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Reclaiming citizenship : Comments
By David Leyonhjelm, published 11/5/2015However, the protestors make a dreadful mistake in viewing all Muslims as a group, represented either by violent Islamists or the conservative 'community leaders' that governments and the media persist in treating as spokesmen.
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Fiddlesticks! They were coerced, made an offer they couldn't refused: pay up or no export to Muslim countries. Plain extortion.
Consumers certainly did not volunteer to pay more for essential items to add to Muslim coffers! And they the cannot "choose" what to buy, because there is very little this 'certification' does not cover.
It has nothing to do with Islam, incidentally, but with shonks who might or might not be genuine, practising Muslims. Many in the Muslim heirachy have condemned it.
The halal religious tax, making a few people millionaires, can not be "so easily dismissed" as the Senator states. That is a decison for the people, not politicians.
As halal certification has nothing to do with Islam itself, I will not comment on the Senator's other observations, which should be left for another discussion; save to say that the old one about Muslims living here since the 1800's is irrelevant. Those people were isolated from the current global mania. However, has the senator forgotten the murder of Australian train passengers during WW1 by two Turkish Muslims?
Having made my criticisms, I should say that I think that Senator Leyonjhelm is the only sane member of the Senate on most matters. His opinion of the divisive apartheid-like proposal of Constitutional recognition of aborigines can can be read in The Australian today.