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Dec 1st, 2025 at 11:53am
 
What is the difference between British and Australian national and cultural identity
and how can non-Anglo-Saxon Australians integrate into it?

Please explain
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athos wrote on Dec 1st, 2025 at 11:53am:
What is the difference between British and Australian national and cultural identity
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athos wrote on Dec 1st, 2025 at 11:53am:
What is the difference between British and Australian national and cultural identity
and how can non-Anglo-Saxon Australians integrate into it?

Please explain
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Integrate into what Australian national and cultural identity to be exact?

The Media one?
The African portal of Aboriginalism?
The Yellow race's Sporting one? Fair 'Dinkum'.

Hell, dare I say, the Slavic one that emerges here because it dies in Europe?
As for British? Well, don't Western Europeans reclaim North America.

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athos wrote on Dec 1st, 2025 at 11:53am:
What is the difference between British and Australian national and cultural identity
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Why come to Australia if you have no idea about it?

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You can probably educate those of us who are not from Australia

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capitosinora wrote on Dec 1st, 2025 at 12:45pm:
athos wrote on Dec 1st, 2025 at 11:53am:
What is the difference between British and Australian national and cultural identity
and how can non-Anglo-Saxon Australians integrate into it?

Please explain
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Take Capitosonora here.
His America, got rid of its British political influence in what it calls Independence.
But it became 'dependent' on the mainland Euro political influence of Germany, France, Italy, Greece - basically the 'old style' Westernism that points into the past back to Rome & Athens.
How do you think that's going for them? Cheesy
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athos wrote on Dec 1st, 2025 at 11:53am:
What is the difference between British and Australian national and cultural identity
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Phuk off CCP shill & take that other CCP shill Capitosinora with you.
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athos wrote on Dec 1st, 2025 at 11:53am:
What is the difference between British and Australian national and cultural identity
and how can non-Anglo-Saxon Australians integrate into it?

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It's mostly about the different histories. Non-anglos can integrate into the Australian identity much easier, given that most of it revolves around immigration. I expect Australia's is also far more fluid than the British, to the extent it barely exists. It's more about values than identity. Other than a few interesting local quirks, they are fairly universal.
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Modern Britain.
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Come on Athos. So you just pop in just once a year for one post only show at $500 a ticket?

What is Australian?
Is it some place in the future where people walk around Uluru like a pilgrimage, like Moslems around the Stone of Mecca?
Or is it, the technological advancements of being able to live underwater because land is too black to live on?
Is it living 'down under' USA & GB/UK up there in the penthouse northern hemisphere?
Or living a 'day ahead' of them both at the back of the line, back there at the 'End of the World's mentality and scenario? The Last to know what's really going on in this world.
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freediver wrote on Dec 3rd, 2025 at 8:53am:
athos wrote on Dec 1st, 2025 at 11:53am:

What is the difference between British and Australian national and cultural identity
and how can non-Anglo-Saxon Australians integrate into it?


Please explain

Thank you
Smiley



It's mostly about the different histories.

Non-anglos can integrate into the Australian identity much easier, given that most of it revolves around immigration.

I expect Australia's is also far more fluid than the British, to the extent it barely exists.


It's more about values than identity.



Other than a few interesting local quirks, they are fairly universal.



freediver,

Nah.

Not really.

Today Australia is a nation of the WORLD.

Today Australia is a MULTICULTURAL nation,
and here in Australia, we have all embraced MULTICULTURAL values.

Just ask Albo.

Not so ?




"Australian national and cultural identity"


Australia is NOT an Anglo nation,
and Australia has NOT retained 'Anglo' values.

For some decades now,
Australia has been, a Multicultural ISLAMIC nation....

Not so ?



-------- ?



"most Australians practise Muslim values"

- Dr Ameer Ali


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Yadda said....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1516142236/2#2
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Australia is Muslim nation, Ali says


October 8, 2006 - 6:49PM

Australia is a Muslim nation, the head of Prime Minister John Howard's Muslim advisory board says.

Dr Ameer Ali says most Australians practise Muslim values but the Muslim community is being alienated and disadvantaged by Islamophobia.

Dr Ali said multiculturalism was Australia's destiny but Muslims, as latecomers, were being disadvantaged.

"We would like to remain in this country as citizens like anybody else, but with cultural individuality preserved," he said.

....Before addressing a conference on national identity on Sunday, Dr Ali said Muslim values were practised in Australia.

"When I go abroad, they ask me where do I come from?

I say I come from a Muslim country," he said.

"Which country, they say. Australia.

"That's not a Muslim country.         Yes it's Muslim country.


>>>>>>>
"For the values that my religion preaches, these people practise.

<<<<<<<


"So I see Islam here but (the people) may not be Muslims, but in (other) countries I see Muslims but not Islam.

"....when I come back to Australia, I've been told to respect Australian values and now I am confused, because I see no contradiction at all.



"Values are universal. Human values - there is no such thing as Australian values."




"The description projected by the article in The Australian totally misrepresents the noble character of the Holy Prophet who was sent as a model to humanity.



http://www.theage.com.au/news/NATIONAL/Australia-is-Muslim-nation-Ali-says/2006/...
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Reply #11 - Dec 4th, 2025 at 7:30am
 

Dear Yadda,
many blessings.

Your posts are so long that I doubt anyone reads them -

make them short and punchy.

forgiven

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Bobby. wrote on Dec 4th, 2025 at 7:30am:

Dear Yadda,
many blessings.

Your posts are so long that I doubt anyone reads them -

make them short and punchy.

forgiven

namaste






Hi bobby,

Quote:

Back in 2006....
....the head of Prime Minister John Howard's Muslim advisory board said,
Australia is a Muslim nation



.......just doesn't fulfill my need to 'express' bobby.

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Reply #13 - Dec 4th, 2025 at 2:41pm
 
I read your  posts  Yadda and appreciate the often but not always different opinions you have to my own.
It never hurts to review my own opinions when they are challenged meaningfully.

Sometimes I can ( just) hold my attention longer than a goldfish.

Bobby is another matter…..🤣
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I don’t care about Australians who are living in poverty or their businesses have gone bankrupt or those working hard and still struggling to survive.

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Daves2017 wrote on Dec 4th, 2025 at 2:41pm:

I read your  posts  Yadda and appreciate the often but not always different opinions you have to my own.
It never hurts to review my own opinions when they are challenged meaningfully.

Sometimes I can ( just) hold my attention longer than a goldfish.

Bobby is another matter…..🤣



Grin


Daves2017,

Cheers.



Re bobby's opinion about the extent of my posts....

It is what it is.

'.....off a ducks back.'



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What is the difference between British and Australian national and cultural identity
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'UK chinese takeaway is a different thing to Australia chinese takeaway. You get more clear broth style things in UK, much less soy sauce & bbq sauce is used. British culture is Chinese curry sauce & chips'.  President Xi imports tons of Chiko rolls which are hard-baked as roller-bearings under ship containers.
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athos wrote on Dec 1st, 2025 at 11:53am:
What is the difference between British and Australian national and cultural identity
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What is Russian cultural identity?

Dostoyevsky or Femen? Alcoholism or the gulags? Stalin or Putin?

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His speech opens with......

"All cultures are NOT equal......"


[@04.05...he condemns Marxism, Nazism, and ISLAMISM]


Protect Australian Culture:
Immigrant's Powerful Warning


05 min
Dec 2, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBlbjsoI_wg





READ THE YT PAGE COMMENTS !




Australian and British culture [respect it, OR hate it...],
emerged from a society of men,
respecting the   CHARACTER   of the Jewish/Christian God,
a character which is revealed within the Jewish and Christian scriptures.


TODAY.....
Many societies in this world seem to be choosing to take a deadly path,
of not scrutinising the truth or virtue [or falseness thereof],
of many new ideals which are being presented to them.

e.g.
"ISLAM is a religion of Peace."

and.....
"Followers of ISLAM are a virtuous people."


Loss of true virtue, loss of respect for truth [and loss of righteous behaviour],
will happen when we refuse to scrutinise the cultural values which are being proffered to us,
by those who embrace a new and 'different' culture,
and when we choose to tolerate ['episodes' of] deceit, and violence.

e.g.
"ISLAM is a religion of Peace."

No, ISLAM is NOT a truthful or virtuous philosophy, imo.

e.g.
Instruction from the prophet of ALLAH,
in the hadith....


"...the Prophet said,
'If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion,
kill him."

- DEAD.
hadithsunnah/bukhari/ #004.052.260


.


"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."
- Thomas Mann


"Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good."
- Charles J. Chaput


.


John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way,
the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Q.
But, where is the 'proof', of Jesus virtue ?

A.
What values did Jesus tell all men,
to embrace and [seek to] adhere to ?


Matthew 19:17
[Jesus said].....if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
18  He saith unto him, Which?
Jesus said,
Thou shalt do no murder,
Thou shalt not commit adultery,
Thou shalt not steal,
Thou shalt not bear false witness,
19  Honour thy father and thy mother: and,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.


Quote:

KJV
Blessed are the undefiled in the way,
who walk in the law of the LORD.





Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14  For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.


'For this is [how we show, that] we love [of] God.....'

1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments:
and his commandments are not grievous.



Love God.

Love God's righteousness.

Be at peace.




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1866 marks the arrival of the first commercial importation, funded by Thomas Elder of Beltana Station in South Australia, of 32 cameleers and 121 camels. The camels were purchased in camel markets in the Scinde and Rajasthan, and Kandahar in Afghanistan. The cameleers, contracted in the Scinde, Rajasthan and Afghanistan, were predominantly of Afghan descent and Moslem. Elder imported more Afghan cameleers and camels in 1884 and in 1893 to be used in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. In the 1880s to 1910s Afghan camel merchants were travelling back to India and Afghanistan to purchase and import more camels and cameleers to work in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. By the 1890s there were estimated to be about 1,000 Afghan cameleers in Western Australia and by 1901 3,000 overall in Australia. Australia has about 20 days of truck fuel reserves and camels are efficient during China's blockade.
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chimera wrote on Dec 5th, 2025 at 5:10am:
1866 marks the arrival of the first commercial importation, funded by Thomas Elder of Beltana Station in South Australia, of 32 cameleers and 121 camels. The camels were purchased in camel markets in the Scinde and Rajasthan, and Kandahar in Afghanistan. The cameleers, contracted in the Scinde, Rajasthan and Afghanistan, were predominantly of Afghan descent and Moslem. Elder imported more Afghan cameleers and camels in 1884 and in 1893 to be used in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. In the 1880s to 1910s Afghan camel merchants were travelling back to India and Afghanistan to purchase and import more camels and cameleers to work in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. By the 1890s there were estimated to be about 1,000 Afghan cameleers in Western Australia and by 1901 3,000 overall in Australia. Australia has about 20 days of truck fuel reserves and camels are efficient during China's blockade.



Your point is??

They were not Islamists.
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I replied to Yadda who commented on 'Islam' the religion.
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chimera wrote on Dec 6th, 2025 at 9:12am:
I replied to Yadda who commented on 'Islam' the religion.


And your point in referring to Indian & Afghan cameleers was?


And what do you think has caused the changes in Iran & Afghanistan?

The Happy Clappers form Hillsong?  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes
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'The Ghan is an iconic Australian passenger train that travels approximately 2,979 km across the center of the country, connecting Adelaide to Darwin. Named after the Afghan cameleers who helped pioneer the inland routes',.
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chimera wrote on Dec 6th, 2025 at 10:03am:
'The Ghan is an iconic Australian passenger train that travels approximately 2,979 km across the center of the country, connecting Adelaide to Darwin. Named after the Afghan cameleers who helped pioneer the inland routes',.



So? .... everyone knows that you dickhead.
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No  you don't
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It's a strange story but UK has been invading Afghanistan since 1838. There was never any justification including the recent invasion (and defeat).  The nonsense continues with Australian David Hicks being arrested for attacking the US by sitting at Kabul airport. Gnads thinks Islamists in Afghanistan are Australian people.
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chimera wrote on Dec 6th, 2025 at 10:03am:
'The Ghan is an iconic Australian passenger train that travels approximately 2,979 km across the center of the country, connecting Adelaide to Darwin. Named after the Afghan cameleers who helped pioneer the inland routes',.

A businessman accused of being "well entrenched" in Sydney's underworld allegedly lied about his earnings to secure a multi-million-dollar home loan, a court has heard.

Ali Jundi, 35, was one of nine people arrested by Taskforce Falcon in an operation targeting associates of the "Afghan crew" this week.

Police believe the "Afghan crew" are a new organised crime network who are offering to commit acts of public violence for large sums of money.

Vibrant Afghans helpin' and pioneerin'.
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chimera wrote on Dec 6th, 2025 at 7:30pm:
No  you don't


Really? 46 years as a Railway man says different Noddy.

And when I was a primary school in the 60's we did subjects that covered Australian history & geography.

That subject matter was included in those subjects. DH.
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'there was recent news (April 2025) about an Afghan man, Aqel Nazir, claiming to be 140 years old'.
Aqel, a proud member of the Cameleer tribe gave a Welcome to Camel Country. He has been lodging dodgy home-loans since 1885, running Camel cigarettes down the Afghan Highway and terrorising the Alice Springs happy-clappy evangelical synagogue.
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chimera wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 9:14am:
It's a strange story but UK has been invading Afghanistan since 1838. There was never any justification including the recent invasion (and defeat).  The nonsense continues with Australian David Hicks being arrested for attacking the US by sitting at Kabul airport. Gnads thinks Islamists in Afghanistan are Australian people.


You have an warped imagination, tantamount to telling lies.

I don't think any such thing you moron.

I made it clear to you that the Afghan & Indian cameleers in Australia were not Islamists... they were Muslims only.

You were the one who bought them up --
I asked you what your point was... so far you've failed to show what your point was.

Do you actually know what an Islamist is?

Quote:
An Islamist is a supporter of Islamism, a range of political and religious ideologies that believe Islam should guide political and social life. Islamists advocate for the implementation of Islamic principles, often in the form of a specific interpretation of Sharia law, to create an "Islamic state" and achieve a more "Islamic" society. While some movements are non-violent and focus on political and social reform, others are militant and promote violence and a rejection of Western influence.

The country of Afghanistan today under the TALIBAN is an example of a radical Islamist state.


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chimera wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 9:56am:
'there was recent news (April 2025) about an Afghan man, Aqel Nazir, claiming to be 140 years old'.
Aqel, a proud member of the Cameleer tribe gave a Welcome to Camel Country. He has been lodging dodgy home-loans since 1885, running Camel cigarettes down the Afghan Highway and terrorising the Alice Springs happy-clappy evangelical synagogue.


Do you write fiction for a living?
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Why do you bring Islamism into this?
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Why do you bring Islamism into this?



Because it's a threat to western democracies like ours.

The UK is a perfect example.

Are you that thick?
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chimera wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 10:04am:
Why do you bring Islamism into this?



Because it's a threat to western democracies like ours.

The UK is a perfect example.

Are you that thick?


How many of his/her posts have you read.
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They were not Islamists.

So 'Islam' is not 'Islamist'. Yadda wrote about 'Islam'. Why are you now conflating them?
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Frank wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 9:35am:
Police believe the "Afghan crew" are a new organised crime network who are offering to commit acts of public violence for large sums of money.

Vibrant Afghans helpin' and pioneerin'.

Why are you conflating 'Afghans' with 'the Afghan crew'?
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All Muslims are, by definition, Islamists.
Like all followers of the Buddha are Buddhists, or like believers in Christ are Chistians.

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chimera wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 11:53am:
Frank wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 9:35am:
Police believe the "Afghan crew" are a new organised crime network who are offering to commit acts of public violence for large sums of money.

Vibrant Afghans helpin' and pioneerin'.

Why are you conflating 'Afghans' with 'the Afghan crew'?

No. I am noticing it.

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Frank wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 11:54am:
All Muslims are, by definition, Islamists.
Like all followers of the Buddha are Buddhists, or like believers in Christ are Chistians.



Hi, Frank.  This is not quite right.   An Islamist is more like a Christian Fundamentalist or Christian nationalist.    I do not think there is equivalent of these in Buddhist, due to its basic teaching.
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Frank wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 11:54am:
All Muslims are, by definition, Islamists.


All the definitions and commentaries say you are wrong. Muslims are 'Islamic'.
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Frank wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 11:55am:
chimera wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 11:53am:
Why are you conflating 'Afghans' with 'the Afghan crew'?

No. I am noticing it.


The 'Afghan crew' are pioneers like the cameleers? South Australian Lutheran Germans are like German Nazis?  Bob Menzies has links with  the British men hanged in Australia for murder?
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chimera wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 12:34pm:
Frank wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 11:55am:
chimera wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 11:53am:
Why are you conflating 'Afghans' with 'the Afghan crew'?

No. I am noticing it.


The 'Afghan crew' are pioneers like the cameleers? South Australian Lutheran Germans are like German Nazis?  Bob Menzies has links with  the British men hanged in Australia for murder?



You are confused, I'm not sure whether on purpose or because of genuine ignorance/naivety.

Islam is an ideology, not an ethnicity or race.  You can join it or you can leave it.
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You are confused, I'm not sure whether on purpose or because of genuine ignorance/naivety.

Islam is an ideology, not an ethnicity or race.  You can join it or you can leave it.


What confusion are you trying to identify?
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Islam is an ideology, not an ethnicity or race.  You can join it or you can leave it.


Islamic law (Sharia) and many contemporary scholars treat apostasy as a serious crime, often punishable by death.
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That's irrelevant to the issue. Like Frank's comments are.
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Frank wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 12:46pm:
Islam is an ideology, not an ethnicity or race.  You can join it or you can leave it.


Islamic law (Sharia) and many contemporary scholars treat apostasy as a serious crime, often punishable by death.


If only Sharia was irrelevant world would be better place.
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Frank wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 12:46pm:
Islam is an ideology, not an ethnicity or race.  You can join it or you can leave it.


Islamic law (Sharia) and many contemporary scholars treat apostasy as a serious crime, often punishable by death.

We are not (yet) under Islamic sharia law.
Nor should we make any concessions to it. It is a pre-medieval code.
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Cameleers were not Islamist. No-one suggests the 'Afghan crew' are. Frank is not Islamic/ Islamist/relevant.
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Cameleers were not Islamist. No-one suggests the 'Afghan crew' are. Frank is not Islamic/ Islamist/relevant.
carry on.



If you submit to Islam, you are an Islamist. All practising, believing Muslims are Islamists.
Non-believers are apostates.

There is no pick and choose when it comes to the final, unalterable, eternal word of Allah as revealed to Mohammed.  It is a total ideology, a totalitarian ideology. There is no demarcation or separation between the political or spiritual, religious or worldly in Islam.
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Islamophobia strikes again.  Tsk, tsk, tsk... Roll Eyes Roll Eyes
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If you submit to Islam, you are an Islamist. All practising, believing Muslims are Islamists.


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Australian culture is about welcoming all comers, regardless of race, religion or skin colour.
Frank refuses to integrate. Frank thinks those that refuse to integrate should be deported. Frank should be deported.



Islam is not a race and has no skin colour.

Nor is it a mere religion. No religion is a mere religion, they ard ALL complete guides to life, including politics.
Other religions, like Christianity, have managed to work out the difference between the spiritual and the worldly, the piety from the politics. Islam expressly refuses such a separation of God and Caesar.
Islam is NOT like Anglicanism in the 21st century. Islam is like Christianity in the Dark Ages. Islam is of the Dark Ages. Others have moved on, evolved. Mohamed painted Islam and all its adherents into a corner of 7th century barbarism, superstition and there is no way out of it for Islam - unalterable, final, eternal.

You are in - you are an Islamist - or you are out- an apostates to be punished, even killed.


All you stupid multiculti ignorant idiots are naive tourists in the misery that is Islam.



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(hey Frank

Frank

google Muslim conversions
go on)
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(hey Frank

Frank

google Muslim conversions
go on)


You are an ignorant tourist in Islam, even in the world. You don't understand, you do not want to understand.

No Muslim ever makes a distinction between a Muslim and an Islamist. That distinction, entirely artificial, is the work of Western political manipulators.

You are a Mohammedan ( islamist, Islamic, Muslim, Islamic, islamowhatever) or an infidel.

There are no shades, just as there are no jokes in Islam.



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I don't think you are 7, more like 6 years.
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Indonesians see the difference. The state and most people resist Islamists and Islamists have been jailed. Other religions are free in the constitution and in reality and there is no Sharia Law as a state obligation.

In Oz and UK, religion defines the monarch as being anointed by God as 'Defender of the Faith'. The Archbishop has state precedence above the prime minister.  That goes beyond the Indonesian secular state.
https://www.premierchristianity.com/news-analysis/explainer-the-anointing-of-king-charles-iii-and-why-it-matters/15072.article

In Timor, the government has a concordat with the Vatican, which is beyond the Indonesian government's independence from Islam.
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Frank wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 6:18pm:
John Smith wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 5:57pm:
Australian culture is about welcoming all comers, regardless of race, religion or skin colour.
Frank refuses to integrate. Frank thinks those that refuse to integrate should be deported. Frank should be deported.



Islam is not a race and has no skin colour.




I didn't mention Islam you dumbarse. And it's not just muslims you have a problem with.
For refusing to integrate you should do what you demand the govt do to others who refuse to integrate and deport yourself.
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Frank refuses to integrate. Frank thinks those that refuse to integrate should be deported. Frank should be deported.



So proud to live in a country that has been so wonderfully infused by so many different cultures. All the best bits.

The worst is soon chipped away.

And so we excel in so many ways.

Multicultural Australia is the Australia i am proud of.
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Multiculturalism is "deculturalism".
People hot for multiculturalism have nothing positive to say about their own country, Australia, other than that it lets in all other cultures. Otherwise they have only negative things to say about Australia' culture and history: that it is racist, sexist, oppressive, simplistic, derivative, shameful, etc.
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Where do you read that?
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Where do you read that?

Here, every day from all the multiculti cadres.

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Nah they're talking about Frank, not Australia.
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Gnads wrote on Dec 6th, 2025 at 8:48am:
They were not Islamists.

So 'Islam' is not 'Islamist'. Yadda wrote about 'Islam'. Why are you now conflating them?


I gave you the definition of Islamism/Islamist you moron.
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chimera wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 12:29pm:
Frank wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 11:54am:
All Muslims are, by definition, Islamists.


All the definitions and commentaries say you are wrong. Muslims are 'Islamic'.


Yes - Islamic .... not Islamists.

Once again for you dickhead.

Quote:
A Muslim is a follower of Islam for spiritual reasons, while an Islamist is a political activist who seeks to implement Islam as a governing system,
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Gnads wrote on Dec 6th, 2025 at 9:53am:
chimera wrote on Dec 6th, 2025 at 9:12am:
I replied to Yadda who commented on 'Islam' the religion.


And your point in referring to Indian & Afghan cameleers was?


And what do you think has caused the changes in Iran & Afghanistan?

The Happy Clappers form Hillsong?  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

You connect cameleers with changes in Afghanistan. Why?
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Frank wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 11:55am:
chimera wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 11:53am:
Why are you conflating 'Afghans' with 'the Afghan crew'?

No. I am noticing it.


The 'Afghan crew' are pioneers like the cameleers? South Australian Lutheran Germans are like German Nazis?  Bob Menzies has links with  the British men hanged in Australia for murder?


You're a screw loose.
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I don't think you are 7, more like 6 years.


That's a tad rich coming from you & they way you carry on.
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So Afghan cameleers are linked both to criminals in Sydney and Islamist Iran?
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mothra wrote on Dec 8th, 2025 at 7:15am:
John Smith wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 5:57pm:
Australian culture is about welcoming all comers, regardless of race, religion or skin colour.
Frank refuses to integrate. Frank thinks those that refuse to integrate should be deported. Frank should be deported.



So proud to live in a country that has been so wonderfully infused by so many different cultures. All the best bits.

The worst is soon chipped away.


And so we excel in so many ways.

Multicultural Australia is the Australia i am proud of.


In your dreams it has.
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chimera wrote on Dec 8th, 2025 at 12:53pm:
Gnads wrote on Dec 6th, 2025 at 9:53am:
chimera wrote on Dec 6th, 2025 at 9:12am:
I replied to Yadda who commented on 'Islam' the religion.


And your point in referring to Indian & Afghan cameleers was?


And what do you think has caused the changes in Iran & Afghanistan?

The Happy Clappers form Hillsong?  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

You connect cameleers with changes in Afghanistan. Why?


Your warped interpretation.

There is not a connection between cameleers & radical Islamic fundementalists in Afghanistan albeit they are of the same religion.

You bought them up trying to prove a point - a point that you never had because you couldn't explain it.

You keep asking the same questions after you repost quotes that have already been responded to.

You're a still dickhead.
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So Afghan cameleers are linked both to criminals in Sydney and Islamist Iran?


Quit while you're ahead - a dick head.
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So why ask:
'And your point in referring to Indian & Afghan cameleers was?
And what do you think has caused the changes in Iran & Afghanistan?'
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Gnads wrote on Dec 8th, 2025 at 12:58pm:
mothra wrote on Dec 8th, 2025 at 7:15am:
John Smith wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 5:57pm:
Australian culture is about welcoming all comers, regardless of race, religion or skin colour.
Frank refuses to integrate. Frank thinks those that refuse to integrate should be deported. Frank should be deported.



So proud to live in a country that has been so wonderfully infused by so many different cultures. All the best bits.

The worst is soon chipped away.


And so we excel in so many ways.

Multicultural Australia is the Australia i am proud of.


In your dreams it has.


don't worry, you won't be here much longer  Roll Eyes
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mothra wrote on Dec 8th, 2025 at 7:15am:
John Smith wrote on Dec 7th, 2025 at 5:57pm:
Australian culture is about welcoming all comers, regardless of race, religion or skin colour.
Frank refuses to integrate. Frank thinks those that refuse to integrate should be deported. Frank should be deported.



So proud to live in a country that has been so wonderfully infused by so many different cultures. All the best bits.

The worst is soon chipped away.

And so we excel in so many ways.

Multicultural Australia is the Australia i am proud of.


If you can think of ANY positive improvement that Islam brings to the West generallh or Australia in particular, let us know what it is.
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Probably it shows that Christian nations have colonised every one of the Muslim countries. In contrast, Islam rarely colonises the West.  And it has good cameleers, ask the Commonwealth Railways.
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Probably it shows that Christian nations have colonised every one of the Muslim countries. In contrast, Islam rarely colonises the West.  And it has good cameleers, ask the Commonwealth Railways.

Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy


You are an ignorant fool.  Can you read maps? Can you read, come to think of it.

Christian Roman Empire.
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Ottoman Empire

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Reply #79 - Dec 8th, 2025 at 6:24pm
 
Yes, 'rarely'. You underlined it, see?
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Reply #80 - Dec 8th, 2025 at 7:19pm
 
chimera wrote on Dec 8th, 2025 at 6:24pm:
Yes, 'rarely'. You underlined it, see?

Conquering the entire Roman Empire.

England rarely conquered Australia, NZ, India, North America, parts of Africa, the Middle East, Ireland, Wales, Scotland,

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Reply #81 - Dec 8th, 2025 at 8:35pm
 
The West is not Africa and Middle East. Ottomans took the Balkans, Bulgaria and Greece. That's all they had in Europe.
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Reply #82 - Dec 8th, 2025 at 8:47pm
 
Scotland had Nova Scotia. Norway had Greenland. Denmark in Iceland. Holland in Java and South Africa. Belgium in Congo. France in America, SE Asia, Pacific, Africa, Lebanon, Sudan, Egypt. Spain had Americas, Africa, Philippines. Portugal of Americas, Java, India. Italy in Africa. Germany had Africa, New Guinea. England had a few, probably easier to say where it had no colony.
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Reply #83 - Dec 8th, 2025 at 9:03pm
 
chimera wrote on Dec 8th, 2025 at 8:47pm:
Scotland had Nova Scotia. Norway had Greenland. Denmark in Iceland. Holland in Java and South Africa. Belgium in Congo. France in America, SE Asia, Pacific, Africa, Lebanon, Sudan, Egypt. Spain had Americas, Africa, Philippines. Portugal of Americas, Java, India. Italy in Africa. Germany had Africa, New Guinea. England had a few, probably easier to say where it had no colony.

Spreading civilisation to the backward part of the world.

No good?

Western colonialism improved every corner of the world, especially British colonialism.

Islamic colonisation degraded every part it touched.

This is obvious to even the most cursory observation. The West improves, Islam degrades.

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Reply #84 - Dec 8th, 2025 at 9:18pm
 
Frank wrote on Dec 8th, 2025 at 7:19pm:
chimera wrote on Dec 8th, 2025 at 6:24pm:
Yes, 'rarely'. You underlined it, see?

Conquering the entire Roman Empire.

England rarely conquered Australia, NZ, India, North America, parts of Africa, the Middle East, Ireland, Wales, Scotland,



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Frank wrote on Dec 8th, 2025 at 9:03pm:
The West improves, Islam degrades.


I'm not keen on Islam but the facts are:
'Moorish civilization in Spain (Al-Andalus) was a prosperous Islamic culture that ruled much of the Iberian Peninsula from 711 to 1492, bringing major advancements in science, math, medicine, arts, and architecture, flourishing with universities, libraries, and sophisticated cities like Cordoba, leaving a lasting legacy on Spanish language, culture, and European knowledge. These North African Muslims (Moors) established a sophisticated society where Muslims, Jews, and Christians coexisted for centuries, introducing new crops, advanced irrigation, paper, and Arabic numerals before their eventual expulsion by Catholic monarchs.
Education & Science: Flourishing centers of learning with universities (e.g., in Cordoba, Granada, Seville), vast libraries, and advancements in astronomy, medicine (experimentation, surgery), mathematics (Arabic numerals), and philosophy.
Architecture: Renowned for masterpieces like the Alhambra in Granada, intricate irrigation systems, public baths (hammams), and sophisticated urban planning with streetlights and paved roads in cities.
Agriculture & Technology: Introduced new crops (oranges, lemons, peaches, sugar cane) and technologies, including paper, to Europe.
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Spain then became Catholic and invaded Britain. It destroyed Canary Islands culture then the Sth American cultures and enslaved them, stealing their gold and silver.


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Reply #86 - Yesterday at 5:53am
 
Frank wrote on Dec 8th, 2025 at 7:19pm:
England rarely conquered Australia,

Muslims had two colonising powers which never reached beyond south Europe. Europe had about twelve which colonised all Muslim states.  'Rare' means two against twelve.
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Here we go:
'Ottoman culture had a sophisticated legal and administrative system and architectural achievements, including the Hagia Sophia. The culture also developed rich traditions in calligraphy, textiles, and ceramics.
Religious communities like Orthodox Christians and Jews had a degree of autonomy. Public spaces were central to social life, with coffeehouses acting as hubs for men and bathhouses serving as the primary public venues for women to socialize and discuss public affairs.
The Ottomans made significant advancements in science, mathematics, and medicine. They developed sophisticated systems for education, law, and administration, with major developments occurring in calligraphy and military science.

Concepts of hospitality were strong, reflected in institutions like public drinking fountains and soup kitchens. Ottoman culture influenced Western art, which admired the beauty of balance and detail found in Ottoman art.'

British destroyed Indian common-land which gave some income to any needy Indians. They tied Indians to cannon mouths after the Mutiny and fired. A famine was intentionally caused in Bengal in the 1940s.
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Reply #88 - Yesterday at 9:34am
 
Here is a plot of human social development in the west vs China:

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https://www.ozpolitic.com/articles/heavy-legacies-our-past.html

This is based on several different metrics of social and economic development. The peak around 2000 years ago in the west was the Roman Republic/Empire. The low point was Islam - it didn't cause it, but it locked it in. Western civilisation did not reach similar levels of development to the Romans until well into the industrial revolution. This happened in the judeo-christian fringe of western civilisation, which had been largely taken over by Islam. To this day, Islam is still causing the middle east and north africa to be one of the most backwards and oppressive places on earth. Quite a turnaround for the place that for almost all of human history was the most advanced civilisation on earth.
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athos wrote on Dec 1st, 2025 at 11:53am:
What is the difference between British and Australian national and cultural identity
and how can non-Anglo-Saxon Australians integrate into it?

Please explain
Thank you
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Reply #90 - Yesterday at 11:01am
 
freediver wrote Yesterday at 9:34am:
This happened in the judeo-christian fringe of western civilisation, which had been largely taken over by Islam.

Israel didn't exist after the Romans smashed it. Europe persecuted the Jews. Ottomans didn't enter Europe until 1453, 200 years after Renaissance started, and only held the South east fringe (not in Rome, not in Britain).

'Muslim Spain acted as a crucial bridge, preserving and advancing Greco-Roman knowledge, which directly fueled the European Renaissance through scientific, mathematical, philosophical, and artistic contributions that later spread to the rest of Europe, establishing advanced schools, libraries, and a culture of intellectual exchange before its fall'.
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chimera wrote Yesterday at 11:01am:
freediver wrote Yesterday at 9:34am:
This happened in the judeo-christian fringe of western civilisation, which had been largely taken over by Islam.

Israel didn't exist after the Romans smashed it. Europe persecuted the Jews. Ottomans didn't enter Europe until 1453, 200 years after Renaissance started, and only held the South east fringe (not in Rome, not in Britain).

'Muslim Spain acted as a crucial bridge, preserving and advancing Greco-Roman knowledge, which directly fueled the European Renaissance through scientific, mathematical, philosophical, and artistic contributions that later spread to the rest of Europe, establishing advanced schools, libraries, and a culture of intellectual exchange before its fall'.



This is largely nonsense propagated by Muslims.

The translations, for example, were done by the conquered Jews and Christians who learned Arabic.
The conquering Arabs did not learn Greek or Latin.
The Muslims expelled from Spain did not go to Europe. The Jews did, mainly to Italy and Holland.
The great impetus for the Renaissance was the influx of fleeing Byzantines in the 15th century. They had all the Greek and Latin books.
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Europeans went to Spain because Muslims had texts translated, which were then available.
'Medieval Spain had Islamic centers of learning, like the Madrasa of Granada and in Toledo and Córdoba, which functioned as universities, fostering advanced studies in science, philosophy, medicine, and mathematics, attracting European scholars and transferring vast knowledge to the Latin West through translations, influencing early European universities like Salamanca.'

Western Europe was barbaric by contrast, in the 8th-10th centuries.
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Reply #93 - Yesterday at 2:07pm
 
Since 10th century changes in Islam involve the rise of political Islam/Islamism, the global spread of Salafism, the rise of transnational jihadism (catalyzing global networks like Al-Qaeda and Islamic State).
West Europe went well for awhile to Renaissance after Dark Ages but fell to pit of self destructive WOKE ideology.
Hopefully both Islam and WOKE won't become cultural identity of Australia.
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Australia has around 1.2 million camels across 37% of mainland Australia. These can easily breed enough for each family to survive AGW, bushfires and live in low-rental tents.
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chimera wrote Yesterday at 11:53am:
Europeans went to Spain because Muslims had texts translated, which were then available.
'Medieval Spain had Islamic centers of learning, like the Madrasa of Granada and in Toledo and Córdoba, which functioned as universities, fostering advanced studies in science, philosophy, medicine, and mathematics, attracting European scholars and transferring vast knowledge to the Latin West through translations, influencing early European universities like Salamanca.'

Western Europe was barbaric by contrast, in the 8th-10th centuries.



The Renaissance, Humanism, Scientific Revolution had nothing to do with Islam.
Petrarch, Boccaccio, Dante had nothing to do with the moors, nor Copernicus, Galileo or Bacon, nor Raphael, Leonardo or Bramante.
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Reply #96 - Yesterday at 4:37pm
 
Correct. However Islam brought positive improvement in knowledge when French and Germans were battling pagans and Vikings were pillaging Britain.

'Knowledge is divided into religious sciences (Uloom al-Diyan) and worldly sciences (Uloom al-Abdan), with both being essential and encouraged. University of al-Qarawiyyin in Morocco of 859, is the world's first degree-awarding institution and oldest continuously operating higher educational institution, starting as a mosque and evolving into a state university in 1963'.
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