I think it sets a very dangerous precedent to ban Canadians from returning home - especially if they are children or women who may not have been personally involved in any acts of violence.
By banning citizens from returning home you are making them stateless.
Should a Canadian who supports/supported the PKK, IRA, PLO or ANC be banned from returning to Canada?
there is no precedent being set
they're in a foreign country, have committed human rights crimes, thru their support or thru their actions
we don't have a law that says we need to take them back
they can stay and be judged by the Syrian authorities
which is what should have happened with Omar, he should have been sent back to Afghanistan
that's what this whole bullshit is about
the Kurds/Americans don't want to give them to the Syrians/Iraqis
because they will just kill them
which they have every right to
and should
or do you believe they don't have any authority in their own country?
Devil's advocate:
1. The revocation of Canadian citizenship was a highly controversial move taken by the Harper government, for the first time in our country's history.
pretty hard to take you seriously when you can't even get basic facts right
we've been taking away peoples citizenship away long before Harper came along
in fact Zoolander is still doing it (and he's been doing it in larger numbers)
he just won't do it with terrorists, cause he's a terrorist sympathizer, his words/actions support that conclusion
we're trying to kick out feeble 90 yr old white guys, you know, supposed Nazis, even the one's who didn't actually kill anyone, clerks, accountants
they've kicked out people for lying when obtaining citizenship, unless you're an Iranian Liberal
Harper just wanted to add another specific reason to the list
I find the correlation (or convergence) between the extreme right, ignorance of our laws and islamophobia extremely troubling in this thread.
Maybe talk to someone who is muslim or travel to a muslim country and educate yourselves.
then maybe you could point out all these "so called" great Muslim majority countries
Syria? Saudia Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Bahrain, UAE, Yemen, Gaza, ect....
can you name one, where Gays, Women, Jews, Christians, basically anyone who isn't Muslim?
are treated well, like equals?
that are Democracies, and yes, real democracies
where they aren't putting reporters in jail, opposition leaders, ect.....
Agreed. I worked quite closely with Pashtun families in my last teaching position. I have known a number of really amazing Ismaili Muslim people who do tremendous charity work like the annual Agha Khan Walk, that raises money for a different charity every year in their local community.
The word "Islam" can literally be translated as "submission to the will of God".
Christians teach "For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son...(yadda yadda)
Monty Python teaches us that because "Every Sperm is Sacred", it's medical experiments for the lot, I'm afraid.
No religion is inherently GOOD, or EVIL
It is how the tenets of that religion are used by those WITH power & control over those without it, as a tool of subjugation.
and you should also know then that the Ismaili group is but a pimple on the ass of Islam
in the sense that they are as small a group as the Jews
around 14 million
and in many circles aren't considered true Muslims by those oh so peaceful, loving muslims
so using a minority to prove the rule again doesn't seem to work with Islam
