Canadians Don't Think Muslims Can Integrate: Poll

Ugh, we're the worst sometimes, aren't we?

Ten years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a poll finds that a majority of Canadians think Muslim and Western societies are “irreconcilable”, while a full 39 per cent are fine with enhanced profiling of Muslim Canadians at airports and other such security checkpoints. While these results are from an online survey, the results are kind of, well, disheartening, with 56 per cent of respondents thinking there's no hope that Muslim culture will ever be integrated into the West. Thirty-three per cent thought that it would, while another 52 per cent of respondents were against extra profiling of Muslims (the current level of profiling ought to be enough, we suppose?). Also, some 65 per cent said we faced as much of a terror risk today as we did 10 years ago, and a full 70 per cent thought the Afghan War did nothing to curb the terror threat. Considering Muslims are one of the fastest growing segments of the country, and there has never been an Islamist terrorist plot committed in Canada, let us be the first to say: get over yourselves.

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