Leaderboard

What a ridiculous assumption. That assumption of course if based on your own personal opinion. If You Want Less Police Violence, Hire More Female Cops

The only terrorism going on in Venezuela is being perpetrated by the leadership and military of Venezuela. You are clinging to these idiotic dillusions, I am simply listening to people in Venezuela that I have known for many years.

You don't get it at all, do you? NO country is lily white and blameless for a great deal of things, but the solution is NOT to impoverish the nation, starve the people and reward a handful of elites for their treachery. What the US did in the past or other places has NOTHING TO DO with what is happening in Venezuela today.

Rather than insulting my dead mother, direct your questions to Hugo Chavez's mother instead...she still lives quite well.

It seems that fleeing Venezuelans cannot live on nano thermite conspiracy theories....

Do you remember Diebold, Betsy? What do you emphasize elected like it is some holy grail, something handed down from dog almighty? Political parties pick the candidates that you sheeple think you elect.

I did and on that thread you originally brought this thread up using the Saudi sale as an example of Canada as supporting terrorism and terrorists while defending Kadr in the same breath..

They do tell you but you can't be bothered to listen.

So much hyperbolic nonsense.

Michael is a decent, fair moderator. Like all people, he can sometimes be 'taxed' (hehehe) to the max. You are purposely quite outrageous. Why would it surprise you that occasionally someone will outrage you too?

I am not attached to Islam. I am attached to my sister and my friends who are Muslim. So when people claim that Muslims are generally awful people, I am inclined to tell them they don't know what they are talking about.

Was it an eye opener for you when the right-wing attacked Iqrah Khalid, sending her 1000s of emails threatening death, torture and rape? Is it eye-opening for you when you hear about Muslim women being physically and verbally attacked for wearing a hijab? How about when someone shoots up a mosque? Or are your eyes only opened when its Muslims carrying out some horrific action?

You forgot to include videos of the planes hitting the WTC towers.

Haiti is a basket case, impoverished, uneducated, with almost no infrastructure, and desperately overcrowded. It had three decades of the Duvalier's who robbed it of everything not nailed down, and a number of coups since. It is now rated as one of the most corrupt nations on earth, which means it's very hard to get anything done. Among aid workers whom Von Tunzelmann has spoken to, Haiti today is "down there with Somalia, as just about the worst [most damaged] society on earth. Even in Afghanistan, there's a middle class. People aren't living in the sewers." As far back as the 1950s, she says, Haiti was considered unsustainably overcrowded with a population of 3 million; that ­figure now stands at 9 million*. Some 80% of that population live below the poverty line. The country is in an advanced state of industrial collapse, with a GDP per capita in 2009 of just $2 a day. Some 66% of Haitians work in ­agriculture, but this is mainly small-scale subsistence farming and accounts for less than a third of GDP. The unemployment rate is 75%. Foreign aid ­accounts for 30%-40% of the government's budget. There are 80 deaths for every 1,000 live births, and the survival rate of newborns is the lowest in the western hemisphere. For many adults, the most promising sources of income are likely to be drug dealing, weapons trading, gang membership, kidnapping and extortion. This is from 2010. The population is now nearly 11 million. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/14/haiti-history-earthquake-disaster

It's when you take that dislike of a particular person and try to apply it to the whole culture the person you don't like belongs to that it becomes racism/xenophobia.

Why would we want redhead cops as opposed to brown, black, blond haired cops? Sounds like a hair brained scheme to try to flog a dead horse theory. Evaluate whoever applies based on something more than hair color.

The industry I worked in is probably 99% male dominated. One of the best instructors I ever had was a female. Again you're conflating quantity with quality.

I guess that business about quality vs quantity went over your head.

I'm not anti God, I just don't buy the narrow minded, man made cooked up version that's essentially designed to make me put a dollar in the collection plate on a regular basis so I cam get to "heaven"

People who fall into the trap of being reigned by religion curtail themselves regardless of the brand or which dusty old man made book they wave around saying it came from on "high"

Funny though. "Beiger and beiger".

The thread title is a shrieking platitude.

Based on her previous comments and what other people wrote, I extrapolated, and, I think, correctly.

Except they can't after January, so I guess it's any port in a storm time.

History and current events demonstrate quite clearly that when Christianity is allowed power within a society, it behaves much as Islam is currently behaving in the countries where it holds power. You live in a society where religious beliefs are not allowed to dictate policies or laws (mostly), where Christianity has had it's teeth pulled, so to speak, and so you think Christianity is the same everywhere. It's not. While there are no longer many countries where Christianity has political power, but the more power it has, the more women and minorities are oppressed. I'd provide you examples (although you've completely ignored the ones i've provided previously) but it's late, and I get up early for work, so g'nite.

My view of Islam is that it's a male-centric religion that the world would be better off without. Same view I have of Christianity.

He lied; his sponsor had told him several times that it was illegal to beat one's wife in Canada. Not that such details matter to right-wing, anti-Muslim and anti-Immigration types - or the media they support. Here's an insightful article about the Rafias. Consider his situation, and then consider the fact that as the economy in Alberta declined, domestic abuse increased. Here's the thing: if the man hadn't been a Muslim refugee, this would not have been a story worth publishing. Every week, at least one woman dies as a result of domestic violence; how many more do you suppose end up in hospital? Three thousand women sleep in shelters every night, and 300 more are turned away - women trying to escape from violent partners. That's an awful lot of women who are suffering from domestic violence, don't you think? But these aren't Muslim women who've been beaten by a Muslim man, so it's not news. Why waste time on the many examples of Canada's wife-beating culture when you can focus in on a single Muslim refugee that will support your anti-Muslim/anti-immigrant agenda?

I have heard of this, yes. In Western countries, its expressed as "She was drinking/partying/passed out/dressed like a slut, what did she expect?" Which is a hell of a lot better than "Put her in jail", but its the same basic mindset: "She was raped? She must have been doing something wrong."

In Canada there is no cultural acceptance of such behavior.

I've never been raped by a Muslim, but I have been raped by a non-Muslim. I've been groped by non-Muslims, old-stock, white Canadian males since I was 16-years-old. Every woman in my family since my grandmother has been molested in some way by a non-Muslim, white Canadian guy; some of these men touched girls as young as six. So STFU about how "Europeans" are so much more moral or better than Muslims. You aren't.

Canada had superior economic performance to all our G7 partners during much of the Harper years. It only slowed towards the end as world commodity and energy prices dropped heavily. The truth is government can't do a lot to impact our economy except through taxation policy and how much red tape it imposes on business. And the Liberal government has been raising taxes and imposing more and more red tape on business, especially on the resources sector. Provincial governments have been doing the same. That is being more than offset at the moment by higher world energy and commodity prices, but as the cost of doing business in Canada continues to rise I expect our economy to underperform. If you think our dollar rising 10% is good for the economy you don't understand how our economy works.