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Wikipedia has a list, which lists terror attacks based on ideology. Most of the non-Islamic attacks are older, the more recent ones tend to be related to Islamic extremists. I think small sample size is irrelevant. If you check out terror attacks in Finland, Sweden and Germany, they don't seem to have as many as France or Britain, despite pretty high numbers of refugees and immigrants from Muslim countries. I think we're not a such a large political target as France, Britain or the States and that is partly why we've been relatively immune. But it seems that as ISIS continues to lose ground in Syria, there may be more terror attacks in Western countries. This is an interesting article analyzing both the expectations of terror attacks since 9/11, vs. the reality. In many ways, the fear of terror attacks has not been borne out by the reality. I agree that most people think that, but that doesn't make it automatically true. Since the religion of any other terrorist (or even mass murderer) is not generally part of the story and motives can be hard to define, it's impossible to know if other "religions" have more or less killers in their midst than Muslims. People who attack and kill abortion providers, for example, are not generally thought of as 'Christian terrorists' - yet what else are they? White Supremacists are heavily influenced by "Christian" ideology, yet nobody would call them "Christian terrorists" when they set fire to buildings or attack people.

Canada's government(s) care more about mining interests in the region than another group of refugees.

It gets top priority when it is used for propaganda purposes, doesn't it, Michael? And how many were murdered in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, ... by western war criminals/terrorists?

You're silly. That's why I say you're silly. You were talking about turmoil..... What's law got to do with it? If you're getting invaded and slaughtered because you're not a Muslim - laws or not - you think there'll be a difference between then and now in how'd you feel about that? If there were no laws against murder, are you saying you'll welcome getting murdered? Or, you wouldn't feel any anger if anyone kills your son or any loved one? Now surely, you understand why my replies to you are mostly loaded with laughing emoticons! You've earned them. You give laughable responses!

And to think that they're not really "different," after all they all come from that part of the world. And yet.... Just shows, unless an immigrant assimilates and embraces the culture of the host country.....count on cultural conflict to rear its ugly head. That's why it's only sensible to take in immigrants that are compatible with the host country's values.

Another example how multiculturalism leads sooner or later to conflict.

The board got "lighter." Now I find, even when posters disagree and duke it out - there is a blatant attempt at self-restraint, which is very positive I think. Things aren't being taken personally, which is how it should be in a forum, especially one that's meant for adults. There's hardly any whining, too.

Probably not...far more Canadians are dual citizens with U.S. citizenship as a percentage of the population.