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by Giulio Meotti
• February 3, 2017 at 5:00 am
- Quebec, like
the entire West, is facing an existential demographic and religious
crisis.
- Quebec's death
spiral is explicitly linked with the calls for increased immigration.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who put an end to the
military campaign against the Islamic State, just called on Muslim
migrants to come to his country.
- Resistance to
Quebec's dramatic collapse of Christianity does not necessarily
require a new embrace of an old Catholicism, but it certainly does
need a sane rediscovery of what a Western democracy should be. That
includes an appreciation of Western identity and Judeo-Christian
values -- everything Trudeau's government and much of Europe apparently
refuse to accept.
The Church of Saint-Jude in Montreal is today the
"Saint-Jude spa" for "wellness worshippers," complete
with personal trainers, trendy cocktail parties and custom-built
crucifix-shaped benches in the changing rooms. (Image source: Montreal.TV
video screenshot)
Welcome to Quebec, with its flavor of an old French province, with
its beautiful landscapes, where streets are named after Catholic saints,
and where a gunman just murdered six people in a local mosque.
Violence can be the consequence of societal convulsions, as in the
2011 massacre on Norway's island of Utoya, in a country that prided
itself of being ultra-secularized, and part of the global "good
society". Quebec, also, like the entire West, is facing an
existential demographic and religious crisis.
George Weigel, writing in the American publication, First Things
recently called Quebec "Catholicism's Empty Quarter".
"There is no more religiously arid place," he wrote,
"between the North Pole and Tierra del Fuego; there may be no more
religiously arid place on the planet".
Sandro Magister, one of Italy's most prominent journalists on
Catholic affairs, wrote, "while Rome talks, Quebec has already been
lost".
by Shoshana Bryen
• February 3, 2017 at 4:00 am
- The refugees
are the collateral damage in Australia's widely criticized
"Stop the Boats" policy, the rule that asylum seekers who
try to reach Australian shores by sea will never "make
Australia home," even if they are genuine refugees, are
children or have skills. — Los Angeles Times.
- "[T]he
arrivals by sea seem to prompt anger. One reason for this could be
that migrants and refugees who try to reach Australia by sea are, in
fact, coming illegally. Those that are being resettled through its
Humanitarian Programme, meanwhile, are registered refugees being
accepted under Australia's international obligations." — J.
Weston Phippen, in The Atlantic.
- Then-Secretary
of State John Kerry worked out the deal with Australia to "fast
track" the immigrants, but did not tell Congress. It would be
illegal if the deal was considered a treaty negotiated by Kerry.
According to the Constitution, it would have to have been sent to
Congress for ratification.
The Manus Island regional processing facility, where
Australia sends illegal immigrants. (Image source: Australia Department
of Immigration and Citizenship)
It is hard to complain about Australia -- democratic, sunny,
cheerful, and oh, those koalas and kangaroos. On a more serious note,
Australia is a welcome ally, participating in military operations around
the world with American forces and sharing our concerns about aggressive
Chinese behavior in the South- and East China Seas. Australia is spending
billions to modernize its military forces.
But a few things about Australia should be made clear as President
Trump scuttles an Obama-administration deal to take 1,250+ refugees
currently in Australian-run internment camps in Papua New Guinea and
Nauru. Internment camps? Papua New Guinea and Nauru?
The Wall Street Journal explains:
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