As you've probably read, the Taliban in Afghanistan are now forcing women, all women, to hide their faces.
Preventing women from making their voices heard in public places.
We don't want to see you, we don't want to hear you.
Shut up, close the walls and be as discreet as possible.
Do like the man in Brill's song: Be a shadow to my shadow, a shadow to my dog.
Layer basket.
Just open your legs when I tell you to. And produce the good little Taliban one by one.
Mulroney's Battle
Imagine if black people were treated this way.
By the time you read these lines, the UN Secretary-General will have torn his shirt off and all the Western countries will have banded together to exclude this country from the international community.
As we did in South Africa.
But they are women..
Brian Mulroney fought tooth and nail to force South Africa to end its apartheid system.
Over dinner at Denis Bombardier's restaurant, Mr. Mulroney told me this epic.
He called Margaret Thatcher, and then his friend Ronald Reagan, and said, “Come on, act with dignity, do the right thing, throw your weight behind this fight, it's a matter of principle!”
He was quite a man, Mr. Mulroney.
No wonder the first country Nelson Mandela wanted to visit after his release from prison was Canada. The anti-apartheid activist knew he owed our Prime Minister a debt of gratitude.
Do you think Justin would lead such a campaign against Afghanistan?
If so, you're smoking a good cigarette.
Purchased illegally.
Stairs
What makes me laugh (actually, what makes me angry) is seeing columnists who have never said a word against the hijab suddenly playing the role of humiliated virgins.
As if there is no connection between the hijab, then the abaya, then the burqa, then the ban on speaking in public places!
Don't these pseudo-feminists see that there is a difference in degree between all these things, not in nature?
These are the steps of the same staircase.
Below, simple hijab. Elegant and tasteful. Sold at Prada or Winners.
And at the top, complete apartheid.
And I remind you that, as my wife (a true feminist) has often denounced, Montreal City Council welcomes tourists and citizens with a drawing showing two men and a woman in a hijab.
A ridiculous and insulting decision that was only denounced by one political party, the Bloc Québécois.
Radio silence in Montreal. Radio silence in Quebec.
Yet it is the same message.
A decent woman covers her hair.
A decent woman shows modesty in the way she dresses.
A decent woman hides her sexuality.
A decent woman hides her curves.
They made us accept the veil.
They make us accept the cloak.
They will make us accept the burqa.
In fact, we already accept that. They are everywhere.
The little train is going away.
