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"Little Mosque has a political message. It's telling Canadians Muslim immigration isn't a problem and that legitimate concerns about Muslim terrorism are the product of prejudice and paranoia." ⇒

   16 January 2007, early afternoon

I'm sorry, but if you are afraid of Muslim Jihadists in Toronto you are certainly paranoid or prejudiced -- in some cases probably both. Toronto isn't Baghdad. The world isn't like an episode of 24. The world would be a better place if people put their energy into dealing with actual threats to our lives -- boring stuff like cancer and heart disease.

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Comments

  1. Nice work, dude. You really held your own here. I agree that we could use a serious debate on the “threat” posed my Muslim immigration, and I think you just had one right here.

    by Matt on January 16 2007, 5:09 pm   #

  2. I’m not so sure: the internet isn’t a good forum for conflict resolution.

    by ramanan on January 16 2007, 5:37 pm   #

  3. “...when in reality, ‘charity work’ in Afghanistan has often been used as a cover for terrorist activity.”

    Wow.

    by rishi on January 16 2007, 6:50 pm   #

  4. Matt writes about promoting public debate.

    by ramanan on January 17 2007, 9:53 am   #

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