On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 09:52:41 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2017-02-28 9:13 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> that scare-bait over and over again, with such success.
>>
>> It's not just Trump, though. He's building on what's
>> been on right-wing talk radio for years.
>>
>> You know, we've gone through this before, with the Irish,
>> Italians, Jews, etc. But now we've got the 24/7/365 news
>> cycle to bring the dangers of the "other" to our eyes and
>> ears all the darned time.
>>
>> I'm of the opinion that the people who fear (for example)
>> Muslims the most are ones who never encounter any in their
>> daily lives. I have a hard time believing that the people
>> who own the ethnic market where I buy my lentils want to
>> do anything beside run their store, raise their children,
>> and enjoy life just like everybody else.
>
>
>Don't think of it so much as fearing them as rejecting their values.
>Many of them, like the treatment of women, run counter to the progress
>that women have made over the years. There is this ridiculous notion
>that legitimate concerns about the attitudes and behaviour of some of
>the more zealous members being labelled Islamophobic, as if it is some
>sort of mental disorder. This is a culture in which we see too many
>cases of "honour killing" of girls and women.
>
>I am no fan of the Trumpster, but it should be pointed out that his
>travel ban was imposed of citizens of a number of countries which have
>been subject to a lot of unrest and from which a lot of Islamist
>terrorists have come. Those countries all happen to have majority Muslim
>populations. There are lots of Muslim countries that are not on the
>list. For that matter, I am wondering why Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are
>not also on it. Saudi Arabia is the home country of most of the 9/11
>terrorists, and SA and Pakistan are the homelands of many of the
>Islamist insurgency in Afghanistan.

Dave Smith revealed -

There has been one 'honour' killing that I know of, in your province
too. Several years ago now.