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This is crazy.
Exactly. I'm pretty fed up that we are allowed to criticise Christianity no end but for some reason Islam remains some sort of protected species. And we need to be tolerant.
This is crazy.
Exactly. I'm pretty fed up that we are allowed to criticise Christianity no end but for some reason Islam remains some sort of protected species. And we need to be tolerant.
I was just about to post the same picture.Shish....way to go mum....
I was just about to post the same picture.
I am gobsmacked at this behaviour.
Muslims should be very embarrassed.
They're not the least bit embarrassed they're deadly serious.
We need to enact a law that prevents violent or exrtremist people coming here , building numbers and then trying to change the way our society works.
To protest in such a way about an ally of Australia is treason, they need to be removed from our midst.
Better yet...just withdraw all funding to these countries. The US should put it towards its debt rather than helping those who want to burn their flag.
I just heard that Muslims want the filmmakers punished by the US for making the film. What would the punishment be exactly?
No political party will touch on this issue, it's too much of a hot potato...
I hope the majority would be embarrassed, at least.They're not the least bit embarrassed they're deadly serious.
+1. As others have pointed out, the level of tolerance for this extraordinary behaviour only applies to Muslims.Great. Just what we need. A bunch of misguided idiots running around saying anyone who doesn't agree with their pre-Cupernican view of the world should be beheaded.
This is a secular society, if they don't like it, leave.
We need to stop this in a smart fashion. Multiculturalism worked with some cultures. I'm vexed.How on earth has it come to this?
Modernity requires the willingness to be offended. And as anti-American violence across the Middle East and beyond shows, that willingness is something the Arab world, the heartland of Islam, still lacks.
Time and again in recent years, as the outside world has battered the walls of Muslim lands and as Muslims have left their places of birth in search of greater opportunities in the Western world, modernity ”” with its sometimes distasteful but ultimately benign criticism of Islam ”” has sparked fatal protests. To understand why violence keeps erupting and to seek to prevent it, we must discern what fuels this sense of grievance.
If Islam’s rise was spectacular, its fall was swift and unsparing. This is the world that the great historian Bernard Lewis explored in his 2002 book “What Went Wrong?” The blessing of God, seen at work in the ascent of the Muslims, now appeared to desert them. The ruling caliphate, with its base in Baghdad, was torn asunder by a Mongol invasion in the 13th century. Soldiers of fortune from the Turkic Steppes sacked cities and left a legacy of military seizures of power that is still the bane of the Arabs. Little remained of their philosophy and literature, and after the Ottoman Turks overran Arab countries to their south in the 16th century, the Arabs seemed to exit history; they were now subjects of others.
I hope the majority would be embarrassed, at least.
Those protesting, and injuring our police trying to maintain our laws, should be made accountable.
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