[lit-ideas] No stoning, Canada migrants told

I started to post this to the Islamization of Europe thread, but then  
thought better of it ... excerpts from the short piece below.
 
_Click here: BBC  NEWS | Americas | No stoning, Canada migrants told_ 
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6316151.stm)  
 
<<"We consider it completely outside norms to... kill women by  stoning them 
in public, burning them alive, burning them with acid, circumcising  them 
etc." >>
 
Well, that sounds reasonable to me ....
 
<<The rules ban Sikh children from carrying ceremonial daggers to  school, 
even though the Supreme Court has ruled they can. >>
 
Children here have nail clippers and pretend knives (plastic) confiscated  
and are sometimes suspended for such an infraction.  But daggers?!
 
<<In one a Toronto judge ordered a Christmas tree removed from a  court so as 
not to offend non-Christians. In another a Montreal gym installed  frosted 
windows after a Hasidic synagogue complained the sight of adults  exercising 
was 
offensive. >>
 
Does this count as religious freedom under the separation of state and  
religion?  Or is it an Orwellian sort of implementation of  secularism?  
 
<<Montreal police are considering disciplinary action against the  
37-year-old officer who wrote the song urging immigrants in Quebec to  
assimilate. 
 
The song includes the lines: "We want to accept ethnics, but not at any  
price... if you're not happy with your fate, there's a place called the  
airport." 
 
Police spokesman Yan Lafreniere said the song did not uphold the values of  
the Montreal police force and that the officer would be questioned as to his  
motives. >> 
Erin, help me out here ....? 
Julie Krueger

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