80% said yes!

Remember those old commercials where they would go to a town, poll them about whether they liked some medicine or other and then announce, "in Lunenburg, 76% said yes!" So I borrow the metaphor to note that according to a recent poll, 80% are happy to be living here. 73% are proud to be Canadian, a percentage I note is likely to be rather higher than the populace at large. (and about 50% above neo-cons of various sorts. Can we put the neo-cons into their own country in the middle of Russia, Africa or Montanna (you know, somewhere utterly desolate) and watch them eat each other?) If you recall my article a ways back about the terrorist plot being foiled because of a Muslim who wanted to give something back to Canada, something ought to be twigging for you right now.

One other point:

A majority of the Muslim respondents (53 per cent) would also like to see Islamic Sharia law adopted for divorce and other family disputes, and a much larger number, 86 per cent, of Canadian Muslims do not feel governments should ban the wearing of headscarves by Muslim women in public, including public schools.

I can imagine how this will be the departure point for various conservatives on this one. But it's a dead issue, as the last paragraph notes.

In fact, almost 60 per cent of Muslim women do not wear any kind of covering on a regular basis, the survey found. And 72 per cent of the respondents said they were not too worried or not worried at all about Muslim women taking on more modern roles in Canadian society.

Which puts it in perspective. Personally, I don't care if a Muslim wears a head scarf. The veil is a bit different, but in truth, it's pretty unlikely that will be an issue for me in class, since if a Muslim woman is at university, I rather doubt she'll be wearing a veil unless its -25 out.