Monday, January 30, 2017

Unless love trumps hate, the social fabric will be torn apart!



Right wing extremists commit act of terror against Moslem worshipers

Islamaphobia manifests in Canada with the murder of innocent worshippers(shot in the back while praying in their sacred place of worship).

When political leaders use their giant
megaphones to trumpet intolerance and hatred toward minority ethnic and religious groups, it creates a climate wch is very negative.
A culture of tolerance or intolerance is rolemodeled by our leaders and educators.
The "othering" of such minority groups incites ignorant unstable people to persecute,scapegoat,and target minority groups with hatred and violence.
Legitimizing the scapegoating of such groups (for Trump its the Moslems) is a historic strategy of populist politicians to divert/distract public attention from the real causes of societal unrest.
Minority groups should not be  blameworthy targets of fear,anger and hatred.
Political leaders have a moral responsibility to use their influence to denounce bigotry and narrow nationalist sentiments, and not to fuel and direct people's resentments against minorities.
We need policies of inclusion and unity.
We must express our unity with all minority communities that are victimized by discrimination or explicit acts of hatred and violence.

Such cowardly acts are crimes  against all humanity!.

16 comments:

  1. Why does Trump not speak out against Islamaphobia and racizm?

    Silence is complicity!

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  2. PM House statement on the terrorist attack in Quebec | Prime Minister of Canada

    http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2017/01/30/pm-house-statement-terrorist-attack-quebec

    "...our sense of unity, will only strengthen.The people who commit these acts mean to test our resolve, and weaken our values. They aim to divide us. To sow discord and plant hatred.We will not close our minds. We will open our hearts.Mr. Speaker, my friends, my fellow Canadians: let us strive to be the best version of ourselves in this dark hour.To the more than one million Canadians who profess the Muslim faith, I want to say directly:We are with you. 36 million Canadian hearts are breaking with yours.And know that we value you. You enrich our shared country in immeasurable ways. It is your home.Last night’s horrible crime against the Muslim community was an act of terror committed against Canada, and against all Canadians.We will grieve with you. We will defend you. We will love you. And we will stand with you.Over the coming days, take solace in one another. We will mourn this devastating attack, and we will heal, together. As one community, as one country, and as one family.Canadians will not be intimidated. We will not meet violence with more violence.We will meet fear and hatred with love and compassion.Always.Thank you, Mr. Speaker."

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  3. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

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  4. clash of extremists:fear,ignorance,and mis-identification

    This incident clearly demonstrates that painting/stereotyping all Moslems as "radical Islamic terrorists"(jihadists) is like seeing all right wing conservatives as "white nationalist supremacists". In both cases a small subgroup wch condones the use of hatred and violence to achieve their political goals...is misidentified with the larger law-abiding mainstream group wch then becomes unfairly stigmatized and victimized.

    During times of war, members of the enemy nationalities were rounded up and placed in detention camps out of fear and issues of national security. They are perceived as belonging to a group wch has been identified as "the enemy" ,and as a potential threat. Thus for example, during the second world war persons of Japanese ancestry living in Canada were lumped together into the category of "the enemy". During the cold war era, socialists were lumped together with "commies" . (today's Islamaphobia is 1950's McCarthyism) Positing an external threat provides justification for increasing consolidation/accretion of power within the office of the presidency as well as the erosion of civil liberties in the name of national security. It also distracts from the problems at home and the real internal causes of discontent. As long as Moslems are perceived with fear as today's "enemy", they become an acceptable/permissable target of intolerance, anger, and hatred. Minority groups are openly and subliminally maligned, scapegoated,shunned,ostracized for being different.

    The Moslem-haters say: "Moslem-lovers can yell "Islamaphobia" as loud as they can,...but Islam wed,ill not take over our country."

    "Moslems hate us.We can't allow people who hate us into our country". --Donald Trump

    Can we trust our government to tell us who we should be afraid of?

    We must condemn hate speech and hateful ideas. Hatemongers must not be allowed to promulgate their poison without condemnation.

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  5. “First they came for the socialists, and I said nothing because I was not a socialist
    Then they came for the trade unionists, and I said nothing because I was not a trade unionist
    Then they came for the Jews, and I said nothing because I was not a Jew.
    Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.”
    --the German pastor Martin Niemöller
    speaking during the Nazi era

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    1. an insightful analysis of the global threat of populism--its ideology and playbook for gaining and maintaining power


      cbc.ca/the current Nov 28,2018

      Citizens must become leaders in order to combat populism, says former diplomat
       Ben Rowswell.

      As a former diplomat, Ben Rowswell witnessed populist politics has taken hold in recent years, and the impact that had on countries like Venezuela. Now he's urging citizens to organize and fight back against the threat.

      Shared from cbc.ca/listen:


      https://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/the-current



      canadian international council

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  6. Catholic church condemns "Christian" extremism :

    vatican approved article condemns evangelical fundamentalism in America

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/13/pope-associates-criticize-american-evangelicals-extremism


    A close confidant of Pope Francis, writing Thursday in a Vatican-approved magazine, condemned the way some American evangelicals and their Roman Catholicsupporters mix religion and politics, saying their worldview promotes division and hatred.

    http://globalnews.ca/news/3598032/confidant-pope-francis-condemns-evangelical-fundamentalists/

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  7. Trump's rhetoric emboldens bigots and  breeds hatred.

    Trump's rhetoric breeds bigotry : by failing to condemn racism, bigotry, and hate, ...Trump validates and normalizes such behaviour

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    1. AIH/cbcradio/jan 18/2018

      Extremist violence is not the monopoly of radical moslems
      (Part 2)Extremist Killings Report, Jan 17, 2018

      http://www.cbc.ca/radio/popup/audio/listen.html?autoPlay=true&mediaIds=1140275779955,1140277827520,1140278851844

      http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/17/us/white-supremacist-killings-adl-report/index.html

      The report, called “Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2017” and published by the ADL's Center on Extremism, found that 'white supremacists and ...

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  8. "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion,"
    --Nelson Mandela.

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  9. Trump retweets anti-Muslim propaganda videos from a British hate group

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/politics/donald-trump-retweet-jayda-fransen/index.html

    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/29/16714788/trump-retweet-britain-first-islamophobia

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  10. This tells you something about the character and thr mindset of Donald Trump :

    https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/us/politics/roy-moore-donald-trump.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&redir_esc=&client=ms-android-samsung&source=android-browser-type&v=141338691&qsubts=1512423248843&q=trump+endorses+more

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  11. "Fire and Fury inside the Trump Whitehouse" by Michael Wolf

    Steve Bannon (Trump's chief strategist) accuses Trump of treason

    Trump administration is dysfunctional and continually in damage control mode
    (continuous infighting)

    "I'm a very stable genius"
    "We need to block immigration from these shithole countries"

    impulsive,volatile,unpredictable

    CBC.ca/quirksandquarks jan 13,2018
    many signs of mental instability and fitness for duty(incompetence)
    need for psychiatric assessment/evaluation

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  12. Trump's mental state ‘is a national and international security risk

    Psychiatrist's new warning that Trump's mental state ‘is a national and international security risk

    http://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/science-explains-when-to-visit-the-hospital-answer-emails-psychiatrist-s-new-warning-on-trump-s-mental-state-1.4480633/psychiatrist-s-new-warning-that-trump-s-mental-state-is-a-national-and-international-security-risk-1.4480637

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    1. A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
      -- Former FBI Director James Comey

      "Donald Trump is morally unfit to be president"
      -- Former FBI Director James Comey


      https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21740767-how-james-comey-damaged-himself-and-fbi-bitter-attack-trump-fbis-former


      https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/13/politics/comey-book-trump/index.html

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  13. Humanity at a crossroad:

    Humanity at a crossroads

    Freud wrote in "Civilization and its Discontents" :
    "Men have brought their powers of subdueing the forces of nature to such a pitch that by using them they could now exterminate one another to the last man.They know this ---hence arises a great part of their current unrest, their dejection, their mood of apprehension (unfocused fear).
    And now it can be expected that the other of the two competing forces within him ,Eros (the  love instinct aims to bind together, to establish and preserve ever greater unities.) will pull forth its strenght to counter its adversary, the destructive instinct thst wants to break connections,to destroy".

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