In a TV appearance, Sheikh Adel AlKilbani, former Imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, is asked to comment about some of his statements about Daesh. Explaining how it is a result of Islamic revivalism, he adds that Daesh follows the same Salafist approach that is adopted in Saudi Arabia, and that there are only some differences regarding how to punish those who contravene the Shari'a.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWORE6OBfhc

Middle Eastern communities such as Christians and Yazidis are currently facing extinction due to Islamic fanatics. Given how majority Islamic societies tend to treat non-Islamic minorities, is it really surprising that some people are fearful of Muslims and Muslim immigration?

I think the late Samuel P. Huntington hit the nail on the head: "Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power."

"...claims that women are oppressed" Except those women that are stoned to death for adultery or murdered because they have 'dishonoured' their families etc etc.

What a complete load of nonsense this article is, majority Muslim societies are one of the world's most intolerant and oppressive cultures. There's no reason to believe that Muslims won't tried to reproduce that culture in the West. If Muslims were treated like religious minorities in Islamic societies they would have something to whine about, however in this liberal democracy there's relatively not much for them to complain about.

Tony Lavis,

"But because they have different skin colour, they might have been speaking English from birth but not be able to understand English jokes. It's amazing how many people don't get English jokes."

Irrelevant and ad hominem. It's very easy and intellectually lazy to characterise opposition to islam as racism, Muslims aren't members of "race", they're followers of an ideology, a religion. Learn something about the history of Islam and the nature of contemporary Muslim societies.

The rise of Islamophobia is partly due to the increasing realisation of the threat this oppressive and toxic ideology poses to our freedoms.

Hasbeen could we have a reference for the Navy female stoker story? I am interested in highlighting stories like that.

The rise of Islamophobia is due to the surge of aggressive immigrants. Let's face it guys, this is a serious threat as many muslims are becoming more and more aggressive and show less and less resprect for our culture and religion. This is the only issue here.

Oh, here we go, Islam is not the problem, Australians are the problem.

Throughout military history, there have been military commanders who were more adept at their own self aggrandisement through conforming to whatever ideology that the rulers considered sacrosanct, than to any prowess on the battle field. We seem to be creating a PC armed forces with transvestite officers and a Muslim woman parading around in a naval Captains outfit who's sole purpose is to advise military commanders on Muslim matters. Next there will be Buddhist, Ananda Marg, Hindu, and Satanists doijng the same thing. As a matter of fact, because there is an avowed "Satanist" seaman in the Royal Navy, there has to be shrine to Satan on every damned ship he serves on.

Cuckoo. Cuckoo.

The fact hat we have a Muslim woman as an officer advising the brass on Muslim matters is really funny, since there are twice as many "Australian" Muslims fighting for ISIS than there are in the entire Australian Armed Forces. And our Muslim captain supports our present Grand Mufti, who not only refused to condemn the shooting of that police employee in Parramatta as terrorism, but whom the media claims is the best friend of a terrorist imam in Egypt.

We deserve to lose the next war.

The only good that is coming of this is that people are getting fed up of PC correctness, which is why a person like Trump is being considered by the US population as the next President. If the PC crown hate him, then he must be alright.

Trump is the only western leader who is going to do anything about Muslim immigration into a western country. With the attacks on Paris clearly directed towards the left wing PC crowd themselves, it is becoming ever more clearer to even the most stupid PC advocate that the importation of Muslims into western society was a huge mistake. The Muslims have been nothing but trouble, and they are becoming a threat not only to the peaceful societies that they immigrated to, but to the whole world as well.