I just cannot see forcing a woman to reveal a part of her body she is not comfortable revealing as

[True Dough]

106. Canada is a bastion of multiculturalism

One in five people in my country is an immigrant and a whole lot more Canadian citizens are second generation Canadians. We have "Chinatowns" in several major cities, and "little Italy," and enclaves of Filipinos and Indians, and on and on. We have all of those people mixing and interacting, and they retain many aspects of their native cultures, and yet Canada is not going to collapse.

We're pretty damn liberal about welcoming and accepting people's cultures and adopting bits and pieces of them ourselves. Hell, sometimes we have days devoted to foreign cultures and celebrate the immigrants among us. Sometimes we hold parades in their honor.

That doesn't mean we "bend over" (to borrow your crude phrase) for anything and everything. If you come to Canada believing in Sharia law and figure you can beat your wife because she disobeys you, well, you're in for a rude awakening. Our laws don't permit that and there will be charges when you're found out. Same applies when an American gun owner crosses the border packing heat. You think you can conceal or open carry here? No chance, Jack!

So we're drawing arbitrary lines in these situations. We're picking and choosing what is acceptable and what's not. There's bound to be disagreement and debate. To me, having some women lying around on a beach wearing a "burkini" isn't worth bringing down a sledgehammer. How is it doing any harm to anyone else? Who gives a $% how much they decide to cover up their bodies while enjoying the sand, water and sunshine with their families? I don't think a "burkini" is progressive at all, but if a woman isn't being forced to wear it by her husband and she has a strong belief that her modesty is paramount, then that should be her choice.

Now where I would draw the line is if a group of Muslim beach-goers started insisting that everyone else at the beach must also cover their bodies, then I would say "Get bent!"