Ujjal Dosanjh. Photo: John Lehmann/Globe and Mail
You know, back when 331 people were killed in a terrorist bombing orchestrated by Canadian Sikhs? This isn’t just “distorted multiculturalism”. These are the inevitable, predictable, foreseeable consequences that we, the perpetually proscribed “racists” of Canada, have been trying to tell you for decades.
‘Men’ like Dosanjh created the conditions that allowed these things to happen.
He knew all along.
Crocodile tears, my dear chap…
The ‘mosaic’ of multiculturalism is weak and when it breaks, it breaks along the lines of the constituent pieces. The assimilation of the ‘melting pot’ fuses pieces into a whole, one that’s stronger than its individual parts. Canada doesn’t have to abandon multiculturalism, it just has to stop officially promoting and paying to keep Canadians in hyphenated ghettos. We tolerate and welcome people of all cultures but we need to rally around unifying institutions that advance unity as well as, and in some ways, in preference to official, artificial, romanticized, idealized diversity.
It seems patently unfair, to say the least, to blame Dosanjh for the terrorist bombing, when he was a victim of just such extremists. Ezra Levant has the fairness to give Ujjal Dosanjh credit where credit is due. See:
http://ezralevant.com/2010/04/hooray-for-ujjal-dosanjh.html
I understand that there have been calls to pull all funding from the Sikh parade for threatening Mr. Dosanjh.
I’d be more interested to know if there have been any moves to force the cancellation of the parade outright. If it’s going to be a rally for terrorists, (and supporting terrorism is actually illegal), I see no reason why it should be allowed to continue. Certainly any parade needs permission to take place as it disrupts traffic at the very least. I doubt very much if I could organize any parade I wanted to for any reason.
I don’t think this qualifies as a restriction on free speech. (Am I wrong?) It’s simply a withdrawal of public support in the form of permission to obstruct traffic.
Sorry, Ted, but it isn’t unfair at all. Ujjal speaking just because it happens to have happened to him doesn’t excuse turning a blind eye to ghettoized immigrant communities in Canada, and working for a party that whitewashes the problems multiculturalism.
I can understand people giving him credit now, finally, for coming to his senses decades after the brutal truth.
But this is the same guy ripping on the military, throwing words like “torture” and “war crimes” and “rendition” about like candy. I have not the slightest inclination of giving him an inch more credit than he deserves.
Adrian, I was not defending Dosanjh’s attacks on Canada’s military. Read Ezra Levant’s remarks (see link I posted). He distinguishes between those attacks and Dosanjh’s attacks on our military. Ujal has not “finally come to his senses,” he was beaten up before the bombing of the plane, because he had aleady spoken out against the extremists.
Ted,
I already wrote about this a few days ago with Dosanjh and Hayer, and before Dosanjh spoke out against the community:
http://unambig.com/it-happens-because-we-let-it/
Nevertheless, I still think you give him too much credit. I don’t have very much respect for a man who needs to be personally involved before he sees a problem.
It’s not just the Sikh community, but there are other communities that are also similarly cut off from Canada, isolated and radicalized against us.
I agree with the comments you made previously about the general problem. The encouragement governments have given to the separatism of various communities has helped produce the problem.
I disagree with Dosanjh on other matters, but I think we should recognize that he spoke out against extremism in his community years ago and paid a heavy price for doing so. But I guess you don’t agree with me, so we can let that rest.
I do agree with you. I just have a hard time taking Mr.War-crimes-rendition-torture very seriously sometimes.
Adrian:
The difference is that, 25 years ago when his anti-extremism stand damned near cost him his life, Dosanjh was speaking as a Canadian. On his war crimes -rendition schtick he’s speaking as a Liberal.
Maybe the guy could try being a Canadian 7/24?