Prompted by councilor Andre Drouin the Canadian town of Herouxville issued the following cultural advisory after one Muslim family moved into town.
“We wish to inform these new arrivals that the way of life which they abandoned when they left their countries of origin cannot be recreated here,” the declaration reads.
“We consider it completely outside norms to… kill women by stoning them in public, burning them alive, burning them with acid, circumcising them etc.”
Eerie to see what is purportedly a plea for tolerance come off like a bit of xenophobia that gives even an American pause.
No stoning, Canada migrants told
The council evidently engaged in research - of a sorts - prior to issuing their warning:
And the Herouxville council members were apparently making that statement not only on behalf of the 196 residents of surrounding Mekinac municipal rural county, whom they had polled. (Sample question: “Would you let someone take away your right to listen to music?”)
How many people did they expect to say yes?
Their courageous proclamation is lauded:
To judge by the more than 2,000 mostly approving e-mails that have flooded the town’s website since its code made the news on the weekend, it’s a statement that has resonated with many of their fellow old-stock Quebecers elsewhere. …
That single Muslim family is mighty threatening isn’t it? Good thing they were warned before they went about flinging acid.
Hysteria over minorities claims a town