That "B" Word Again

How do you get Canadians to shut their mouths and calmly accept the arrival of a shipful of "refugees," many of whom are thought to belong to a terrorist group outlawed in Canada? By deploying the "b" (for "backlash") word, of course. The mere sight of the word--whether in service of Muslims or, in this instance, Tamils--is enough to take the spotlight off wrongdoing by ethnics and refocus it on the "racists" in the rest of community who could well (but oddly enough, never do) do them harm. In con man parlance, I believe that's what's known as the old "bait and switch."

Update: After insulting those who balk at this ship by calling them "xenophobes," Canada.com urges us to accept what it calls a"fait accompli" and consider the refugees' "human rights":

It's no good exercising our collective neuroses, wringing our hands and winging about the wrongness of something that is a fait accompli. They are here and, under Canadian law, a good compassionate law, they cannot be refused entry and just sent back to sea.

We have the Komagata Maru in 1914 and the MV St. Louis in 1939 as black marks on our history. The Komagata Maru carried Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus from India and the St. Louis carried Jews escaping Europe.

The issue at hand isn't the illegality of migrants, but that anyone claiming refugee status should have the right to have that claim determined.

The issue we should not lose sight of here is that of human rights. If Canada is to be a nation committed to the human rights of its own citizens, then it must be mindful of the rights of those who arrive fleeing persecution, poverty and war.

And the question many Canadians ask is whether the arrival of these 409 migrants represents an abuse of our magnanimity.

That's not the question I'd like to ask. My question is this: if a boatload (or boatloads) of Jewish Israelis escaping Mideast mayhem suddenly washed up on Canadian shores, would the leftist media be as compassionate in urging their acceptance, and employ the same arguments to do so (i.e. that a "backlash" is looming and that it's a matter of these "refugees" "human rights")?

Update: BCF on Toronto Star hysterics