Haldwell: I quote the man's own words.

I supposed the Journalist asked a stupid question, & I agree with Begin. It deserved a stupid answer. It's what I would have said.

Journalists do ask some stupid questions, & each journalist in a mob asks the same question over & over in an interview. Why is that? Don't they listen to what the journalist ahead of them asked? You see them at an accident shove a Mike in the victims face and ask, "Are you hurt?"

Ol' Joe had it right when he called them, "Chooks."

This is only the start imo of these types of terror attacks.

No politicians in Australia with a very few exceptions are educated on Islam enough to take it seriously imo. Mainly rely on advice from their public servants most of whom as left wing so defend Islam and condemn any resistance. See Muslims as oppressed by whites.

And groups who band together to fight Islam will be treated far worse for just that. As we have seen already with a couple of men saying so called 'racist' remarks outside La Kemba Mosque and they are in jail but the Muslims in the brawl are seemingly not counted as committing array.

Therein lies a nasty situation here more and more non-Muslim unemployed youths will join and fight these enemies of the people and themselves too as feeling slighted in their own country etc. All the qualifications for civil unrest to develop.

Unlike the media's view, the majority of Australians are not afraid to state their feeling that Muslims are no longer as welcome here.

@ kactuz & Jayb
Sorry, guys, but he really did say that. Admittedly, at the time he was flushed with pride following the Irgun gang's massacre at Deir Yassin and the blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, so perhaps a bit of hyperbole could be allowed.

MarsbarKid,
It's more complicated than that, politicians do understand Islam but it's a sensitive issue because Muslim immigration to Australia has always been justified on humanitarian (ie political) grounds rather than economic considerations like in Europe.
While we were shipping in Yugoslavs,Italians and Greeks to fill labour vacancies in the 1950's Europe was shipping in Turks, Pakistanis and Arabs.
The reality is that Muslims have contributed nothing and taken everything they can from Australia, but it's an understandable reaction considering that Australia asks nothing of non European migrants in return for asylum.

Obviously some posting are deliberately or erroneously confusing radical Islamists with Muslims and Zionists with Jews
Not all Muslims are radical Islamists and not all Jews are Zionists

Phil R: Not all Muslims are radical Islamists and not all Jews are Zionists.

True, but there are more radical moslims islamists per head of moslim population than there are Zionists per head of the Jewish population.

The Zionists are nowhere near as radical as islamists. Come to think of it, I've never heard of a Zionist lopping any infidel head off just because they weren't a Zionist. Have you? I haven't heard of any Zionists demanding that Jewish Law be implemented Nation wide in any Country they've snuck into. Have you?

Given a choice between the two. Who would you trust with your life?