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Not championing it, but when this truck was rolling around - no investigation, no outrage.

I dunno. Is religious genocide compatible with secular democracy? Religious genocides are central to the theme of islam. Mohammed did it himself. Is religious bigotry compatible with secular democracy? Religious bigotry is central to the theme of islam: it's the reason why hijabs are forced on all women in areas that are dominated by muslims. It's kind of hard to overlook all the above. The only way to truly understand the character of a person or group is by seeing what they do when they're in a position of power.

To be clear, the Palestinians ALSO have the West Bank and Gaza. If you look at a map of Israel and subtract the massive Negev desert, the Palestinians have nearly as much land as the Israelis. They could build a great nation with it, if only they gave up this stupid Jihad nonsense. Their most sacred site is the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, which Israel has kept open to them. Israel could have closed it off, but they didn’t. When Palestinians controlled the area, Jews were not free to pray at the Western Wall.

Islam is more than just a religion IMO, it's a complete system that includes religion, laws, customs and traditions. And it works. From about 610AD its contributed literature, architecture, universities, medicine / hospitals, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics etc to the world. The question remains though, is fundamental Islam compatible with secular democracy? That's not to say it can't be, only that it takes more tolerance (on all sides) to achieve than what I perceive as being likely... especially if the tenants of secular democracy are held to be desirable and beneficial for all. The same might be said about Christianity, particularly Catholicism. But again, haven't we already determined that secular democracy is what we want? Don't we go to some pains to separate church and state? Woke ideology has become another form of religion (again IMO). Turn it on its head for a moment and imagine the howls of indignation if schools were conducting bible story time instead of drag queen story time. Imagine them holding after class bible studies and secret baptisms without parental permission. I'm guessing you would object to that. So before screaming "Islamaphobia" and "hate speech" on any number of topical issues, I'd invite you to substitute the same issue under consideration to one of a Christian action of similar flavour and deed; as opposed to Islamic in flavour and deed. If you can do that with impartiality you may come to see that the objections to overt, in your face Islamic actions are not so different than what I perceive your own might be if Christianity was captured in the same reticle.

that is just preaching to the leftist choir I don't think it wins any converts, in fact, on the whole I would suggest that it backfires Islamists are scaring people, including liberals, playing them as being the victims is not working, imo for example the Hamas encampments at the universities, that is all backfiring with the public I would surmise that the majority would be perfectly happy for the cops to go in there and crush them I would assert that the silent majority is actually still very pro Zionism nobody in Canada fears that the Israelis are going to attack them on Canadian soil Islamists on the other hand . . . it just takes one mass casualty Islamic terrorist attack, and things are going to whipsaw back on the left with a vengeance the left getting into bed with Sunni Islamists is the left putting its own neck in the noose by all means, let them hang themselves with their own rope

No, the reasons come from acknowledging the reality that letting in people from deeply misogynistic, homophobic, antisemitic countries with NO screening other than checking for crime records and to see if they're on a terrorist watch list is insane. Not only do they not fit in with our culture and values but they usually don't have the necessary job skills to ever earn sufficient income to pay for their own government services like healthcare. And since so many wind up poor, unable to earn much due to lack of job and language skills, they overflow jails and prisons. All of the foregoing is deeply politically incorrect to the left but none of it can be contradicted with facts.

No, the reasons come from the very large amount of violent crimes being committed by the people we are allowing to come into our country and Canadians are starting to notice it. People will get more vocal.

I think you'd be surprised by the number of people who are deeply unhappy with both the levels and types of people coming into Canada. People will get more vocal.

Robo while he posts this garbage

Gawd you're stupid.

Islam did not contribute to none of above. They invaded neighboring civilizations like the Persian Empire and Egypt and it was those civilizations which contributed to literature, architecture, medicine , chemistry (Abu Ali Sina and Zakaria Razi were Persians not Arabs foe example). Arabs were nothing more than violent tribes in desert attacking and robbing each other. Your question is a joke or serious? Islam and democracy in one sentence!!!!! You wish to know about Islamic democracy ask the nation of Iran, women in particular and women of Afghanistan.

Islamic Republic which has taken the nation of Iran hostage may demonstrate well what they do when an Islamic group takes power. If not yet convinced then look at Taliban in Afghanistan. Not convinced yet? Then how about ISIS?

Again, I recognized it as an attempt at humour, it just wasn't funny. Sucked in would mean that I thought it was real.

the message was purposely vague it doesn't actually identify any particular group yet Levant knew that the leftists in Toronto would take the bait by filling in the blanks invoking "hate speech" so I'd say it was mission accomplished in terms of what Levant was intending

this seems more like a stunt intended to provoke left wing Toronto government and police into an overreaction

Anyone chanting that who was not born here should have been arrested and handed over to Border Services to be deported forthwith.

Western societies have entered the phase of a structural, foundational crisis and they just couldn't find the way out of it. A change of paradigm; reinvention of democracy; renewed social contract of participation and prosperity are all needed desperately but tired and self-absorbed liberal elites just cannot produce anything new; in the short - minuscule in the historical terms period of relative peace and prosperity, Western societies have grown lazy and self-centered, deep into the mentality of indulgence and entitlement. They all but forgot that maintaining democracy is the responsibility of the citizens: it is not a given and no free gift, neither an eternal engine of consumption and prosperity. Not great. In the meanwhile, the dictators were watching from the shadows. They have perfected the instruments of control and suppression. Iran, Russia, North Korea: they can really rule forever now; with no chance of returning to freedom. And these days, it is coming to the fore: the West, weakened from inside, and divided. And the dictators, certain and determined to not repeat the mistakes of the past, stay united and go straight for a rematch. The opposite of the setting in the last century; and even back then it wasn't a given; it was close; and took enormous toll to prevail. So what will it be? How will it turn out this time? Remember: no promises were given. No such guarantees.

IMO you people constantly frame answers in a manner that fails to acknowledge legitimate Palestinian grievances. In this case by pretending Israel's subjugation of Palestinians is benign. Some of you even think it's beneficial.

It takes a sociopathic level of empathy to look at ten thousand dead children and say "Well, they shouldn't have voted for Hamas." The fact is that most Gazans didn't vote for Hamas. Literally half of the people there today weren't even born yet, let alone of voting age. And Hamas never won a majority. They were supposed to share power, but seized control through violence and there hasn't been an election since. What's certain is that the indiscriminate murder of tens of thousands of Innocents will breed a bigger crop of terrorists, more resolute and more desperate--and that half the world will now think of as freedom fighters.

Trump himself is hinting not so subtly at violence if he doesn’t win as are many of his supporters. We all know there will be right wing violence in the event of a Biden victory. And there is already a well established track record of right wing terrism in America: abortion clinic bombings, the Jan 6 attack, the Whitmer kidnapping attempt, Trump supporters making death threats against all sorts of public officials and judge. Meanwhile groups like proud boys, oath keepers, patriot front continue to organize and threaten violence. And of course historically domestic terrorists like Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph were both right wing ex-military motivated by right wing causes. it’s only going to get worse A government department doing its job and stating the facts is not the president “targeting” people.

And rightards make their BS accusations about Biden - without anyone diagnosing that in person - and Biden passes his cognitive test. Donyou see your hypocrisy? Of course you don’t So you’re fixating on the fact that he wasn’t dumb and irresponsible enough to hold superspreader rallies at the start of the pandemic 4 years ago? Hilarious. Nobody “has to do” rallies and “speaking off the cuff for hours at a time” is not the great feat you think it is: it's the ultimate display of narcissism and what Hitler, Castro, Mussolini and other dictators were known for. They are both far too old to be POTUS. America’s gerontocracy including Pelosi and McConnell who only recently stepped down due to health problems is a symptom of American democratic decline in recent decades. I don’t think anyone can say Trump speaks well. If you’re comparing him to Biden, maybe, but the latter is more likely to be delivering a prepared speech while Trump just gives a meandering unhinged rant with no planned direction or purpose to adoring and uncritical followers so it’s hard to compare apples to apples. We know that even when Biden was young he was gaffe-prone. At the debates we will have a better comparison. Of course Biden’s age will be an issue, he will be 86 at the end of a second term which would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. But an unhinged mor0n like Trump also would have been unthinkable. Neither one is an ideal choice for President…simply being able to day that is proof Im not “Biden’s boy” contrary to your claims. But given the sinister motives of Trump and his pack of grifters and extremists, a Biden administration with a figurehead POTUS being “handled” by his staff is the least worst option and possibly not even a first given what we know of Reagan’s second term.

No one is talking about banning fish farms. They're only being asked to grow their fish in closed containment systems so the pollution they cause, and the lice and pathogens they spread can be filtered out and the water can treated before being put back into the sea. Existing farmers are complaining closed systems will cost them too much and that they'll simply move to some other country that will let them do what they want. Meanwhile... Closed containment salmon farmer sets sights on British Columbia https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/akvafuture-as-british-columbia-canada-salmon-farming/closed-containment-salmon-farmer-sets-sights-on-british-columbia/1542735

Notwithstanding introduced diseases, the concentrated population density found in a farm probably put the fish in them at greater threat from disease than wild salmon. The worst threat to wild salmon from farms are from sea lice that are also found in greater densities around farms. Adult salmon can survive being fairly heavily infested with lice but even just a couple can kill a smolt. When smolts swimming out to the open sea pass farms along the way they stand a good chance of becoming infested.

Israel/Palestine is the one area of politics where there's no clear middle of the aisle. Conservatives and liberals are found on both sides of this one, even in the outlier categories. I made some FB friends from the ant-vax days and anti-Trudeau days and pro-Trump days that are firmly on my side in almost every aspect of politics, but are now my arch-enemies regarding Israel/Palestine. TBH, I've switched sides myself, twice now. I grew up pro-Israeli because my parents were pro-Israeli, and then as a young man I couldn't help but notice that both sides were always claiming to be the ones "retaliating", but Irsaeli reprisals were on a larger scale, and the Palestinian attacks got a lot of coverage while their victims got no coverage: they were just numbers. There was also the issue of the Nabka, early Jewish terrorists, the constant expansion into the accepted Palestinian territories. If we're being honest, there's a lot to dislike about both of these baconally challenged a-holes, but it's the view from 50,000 feet that puts me on the Israeli side. When you look at how Jews were treated for the last 1,000 years, it's pretty clear that: they need a homeland where they don't have to worry about where the next genocide is coming from it made sense for Jews from all over the ME and Europe to go to Israel The area called "Palestine" by the Ottomans, Romans, etc wasn't all "Palestine" any more than Edmonton is part of Quebec, or Mecca is part of England. most importantly: the Israelis have been facing genocide since the very beginning of the Arab Israeli war: Pakistan really is the model that muslims in the ME are looking to follow. The Palestinians don't have to stare down a similar fate because there are dozens of countries for muslims to go where they don't have to live under codified religious bigotry, live in constant fear of genocide or gov't reprisals, etc. The Jews have nothing but Israel, and Israel is a tiny speck in that vast region. All the people who made the case for Pakistan to exist and who haven't got any hard feelings against Pakistan after all of their massive genocides, should be able to see how the same case can be made for Israelis. If Israel loses, they all die. Palestinians have lots of other options aside from having all of Palestine and all of Israel under their control. They need to get over it.

If they weren't involved in violent plots, they would not be surveilled. Duh

What's controversial is you defending an illegal who committed murder, have you no shame?

$20 million to tell people in Ghana not to shit on the beach. Thanks, Canadian taxpayers!

Too crass even for Rebel News lovers.

Won more than jaggers did and he's hardly nothing. Plus being ndp leader was at the end of a very long and distinguished career. You might dislike his politics (ye IS right of trudeau after all, but who isn't) but you can't dismiss him like that and be taken seriously The only reason you're trying to say he's "nothing" is because you don't like his opinion. That's how sad you are.

They did target them through the IRS and they're probably doing other nefarious things hidden from the public eye. Not all of it is discreet, they're pretty open about wanting to send their main political opponent to jail by any means necessary. Can't forget about rigging the election laws either.

Not surprising to find out that Trump supporters tried to violently overthrow the government on January 6, and people like you who hate America support it.

I liked his posts better than the hysterical and illogical posts that scapegoat immigrants for everything.

I debate the arguments you present. The problem is you then insist you never presented them, then go on to present them again. It's the same every time, You say something, then say you didn't say it, then say it. Yes you said that people blamed their shittty conditions brought about by the treaty on democracy That's ALSO what i said you said. So you actually said what i said you said. What a shock. What i ALSO said is that you have not demonstrated why they would blame democracy when it was the kaizer who started the war and the allies who imposed those conditions. Things actually got BETTER by FAR under hitler, who came into power during the 'democracy'. So quit pretending you didn't say what you said ffs. If you say something that is stupid or wrong just move on instead of denying it and then repeating the stupid The treaty had NOTHING to do with the rejection of democracy. Zero zip nada. So lets stop pretending that it did and quit denying that's' what you said. Sigh. You literally attribute the nazi's rise to power to events that took place AFTER they rose to power. And you don't see how that's relevant to your agument. Let me guess - you believe the nazi's had a time machine? LOLOLOL Or better yet, you never said they rose to power!!! ROFLMAO!!

He served in a position directly connected with the military and military deployment and you have no such service. Got it?

The last century our ancestors knew what brutal, aggressive fascism is and they put a stop to it at an enormous price. Their sacrifice bought us a few decades of relative peace and prosperity - not forever and no such guarantees exist. Can we make a different choice, and try a different path? Of course: it is in our hands. Is there any guarantee or promise that there will be a happy end, a miraculous salvation as in a movies we like? Not a chance. Sure, we knew. From apologizing brutal, aggressive, fully Hitleresque incarnation of our day fascism; justifying it and helping it when it needs it most how far it is to losing all will and resolve to stand to it, when it comes to us? Not far at all. On what ground: moral, principled, integrity? could this folk stand to fascism rather than making all kinds of stinky deals with it, until they are consumed by it in entirety, and nothing of integrity, principle and freedom remains? We can think about that now. Now, we have the time. Only the citizen's test.

No, how an administration interprets the asylum rules is not pure fiction. The Biden administration had loosened those rules to allow for more people to claim asylum and be let into the country easily. The majority of those who do abscond and never show up for their hearings. Then Democrats support so-called sanctuary policies where they refuse to cooperate with helping to identify and apprehend any of these people, and to the point of this thread, even when they are criminals who broke the law. Thus... we have a defacto open border. Thus we encourage more people to come here and do this which is why we have record amounts of people doing just that... and why we have even more who do so illegally because most of the Border Patrol is hung up processing all these people into the country. It is an open door, by design, supported by Democrats. The fact that you sit here pretending otherwise is all part of the ruse to continue supporting this by denying it is happening.

Post the 10 Commandments in every Evangelical Church in America. And put a big red X on each one Donald Trump has broken.....

Putting the Chair of Monsanto as head of Environment Canada is more to his liking. Why that extremist can't possibly know anything about the environment he's as non-credible as David Suzuki.

Evil Government Shuts Asbestos Mine, Thousands Out if Work. OMG hates anything to do with environmental protection yet wants the horrible interfering govt to 'fix' housing and inflation. Schizoid. They have 5 years to move inland. 5 whole years. 5 years to comply and continue, 5 ears for workers to look for new jobs, 5 years for natives to appeal and probably win exemptions. But NOOO it's another Apocalypse Today!

A Systematic REVIEW of Autopsy findings in deaths after covid-19 vaccination - ScienceDirect "325 autopsy cases" "We found that 73.9% of deaths were directly due to or significantly contributed to by COVID-19 vaccination."

We all know what you prefer: straight up lies and disinformation. That's why you're a Russian collusion stooge and a mostly peaceful protests stooge and a Jussie stooge and a Jan 6th stooge and a no inflation stooge and a no BSL4 lab stooge and a safe and effective vax stooge, etc, etc. Do you never tire of stepping on rakes? Do you honestly believe that Joe is NOT what he's being made out to be? After 4 years you still think that Joe is of sound mind?

Is that the supreme iron heated by a dying star and forged by dwarfs on Nidavellir.

Oh look who's back to fake-quoting again That 'resistance' group you're supporting, are they 'resisting' women and children? Because that's who they killed in their terrorist attacks.

Personally, that doesn't bother or even affect me, I can still put a candle in the window anytime I want. I still call Canada Day "Dominion Day" and if you're coming to my house on 1 July that's what the email will say in the subject line. If you're offended by that and/or think it should all be cancelled because of 215 graves that remain undiscovered then cool, stay home and mind your own damn business. I don't think that's unreasonable. Things like white poppies (and other such forms of protests) though are different, they're intended to be disrespectful and they serve as one example of what I mean. I don't do that to others and I expect the same consideration in return. So... expecting me to wear a hockey jury with a rainbow coloured pride flag emblazoned on it will ultimately lead to disappointment, I'm not going to do that. In return for that consideration I don't demand that people stand up during the national anthem, I don't throw rocks at people who burn the flag, I don't insist other people's kids attend remembrance day ceremonies, wear T-shirts that say "Jesus saves" etc etc and on and on. So really, it comes dow to picking a fight when all you have to do is.... absolutely nothing.