Brian Ross wrote on Oct 24
th, 2018 at 5:41pm:
Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Oct 24
th, 2018 at 3:29pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Oct 24
th, 2018 at 2:46pm:
So, Graps, let me put a question to you. If you were a Muslim in Australia, how would you view the way many in Australian society treat you? Would you characterise it as "victimise" or "oppress"? How about "hatred"?
I have yet to see a Muslim ill-treated here ... I cannot vouch for their personal feelings of inferiority or uncertainty over living in a new nation... or their difficulty in assimilating fully... when you herd yourselves into ghettoes and self-isolate, you have yourself to blame for ongoing concerns over your inability to be fully a part of a nation/society/culture, and when a few members from your ghetto groups do and say awful things.....
Where is this tsunami of ill-treatment of Muslims, other than in the press and online discussion - and bear in mind that discussion per se of pertinent issues is not ill-treatment or abuse. Speech and freedom of discussion should not be curtailed simply to cater to the fears of a small group who may consider it harmful.
This ill-treatment is in their own minds primarily.
If I were a Muslim, and the thinking person that I am, I would be wondering what all the fuss is about... and why greater efforts were not being made to be a full contributing part of this society... but that's me, and I would, as an individual, be no more bound by rigid Islamic religious control that I currently am by rigid Christian religious control = Not At All.
Of course - that might cause a fatwah against me....
So, you would blame it all on the Muslims, Graps?
You appear unable or unwilling to walk a mile in their shoes. Blame the victim? Yes, that always work, now doesn't it.
Tell me, do you blame the Jews for the Holocaust? The Indigenous Australians for the Stolen Generations and the Genocide of the Tasmanian Indigenous peoples?
Afterall you have to be fair about this "blaming the victim" card, now don't you, Graps?
How did this move to 'all Muslims'? I refer to specific situations... self-created in the main..... if that keffiyah/burkah fits, wear it....
I had distant relatives die in the European Holocaust.... my great-great grandparents on one side were Jews from Hamburg - no person of that name survived in Hamburg by 1945.
Now - what has history got to do with the current situation of Muslims? The most I've seen is one woman on a train or bus abusing a Muslim for wearing a head-scarf or something... that's just on the media... if Muslims were oppressed that Muslim woman would not have even been on the train or bus... I've also seen camera footage on the news of women and men abusing bus drivers... more than of Muslims wearing head-gear...
I think you are exaggerating for some mysterious reason of your own - what is YOUR source of information? I've asked countless times how, when, where and why Muslims are oppressed and victimised here today in Australia... it has not yet surfaced...
HOW are they 'victims' here in this nation that anyone might be blaming for their 'plight'? Be specific.
I've stated times many, without contradiction, that Muslims as citizens can vote, can stand for and be elected to public office, attend a house of learning, teach, enter any profession, assemble freely with whomever they choose, practice their religion freely, receive protection of the law, can move freely around this nation without restrictions, are not subject to arbitrary arrest and incarceration, are not considered enemies of the State fit only for labour or extermination (etc), can marry the person of their choice (if permitted to do so).....
The Jews had NONE of those rights and privileges under Nazism...
Kindly do not equate the position of Islamites currently in this nation with that of the Jews in Europe under the Nazi regime... or any Aboriginal group of the past....
As for the Aboriginals - that also is past.. nobody has purged Aborigines from society for many decades now.. Aborigines given the chance marry Whites - look at Johnathon Thurston and Sam Thiday - the blonde gorgie wife and kids... and those who wish to avail themselves of it have the opportunity for free tertiary education, unlike mainstream Australia.
In all the affected groups you discuss - their main problems stem from themselves and their own attitudes and behaviours.... not from mainstream Australia, which, put simply, does not one thing to them.
Maybe they need to get on board with mainstream Australia.... for every one of them that has missed out on an opportunity, there are ten mainstream Australians or more.... for every incident of abuse hurled from a car at a Muslim, there are ten hurled at whites from cars by passing Muslims.... get ye down to Bankistan and see for yourself.
I don't like sandals - they chafe my feet.....