Canadian PM Insists Islamic Theocracy Fits w/Free Society
February 23, 2016
Precocious Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who, like most Canadian taxpayers, can't believe he's prime minister, also can't believe there's a contradiction between theocracy and free societies.
Isn't that latter approach the pathway to mainstreaming Islamic theocracy and sacrificing the free and open thing?
Also is "not incompatible" really the highest praise here? Would you bring a few million people to your country who hopefully are "not incompatible" with your country? Would you marry someone you are "not incompatible" with? Would you invite them into your home?
Don't we have higher standards than "not incompatible"? Or is "not incompatible" what we're willing to settle for while claiming that the "obviously incompatible" are a tiny minority of incompatibles?
In the two interviews, both with CBC, Trudeau insisted that Islam is "not incompatible with the Western secular democracy."Unlike Justin, I'm not an expert on Islam, but I have to wonder shouldn't it be up to the Muslim community, for example, to demonstrate that it's not incompatible with free and open Western societies, rather than free and open Western societies having to demonstrate that there is no contradiction between them and Islam?
In the most recent interview on January 31, he said "we need to make sure that we’re working with communities like the Muslim community, for example, to demonstrate that Islam is not incompatible with free and open Western societies."
Also is "not incompatible" really the highest praise here? Would you bring a few million people to your country who hopefully are "not incompatible" with your country? Would you marry someone you are "not incompatible" with? Would you invite them into your home?
Don't we have higher standards than "not incompatible"? Or is "not incompatible" what we're willing to settle for while claiming that the "obviously incompatible" are a tiny minority of incompatibles?
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