Hi, im reading this for an religions course, can someone please explain the meaning?

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If we can agree that religion - especially as it is expressed alongside or within ethnic terms - is a major feature of many of the challenges facing principally immigrant-receiving countries such as Canada, we need to ask ourselves if as a society we are capable of responding meaningfully to this ancient and yet modern force.
 
First of all, "we" cannot agree on any one religion as being capable of being 100 percent respected in this world.

There are so many religions, and human beings are divided, in violent terms, about which religion is entitled to be respected, much less left alone to exist in peace.

So that alone tells you that your question is seriously flawed.

Religion whether expressed in ethnic, modern, or any form is still designed to polarize adherents and demonize or exclude those who do not adhere.

Short answer, I don't think there's a good answer to the question.
 
that statement makes many unproven assumptions/assertions. canada is immigrant-receiving? What about california? Canada is nothing!!
 
Considering that it's speaking about immigration, I would assume the topic is the negative sides (challenges) faced by a country that advocates diversity.

While we can sit back and laud the virtues of "multiculturalism", the hard fact remains that with diversity comes cultural conflict. The question is asking if we, as a nation, are capable of dealing with these issues.
 
Essentially, how can a country deal with the religious differences of immigrants, especially if they come into conflict with the major religion(s) of the host country.

As one example, is America (which is 82% Christian) effectively work out differences between Christians and Muslims, whom a number of Americans blame for all of terrorism...even though the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful and there are some Christian terrorist organizations (like the KKK). The point here is, Christianity and Islam are at odds in America, at least for the moment, can the government and society as a whole find ways to diffuse those problems and maintain peace between these two groups?



Other examples include France's recent decision to ban burqas (the veils that some Muslim women wear), how Ireland has dealt and continues to deal with the Protestant/Catholic divide (which has often been very violent and full of terrorism itself), Communist countries and how they deal with religion in their respective countries when Communism is by its very nature anti-religion, etc.



For the question you ask, mostly it is talking about how a government of one country deals with the differences between religions of the native peoples vs. that of immigrants.
 
If we can agree that religion....

We can't

The question suffers from a premise failure that is trying to spin the discussion
 
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