Well, sometimes there are people who Graham lets into this forum who have something useful to contribute, but I have to say that this is not one of those occasions. The QUT should also have him charged with obtaining money under false pretenses.

David

Dr Tomlinson's article certainly seems to have
had quite an impact on some readers here on this
forum. He's certainly made his position clear -
unfortunately, I suspect that he did not want to
get the reaction that he's currently getting from his
readers. Not only has he succeeded in turning his
readers off, he's made them mad as well. Which is
not good because he could have achieved far more
had he taken a different approach, one with a more
balanced point of view perhaps? He needed to think more
about his audience if he wanted to persuade them to
think about what he was trying to say. But the way he
did it - was doomed to fail.

Foxy you are never going to get any balance from an opinionated pseudo communist academic. It no longer matters much, as no one pays the slightest attention to their yabberings.

That academia continue to have these clowns involved is going to cost them dearly in the long run.

//as long as they are not calling out 'allah akbar' in any language//

So we're not allowed to say that 'God is great', or words to that effect, in English?

Are you sure you don't want to think a bit more about that? Because most of your posts seem to be devoted chastising those who fail to recognise the greatness of your god.

Or maybe you don't think it's great? Which raises the question: why are you worshipping it?

I'm pretty sure you don't really mean that nobody should ever be allowed to sing praises to their chosen deity, because you'd be first up against the wall come the revolution. I think what you probably mean is that people shouldn't be allowed to use the phrase 'Allah Akbar', because you find it offensive.

To which I say: what on Earth is offensive about an English cricket team made up of the great figures of English literature, even if they had a very poor grasp of Arabic?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allahakbarries

Do you realise that if you try and paint A.A. Milne as an Islamist, atheist or failed Christian that you will do me a physical injury? There is only so far a man can suspend his disbelief; if you try to push it past that point my head might explode: either that or I'll break something important in my throes of laughter.

one day both Cobber and Toni will overcome their Christophobic natures and allow the truth to penetrate their skulls. allah is not Jehovah God. What don't you understand about that?

There is nothing wrong with saying that Australia was invaded. It is a statement of fact.
However, discussing the negative things a group did and ignoring the positive is racist. Australia's history is more than the collection of massacres mentioned here.
Similarly, discussing one group's use of violence while ignoring other violence is also racist. The biggest threat to the safety of aboriginal people has always been other aboriginal people. Use of the phrase "first people" also ignores evidence of earlier invasions.