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“Utterly irrelevant”: Canada expunges refugee questionnaire that asked about prayer habits, views on hijab

Oct 16, 2017 10:41 am By Robert Spencer

“I’ve never seen someone asked how regularly they practise their religion, what their opinion on having a woman as a boss is, or their views of different religious coverings. And the reason I’ve never seen that is because it’s utterly irrelevant, from a legal point of view, to the refugee claims process.”

Irrelevant? Really? In fact, this looks like a genuine attempt to distinguish jihadis and Islamic supremacists from peaceful refugees. It recognized that the root causes of violence and crime among Muslim migrants are found in attitudes inculcated by Islamic teaching. But that is something that is “Islamophobic” to recognize, and so of course this questionnaire had to be withdrawn. The Trudeau government wouldn’t dare do a thing to protect their people from what is coming.

“‘Inappropriate’ RCMP questionnaire probed asylum seekers on prayer habits, hijab,” by Benjamin Shingler, CBC News, October 12, 2017 (thanks to the Geller Report):

An RCMP interview guide used to screen asylum seekers on their prayer habits and views on women who don’t wear the hijab was “inappropriate” and “wrong-headed,” Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says.

The three-page form, obtained by CBC News, asked people who were trying to cross the Quebec-U.S. border on Roxham Road, a busy crossing east of Hemmingford, Que., for details on their work history, whether they had a criminal record and what motivated their decision to leave the United States.

It also asked for their views on female bosses, terrorist attacks and ISIS.

Muslims in particular appear to have been targeted, as no other religion is mentioned in the questionnaire.

Goodale said the questions amounted to religious profiling and the RCMP has suspended the use of that version of the interview guide, which was deployed at Roxham Road and a processing centre at the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle border crossing.

“As soon as they were drawn to our attention, which was during the course of the day on Tuesday, we immediately contacted the headquarters of the RCMP to determine what exactly what was going on,” Goodale said Thursday.

“These questions were not appropriate. They were developed at the local level but they were immediately withdrawn, and the RCMP is now examining how this decision-making took place so they can make sure it does not take place in the future,” he said.

Goodale said any data collected as a result of the questions will be traced and expunged….

Toronto lawyer Clifford McCarten, who obtained a copy of the document after it was mistakenly handed to one of his clients, said it’s “entirely appropriate” for the Canada Border Services Agency to ask probing questions about criminality and whether border crossers are associated with extremist groups.

But, he said, “I’ve never seen someone asked how regularly they practise their religion, what their opinion on having a woman as a boss is, or their views of different religious coverings. And the reason I’ve never seen that is because it’s utterly irrelevant, from a legal point of view, to the refugee claims process.”…

Mitchell Goldberg, president of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, said the interview guide “smacks of a values test” like the one proposed by failed Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch.

“You expect the RCMP to be concerned about our security, about Canadians’ safety, not asking people questions about their religion and their politics,” he told CBC Montreal’s Daybreak.

“It’s the kind of thing we’d expect on the other side of the border, in the United States.”

Samer Majzoub, president of the Canadian Muslim Forum, said authorities shouldn’t be targeting asylum seekers because of their religious or cultural background.

“It was very shocking, honestly,” he said.

“One of the things that was really surprising was that it was many social questions, not so much security questions.”

A copy of the interview guide used by the RCMP on Roxham Road

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  1. mortimer says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 11:12 am

    Devout Muslims (15%) tend to support JIHADISTS. Secular Muslims (35%), lax Muslims, lapsed Muslims or non-observant Muslims (however you phrase it) are not likely to become jihadists, unless they suddenly INCREASE THEIR FAITH in Islam and their believe that warlord Mohammed is a suitable role model.

    It is curious that the Muslims who self declare as supporting Islamic terrorist groups (15%) is EXACTLY the same percentage (15%) as the pious Muslims who attend the mosque frequently!

    Think about that 15%. Coincidence?

    • Aaron says

      Oct 16, 2017 at 4:48 pm

      I have to Disagree because Mostly 95 percent of muslims supports Jihadism including secular muslims supports jihadism.

    • PaulM says

      Oct 16, 2017 at 9:54 pm

      Like that asshole Goodall said, It is irrelevant. Ya it sure is…right up until these islamist, fascist scumbags start killing, maiming, torturing, raping little girls just as the dictates of their sick, twisted religion and non existent god tells them to do. But then, just like any typical trudeau flunky and liberal thinker, one must not confuse them with the facts, their minds are already made up. For instance, heaven forbid that one of these lazy, overpaid, under worked asswipes in the trudeau government would ever pick up the koran and read it and find out the truth about this fascist bunch of thugs. There is not one publishing house in the western world (today) that would even remotely think about printing the piece of perverse, disgusting, violence, sex deviant promoting piece of vomitus that is the koran. And here is the Canadian government promoting, defending and condoning the aberrant filth that it commands its followers to spread.

  2. Benedict says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 11:51 am

    Refugees should be asked directly if they are Muslims and if so redirected to Saudi Arabia or other Muslim countries in order to best suit their sensibilities.

    • Jaxcy says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 9:40 am

      I find it very appropriate that all immigrants and refugees are asked such questions before being accepted into the country. This is one of the ways in which to improve our current vetting process and be able to distinguish between the moderates and the radicals( would be terrorists). And of course, there must be many more changes made and questions added to the vetting process. These refugees are wanting to come into our country, so we must ask these important questions and gather the much needed intel on each individual person in order to keep our country safe and secure. Its not asking too much but merely using common sense. I propose even adding a lie detector to the questioning and having a vetting officer assigned to each set or family of immigrants or refugees to follow them as to certain their true intentions for wanting to come and live in our country….

    • Jaxcy says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 9:40 am

      I find it very appropriate that all immigrants and refugees are asked such questions before being accepted into the country. This is one of the ways in which to improve our current vetting process and be able to distinguish between the moderates and the radicals( would be terrorists). And of course, there must be many more changes made and questions added to the vetting process. These refugees are wanting to come into our country, so we must ask these important questions and gather the much needed intel on each individual person in order to keep our country safe and secure. Its not asking too much but merely using common sense. I propose even adding a lie detector to the questioning and having a vetting officer assigned to each set or family of immigrants or refugees to follow them as to certain their true intentions for wanting to come and live in our country….

  3. Gary says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 12:24 pm

    They are coming into Canada illegally, we can ask them any Fing thing we want. They should not be coming here in the first place Muslum or not. Why is this so hard to understand, everyone goes on about these poor people that where BREAKING THE LAW in the US now they are breaking the law in Canada… One day we will all pay for this .

    • Bob says

      Oct 17, 2017 at 8:25 am

      Yes, Gary – the best and easiest way to get into the UK is on the back of a lorry, illegally – then you’ll be welcomed by the police and the politicos!

  4. I wonder about leftists says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 2:54 pm

    The people who did not speak up, should pay for this. I think something bigger is going on, I am getting that creepy feeling.. I think payments and money are getting payed for a bigger plan. Hope I am wrong.

  5. gravenimage says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 6:02 pm

    “Utterly irrelevant”: Canada expunges refugee questionnaire that asked about prayer habits, views on hijab
    …………………………

    *None* of this is irrelevant, but speaks directly to how seriously Muslims take their violent creed.

  6. abad says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 7:58 pm

    Did Islam convert Joshua Boyle administer the questionnaires?

    • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

      Oct 16, 2017 at 11:42 pm

      Boyle is a Canadian citizen, unfortunately. By all accounts he is not considered a convert. However, in his Pakistani TV interview he says that he will raise all his children as ‘good Muslims.’
      Boyle lives in a fantasy world where life is a role-playing game. I believe he actually thinks that he can enter the role of Mohammadin (adopt a persona and fake an accent) and then leave it to play another game!?!?!
      This guy, I believe, is very dangerous. Those who know him say he is very cunning and devious.

  7. Karen says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 10:14 pm

    “Samer Majzoub, president of the Canadian Muslim Forum, said authorities shouldn’t be targeting asylum seekers because of their religious or cultural background.

    “It was very shocking, honestly”, he said. ”

    LOL, give that man an Oscar.

  8. I wonder about leftists says

    Oct 17, 2017 at 3:34 am

    Trudeau and non of the leftists will ever pick up a koran and read it, because then you have to face it, and accordingly to their thinking: as long as you don’t reedit, you always have the excuse, I did not know it, and in this way, they “THINK” they always have an escape. But not so anymore.
    If you think that if you don’t read the Koran, that all those atrocities don’t exist, then you don’t deserve to be president of Canada, or any country, because you will only lead your country to a total downfall .
    So put your big EGO aside and leave the country to somebody who knows what he /she is doing.
    And there are not many to choose from, may we, the people get some wisdom too.

  9. Joe says

    Oct 17, 2017 at 7:35 am

    In OK City, the religion was irrelevant until he decapitated his co-worker. Why do people think that people become different when they come to work? Sure, some things can be compartmentalized, but religion is meant to be full time.

  10. J D S says

    Oct 17, 2017 at 6:06 pm

    QUESTIONNAIRE SHOULD ASK …DO YOU PRACTICE THE TEACHINGS IN THE KORAN AS STATED BY MUHAMMAD AND ISLAMIC SCHOLARS, WRITINGS ETC.

    QUESTIONNAIRE SHOULD CLOSE WITH THESE WORDS….
    IF YOU INVOLVE YOURSELF IN ANY JIHADISTS ACTIVITY
    YOU WILL IMMEDIATELY DEPORTED, JAILED OR TRIED IN COURT, ACCORDING TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES.

  11. Older Canadian says

    Oct 17, 2017 at 7:25 pm

    The RCMP duty is to protect Canada and its citizens from ALL harm.

    They have the knowledge, experience and wisdom to do so.

    Perhaps the RCMP wants to try to prevent a repeat of what happened in Edmonton a few weeks ago. Or in Windsor last week.

    Too bad our Federal Liberal government doesn’t agree.

  12. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Oct 17, 2017 at 10:15 pm

    Pretending that the global crime-gang called islam is a “race” of poor swarthy animal-people, oppressed by the mentally superior whites, in order to slander everyone who notices it’s a crime-gang as a hatefully bigoted “racist” – is to deliberately enable that crime-gang’s crimes by hiding and destroying the evidence of same, and thus to be a willing accessory to those crimes. Since islam is a murder-gang, and the penalty for committing and enabling the commission of murder is DEATH, anyone and everyone who calls an opponent of muslims, islam, and their global jihad, a “racist!” should be lawfully put to death.

    Everyone who defends islam and muslims endorses crime.
    Endorsing crime IS a crime, so those doing it are criminals.

    Right in the Qur’an is: the obligation to murder Jews and Christians (Surah 9:29), to terrorize all non-Muslims (8:12), to rape young girls (65:4), to enslave people for sex (4:3), to lie about one’s true goals (3:54), and the command to make war on all the infidels (9:123) and subjugate the entire world to Allah (9:33).

    Are death-threats legal? NO.
    Is extortion legal? NO.
    Is slavery legal? NO.
    Is murder legal? NO.
    Is rape legal? NO.

    THEN ISLAM IS ILLEGAL!

    Rape, slavery, robbery, extortion and murder are never OK!

    Everything muslims pretend to see as “holy” is already a crime!

    So nobody has a legal right to practice islam anywhere on earth!

    IN TRYING TO MAKE CRITICISM OF THE GLOBAL CRIME GANG CALLED “ISLAM” INTO A CRIME, TO PROTECT THAT CRIME GANG BY HIDING THE EVIDENCE OF ITS CRIMES, SUCH POLITICIANS ARE CRIMINALS AND TRAITORS TO RATIONALITY, CIVILIZATION, AND HUMANITY ITSELF.

    But hadn’t you heard?! Being angry at (“hateful” towards) criminals is now the most vile sin, while pitying (“tolerating”) them all as “fellow victims,” is to be deemed the highest moral virtue, these days!

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