Why are such brainless articles ever published? They serve no purpose except to demonise a few people who did not commit anything other than talk - millions of people around the world have protested against us being involved in two illegal and deadly massacre wars of muslims yet here we lock people up if they are muslim and say the same things.

We are more of a threat to muslims here than they ever will be to us and all this sort of tripe does is let the extremist right wing nutters come out to rant.

Sooner or later a Muslim nuclear bomb will explode somewhere in the Western world. Following that, Iran will be wiped off the map - but that will be too late for the 100,000's already dead and their families.

Missiles are a thing of the past. The bomb will likely be delivered in an innocent-looking container, GPS-triggered aboard an ordinary cargo-ship. The most likely target is Israel, but the bomb can in fact land in any sea-port.

The way to minimise the chances that it will be Australia, is not to stop Islam, but instead to encourage Islamic settlement in every major city, close to ports where possible. That's called human shields. Bringing in good, honest and moderate Muslims, both Shiites and Sunnites, keeping them happy and allowing them to build mosques will greatly reduce our chances of being bombed - Muslims have a great aversion to destroying mosques.

Also, having established that Islam is not a religion but a totalitarian political ideology, what's the point in going against the religious aspect of Islam? it would be like trying to catch a snake by its tail!

Besides, those who want to blow us up will not come and tell us "We are Muslims" - they will try to sell us any other story but that.

Observing the Ramadan fast, refraining from alcohol and pork, praying 5 times a day, giving charity and visiting Mecca once in a lifetime are NOT dangerous activities. Even the dreaded genital mutilation (which in the case of females is not even ordained by the Quran) affects only their own family, not the general public.

One thing is clear: alienating the good and moderate Muslims, some already Australian citizens or even born in Australia, by denying them their religion, not only will drive them underground but will turn many good and hard-working people into suicide-bomber martyrs.

In the wrong hands, Western values too can be as totalitarian and violent as their Muslim counterparts. In the right hands, rejection of Western values need not be an endorsement of violence.

What on earth are western values? We don't seem to have any.

"We don't seem to have any."

One important value we have is to allow any fool with a synapse to open their mouth or tap a computer; keep exercising that right Marilyn.

Yuyutsu; utter tripe I'm afraid; muslims kill more muslims than non-muslims do; you could have wall to wall mosques and some other muslim nutter with a different slant will still take them out.

I can't believe what you wrote about female genital mutilation.

Generally, I think if you clowns admire islam so much then you should join up and p... off.

Cohenite, that is complete rot. The US and UK led sanctions against Iraq murdered over 500,000 kids and more than 1 million others have been killed in the US, UK and Australia attack on Iraq.

Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have been slaughtered by us in our other illegal invasion, Israel has murdered tens of thousands of their neighbours in various attacks and so on.

The killing of shi'ites by Saddam Hussein was done while the US sat over the hill and watched, the war on Iran was egged on by the US and so on.

Yet no muslim nation has ever attacked us.

Dear Cohenite,

<<Generally, I think if you clowns admire islam so much then you should join up and p... off.>>

Islam has good principles as well as terrible principles, such as Jihad and male-dominance.

I give credit where it is due and while I am personally satisfied with my own religion, I encourage Muslims to embrace the good aspects of their religion while rejecting the violent aspects thereof.