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The Rest of the Story: "Lawmakers in Greece have voted in favour of allowing Muslims in the country to opt into the secular court system to resolve family disputes instead of relying on Islamic Sharia law, ending a century-old obligation." "Members of Greece’s Muslim minority have hailed new legislation that will enable citizens to sidestep sharia law in family disputes, but says the measure fails to go far enough in Europe’s only country where Islamic jurists still hold sway." Apparently, Muslims being subject to Sharia law in Greece has been in place since the Ottoman Empire collapsed. Greece appears to be going in a direction opposite to what you're claiming, with the support of Muslims - again contradicting the claim that Muslims demand Sharia.

Last I heard, the request for Sharia tribunals in Ontario was refused, and similar tribunals for Catholic and Jewish law were scrapped to keep things fair. Kind of a win-win, imo - no religion gets to 'impose' state-sanctioned religious laws. The first example Scribblet gave involved British Courts recognizing Sharia marriages so they could give the same rights to divorcing Muslim women as other women for property division and child custody. In that sense, recognizing Sharia law in the UK court system is to these women's benefit. I suspect that regardless of whether the State 'allows' religious courts or tribunals, they'll still happen, mores the pity. Governments should not, imo, support any kind of quasi-legal religious system. Bruce Bawer. He also said nasty things about American protestant fundamentalists. I agree with him that Islamic and Christian fundamentalists are a scourge on Western civilization.

I disagree actually. Canada offered free land to people to come here and settle, but they had to take the land in certain places. Currently, there are smaller communities in Canada that are dying for lack of people, and some of them do see immigrants as a way to improve their situation.

It would also provide economic opportunity for services that assist immigrants, often with goverment grants, creating even more employment in economically depressed areas. Win-win.

According to your linked article, it would be more effective to work on reducing the demand. That would mean spending money to address social issues. Sadly it's more politically expedient to blame an outside party and the drug addicts themselves than to spend tax money on effective solutions.

Did you read the article? His 'action' apparently consists of ordering FedEx USPS, Amazon and the like to search for and refuse fentanyl. As if USPS et al have not always had a policy of refusing drug shipments, and needed a presidential order to start doing so. This order was tacked on to his command to US companies to find alternates to China to do business with. Not to mention that Trump has reassigned agents to the border, meaning there are less resources to check for illegal drugs sent through USPS, even though a bipartisan study found that the “preferred method of shipping is the U.S. Postal Service because the risk of seizure by Customs & Border Protection (CPB) is small and delivery is basically guaranteed.” This is merely Trump's attempt at "virtue-signalling".

The CAQ who banned religious apparel for government employees, teachers in Quebec is a nationalistic right-wing party. A right-wing party was in power in France when their niqab ban went into effect. Left wing govs who have banned the burka are often doing so as a result if pressure from Nationalist right wing parties eg: Geert Wilders in the Netherlands. These fascist bans seem to driven by the right, not the left.

I agree that a woman who allows herself to be ruled by Sharia law when she lives in a Western country is doing herself a disservice.

Was he treated differently? He was convicted of sexual assault, is on the sexual offenders list, has to serve one-year community sentence (whatever that is), he's attended a course on professional boundaries, can't practice for a year and will have his position as a doctor reviewed next year. Not an outright firing true, but not a warm welcome back, either. Unless you can show a case where a non-Pakistani doc in the same circumstances was outright fired, then you have no basis for claiming this guy was treated differently than any other doc would have been. Disagreeing with the medical tribunal allowing him to keep his medical licence makes sense (I might agree with that, he was way out of line) but blaming it on some kind of Muslim or Pakistani preference makes no sense unless you have a lot more evidence. No link to the other story, but even the sentence provided tells me its an entirely different situation so you are trying to compare apples and oranges. My best guess here is that he was fired for going against the policy of whatever organization he worked for and had nothing to do with being Christian. Unless you can show where a non-Christian working for the same organization wasn't fired for doing the same thing. So this recognition of Sharia marriage protects Muslim women. From your link: The case will have significant implications for women who marry under sharia law but not UK law and could give them the right to divorce their husbands and split the assets related to the union, as well as securing a divorce more easily.

That's only true if it's a politician you support; they can do no wrong in your eyes, whether its breaking campaign promises, grabbing women by the pussy, hiring family members to fill political posts, insulting allies or lying every other day. Politicians you don't support are attacked and criticized for every little misstep, real or imagined.

According to OECD, Canadians pay less tax than Americans. Link. Link 2. OECD database - do your own comparison.

Canada's commitment to rule of law, regardless of crime, shines again as accused terrorists are granted a new trial, due to judge's error. Link. Glad to live in a country which believes in the same rights for everybody.

Yes. Alt-right extremism, including white supremacy, should be dealt with through the legal system. One can denounce.the ideas behind extremism without hinting at "final solutions", or that they "should get what's coming to them." Mob violence is not a solution to anything, not even to neo-Nazis marching through the streets carrying symbols of hatred and threat toward Jews. As a civilized society we should be able to come together to loudly and firmly condemn those ideas and tactics. Unfortunately, Trump and too many conservatives fail to do so, instead claiming "its not a serious problem", "it's free speech", "it's because of Liberals/democrats/progressives/Soros/Obama/Clinton" or "Anti-fa is the real problem". Compare that reaction to the reaction to of the same people to the Al-Quds rallies. Those rallies, with the same implicit hatred of and threat to Jews as White Supremacist rallies, are not shrugged of as "part of free speech", or "not a serious problem", though they are still blamed on Liberals/democrats/progressives/Soros/Obama/Clinton.

How do you know for sure that isn't Sear's intent? The few issues I've read certainly supported the idea that something needed to be done, whether getting rid of JT or "teaching" women their place. Not an explicit call to violence, as in "someone needs to kill JT" or "rape those feminazis" but the message was clearly that violence was acceptable and in some cases, might even be necessary at some point. In a different context, I looked at Blood and Honor's website. They talked about non-violent actions to "wake people up" to the threat of non-white people, but then also offered respect and honor to those who would take action under the Combat 18 banner. Another message that violence was acceptable, even though not explicitly calling for violence. If you're comfortable with messages supporting violence against certain groups or individuals because they're not explicit calls to attack others, then I guess you have more tolerance for threats of violence than I do.

I agree that what ideas can, and often do, lead to action. Depending on the ideas, the action can be good or bad, life-giving or life-destroying. Ideas are spread by words, giving those ideas more chance of being acted upon, good or bad. I think people need to understand that misogyny and anti-semitism are not Canadian values, and spreading those ideas are unacceptable. It appears our laws allow for prison time as part of that. Sears has been publishing for 12 years and he covers a lot of topics and is remarkably nasty about a lot of issues and people. Yet the judge only found him guilty of promoting hatred against Jews and women and "protected" his constitutional right to express himself on other topics. I know some have the idea that allowing expression of bad ideas will allow them to be repudiated and become harmless, but that doesn't really seem to be working. Consider the idea that vaccines cause autism; no matter how much "repudiation" is provided, measles and other avoidable diseases are increasing and have resulted in dead children. The ideas behind White Supremacy are also spreading, gaining converts and resulting in death.

Editor of Your Ward news, James Sears, gets jail time for promoting hatred against Jews and women. The judge did not order the publication itself shut down because that would violate the constitutional right to free expression. Link.

Given all the comments I saw during the election, a lot of people hated him because of his hair.

Yeah that is how I feel so I try to make sure my opinions are supportable by something other than extremely biased sources. Center, slightly right and slightly left are all ok, IMO. Single-issue sources are suspect, as well as those who heavily bash "the other side" about everything. Yeah and I'm dumb as a post every time I let myself respond to those posts. Most of my mind-changing happened through the discussion on the other board. I still lurk a lot and sometimes think about rejoining. It still is better and more informative discussion than here. Overall though, these boards have made me a better critical thinker and more careful and thoughtful about what I read on the internet.

Yeah, posters seem to be getting more extreme and some just make no sense at all. Three-quarters of the posts that are made are in my "ignore" file.

He would have to be released from Syrian captivity first.

Racism definition from Merriam Webster online: Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior; Argus has explicitly declared people of European ethnicity superior to people of other ethnicities. That's racism.

Goodale said "Canada is disappointed that the United Kingdom has taken this unilateral action to offload their responsibilities", and we won't be helping him and we won't be bringing him here.

I wouldn't say I think its "ok", but so far, Trudeau, Scheer, Bernier have all lied on their social media accounts. Maybe May and Singh as well, but haven't been called out on it. If I'm not prepared to vote for liars, I would have to avoid voting at all. That's my intention, so at least we agree there.

These are guide dogs we're talking about. Most Western countries do not allow guide dogs to be prohibited from public places.

You could always use credible sources then, instead of wasting time having your stupid sources challenged. Anyway, I believe Muslins do refuse guide dogs entry to cabs and buses, and I don't think they have that right. The dog isn't touching them and there is nothing in their religion that prevents them being in company of a dog.