By Dalit Halevi, Tova Dvorin:
The MacDonald-Laurier Institute and the Globe and Mail held a
public conference recently on the phenomenon of Muslim immigration to
the West, which debated whether or not the influx is bringing a culture
of violence to Canada and other Western countries.
The debate was conducted between Doug Saunders, journalist for Foreign Affairs for the Globe and Mail, and Salim Mansur, a Political Science professor at the University of Western Ontario, reports Shalom Toronto.
The two addressed the following questions: Are immigrants from Muslim
countries bringing violence and values that are inconsistent with
Western values? Are Muslim immigrants integrating into Western society
in the same ways that other ethnic minorities do? And, is Muslim
immigration a threat to Canada or West?
Interestingly, it was the political science professor - who is,
himself, Muslim - who maintained that Islam remains a threat to Canadian
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