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Hookah lounges exempt from (smoking) bylaw (Vancouver Muslim "important cultural space")
The Vancouver Sun ^
| September 21, 2007
| Frances Bula
Posted on 09/27/2007 6:00:13 PM PDT by fanfan
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:00:20 PM PDT
by
fanfan
To: fanfan; GMMAC; Clive; exg; kanawa; conniew; backhoe; -YYZ-; Former Proud Canadian; Squawk 8888; ...
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:00:58 PM PDT
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: fanfan
LOL
One kind if Nazi (anti-smoking) meets another kind of Nazi (Moose-limbs) — must be professional courtesy.......
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:07:55 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(Yeah, well, maybe - but can you *prove* it?)
To: fanfan
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:10:11 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
To: fanfan
British Columbiastan.
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:10:15 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
To: fanfan
Quote from a
related article in regards to the assertion that hookah lounges are essential for immigrants from hookah-smoking cultures:
The state, in other words, is prepared to treat Muslims as free-born adults who can weigh the "cultural value" (ie, the pleasures) of smoking against the health risks. But not the rest of us.
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:11:27 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: fanfan
The one foggy point in the new bylaw was whether it will apply to crack cocaine and crystal-meth smoking. HUH?????
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:11:45 PM PDT
by
blinachka
(Vechnaya Pamyat Daddy... xoxo)
To: fanfan
So what about the Marlboro man? Doesn’t he deserve the same cultural space? This PC crap is going to be the death of the world as we know it.
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:12:55 PM PDT
by
Tarpon
To: fanfan
I've noticed more often that hookah and cigar bars are being granted exemptions from anti-smoking ordinances --probably because they are trendy. This begs the question, can you go to a hookah or cigar bar and light up a cigarette?
One of the "positives" of the shameless pandering to Muslim immigrants might be in rolling back some of the smoking bans. I've been to many Islamic countries and those people are serious smokers. You can smoke everywhere --elevators, restrooms, shopping malls, airports, etc...
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:14:00 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: fanfan
600 years ago, there was no tabacco in the “old world.” The hookah was\is used for smoking hashish.
The term ‘Assassin’ is generally assumed to be derived from its connections to the Hashshashin, a militant religious sect of Ismaili Muslims, thought to be active in the Middle East in the 8th to 14th centuries. This mystic secret society killed members of the Abbasid elite for political or religious reasons.[3]
Stories claim that these early assassins were drugged during their murders, often with materials such as hashish and opium. The name assassin is derived from either hasishin for the supposed influence of the drugs, and disregard for their own lives in the process, or hassansin for their leader, Hassan-i-Sabah.
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:21:25 PM PDT
by
Ratblaster
(HILLARY 08 Bring Back the Crooked Hillbillies)
To: fanfan
600 years ago, there was no tabacco in the “old world.” The hookah was\is used for smoking hashish.
The term ‘Assassin’ is generally assumed to be derived from its connections to the Hashshashin, a militant religious sect of Ismaili Muslims, thought to be active in the Middle East in the 8th to 14th centuries. This mystic secret society killed members of the Abbasid elite for political or religious reasons.[3]
Stories claim that these early assassins were drugged during their murders, often with materials such as hashish and opium. The name assassin is derived from either hasishin for the supposed influence of the drugs, and disregard for their own lives in the process, or hassansin for their leader, Hassan-i-Sabah.
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:21:30 PM PDT
by
Ratblaster
(HILLARY 08 Bring Back the Crooked Hillbillies)
To: fanfan
Automobile exhaust? Have they banned that yet?
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:22:09 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: fanfan
Hamid Mohammadian, operator of the Persian Teahouse on Davie Street, thanked council for the exemption. "We are very happy because this is our culture. I have one customer, 75 years old, who said 'I will have no other place to go if you close,'" he said.and
City council also agreed that the city's two cigar shops, which have special smoking rooms, can operate until everyone finds out what the province's new anti-smoking regulations will be.
Hasn't smoking tobacco products been a traditional part of the cultures of the Americas, going back to the Native inhabitants, shouldn't it be protected under the same protections offered the Persian Hookah fans? Rhetorical really. Wow. Nothing to see here, nope, no favoritism or special treatment for one group over others...
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:25:05 PM PDT
by
fortunecookie
(Finally catching up with posting...)
To: Drew68
I've noticed more often that hookah and cigar bars are being granted exemptions Where, exactly, are these cigar bars you've noticed?
ML/NJ
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:28:40 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: fanfan
Mark up another win for the ROP.
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:29:44 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(Government is the opiate of the people.)
To: Drew68
I’ve also noticed that the likelihood of meeting a belly-dancer is greater in a hookah lounge.
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:30:42 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: fanfan
Bend over and let them stick you in the butt again. Are people stupid? What next? Maybe we shouldn’t tax them because it may be against muslim law. Maybe we shouldn’t charge them interest on loans.....this is against muslim law, they can’t charge each other interes.....according to what I hear.
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:31:15 PM PDT
by
RC2
To: fanfan
But health-protection director Domenic Losito said he didn't think so, since the bylaw is aimed at cigarette smoke.Take your bongs to the streets - filled with tobacco,of course.
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:34:14 PM PDT
by
Socratic
(“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.” - Corrie Ten Boom)
To: FARS; milford421; DAVEY CROCKETT
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:34:38 PM PDT
by
nw_arizona_granny
(This is "Be an Angel Day", do something nice for someone today.)
To: fanfan
Has the Nobel Prize Committe started awarding a Prize for Muslim ass-kissing?
What's the reason for this doglike groveling everywhere in the West? It's like a mass psychosis.
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posted on
09/27/2007 6:44:25 PM PDT
by
VR-21
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