No argument about raising compassionate critical thinking children. (Or just kind rational kids if you want to say it easily). But I kind of assumed Islamaphobia was caused by horrific acts of terror done by terrorists in the Middle East and now European nations. The United States had a few tastes of such terror as well, so it's reasonable to see it there.

Alice Aslan's commentary on racism looks at a problem without caring to consider the causes. Unfair profiling or stereotyping Muslims due to drastic and horrific planned attacks against the public in various nations by Muslim terrorists.

Don't ignore the issue and then be baffeled about why it's still there. We have to be more resonable then that. Also belittling those of the other view will not help.

"Racist, charlatan politicians have nothing to offer society."

Head-in-the-sand, wishful thinking utopians, who basically call Australians stupid, while parasitically enjoying the benefits they built, have nothing to offer society.

The wrong side of history awaits for *you* and your broken record clueless ilk.

A couple of Australians were killed by Germans in WWI and a few also 20 years later. Some Spanish, British and French were also awarded German bullets. In Australia , Muslims have killed 2 and Christians have killed around 10000 in thirty years. Christians took over Germany after a British priest cut down their holy oak tree which explains a lot.

Alice,
I am as entitled to feel offended by a seeing a woman wearing a burka as I am ay seeing a man wearing a swastika or giving a Nazi salute.

To be a Muslim is to follow the teachings of a man who :
1.In AD622 "consummated" his "marriage" to his 9 year old "wife" who he "married" when she was six.
2. In 627 beheaded all the adult males of the Jewish Qurayzah tribe and enslaved the all women and children of that tribe.
(The source of the above facts is the Arabic texts- the ahadith).
3. In the Koran expressly approved the killing of prisoners of war who will not convert to Islam.

To be a Muslim, which is to follow the teachings of that man and therefore to follow the teachings of a paedophile war criminal. That means the moral standards of Muslims are set by that savage.

There is no shame in protesting in our legislature against such a toxic, intolerant, savage creed, a creed no less savage that the Nazism which cost 50 million premature deaths, already responsible for countless premature deaths and no less capable of slaughter of the magnitude of the Nazi slaughter if given the right technology.

nicknamenick,

You have proved that Australia, the Western democracies generally, should be proactive, to nip it in the bud, before the scourge gets going.

Why do people have these irrational, unfounded prejudices?

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