Rules are rules. No like? Don't play.
FIFA is changing the Laws of the Game (aka the Rules) to allow turbans.
Therefore, with the "Rules are the rules" argument, turbans are perfectly fine. For now, anyhow, as FIFA like the hedge it's bets by saying "We will allow it.... for now, on a trial basis" which is double talk for "I support this fully until I see a reason why I shouldn't, in which case I will say I never REALLY supported it, I'm just playing both sides of the coin until I find out where it lands".
Immigrants make HUGE sacrifices to come to this country. Immigration into Canada is NOT an easy process, and it is akin to winning the lottery. Saying that a Would you like it if someone told you you had to be Muslim? Couldn't eat pork? Had to go to church every Sunday?
Of course you wouldn't. You are a Canadian citizen and you are protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and freedoms which is the envy of the civilized world. Countless nations have re-tooled their own Constitutions since 1982 to make their own nations more like our own in this respect.
I have two friends. Both play football (soccer) and both recently became full-fledged Canadian citizens. Should I treat one of them because he is Muslim and has brown skin while the other is white and an atheist-leaning baptized Christian?
No, I shouldn't. CoRaF (Charter of Rights and Freedoms) protects all Canadians equally.
This monument stands outside of City Hall and the Courthouse in Ottawa, about 150 meters from the East Block of Parliament.
In my opinion, these simple words embody the heart of the Canadian spirit.
With all due respect, if your words and actions do NOT reflect this spirit, maybe YOU should leave this country, regardless of what colour your skin is. Because I'll take 100 ethnic neighbours from every country, creed and nation and help them adapt to our culture and our country before I support one self-entitled "Born and raised" Canadian in their anti-immigrant and discriminatory views.
If you did, and you spent 10 years living in a shit-hole like Somalia, where people are forced to become pirates because illegal dumping of toxic waste has killed all the fish in their seas and left fishermen with a choice between piracy or starvation, you might have a greater appreciation for what it is to be a Canadian citizen.
While Sardeep, Tarpinder and Xiu Chan from Pakistan, Afghanistan and China will all work 2 jobs for minimum wage for 7 years, learning English AND French, getting two degrees in University (because we won't recognize the ones they brought back from their home countries, like my Chinese neighbour, the aeronautical engineer who delivers bagels for a living because his university was not on the list of those recognized when he came here with his family) will do everything in their power to be able to stand up in front of the world and proudly say "I am a Canadian".
I'm sorry to disagree with you, but there is nothing wrong with that. There is something BEAUTIFUL about that, and if you have ever been to an induction ceremony and seen people break down in tears just because they finally get to say those three little words that you and I taken completely for granted, and you TRAVEL the world and you see how different life is outside these borders, you might begin to have a greater appreciation for the immense privilege which you have been born into by being born in this country.
An appreciation that is not lost on many new Canadians, I assure you that.
CoRaF does not have a time requirement on it. There is no stipulation of seniority or grand-fathering. There is no asterisk or exception. And the day that there is is the day I piss on this country and leave it, never to return.
Let the Americans be the blatant hypocrites who treat their own people like shit and spit on the immigrants that make their country work because spoiled over-privileged American kids won't work at Tim Hortons and McDonalds because "It's too embarrassing" or "They're better than that". Sardeep and Tarpinder will work 8 hour shifts at Tim Hortons AND THEN an 8 hour shift at McDonalds so that we can get fat and get diabetes that their tax dollars pay for the treatment of just like ours do. AND YET, they will STILL send money home to their family and give money to help other people make something of themselves, while we waste our free money on beer, cigarettes and drugs while we talk about how "horrible the country is because of these damn immigrants".
The country isn't a sh1t hole because of immigrants. The country is a sh1t hole because of lazy ignorant residents who have forgotten that, not that long ago, THEY were the new comers to this nation looking to make a better life by working their nuts off for it, free of discrimination and unlawful prosecution in their oppressed homelands.
Just because you and your family were liberated from the chains of your previous home longer ago than they were DOES NOT give you the right, by law, to prevent them from doing the same.
In my opinion, it is completely hypocritical and disrespectful of the privileges you enjoy as a Canadian citizen to attempt to belittle, impede or prevent ANYONE from having an equal opportunity to prove themselves worthy of the greatest citizenship this world has to offer; Canadian citizenship.
Sorry for getting worked up about it, but nothing pisses me off more than when people stomp on the hands of honest people trying to make an honest living in this country because they are too damned ignorant to recognize that they are not destroying our society, they are the life blood of it. And if you can't see that, then it's not because it isn't there to see. It's because there's something wrong with your eyes. You have been fooled by the ignorant rhetoric of lazy, xenophobic Canadians and North Americans who are terrified to have to compete on a level playing field with a newly-landed immigrant in a competitive marketplace for a job and, knowing that they have the inferior work ethic, training and skills to succeed in that competition, and, being incapable of "Being First" or "Being smarter", they have to fall back on the third and final option. They have to cheat.
Turn your Brain hax off, bro. Canadians are supposed to be better than that. Maybe if you hung out with more ethnic Canadians, you'd be a bit more used to that idea. Alls the worse for you. A closed mind is it's own prison cell, and by association, it's own punishment.
/rant complete
PS Arab / Indian b1tches are hot. :P (just my opinion)
