I see this religion in any form as a threat to the rights of my daughters and their daughters etc going forward in this country.

To me its a clear choice between their safety and happiness and the rights of some
woman to practice this religion.

Dont try and explain to me that I dont understand it. I refuse to take the risk
no matter how you try to explain it. Ive seen and heard enough of what the males
practising this religion are capable of. until that stops permanently I dont want to
have this religion in this country.

//"“Religion provides explanations for things that science can't”

Such as?"

The miracles at Lourdes for starters, or can you provide some rational explanation for what doctors have said to be medically inexplicable?//

"how wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. If in fact the frontiers of knowledge are being pushed further and further back (and that is bound to be the case), then God is being pushed back with them, and is therefore continually in retreat. We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Najila most people don't agree with your religion but accept you and your family. Islamists not only will not accept other minorities but as has been shown in the Middle East and other places, practice the exact opposite.
Look at the relative numbers of Christians (Personally I am an atheist) who lived in the middle east and were driven out or murdered. Your religion is not tolerant of others, wherever there is islam there are big problems.
Najila it is not us, it is you and the answer lies with you.

//Ive seen and heard enough of what the males
practising this religion are capable of.//

The same things that able-bodied males of any religion, or no religion at all are capable of. If being a Muslim gave you super powers they'd have more converts.

Anything they can do, we can do better. And with less suspicion and surveillance because they're the dodgy ones. They're like a cloak of concealment for non-muslims that want to get up to no good. Very useful for the rest of us.

Gosh it's fun messing with paranoid people :)

Hi, we won't be giving authors special privileges to post. Writing an article in the first place is a big privilege (one they earn of course), but the forum is for discussion on a more or less equal basis.

The restriction on number of comments that can be posted in a 24 hour period is to ensure that no one gets to dominate the conversation, and it also encourages concision of expression.

I'd be interested in having an Imam or scholar write an article about how Islam might reform from within. I'd also be interested in a Rabbi explaining the same thing about Judaism, but from the perspective of how it did reform from inside.

Hear's the deal, Najila Turk.

You say that you are a middle class Muslim woman who only wants acceptance from Australian society.

OK, then all you have to do is to renounce those passages in the Koran and the Hadiths that instruct Muslims to kill, maim, and humiliate non Muslims. You must also renounce those Koranic quotes that instruct Muslims to kill homosexuals and to kill those people who have turned their backs on Islam.

But I doubt you will do that because it is against your religion.