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Perhaps the question should be, Can Canada exercise it's given right to it's sovereignty by allowing whom ever they want into the country ? We already have standards in place that each immigrant has to live up to, Not sure why most people are opposed to adding more standards like moral and values testing.

Why are you so loyal to the Queen? Also, not sure how you can be a proud American and a loyal royalist at the same time. You invoke the Declaration of Independence yet spit on it at the same time. This is why dual citizenship should be not allowed, it is full of contradictions. Choose your loyalty, and choose wisely. The Queen serves me now. She's my bitch. I am loyal to her only because she's my bitch. The Crown is mine and ours, Crown land is our land. She recruited you to fight for me only because I told her to. Technically my MP told her too, but he's my bitch to. I'm going to vote out my MP in a month, because he's a POS.

It's not a benign religion. It's a political system - a political system than almost 80% of Muslims in the UK want instead of democracy. Ex-Muslims and Muslim reformers have written books, articles and blogs warning of the same thing. So it's not just one little woman on an obscure internet forum. Take your beef up with them. If you can spare some time from your Jew-bashing.

Weird how you rail against this - although men are not jailed, beaten or killed for non-conformity - yet hijabs and burqas are symbols of women's empowerment and right to choose. Honestly, the mind games and thought twisting you guys go through to excuse what Islam does is absolutely bizarre.

even if the mucky-muck was only hot and breathing hard. Then it usually comes off.

We've gone over this time and time again. The habit is a uniform. It's their job. Same as other jobs that have uniforms. Nuns are not required to wear habits at all times. Nor are they beaten or thrown in prison or threatened with eternal hellfire if they are caught without it on.

I watched some bits of the latest Democratic-debate, It was a humiliation for Biden as he was exposed of having some sort of early dementia. He may be ahead in the polls but he won't get the nomination. My bet goes to Pocahontas. The Democrats have veered so much to the left they genuinely think that she has a real chance of winning. If next year was 2040 she might have a real chance of winning but the demographics haven't changed enough yet to make it impossible for the Republicans ever to win again.

Most likely not to be beaten.

You know what's interesting is that the Nun's Habit comes from Asia. It was a Buddhist thing, which came to Christianity by way of the Monks of the Eastern Orthodox Church. It's a Monk's robe for a woman.

The real reason to vote for Maxime Bernier.

I concur with many experts and studies (such as the one I linked in a recent comment above) who agree that: I'm aware that you disagree and that you believe Islam - the religion - bears no responsibility for how its followers behave. I'm not the only one who disagrees with you, so don't make out like I'm a racist and Islamophobe for finding many of the teachings of Islam dangerous and harmful.

If you have ever spent much time in MENA, India, Japan or dozens of other regions/countries, you would know they are extremely racist, intolerant and discriminatory. What makes me gasp in horror is that we are not only accepting (even seeking) immigration from such cultures, we are expected to tolerate and celebrate THEIR intolerant culture once they arrive here!

The Queen is the physical embodiment of the state. I'm glad you're loyal to Canada. The Queen orders you to be.

This is already addressed in our current system. Here's a link explaining that everyone's face must be clearly seen for ID purposes, even Muslim women. Accommodation comes into play by allowing these photos be taken in private, by another woman. Here's another link explaining why being veiled at a public citizenship ceremony isn't a security risk, since the individual's identity is confirmed prior to the ceremony. The myth that Muslim women have ID photos with faces covered, or are excused from "identifying" themselves as appropriate is spread by Islamophobes. Don't fall for it. You don't have to like women in niqabs (I personally don't), but I do like Canada's commitment to freedom of expression, even that expression which I find incomprehensible or ridiculous.

I agree with most of this. It's not "anti-immigrant" what i'm saying, i have no problems with most immigrants, i have many friends who are immigrants. I have a problem with a country that does a poor job at maintaining a strong national identity, and has problems with unity because of it. The fact you call it "anti-immigrant" is the kind of nonsense that makes it impossible for anyone to even talk about these issues without being accused of being a xenophobe racist. We barely teach Canadian history in our schools. ie: Virtually nobody in this country knows hardly anything about any Prime Ministers who were in power before they were born, besides Sir John A. How many Canadians can name the Prime Minister who was in power during WWII, or WWI? Do you personally know who Canada's 2nd PM was? How about the 3rd, or 4th? How many Canadians have even ever heard of the Statute of Westminster, basically our Declaration of Independence? We have a problem with nationalism. If you don't know anything about your country it's hard to be proud of it. And yes it's up to both Canadians and immigrants have to work on integration of cultures. I agree that ethnic enclaves are formed in part because of discrimination, but it also has to do with many of them not wanting to integrate and stick to their own kind and cultures, and governments that not only do nothing to help this problem but actively encourage it through official multiculturalism. Interculturalism is a far better idea than multiculturalism. Interculturalism means different people of different cultures living side-by-side, not segregating themselves.