I agree - I'm tolerant of almost all cultures and people and various beliefs... so long as it means we can still live in peace and harmony. But muslim extremist are a different breed. This is the 21st century, they've missed the "extreme religion" boat by several hundred years. I'm ok with the laid back muslims, but i honestly don't like the burqa/hijab at all. I find it really really unsettling to be on a train or whatever with someone in a full hijab. Then you hear stories that men are robbing stores dressed in the hijab, so people think they are women... that freaks me right out. Is it france where they managed to get it fully outlawed? can we do that here, cos i don't dig it at all. Same as I don't dig the whole wearing a beanie then pulling your hoodie over the top, like all the white-boy homie wannabes do. Wish THAT would also fall out of fashion, cos it's a hideous look, and creepy as hell.
In all honesty, I'm not at all comfortable with being called "racist" because I'm upset that my friends got bombed in Bali. Or that people i know in America had to go through hell when the Twin Towers were attacked. I don't think i'm racist, i'm one of the most tolerant people i know. But i cannot be tolerant of a cult that condones wholesale homicide to promote their narrow (and can i add 'faulty') beliefs.
Perhaps Islam is the new communism... the people we love to hate. I don't know, but if my kids ever come home and tell me that they are learning that I'm racist because I don't like Osama Bin Laden, then i will be marching down to their school to lay a few home truths down.
I'll be the first to admit that catholics burned and slaughtered numerous "infidels" in their time. But that time has passed. This is 2010. The time for religious war is over. Islam is outdated, and if you read their texts, they are the racists, not "the west", as they call us. And the author of that article is right - most of what comprises our 'culture' is what made this country the sort of place people want to move to in the first place. I for one don't want that to be threatened, this is an awesome place to live.
Anyway, that was meant to be my 2c but it's sort of more like my 40c, so sorry for going on, but i'm appalled that i can be called "racist" by a cult that on several occasions has tried to kill innocent friends of mine for no reason at all.
God, not just another Islamphobic thread. Just waiting for the customary "If they don't like it, they can leave" comment.
(No. I am not Islamic)
That's catholics, muslims, jews, so far, so it seems there is a link between religion and fanatical groups intent on world domination, strange that !!!!!
Its Collingwood supporters that get my goat
Eddie McGuire is stealthily taking over the world (or at least Channel 9 ... he's everywhere!)
Its Collingwood supporters that get my goat
Eddie McGuire is stealthily taking over the world (or at least Channel 9 ... he's everywhere!)
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
Steven Weinberg
It beggers beyond beleif why we have to tolerate outsiders who continuously attempt to force their ideology on people of opposite beliefs.
It beggers beyond beleif why we have to tolerate outsiders who continuously attempt to force their ideology on people of opposite beliefs.
It would be a wonderful world to live in if only we could be left alone to our own devices.
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Could you perhaps give some examples of how you've experienced these outsiders attempting to force their beliefs on you, Noco?It beggers beyond beleif why we have to tolerate outsiders who continuously attempt to force their ideology on people of opposite beliefs.
With respect, I believe we are, with the considerable exception of the interference in our lives of our politicians and their determination to turn Australia into the archetypal nanny state.It would be a wonderful world to live in if only we could be left alone to our own devices.
Proof of migration of Muslims to Western World countries.
Scary stuff to say the least. A must watch FOR ALL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU
An anti-Islam politician in The Netherlands is forming an international alliance to spread his message in a bid to ban Islamic immigration.
Geert Wilders said yesterday he would launch the movement this year in the US, Canada, Britain, France and Germany. " 'Stop Islam, defend freedom' is a message that's not only important for The Netherlands but for the whole free Western world," he said at the Dutch parliament.
From a social psychology point of view, is there evidence of persuasion or propaganda to join the extremist wing of the religion? This clipping from a few years ago.Islam in the west poses as a cringing, oppressed minority when in fact it is a major world power whose true believers want to set the clock back to the dark ages. Certainly it is not monolithic but when push comes to Jihad you had better start cultivating your beard, covering your women and supplicating yourself towards Mecca.
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