Stanley Reitsma (Carman,Manitoba), 4 days ago

Don Radford's column “Okay...some ground rules” is bang on. He laments that multiculturalism allows for immigrants to immigrate here to be culturally at odds with our country. To him, they should embrace our laws and values or immigrate elsewhere. I like to greatly expand on that.
Multiculturalism will mean Islamification of any country. Islam is a totalitarian way of life with a religious component. It's a legal, political, financial system, dress code, moral code and a social structure.
Look at any country around the world. Islamification begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a openly tolerant country that demand religious privileges.
The following info is according to Dr. Peter Hammond;
As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, no threat, like in: The United States, Australia, Canada, China, Italy and Norway.
At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize to other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and street gangs. This is happening in: Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom, Spain and Thailand.
From 5% on, they exercise a incredible amount of influence to their portion of the population. They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves – along with threats for failure to comply. This happens in: France, Philippines, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Trinidad & Tobago.
At this point, they manage government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia Islamic Law. (Ultimate goal, establish Sharia Law over the entire world.)
When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness through the excuse that non-believers as individuals and their property are worthy of no respect. In Paris, you have car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and results in uprisings and threats. Such tensions are seen daily in Muslim sections in: Guyana, India, Israel, Kenya and Russia.
After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, like in Ethiopia.
At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks,and ongoing militia warfare, such as in: Chad and Lebanon.
From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in: Albania, Malaysia, Qatar and Sudan.
After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in: Bangladesh, Egypt, Gaza, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey and United Arab Emirates.
100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' – the Islamic House of Peace. Supposedly be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrases are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in: Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen. Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most Muslims with power spew hate.
Important to note that in some countries, with well under 100% Muslim populations, like France, the minority Muslim populations live in ghettos, within its 100% Muslim and live by Sharia Law. The national police do not dare enter these ghettos. There are no national courts, nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities. Those Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. The children attend madrases. They learn only the Koran. Imams in these ghettos have 100% control.
Globally 16,000 terrorist attacks have occurred under the name of Islam since 9/11, according to the National Post.
Multiculturalism will bring all this. The increase of Islam is at everyone's peril unless Muslims are transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Then they no longer have the duty to hate, as ex-Muslims who are now Christians say.

Stanley Reitsma Carman

N41A (Shilo,Manitoba), 12 days ago

Comment on GRASPING FOR MORE PRESSING ISSUES in the August 27th edition of the MORDEN TIMES

Greg I'm a little confused by this article.



It started with the blurb "Ask any fighting soldier and they will tell you that nothing gets them more angry than a maple leaf that is not perfectly aligned. Leaves that are upside down or sideways make soldiers question what they are fighting for." Is this entire article sarcastic? Why did you drag the military into a prison story?



I can promise you that carrying friends on and off planes in boxes and getting shot at rank higher on the angry list. Here is an interesting fact, I was always ordered to remove all identifying markers (Canadian flag on shoulder, Rank, Name tags, ID Discs) before I went out on my most dangerous missions. I could still grasp what I was fighting for.

I have never,or known any soldiers who fight "to preserve the position of the maple leaf". I suggest that you sign up (there is still time for you to join and deploy). When your finished your 5 years of minimun combat service please write me about what you were fighting for, how nothing makes you angrier then a maple leaf that is not perfectly aligned, and how hard it is to walk by maple trees in the fall. Until then stick to writing about what you know.

The fighting soldiers

Grace (Vancouver,BC), 1 month ago

Is there a reason why the obituaries aren't appearing in the paper any longer? I miss this section.

Teri Wilson (Morden, MB), 3 months ago

Hi, I heard there was an article in last week's Winkler Times about Dr. Woelk from Boundary Trails Health Centre receiving a prestigious award. Since Dr. Woelk works with many patients from Morden, I am wondering if this information could be shared in the Morden Times as well?

Newspaper Reply The article was appearing in the May 28 edition of the Morden Times.

I. Jeannette (Somerset,MB), 3 months ago

Lori Penner's column is always interesting, but especially touching was the recently published "When faith is all we have..." Thank you, Lori.