{"id":11598,"date":"2021-07-07T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=11598"},"modified":"2021-07-07T09:43:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T12:43:01","slug":"dr-mathieu-bock-cote-in-canada-we-burn-churches-with-impunity-au-canada-on-brule-des-eglises-impunement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/07\/07\/dr-mathieu-bock-cote-in-canada-we-burn-churches-with-impunity-au-canada-on-brule-des-eglises-impunement\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Mathieu Bock-C\u00f4t\u00e9: “In Canada, we burn churches with impunity” [“Au Canada, on br\u00fble des \u00e9glises impun\u00e9ment”]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Over the weekend, Bambi received a couple of phone calls from a family friend as well as her aunt who were worried about the heat wave in Canada (the irony was that at her end of the country, she had to close the windows as it was too cold, like Beirut\u2019s winter actually). She was moved by the calls, especially that she is the one worried about them in their heat and NO POWER to turn the air conditioning on \u2639. She could not help not to be sarcastic in her mind, wondering if her aunt would call again, freaking out, if her Facebook<\/em> or international media informed her about the 10+ churches that have been burned in the past few days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bearing this in mind, Bambi was happy to read this article this morning published in the Journal de Montr\u00e9al<\/em>. Thank you Dr. Mathieu Bock-C\u00f4t\u00e9. Here is the link to his article (https:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2021\/07\/07\/au-canada-on-brule-des-eglises-impunement<\/a>), followed by a quick English translation (with a couple of comments by Bambi):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe issue\nof residential schools will figure prominently in the news this summer.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada is\nwaking up to a historic injustice lodged in the bowels of the country that\nstill shapes its present reality. How not to be obsessed with the fate of these\nchildren torn from their families and their culture to make them strangers?<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This country\nwhich presents itself as a model for the whole world does not live up to its\nreputation, to put it mildly.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadians\ndiscover that Canada is not heaven and fail to believe it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hatred<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The feeling\nof revolt is inevitable, and natural. It is also legitimate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But too\noften it speaks in a criminal way, as seen in Western Canada with the growing\nnumber of church fires. Others are vandalized. All this takes place, it must be\nsaid, in a general media indifference. Or else, the events are reported with\ngreat modesty, almost in embarrassment. Not to mention the statues unbolted in\nfront of the police capitulating to the vandals.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even more,\nif we wander a bit on social media, we find several to rejoice, as if it were\nthe flames of justice razing a cursed institution. They see it as a legitimate\nrevenge, forgetting that several indigenous leaders themselves denounced these\narson attacks and are sorry for this violence.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s sum\nup: in Canada, in the summer of 2021, churches are being burned down in a\nmixture of indifference and evil joy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine\nanother scenario. Imagine if, after September 11, 2001, in the United States,\nor after the Islamist attacks of recent years in France, “angry”\ncitizens decided to attack mosques, to vandalize them, to burn them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We would all\nhave been outraged by such gestures. We would have condemned them outright [\u201csans\nnuances\u201d, in French]. We would have recalled that such acts are criminal, in\naddition to requiring severe punishment for their perpetrators. Above all, we\nwould have been right to be intractable towards the vandals.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How, then, to explain the current reaction?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it more serious to attack a Muslim place of worship than a Catholic church<\/em> [thanks also to Mr. Jonathan Kay who raised the same question for mosques and synagogues]?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banalization\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How is it\nthat such criminal acts are trivialized, that they are almost categorized as\nmiscellaneous facts, when they are in the strong sense of hate acts? Once\nagain, the logic of double standards is in order<\/em> [Bambi will\nadd: would so-called activists working for Liberties organizations in BC who were\nborn in Bahrain dare to write let\u2019s burn all mosques there? So why do it in\nCanada?] <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depending on\nthe religion that will be yours, we will denounce, relativize or excuse acts of\nviolence and hate speech intended for you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without a\ndoubt, the Canadian federal state, which imagined and piloted the Indian\nresidential school policy, must take severe self-criticism and improve the\nsituation of Indigeneous communities. It is primarily responsible for this\nmacabre story. The religious orders which have participated in this enterprise\nmust also assume their responsibilities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that\ncannot justify, today, the repeated anti-Catholic arson and its transformation\ninto trivial facts.\u201d<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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