Chances are that guy's parents moved to Canada to flee sharia and give their kids a better, freer life. And Canada FAILED to show why we're better than the retarded (developmentally delayed) society/country from whence they came. Why did we do this to ourselves? Multi-culturalism should only be to the extent of food and folk-dances.

~~favill~~

Favil - I can't agree with you. His parents probably left the sh-t hole they lived in to come to Canada for a better life but they brought Sharia with them and want to be able to use it in our free country.

This dangerous and insidious to our democracy. It absolutely should not be tolerated. This is the kind of lunacy that allows them to rule over their women - to beat them and yes, even honor-kill them.

Kathy S is quite correct that the time has come to close the borders to further immigration of Muslims. The next thing our country does is make it loud and clear that those who are here from another land must adapt to our society and not us to their previous society.

It may be too late for England and France but if we don't get a handle on this thing pretty quick we too will be up sh-t creek.

this is DISGUSTING - why have we come to this point ? - cut off the flow of these rabid sharia breeders before we are assimilated - surely the warnings have been apparent for long enough now - their justice gets you into a canal watery grave, with your doors locked

Favill is substantively correct.

In the UK, it is generally not the previous Muslim generations (the immigrant parents or, increasingly now, the grandparents) who make up the extremist demographic. It is essentially young, British-born Muslim men. A very similar demographic lurks behind our own domestic Islamist woes.

Kathy is right too. Canada is under no obligation to admit non-citizens and is completely free to decide on whom it will or will not accept as immigrants. The only thing that prevents any Canadian government from doing so would be a lack of gumption, not law.

If what Nonie Darwish experienced is true, that CBSA officer is guilty on two counts. He used his official status to intimidate someone in pursuit of his personal religious beliefs and, in doing so, he uttered a statement without authority that contradicted government policy. That's insubordination.

Oh, but I forgot. The CBSA is unionized; we'll never be able to turf him.

I've been through customs in Mexico, China, Cuba, Turkey, India and the old East Germany and I must say that coming home through customs in Toronto has always been the most pleasant../s

Once again the anti-Muslim SDA is painting all Muslims with the same brush.

"Kathy S is quite correct that the time has come to close the borders to further immigration of Muslims."

This seems a little more than unreasonable to me. Many of the people you would ban have very important jobs. Perhaps if we graduated more engineers and doctors instead of social workers and activists we wouldn’t need immigration, but I digress. The people we need to stop from coming to our country are those that do not have job skills that are required in our markets.

Implementing this simple principle would eliminate most of the riff raff that Kathy speaks of. JMO

In addition, a re-evaluation of our policy regarding refuges is in order. Canada must be a place where legitimate refuges can seek safety, not a mark for riff raff and bums.

Plus, I disagree with reuniting families for the sake of reuniting families. For example, were I to immigrate to another country I would likely contribute more than I take; but, if that country reunited me with my brother to help my self-esteem, his draw on society would cancel out the surplus I produced. This type of program should only extend to little old grandmas.

T: "Once again the anti-Muslim SDA is painting all Muslims with the same brush."

On the contrary, it would appear that many Muslims are painting themselves with the same brush, judging from this incident and others.

Kate, I know you live in the boonies so you probably rarely come face to face with actual Muslim people, much less find yourself holding a lengthy conversations with them, but let me fill ya in a little:

They're not all the same. Just as there are crazy Christians like David Koresh and/or the leaders of polygamous communes, there are crazy Muslims.

People of your political persuasion rightly scoff at the assertion that there is a vast right wing conspiracy. I urge you to do the same in the context of Muslims.

I live in major metropolitan center, and what I'm actually seeing, knowing more than a few first generation Canadian Muslims, is that Canada and the values of the country are having a moderating effect. The socially conservative values that their parents may hold, are in most cases, not permeating down to their children. And even in the case of their parents, I don't know anyone who's out yelling about jihad or the imposition of Sharia law.

Go out and meet a few Muslims, make friends with them, and then maybe you'll have a less bigoted world view.

Right on. Let them clean up their own houses first. That still, however, leaves us with the home grown variety.

"They're not all the same. Just as there are crazy Christians like David Koresh and/or the leaders of polygamous communes, there are crazy Muslims."

Not all the same.....riiiggghhhtttt...Salim Mansur and Nonie come to mind as different...now....what about the other billion???? Fools and soon to be headless sheeple. You or your grandkids.

Tim- Get off your high horse. I'm from the boonies, and I've met plenty of muslims. I've interacted with them in sport, business, and social settings. They cannot, and will not, ever be "friends" with non-muslims. Never.

You think Toronto's bad, try Calgary. With so many airport services being contracted to the private sector, it's easy for certain ethnic groups to end up in complete control of services, such as security. I'm all for privatizing certain things, but the security of the general public needs more government oversight.

Whenever I walk past a muslim I make sure they here me say that anyone that worships a kiddie diddler should go to the middle east and stay there.For some reason they always look away, go figure.

Don't trust them, I know not every one of them is a plant waiting for orders but....

It seems to me that immigration has been a fifth colimn means by which Islam can overtake the west. Let's not foret China that has really taken advatage of lax immigration laws to impose a One China policy that sees the west coast of Canada as their sphere of influence.

Thanks for the sanctimonious speech Tim. I'm sure all our redneck ignernt kadiddle hoppers are duly impressed.

Problem is I live next to a big city that is just chock full of moslem brown people and it even has an ethnic slum dedicated to them. Canada definately ends at its borders and inside this slum - you can consider it little Bangladesh. These people consider women and white people to be dirt and pretty much treat them that way. Check your canadian ideals at the door, they are not welcome there.

Those ignorant mud flaps aren't drinking your multiculti Koolaid Tim - and neither am I.

Say what you want - but we are not bringing in love, peace and tolerance in to our country with these people. We are bringing ignorance, stupidity, racism and violence. Here in Alberta we have already had brown people demonstrating in favour of Israeli genocide.

How long before we start having the same problems with these idiots the same way everyone else is?

I don't know anyone who's out yelling about jihad or the imposition of Sharia law.

Some of my neighbours, members of the Toronto 18, were doing just that. Well OK, not yelling per se. Just planning terrorist attacks.

The border agent should have been reported. Regardless of his beliefs it is as unprofessional as if he were Hare Krishna and pushed his views. It may cause some problems for his supervisor but that is what they get paid to do.

Jim,

You use the term "brown people" in a very negative manner and use the derogatory term "mudflap". Since there are a number of "white" Moslems (from Chechnya and Bosnia) fighting in Afghanistan and in Iraq against Westerners, I truly hope you don't equate the colour of a person's skin with the backwardness of their beliefs and their barbarity (check what happened to the school kids Muslim terrorists took hostage in Chechnya).

To put it into computer talk...I hope it's the "operating system" you're having a problem with and not the "hardware".

~~favill~~

All-muslim security forces at our airports ... no, can't see any problem there ... the rising water from global warming will sweep them all away ... problem solved, next?

Jim in Alberta, it is rednecks like you that paint all Albertans with the racist redneck brush. Thank god we all don't think like you.

The bearded guy is probably union member too. I'd started with the unions - criminalize participation in them under the same law that makes membership in criminal organization illegal. And go from there.

I do not have a problem with ppeople immigrating from Muslim countries to Canada. I have a problem with them bringing the main reason their former country wasn't worth living in. That is Islam. We exacerbate the problem by preaching and in some cases believing that all religions are equal. They are not,Scientology is a prime example,fortunately they only fleece their flock,they don't turn them into rabid killers.We are free to ridicule Scientologists. Unfortunately due to political correctness,we are almost forbidden to discuss the real dung in our backyard.

Aaron,

It much simpler than that. Pass legislation that makes paying union dues voluntary and make it criminal for anybody to coerce employees to pay it. The less money they have...the less power.

~~favill~~

Moderate Christian English women:
Camilla parker Bowl
role model for all Muslim moderate women.

The 25 Most Notable Celebrity Quotes of the Past 25 Years

1"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."

— Princess Diana, in a 1995 BBC interview, on her marriage to Prince Charles. They divorced in 1996, and she died a year later. The third party, Camilla Parker Bowles, became Charles’ wife in 2005.

do not blame it to conservative and liberal party of Canada blame it to Camilla
Camillia marriage is not for love it is only link to allow Prince Chalrse connect with more prostituation she is not going to make noise like Diana or report to media like Diana.

number of prostituation is increase in Canada

-http://www.sutradirectory.com/articles/article-6.html

-http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=number+of+catholic+Prostitution+women+in+west+of+Canada+are+increasing&meta=&aq=f&oq=

-http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ei=FTTzSrzZCJHOlQe9gJW4Aw&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAYQBSgA&q=prostitution+and+camilla+parker+bowl&spell=1

-http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/thousands-rally-at-capitol-to-protest-health-care-overhaul-bill/news-38710/

-http://www.sodahead.com/music/did-tommy-mottola-help-kill-michael-jackson/question-483983/

-http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/muslim-mafia-linked-to-detroit-fbi-shootout/news-36991/

Indiana,

Maybe you missed the part where the 9/11 hijackers were engineers...

So are Mohammed Elmasry and Syed Sowarhardy.

I guess other folks missed the "yelling about sharia law" that got so bad we had to cut it off at the pass.

Also: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/holy-post/archive/2009/10/23/address-on-hijab-not-meant-to-be-offensive-imam.aspx

And then there's the pro-niqab rally in Toronto.

T, if anyone is anti-Muslim, it is because Muslims keep killing, maiming and bullying while millions of other Muslims look on and say nothing. Note how many times I had to use the word "Muslim" to write that sentence. If I am anti-Muslim it is because of Muslims, not something that just came over me out of the blue one day.

When they stop acting like turds, I'll happily go back to mocking Protestants.

And at least rednecks spell God with a capital 'g'. I know whose side I would rather be on.

PS: when I was last at O'Hare, the female employee tossing my luggage onto the conveyor belt was in full niqab. Boy, I felt SO safe flying THAT plane.

PS: David Koresh, God help me. The guy was a known weirdo for years, but never killed anyone. HE and his followers were the ones who got killed by the State, for the "crime" of "acting weird" and "owning guns". If he was so bad all the FBI needed to do was pick him up when he went into town for supplies.

the terrorists in the Koresh case was the Federal Government.

And please don't say Timothy McVeigh next. He was expelled from his church.

T
"anti-Muslim SDA"
"painting them all with same brush"?

I disagree with the first part and question what could be wrong with the second part?

Muslims are all the same, their all Muslims.
There is no such thing as a moderate Muslim they just don't have enough dynamite in the world for them all to prove it.

I don't think Kate's a bigot, and I doubt that all Muslims (or even those that read Sharia) are evil.

But people who try to limit freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of choice, liberty, etc. - ARE EVIL. And this border guard was doing just that.

Anyone who wants to limit discussion - such as the tree huggers on Global Warming, or beloved Jennifer Lynch of the CHRC on Section 13 - are EVIL.

Think about history and all "western" governments. While elected majorities (e.g. Ontario's current Liberal party) can somewhat effectively reduce debate, and ram through legislation, ALL governments allow debate/discussion on all proposed legislation. As far as I know, even the general public may request to be heard by parliament on specific issues. This is GOOD.

Kate provides an open forum for everyone to express their views - both pro and con - and with limited exceptions, permits ALL viewpoints to be expressed and posted. This is GOOD. Censorship is bad, as it limits freedom.

Freedom, anyone?

Favil @ 3:21 Thumbs up!! What ever the he!! happened to our Charter right to freedom of association?

Bigot: Anyone who disagrees with a leftard.

"Maybe you missed the part where the 9/11 hijackers were engineers..."

No I didn't. I simply disagree with your solution to the problem we both agree exists. If I follow your logic, we would also have to ban all travel by Muslims into Canada and the US; and, we would have to properly vet such people to make sure they're not lying about their religious beliefs.

All of that being said, if I could grant you the power to do as you say I probably would. Such a blunt and bold move would likely accomplish what you say. Since I can't grant you that I'd simply like to suggest that your idea is completely unrealistic.

Btw, wouldn’t that mean banning Americans from immigrating to Canada?

“And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” Barak Obama

Btw, thanks for not flaming me too badly Kathy:)

Tim, usually first or second generation Canadians deviate from the customs of their parents or grandparents. What we are seeing now are homegrown adherents to a philosophy least compatible with the West. It doesn't take an urban dweller to see that.

Kathy Shaidle...You are so right! When you Google "Religion Of Peace" how can any sane person trust ANY Muslim amongst us. With their proven record all Muslims should be treated with equal suspicion of deadliness.

If we don`t stop being politically correct, before long we can expect to see no-go zones like they have in England and France!

The only muslims I respect are the ex-muslims. I admire their courage. They deserve our support. Anyone who has the guts and sense to leave that cult, I will support them.

Moderate muslims? Where.

3:31 Info, is that new?

I forwarded my friend in England the "Asylum" email going around now, and he replied:

It's bad - and getting worse. I'm afraid the old country we used to know has gone forever.
Dread to think what it will be like 20 years from now.

Also Koresh told his followers that he was the messiah. That's not a very Christian thing to do you know. We Christians know that there is only one Messiah and believe me Koresh ain't it!

Somebody call Warren K and Richard W! A supremacist working at an airport!

Call the HRC! Gotta jackboot the hater!

See Pat Condell's latest rant on this subject.

See Pat Condell's latest rant on this subject.

The scrapping of the gun registry could not have come at a better time.The left who scream racism at every opportunity will be the first to go.

Anyone who believes this axe-grinding hag's laughable, shameless, uncorroborated story - no, let's call it gossip - is an idiot. Honestly, Kinsella's convenient discovery of Nazi graffitti in bathroom stalls was more believable.

The mathematical mind is often the superior one, and the mathematical mind laughs at the highly improbable "coincidence" that a radical "Muslim" just happened to be the one to serve this axe grinding anti-Muslim hag and said what he said.

It's a typical female lie; their brains don't understand probabilities and consequently they tell lies that seem childish to the more mathematically inclined gender.

"When they stop acting like turds, I'll happily go back to mocking Protestants."

While turning a blind eye to the fact that blacks (almost all of whom aren't Muslim) make up 8% of your own city's population and commit 80% of the violent crime? Is that your genius plan?

Muslims don't make the top 100 list of things that are wrong with Canada. I'm happy to see you state explicitly that somewhat amenable to restricting immigration, somewhat, but if we were to ban Muslim immigration while letting Tamils and Jamaicans fill the void we'd actually be even worse off.

Close the borders. Strip the citizenship of anyone with more than one passport. Disenfranchise recent immigrants, just as we did during the Great War. End race and gender quotas. They'll then move back home on their own accord. What, you think they're here for the climate? For their genuine heartfelt love of the Canadian people? Canada is actually a pretty sh!tty country and if we stop bending over backwards for immigrants they'll stop coming, no need to set limits or quotas.

Well, first off we have to think about the fact that there are radical Islamic agents immigrated into the US and Canada, waiting to be activated. Then they will begin their mission which could result in lots of bloodshed.

Then you have radical Islamic loyalists who have not been singled out for any particular mission, but who will knowingly support such a mission if they were asked by the right people.

After them you have Muslim Americans and Canadians who would only reluctantly support some violent act if family and friends were threatened in their home countries.

Next up you have Muslim Americans and Canadians who would not assist violence for any reason. However, they are sympathetic to the radical Islamic cause and might contribute financially or with general approval with other Muslims. (You saw the same thing in Northern Ireland, people who would not support the IRA but who could still understand the cause and appreciate the ones who would carry out violent acts.)

After that, you have whatever Muslims are left.

Major Malik Nadal Hasan identified as the shooter in Fort Hood killings.

Guess he missed Tim's calming influence of Canada.

Never complain in public or to his superiors about a rude or malicious border guard. It is much more effective to write a glowing letter of praise to his superiors for his helpful assistance and making you feel welcome every time on entering or returning to Canada.

Returning by air from out of the country a few months ago, I was struck by the people checking our passports and asking us questions about our trip: Of about 15 agents, not one was Caucasian. If you looked at these government/airport employees in a completely unprejudiced way, you'd think you were somewhere in the Middle East.

As a white Anglo-Irish descendant, I was somewhat taken aback that there was not one white agent. I'm all for equality but what I saw wasn't equality ... was it?

Dear Anonymous Coward Grau:

You're the moron.

I've been writing about Jamaican crime in Toronto for years on my blog, not to mention condemning the Tamil rallies.

I'm a pretty "close the border" person -- probably the most hard core I know.

Feel stupid now, Mr. Math Brain?

Kathey has stated a legal acceptable solution. If Immigrants do not wish to be Canadian - that means that all women do not wear sheets over their heads - we have enough big ravens already, even as they are chopped into pieces by the wind turbines; as we speak!

Women have the same rights as do men in this nation and there are laws against 50 yr old men buying and wedding (or not) a 12 year old child. Children are people not property - as they are in some hell holes in the world - in Canada.

These Muslims would not attempt to immigrate to this country if they knew beforehand that they would not be able to practise their racism (against all non Muslims) in Canada.

Canadians; with their inferiority complex, looking everywhere but in their own country for ideas on how to run their own nation, have watered down to a runny gruel what our stalwart, brave pioneers built the infrastructure of this great nation on - listed in the BNA Act; that act that the PET burned while flitting around the Queen. The yellow bellied PET destroyed what the nation builders fought and died for -common sense, love of Freedom, the right to worship God, the right to own property and the right to live as a free man/woman; free from external coercion.

I am very proud of the people who built this country, I am proud to share the values of those brave and decent people; I refuse to sell those values for the shoddy PC correctness that could doom my female descendants to appearing in public looking like big ravens in the garb of a slave.

Mr.Math Brain,an obvious expert on everything."We'd be worse off with Tamils and Jamaicans",how do we know this,cause Mr. math Brain tell us so."Their brains don't understand probabilities",how do we know this,cause Mr.Math Brain tells us so."Muslims don't make the top one hundred things that are wrong with Canada",thankfully Mr.Math Brain only lists one of his top one hundred things"Canada is actually a pretty sh!tty country".One question Mr.Math Brain,if Canada is actually a pretty shitty country,why the hell should you care who does and doesn't cross our borders,but more importantly,what the hell are you still doing here?

Hey "T"

I live in calgary i have seen not to long ago , the tamil tiger's(muslims) blocking off the hiway in toronto because we would not help them kill the sri lankans ,and calling for the death of stephen harper , and isriel . I have a daughter who lives in the north east so i take her out for walks often when i walk by a muslim i can tell they are muslim becaseu they won't say hi back and they often stare at my daughter not me .

Maybe it is becasue they refuse to lock eye's with me because they tremble with fear when they see a westerner looking them right in the eye's and they are unarmed , i have made several attempt's to just be freindly and they refuse to reach out and shake my hand or acknowledge my exsistence.

How ever i have had sieks ,and hindus both sya hi and sya hi to my daughter and smile at me , i have even helped a hindu east indian get unstuck in the winter with my truck and he thanked me greatfully in broken english .

Muslims are ordered by there faith to never compromise ,never give an inch ,it is about world domination it is strictly political and military period . No person ...no sane person would ever worship someone claiming to be a prophet who went and cut the head off of up to 600 jew's in front of there wives and children then raped had his men rape the jewish women infront of there children then killing all pubescent boy's infront of the raped wives ......it is deep ....if anyone who reads this cares to look and educate themselves about the death cult known as islam just go to

www.thereligionofpeace.com

Paul in calgary

Paul

tamil tiger's(muslims) blocking off the hiway

those group are hindu they are not muslim

every dark men in street are not muslim
every restricted muslim are not terrorist

kathy S

you are again firing blanks when you yap about koresh

he was a BI-POLAR who was raping children in his compoud

most of the time he would send others into town and would rarely go himself

the "police" were serving a warrent when all hell broke loose

tho I agree with your sentiment that the incident was handled wrong after the initial "gun fight", there are snipers for a reason

Missus Math Brain

I used to win math competitions and never met you, how come????

-http://www.sodahead.com/religion/the-new-crybaby-theists/news-38684/

wear h1n1 mask similar than Michael Jackson mask similar than Muslim men and women cover thier face in old time mostly in desert when in face those cover thier body not to abuse it

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-http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/the-new-crybaby-theists-20091105-hyyc.html

Facing a new attack with an international audience playing close attention, religions have as little rational argument in their favour as ever. There was a time when they could deal with dissent through more draconian measures: the kind that can still be practiced in, say, Saudi Arabia. Having lost the power of the gun in the West, apologists of religion have a new weapon: being offended.

www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=128122&d=6&m=11&y=2009

news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/06/content_12395678.htm

www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gA30yThqLX6xY9fjOjKxU6E-oWowD9BPL8V80

Usually they hire Pakstani Muslim to fight Taleban or Iranian by US army or thay pay Afganstan to fight Taleban this can be risky to do their job right or do the way US asked or order them to do
such as they burn Quran in Afganestan last week US army and make peopel angry against them

'www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Major+Malik+Hassan+wikipedea&meta=&aq=f&oq

Need more investigation may be was self defense
Just because person born in Jordon is not the case this is weird he was Major reserve in US army: while we agree with corruption in US army as well

This people why must carry gun with himself they are not in war zone in Texas they must gave them gun when the time come
check in wikipedia:

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USS New York, Made of Scrap Metal from Twin Towers, Sails into Norfolk

may be soon USA need to recycle all metal used for gun to better use for made ship
or half of year made pepsi can with those metal
to made new better business than sell weapon

'www.liveleak.com/view?i=ced_1256926825&comment_order=newest_first

we need to watch live film now
How about do not go to war and stop fighting soon
This is deadly war with in or outside

Oh Joy ... cut and paste genius new has a new moniker.....

That border guard should be fired. As a government employee he cannot engage in discrimination in the performance of his duties, but he clearly did.

nv53: "As a government employee he cannot engage in discrimination in the performance of his duties, but he clearly did."

You're joking, right? Who would fire him? If he pissed on your veterans grandfathers grave he might get 2 weeks off with pay ... with a successful appeal, 4 weeks off with pay.

Kathy and crew,

Rather than ranting and raving about Muslims and Islam why not do someting about it. The next time you see one, ask them if you can give them a poppy to wear. Or stop speaking Arabic and speak english.

Action gets results, venting to your ilk is cheap!

Let's try a more polite approach: Kathy, when a woman who gets paid good money to spread anti-Muslim hate, who makes her living doing so, sudddenly conjures up an incredibly convenient story like this one, uncorroborated, does a little light not go off in your head suggesting that she might be fibbing?

Of course it does, you're not a complete idiot. You're only hurting your own credibility by repeating this self-serving hag's gossip.

Oh, and the "anonymous coward" bit is getting very old; should I ever meet your flabby, elderly (and, by your logic, cowardly) husband, who also posts on the internet anonymously, I'm going to have to discuss the matter with him.

Almost all of Kate's commenters post here under pseudonyms - hey everyone, Kathy thinks you're cowards! Let's you and her fight!

Math Guy,

It would be unbelievable, if there wasn't anecdotal evidence to support it. I was flying from Toronto International, in uniform (military), presented my green passport (denoting that I was Canadian gov't official on official business) and I hadn't made the machine beep when I passed through. My carry-on was inspected by the x-ray machine and it was not pulled. I was told by a south-Asian looking fellow to strip my combat shirt, my belt and my boots. I told him I would do so, in a private inspection room in the presence of an RMCP officer. He repeated his request, I repeated mine (albeit much louder than probably required) and I asked him to return my passport to me. The impasse was broken when his supervisor checked my passport, my boarding pass, apologized and told me to have a nice flight.

Who knows, the guy might have been on a power trip or maybe he was trying to humiliate people who belonged to the one organization in Canada empowered to kill his extended family in Afghanistan (lots of fighters from Pakistan).