JD> Many Western women, still wear scarfs over their heads.
"Many"? In Canadian summer? If anything, women wear hats, and in winter. A Canadian summer is HOT!
JD> Their faces are open to the world, just as these women were.
Allah would turn over in his well-deserved grave if he heard that. "Everyone" knows that women are inferior to men, and that "all" men want to rape any woman who shows even a strain of hair (not to mention an ankle or bare hand). That may have applied in AD 600, when the Koran was written. But that was 1400 years ago, and "many" Moslems have still not reached the present day in that respect.
The main problem is that Islam is not a religion, but a political credo. One without enlightenment or a gradual development into the modern age. It was current at the time it was written, but so were the Crusades and religious wars in Christianity. Times have changed a great deal - except in Islam - since then.
JD>>> ... and that our former govt, started before it soundly defeated JD>>> them in the last election.
RB>> For that reason? Excuse me if I doubt that. And if I do, just wait RB>> until 200-300 people are killed by so-called "religious" crazies in RB>> Ottowa or Toronto. It won't take a week before the government changes RB>> it's stand.
JD> No, not that reason alone. Bill C-51 was what I was referring to. It, JD> and the the TPP agreement (not yet approved by Parliament), that JD> Harper signed in the middle of an election (that is NEVER done), not JD> to mention his disdain for ordinairy Canadians, got him defeated. JD> Trudeau won more because of the Conservative backlash, then for any JD> other reason.
What a wonder in view of the present situation.
JD>>> That is not to say that the new govt under Trudeau will stop that JD>>> all the way.
RB>> He won't, since it's not up to him. The crazies have the guns and RB>> explosives, and want to use them. They love headlines and don't care RB>> how they get them.
JD> No it is up to Parliament, and although he has a majority, the Senate JD> is still a majority Conservative, but quite often tend to think JD> differently then the govt.
And will calmly accept the deaths of several hundred Canadians by so-called "islamic" crazies without very severe countermeasures? Sorry, but I'm not convinced.
RB>> P.S. On a different subject: I was interested to hear the name RB>> Trudeau again, since Pierre was prime minister when I lived in RB>> Canada. Is his son as flamboyant as Pierre was?
JD> No, he is smooth, but not quite the same man his father was. I JD> suppose you could say he dresses much the same but under today's JD> fashion modes <G> You can probalbly google him for more info <G>
Have to do that. All I can remember is his father.
