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Muslims Immigrants and Isis Love

orlando attacks: Thus the British exit from the European Union and the rise of Donald Trump in the U.S. Trump took to his proverbial soapbox right after the Orlando attacks to rail against what he saw as the establishment pathetic "political correct response," something that, according to him, keeps America from "thinking clearly." This same culture of crippling "political correctness" and appeasement toward Muslims and immigrants is what pro-Brexit voices like the U.K. Independence Party Nigel Farage and his supporters rant and rave about when criticizing European liberalism, according to CBC. The issue of anti-terrorism has fused with anti-immigration arguments on the domestic front, playing right into the narrative that Muslim extremists around the world — particularly ISIS — love to push: The West hates Islam and doesn't want Muslims in their countries, so come join us. As the U.S. and its allies sink deeper and deeper in Syria and Iraq, unable to solve the ISIS conundrum, nativist blowhards in both Britain and America have succeeded in using/exploiting anti-immigration and anti-Muslim sentiment for political gain. At the root of this dynamic is a deep socio-economic dissatisfaction among the citizens of Western democracies, a significant portion of whom have turned to scapegoating as a way to explain their predicament. Immigrant vs. non-immigrant possibilities Attacks in Orlando and Istanbul have given extra ammunition to right-wing nativists laying out just how irreconcilable the relationship between immigrants and "the West" truly is. If Canada fails to extricate itself from this globalizing trend and falls into a similar situation, no amount of "pro-tolerance" rhetoric from the Trudeau leadership is going to hold off a corresponding wave of nativist sentiment that'll surely come to the fore, something former PM Stephen Harper demonstrated many times during his tenure. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.