Islamic State

: Its rationale for the first is that with so many extremist militias operating there, terrorists could sneak in masquerading as refugees, according to Toronto Star. Its explanation for the second is that the Islamic State is targeting minorities. But it has been keen on fast-tracking Christians, Yazidis and others from Syria and Iraq. Both are reasonable propositions. Harper is ingenuous when he rejects opening the floodgates and airlifting tens of thousands of refugees out of terrorist war zones without proper process. But they also hide the government terrible record on refugees and provide a cover for bigotry, that of the Harperites themselves or of the Conservative base of fundamentalist Christians and other right-wingers to whom the government caters. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.