I consider myself a fairly liberal individual.   I believe in equality for everyone and equal rights for women and homosexuals.   I don't want any religion to have any say with respect to any laws of Canada ever.   I simply don't see Islam agreeing with any of my core beliefs I listed above.   

Let's be honest.   If this was a group of fundamentalist white Christian males from the deep south insisting through intimidation and violence that their women wear niqabs, and that it was OK to kill gays because that's what God demands, and that death is the only suitable punishment for leaving the church, the same liberal elites would be up in arms to have every last one of them deported.  But because they are brown people from the middle east they get a pass because "it's their culture".  Enough already.   It's time that liberals fight for what they are supposed to be all about.