I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Something to look forward to
June 12, 2007
And we can thank multiculturalism and our ‘no one culture is better or worse than any other‘ attitude for it, as well.
A 14-year-old female rape victim is strangled to death in March 2004 by her father and brother because she has supposedly tarnished the family name.
In April 2004, a man brutally kills his wife and daughter after finding out his brother had molested them.
A teenage girl with a Turkish background has her throat cut by her father after he learns she has a Christian boyfriend.
All three cases - taken from a study by Memorial University psychiatry professor Amin Muhammad and resident Sujay Patel - involve unspeakable acts against females. And all were considered appropriate by the killers based on long-standing tradition and cultural beliefs.
Notice how in all these examples, the women haven’t actually done anything wrong, but are killed for it anyhow because it is, especially in the more virulent strains of Islam, still a greater crime for a woman to be raped than for a man to rape her.
Compare, briefly, against St. Augustine’s writings on the victims of rape: “Truth, another’s lust cannot pollute thee.” Augustine envisioned chastity as being “a virtue of the mind, and is not lost by rape, but is lost by the intention of sin, even if unperformed.”
The problem is, people from countries where such beliefs exist are making their way to Canada and the United States, Muhammad said.
“We discovered through our different discussions with lawyers in Canada that it happens here, more microscopically, also,” he said. “When people come and settle in Canada they can bring their traditions and forcefully follow them.”
You know, if I tried to say something like that, I’d probably be branded a racist. And yet it is the truth, is it not? If I were to move to France, I’d still be way more Canadian than I would be French, at least for several years. Mind you, I’m not likely to move to France, but the point is that were I to do so, I would retain many characteristics of my Canadian identity, at least for a while.
And to be sure, any immigrant is going to go through a period of adjustment to the culture into which he or she moves. For a time, he or she will retain many of the “old ways”, before slowly habituating to the new culture.
The problem, especially with a lot of immigrants from Muslim nations, is two-fold: not only is the cultural nature of those nations such that it is both fundamentally incompatible with the culture and society of a Western nation and undesirable within a Western nation, but the people who hold fast to such cultural natures tend to continue to hold fast to them as time elapses (this is made even easier by multiculturalist policies, which essentially result in the ghettoization of unassimilated immigrant communities).
There have likely already been honour killings in Canada, and we are only now recognizing that the trend will likely increase as more and more people from backwards cultures with primitive, neo-barbaric attitudes toward women come to North America.
(In Soviet Russia, hat tips you: RelCath)
