' If Jesus was to return - what with his "Middle-Eastern"
appearance, brown skin, and arriving by boat - guess where he'd
end up?"'

Jesus would come with a message of love repentance and invitation of eternal life. Saaed comes as a victim and writes bigotry. Very poor comparison Foxy. It is the Saaed's that make it difficult for the numerous wonderful migrants who have contributed to society and are thankful to those who gave them a go. His attitude like many that appear on the abc is putrid.

Dear runner,

I don't for one moment doubt that Jesus would come
bearing a message of love. Just as most migrants
work hard and contribute to our society.

As for judging the author. I shall leave that up to
each of us to do individually, depending I suppose on
our outlooks, experiences, values, et cetera.

cont'd ...

I worry that our country may be falling apart from
lack of wisdom, lack of grace. We need to look within
ourselves to our inner life. Our inner life is like a
garden we haven't really thought of cultivating, which
would bear all the fruit we could ever want, once we
thin of tending to its needs.

Andras Smith + Khan

I reckon you are writing more about your own (and Khan, writer of the article's) intellectual SNOBBERY*, than concerns about race, country or Islam.

* You and Khan preciously belittle the views of ordinary Australians.

Foxy,

Welcome back.

"If Jesus was to return - what with his "Middle-Eastern"
appearance, brown skin, and arriving by boat - guess where he'd
end up?"

First off, He'd have his papers in order, would be a genuine migrant and would get a job, however lowly, and then prosper through hard work.

Here's a question, where would the likes of a randomly selected citizen like Sir John Monash fit into the commenters' narrative about 'immigrants'?

Now it's anti-Moslem sentiment being promoted, but keep in mind post WWII the anti-immigration agit prop was directed towards Catholics and Jews....

By today's standards Monash, like many others who migrated to and made Oz great, would not be eligible as he was neither WASP nor Christian (spoke German at home), and of course would be a load on society and couldn't possibly fit in?

If Monash was alive would proponents of throwing out 18C be encouraging 'Australians' like here to say what they want against someone like him? Probably not as they seem to lack, in addition to ethics, a backbone.

Great antidote to Jewish and/or Moslem anti-semitism e.g. when Australians left/right blow off about 'globalisation', 'global elites' etc., tell them they are repeating the old classic anti-semitic tropes that even the old left in UK get caught out using still..... maybe LNP, SPA, One Nation etc. in parts of Australia just team up, then maybe try secede and join the UK/US as they don't seem to care about Oz?