Andrew Scheer followed in Stephen Harper's footsteps. Harper tried to win the last election by vilifying muslims and the wearing of the hijab. Andrew Scheer's focus on this story underlines his alignment Harper and with christian fundamentalists in the US. 

While I'm not a Catholic, I appreciated the recent critique of American 'evangelical fundamentalism' in La Civilita Cattolica. Take special note of the cringe-worthy photograph of fundamentalists 'laying hands' on Donald Trump in the oval office.

Mr. Khadr was radicalized by his father and involved in a fire fight at the age of 15. During that fire fight he 'allegedly' killed an American soldier and wounded another. I say 'allegedly' because his confession was obtained under torture. However, even if he was responsible for the death of a US soldier, he was at the time merely 15 years old and a combatant. Since when has it been appropriate to incarcerate and torture combatants who were captured in battle?  Isn't that a war crime?

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