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Most Muslims .....thats a lie.....where do these "MOST" MUSLIMS LIVE...... Below countries impose death sentences for Gays.....Most of them are Muslim........ https://76crimes.com/10-nations-where-the-penalty-for-gay-sex-is-death/ 77 countries that impose jail time for being gay.......I think it would be faster to list Muslim countries not on the list....as most have made the hit list...... https://76crimes.com/76-countries-where-homosexuality-is-illegal/ Don't say Islam has NOT played a role in these laws, Islam dictates everything in a muslim's life....Just as christianity once did .....Both religions are guilty in forcing it's followers into ideas favorable with the churches heads of state....only difference is christianity has matured faster, now to the point where a lot of christians have dropped religion all together or stopped practicing it....I would say that there are more non practicing christians that practicing christians......you can not say the same thing about muslims.....religion is the number one thing in their lives.....not many Muslims around that are part timers, or really don't practice....

Many of our immigrants come from places where hatred, imprisonment, and even public execution for gay people are considered the cultural norm. I have a hard time buying that people who have grown up in such cultures will magically transform into open-minded, tolerant, kind-hearted people when they hit our shores. Hypothetically, if you found yourself relocated to a country where women are expected to stay in the home and not speak in public, would you embrace that new philosophy? I doubt your values are so malleable, and I doubt that people who arrive from places where puritan morality is paramount over individual freedoms are so malleable either. At this point we're reaching an age where a large portion of Canada's puritan bigots are dying of old age... I'm not sure why people are in a rush to replace them with younger puritan bigots. Regardless, I feel that a comparison of Islam vs Catholicism (or whatever else) is beside the point. The important point is the right to criticize. If somebody wants to write about the Catholic church's role in the sex abuse scandals that we saw over many years, they may do so without being accused of peddling hatred. If someone wants to write about the role of Catholic ideology in limiting reproductive options for women in Catholic 3rd world countries, they can discuss that issue without being accused of peddling hatred. This is, as @carepov put it, valid criticism. We must make sure that valid criticism is never oppressed, either by law or by intimidation. Right now, and long before the house motion condemning Islamophobia, people in the media treated the subject with kid-gloves. They walked on egg-shells, afraid to make any criticism of any issue involving Islam. -k

Really? You have a pope who speaks of loving homosexuals even if they are sinners and then you have Islamic scholars who demand gays be killed. You don't see a distinction there?

If her face was covered except for her eyes, how did you know she was smiling?

Speaking of fire trucks. This might have given pause to those sitting on the tarmack waiting to take off.

It's the canary in the coal mine. And I doubt you would disagree if we were talking about a white western man. That is, if we knew a white western man hated gays and thought they should all be locked up, we could fairly reliably determine what other social and political views he held. For example, he would likely be anti-abortion, in favour of the death penalty, and almost certainly highly prejudiced towards other minorities. Similarly, a religious Muslim who feels gays should be in prison certainly supports a whole host of other anti-social viewpoints. I might add that our 'persecution' of gays was pretty mild compared to what happens to them in the Muslim world today.

None of which had much of anything to do with religion. The fact the native Irish were Catholics and the invading British were Protestants didn't make the dispute religious in nature. Perhaps it was a justification centuries ago, on he part of the Protestants, though, and perhaps that was their justification for the oppression against the native Irish, but by the 1970s it was a dispute between two tribes over territory and power, not religion. Hell, the IRA were Marxists.

I have nothing against that... but the point of my post (6 years ago...) was that this pattern we're seeing of ethnic enclaves where people don't even have to mix with anybody outside their own group isn't helpful. There won't be any hippies inviting their Muslim neighbors to come visit if the Muslims don't have any hippy neighbors. There are parts of Vancouver now where a Chinese person could come and live their whole life without speaking a word of English or meeting someone from outside their own group. Perhaps there will soon be Muslim neighborhoods were the same is true, if there aren't already. I don't think having a patchwork of insular ethnic enclaves in our large cities was what anybody wanted when they talk about multiculturalism and diversity. -k

The destruction of the West is your goal.

It was a brash statement for me to make without giving some evidence. The claim is actually based on what God says in the Bible. I said it partly to get your attention. I knew you would respond. It is in the book of Proverbs, written mostly by King Solomon, who was considered one of the wisest men in the world at the time. He wrote most of the book of Proverbs under the inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit. If you read the Proverbs you will understand that no ordinary mortal could have written it. For example, it says "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." Proberbs ch1 vs7 ---King James Bible (1611)

Interesting. I wish I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with her. If you had been a Bible-believing christian you would have had something tremendous to offer her. It is not too late. You could become a Bible-believing christian right now and if you can see her, you will have something. I thought the hijab was not a requirement for a Muslim woman to wear. Isn't it more of a tradition or custom? The Quran falls far short of being a Bible or Holy Scripture. It does not meet the criteria for different reasons.

Yes Canada is in poor condition. The secular-humanistic philosophy is rampant in Canada. This has led to confusion in many people's mind. If they are looking to the government for any kind of moral guidance, they are making a tragic mistake. The problem is many people are willing to look anywhere for guidance or wisdom except the one place they should be looking, which is the Bible. By dismissing the Bible, they commit their lives to confusion and many problems. I am not saying following the Bible will mean there are no problems. My experience is that christians often face daunting problems. But there are certain advantages to being a christian that the secular world or other religions cannot offer. There is no such thing is wisdom apart from the Bible.

Terrorism is not just the act of violence, but the political message that accompanies it. In many cases the violent act is fairly minor. Terrorist action doesn't necessarily even need to be successful but for the fact that it sends a certain message.

The General still reported to our parliament , on the use of it's citizens....many commonwealth countries did not have the skilled generals to conduct the war ......so it was common for British officers to fill in....just as it was in WWII it was common for junior Canadian officers to command sub units in the british army do to a shortage of British officers.....

You are welcome to believe whatever nonsense you choose to, of course, but in even in a free and open society there are limits to what people can advocate for.

First thing he did in Canada was pollute a river?