Yes, it’s true that:
The Shafia girls were likely the victims, not only of a crime, but of our perverse national habit: We emphasize multicultural propriety more than the welfare of individual human beings. And this goes triple for Muslims.
That’s the background that shapes the day-to-day policies of teachers, social workers and even police. It makes them overly anxious to conciliate, to mollify. It disarms their best instincts and prevents them from doing what they would want to do: Get potential victims out of danger.
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But Canadians (although not just Canadians) have another “perverse national habit”:
Working for the government and for might-as-well-be-government agencies like the police, education and the “helping” professions. All of which offer employees juicy benefits, which they’d lose if they didn’t keep their heads down.
Corbella: Here's hoping cultural relativism gets a life sentence
As far as Homa Arjomand is concerned, official multiculturalism belongs in the prisoners' box along with three Ontarians on trial for the honour killings of four female family members.
"If Canadian children - and by that I mean children who are born here to Canadian-born parents - approached child welfare authorities with the stories of fear and abuse that these girls did, then the child welfare workers would not have hesitated to take them to a safe place and start legal proceedings against the parents," adds Arjomand.
So, is it a kind of racism that helped do in the three girls and woman?
Arjomand takes a while to answer that. Official multi-culturalism tells immigrants that when they come to Canada they can keep their own culture - that their culture has as much right and validity as the Canadian culture, she explains.
"In Canada's attempt to be tolerant of all people what ends up happening is they are tolerant of intolerable things. They hold newcomers to a lower standard and expect less of them, rather than teaching them Canadian values before they come here, so they understand," adds Arjomand."
Related: The Arlene Bynon Show - Academic Pinhead apologist for Islam weighs in on the Shafia Murders...
Thank Sdmatt for the vid