This is again just rehashing old arguments. The people who come here from Pakistan or Afghanistan are not going to simply strip off their values at the border. They bring them in with them and, especially since they're reinforced by religion, by daily contact with their old country, and a steady stream of newcomers, retain them in ways people did not in generations past.
You may be correct about that. I'll have to investigate it more thoroughly some time.
Where would that come from? You know, most of the gang violence in this city is by Muslims. Most of those killing and being killed are Muslims. There has not been one single word in the local media about that. Each shooting or murder is tsk-tsked at but no one in the media ever mentions that there is any commonality among them. Progressives simply don't do that. And Canada keeps no crime statistics based on race or religion because progressives won't stand for it.
I live in a different part of the country and I have said previously, and will repeat, that our news here does often mention the ethnic background of a person, using the words "Caucasian, Asian, South Asian, Middle Eastern". Not on every news story, but probably about 50%. Judging by that, most of the criminals are either Canadian or South Asian, with a few Asians and Middle Eastern types. I'm not going to contradict your claim about Ottawa, because I don't live there - but I do doubt your veracity because I know you make conclusions based on pictures rather than data. I have previously provided data demonstrating that first generation immigrants are unusually law-abiding, second-generation immigrants not so much, and third generation immigrants match Canadian rates of criminal behavior. Yes, you dismissed those studies, as you do with every study that does not agree with your viewpoint.
Maybe, or maybe not, depending on the type of immigrants and what pressure is put on them to integrate. Angela Merkel, no less, she of the wide open arms, said that a few years ago that multiculturalism had been a complete disaster and failure, and that immigrants needed to integrate. That kind of suggests they hadn't done so, don't you think? The British and French said the same. Both have a major problem with immigrants failing to integrate. The Swedes are having one now too, where they find many Swedish born Muslim kids don't even speak Swedish amid rising crime and alienation.
The factor you consistently fail to mention when you talk about this is that of marginalization and discrimination. You refuse to even consider hiring someone who's name doesn't sound 'Canadian' or 'European' enough, then blame those same people for not meeting your economic goals for them. Even among Canadians - such as oil workers - lack of economic stability and resources leads to violent behavior, as the city of Calgary reported when the oil industry tanked.
If it's true that immigrants are more likely to engage in criminal behavior, then perhaps there are other reasons other than the simplistic notion "they brought that with them".
And it's interesting that in all cases, the problem immigrants are Muslim.
I'm calling bullshit on this, as I always do. We are thousands of miles away, there is a concerted effort by anti-immigration right-wing types to make Muslims personna non-grata as much as possible. While sensational media stories abound, experts who are looking at actual data tell a different story.
Sorry, but that's nonsense. What idiot would rather be a woman in Egypt or Iran instead of Argentina or Brazil? Is there a single Muslim country where women have the same rights, under the law, as men? Just because a survey said they value traditional views of family and are against abortion does not mean they have the same anti-women, anti-gay views as the middle east. They might be against gay marriage but they don't believe gays should be killed.
Funny how the Pew survey about Muslims having anti-gay/pro-family values is your proof of how unsuitable Muslims are for Canada, but when it comes to the same attitudes in South American countries, you claim that's irrelevant. Did you know that these same South American countries that have the high social disapproval of gays also have the highest rate of anti-gay crime of any country in the world? Even though it's not illegal to be gay in most South American countries, a gay person is no safer than a gay person in the Middle Eastern countries you love to hate. Perhaps even less safe.
https://www.lifegate.com/people/news/lgbt-rights-in-latin-americahttp://www.cnn.com/2017/02/26/americas/lgbt-rights-in-the-americas/index.htmlIt's the same for the safety of women: even though it's a "Christian" region, the 'pro-family' social values result in it being the most dangerous place for women in the world.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/world/latin-america-is-worlds-most-violent-region-for-women-un/article9970381.eceSo tell me again how the social values of immigrants from South America make them more acceptable than the people from the Middle East who hold similar social values, but are are less violent in imposing them?