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Sure. But we're not talking about Canadian culture. Try to keep up. Nonsense. Drivel. So my intolerance of their intolerance makes me intolerant? Doesn't your intolerance of my intolerance of their intolerance then make YOU intolerant? Also, I don't believe I've ever complained about immigrants. Perhaps you could find me a post of mine that complained about them as opposed to about immigration. LOL. I don't have fury at women in power! I have contempt for stupid women in power! And I admit, the basis is the same for my 'scorn' for Liberals, who by and by, support really stupid policies. Would you care to recite the list of competent, honest, intelligent female politicians over the last decade or two? You're correct. According to the polls most Muslims in the world want MUCH, MUCH more severe and intolerant laws. An open and democratic vote in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the gulf states, Pakistan, Malaysia, and just about anywhere else in the Islamic world would return Islamic states governed by Sharia law. Indonesia is one of your model Muslim states in its 'tolerance' and it's democracy, but even there when a Christian competing in an election dares to disagree with a Muslim who says it's against Islamic law to have a non-Muslim in charge, he's slapped into prison. But I know facts and truths mean little to you.

My guess is that this is just an accepted cultural attitude among Muslims or people from the Middle East/ Africa in general. That should not be surprising, because all you need to do is look back at cultural attitudes in Canada between 50 - 100 years ago. Homophobia was normal, as was prejudice/ hatred towards black folks, or anyone who is non-white non-British essentially. We only very recently made a great leap forward on these issues ourselves. There is no reason to expect otherwise from less advanced societies. Liberals tend to have "faith" in humanity, and wrongly project that all people everywhere share the same values.

Wow. So come on let's talk. My Hebrew brother, Kevin Pillar, the best Blue Jays player this year and always my fave and one of the few people from my tribe who can play ball real good put his foot in his mouth. After a quick pitch (something considered cowardly in baseball, he struck out and mouthed "you f..g" at the pitcher triggering a huge reaction and the Jays now suspending him 2 games for using the word. Let's back up a bit. In baseball a fast pitch happens when a pitcher does not let the batter fully set up. Most batters are twitching and have a sort of dance they go through before they get ready to hit. They have actually an elaborate ritual that can consist of kicking the dirt, tugging their shirt or crotch making some false swings, stretching into a position to hit, etc. Baseball looks like a whole bunch of people with Tourette's syndrome. The catcher, pitcher, batter, people on the field, everyone involves themselves in repetitive twitches and tics. Its all part of the rhythm. Now the etiquette has always been the pitcher waits for the batter to be ready even though he technically is far game once he steps in the batter's box. Technically was in the box the pitcher can pitch. They don't. They wait until the batter is ready. This way if they want to deliberatelty pitch the hitter inside or even hit him which is part of the game, the batter has an ability to turn and protect himself. A batter taking up to much of the hitting zone will get what is called a brush back pitch to make him adjust a bit and give the pitcher more room so he doesn't accidentallyt hit him and walk him. Inside pitches are also supposed to be part of the head game in keeping the hitter guessing as to what to hit. A lot of strikes are caused by inside pitches that cause either foul balls or swing misses. It also is part of the intimidation factor. You want the hitter to flinch a bit and ruin his timing. What the pitcher did the other day was deliberately fast pitch Pillar. Its not done in baseball. Its considered cowardly and dangerous. You can seriously injure or even kill a player doing that. So this is why Pillar screamed the f..g word at him. In competitive male sports, the word is hurled out all the time and its not used to insult the player for being gay but for calling him a coward. The word f..g in sports is synonomous with gutless, cowardly, unmanly. A guy like Pillar would never use it against an actual gay player. Its usually a straight on straight insult to suggest cowardice. The word "f..g" as an insulting term for gay people and in particular gay men comes from the word fagot. Fagot was a term for thin strips of wood used to start a fire and f..g was the short term for it. The insult when using it was to suggest like fagots or kindling wood, gay men were "flamers" which is a play on the word flamboyant. F..g was also used to mean cigarette because of it being like a little stick with a flame at the end. Yes over the years it was used by those to ridicule gays but it is more probably by used by straight men against other straight men to suggest they are cowards or not man enough. In competitive sports with men, there are codes of honour. You don't follow them, or if you whine too much, complain too much or do cowardly things you get called this. It has nothing to do with your being gay. Now its interesting because in hockey Andrew Shaw when a Chicago Black Hawk called another player a "f..g" not even thinking it is also a gay slur. He was suspended and apologized and volunteers with the Habs where he now plays doing outreach with the gay community. Kevin Pillar who is Jewish and been at the receiving end of many an anti-Semite comment particularly because of his large nose is no stranger to hatred. He spit out the word in a fit of anger and once that word went out it triggered a firestorm because he was on national t.v. and everyone saw what he said. Now I get it. Such words are hateful. We try avoid using such words. They have become so closely associated to hateful comments their use is problematic. I get that. I am 61. My generation uses that word all the time by men like me who know better and interestingly against gays but within us straight men calling each other names while playing sports. Its wrong but we use it in that different context. We were brought up where men should be tough, take a hit, act honourably. No one in my age group although brought up on men do not cry macho belief systems would harass gay men. That's cowardly. Besides some of the toughest guys we know could be gay when we play sports and most of us are not so insecure we can't take a shower with gay men. We are stupid but you'd be surprised that we are not as stupid as we sound. Males of the homo sapiens species are what we are-apes. When we are with each other we grunt and do stupid things. I am not excusing the use of the word but I think the context in which it was used by Pillar was blown out of context. Yes I get it. He's a role model. He's paid big bucks and he knows he's a public figure and role model. It was dumb. Yah it could hurt people which was not his intention. However from what I heard on the radio, I have never heard so many sanctimonious turds dissing him-show me one person on this forum who is a man who has never used that word including gay men. I am not saying its acceptable but I am, saying give me a break those of you who want to lecture Pillar and pillar him. Kevin Pillar may have no foreskin but he does have thick skin. He wll learn from this. But let's be real. The word is being used as we speak all across the leagues and won't stop. Its just another word that goes underground which is what happens in the politically correct era. Certain words like "f..g" and "n...ger" are lightening rod words. They immediately shut down dialogue. People clench up and stop listening and these words give them the right to close down and not listen. Me I find it important with people that say things, to wait until I hear the full context of how they use the word and not just jump on it without hearing the full context. Some people use words that are hurtful not realizing they are or not meaning them in the way they are interpreted. I think in general we are living in an era of extreme rigid censorship because of a tendency to shut down and be intolerant and close minded when we hear certain words. Censoring them won't make them go away. Words evolve. At one time gay meant happy. Now it means of a certain sexual preference. Men actually were given the name Gay. There was a hockey player called Gay Stewart. A famous bomber in WW2 was called the Enola Gay. The Flintstone cartoon anthem sang out they were having a "gay old time". Well maybe Barney and Fred were gay. Come to think of it, Yogi and Boo Boo, Qick Draw McGraw and Babba Louie, Johny Quest and Hadji, Race Bannon and Dr, Quest, Batman and Robin, Superman and Jimmy Olsen, Captain Haddock and Tintin, all gay. My generation came through it. We understood why Batman wore tights, slid down a pole and never got married. Hell I figured out Dr. Zackary Smith from Lost In Space, Paul Lynde, Wally Cox, Sal Mineo, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter were gay. My generation knew. We just didn't discuss what went on in Johny Mathis's home. We handled it. The next generation will too. I just think people need to get a handle on all these issues and not use them as an excuse to get too caught up in the word by itself.

Maybe she's confused about why someone who isn't a Muslim would devote herself so desperately, day after day after day to a wholesale, sweeping dismissal of all statements regarding Islamic intolerance and violence, despite literally mountains of evidence to the contrary.

Which is why, anywhere in the Islamic world, including Egypt, someone is accused of blasphemy, by just about anyone, mobs show up with torches, right?

If your sister and her husband were devout Christians and you went on about the virtues of Christianity while talking about your recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land, one might assume you and Jesus are pals.

Are all cultures equal?

I don't hate you...why would understanding that your experience and what you believe means you dislike Islam and don't generally trust Muslims mean I hate you? And OMG, there you go accusing me of being Muslim as if disagreeing with you can only mean I'm Muslim. Bizarre.

Comey will have to some fancy skating to move away from this "made under oath" statement.

Don't tell me you have fallen for the propaganda from hot enough. Not living in the real world. Russia, China, and most countries in the world do not respect human rights in one way or another. Some are worse than others. What are you going to do about it? If you stopped dealing with every country that does bad things, you would be totally isolated and have no trade with any country. You are not being realistic. Just because we trade, doesn't mean we approve of what they are doing. If Canada didn't sell weapons to some of these countries, they would get them from numerous other countries. Not selling weapons to Saudi Arabia will not change a thing. They are also an ally of the U.S.

I understand completely, I also understand that you are making huge leaps in knowing what Trump is thinking. That's not good enough, Comey felt pressured, yet filed no report and didn't slow the investigation - he ramped it up? Doesn't sound like a guy under pressure to dump a case to me. A decent lawyer will rip Comey's memo to shreds. Comey wasn't actually the investigator...and the investigation goes on. Firing somebody doesn't and was never gonna change that. As Dershowitz says, "where's the crime?". Sorry dude, you're watching too much Maddow.

"One of the reasons I avoid attending Friday congregations at mosques is a specific invocation uttered by mosque imams just prior to the formal Friday congregation prayer we Muslims refer to as the Juma’a. In the prayer, the clerics ask Allah to give “victory to Muslims over the ‘Qawm al-Kafirun,’ the Arabic phrase that lumps all non-Muslims, that is Jews, Hindus, Christians, Atheists, Buddhists and Sikhs into one. http://tarekfatah.com/mosque-imams-around-the-world-continue-to-pray-to-allah-to-grant-victory-to-muslims-over-non-muslims/

Modern Sweden has little in common with the good ol' days as you see them. Vikings found Christianity...and stopped being casual raiders and slavers. You can thank a Swede for stopping the 30 Years War, at least...tough fellow Gustavus Adolphus.

Dirty Swedes! Look at them now. Leftists

Again you have it mixed up. Christians disagree with homosexuality, etc. but do not hate the people who do those things. Christians simply cannot condone the practice of abortion, homosexuality, etc. Violence by conservatives or christians is extremely rare. As far as I know christians and conservatives do no approve of any kind of violence against people. But we know there are extremist groups in some parts of the world. We cannot control what they do. Never said you should hate or fear Muslims. It is the religion we disagree with.

The irony of this post is not lost on me.

You embrace all Muslims - except for that tiny, tiny, tiny fringe, probably just a handful, who you label as 'extremist' and you completely and deliberately ignore the brutality of anti gay religious teaching, cultural practices, laws and beliefs of the entire Muslim world. So yes, you embrace them. And the proper word for my rhetoric is 'realism'. The proper term for yours is 'dishonest'.

My version of Islam is based on reality, based on how the Muslim world interprets and accepts Islam. I'm not sure what your version of Islam is based on, but I'm willing to bet it would see you executed or at least imprisoned in most Muslim countries. I advise you to keep your mouth shut in public if you got back to Egypt about your interpretation of Islam.

I know plenty about this country. And I know that extremist far left people like yourself are out to destroy it. Canada was built by Caucasians. Indians did nothing with the place, and still do nothing. Perhaps if you studied your history a lot more, I could then have a decent conversation with you, and people might start to take you seriously. But I do not see that happening for a long time yet. First thing you need to do is ween yourself away from liberal extremist propaganda brainwashing.