping the two crosses from its emblem, so as not to cause confusion or consternation. At the same time, is is being endowed with a one million dollar fund for muslim studies. I guess it knows which side of the bread it's buttered on (did I say that right?).
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I have some ideas on this matter and the internet can be of help.
While there is little we can do about money extracted from us through our taxes, we can refuse to donate to institutions that reject Christian points of view.
We can donate to organizations that, at least, are not hostile to Christianity. From what I have been able to discern it is not other religious groups that are the problem but instead it is the secular humanists – or worse crypto-Christians.
We can list the organizations that are worthy of our support as well as those we should reject. Whatever is determined, send the list to friends.
Obviously, funding is very important. Inasmuch as possible we should defund those who actively oppose us and redirect our contributions to friendlier areas.
I might add, that since charitable donations are tax deductible, we are also helping to defund the government.
A much more difficult job is to get on committees at hostile organizations and gradually subvert them which is what has happened to us.
The organizations that we should try to take over, in many cases, were originally explicitly Christian so it will be a matter of recapturing them.
I have been astounded at how effectively the control over the funding of what should have been Christian organizations has been taken over by those who are pseudo-Christians.
We should loudly protest whenever a Christian church is attacked or a Christian is martyred. I find it curious, that in my many years of church attendance, I have very seldom heard about our modern day martyrs. It is a topic that should be brought out much more frequently. We should be encouraged to write letters to governments that allow such behaviour and we should write to our own government which may be providing foreign aid.
This attitude terrifies our pastors because they believe they should not be political. It would only take a few snail mail letters to start to worry a politician. Any attack on our pastors should be met with a barrage of blogging about what is going on.
Sorry to be so long-winded but this problem has concerned me for some time.
you are too bias on christianity, race and true bred Islanders-you need to stop putting down others and love as JESUS taught usss--if pei is ok to live here have the good manners and grace to speak and act in a mannerly fashion.
anonymous -- You have anonymously made allusions to my race and your mistaken belief that I was born on PEI without any evidence of either -- how kind and well-mannered is that?
You have accused me of being unkind -- I would prefer that you accuse me of being untruthful -- what did I say that was untrue?
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