Thats an extraordinarily generous interpretation of the word "newcomer". Somewhat reminiscent of the teenagers on Beverly Hills 90210!

individual: << I am a newcomer in the sense that I wasn't born here. i.e. a johnny come lately so far as building this nation is concerned. >>

Thanks for the explanation.

If you've been here for 30 years, I don't think anybody would regard you as a "newcomer". Indeed, if you've taken up citizenship then you're as Aussie as anybody. On the other hand, the fact that Nazeem Hussain was born here doesn't make him any more of an Aussie than you are.

In any case, Australia's nationhood is only a bit over 100 years old, and you've been here for nearly a third of that time. Indeed, many would argue that Australia's nationhood is still a work in progress, given that we still haven't to assert independence without reference to our colonial past.

Cj

'I wonder how keith reconciles his prejudice against an individual Muslim with his claim from a few years back to be tolerant and to support multiculturalism ? Multiculturalism and tolerance are good, so long as it doesn't include Muslims and Islam, I guess.'

There you go again. Aren't you indicative of an individual who stereotypes people and shows a closed mind by an inability to accept individuals are able to hold opinions some of which appear, according to your misguided intrepretation, in conflict and some in agreement with your own.

How sad I don't fit your simpleminded stereotyping. So it must be I either must have changed opinions or am compromising my beliefs, in your simple thoughtless way!

Fool it is simple really. I am not and never have been intolerant of Islam or Muslims. I am however intolerant of those aspects of Islam and of Muslim behaviour that are discriminatory.

Boy some people are just too thick and stuck in dogma to face changed times, circumstances and the dynamic nature of people and ideas!

That's why you are so negative and carpingly critical of real thinkers isn't it CJ? You just cannot fathom complexity can you?

Take note David Jennings ... for this is your future.

CJ,

I didn't see you decrying this woman as aprejudiced racist anywhere. Why not? She mirrors my opinion on Islam and some of it's intolerances. Have a read of this.

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8672

Please explain your inconsistancy.

lol you won't it's too confronting for you. You really have lost touch with todays world haven't you?

Keith having read the article that you claim is yours I came to the following conclusions: (i) either you have dramatically revised your view on multiculturalism, or (ii) you've gone and dug up an article by some poor person whose name also happens to be Keith or (iii) you've really got something against Nazeem. I did think it a bit strange that the grammar and expression in the articles by Kennelly was reasonably good whereas the grammar and expression in a number of your posts has been sub-standard. But I'll never know for sure. So it does not matter and I can grant you the benefit of the doubt. Either way its hard to take you seriously. As Cindi Lauper once said, "I can see your true colours shining through..." and its not pretty.

My future is perfectly fine. I like people regardless of their ethnic or cultural background and I judge people by what they say and do.

Poor old confused keith.

<< Aren't you indicative of an individual who stereotypes people >>

I haven't stereotyped anybody - rather, I've called you on doing precisely that when you attribute to Nazeem Hussain attitudes towards women, on the basis of his being a Muslim rather than anything he's said or done. Neither you nor I know what Hussain's ideas about women are, but that doesn't stop you writing ignorant rubbish like this:

<< Nazeem is Muslim Australian who does't share entirely our viewpoint on civil liberties for woman >>

How do you know this? Answer: you don't - rather, you assume that because Hussain is Muslim, then he must conform to the caricatured stereotype of a Muslim patriarch.

Interesting that you should point to one of Chris James' silly articles. Had you bothered to look at the comments thread you would have noticed that I criticised her Islamophobic dog-whistling. I note that you didn't comment on that article at all.

I hope you have a nice time in France. However, you should be warned that there are many more Muslims there than there are here.