Posted on 03/09/2014 7:12:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Being a believer in all -isms can get hairy at times. Take as an illustration a case reported in the Toronto Sun by Ezra Levant:
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.
The incident occurred in Canada in November 2012, but it could easily happen here and now. Let’s take a state at random — say Arizona — and graft on the same scenario. Gay rights activists usually tend to be protectors of adherents to America’s lone “diverse” religion, Islam, so where do their sympathies lie?
This question is a real head scratcher in Canada, which passed a Multiculturalism Act in 1988, paving the way for an influx of immigrants with medieval attitudes toward second-class citizens (read: women and gays). Faith McGregor belongs to both groups.
How to resolve this this “human rights” impasse? Levant envisions a hierarchy similar to the one found in the game of poker, except in this case based on some ad hoc notion of degrees of political correctness. He quips:
A white, Christian male has the lowest hand — it’s like he’s got just one high card, maybe an ace. So almost everyone trumps him.
A white woman is just a bit higher — like a pair of twos. Enough to beat a white man, but not much more.
A gay man is like having two pairs in poker.
A gay woman — a lesbian like McGregor — is like having three of a kind.
A black lesbian is a full house — pretty tough to beat.
Unless she’s also in a wheelchair, which means she’s pretty much a straight flush.
The only person who could trump that would be a royal flush. If the late Sammy Davis Jr. — who was black, Jewish and half-blind — were to convert to Islam and discover he was 1/64th Aboriginal.
So which is a better hand: A lesbian who wants a haircut or a Muslim who doesn’t want to give it to her?
Joking aside, when government attempts to decide which protected class of citizens is more aggrieved in cases like this, they run into trouble. The only “out” is to look the other way, which is what liberals have been doing here for years. The question of tolerance for one protected group over another arose during the murder trial of George Zimmerman, when the prosecution’s star witness Rachel Jeantel intimated under cross-examination that Trayvon Martin was anti-gay. Do you recall any marches by the Lambda Society or GLAAD denouncing blacks for their Stone Age view of homosexuality? Nah. Instead, liberals buried their heads in the sand, waiting till the news cycle moved on to other headlines. Hypocrisy much?
Demanding some one else perform for you is to make them a slave.
This is like the quandry of what an environmentalist should do when they see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant...
Though I'm pretty sure liberals will find some way to blame this situation on Bush and or Palin.
It might be interesting if it asked for a razor cut.
A straight flush beats?
Which group can urinate the farthest?
Well, lets seek a compromise.
The lesbian wants a hair cut. The muslim does not want to give her one.
The muslim wants to stone the lesbian. The lesbian does not want to be stoned.
I say, we let each of them get their way. It is after all, a civil rights issue.
We will toss a coin to see who goes first.
Heads, the lesbian gets her hair cut, and then the muslim gets to stone her.
Tails, the muslim gets to stone her and then the lesbian gets her hair cut.
Sound fair to ya’ll?
Muslims are not allowed to touch Pigs.
Which side to support? Neither. Maybe they’ll fight it out. She was looking to start something. Most salons do men’s or women’s cuts.
Yes but have there been any cases of womens’ rights versus Muslim rights?
Would a ( devout ) Christian barber refuse to cut the hair of a lesbian ? I wouldn’t think so.
I often complain that rhetoric rules over reason, but even in the realm of rhetoric, this does not equate to the refusal of Christian baker to bake a gay wedding cake. Because presumably they would bake a birthday cake, a graduation cake, or other kinds of cakes for gay clientele, as it is not their personage which is under objection, but the act of participating in a ritual proscribed by their belief.
Maybe a fine point, but not so fine that I myself cannot appreciate it.
I thought “gotcha!” then I saw ‘Toronto’.
Damn.
Should be interesting to follow, though...
“Omar Mahrouk is the owner of the Terminal Barber Shop in Toronto. He follows Shariah law, so he thinks women have cooties.”
Frankly, as a woman I would never go into a barber shop owned by a Muslim man that follows Shariah law, and whose barbershop is named “Terminal”. And he has a scissors near my throat. Just sayin ...
Forgot to throw in a sex change operation.
let’s just hope he doesn’t refuse to bale them a wedding cake or take their wedding photos....
should read bake, not bale
Something smells fishy here...
A dentist is only permitted to refuse treating an AIDS patient if the procedure that needs to be done is beyond the dentist’s “scope of expertise”. I personally know many general dentists who do not do extractions and always refer them to the oral surgeon. Many AIDS patients are medically complex and have other health issues as well. This dentist legitimately offered to treat this patient in a hospital setting. We know now that this situation was a set-up from a group of AIDS activists. Unfortunately, the judge sided with the patient and sentenced the dentist to perform FREE dental treatment for 50 HIV+ patients. Dentists are not exempt from treating patients with HIV or hepatitis in their private offices. “Universal precautions” for infection control are supposed to be in place to prevent transmission of disease, whether you know someone is infected with something or not.
Wow! No penis envy complex there! I’ll bet she can write her name in the snow.
Just another proof that liberalism is a religious cult of fools.
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