I’m very pleased to let you know that Salim Mansur, a great writer, has joined our team here at ProudToBeCanadian.ca.
His column will appear here every other week, in the columnist section of course. I’ve posted his latest there already. It’s a beautifully-written piece called “Anchorless, therapeutic society”.
I can’t do it justice by giving you just this following snippet so please read the whole thing (takes 2 minutes—but then allow time for reflection!):
The lack of substantive debate on same-sex marriage in Canada, and the extent to which the proposition is accepted on the basis of feeling good, not sound reasoning, are revealing of the direction our society is moving by jettisoning the idea of core values, rooted in some foundational principle, toward a wholesale acceptance of moral and cultural relativism.
It is the void behind the adoption of same-sex marriage, similar to the void behind our morally neutral acceptance of abortion, that says more about who we are, or have become, than all the rhetoric of our political and religious elites about us being a caring and thoughtful people.
Salim Mansur, BA, MA, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. His teaching fields include: Comparative politics developing areas, international relations. Research interests: Comparative/political economy of development, the Muslim world, Islam, South Asia, Middle East.
His column appears every other week at the London Free Press and the Toronto Sun.
In the past I’ve reprinted Mr. Mansur’s articles here with him as a “guest writer”, including his views and excellent writing on the gay ‘marriage’ issue, which with my reformatting took the form of three articles put together into one. (Read it here.)
Mr. Mansur’s column will provide good insight into a wide range of issues.
PTBC was founded by Mr. Johannesen in 2000.
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