Mr Opinion, With formal training in history all one can really claim is that he or she has quasi-knowledge or pseudo-knowledge of history because universities brain wash you with Orwellian newspeak.

I respond by saying that if you have degrees in anthropology, sociology and history. I think that proves beyond reasonable doubt that everything you know is wrong.

I encourage everyone to read on these subjects but when university academics like you get a bit of knowledge they start to think that they know all the answers and know how to fix all of the world's problems. What a joke! We have the worst schools, colleges & universities in world history. Everything that has ever gone wrong in the land of OZ over the last 3 or 4 decades was done by a complete idiot with a piece of paper from a university.

Is Mise, Q, did i use any swear words on you? A, ANTI-socialists ALWAYS use worse manners on christian conservatives.

579, your first 2 comments were correct & the last one was wrong. Read the Quran in chronological order. The abrogated old testament is peaceful & the new testament is violent.

mhaze, your mostly correct but the burqa is mostly about traditional Arabian dress & stopping the local Skeik from seeing your daughter or wife, lest he decide to take her for the harem.

Dan S de Merengue, one day your treason will catch up with you.

Dear imacentristmoderate,

Your statements are so irrational and illogical that they make you appear as if you are some sort of ratbag. You really need to get a grip on reality.

Wal wi sabi bigmob odinri langgus langa dijan kantri, en dei holot garram mining. Bat wen enibodi tok langa mi garram im ron langgus, en ai nomo sabi det langgus, wal mi jidan streinja langa im, en im jidan streinja langa mi du.

If mi garram det pawa blanga toktok garram olkain difrinwan langgus brom dijan kantri en brom hebin, wal im gudwan ting tharran. Bat if ai nomo laigim pipul brabliwei, wal wen mi toktok, im jis laik mi meigimbat nois nomo garram eni mining.

Mr Opinion,

Lots of untested claims about expertise can be made on fora such as this. They have to be accepted or rejected without evidence either way. But I'd have to opine that anyone who thinks that the Bureau of Statistics have under-estimated the number of Chinese living in Aust by several hundred percent based solely on his observation of the numbers of Asians strolling around Chatswood is unlikely to have the level of qualifications you claim.

imacentristmoderate,

I've never seen evidence that the burqa is a traditional Arab dress or that it was adopted for the reasons you assert. I'd much appreciate it if you could provide some evidence for either point

Dear mhaze,

Good. The less you know the better. And I reckon you know a lot less than others.

Mr O,

Some adherents to string theory believe that there are an infinite number of universes. On some of those alternate universes, what you just wrote would make perfect sense. Unfortunately for you and your standing in this forum, this isn't one of those universes.

I hope that wasn't too subtle for you.