Saturday, February 3, 2024

Cause du Jour

A man waves a Palestinian flag during a Pro-Palestine rally in Montreal, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

Instant recognition of the fount of knowledge 

the institutes of higher learning every advanced

society venerates as an institution whose purpose 

is to inject the excitement of knowing the value

of acquiring an education geared to producing

the leaders, scientists and artists propelling nations 

toward renown by the industry of their creative 

minds whose curiosity has been piqued and 

staunched in the fulfillment of an aspirational goal

philosophically apolitical, delving into nature's 

storehouse of possibilities. Until it no longer was

and became a hothouse of ideological sparks

scorching the search for knowledge in favour

of stirring the embers of racial resentment where 

a universal enemy was named and shamed and 

rational judgement was spurned in favour of

launching accusations of genocide against the

the sole nation ever to have been genocide's

victim. Aspiring scholars disciplined to their

search for truth and justice demur at risk of a

calamitous label of racist Islamophobia, their

place in the great halls of learning disputed

should they defend truth against slander while

the cowering majority become as one with the

usurpers of knowledge proclaiming victory.

 


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