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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

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?

Lists crimes from all over the world to imply they're done by immigrants to Canada. Nice try. Lists Islamic crimes from all over the world to imply Islam itself caused them. Nice try. Lists Islamic crimes from all over the world to imply all believers are zealots not like most of us that only go to church for weddings and funerals and still identify as Christians. Uh Huh. Lists crimes from all over the world to imply immigration needs to be reduced as all immigrants are Islamic. Again, nice try. Lists crimes from all over the world to imply refugees trying to escape them are coming here to do the exact thing they risked their lives to get away from. Nice try. Listed by an Evangelical Christian Zealot that loathes other denominations of his own religion.

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

You mean the fantasy that you dreamed about? Yes, they spy on the MAGA CULT because they carry out Trump's demands for VIOLENCE ROUTINELY.

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

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.

And I'd like to know if you've stopped beating your wife? IMO, you've deliberately framed the question in a manner that fails to acknowledge Israeli efforts to minimize collateral damage. Like it or not, they have established a new standard that will become the model for other nations involved in high population density theatres. Apparently I'm not the only one who sees it that way: https://www.newsweek.com/israel-has-created-new-standard-urban-warfare-why-will-no-one-admit-it-opinion-1883286 Hamas has a religious ideology... not a political one. They are not advocating for the Palestinian people, their political aspirations or even trying to address legitimate grievances. You can negotiate with that. What you can't negotiate with is the Hamas objective to kill Jews, annihilate the Jewish state and rebuild on the rubble. Given the inherent bias in your question, the only answer I can offer you then is YES. I support the subjugation of Palestinians... as much subjugation as it takes for as long as it takes to subjugate Hamas and remove it (for the sake of clarity I'll say CRUSH IT) as a governing entity. How do ya like me now? Must have missed that part... I'm all ears. If it doesn't involve removing Hamas from power then don't bother reiterating it. I always ask people who don't support removing Hamas as an entity a simple question, so far no one has answered it: How would you negotiate with the murderous neighbour next door who just got out of jail for poisoning your dog and fire bombing your house. He wants you out of the neighbourhood because you happen to be gay (or have blue eyes, what ever). To appreciate the magnitude of the problem, simply look at the people (right here) who can't even discuss this topic (or any other topic for that matter) politely on a political forum, using an anonymous screen name, with zero accountability for outcomes and/or unintended consequences... how exactly do they plan to achieve world peace? Or any other negotiated outcome on any other issue? How are you going to smooth things over with that neighbour when you can't even get through Christmas dinner with your in-laws? From what I've seen, people with the strongest opinions of what others should be doing can't seem to muster the will power it takes to lose 10 pounds... they make the same resolution every January, they flood into the gym, they tie up equipment playing on their phones, and come Feb 15th... POOF, they vanish. During their brief yearly tenure, the number one question these folks have is: "what supplements should I be taking? And the worst part of it is they're actually serious.

I honestly don't think hamas is getting what they wanted at all. I think what they wanted is the same thing they've gotten every other time they picked a war with Israel. I think they wanted six to 12 weeks of fighting, a few thousand deaths, and then the UN to step in and give them a bunch of goodies and tell them how terrible they have it and they walk away with some casualties and a few less buildings but generally speaking not that much damagenew powers and recognition. That is not what has happened. Things have gone so stunningly poor for them, that even if the war stopped now it would probably take them many many decades to rebuild their tunnels and forts and their prestige etc etc. Now they have to find a way to stay alive and stay in power. And Israel is just not going to be interested, and the united nations and the united states have not so far been excited about the idea of leaving Hamas in place. And Israel's position that no peace agreement can be discussed without Hamas leaving is pretty strong. I think Hamas was very surprised by this. I think they are probably desperately trying to figure out a way where they can stay in power and end this with some species of at least appearing to have won some kind of victory

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.

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

Sage advice for a lying piece of sh*t, like you. Michael Softener has zero shame. It's why he runs around this forum claiming to be a conservative when he's really a hardened leftist.

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.

We can't pretend you speak English. Honestly you could write for by the speeches

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.

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.

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

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.

And hopefully, Israel will keep giving it to them until they are destroyed.

This is comical. Lets do a quick review: You: Claim Trump did not say anything for over 3 hours. Me: Yes he did, here let me show you You: No, that doesn't count, and here, if you move the timeline around to a point that Trump was still giving his speech, it was 3 hours! Me: Um, no, that is still only 2 hours and you moved the timeline up to when he was still giving his speech You: OMG DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR WhY yOu TaKe ThIs So LiTeRaLy?! Me RuN aWaY nOw! DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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!

Ahhhhh, there it is! I was waiting for you to post an example of the science you are following. Everything makes sense now.

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?

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.

We give one day in June to honour the over 4000 men that gave their lives to begin the ending of WWII. We give one day in November to honour the deaths of over 8 million people that sacrificed their lives in 20thy century wars. Yet, we give an entire month to celebrate and fete those that decided to exercise alternative sexual orientation, desires and, deviations that do zero for society except demand recognition. WTF!!!