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Nathan Cirillo and Canada

Canada: The following three recent examples of jihadist violence provide only a smattering of the many attacks that have been either carried out or thwarted. In October 2014, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau shot to death Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, a ceremonial guard at the war monument in Ottawa. Chiheb Essghaier, a Tunisian doctoral student, is on trial for several terrorism charges including trying to blow up a passenger train bound for Toronto. Jahanzeb Malik, who came to Canada as a student in 2014, has been arrested for conspiring to bomb the U.S. consulate and financial buildings in Toronto, according to The Chronicle Herald. For far too long, we have been self-conscious about our Canadian identity. By embracing multiculturalism and the idea that every culture and belief is of equal value, we have betrayed our traditions of welcoming strangers to our shores. The fact is that the doctrine of multiculturalism has led to immigrants establishing completely separate communities in our cities. This has led to honour killings, female genital mutilation and the establishment of de facto sharia law, including face coverings, in pockets of Canadian cities and Michael de Adder March 16 cartoon , Vote Conservative or the terrorists will get you attempts to make light of the very real threat of jihadist violence facing Canada. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is right in asserting that we are going to have to confront the international jihadist movement. In many places outside Canada, jihadists are murdering Christians and burning their churches, persecuting Jews, beheading and burning prisoners alive, selling girls into slavery and gang-raping women. Indeed, they are even murdering cartoonists. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.