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Originally posted by CamB
Quite what the purpose of your post is escapes me... unless you just want to be openly xenophobic, of course.

So, some people from Afghanistan emigrated to Canada. Some people from Afghanistan were Al Qaeda. Thus, all people from Afghanistan are bad, and must not be allowed into the country?



Moreover, I believe the support for them in fighting the Soviets was US-based. I'm really confused as to how to tell when Afghans became bad rather than good, and what immigration laws have to do with that.

Unless, of course, being xenophobic is good.

Way to practice selective reading. Why didn't you quote this?

"When we talk about the homegrown terrorist phenomenon, these are people ... in most instances who are Canadian citizens," he said. "A lot of them were born here. A lot of them who were not born here emigrated to Canada with their parents at a very young age."

And this?

"I can tell you that all of the circumstances that led to the London transit bombings ... are resident here and now in Canada," said Hooper, the service's operations director, referring to the bombings in Britain's capital that killed 52 civilians and four terrorists last July 7.

Committee chairman Sen. Colin Kenny said the attacks on Britain should serve as a wake-up call for the problems Canada could encounter with homegrown terrorists.

"They'd been born in country," Kenny said of the London bombers. "They had all of the slang and comfort with the culture that you and I have, and yet, boom, here they are committing terrorist acts."