In 2007 I welcomed a muslim family into my home, in Regina, and rented my suite to their family. No one else would.
The first weeks were fun and interesting. We were learning each other's culture and faith. He 'let' his wife and daughter be 'free' in Canada. They didn't have to wear hijab.
Then I began to notice things in my part of the house moved slightly. Long story short, the wife had been secretly accessing my computer to contact her family because the husband would not allow her to talk to them.
Then I started to notice bruising on her and her daughter. Then a black eye. "C'est normale" she told me and no, don't call police. It would be worse for her if I did. She now had to wear hijab again.
I reached out to Open Door Society to help her. They seemed confused that I was telling them about the abuse. They offered no help.
Finally I gave a letter to her doctors, an arabic husband and wife team who she wasn't allowed to see without her husband present.
Very quickly after that, they moved. I found out later he had also stolen her and the children's passports.
He was an educated man and a black belt karate instructor.
At one point, he tried to assert to me, without admitting anything, that the law did not apply to what occurs within the home, only what is done in public.
He also was the one who told me, when I gave him a ride to work one day, that Muslim men were so 'hot', that they could not help themselves...
I never gave him anymore rides.
I had helped him find that job. Later he told me Canada was such a great country that he wasn't going to have to work anymore because the people at the mosque showed him how to get benefits.
I do not hate Muslims.
I hate the ideology dressed up as a religion that allows them to subjugate and beat their women while establishing Islam within other countries & cultures. That is essentially Islam's 'raison d'etre'. Also, religion doesn't threaten to kill you if you want to leave.
I hate that the ideology compels people to do horrific things (like honour killing) by threatening the fear of hellfire if they don't, especially the women. Those poor women live in fear of hadiths that claim she will go to eternal hell if a daughter shames the family and she does not carry out punishment.
I hate that the ideology teaches it is ok to tax, rape, torture and even murder people of other cultures and faiths. The United Kingdom Rape Gang Inquiry has shone a spotlight on this.
In 1979 Iran was a free country that mostly practiced Zorastrianism.
With the help of President Carter, it was colonized to Islam in a few years, and has tormented those people ever since. In January over 42,000 Iranian protesters were shot for trying to speak out.
Is this where we want to be in 10 years?
Not one word of this is untrue or spoken in 'hate'.
Saskatchewan has to take an honest look at whether it wants the things that are 'normal' in Islamic culture to become normal here.
Our government must be preemptive in analyzing and creating policy.
@PremierScottMoe you are in leadership at a historical turning point regarding what happens to this province. Please proceed wisely.
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