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I kind of like this approach somehow. We should take the long game. And I think we should do it the way we took on South Africa and the Soviets by putting the emphasis on the rights of an individual. People who happen to be homosexual should be able to live normal lives the same way people who happen to be left-handed do; I despair when I see several women covered in black walking several steps behind an uncovered man in western countries. I imagine what northern abolitionists felt when they saw a white man with several blacks following behind in, say, in 1850 New York City. I don't care if the slaves had said that their master treated them well; there is something fundamentally wrong.

Happy 150th! From your elder (if somewhat senile) neighbors to the south!

Only the US/UK own ALL the resulting crimes? You mean, as a Canadian, I'm innocent? ====== hot enough, when you burn a Canadian flag because of our illegal invasions, I'll pay attention to your posts.

Canada Day celebrations included remembering the bombing of Iraq in 1991 with CF-18s. Boom !

Al Qaeda (bin Laden) specifically wanted US (Christian) troops to leave Saudi Arabia - the Muslim holy land. Small detail: In 1991 (?), a DC-8 plane (Nationair, who remembers that Canadian company?) crashed in Saudi Arabia near Jeddah. (It was chartered to fly pilgrims to Mecca.) The Saudi regime insisted that every remnant of the Canadian crew (presumably Christian) be removed from the crash site since they did not want non-Muslim bones on holy land. There are no churches anywhere in Saudi Arabia. Crosses, Christmas decorations even depictions of Santa Claus are forbidden. (In Riyadh, I once bought a coffee mug with a caribou surrounded by green/red leaves. That's as close to Christian as was possible.) ===== As to ISIS (Daesh), they want a Sunni caliphate. They want a theocracy to control Mecca (not the Saud family). World domination? Dunno. For historical reference, we in the West can consider the Ottoman Empire to be a caliphate.

Insane bastards who want to die for God? In some ways, we in the West are being forced to return to The Thirty Years War. That was a vicious, destructive civil war largely in Germany between Protestants (Lutherans) and Catholics - who thought they were dying for God. Because of Sweden (and this was the last time Swedes ever got involved in European wars), Lutherans were ultimately accepted. (Churchill referred to the wars of religions and the wars of nations. The Thirty Years War was a war of religion. WWI was a war of nations.) There is a struggle now between Shia and Sunni. For whatever reason, perhaps because the Saud family is Sunni and controls the two holy Muslim cities, Shia feel like poor cousins. This dispute has all the makings of a religious civil war. The Lebanese Civil War started as a war between Christians/Muslims but ultimately became a war between Muslims themselves. This ongoing civil war in Syria is ultimately a religious war.

Al Queda and ISIS want world domination. Furthermore, they think that their world domination is prophecised in the Quran. At best you can get a temporary truce with them.

I am most certainly not advocating terrorism, or deliberate, random attacks specifically to civilians. The vast majority of Muslims that I have met in my life are reasonable, civilized people. Some were pious, some less so. I have met a few fanatical Muslims and they are very distinct from, say, orthodox Jews or Buddhist monks who are also "fanatical". Radical Islam is no invention of the big, bad, evil US of A. Anybody with any knowledge of recent history should understand that the Soviet Union was a serious threat to western civilization. If you don't believe me, read Solzhenitsyn, Natan Sharansky or my favourite: Milan Kundera. IMHO, his book The Joke should be part of any intelligent person's basic education.

I'd suggest you stay in Mama's basement if you think Al Quaeda is moderate. Sue for peace. Guess that's similar to the expression f...k for virginity. Go

So, nanothermite is out, the word of the month is now "genocide"?

Correct....Trudeau assaulted a female MP while in office....much worse !

911 Truthers = Fake News

oh stop the nonsense defending cowards like skinheads. They attack people of colored skin whether Muslim or not and they have been attacking them for decades in groups. If they are fair they should attack those who commit those crimes not randomly attacking anyone of color skin. They are a few assaults by Muslims in Europe and also there have been assaults by non-Muslims and whites..Any coward may rape and murder and these actions are not limited to Muslim immigrants. They should be severely punished for their cowardly actions Muslims or not. You always defend the worse. No wonder a defender of skinheads also likes Harper government.

You still don't get it....he does it to continue playing Rope-A-Dope with the news media and snowflakes who supported Hillary Clinton, even those in foreign countries. Trump is a master at media manipulation....Canada's CBC can't get enough of him.

All precipitated by how many generations of genocide? How many generations fit into a century? How many fit into a 150 years?

You stole that idea.

What a childish response. This issue is not about you and your "tits". It is about values that clash with essential and fundamental democratic values the people who built this country and fought hard and died for and you turn in to an issue about your "tits"? It is his business and my business and this is not about your tits. We will not sit silently while people advocate and spread practices that are fundamentally destructive to a healthy democratic society and advocate my daughters and their daughters are in need of covering up. By the way in your zeal to sound smarmy you contradicted yourself and you really showed you can't grasp reality. The very cover up you defend would have you put in jail, tortured or killed for showing your "tits".Get a grip on reality and your tits. Its not Citizen or I who have a problem with your "tits" its the people you think you ally with in your zeal to try be oh so hip with your "gonna do what I feel like" self indulgent narcissistic tantrum,. Do what you want. Go on, travel to Riyadh. Tehran, Damascus or any Muslim country and see how long you last hanging your "tits' out. You haven't clue what "tits" you think you are sucking up to.

Happy Canada day. Lets recognize the fact that we live in the best country in the world for which tens of millions are dreaming to live in and appreciate our democratic system and freedom and not take it for granted and the majority good hearted citizens who make this country the greatest in the world.