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You're not getting the point, the right to practice religion and an officially recognized state religion are two very different things. I'm not disputing the fact that Canada and Israel do not allow people to practice freedom of religion. He is saying that he recognizes a religious denominations right to have their own land set aside for their own Political use. All I said is would he then recognize any religions right to have their own land set aside for political use.

Wrong Israel has enshrined itself as a Jewish State in it's laws. Those laws do also provide the right to practice the other religions you mentioned which of course are only Abrahamic religions and also allows the irreligious to do their thing as well. A state religion means that the countries political parties are often dominated by the enshrined state religion, which ultimately in the end means that the state looks out for said religion above all others. They may be able to exist without scrutiny but they obviously have very little say in matters of political importance. Which is fine and dandy just don't pretend that isn't the case.

Not only do older generations in this country blame younger generations for losing jobs to the technology they pioneered they expect them to afford the most expensive educations in the history of this country while managing to have a family, buy a home in the most expensive housing market this country has ever had and to boot foot the bill for their retirement. All while having no promise of a CPP , and often times being encouraged to diversify their own retirement investments because the older political generation wasn't economically smart enough to manage the money to begin with. Everything young people in this country have to deal with is a direct result of older generations not caring about the long term future of Canada, just their own short term gains. it's going to come-back to bite this country in the ass. And the older generations will be the first ones to complain.

I have not seen this exact story but I have heard of the Green Movement in Iran. A very interesting story though, not unlike many I have heard. Revolution is happening in the middle east no matter where you look, some more successful than others but they all are making a difference.

That is exactly the sort of things they talk about. I will most certainly do so when I see him next Tuesday. They often speak of the way things are in public and the way they are becoming in private, even how the treatment of women is beginning to change behind closed doors. It's the old right wing men that are in charge who refuse to change and the youth are beginning to do what youth should do, rebel. Many of them wish they could return. There is a young man from Egypt whom often speaks of how he wishes he could be apart of the revolution in Egypt, the way he speaks about it and how he wishes he could join his friends back home. It gives me hope that this young generation of Arabs can really change the world if they wish to, and obviously for the better. Some are Muslims, some are Christian, some are Jews and some they tell me are even Irreligious though they often do not make that belief public. Even though they all have different beliefs they know that the status quo can only lead to more bloodshed. Which they, to the dismay of many western right wing politicians, do not want.

There are many young people whom I work with from Iran, Palestine, Egypt and the UAE. They tell me things are changing with the youth in the region. They are questioning things that have remained unquestioned for almost centuries and are beginning to look to the world as a whole for their guidance rather than their religious leaders. Though the elderly in the region are very hesitant and often times dismissive of the youth. They tell me it's an odd situation but they feel that the situation in the middle east will change and they largely thank the internet for that change. It's refreshing to interact with young people who consider themselves Muslims and at the same time view many of the radical ideals of their own religion as ridiculous and misinterpreted. They even us the term "right-wing fanatics" sometimes which always makes me laugh.

You already have Muslims fighting Muslims, the Kurds are largely Sunni. Might as well have them quell their own radicals. As much as I'd rather just have nothing to do with any state in the region, having Iran on your side really is the best way to find peace with Muslim people as a whole, people don't realize how young Islam as a religion is. They will have their own "enlightenment" so to speak very soon. It's already happening with the youth during the Arab Spring and will only continue to happen as these young people become the one's assuming roles of political power be it through revolution or democracy. I have high hopes for the Middle East in coming years provided their youth can remain vigilant in enacting change.

Iran is using the problem of ISIS to de-thaw relations with the US and UK. Canada wants no part of it so far. They want ISIS gone just as much as anyone else for fear of their dogma spreading throughout Iran and eventually destabilizing one of the most stable countries in the area.

So you would agree with the statement that EVERY and ALL religions should be given a state to exist within freely?

Wrong. Israel is a state whose religion is Judaism. Being anti-Israel is not being anti-semetic. That is ridiculous.

It's got everything to do with Muslims and Jews and Israels refusal to accept Palestine as a state. I do not have a hard time with it, in fact that is the very fact I am trying to relate to you. Your refusal to accept that is what is really interesting. I've read litany of piss on Israel by Palestine and litany of piss on Palestine by Israel the fact of the matter is I am not biased in my opinion on the matter, like you. I realize that both sides need to figure shit out peacefully and neither is trying very hard to make that happen. A two-state or three-state deal is the only way this can end. The facts of who isn't letting that happen are very well known. It just seems like its an exercise in pissing on Israel because you constantly defend everything anyone has to say about them, you are in fact very biased in your opinion. Yet when anyone says anything about Palestine you are very quick to jump in on it and in fact elaborate as much as possible on it.

Because if you have seen it first hand you might have the faintest clue what your talking about. There's numerous times when people have been taken advantage of by their leaders throughout history and have been able to do nothing without outside help. Pick up a book and read up on some world history. "Oh why don't they just stand up and tell them to bugger off" - Said every homer looking from the outside in throughout history

How many reserves have you ever been on?

They're both wrong but why does the right wing in North America have such a hard time admitting that? Or does their hatred for Muslims cloud that judgment?

Watch out now. I've seen you make idiotic generalized assumptions as to what ALL Palestinians and Muslims think.

In my question I never supposed only innocent Palestinian children are endangered. I mentioned Allah and God for that very reason.

So it's okay to kill innocent children to bomb a couple of soldiers in the name of Allah, errr wait scratch that, in the name of God? The reality is about 70% of the people killed on both sides are innocent. So how about we, in the western world, stop supporting a religious war on both sides?

Are you saying they should kill 55 Palestinians going about their business for every one Israeli that has died going about their business? With your logic I wonder how many Americans and Canadians we should be allowing middle eastern governments to kill for innocents accidentally or intentionally bombed in those countries. It would be an "appropriate response" right?

The only difference is that you used to have tell them a specific place you would be taking the firearm to when you acquired the ATT now according to the bill you only need to acquire an ATT and can now take it to any one of these five places; A shooting club or sporting range, to a police station or any place an officer may be located, to and from any business authorized to repair or appraise prohibited and restricted firearms, to and from a gun show, or to a port of exit or port of entry. Basically all I need to do is say I'm on my way to any one of the following when pulled over by a police officer with a restricted firearm in my vehicle and an ATT. Essentially I can transport it anywhere in the given time frame so long as I say I'm heading to one of these 5 locations and i make it believable. The bill actually tightens some criminal charges related to all firearms as well. I like certain portions of it. You can see why many gun owners oppose it though. It doesn't give them what they want which is full control over all aspects of handling, transporting and using any and all firearms. Which of course would be irresponsible.

I think you missed the intent of my answers... I'll refer back to one of my original points. If the people IN, key word here being IN, the region wish to be a nation do they have the right to be a nation? It doesn't matter what everyone around them thinks. If the entirety of Vancouver Island wishes to be a nation and all of mainland BC wishes they were dead where they stand, do the people of Vancouver Island still have the right to be a nation? If all of Quebec wishes to secede from Canada does it matter what anyone living in Ontario thinks? By your logic, you seem to think so. My answer remains. Both Israel and Palestine have a right to exist, because both have a majority in their respective regions that wish to be sovereign. Furthermore and correct me if I'm wrong but don't the majority of people within both regions wish to broker a two-state deal? If I'm correct then this issue is no longer an issue of sovereignty, It's an issue of absolutely meaningless and pointless deep-seated religious hatred by all parties involved.

How does a majority of people in a region I've never been to nor care too go to put me down as a no? They have as much right to sovereignty as any current or potential nation. I'm all for regional sovereignty. Give the Palestinians a nation, the Cascadians, the French Canadians, Vermont, Texas. Heck western Canada needs a more centralized government to lets all separate and form new nations. The map is getting boring anyways needs a few new lines.

Not true I've put all Abrahamic religions under my microscope. It's a petri dish with over 2 thousand years of useless conflict!

I think you have a pretty good idea about what that list would look like.. It's funny how people on the right think just because you put Christianity under the microscope that Islam isn't right there beside it. If Allah was written in the preamble I bet you'd be singing a different tune. I can assure you I wouldn't be.

That's pretty funny hey? You think a omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent eternal being wouldn't change it's mind after a couple thousand years about homosexuality. "Hey Pope, tell them it's okay now, it's not so bad, I changed my mind."In theory, being all knowing, he should have seen it coming. I don't think the Conservatives won a majority based on religious principles. In a tally of recent polls they don't hold that majority anymore so I think it's safe to say that most Canadians don't vote with religion in mind but it may sway some voters. I know people who are atheist conservative voters. All Harper has to do is say the wrong thing with a religious undertone and they may be looking for a new party. I'm sure he already has turned some people away based on him being Evangelical.

Said that. But Canada has no official state religion written into the Constitution and support for religious pluralism and freedom of religion which includes freedom FROM religion is also written into the Constitution.