mickboton; If you are reading this, I wish to apologize for the manner in which I said something the other day. I called Multiculturalists "morons" . I still disagree with multiculturalism from the point of view of allowing millions of Muslims to immigrate to the West, but that does not mean all multiculturalists are "morons". Perhaps many are well meaning, but naive. That is the best I can do. You seemed like a niece enough fellow. And Yes, I have had friends of other races.

you know , i,m getting very sick , of these factions , nameing themselves , as scotish muslims , canadian muslims, american muslims, australian muslims , i am a canadian, and i know alot of americans , and some scots , and ausy,s . god if these people can not reform themselves to the county, that gives them jobs , and support them , with thier every little wim, and don,t dare say anything against these people, you could be stuck down by alla, if thats how you spell it lol. it matters very little where you come from , personaly , i come from my mother , and father, and i am proud to be a canadian , as americans , are proud to be americans. stand behind the country that you live in , don,t come here and drag your wars to our front door sincerly david w. whalley , A VERY PROUD CANADIAN GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS

John & David, I do have Muslim friends and they are much clearer than most American liberals about multiculturism: they don't understand why we are so naive about the possibility of tolerance being a Trojan horse for our Islamist enemies who, by the way, are their enemies as well. Some Moslems come to Western countries to get away from Shariah and the expansionist convert-or-kill crazies, and can't understand why we are so delicately reluctant to weed them out either before they get here or after. They bring America their fine minds and the best of their cultures, having chucked the bad parts overboard. (Those Moslems who suggest, however charismatically and politely, that Islamic law and 7th-century ways be transplanted here should be shipped back to wherever they came from, and fast, lest they bring those dysfunctional, vicious systems here.) There are a great many institutions we have here that protect our minority rights and privacy -- can't have a democracy without them -- but I think we have to allow for far more surveillance and invasions of privacy (WITH SWIFT, NOT STANDARD, JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT) if we expect to keep up with the bad guys without inadvertently slipping into a totalitarian system ourselves. A big problem is that we don't have the personnel -- people who speak Urdu, Arabic, Pashtu, Farsi, etc. -- to deal with collected information or to provide that all-important human intelligence here and overseas. High-tech is great, but we need human intelligence even more at this point.
One of our near and dear in Iraq has found some linguistic ability to be crucial in many situations. Israel's finest trackers are Bedouin, and Ariel Sharon saw to it that his sons served in the IDF under Druse commanders. As a Jewish progressive, I keep hoping we Americans get smarter about this stuff. So far the left-liberals have been stupifyingly dumb and the rightwing bigots just as addled.

Sepharad

Why are these folks coming here when they love islam and hate western value and people, why thry not go to saudia. Why are our govt. allowing visa to these people and why are our universities giving them education and we all know they are not here for education but as a sleeper cell.

there coming here because our troops and american troops are in there countries ,raping torturing murdering bombing there people and familys. our so called war on terror.