Stratos wrote on May 25
th, 2014 at 8:53am:
freediver wrote on May 25
th, 2014 at 8:32am:
There is plenty of evidence.
That Muslims are over-represented in Australia's prisons?haven't seen any, yet this has been claimed by both Soren and Moses with zero evidence.
Speaking of which:
Soren, Moses: do you have any evidence or did you just make up lies?
Stratos,
It is 'racist' to conduct surveys in a population, to collect data, if the aim of collecting data is to specifically confirm your prejudices.

It is even UNLAWFUL in many Western nations, for border guards at airports to openly target people from 'specific' cultural groups, which have been identified as being more likely to be members of a 'tiny minority of extremists'!
It is apparent that any regime [any government and its agencies] which has a pre-conceived social agenda, and are [irrationally!] actively trying to promote 'social harmony' among
disparate and
fragmented and
'incompatible' cultural groups, ....will always seek to avoid collecting the form of data that would confirm the 'prejudices' of 'racists' [i.e. of any group, who argue against the irrational and un-natural cultural policies of a governing authority].
INFORMATION;
Google;
muslims over represented in prison, ukMoslems, over represented in prisons ?
But so are aboriginals, in Australian prisons, you say!
Yes.
It is true.
But maybe the reason [in both cultural groups], is that there is an actual predilection for and towards LAWBREAKING, within those two cultural groups ???
Are poverty, discrimination - 'legitimate' excuses for LAWBREAKING ?Poverty and/or discrimination are no excuse for LAWBREAKING
,
especially in a country like Australia -
where injustices that are exposed, are often soon remedied.
And i would argue, that there does not, 'have to be', any ['legitimate'] correlation, between poverty and rates of LAWLESSNESS, in any group of people.
Making the claim that the people of 'your' culture are disproportionately involved in LAWLESSNESS,
specifically because, you are living in poerty, is not a logical reason it is not a logical nor a
reasonable excuse for [such] LAWLESSNESS, imo.
e.g.
Human history and the history of human society, demonstrates to us that, whether in wealth or in poverty, a group of persons living together can still easily be law-abiding - if that predilection -
to being law-abiding - is something which their culture promotes
and values.