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Islamophobia in Australia: the response of the academy : Comments

By Jake Lynch, published 20/3/2019

Researchers should be able to furnish us with evidence about where Islamophobia 'comes from'; what it consists of; how it is promulgated and spread, by whom and for what ends.

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Well, Foxy, your concern with divisiveness is not a surprise.

Perhaps you should consider the appalling Christchurch slaughter in its historical context, though, and ask yourself where the divisiveness began:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks
Posted by calwest, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 2:04:49 PM
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While, "Scott Morrison attacks 'mindless tribalism' after Christchurch massacre", most of the contentious, verses in the Qur'an and Hadiths are directed against specific groups / tribes, particularly Jews and Christians.

We remember:
After the Islamic terror attack in Melbourne four months ago, Muslim community leaders refused to meet with Scott Morrison because of all the systemic Islamophobia.

After the Christchurch attack, the same Muslim community leaders are demanding a meeting with Morrison because of all the, er, systemic Islamophobia.

To say Terror Attack A is something to do with Islam is totally Islamophobic; to refuse to say Terror Attack B is Islamophobic is even more totally Islamophobic.
Posted by elizabeth4, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 2:14:59 PM
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how Britian needs a Trump to at least drain a tiny part of the swamp.
Posted by runner, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 2:28:47 PM
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Only last week on another topic, Foxy was stereotyping and demonizing right wingers with every human vice she could think up, including "stereotyping."

Now she talks about how demonization and division is just awful.

In order to be a lefty, you need this uncanny ability to use double standards, and to never recognise your own self evident contradictions. But one thing I won't accuse Foxy of is hypocrisy. It is just that she can't understand that she is doing the very things she insists everybody else must never do.
Posted by LEGO, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 2:39:08 PM
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LEGO,

We're all flawed human beings in one way or
another - with our own biases. However
we have to try to make changes. We can't keep
on doing what we've been doing thus far and expect
different results. As they say - that's not logical.

I'm willing to give it a go.

Anyone care to join me?
Posted by Foxy, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 3:04:20 PM
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Foxy, you seem to be suggesting that change is always good? And that "intelligent" people always advocate for change? That is a complete nonsense. In my own lifetime I have seen my country change, and it has not been for the better. Australia is now a much more dangerous society than when I was a kid, and teetering on bankruptcy. Some things have improved, but before you change something that is working quite well, you better have a good think about it beforehand, because some things, like Australia's racial demographics, can not be changed back once we realise that we have made a mistake.

In my lifetime I have seen the ethnic ghettoisation of Sydney suburbs, proving that birds of a feather just keep flocking together, no matter what socialist dreamers think about creating a race blind society.

As if we do not have enough trouble with our own black people, we had to go and import more from overseas, and now we have a serious and unsolvable crime problem in Melbourne.

Terrorism.

Restrictions of freedom of speech.

Demands for social exclusion and exemptions from the common law.

Attacks on churches and synagogues.

The refusal of many teachers (especially female teachers) to work in schools with high Muslim student numbers because of their violent and misogynistic behaviour.

The provision of security guards in Sydney's public schools to protect staff and other students from violent Muslim boys.

Private school student numbers soaring as parents in Muslim areas protect their kids by getting them away from public schools full of violent Muslims boys.

The refusal by Muslim drivers to allow blind people with seeing eye dogs or passengers carrying alcohol to enter their cabs.

The fortification of every vital government department with steel gates and security guards (who are usually Muslims anyway).

Passengers on domestic flights having their bags checked for bombs.

The necessity for armed guards on Jewish schools.

And Susioncrack, Foxy and Poirot have to worry when they go for a night out in Sydney, whether they can get into a taxi with a Muslim driver without getting raped.
Posted by LEGO, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 5:12:39 PM
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