Canadian Tragedy: Trying to Live Contradictions

"Sharia law is being practiced in Canada," Article, by Margaret Wente, Saturday, May 29, 2004.

A friend sent this older article to me recently, and I find this article to be one of the more vexing articles I have read in some time. Yes, I know Canada has become a spineless, almost formless, moral jellyfish. Yes, I know Canada has been destroying itself faster than anyone from the outside could do it. Yes, I am disappointed and disgusted with what used to be our fine neighbor to the north. I am also aware that there are fine Canadians who hate the "liberal" degeneration of Canada as much as we do down here. We wish they would wrest control back.

Until then, it is clear that Canada has decided to kill itself, and there may be nothing we can do about it. We can understand it because what Canada is doing shows how and why contradictions cannot be lived.

Homa Arjomand knows what it's like to live under sharia law. She, her husband and two small children (the youngest was barely one) escaped on a gruelling trip by horseback through the mountains. That was in 1989. Today, she lives in a suburb northeast of Toronto. Her job is helping immigrant Muslim women in distress. And now she is battling the arrival of sharia law in Canada.

"We must separate religion from the state," she says emotionally. "We're living in Canada. We want Canadian secular law."
(Emphasis mine)

Homa Arjomand expressed this fundamental principle of separation of state from religion very clearly and correctly. What is she reacting to?

The province of Ontario has authorized the use of sharia law in civil arbitrations, if both parties consent. The arbitrations will deal with such matters as property, marriage, divorce, custody and inheritance. In theory, their decisions aren't supposed to conflict with Canadian civil law. But because there is no third-party oversight, and no duty to report decisions, no outsider will ever know if they do. These decisions can be appealed to the regular courts. But for Muslim women, the pressures to abide by the precepts of sharia are overwhelming. To reject sharia is, quite simply, to be a bad Muslim.

Canada is trying to be free and to be dhimmi. The two are totally opposite and mutually exclusive. Liberals, however, long ago abandoned truth for subjectivity, for the deformed belief that truth can be whatever they want it to be, without consequences. Watch reality assert itself.

Canada is running to shackle itself into dhimmitude without waiting for the Muslim takeover. Canada is devaluing its sovereignty to become just another society of non-Muslims living in a Muslim dominated society. No, not one law for ALL Canadians. And, just as Orwell said in Animal Farm, some pigs will be more equal than others, with the Muslims holding all the power, and the Canadians holding an empty sack. And to think they did it to themselves.

The law permitting a sharia court was passed in 1991, when Ontario sought to streamline the overloaded court system (and save money) by diverting certain civil cases to arbitration, including arbitration conducted on religious principles. Jewish courts have operated in the province this way for many years. "People can agree to resolve disputes in any way acceptable," said Brendan Crawley, a spokesman for the Ontario attorney-general. "If they decide to resolve disputes using principles of sharia and using an imam as an arbitrator, that is perfectly acceptable under the arbitration act."

Promoters of Islamic law in Canada have been working toward this goal for years. Last fall, they created the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice, which has already chosen arbitrators who have undergone training in sharia and Canadian civil law. The driving force behind the court is a lawyer and scholar named Syed Mumtaz Ali, who was quoted last week saying "to be a good Muslim," all Muslims must use these sharia courts.(Emphases mine)

What is missing here? Objectivity, thinking, standards, and above all REASON! There are still people who think you can get away with contradictions. Many people try. All fail. Every child has this way of thinking. Adults are supposed to grow out of this thinking mode.

Check this out:

Many Muslims, including many women, are enthusiastic about giving Islamic law an official place in Canada, and they emphatically deny that it will harm women's interests. On the contrary. They insist that under Islam, a woman's rights are protected. "We follow the Islamic law, secure with a perfect sense of equality between the sexes," wrote Khansa Muhaseen and Nabila Haque in a letter to the Toronto Star, where the sharia debate has been raging fiercely. (Emphasis mine)

Here are some others trying to get away with contradictions. In this case, they are trying to get away with lies about the rights and equality of women under Islam. Islam operates by means of lies. The foregoing represent that unique form of Islamic lying called taqiyya, or dissimulation. It is lying for gullible Western minds.

If you believe that Islam stands for equality among the sexes and women's rights, you will buy the Brooklyn Bridge from me just because I say it is a good deal for you. But, if you know any truth about Islam, you know how factually and morally wrong this intentionally deceptive statement is, claiming that "women's rights are protected" under Islam. Islam recognizes NO rights for anyone. And, in Islamic hierarchy, women are treated as rightless inferiors.

If you think Islam is a religion and should be shielded from objectivity because it is a religion, maybe even one of the great three religions, you and all of those who think like this are part of the problem,not the solution. Anyone who thinks like this is trying to make 2 + 2 = 5. Islam is a totally evil philosophy which has your annihilation as one of its central goals. If this thought pleases you, stop reading right here.

Here is a common contradiction that Islam exploits. Understand it well.

"This is a very difficult position for us to be in because we are believing women," says Ms. Hogben. "But to apply Muslim family law in Canada is not appropriate." In Britain, she adds, the government has flatly rejected councils for sharia law.

Both Ms. Hogben and Ms. Arjomand say that we are sacrificing these women on the altar of multiculturalism.

"This is an abuse of multiculturalism, says Ms. Hogben. "There is a lack of courage [on the part of governments], and also a fear of offending Muslim sensitivities."

"I chose to come to Canada because of multiculturalism," says Ms. Arjomand, who gave up a career in medical science to work with women who are victims of abuse. "But when I came here, I realized how much damage multiculturalism is doing to women. I'm against it strongly now. It has become a barrier to women's rights." (Emphases mine)

This last statement, "[Multiculturalism] has become a barrier to women's rights," augurs well for the future, but only potentially. It means that reality might be seeping into these women's minds, and reason might have a chance with them. That means all is not necessarily lost, although one cannot know given the Canada's degeneracy.

What these women face is not some eccentric variety of Islam. No, indeed, they face Islam as Islam. YOU CANNOT HAVE RIGHTS AND HAVE ISLAM TOO. That is an insupperable contradiction. Reality will out.

If you accept any of Islam, you accept it all. And, this is what Islam means. No, it is not some extreme, or political, or fundamentalist, or radical Islam, no, no--it is Islam, Islam, Islam, period! Buy in a little, you buy in all the way. You cannot do less, in theory and in fact.

You cannot have Islam and freedom too, not in the sense of the fundamental freedom every individual needs because of his human nature and need to fulfill his life.

Contradictions do not exist in reality. Hegel tried to replace reason with a universe of contradictions. What the world got from Hegel and his descendents was Nazism and Communism. These were the logical outcomes necessitated by Hegel's principles.

Contradictions cannot exist. It is not a function of what one believes; it is the metaphysical nature of reality. Think about it. Things are what they are. Each thing is an entity, and each entity has an identity. than entity can act only in one way--in accordance with its nature, i.e., its identity.

You cannot have your cake and eat it, as the old saying goes. Nothing can be anything but what it is, and that applies to all that exists. Contradictions try to get around that profundity, so that things, like Islam, can be what they are not, but success doing this is not possible.

These women want the Muslim faith, and they want Western laws, with rights protected. They are trying to live a contradiction. It cannot be done. You can have one or the other. Reality forces the choice.

Islam is anti-reality, anti-life, anti-values, and anti-human and all those imply. You can have Islam and death, but you cannot have Islam and life. You can try to live the contradiction, but you will run into what these women have run into. Either these women resolve the contradiction in favor of a rational solution, or they will live under shari'a and Islam. Their only hope is apostacy and reason.

If you understand this, then you understand why Canada is committing suicide and taking its best down with it.