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Originally Posted by Sluggo
A strong secular society should not pander to a faction within a religion that uses means diametrically opposed to the principals that founded that society. If we capitulate to those demands our society is weakened and only encourages the extreme and unacceptable behavior. It bothers me that one of our founding values is tolerance and in order to deal with this situation we have to break it in such a fashion that it protects many of our other values in exchange.
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Our founding values run along the lines of "Peace, Order and Good Government". The tolerance part is fairly recent to Canadian society especially considering the Metis and the Japanese (not to mention the First Nations...).
But tolerance is fundamental to the Canadian national identity now.
What I don't understand is why people who disagree with something Muslims are insitant on feel the need to be jack asses about it. There is no need to taunt people here.
Wouldn't you be upset if some group, say, pissed all over the Canadian flag and lit it on fire?