Black Dog

Nice job suggesting there was a causal relationship there.

That's a gross oversimplification. That plays a role, but it's quite simply a matter of European policies with regard to immigrants has been incoherent for decades (look into Germany's "guest workers" as a prime example). Because that's always been the way of immigrants. Except modern immigrants from China (one of Canada's largest sources of immigrants btw) aren't coming here to drive cabs or run corner stores; they have the means to form their own wealthy pockets in the suburbs. But that's not the issue you're talking about, is it? Sure and its ever been thus. The question is how we manage to integrate them into our population. Do you have any ideas there? So I guess we...just don't accept immigrants, then?

Al these years and not one single person involved in this surely massive conspiracy ever breathed a word about it to anyone. Amazing.

If that's honestly the very best interpretation you could come up with, you're too ignorant for me to bother having a discussion with. Life's too short.

It's incredibly simplistic to think state policies and social attitudes don't play a role in how well a population integrates into mainstream society.

Quite simply, Canada doesn't have the European culture of xenophobia and outright racism. In short Canada can avoid Europe's problems because Europe's problems are, in part, a result of Europe being Europe.

Really scraping the bottom of the barrel for sources eh.

I would have thought someone who considered themselves such a spirited defender of treating people as individuals instead of as parts of a group would have something to say about the broad brushstrokes being applied to Muslims, but I guess treating people as individuals only applies to the truly oppressed: white males.

No no no Muslims are all in complete accord with the most strict interpretation of Islam which is why you never see any sectarian conflict in that religion.

Most normal people are capable of holding two thoughts in their heads about two different subjects at the same time. Your apparent inability to do so is no one's problem but your own.

That guy doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

The majority of Canadians likely have no idea what the refugee process entails, so the opinion of an ignorant public doesn't mean much to me. Did you actually read your link? None of the terrorists whose identities have been confirmed were posing as refugees. They came and went on their own EU passports. As for the report about the Syrian passport:

You know, everyday that passes brings more and more evidence showing the Paris attacks were plotted and carried out by domestic extremists, which makes all of this hand wringing about potential terrorists in the ranks of refugees look stupider and stupider. Look, if you, like Argus, simply don't like Muslims and don't believe Canada should add to their numbers here, say so. But lay off the bogus stuff about security because nobody is buying it.

Women on TTC harassed with anti-Muslim slurs But I'm sure the culprits would have insulted any random strangers for any reason.

Nothing in that link supports your premise at all. Fact is, those attacks were isolated incidents in the sense that they weren't actually affiliated with ISIL. However I don't see anyone denying that they were inspired or motivated by their beliefs. And you think it's NBD and we can ignore such incidents?

cite?

Since when? Give me an example. Who said it was? But there's no denying it's an example of Islamophobia.

And as a society we consider motivation when looking at these things. If they called her a nigger or spic while attacking her? Yes, yes it would have. I don't understand your desperate need to downplay this.

Right I'm sure it's a coincidence this took place right after Paris and the racial slurs were purely incidental. Good lord, you are thick.

Christian civilization has a 1,000 year head start ion Islam. 1,000, hell, 500, years ago, you could have said the same thing about Christianity. And yet here we are.

She wasn't a mugging victim who just happened to be Muslim. She was attacked for being Muslim. Can you see the clear difference or are you thick?

But they aren't white. At least they weren't considered such when they were regarded as the immigrant scum who were ruining our lily-white communities. Yet the issues you're whining about have nothing to do with Islam. I'd be shocked if that was ever the case. Got a cite? Ever has been thus. Why do you think we have a Little Italy, a Little Portugal, a Chinatown? It's obvious from your description that you don't. Yes, yes you are. It's not that hard at all. I could name a half dozen. Most people just don't bother since there's so many more interesting options available.

LOL @ "the white race." Who counts as a member of the white race? Do Italians? Jews? You mean a city of 6 million isn't exactly the same as it was 40 years ago when it had fewer than 2 million people? Shocker. Toronto is probably the safest city of its size in the entire world with a murder rate equivalent to that of Portland, OR. Though there are problems with gangs, "gang wars" are non-existent; rather there is the occasional flare up of violence among low level street criminals, but nothing on the scale of, say, the Quebec biker wars. It's also very clean for a city of its size. As for the ethnicities thing, ironically the same shit you're saying here was being spewed by local WASPs during your halcyon days of the 1960s when Italian, Portuguese, Poles and others started arriving in large numbers with their smelly foods and confusing languages. Those immigrants and successive waves since helped urn a tint, second-rate provincial backwater into an actual global city. And the food here is outstanding.

I'm only quoting this for Boges in case he needs a reference of people saying all Muslims are terrorists.

Give me one single example of this. Just one. Got a citation for this claim? Says the guy pissing his pants because JT wants to put an end to Canada's tiny contribution to the combat operations.