Friday, August 12, 2011
Why is there so little conflict with Muslims in Western Canada?
I've been living in Canada for around half my life (I was born here, but I've spent a good half my life abroad for various reasons), and in recent years I've noticed that as aggression between Muslims and Westerners has risen everywhere in North America and Europe, in Western Canada there's almost no aggression at all I can see. The mayor of Calgary is Muslim even, and around a year back I briefly dated a Muslim Malaysian girl and it wasn't an issue to anybody. Even in Ontario and Quebec I've noticed a palpable distrust, but not here. Can anybody shed some light on what any particular reasons for this may be? Talking mostly from a sociological view, is it our liberal economic policies that really make it easy for anybody to form a business, our decentralized governance, or are we just "on the same wavelength" so speak (the prairies in particular are quite conservative and most Muslim's I know seem quite at home here.)? Thoughts?
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