Muslims face negative perception in Canada, study suggests

[earth_as_one]

Because I'm agnostic and religion is besides the point as far as I'm concerned. I value human life equally.

 

[CDNBear]

I value human life equally.

If only that were true.

 

[earth_as_one]

If you want to make a point about me, please quote me. Otherwise your opinion means diddly. Mostly your modus operandi consists of smearing people with crap in the hope that some might stick.

Jews have been demonized so that easily manipulated people in the west...

If you believe this then please back it up. I've never made a negative comment about any group of people... including Jews if that's your **** smearing insinuation. If you think otherwise, then quote me.

I think most regulars here know your game CB.

 

[gore0bsessed]

One is a radical authoritarian and racist ideology and the other is a religion that has some followers or sects that fall within that definition....but so does the Republican Party and people that label them as Nazis are just as silly.

Colpy's comparison of Muslims and Nazis has me worried for his mental stability.

 

[earth_as_one]

Making a comment about someone without backing it up, is just a smear. Please reference a post by Colpy to back up your point about him. Otherwise you are just trolling like CB.

Back on topic.... Most Canadians have a negative opinion of Muslims

Across Canada, 72 per cent said they have a “generally favourable opinion” of Christianity. At the other end of the spectrum, Islam scored the lowest favourability rating, just 28 per cent. Sikhism didn’t fare much better at 30 per cent, and Hinduism was rated favourably by 41 per cent. Both Buddhism, at 57 per cent, and Judaism, 53 per cent, were rated favourably by more than half the population—but even Jews and Buddhists might reasonably ask if that’s a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty result.
What Canadians think of Sikhs, Jews, Christians, Muslims . . . - Canada - Macleans.ca

I am neither for or against a group of people based on their religion. I am for or against individual people based on their actions. A person's region is not a reliable indicator of whether they are or aren't a good person.

 

[gore0bsessed]

Are you trolling me? #1 you aren't a mod. #2 he clearly asked what were the differences between Nazis and Muslims. He thinks they're similar if not the same. It's a dangerous and disturbing view from a psychotic man who owns guns. This is how the Norwegian massacre happened.

 

[lone wolf]

What qualifies you to diagnose psychosis?

 

[earth_as_one]

Are you trolling me? #1 you aren't a mod. #2 he clearly asked what were the differences between Nazis and Muslims. He thinks they're similar if not the same. It's a dangerous and disturbing view from a psychotic man who owns guns. This is how the Norwegian massacre happened.

No I was giving you a chance to differentiate your post about Colpy from CB's post about me.

Your comment about Colpy would carry more weight if you backed it up with a reference to something he posted. I'd like to judge his post for myself.

 

[Colpy]

Colpy's comparison of Muslims and Nazis has me worried for his mental stability.

Fear not, Little One....I have been observed, considered, and declared perfectly sane....

Now, how about applying your intellect to the question, instead of setting up straw men???

Islam demands total submission to a ideology of expansive war, supression of dissent, and Jew hatred and genocide, culminating in a world totally dominated by Islamic beliefs......

Naziism demands total submission to a ideology of expansive war, supression of dissent, and Jew hatred and genocide, culminating in a world totally dominated by Nazi beliefs......

And the difference is???????

 

[petros]

Get a hair cut hippie.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Are you trolling me? #1 you aren't a mod. #2 he clearly asked what were the differences between Nazis and Muslims. He thinks they're similar if not the same. It's a dangerous and disturbing view from a psychotic man who owns guns. This is how the Norwegian massacre happened.

Tick tock tick tock clocks ticking down ....

 

[gore0bsessed]

fear not, little one....i have been observed, considered, and declared perfectly sane....

Now, how about applying your intellect to the question, instead of setting up straw men???

Islam demands total submission to a ideology of expansive war, supression of dissent, and jew hatred and genocide, culminating in a world totally dominated by islamic beliefs......

Naziism demands total submission to a ideology of expansive war, supression of dissent, and jew hatred and genocide, culminating in a world totally dominated by nazi beliefs......

And the difference is???????

lol!

Attempting to answer that question would make me guilty of actually entertaining the thought that Nazism/Islamism is one in the same.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

lol!

Attempting to answer that question would make me guilty of actually entertaining the thought that Nazism/Islamism is one in the same.

And thus outing yourself....

 

[earth_as_one]

Fear not, Little One....I have been observed, considered, and declared perfectly sane....

Now, how about applying your intellect to the question, instead of setting up straw men???

Islam demands total submission to a ideology of expansive war, supression of dissent, and Jew hatred and genocide, culminating in a world totally dominated by Islamic beliefs......

Naziism demands total submission to a ideology of expansive war, supression of dissent, and Jew hatred and genocide, culminating in a world totally dominated by Nazi beliefs......

And the difference is???????

OK, I see G didn't have to reference a post. Colpy volunteered.

C'mon Colpy, you can't seriously believe that Muslims are to be feared like the Nazis???? You could make the same crap up about Christians, some of whom were also Nazis...

lol!

Attempting to answer that question would make me guilty of actually entertaining the thought that Nazism/Islamism is one in the same.

OK I stand corrected about Colpy. Even I didn't think he had gone off the deep end. But I can see his irrational hate and fear of Muslims has sunk to new depths.

 

[Omicron]

Muslims face negative perception in Canada, study suggests

A new national survey that tapped the level of "positiveness" that Canadians feel toward selected groups suggests that Muslims — significantly more than 10 other subsets of society — remain a magnet for negativity a decade after the 9/11 attacks on the U.S.

Just 43 per cent of the 2,345 people polled by the Montreal-based Association for Canadian Studies expressed "very positive" or "somewhat positive" perceptions of Muslims, while atheists (60 per cent) and aboriginals (61 per cent) also drew relatively lukewarm responses.

Meanwhile, seven other groups generated positive perceptions from respondents. Chinese people, who narrowly topped the results at 75 per cent, were followed by Protestants, Blacks and Hispanics/Latin Americans (all 74 per cent), Catholics (73), Jews (72) and francophones (70).

The category “immigrants” prompted positive responses from 68 per cent of those surveyed.

The results were drawn from an online poll covering a range of issues and conducted by the firm Leger Marketing between Sept. 20 and Oct. 3. The survey is considered to have a margin of error of two per cent, 19 times out of 20.

ACS executive director Jack Jedwab said the markedly more negative response to Muslims is matched by similar polling results in Britain and the U.S., making clear that the challenge of improving perceptions of the vast majority of Muslims who reject Islamist extremism is a multinational task.

“Most of these perceptions are built around images that people see globally,” said Jedwab.

The similar findings in other Western nations “suggests this isn’t a Canadian-specific issue . . . I’m not saying we shouldn’t have programs” and policies in Canada to improve general perceptions of Muslims, “but the impact of those programs is limited if we don’t have global cooperation.”

The results of the new poll echo the findings of a previous ACS survey just ahead of last month’s 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which showed that a majority of Canadians believes conflict between Western nations and the Muslim world is “irreconcilable.”

That survey of 1,500 Canadians in early September showed that 56 per cent of respondents see Western and Muslim societies locked in an unending ideological struggle, while about 33 per cent — just one-third of the population — held out hope that the conflict will eventually be overcome.

Together, says Jedwab, such surveys highlighting the widespread unease towards Muslims are forcing a rethink of the prime challenge facing Canada and other Western societies in terms of ethnocultural relations. A decade ago, he said, the prevailing view was that promoting social harmony in these countries would depend on overcoming language conflicts or easing general tensions between “whites and all visible minorities.”

Instead, “what’s emerging now is a focus on Muslims vs. non-Muslims,” he said. “The outlet for people’s prejudice has been displaced by the focus on Muslims.”

In fact, the latest ACS poll showed that while 58 per cent of respondents mustered positive views about “relations between visible minorities and whites,” barely half as many — 30 per cent — were positive about “relations between Muslims and non-Muslims.”

Canadians’ negativity towards Muslims is reflected across the country in the new poll, but most strongly in Quebec. Debates in that province about what constitutes “reasonable accommodation” of minorities — sparked partly by concerns about Muslim head scarves — have been more pointed than elsewhere in Canada.

Only 35 per cent of respondents from Quebec expressed “very positive” or “somewhat positive” perceptions toward Muslims. The results were higher in other parts of the country: Atlantic Canada (48 per cent), Alberta (48), B.C. (46), Ontario (45) and Manitoba/Saskatchewan (39).

Muslims face negative perception in Canada, study suggests




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Did you know that the original statement from Mohammad was that women were to dress like the normals in their territory to not be attacked for being Muslim. The scarve was a fashion statement of its time. Back then, that's how you stayed anonymous.

The concept got hijacked,

Technically, Koran says women today are supposed to be indistinguashable from modern women.

True to Allah.

 

[Colpy]

lol!

Attempting to answer that question would make me guilty of actually entertaining the thought that Nazism/Islamism is one in the same.

Which, of course, is completely impossible for someone incapable of entertaining an idea that has not been filtered, pasteurized, and declared 100% pure and politically correct by the Thought Police.

What you have said is that you have a completely closed mind.

Which saves me the trouble of actually taking you seriously.

OK, I see G didn't have to reference a post. Colpy volunteered.

C'mon Colpy, you can't seriously believe that Muslims are to be feared like the Nazis???? You could make the same crap up about Christians, some of whom were also Nazis...



OK I stand corrected about Colpy. Even I didn't think he had gone off the deep end. But I can see his irrational hate and fear of Muslims has sunk to new depths.

Another one!

Tackle the idea, if you can.

The ideology of Islam is one of supression of thought in one's self and in other, it is a violent, genocidal ideology bent on world domination, back by Muslim brownshirts everywhere there is a significant Muslim population.

The same as Naziism.

Tackle the idea, if you can.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Are you trolling me? #1 you aren't a mod. #2 he clearly asked what were the differences between Nazis and Muslims. He thinks they're similar if not the same. It's a dangerous and disturbing view from a psychotic man who owns guns. This is how the Norwegian massacre happened.

#1 Mod's names appear in Green.
#2 The Norwegian massacre happened because someone asked what were the
differences between Nazis and Muslims?

You're judging someone's mental diagnosis over the interwebs based on what
professional criteria? Just curious as to how you are accomplishing this feat.

 

[Colpy]

TheReligionofPeace - The Top 10 Reasons Why Islam is NOT a Religion of Peace

London, England

The Netherlands

Denmark

Brownshirts

 

[mentalfloss]

Colpy's post is a testament to how the public becomes brainwashed.

You use snippets from the worst extremists and create an association between them and the entire group.

It's pretty fascinating how he never acknowledges that point, yet continues plaster the crap as if it helps his credibility.

 

[Cannuck]

I guess Christianity isn't a religion of peace either

Of course, I'm just having fun with Colpy. Seems to me he considers himself a christian but we all know that couldn't possibly be true. I mean c'mon...get real. Like Jesus would ever own a gun and support the Conservative or the Republican parties.

You use snippets from the worst extremists and create an association between them and the entire group.

Colpy is probably a card carrying member of the Joseph Goebbels fan club (Christians like Goebbels have shown Colpy the peaceful way of Christians)