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Originally Posted by Stealhead
One part that I find odd is that the Afghans were still so fundamentalist maybe it is different in Canada but the overwhelming majority of US Afghan immigrants come to US because they wanted to live life free of such fundamentalism.
There is a group of Afghans in my area that are all related they own and run couple of pizza restaurants two brothers came here in the early 80s to get away from the war then.You would not know that they came from Afghanistan unless you knew them personally they wear regular clothes and the young daughters that often work at the counter look just like and dress like any other teenage kids.I guess there are always are nut cases though.
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I think it is different in Canada. Here we have something called Multiculturalism. Other countries in the West have some forms of it, but here it is Government policy with a Cabinet Minister and a department. It was introduced by Pierre Trudeau and passed in parliament in 1988. The whole idea of course is to encourage new immigrants to celebrate their cultural diversity. I'm guessing this, honour killing, isn't what they had in mind. This isn't the first time it's happened here either. It's the risk every country runs in allowing immigrants from countries with less desirable 'traditions'. They also bring their disputes. The Air India bombing, Canada's worst mass murder, was carried out by a Sikh militant group Babbar Khalsa based in Canada. It could have been worse. a second bomb went off at the Narita Airport in Japan before it could be placed on another Air India flight.