Saturday, 4 March 2017
Dr. Leitch is the only candidate
for the leadership of the Conservative party who is demanding that potential
Muslim immigrants be submitted to an in-depth interview about their religious
beliefs, cultural practices etc. to determine their suitability for and their
commitment to integrate into the Canadian society and espouse Canadian values.
So far, all her fellow candidates have shunned her proposal and the newspapers
and others, including the political correct establishment, have been hostile to
her, as well as to her proposal on a number of grounds.
Personally, not being familiar
with the Immigration Department’s current system and criteria of determining
eligibility to be granted immigrant status, I am unable to determine whether
she is asking for something entirely new or something drastically at variance
with the existing system or something simply off-the wall.
Personally, I would have thought
that in the ordinary course of business, the immigration officers determine the
personal suitability and commitment to integrate into the Canadian society of
all applicants and not simply those of any particular race, religion or
ethnicity.
They certainly did, when we went
through the process, I suspect in part, even back in the 1950’s and 60’s the immigration officers did not seem to think much of immigrants from the
Middle-East, and in our case from Turkey.
Be that as it may, I recently
came across that part of the questionnaire used by the German state
Baden-Wurttemberg dated 2005, addressed to Muslim applicants which is an
official document intended for citizenship.
Here is the material part of the
questionnaire:
Islamic doctrine:
1. May Muslims
reinterpret the Koran in light of changes in modern times?
2. May Muslims
convert out of Islam, either to join another faith or to be without religion?
3. May banks charge
reasonable interest (say 3 percent over inflation) on money?
4. Is taqiya
(dissimulation in the name of Islam) legitimate?
Islamic pluralism:
5. May Muslims pick
and choose which Islamic regulations to abide by (e.g., drink alcohol but avoid
pork)?
6. Is takfir
(declaring a Muslim to be an infidel) acceptable?
7. [Asked of Sunnis
only:] Are Sufis, Ibadis, and Shi'ites Muslims?
8. Are Muslims who
disagree with your practice of Islam infidels (kuffar)?
The state and Islam:
9. What do you think
of disestablishing religion, that is, separating mosque and state?
10. When Islamic
customs conflict with secular laws (e.g., covering the face for female drivers'
license pictures), which gets priority?
11. Should the state
compel prayer?
12. Should the state
ban food consumption during Ramadan and penalize transgressors?
13. Should the state
punish Muslims who eat pork, drink alcohol, and gamble?
14. Should the state
punish adultery?
15. How about
homosexuality?
16. Do you favor a
mutawwa' (religious police) as exist in Saudi Arabia?
17. Should the state
enforce the criminal punishments of the Shari'a?
18. Should the state
be lenient when someone is killed for the sake of family honor?
19. Should
governments forbid Muslims from leaving Islam?
Marriage and divorce:
20. Does a husband
have the right to hit his wife if she is disobedient?
21. Is it a good idea
for men to shut their wives and daughters at home?
22. Do parents have
the right to determine whom their children marry?
23. How would you
react if a daughter married a non-Muslim man?
24. Is polygyny
acceptable?
25. Should a husband
have to get a first wife's approval to marry a second wife? A third? A fourth?
26. Should a wife
have equal rights with her husband to initiate a divorce?
27. In the case of
divorce, does a wife have rights to child custody?
Female rights:
28. Should Muslim
women have equal rights with men (for example, in inheritance shares or court
testimony)?
29. Does a woman have
the right to dress as she pleases, including showing her hair, arms and legs,
so long as her genitalia and breasts are covered?
30. May Muslim women
come and go or travel as they please?
31. Do Muslim women
have a right to work outside the home or must the wali approve of this??
32. May Muslim women
marry non-Muslim men?
33. Should males and
females be separated in schools, at work, and socially?
34. Should certain
professions be reserved for men or women only? If so, which ones?
35. Do you accept
women occupying high governmental offices?
36. In an emergency,
would you let yourself be treated by or operated on by a doctor of the opposite
gender?
Sexual activity:
37. Does a husband
have the right to force his wife to have sex?
38. Is female
circumcision part of the Islamic religion?
39. Is stoning a
justified punishment for adultery?
40. Do members of a
family have the right to kill a woman if they believe she has dishonored them?
41. How would you
respond to a child of yours who declares him- or herself a homosexual?
Schools:
42. Should your child
learn the history of non-Muslims?
43. Should students
be taught that Shari'a is a personal code or that governmental law must be
based on it?
44. May your daughter
take part in the sports activities, especially swimming lessons, offered by her
school?
45. Would you permit
your child to take part in school trips, including overnight ones?
46. What would you do
if a daughter insisted on going to university?
Criticism of Muslims:
47. Did Islam spread
only through peaceful means?
48. Do you accept the
legitimacy of scholarly inquiry into the origins of Islam, even if it casts
doubt on the received history?
49. Do you accept
that Muslims were responsible for the 9/11 attacks?
50. Is the Islamic
State/ISIS/ISIL/Daesh Islamic in nature?
Fighting Islamism:
51. Do you accept
enhanced security measures to fight Islamism, even if this might mean extra
scrutiny of yourself (for example, at airline security)?
52. When institutions
credibly accused of funding jihad are shut down, is this a symptom of
anti-Muslim bias?
53. Should Muslims
living in the West cooperate with law enforcement?
54. Should they join
the military?
55. Is the "war
on terror" a war on Islam?
Non-Muslims (in
general):
56. Do all humans,
regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religious beliefs,
deserve equal rights?
57. Should
non-Muslims enjoy completely equal civil rights with Muslims?
58. Do you accept the
validity of other monotheistic religions?
59. Of polytheistic
religions (such as Hinduism)?
60. Are Muslims
superior to non-Muslims?
61. Should
non-Muslims be subject to Islamic law?
62. Do Muslims have
anything to learn from non-Muslims?
63. Can non-Muslims
go to paradise?
64. Do you welcome
non-Muslims to your house and go to their residences?
Non-Muslims (in Dar
al-Islam):
65. May Muslims
compel "Peoples of the Book" (i.e., Jews and Christians) to pay extra
taxes?
66. May other monotheists
build and operate institutions of their faith in Muslim-majority countries?
67. How about
polytheists?
68. Should the Saudi
government maintain the historic ban on non-Muslims in Mecca and Medina?
69. Should it allow
churches to be built for Christian expatriates?
70. Should it stop
requiring that all its subjects be Muslim?
Non-Muslims (in Dar
al-Harb):
71. Should Muslims
fight Jews and Christians until these "feel themselves subdued"
(Koran 9:29).
72. Is the
enslavement of non-Muslims acceptable?
73. Is it acceptable
to arrest individuals who curse the prophet of Islam or burn the Koran?
74. If the state does
not act against such deeds, may individual Muslims act?
75. Can one live a
fully Muslim life in a country with a mostly non-Muslim government?
76. Should a Muslim
accept a legitimate majority non-Muslim government and its laws or work to make
Islam supreme?
77. Can a majority
non-Muslim government unreservedly win your allegiance?
78. Should Muslims
who burn churches or vandalize synagogues be punished?
79. Do you support
jihad to spread Islam?
Violence:
80. Do you endorse
corporal punishments (mutilation, dismemberment, crucifixion) of criminals?
81. Is beheading an
acceptable form of punishment?
82. Is jihad, meaning
warfare to expand Muslim rule, acceptable in today's world?
83. What does it mean
when Muslims yell "Allahu Akbar" as they attack?
84. Do you condemn
violent organizations such as Boko Haram, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, the
Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, Shabaab, and the Taliban?
Western countries:
85. Are non-Islamic
institutions immoral and decadent or can they be moral and virtuous?
86. Do you agree with
studies that show non-Muslim countries such as New Zealand to be better living
up to the ideals of Islam than Muslim-majority countries?
87. Is Western-style
freedom an accomplishment or a form of moral corruption? Why?
88. Do you accept
that Western countries are majority-Christian or do you seek to transform them
into majority-Muslim countries?
89. Do you accept
living in Western countries that are secular or do you seek to have Islamic law
rule them?
90. What do you think
of Shari'a-police patrolling Muslim-majority neighborhoods in Western countries
to enforce Islamic morals?
91. Would you like to
see the U.S. Constitution (or its equivalents in other countries) replaced by
the Koran?
This interview:
92. In an immigration
interview like this, if deceiving the questioner helps Islam, would lying be
justified?
93. Why should I
trust that you have answered these questions truthfully?
Observations
about the Interviews [by Pipes]
Beyond
helping to decide whom to allow into the country, these questions can also help
in other contexts as well, for example in police interrogations or interviews
for sensitive employment positions. (The list of Islamists who have penetrated Western security services is a long and painful one.)
Note
the absence of questions about highly charged current issues. That is because
Islamist views overlap with non-Islamist outlooks; plenty of non-Islamists
agree with Islamists on these topics.
The
interviewing protocol outlined above is extensive, asking many specific
questions over a substantial period using different formulations, probing for
truth and inconsistencies. It is not quick, easy, or cheap, but requires case
officers knowledgeable about the persons being interviewed, the societies they
come from, and the Islamic religion; they are somewhat like a police questioner
who knows both the accused person and the crime. This is not a casual process.
There are no shortcuts.
Argument
against the process: Too burdensome: True, the procedure is expensive, slow,
and requires skilled practitioners. But this also has the benefit of slowing a
process that many, myself included, consider out of control, with too many immigrants entering the country too quickly. Immigrants numbered 5 percent of
the population in 1965, 14 percent in 2015, and are projected to make up 18
percent in 2065. This is far too large a number to assimilate into the values
of the United States, especially when so many come from outside the West; the
mechanism offers a way to the benefit of slowing a process that many…, consider
out of control, with too many immigrants entering the country too quickly. Some
would argue that this sort of inquiry and screening for visa purposes is
unlawful; Finally, today's moderate Muslim could become tomorrow's raging
Islamist; or his infant daughter might two decades later become a jihadi. While
any immigrant can turn hostile, such changes happen far more often among born
Muslims. There is no way to guarantee this from happening but extensive
research and interrogations reduce the odds.”
***
A
number of other countries also require residents/resident immigrants who apply
for
citizenship to go through an assessment to determine their
eligibility/suitability
to become citizens, based on their behaviour
patterns
in the years leading to the application, as for example is the case in
Spain,
although I am not sure whether the interview includes the kind of
detailed
questionnaire as the one produced above
One
thing for sure, we now know the answer to the question in the heading: No,
Definitely
she is definitely not. Clearly, she belongs to the school of Canadians who
don’t
hesitate to keep asking: Whose country is this anyway? And who won’t take for
an
answer, the inane question: We are all immigrants, are we not?
See: Daniel Pipes, Smoking Out Islamists via Extreme Vetting, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2017 www.meforum.org/6505/smoking-out-islamists-via-extreme-vetting
See: Daniel Pipes, Smoking Out Islamists via Extreme Vetting, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2017 www.meforum.org/6505/smoking-out-islamists-via-extreme-vetting
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