Immigration Policy of Democracies during times of war...
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Posted by Thomas Mueller on 19:26:20 2007/06/21
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Re: Fund Palestinian moderates, not Mahmoud Abbas posted by Leah Costello
Make no mistake, Canada is also at war and has her enemies. Those who would pretend otherwise need only consult our troops in Afghanistan or al Jazeera for that matter. The war on terror, the battle in Iraq in the war against the Iran/Syria axis, Israel's war, the Afghanistan war, the struggle against Wahabi extremism preached in mosques across Europe and North America; these are all different facets of one and the same war!
WW II was not a war against either Japan or Germany, but rather a war against an evil ideology. We today, are not at war against Islam, but against another evil ideology. Who could suggest that Muslims (or rather their "Islamist" imitators) are unlike the Germans or Japanese of recent history and are incapable of similar evil ideology? Such naïveté may be ''politically correct'' to comfortable Canadian sensibilities, but at the cost of being racist and pandering to "Al-taqiyya"! Not every German was a Nazi and not every Nazi was a German. Similarly not every Muslim is an Islamist, but there is no difference between Nazis and Islamists!
A generation ago, many heroes opposed to Fascism would gladly have escaped to Canada during WW II, honest and decent individuals such as my own parents. Canada understandably accepted no immigrants from either Japan or Germany for the duration of the war, and for five years thereafter. Were these Canadian measures prudent or "racist"? No grudges are held in conceding the former. Similarly today, Canada would be prudent to restrict immigration while we wage war on international terror.
Such exclusionary policies today would not be racist or a violation of human rights? For example, Ismaili and Alawite Muslims as well as Coptic and Syriac Christian Arabs readily embrace the norms of tolerance and acceptance required in a multicultural Canadian society. Wahabis and former Baathists do not. So, it is not about "Faith" or "Race"! It is about "Ideology"; and certain ideologies have no place in a multicultural Canadian mosaic, especially during war. Immigration to Canada is not a "right".
Canada must at all costs, avoid the mistakes of Holland and France, as we deny access to the supporters of Bin Laden and their ilk. Canada has no other option, even if such policies unfortunately would also exclude, temporarily, some honest and decent immigrants as during WW II.
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