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Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Gay Activists Have Met Their Match With Muslim Barbers

So a lesbian walks into a Muslim barbershop, and asks for a “businessmen’s haircut”.

It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it really happened, and now a government agency called the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario will hear her complaint.

Faith McGregor is the lesbian who doesn’t like the girly cuts that they do at a salon. She wants the boy’s hairdo.

Omar Mahrouk is the owner of the Terminal Barber Shop in Toronto. He follows Shariah law, so he thinks women have cooties. As Mahrouk and the other barbers there say, they don’t believe in touching women other than their own wives.

But that’s what multiculturalism and unlimited immigration from illiberal countries means. A central pillar of many immigrant cultures is the second-class citizenship of women and gays.

So if we now believe in multiculturalism, and that our Canadian culture of tolerance isn’t any better than the Shariah culture of sex crimes and gender apartheid, who are we to complain when Omar Mahrouk takes us up on our promise that he can continue to practise his culture — lesbian haircuts be damned?

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Read the whole article. It's a good read.

Anonymous said...

It's an effed up world when you look at it in that analogy.

Announcing that you are black or white is not a choice, announcing that you are gay is. Keep your mouth shut and go find someone who wants to deal with you instead of forcing people to deal with you.

Anonymous said...

It will be interesting to see who's rights the government will support.....

The fundamental right to your own property and associate (in this case, the muslims' side) should prevail - as they should have in Arizona!

I am not a fan of fundamentalist muslims generally as they have historically been anti - whatever we stand for, but they may serve the greater good as a tool in this instance.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
It's an effed up world when you look at it in that analogy.

Announcing that you are black or white is not a choice, announcing that you are gay is. Keep your mouth shut and go find someone who wants to deal with you instead of forcing people to deal with you.

March 6, 2014 at 6:16 AM

Perfect words of wisdom! Well Said.

Anonymous said...

I married into a family of huggers if you get my drift.It wouldn't do for a muslim male to enter that fray & have some woman run up to him at a get together and latch on.But it would be hilarious.

Anonymous said...

I'm sure the Muslim wanted to cut something off concerning her/it's head, hint; it wasn't her hair.