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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gg cox who wrote (9333)	6/5/2006 10:01:45 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37263

Sure gg, You know I thought I could catch more flies with the phrase baffle gab than honey ;o) I have a problem with the whole concept of 'hate crime' .... If terrorist kills a person or persons because they are not the same religion I think it is no worse or better than a common criminal killing them to rob them. Beyond that it is thought control. Part of the issue for me with Islam is that it is political. Politics and religious should not mix. I actually go to Church (OK not religiously ;o) but both my kids attend public school. Religious education is on my dime and their time. So I am not anti religion. Noteworthy to me is the readily available list of Muslim schools and I know a few in my area alone which are not on this list... torontomuslims.com I know, I know... a drop in the bucket .. there are not very many Muslims here and even fewer attend these schools. Say 750K and Toronto has the largest concentration in NA... Well read the stats on the link... There seems to be a tone to them eh ? torontomuslims.com Now the Muslim schools in of themselves could be as innocuous I guess as Catholic or Hebrew schools... Pause for effect.. but I believe Lorne has a point on the political correctness angle. This is not a case like the Native Americans that we so blatantly robbed... promised the moon while never intending to honour those promises etc. etc.. These folks have mostly entered Canada at just about the best possible time.. and yet seemingly many want to bring too much baggage here... It is pretty hard to find 'Chinese' or 'Indian' schools like this or even this type of social attitude in those communities... This is not an ethnic issue anyway... It is a religious one... Will this all boil down to another religion's rules being imposed upon the unwilling ... hope not.. that would sure bother me. I guess we all worry too much though.. I wonder if the Sharia law issue would have passed had there not been so much bitching like on this forum and in the press and so much light shone on the issue by women's right's groups... Worrying is good sometimes.. Finally back to square one... if the nine month sentence was fair... the cops should not have had so much 'discretion'..... and those spieling hate maybe could have been supervised by a Catholic bishop LOL... for 9 months... or maybe the 9 month sentence was wrong... ?? Too much baffle gab LOL.. lorne says what is good for the goose is good for the gander... and I agree.. The other side of the coin is ... If arresting hate mongers would upset a certain community... do we want that community ? but then lorne and an awful of muslims would have to leave :O) Anyway, just my two cents. Al