"This is totally apart from the notion that there are nice muslims --I am completely sure of that, and I don't need to guess because I KNOW that from personal experience."
You're right, and I too know this from personal experience.
The danger of course, is that our immigration systems are unable to discriminate between "moderate" muslims and their more fundamentalist co-religiionists. And of course, even if they are moderate, it seems to be the nature of their religion that their children will be ripe for recruitment to more radical and fundamentalist causes.
However, while I don't know about Europe, I don't see any chance of Canada's immigration system banning immigration by muslims or from any other place that gives us unassimilable immigrants anytime soon.
I don't know. My understanding is that they've done exhaustive studies of high-profile terrorists --the guys who DO instead of TALK-- and the irony is that many of them are better-educated, middle to upper-middle class, and they're guys who went the vast majority of their lives without being terribly religious at all.
Same thing for the cricket loving fish-n-chips guys who blew up the tube and the busses; the whole neighborhood block swore up and down that it all the terrorism was just a Bolt From the Blue from guys who love Shakespeare, and all that...
Instead of plumbing the depths of Middle-East history and ethnic blah-blah, I think we should just simply smile, apoligize, and stam all their passports "ENTRY DENIED".
The PICTURE of simplicity, and really the best way to play it.
Think of it like an American version of, "Revere the emperor, Expel the Barbarians!".
And well, they ARE the barbarians...
I agree with you about Canada. Canada is becoming amost as big a thorn in our side as Mexico is.