Islam has no answers to current challenges facing us today, and is locked into a time warp. They are unable to censure or even condemn in a convincing manner the ravages committed by Boko Haram in Nigeria, Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia or the al-Qaeda networks through the middle east and Somalia.
The activities of Sydney’s Lebanese or Melbourne’s Somali’s do little to endear us to Islam. Sharia law which they desire and will eventually demand is a return to an age of ignorance and superstition. Being able to recite or even read the Koran has no application or value in the modern world.

The result of multi ethnic and cultural immigration to Australia has seen the second or third generation identifying FIRSTLY as Australian and then in other religious/cultural terms.

It has been my (limited) experience that Islamic immigration results in successive generations FIRSTLY identifying as Muslim and then Tribally (Shia/Sunni) and then Australian.

Until this is reversed, I see no change in Australian mainstream discomfort with Islam. Additionally, the more I am exposed to Islam, (as expressed in the writings of the Prophet and sharia), the less attractive I find it and believe the 'integration' laudably desired by Mr. Ata is less likely to occur.

"As Australian society matures into a culture of full inclusiveness, those who promote Islamophobia, Australia's fear of non-Western cultures and assertion of 'their' culture and life, will shrink in numbers."

You wish.

More likely, as more and more formally pleasant neighbourhoods turn into filthy, violent hellholes, the numbers of "inclusive" people will fall.

whe/if Muslims became a majority which country would Abe like us to look like?

"if Australians were more knowledgeable about Muslims they would express more favorable opinions of Muslims and Islam."

Cynics might argue that a better informed Kaffir population would be counter-productive to the development of favourable views of Islam.

Australians should be better informed about Islam, particularly the 1400 year long Jihad against the West, the chaotic, violent and authoritarian characteristics of majority Moslem nations, the vicious misogyny, the suppression of religious freedoms and the institutionalised contempt for non-Moslems, and the complete and abject material failure of Islamic economic systems.

Australians should be specially informed about the attempts by Moslems to reproduce Islamic culture in the West. While Western civilisation experienced the Reformation, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution, the industrial revolution and democracy, the islamic world remained in its millennial torpor.

Any who is afflicted by this primitive superstition has my sympathy, liberal democrats should resist its toxic influence.

Abe so long as the Muslims keep their religion to themselves and don't try to impose it on us, then all will be fine.

Many of us in Aust have thrown off the shackles of religious slavery and we don't want another oppressor.