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Originally Posted by White Doors
Why are you scared of me? Be scared of allowing sharia law being used to settle family disputes as it almost came to be in Ontario.
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I'm pretty sure he's not scared of you, he's concerned about the narrow-mindedness of the Us vs. Them mentality that a lot of North Americans seem to have. That 'They' are so alien and different from us that, rather than being engaged in a political or social conflict, we are in a War on Terror, a Clash of Civilizations. When you couch the conflict in those terms you sort of define it as an epic battle of good vs. evil... which really does a disservice to the nature of the conflict itself. Its a complicated situation that too many are eager to boil down to 'they hate our freedom' or 'they hate us because we have equal rights'. I think the concern is that these BS statements form the ideology of far too many North Americans these days. Scares the hell out of me too (more, even, than allowing Muslim cultural values into the legal system, if you can believe it).
And by the by, I'm pretty sure you won't see stonings in Ontario any time soon.