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Some of these are kind of ridiculous or just coincidental.. especially the police thing. A black guy did the crime, it wouldn't make sense to receive information from witnesses about a black male, and then police only check the white males... It's basic forensics. Also, you can't just pull only 1 person from 3 different races, and call that study accurate. add a few more chinese, black and white people, and maybe it will be a bit more accurate. Personally, I judge people on the way they express their selves, the way they choose to dress and treat others. Body language is key, not colour

Ask those Muslim what is Hilala........you people also lack of knowledge......they choose mulla's islam not Allah's

Everyone to his own , people have a rights to exercise how them choose to dress its no one business

and I can't help but think choosing to conform to a way of dress for religious ideals is an extreme action in itself

Freedom of choice while expanding education is the right answer. It's definitely oppressive to wear it, but the government can't stop someone from freely choosing to wear it. Through education and intellectualism you defeat religious ideology of any religion.

These subconscious choices I don't think they are our fault. They are results of experiences we have had with people, actual real experiences, and by the way we were raised, and where we were raised. How can that be our fault? What matters is the actual choices we make. If we choose to not be prejudice, despite what our subconscious tells us, that is the best we can do. Is that right? Where else could these subconscious ideas be coming from? We got them from somewhere? Either from someone who taught us, or an actual experience, right?

There is no difference between good or bad Muslims let me tell you why ..because at the end of the day they all desire the same objective and that is to achieve Islamic law which ever part of the world they choose to settle. We should ban Islam and demolish all mosques also it should be made illegal to distribute Islamic literature if they want to pray let them pray in privacy of their own homes. or migrate to an Islamic country that matches their lifestyle.

I don't get why would women wear such a dress. I know that a lot of women do it because of choice as well and a lot of them are forced to. However, if those who choose to accept the nakab are essentially indoctrinated from birth.

I wonder if the three men in the first part of this program had to choose between living in an all white, all black or all first nation community, which one they would choose.

No other religion or way of life threatens the western way of life as does Islam. Any woman who chooses to wear the niqab willingly to cover her face will always raise suspicion because we are body/face language readers. Islam does not put women first. It is so silly to even suggest that. They stone, burn, torture women all in the name if family honour. I don't think that reflects honouring women.

If Muslims feel uncomfortable in Western countries, and refuse to adopt the Western lifestyle, they're free to leave. And if Westerners feel uncomfortable having hordes of women in niqabs and mosques all over their towns, and they want the Muslims to leave, and they want to stop letting more of them in, that's their right to choose. It's their country.

It was'nt the Muslims who found and built Canada nor created her economy. Their limited capabilities and views do not allow this.They are not capable of building a free society. They sought refuge and a livelihood in Canada free from threats of death, fear of imprisonment, torture, hunger and poverty. The aspect of Islam (easy oil money which is now beginning to run out) which made a lazy bunch of people even lazier and accustomed to an ignorant and arrogant way of life is what is causing a problem now.\nWomen who choose to wear a covering are the ones who believe that their own forms are either evil, evoke evil or just plain ugly and unsightly. Personally, I have seen scantily clad western women sunning themselves on beaches without inviting a second glance. It's the Muslims who are dirty minded enough to call this dirty. Ugliness breeds ugliness and the niqab. Muslim women who defend the covering - you are now exposed, so shut up.

anyone that chooses to wear one on their own should be watched as they are the ones that are easy to manipulate and will do anything to become a better muslim

As a man, if I choose to wear a balaclava while I do my banking I will be arrested. If it truly is a choice and not a religious tenet then they should have to show their faces like every one else does in certain situations. (court, drivers licence, banking...etc). Show some respect to the culture that you are living in please

‏they didn't choose it they were indoctrinated into this

Muslim women here in Canada are not subject to the same lifestyle as they would be in Islamic countries. They choose to follow the Islamic faith only in ways they feel are applicable to them and what they want personally. Not what the faith demands of them. There is a great difference.

Who in their right mind would choose to wear that shit it covers your mouth your head these people are dumb.

Glad you are enjoying it! I think the size and amount of flags is noticeably different LOL and I am jealous that the USA has such different climates you can choose from in the same country!!

The thing tat I don't get is that if your hijab is your own personal choice, \nWhy do choose to wear it, when you know that it upsets the people of the country you're in?\n\nI used to wear camo pants, combat boots, a bullet belt and deathmetal/grindcore bandshirts with grotesque prints on them.\n\nPeople acted differently towards me, but that's what I could expect when you start wearing some things you know upsets the common man..

These women say they choose to wear it... But ask them to take it off and tell their family and walk outside, I promise you their Family will beat them to shit when they get home... there is no choice...

Muhhamad was a liar, paedophile, rapist and a murderere.\n\nAnyone who would willingly choose to follow a god selects such a prophet is insane.

Farzana Is A Joke Islam is Free Choice! I Have A Choice And I CHOOSE To Cover And When You Love Your Creator Everything Falls In Place May ALLAH SWT Guide Lost Souls Ameen Suma Ameen

Funny how so many liberals choose to lump Christianity and Judaism with Islam. Nice try. In fact there are NO Islamic leaders EVER who have spoken out against the extremes of their own.\nAnd the other two? How about Moses and Christ? Charlemagne ? Bishop Odo? Luther? Chesterton? C.S. Lewis? Adam Smith? Lincoln? Tutu? King? Uh-huh.\nOh and it was Mormons, Quakers, and the Amish who spoke out against injustice towards natives. And the old liberal axiom that religion 'causes' wars? Gee no shit huh? You mean compared to the secular record of warfare and that of pagan empires and atheist dictators? Gawd. Where would we start? Rome? Babylon? Attila? Khan? Two World Wars?\nAnd finally, thank you all on the Left for your constant search for 'harmony' and perfection. Total peace of course meaning lock-step and dissent branded as 'hurtful' or 'intolerant'. Indeed.\nAnd so an ideology that has given us Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez, the National Socialist German Workers Party, and countless others. Why, I'm sure the world greatly appreciates a form of mind that worships on the alters of the self and the state.

She said it is Canada here you are free to choose, but if you go to an Islamic state and you are christian you are not, and if you dress normal you will be raped!

since Islamic countries are corrupted by retards sure they would choose non Muslim countries for their freedom but doesn't mean your countries are perfect since you may have the technology and all these rules but you're hatred towards anyone who doesn't look like you \n\nand since when corruption was a part of Islam either extremism \nIsis. alqada ,and those extreme idiots who call themselves Muslims but in reality they aren't since they didn't show a sign of peace or at least stopped for a second and realized everyone is free . \n\n\nReligions should not be embraced by retards

It may be a fast growing religious but within 24 months of conversion almost 50% leave once they read the quaran. Women who choose to wear the Quaran do so to appease muslim men. Mohammed encouraged rape of non believing women. They have freedom of choice? If they didn't wear the niquab in an Islamic country they'd be flogged. These woman are speaking nonsense and are completely brainwashed. It does define them because it segregates them! It's also useful for wife beaters, approved in the quaran, as buses d aren't visible.

If the woman is not free to choose her dressing,where is the freedom? They chosed to wear closed up dress,like hijab or niqab,why must you wanted to take away or cut her dressing to reveal the juicy parts open? Isn't this terror?

Choose to wear it in a Muslim country don't bring it here! It's ugly,insulting and offensive to the West!

I don't mean to be rude but how is burqa a choice? Why would anyone want to dress up in a black robe covering from head to toe, except eyes and sometimes eyes too? I know it's religious thing but how can one make it a personal choice to wear it? That too women? It's ok for men, they only have so many colours in their attire to choose, but women? Seriously? I think burqa should be for Muslim men who are ok with wearing the same colour everyday (in general). I like hijab, the head scarf, it comes in so many colours and it's so pretty, hijab makes you beautiful. Not burqa or niqab.

OK so whatever with them and their need to wear cloth and hold no identity of their own, and their stupid religion. I don't care really I guess about what they wanna do. That's them. It's fine. The part that bugs me is that I know their crap is going to be enforced upon the rest of us as if they have any right at all to tell me what to do. I WILL NOT be included in this belief system. And honestly, it's the fear of losing our freedom to choose that's causing so much anger in everyone else. These people have absolutely no right WHATSOEVER to have any sort of opinion on anyone's life, or how I should freaking dress in the morning. But they think they do. And I fear that that's something we're going to have to fight them for one day.

you dont get to CHOOSE to wear the niqab.. theyrel fucking kil you if you dont !! so many stories if women being burried alive cuz they ddtn wear the niqab

The moment you choose to wear a particular kind of clothing, which has the explicit purpose of hiding your face from the whole world, and you refuse to take it off it does define you! You can state that you aren't defined by what you wear when you proof that you can wear anything and still be yourself.

These women say they choose to wear that, but they're brainwashed! And they don't mention that plenty of women HATE the fact that they're enslaved in an Islamic country

I used to be a very liberal person for most of my life and tolerant of other cultures and religious faith, like many others I may add.\n However my tolerance is wearing somewhat thin, like many others I may add again, after hearing the same old opinions coming from Muslims repatriated in western societies. \n They come into our cultures on mass and never assimilate into ours, but create their own little pockets of cultural being within our national borders.\n We hear time and again how the indigenous populist must be accepting of them, even though very few are accepting of our culture, using an analogy it's akin to inviting a stranger into your home and give them a safe place to live, food, money and all items that go along with it, and the next thing their sat on your favourite chair with your remote in their hand, even going to bed with your wife!\n We need to wear our head covering it's our right they chant, OK then, afford the same favours to us in your country, let my partner wear her bikini when she's walking down the road, let us drink alcohol, build Christian churches, you get where I'm going with this.\n If it's so great there why do you choose to live here? All the customs you seek are there if you feel that uncomfortable here? \nGiving Sewden as an example, there are now 180 Muslim 'ghettos' not the same you get in the US as the accommodation and welfare is quite generous there, a lot of them are 'No-go' areas even for the police, they mostly hate the Swedish people, a criminal element there will only rob off the swedes, and rape has gone up tenfold committed mostly by the Muslims, and it's only going to get worse as they are accepting another forty thousand of them, even though they have a crisis of a shortage of housing. \n If you ever needed an example of when your political parties have totally lost the plot, and are insanely progressive and what your country could become, then use Sweden as a barometer as to what your country could also decay into.\n The Muslims hate use, hate our freedoms, and just think of us as 'infidels' , multiculturalism has proved on this scale that it does not work, unless immigrants come with the mindset that they assimilate into the culture they are heading for, not the other way around.

doesn't matter how much you try to misinterpreted the true religion of Islam people are converting to Islam every day and there is very little you could do about people who are choosing islam, you know why? because it's the only true religion.

If a woman choose to wear niqab in the West, they're Islamist's embracing the Quran and Hadith's which is an open violation against every non-Muslim. . They should be viewed as extreme Jihadist's (A HUGE THREAT) with the potential to harm their surounding's regardless of their claims to be an innocent misinterpreted mob. Islam has no place in the West and these women will trait the Western cultures at any given opportunity so don't get yourselves fooled thinking they're harmless walking mummie's in your societies...

So what if someone go To Saudi Arabia and choose not to wear hijab do they get the freedom to do so. I am mentioning Saudi Arabia because this type of Muslims are funded by them not other Muslims countries.

what if i choose to be naked in public area?do islam respect it?

you choose to live in canada, then follow canadian way of life

hajib, niqab, burka... these are words i didn't necessarily ever wish to learn. Now, it seems, people who were welcomed into our country, who left theirs, are demanding recognition of what they have left behind. This mask is an effort to disguise what they really are. We are a more open society, publicly. We are generally capable of maintaining our privacy internally. Instead of assimilation, they choose a clash of cultures. I suspect this will not work out well in the end. rc

Poor women, freedom to choose a backward religion, ok if it were a choice to start with. Take your religion to where it belongs, islam is not democratic! They laugh and snigger at us, at our values.

Muslim women say they're choosing to wear the Burka and Niqab but they grew up met with physical and emotional abuse if they tried not to wear it. Stockholm's syndrome.

Being a Muslim woman must be very sad, in countries where Islam is the main religion they can't choose how to dress, they can't choose to have a career, they can chose who to marry, they can't choose their religion, and Islam also endorse husband to beat his wife if necessary. To the women who wear the niqab: do you really think that God is so stupid to judge you by what you wear??? God looks at your heart.\nThen, we can discuss about how much the US destabilised the middle east, but in general Islam doesn't fit well in a globalised world and created no social and economic development in the last 100 years. There are small exceptions (Qatar, UAE) who found oil under their ass, but in general a society who wants to live and do things like 1.600 years ago can only bring inequality and no progress whatsoever.

bullshit. all the woman are beaten until they are forced into this shit, you choose to wear it so you dont get a black eye

thats a lie no one would choose to wear the niqab lets be honest its little bit dramatic

Idiots, countries where the niqab is required under sharia law the women DO NOT HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS MEN! They are not allowed to be educated or drive a vehicle. This is what Steven Harper is referring to, because Muslim women in Canada are choosing the Niqab which is rooted in countries with the oppression of women!

This is the future you choose\nYou could have stopped it

They love to hate others and yet cannot even love themselves .  The direct link to this cause  is what they feed their minds on . Look at their countries ! They have as much room or more to live on and in  and  they choose to live in Poverty and IGNORANCE !?  Were these the great peoples of the Book that we studied about in school ?  Where is the rational mind ? where is the creative and productive soul who has created some thing to be of a benefit to their families or friends or neighbors ? A car bomb ? A suicide bomber ?  Where , For the Love of God are their heads ? 

There should only be sharia law in a totally Muslim country. I do not expect to have an English sentence passed on me or be judged by English laws in Dubai so no Muslim should expect their sharia law to be impossed in the UK. There will come a point when the English People of all faiths and religions will say enough is enough and at that point things will probably come to a head and there will be mass riots against Islam. This is not ideal but I doubt anything will be done unless people take to the streets. I personally believe that everyone has a rite to choose their own path but nobody has the rite to impose their beliefs on others. Sharia courts of ANY DESCRIPTION should be BANNED in the UK!

According to most Muslims; All non Muslims must be fought and will be condemned in hell, according to Christians' fanatics: also non followers of Jesus they are condemned in hell, and so does most of the Ibrahimic religions. One simple question to all of you religious people out their: Didn't you all have inherited your religions from your parents, and most of you didn't choose? Do you think the Creator is  so unfair, so sadistic........!!! that you were privileged and lucky to be born Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist.......etc... wake up humans and stop killing in the name of God or Religion. \n\nSimple decent advice  to all of you: live a good life with morals and ethics in your mind, If there is a God and he is just, then he will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by and how you helped his less fortunate creations . If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.