Aside from the fact that right-wing lone wolf extremism is characterized as a much greater threat to people in the West, this is just entirely wrong.
I've looked at that. The statistics are based on all these far right cranks living out there, survivalist types, anti-government types, extremist rednecks. They're not dangerous except to the authorities who try to police them. They're not going to be setting off car bombs in markets or opening fire in shopping malls or trying to blow up the CN tower. When they commit violence it is, in most cases, by resisting police and authorities. And any groups of more than a half a dozen probably have an FBI/RCMP informant planted among them. And they're not going to be flying fully loaded passenger liners into buildings, either, because suicide is not high on their bucket lists.
You think we're just drawing a random sample of people from the Muslim world, including radicals and whatnot? You think the doors are completely open?
Yes, and yes.
Aside from it being an ecological fallacy, there is a multi-million dollar vetting process that happens for immigrants, as well as refugees.
No, there really isn't. In fact, ninety percent of immigrants never even meet an immigration officer until they land in Canada and go through customs. They send in forms and documentation, some of which might or might not be fake (such as university degrees). Their names are checked against lists of known terrorist organization members, and they're checked to see if they have a criminal record. That's it, as far as security vetting goes. It isn't any better for refugees. How can we check up on a Syrian we find in a refugee camp who has no papers anyway? Ask the Syrian government? If they're not on a terrorist list that's as far as it goes.
And, of course, the political elites have specifically rejected the idea of trying to ascertain whether they're religious/cultural/social views are hostile to the ones we hold.
It also ignores the fact that almost every person you would consider from the "Muslim World" (whatever that means anyway) comes here to escape the violence back home.
Not actually. Almost every person who comes here does so because this is a rich country and they want some of that. They have an opportunity for a better, richer life here, as do their kids. There are lots of peaceful poor countries and nobody wants to go and live there for the peace, now do they? All those migrants that flooded into Europe wanted nothing to do with Turkey, Greece, Italy, Serbia and those other countries they were desperate to get past. They wanted to get to the rich northern European countries like Sweden, the UK and Germany.
Further, I doubt any of them thought the violence was because of Islam, so there's no reason for them to forswear any aspects of Islam.
Of course, an Arab is an Arab, eh? Forget the Lebanese Christians who come in. They're from the "Muslim World" so they must be terrorists.
Why do you people keep resorting to brainless snot like this? I've already said I'd rather have taken twice as many Syrian Christians than Syrian Muslims. I have no problem with Lebanese Christians either. It's not a racial thing. I had my hair cut today by a Lebanese Christian guy and his skin was as white as mine.
You also resort to that knee-jerk accusation that I believe all Muslims are terrorists when I've explicitly stated on MANY occasions I believe no such thing. I don't even believe every Muslim from the Muslim world is extreme in their social beliefs. And I've said that repeatedly, as well.
I've said it before, you do not recognize that there's as much differences in Muslim people from around the world as there is between Bernie Sanders and The Westboro Baptist Church.
Yeah? Which of the 57 Muslim nations around the world treats women equal to men? Which one treats non-Muslims equal to Muslims? Which one has no problem with Jews? Which one has gay pride parades? The rate of female genital mutilation is over 90% in Egypt, and Mali - and in Malaysia - and rising in Indonesia where it was 50% last study. What does Mali have to do with Malaysia other than Islam?
Find me this mythical land of liberal, tolerant, peaceful Muslims that we can import. Do.
My position has always been perfectly clear, clear enough I would have thought anyone of moderate intelligence would have discerned it by now. We get more economically successful immigrants from almost anywhere else, according to the government's own studies. And the ones from other parts of the world don't come with the threat of extreme social views which are hostile to our own, views which are embedded in their religious values. So why should we be bringing in so many from the Muslim world?
You have a university where half the students you hire wind up being fired within the first year for incompetence, and three more universities where almost none get fired in the first year - with lots and lots of candidates. Why the hell would you go recruiting at the first university again? Because you want to prove how inclusive you are? How bloody precious.
Who's going to assimilate faster, an Irishman or an Afghan?