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By Melati Lum, published 4/3/2010One thing terrorists have achieved hands down is they have made it harder to be freely Muslim in today’s world.
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Posted by bushbred, Thursday, 4 March 2010 6:52:24 PM
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Brushbred,China is on the rise with the aid of Russia.The West has reaped what it has sewn.This is the start of our great depression with the international banksters creating cyber money to prop up their ponzy schemes.
The real terrorists are in our midst.They have created the climate that has destroyed production,increased debt,created derivatives that have no value and now want war as a distraction from their criminal behaviour.The really nasty twist is they can create war to make more profit,since these banks like the US Federal Reserve finance the US Govt who buy arms for war.eg John Kerry has $ millions invested in arms companies. Our whole system is totally corrupt,yet we laugh at countries like India. Posted by Arjay, Thursday, 4 March 2010 8:14:54 PM
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A wise man said, "let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God." There is freedom in love and empathy, there is no place for discrimination.
In every race, every religion, there are good and bad apples. The enemy isn’t the Muslims, they are the bad apples which come from diverse religions & races. As a Christian who has lived in a culturally diverse country where 60% of the population are Muslims, and a multitude of races live in peace despite discriminative government policies, I disagree with what mac says, “that it is much easier to be a Muslim in Australia than a non-Muslim in any Islamic majority country.” The reason is simple- discrimination, anywhere, is a lack of love of our fellow brothers and sisters, and is hard to bear. The social perception and government support which promotes a lack of freedom to allow people (whether punks, hippies, Christians, Jews, or in this case, Muslims) to truly express who they are within a society is sowing seeds of intolerance and less adept to social issues. (continued) Posted by ymeiosis, Thursday, 4 March 2010 8:37:59 PM
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The saying goes, “Walk a mile in anothers shoes”. Put yourself in a Muslim's shoes nowadays. You are a good person, do charity, help out at the soup kitchen every Saturday.. but you are singled out on every occasion for a “random” explosive test at the airport. It's not so random, is it? It's unwanted attention. Take, for instance, the average Caucasian tourist who tours Asia. The Lonely Planet and other guidebooks are chock full of advice on how to bear with THE ASIAN STARE. Read more here: http://www.asian-central.com/stuffasianpeoplelike/2008/03/05/25-staring-at-people/ and here: http://www.teachabroadchina.com/the-chinese-stare/ on responses by Caucasians who dislike the unwanted attention (which is not even as hostile as the attention Muslims get nowadays). Why the unwanted attention? Because YOU don't look, dress, talk, etc. like them. Lets go one step further, In India, Caucasian women tourists are often fondled and grabbed because they are perceived by locals as being promiscuous despite being garbed in full length pants and long-sleeved shirts. Anti-Chinese sentiments in Indonesia in the 1990’s resulted in the looting, killing, raping and other violent acts being committed against Chinese Indonesians and also the destruction of churches and other Chinese owned buildings in Indonesia. Nazism originated from Adolf Hitler’s dislike of the imperial multi-cultural and diversified society of the Austro–Hungarian Empire in the 1930’s and resulted in the death of 6 million Jews. Leigh says that "people who explicitly display difference and obvious signs of religion via dress should exercise simple common sense and realise that insisting on looking different will ensure that the are treated differently." Since when did looking different become a crime? Are we as shallow as the men who marry women for looks and not virtue? Or those who perceive that a beautiful woman cannot also be virtuous and intelligent? Looks alone should never be used as an excuse to perceive someone differently, to allow a blatant invasion of privacy or justify discrimination. Look around, the fact is, it is harder to freely be a Muslim in today’s world. And then remember to change your perceptions, because the fight is against terrorism, not Muslims. Posted by ymeiosis, Thursday, 4 March 2010 8:39:09 PM
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That's strange, I always thought "the terrorists" (not sure which ones- they're completely unrelated groups), generally wanted withdrawals of Western military/contractors/culture from Islamic countries, revenge for previous non-compliance with above measures, or at offense for flouting things abhorrent to their beliefs within their awareness.
I seriously doubt the degree of liberality was ever on their minds- and I definitely doubt they'd feel like they 'won' by a specific reduction to tolerance against Islam in our countries. In fact, I imagine the re-evaluation of tolerance in the broader Western-sphere beyond the US/UK/Israel- the rest with barely any presence in the Islamic World- was a complete shock to every terrorist group around the globe! (at least for those that could tell the US/UK/Israel apart from the broader Western World- which isn't many) Posted by King Hazza, Thursday, 4 March 2010 8:39:11 PM
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Look all you anti Muslims
All your anti-polically correct concepts may by on the money. Our Aussie diggers are fighting in Afghanistan to "bring democracy to the appreciative Afghan police, people, army" and last, least of all Afghan woman, who have less rights, under local Islam, than the odd goat, or opium acre. Here we have the hope of what the Yanks, Brits and our diggers are doing officially under our present and future mission in Afghanistan, our hope, training the locals, meanwhile: our diggers lives are lost or they are horribly injured, our money wasted, check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?videos=LYoFaRps1js&v=OlEqHLijHQA the Dutch are leaving, the Aussie province of Oruzgan, after too many men dead the Yanks will soon be the the senior force in our Aussie Orugzgan province, like Vietnam times. But training the reluctant Afghans is the official hope of our digger's lives (I know a few) here this bod who is currently there speaks http://www.defence.gov.au/opEx/global/opslipper/index.cfm sad so there you have it http://www.youtube.com/watch?videos=LYoFaRps1js&v=OlEqHLijHQA 60 more diggers dead until the US permits us to leave. Pete Posted by plantagenet, Thursday, 4 March 2010 9:41:00 PM
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It was not only Christians of course, for following the survival of the fittest principle, the Romans did the same thing for nearly a thousand years.
Survival of the fittest thus fits it well, thus we had our Aborigines thus called Low Life, apart from the boomerang nothing the Abo's have achieved in a so-called fifty thousand years, is regarded by most whites as fit for normal progress.
So it seems the white races must be regarded as not only the true God's peoples, as proven by the over two thousand years now of such progress.
Hell's Bells, seing that the white races are still well in the minority of global peoples, we should consider ourselves lucky that there is not more terrorism than there now is.