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Peace loving Australian Muslims deserve a ‘fair go’! : Comments
By Aqeel Choudhry, published 24/12/2015The peaceful, loyal and law-abiding Australian Muslims deserve a 'fair go'. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is a perfect example as victim of this over generalisation.
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And it didn't stop there: at one time in the NT, most of the non-Indigenous population would have been Chinese. Similarly, around Broome and Cooktown.
When I was working on the correspondence of the Protector of Aborigines here in SA, I was surprised at how many Africans, African-Americans and West Indians seemed to have married into Aboriginal families. One Afro-American bloke named Campbell tried to set up a fishing business with Aboriginal people on lake Alexandrina in about 1860. Another bloke from Mauritius married an Aboriginal woman and claimed rations for some years.
Women too: An Afro-American woman and a West Indian woman married Aboriginal men around Adelaide. Another woman, described as West Indian 'Creole' - which, in the 1860s-70s may have meant Afro-American, not just 'West-Indian-born' - married an Aboriginal bloke on the Murray.
And of course, Chinese: there seems to have been at least four in SA who married Aboriginal women. A couple of Jewish men married Aboriginal women in SA in the nineteenth century, and Germans as well: one of the grand-daughters of one of the Chinese blokes married a German bloke around Port Pirie. And marriages between Afghan men and Aboriginal women have been common since the year Dot.
And of course, since the War, many marriages of Aboriginal people here in SA have been with people from a very wide range of non-Anglo origin: Poles, Greeks, Italians, Fijian Indians, Maltese. So it's no wonder that some of the young women of today are quite beautiful, inheriting the best of all of their ancestries, as Darwin would suggest.
Joe