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Well said....+1
Once again the misused term "racist" is rolled out by the ignorant to brand someone as a race hater when he is expressing a view about a religion. Since when are race and religion synonymous terms?
While most religions are poisonous, faith based nonsense they are not equal in terms of their threat to modern society. Islam has become the most dangerous religious dogma confronting civil society and rightly regarded as a threat.
As for Wilders, whatever his other political views may be, I find common ground with him on the issue of Islamism and its ultimate aims. When Wilders says things like "Islam is a fascist ideology and the prophet Mohammed a pedophile and murderer" and "Islam is totalitarianism ... Islam and freedom are incompatible," it my sound overly confrontational and intolerant but it's also inconveniently true. It's naive in the extreme to think of Islam as just another benign religious creed. Far from it.
Well said....+1
Once again the misused term "racist" is rolled out by the ignorant to brand someone as a race hater when he is expressing a view about a religion. Since when are race and religion synonymous terms?
While most religions are poisonous, faith based nonsense they are not equal in terms of their threat to modern society. Islam has become the most dangerous religious dogma confronting civil society and rightly regarded as a threat.
As for Wilders, whatever his other political views may be, I find common ground with him on the issue of Islamism and its ultimate aims. When Wilders says things like "Islam is a fascist ideology and the prophet Mohammed a pedophile and murderer" and "Islam is totalitarianism ... Islam and freedom are incompatible," it my sound overly confrontational and intolerant but it's also inconveniently true. It's naive in the extreme to think of Islam as just another benign religious creed. Far from it.
Ms Milne was questioned on this on "7.30" this evening and made it quite clear if the Coalition is elected to govern at the next election the Greens will work with them.No she said quite clearly that while she rejects Labor she wont support Abbott.
+4.Once again the misused term "racist" is rolled out by the ignorant to brand someone as a race hater when he is expressing a view about a religion. Since when are race and religion synonymous terms?
While most religions are poisonous, faith based nonsense they are not equal in terms of their threat to modern society. Islam has become the most dangerous religious dogma confronting civil society and rightly regarded as a threat.
As for Wilders, whatever his other political views may be, I find common ground with him on the issue of Islamism and its ultimate aims. When Wilders says things like "Islam is a fascist ideology and the prophet Mohammed a pedophile and murderer" and "Islam is totalitarianism ... Islam and freedom are incompatible," it my sound overly confrontational and intolerant but it's also inconveniently true. It's naive in the extreme to think of Islam as just another benign religious creed. Far from it.
Mr Kloppers will retire as chief executive and director on May 10, and will leave the group on October 1.
A female student was assaulted while sleeping in her in her Macquarie University accommodation.
A female student was assaulted while sleeping in her Macquarie University accommodation. Photo: Michel O'Sullivan
Police will question a group of up to 80 asylum seekers being temporarily housed at Macquarie University following the alleged indecent assault of a young student as she slept in her student accommodation in Sydney's north.
A NSW Police spokesman said the group of male asylum seekers, believed to be from Sri Lanka, would be questioned along with other people staying on campus when an intruder broke into the 20-year-old woman's room in Marsfield and assaulted her early on Thursday morning.
Police said the woman was woken about 3.20am by a man who was indecently assaulting her in her room. The man fled from her room when she began screaming.
Detectives set up a crime scene at the student accommodation on Thursday and forensic police examined the student's room.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sex-assau...-questioned-20130222-2evgl.html#ixzz2LaQFkDj5
A Senate inquiry has rejected the Federal Government's plans to prohibit conduct that offends or insults, saying the move could limit freedom of expression.
The draft includes a clause stating that unfavourable treatment of another person includes conduct that offends, insults or intimidates.
But the Senate inquiry, which received more than 3,000 submissions, has recommended the clause be removed altogether.
The inquiry says the clause may have unintended consequences, including making it illegal to offend someone.
The Federal Government is not making any promises about agreeing to any of the recommendations.
A SELF-styled Muslim cleric accused of sending offensive letters to the families of slain Australian soldiers has lost a High Court bid to have the charges against him quashed.
Man Haron Monis, also known as Sheik Haron, was charged in 2011 with 12 counts of using a postal service in a way that a reasonable person would consider menacing, harassing or offensive.
He allegedly sent letters - and in one case a recorded message - to the relatives of several diggers killed in action in Afghanistan and the mother of an Austrade official killed in the bombing of a hotel in Indonesia. His co-accused, Amirah Droudis faces eight counts of aiding an abetting Mr Monis.
The letters allegedly began by offering condolences to the families, before launching into an "intemperate and extravagant" criticism if Australia's involvement in Afghanistan. They also allegedly insulted the dead soldiers.
Medical history made with first 'functional cure' of unnamed two-year-old born with the virus but now needing no medication
Doctors in the US have made medical history by effectively curing a child born with HIV, the first time such a case has been documented.
The infant, who is now two and a half, needs no medication for HIV, has a normal life expectancy and is highly unlikely to be infectious to others, doctors believe.
Though medical staff and scientists are unclear why the treatment was effective, the surprise success has raised hopes that the therapy might ultimately help doctors eradicate the virus among newborns.
Child born with HIV cured by US doctors
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/03/us-doctors-cure-child-born-hiv
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