Re: Quebec reacts to Islamists
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Posted by David on 18:33:45 2007/04/04
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Quebec reacts to Islamists posted by Lorne Gunter
With all due respect to Lorne Gunther, Mario Dumont is no Pim Fortuyn. Rather, Dumont is the latest political incarnation of Quebec
provincialism and its suspicion for all things considered to be culturally alien. In the so-called debate on reasonable accommodation in Quebec which focussed mainly on Hassidic Jews, not Muslims, Dumont only spoke out on media-hyped cases of unreasonable accommodation demanded by Hassidim. Dumont is and always has been an opportunist. He seized on the provincial electorate`s sense of outrage at minorities living in dreaded Montreal drummed up by the media and scored some political points. Islamism is not part of Dumont`s vocabulary nor of his concerns. He is simply a populist politician pandering to latent xenophobia.
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