>> Babette trying to champion the cause of the Pakistani Christian women is all very noble, but I would be looking further to the whole female population in places like Pakistan, not just the Christian ones.<<

Suzeonline, I am sure your intentions are also noble, so if you write an article about “looking further to the whole female population in places like Pakistan, not just the Christian ones” it will deserve the same respect as Babette’s (even if you would not want to point out the obvious difference between the treatment of Christian and Muslim women in places like Pakistan, though obviously bad for both).

Authors, including Babette and you, have the right to choose the topic they want to write about.

Western governments have to take this issue seriously and recognise that Islam is a threat. They failed to take Nazism seriously and entered World War II without modern weapons suffering mass casualties and huge numbers taken POW who suffered greatly for years. France suffered a brutal occupation for five years. We forget that the allies almost lost World War II in the early stages. It was the same with Communism. The western nations failed to take it seriously until Ronald Reagan,Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II put an end to it. Let us learn from our mistakes. If a threat emerges the sensible thing to do is to confront it courageously and face the other side down very aggressively.

Come off it runner. You hate the "infidels" just as much as any mad mullah. You are no different than them. You bigoted godbotherers are all the same.

Having western governments set up safe havens for Muslims who want to leave Islam is a brilliant idea. It would really stick it to the whole Islamic world. Islam is a terrorist religion that relies on terrorism to keep it's subjects, especially it's women, in line. But too many young Muslim women are coming too see that it is a male dominated religion run for the benefit of Muslim men and they want to flee it.

Muslims men understand the importance of young women in propagating and expanding their evil religion, and that is why they go to any length to marry non Muslim females while keeping their own young women totally controlled and forbidden from marrying non Muslims, on pain of death.

Islam is using birth rate differentials and immigration to take over European countries and unless that is stopped then we had all better start buying prayer mats. This desire by Islam to control us could be subverted if we set up a situation which protected Muslims who wished to convert to other religions. It is only terror which keeps many in the fold of Islam.

Allowing young Muslim women to escape from Islam by offering them government supported safe havens would do more to destroy Islam than the coming civil wars in western countries between western people and Muslims. It would really pee off the Muslims and that would be great. The Mullahs in the west would then have to explain why they oppose a measure designed to give their young women religious freedom. They are already squirming about the "sword" verses in the Koran and having to explain why they oppose any government protecting young women's religious choices would be very entertaining.

Even some of those who reflexively blame the yanks for everything, while simultaneously excusing the Muslims for everything, may find the sight of Muslim men rioting and killing in order to prevent their young women from fleeing their evil religion, a bit much. It could even get some trendies thinking straight.

Islamic State in Martin Place. Here we come.

@ Mikk

As someone who has stridently defended an open-door policy on any Tom, Dick or Monis who cried: " Ï'm a refugee let me stay here"
Do you feel any regrets?