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Adam Zivo: Tolerance of Islamism in Canada threatens LGBT rights 

The hostility many immigrants feel towards LGBT people is neither an abstract nor trivial problem

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The greatest threat to LGBT rights in the West is not the “far right,” as some claim, but rather Islamism and insufficient emphasis on shared values. Yet, many progressives, including “queer” activists, refuse to acknowledge this reality and are inadvertently throwing gender and sexual minorities under the bus.

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It should be intuitively obvious that when large numbers of immigrants arrive from largely homophobic countries, without being pressured to adopt Canadian values, they will often retain their homeland’s backwards prejudices. This is especially true if they live within ethnic ghettos that allow them to maintain parallel societies and resist integration.

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There is ample data substantiating this hypothesis throughout the West, with Canadian research going as far back as the mid 2000s. However, studies into immigrant and Muslim homophobia largely dried up after 2020, when it became increasingly taboo to raise these kinds of social critiques.

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