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Canada's Tolerance is No Deterrent to Terrorism
By Jack Kelly, Real Clear Politics
June 7, 2006
No nation is more tolerant than Canada. No nation is more multicultural than Canada. Provincial authorities in Ontario have even considered permitting Muslims in the province to be governed by Sharia, rather than Canadian, law. Canadians oppose the war in Iraq. Canadians want the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed. So how could Muslims not love Canada, like every one else does?
Could it be that radical Islamists want to kill Canadians simply because Canadians aren't radical Islamists? This a concept which Canadians who once thought they could kibitz the war on terror safely from the bleachers are now having to come to grips with.
for full article:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/06/why_would_muslims_target_canad.html
The Price of Nice
By Jonah Goldberg, National Review
June 9, 2006
The presence of a profoundly evil, homegrown terror cell in Canada has understandably provoked a lot of soul-searching to our north. As one Canadian editorial put it: We are Canada, peacekeepers to the world, everybodys nice guy. Who would want to harm us, and why? Or as Audrey Macklin, a University of Toronto law professor, confessed to the Los Angels Times, Canadians picture themselves as being thought of as nicer than the United States. Why on earth would terrorists want to hurt a nice country? Well, for starters, nice isnt all its cracked up to be.
Indeed, theres good reason to believe that niceness is part of the problem, not the solution. Many Canadians (and Americans and Europeans) cling to a deep-seated belief that more multiculturalism, more interfaith dialogue, more understanding, more Western apologies, more acceptance of Sharia, more niceness will fix the problem.
for full article:
http://author.nationalreview.com/latest/?q=MjE5NQ==
By Jack Kelly, Real Clear Politics
June 7, 2006
No nation is more tolerant than Canada. No nation is more multicultural than Canada. Provincial authorities in Ontario have even considered permitting Muslims in the province to be governed by Sharia, rather than Canadian, law. Canadians oppose the war in Iraq. Canadians want the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed. So how could Muslims not love Canada, like every one else does?
Could it be that radical Islamists want to kill Canadians simply because Canadians aren't radical Islamists? This a concept which Canadians who once thought they could kibitz the war on terror safely from the bleachers are now having to come to grips with.
for full article:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/06/why_would_muslims_target_canad.html
The Price of Nice
By Jonah Goldberg, National Review
June 9, 2006
The presence of a profoundly evil, homegrown terror cell in Canada has understandably provoked a lot of soul-searching to our north. As one Canadian editorial put it: We are Canada, peacekeepers to the world, everybodys nice guy. Who would want to harm us, and why? Or as Audrey Macklin, a University of Toronto law professor, confessed to the Los Angels Times, Canadians picture themselves as being thought of as nicer than the United States. Why on earth would terrorists want to hurt a nice country? Well, for starters, nice isnt all its cracked up to be.
Indeed, theres good reason to believe that niceness is part of the problem, not the solution. Many Canadians (and Americans and Europeans) cling to a deep-seated belief that more multiculturalism, more interfaith dialogue, more understanding, more Western apologies, more acceptance of Sharia, more niceness will fix the problem.
for full article:
http://author.nationalreview.com/latest/?q=MjE5NQ==
