So it's just part and parcel of Australian culture.Does Australian culture need to change?

Is what part and parcel of Australian culture, grateful?

<<So it's just part and parcel of Australian culture.>>

People labelling you and your friends and family “evil”, and threatening to render you stateless? Or materialism?

If it’s the former, I don’t think that’s acceptable and it would need to change. But I don’t see where that’s happened on this thread. So why bring it up here?

If it’s materialism to which you refer, then to answer your question:

“Does Australian culture need to change?”

I'd have to say, ‘no’. Given what I pointed out to you in my last post, it appears we are definitely heading in the right direction. It would be utterly foolish for us to stop now.

Grateful I have nothing against you personally, or your family. You do sound like a nice guy & I bet you have a nice family too.

The many friends I have had, Work mates. They too were nice people, at work. Running into them privately, at the Supermarket, etc, was a different thing, when I spoke to their wives I was rebuked for speaking to the wives & they spoke harshly to her for acknowledging my hello. Strange behaviour I thought at the time. Now I know why.

The big complaint of overseas Wars is that civilians get killed. Well women & children. Why is that? The fighters take their wives & children into the War Zone because if they leave them behind their neighbours will rape them then they would be obliged to stone their wife to death for being unfaithful. Go figure & many other similar things.

My observation of Islam. the study I have done of the Koran & the Hadith & several other Books. Eg; the Ayatollah Khomeini's "little Green Book," & Plenty of UTube by important Imams, etc,.

So it's just part and parcel of Islamic culture. Does Islamic culture need to change?

Grateful: So it's just part and parcel of Australian culture. Does Australian culture need to change?

<As they grow, they will observe their non-Muslim school mates follow a “lifestyle” of binge drinking, sex and drugs, along with self- mutilation (tattoos and piercings on all parts of the body). It will not be a surprise if they, as I did, encounter stories of date rape and attempted suicide among their class-mates.>

I take it that this is what you are referring to as Australian Culture.

No. Definitely not. Australian Culture really good & is the envy of the World. It definitely doesn't need to change nor should it. Not to meet the demands of a rather backward religion that would demand us to revert to one of perpetual violence against each other. Give up our free way of life for one of fearing for one life.

If I can change for the better and be able to raise children free of these social diseases then anyone can.

Salaams

Yuyutsu
You'll appreciate the following
Al ghazali's "Alchemy of Happiness". I found a free download here:https://archive.org/details/cu31924028976161

Salaams

Don’t put yourself down like that, grateful.

<<If I can change for the better and be able to raise children free of these social diseases then anyone can.>>

I’m sure you weren’t that bad before Islam. And given the studies and stats I provided earlier, it appears that most do it better without religion, anyway.

If religion worked for you, then that's something at least. Apparently for most, however, betterment occurs without religion.

Each to their own, I suppose.