Merc,
Quote:I'm sorry, that screen name and avatar are just deceptive.
You know what they say... never judge a book by it's cover.
Quote:So now I know that you're not derived from a majority Muslim country.. you're just a traitor
Are JW's or Seventh Day Adventists traitors? Because they may have left their Anglican religion and embraced a new religion? Anyway Australia doesn't have a state-sanctioned religion, so I haven't even left the state-sanctioned religion to be a Muslim. It's quite ironic that those who claim to be defending Australia's Australianness are actually trying to curb a fellow Australian's freedom of religion (An act which is the epitome of un-Australian).
Quote:the same with the multiculturalists that have allowed droves of Muslims into our borders in the first place.
Well my Islamicness came into the country in the form of books and videos and other learning materials. If you consider them to be things that should be prevented from entering the country then again, I think you'd be taking a pretty un-Australian stance. Gonna start book-burning are we? Lest any more Aussies read about Islam and embrace it?
Muslims have been in Australia since the earliest days of the European settlement and even before. Muslims were some of the pioneers who built this country (that's why the "Ghan" train is named after them), and your attempt to palm us off as recent arrivals who've spoiled Australia just highlights your lack of awareness about Australia's history.
Quote:His biggest problem, however, is that the kind of Britain that would turn its nose down at such terrible behavior (and not in the feigned, obligatory "tsk tsk" contemporary way that aging baby boomer dickheads indulge in) would have.. ostracized him completely by now.
I agree with you on this observation, but I think it's quite a contradiction from that sector of society. Even groups like Family First, here in Australia, have much more in common with Muslims than probably any other sector of Australia, yet they're fairly anti-Muslim. This can only really be attributed to xenophobia. We share the same views about alcohol and the problems it causes society, about the centrality of the family, about instilling morals into the next generation and many other common views, yet it seems they simply can't accept Muslims because of the perception we are "foreign".