NO STONING, CANADA MIGRANTS TOLD [+] serious ballot by herzog created Wed Jan 31, 07 Don't stone women to death, burn them or circumcise them, immigrants wishing to live in the town of Herouxville in Quebec, Canada, have been told. The rules come in a new town council declaration on culture that Muslims have branded shocking and insulting. Quebec is in the midst of a huge debate on integrating immigrant cultures. Montreal police are investigating an officer who wrote a song called That's Enough Already, which says immigrants are undermining Quebec culture. Herouxville, which has one immigrant family in its population of about 1,300, is 160km (100 miles) north-east of Montreal. Its council published the new rules on the town's website. "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." It points out that women are allowed to drive, vote, dance and own their own homes. The rules ban Sikh children from carrying ceremonial daggers to school, even though the Supreme Court has ruled they can. The man behind the declaration, councillor Andre Drouin, told the National Post newspaper the rules were not racist. "We invite people from all nationalities, all languages, all sexual orientations, whatever, to come live with us, but we want them to know ahead of time how we live," he said. Mr Drouin said there had been a number of recent incidents of culture clashes that meant the new rules were needed. However, the president of the Muslim Council of Montreal, Salam Elmenyawi, condemned the council, saying it had set back race relations decades. He told Reuters news agency: "I was shocked and insulted to see these kinds of false stereotypes and ignorance about Islam and our religion." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Do you think it is fair for towns or nations to lay out explicitly what sort of behavior will be tolerated from immigrants (stoning women to death will not be acceptable, for instance)? Or is it racist to assume that people moving here from countries where such practices are commonplace might not realize that the same rules don't apply here? In other words, should they assume these immigrants have already adopted western values prior to immigrating? It's fair for them to detail what is/is not acceptable It is unfair, they should assume everyone shares the same values It is unnecessary and presumptuous Its unnecessary Ballot #111784 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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