August1991 Posted May 16, 2004 Report Posted May 16, 2004 The French forum I follow is livid about this. The thread is on top, with smart posts on both sides. Quebec Forum Cinq Fous-d'Allah capturés à Montréal, après avoir incendié une école de Montréal, agissant tout-à-fait dans la mouvance d'Al-Qaïda This English language forum is silent. Why? (Are you posters PC? All flash no cash? Joe Clark look-a-likes?) There's La Presse And there's Canadian Press in the Toronto Star French, English. Your choice. Quote
August1991 Posted May 16, 2004 Author Report Posted May 16, 2004 Excuse this French language essay. Or, ask a friend to translate. You will understand a genuine Canada. Je dirais qu'ils soient punis dans la mesure de la loi et forcés à participer à un programme pour les informer sur la communauté juive qu'ils seront forcés de côtoyer, afin de briser les préjugés qu'ils ont envers celle-ci. Logique, non? Quote
maplesyrup Posted May 16, 2004 Report Posted May 16, 2004 Une bonne idee! Much more productive than the lash Quote An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France
idealisttotheend Posted May 17, 2004 Report Posted May 17, 2004 Can't read francais, had trouble conjugating the verbs in school, but thought I'd make a contentious comment. Looking at the middle east and raced-religion based violence in general, I have often wondered if the only solution is to have Jews and Arabs shop at the same markets and eat in the same restaurants. This would make it extremely hard for fanatics to bomb Jews. Carrying it over to Canada what if there were no Jewish schools, (or schools based on any faith or ethnicity), nothing to bomb n'est pas? Yes there would still be synagogues and community centres but these could be guarded zealously against such attacks being fewer in number. I have another reason to argue against schools based on religion or ethnicity. I love my country and one of the main reasons is that so many different sorts can live together in relative harmony (90% of the time 19 times out of twenty). But I wonder how much of that tolerance is guaranteed by the fact that I went to school with a guy with the last name of Venketreman and another with the name of Huynh and thought that it was the most normal thing in the world? Quote All too often the prize goes, not to who best plays the game, but to those who make the rules....
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