<<But her courage is destructive like every other courage that is not shaped and limited by ethics.>>
How can expressing concern for your country be destructive and unethical?
It is perfectly logical not to want to increase the Islamic influence in Australia.
Who in their right mind would seek to Middle-Easternise this country?
It's already happening:
Islamic prayer rooms in our universities represent retrograde desecularisation.
These prayer rooms are gender-segregated!
Imagine the hullabaloo if anybody else proposed gender segregation.
Halal slaughteryards specially exempt from 21st century standards of animal welfare are on the increase.
Female genital mutilation is on the increase to the extent that doctors are now contemplating "low impact" FGM to limit the damage.
Terrorist activity is increasing.
Race-based gang rapes are increasing.
Bandits are using burqas to commit robberies.
Welcome to Multicultistan.
Pauline Hanson is strong.
The only <<human weakness>> we are seeing is the naivete of the weak-minded who are blind to history, particularly to the savage role that Islam has played in the deaths of hundreds of millions of its victims.
Oh, did I mention honour killings?
...the death penalty for blasphemers?
...the death penalty for apostates?
Wake up Australia.

Alice Aslan,

Muslim experts on Islam contradict your belief in the benign nature of Islam:

"The majority of the ulemaa (scholars) of the “House of Islam” are controlled by Islamists who use an authoritative shar’iah which is incompatible with the ideas of liberty and the separation of mosque and state."
M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D., President and Founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD).

"My main point is that, what people generally mean as Islam (Tafseer, Hadith, Sira, Jurisprudence, Sharia) is certainly not peaceful. However, peaceful understanding of the religion is possible. Moderate Muslims such as Jasser and others do exist because they do not practice the traditional dominant theology and alternatively they have developed their own personal interpretations for the religion. Until these personal interpretations become the mainstream type of teaching within Islam, I have to agree with Robert Spencer that moderate Islam does not exist."
Tawfik Hamid, Islamic thinker and reformer

"The obstacles to the predominance of modern Islam over political Islam are many– frequent death threats, blind corruptive tribalism, societal and financial power of Islamists, and Muslim illiteracy. This is not to mention the facilitation by western media and government of Islamists due to political correctness."
Jasser

"If we defined Islam in terms of what is being taught and promoted in mainstream Islamic books such the Tafseers and Fiqh, then Robert Spencer is absolutely correct is saying that moderate Islam does not exist. The problem is that this form of Islamic teaching is not counterbalanced by a theologically based peaceful interpretation of the religion. Until today, all main schools of jurisprudence in Islam accept violence in some way or another."
Hamid

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/27/symposium-the-worlds-most-wanted-a-%e2%80%9cmoderate-islam-%e2%80%9d/

Please become informed on Islam before propagating misrepresentations.
Please also note Jasser's message to you:
"This is not to mention the facilitation by western media and government of Islamists due to political correctness"

Alice Aslan,

Clearly Islam is just the same as Christianity:

"Washington, D.C. (June 2, 2010) - International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that an Afghan parliamentary secretary called for the public execution of Christian converts on the parliament floor.
On Tuesday, the Associated Free Press reported that Abdul Sattar Khawasi, deputy secretary of the Afghan lower house in parliament, called for the execution of Christian converts from Islam. Speaking in regards to a video broadcasted [sic] by Afghan television network Noorin TV showing footage of Christian men being baptized and praying in Farsi, Khawasi said, "Those Afghans that appeared in this video film should be executed in public, the house should order the attorney general and the NDS (intelligence agency) to arrest these Afghans and execute them."
The broadcast triggered a protest by hundreds of Kabul University students on Monday, who shouted death threats and demanded the expulsion of Christian foreigners accused of proselytizing.As a result, the operations of Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) and U.S.-based Church World Service (CWS) have been suspended over allegations of proselytizing. The Afghan government is currently undertaking an intensive investigation into the matter. According to Afghan law, proselytizing is illegal and conversion from Islam is punishable by death."
http://www.persecution.org/suffering/ICCnews/newsdetail.php?newscode=12470&title=afghan-parliamentarian-calls-for-execution-of-christians

Hello Alice...
Are you really so naive?

Note that the university protests were not against, but in favour of executing Christian converts.

Pynchme

Yours were two of the very best posts on Hanson I have ever had the pleasure to read: concise, hard-hitting and always on target.

Thank you.

Thanks too Cornflower. I appreciate your acknowledgment and glad that we agree on something.