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Not all Muslim countries do the practice, but there's a prevalence of FGM in many of them, especially in the northern half of Africa. Ask yourself why Indonesia is the only country east of the middle east where the practice is widespread. Muslims have an ideology of female purity and resistance of sexual temptations, which FGM seeks to accomplish by removing the clitoris and any anatomy that would give sexual pleasure for a female to dissaud her from wanting to have sex. It's quite a disgusting practice aimed at controlling a woman's sexual behaviour. Controlling women sexually is a very part of fundamentalist Muslim ideology. It's the reason women are made to wear burkas and a niqab, can't sit in the same area as men in a Mosque or in some countries have separate female entrances to buildings than men, or can't shake a man's hand etc. Sexual temptation is suppressed in every way possible. Surgery to reconstruct a woman's hymen in order to make her a virgin again is also practiced by some Muslims because again of the purity factor that some men in the religion/culture enjoy. These surgeries are on the rise in Europe among Muslim populations. People don't automatically forget all cultural practices when moving from one country to another just because they've crossed over a border.

Going to a mosque or wearing a hijab doesn't necessarily mean they are extremists, but it does mean they reject our western or Judeo-Christian culture.

People are selfish.

Why should this even be an concern, maybe Canada should get it's own stimulus package and stop worrying about the US.. Canada is nothing more than a free loader, wants everything for free, but unwilling to invest in anything else.... The US should have a clause in this package all this money will be spent in the US , on US companies, with US citizens doing the work...no more free loading Canada.... It's time we pay our own way in this world. Canada could be shut out of Biden's $2-trillion infrastructure spending plans, Canadian negotiator warns (msn.com)

Mine too. And the best way to accomplish that is to keep the barbarians on the other side of the wall.

There have been precisely ZERO such studies done of Muslim immigrants. Those studies were on older generations of immigrants who were almost all Europeans and Christians. The only study I've seen of the second generation of Muslim immigrants shows they are MORE religious than their parents. And given what the religion has to say about equality, tolerance, infidels, gays and women, that is not exactly hopeful. Because as Ayaan Hirsi Aly points out, Arab Christians adapt well to western society, thrive, and assimilate. Lebanese Christians assimilate well, but Lebanese Muslims do not. Likewise, she says Hindus and Sikhs from India flourish, but Bangladeshis and Pakistanis do not. You continue to ignore the impact their brutal religion plays on their views and behaviour.

My support for my 'tribe' is predicated on my not wanting it to be overrun by people with barbarous cultures and values. Unlike you, I have no confidence such people will come here and immediately abandon the values of their homelands when those values are so heavily reinforced and often originate in their religion.

I oppose FGM but it is mainly a Muslim practice, even though you brought it out that is is not limited by religion in those areas. Surprisingly, one website says it is supported by a large percentage of girls and women. There is obviously a lot of backward thinking in those countries. The U.N. tries to warn against it but they can't seem to have much effect. Political Islam is still a backward oppressive religious-political ideology for many other reasons, but it is also a false religion. The west has struggled with Islam trying to take over for 1,300 years but now is inviting them in and putting them in high positions in government.

1. Shhhhh ! The Conservative parties are now "anti Globalist".... sort of. 2. Honestly, many people who said this are changing their minds. 3. Which side came up with "The Internationale" ? You are making points, but throwing a boomerang as neither left-right have solid positions on trade, and both have switched several times.

That is silly. It's a silly argument. You can't compare how much pleasure people have with or without unless you can measure the same individual before and after. But in any event, it most certainly does not eliminate pleasure for the male. While the whole purpose of FGM is to eliminate pleasure for females. And it does so.

Canada fully supports Male Genital Mutilation. Don't you see the hypocrisy here? Studies show that went you amputate the foreskin, males lose a significant amount of pleasure. It's almost like removing the clitoris. We're so brainwashed, we're told that uncut guys look growse. I think all genetical mutulation should be made illegal. If a guy over 18 wants his foreskin removed, let him have it removed. It should be a choice made by the individuals, and not the parents at birth. You're saying Muslims are barbaric for removing girls clitorises, yet the Canadian government allows for boys to have a part of their penises removed at at birth.

Maybe it would help to ask a couple of straight questions, to clarify the direction of the discussion? If immigration is a policy beyond moral obligation like refuge, then it must have a purpose. A purpose would mean, in a democracy, solving a problem for the citizens. And so, what problem would massive immigration solve for the citizens? (we already discussed the bureaucracy that runs the country, and its interests aren't necessarily the same). And is it certain that it cannot be solved by any other means? And if so, who have attempted and when, any different means of solving these problems?

1. Hasn't this been the main source of the Republican Party's and conservative movements' schizophrenia on the topic of immigration! GOP business leaders want lots of immigrants and encourage refugee flows also, to prevent wages from rising and union organizing, because it helps drive down the cost of labour. BUT of course, the knuckle-dragging common louts who make up rightwing activism don't benefit unless they at least own a small business, but they mostly just see dark people moving in to town and becoming more of a presence. So, they represent Fortress America, and want that wall on the border completed. Since it appears they have won...or maybe the business class republicans have fled to the Democrat Party now that no longer represent anything that average workers care about, so now the militia crowd is all that's left of the GOP. 2. I see cosmopolitanism as an openness to other perspectives and other cultures. I see that as a net benefit that has little to do with capitalism and expanding business. This has been a general principle since the time when the first large communities or cities were coming together thousands of years ago. And of course, all that tolerant thinking can go flying out the window fast whenever times get tough...as they inevitably do. But, it's interesting to note that the very first large settlements of Asia Minor (Catalhoyuk) beginning around 7000 b.c., exhibit anthropological evidence of being multiracial for centuries until they experienced hard times and invasions from marauding bands of warriors much later. Catalhoyuk never showed much evidence of violence that became much more common later when populations grew larger and settled agriculture became the standard model for most people. It was a 'city' of at least 8000 people at its height, that grew together in an unplanned, haphazard manner, with no walls surrounding the settlement, or fortifications. Over a period of many millennia, people moved in from all directions until the city was abandoned thousands of years later...likely because of prolonged droughts. So, when times are good, people feel more relaxed and open to outsiders who are different than them, and turn insular and violent during hard times......same old, same old! That seems to be the direction we are heading today, so I would say that rightwingers have little to worry about!

Update!! I am pleased to post an update that significant criticisms by various groups and social media of Ontario government's vaccination policies and slow speed worked and today they announced a NEW timetable with new policies (including spacing out the doses by 4 months and offering AstraZeneca to those between 60 to 64). Based on the new timetable all those at highest risk will be vaccinated much sooner than the timetable announced before with wrong policies. All those over the age of 60 will be vaccinated by June not August as was announced before. Every Ontarian who wishes to be vaccinated will be likely vaccinated by end of June.

That sounds reasonable as a response to the current situation. Also, I am open to a true open discussion on immigration as a means to establish a new public forum to weigh complicated questions. It would be interesting to see a democracy that could actually debate a complex topic without resorting to emotional whinging and yelling, but still holding to values.

And if China hadn't lied and WHO hadn't perpetuated that lie Europe could have protected itself. And now Biden is going "Kissy, Kissy, let's make up" with both of them - China and WHO.

No you lack understanding of the post or are blind to the facts stated in the post. The other provinces were much quicker to act. For example Quebec ha s started vaccinating general public already vaccinating 75 year olds up and other provinces like BC, Alberta, New Brunswick as well as Quebec announced long time ago that they have decided on spacing out the doses by months and hence getting their citizens vaccinated twice more or twice faster but Ontario always lagging behind and is disorganized especially in Toronto.. And a quick decision on AstraZeneca which arrived two days ago. If you don't want to give them to 65 and older so give them to 60 to 64 now. The original timetable as of yesterday was than people younger than 60 to start vaccinating after August not summer as you misstated. That is FIVE months from now for a big majority of population. They are about to make changes now (like deciding on spacing out doses) because we good people pressured them into changing their bad decisions and slow actions. People are dying and economy is diving so make the right decisions faster and act quicker.

Hang on...I forgot I was speaking to Progs. There may be some confusion between the words "exaggerated" and "inflated." The contextual difference will be lost there to the type that only notices such things depending on who's speaking. So I'll spelll it out for them. "Exaggerated" implies a sort of malice or deception on the part of the speaker. "Inflated" simply implies growth at the source for whatever reasons. You inflate an air mattress. You don't "exaggerate" it.

Did you hear about this one? Cuomo Aide Admits — ‘We hid nursing home ‘death data’ so Trump’s DOJ wouldn’t find out the truth’… Democrat Governors are the only politicians who might actually be guilty of murder.

Quebec will support him because he's one of theirs. The English media adore him because they're all progressives - and it's 2021, don't you know? They will sugar coat anything he does wrong and focus on how dangerous the conservatives - excuse me, I meant to say the racist, white supremacist, trump loving conservatives are. Added to that people are intellectually lazy and pay little attention to politics. Trudeau is sending them money and they like that. The Conservatives maybe wouldn't be as 'generous' because they have this weird, whiny fixation on not spending too much money - probably because all they care about are big business and rich people. Don't even try to suggest it's the Liberals who have close associations with the Irvings and the Desmarais and Bronfrmans and others because I'm not listening! My mind is made up! And anyway, I never read newspapers. I get my news when clips and stories are shared on facebook by my friends. I think that makes me very well-informed!