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?
Islam isn’t completely a religion. It is mostly a political system masquerading as a religion. Much like Liberalism is mostly a religion masquerading as a political system. So it is a tough call.
I see your point and it is an excellent distinction.
i seriously am for thunderdoming many of our existing, liberal-rooted problems. check prior posts.
everyone has right to association and a right to set requirements to obtain service. no guns in my store. no shoes, no service. not a member, no service.
Employ Sharia law - shave his hands off his wrists. That’s only fair.
Taking either side, when one of the sides is not traditional Western culture, is not what their goal is.
Only when the outcome is to demonize or weaken Western culture is when they will take a side.
They could care less about Muslims or women or gays or anything. All they care about is taking down the Man, i.e. Us.
That’s a strong argument that could succeed. Unfortunately, the GOP, National Review, the Wall Street Journal and the so called “religious right” don’t appear interested in protecting conservatives from persecution.
and of course if the free market were allowed to work NONE of this would be an issue
In this case, the barber's rights trump the lesbian's rights.
The last time I checked, nobody has the right to force a barber to give them a haircut.
The barber can simply hold up a placard which sez:
"I reserve the right to refuse service to anyone."
Gay trumps black, and muslim trumps gay.
The most equitable Sharia compliant solution is to cut the Muslim's hands off and then he won't have any hand but he won't have to cut the lesbian's hair.
I saw this BS on the horizon. That is why I decided against pursuing med school. Computer science and electrical engineering has been a better choice for me. The background in molecular biology and pathogenic microbiology has retained a level of interest, but no longer a profession.
[Unfortunately, the judge sided with the patient and sentenced the dentist to perform FREE dental treatment for 50 HIV+ patients.]
Just curious, but does this judge still have his original kneecaps?
In the real world that "woman" would be laughed out of the room.
I know it is off-topic, but does anyone else find the irony (or 1984-ish image) of the cop holding up the evil assault weapon, while she(?) has 3 high cap magazines on her belt?
Some pigs are more equal than others.
I don’t know but the seriously ill liberals are stuck on stupid about any “AR-15” looking target rifle. I can count on one hand the crimes committed with one and I have fingers missing.
The only solution is to make popcorn and sit back and watch.
RE: The barber can simply hold up a placard which sez:
“I reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.”
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Not in Colorado or New Mexico you can’t.
The eradication of the two great evils of our age: freedom of association and discrimination trumps all and Canada is a PC Soviet police state. The Muslim man is going to be crushed.
LAWSUIT time!
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