Arjay
So what is the problem?

Culture doesn't cause violence.

Why the behaviour of devalued and marginalised groups tends to be widely perceived as more culturally (or theologically) determined than that of dominant culture (which theologically speaking [in Australia] is Christianity) is beyond me. When criminal things are done by someone who either identifies or fits the profile of a person from the dominant culture (which in this country is Christianity), people generally explain the criminal act in terms of individual psychopathology. Yet when criminal things are done by someone who identifies as Muslim (a religion devalued by the dominant group [Christians]), people allege that the criminal act is somehow tied to the religion, or that Islam is to blame, or that Muslims are somehow innately more criminal than Christians - which is a load of bollocks.

Thanks Arjay for your realism.

Five years of mental health community nursing in the west - vis a vis: Wentworth Community Health Services is my experience of the real world.

Warm fuzzie and fluffy values do not change what I experienced as a community mental health nurse!

We have a serious problem of religious, philisopical and racial intolerance displayed by a sizable proportion of the Islamic community and to the bleeding heart left, those filthy anglo racists are all to blame.

I used to teach in our West.Recently a retired Head of a mostly Muslim primary school told me how she had a security guard escort her to and from her car just before she retired.

My sister bumps into an Muslim Lady and apologises,"Yes you'll be really sorry when we take over your country," came the retort.

My son and his friends get assaulted for wearing the Aussie flag on Australia Day.It ends with a stand off between the police and 40 thugs.No one is arrested because they are all under the age of 18.

I have been run off the road by these people merging in traffic behind me and giving me the finger as they pass.Pushed off the footpath as they walk four abreast down George St Sydney.

A very sizable portion of the the Muslim population are both intolerant and violent.Now would the likes of rossco,kalweb,rainer and strayan tell me how this makes me and John Stone the racists.As I've said,get your heads out of your fundamentals and smell the reality.

Arjay

I agree with what you are saying. Clearly you have misread my post!

Please re-read what I said mate.

Cheers
Kay

Ahhhh, Arjay, my loving and hugging br[other]. Why do you perceive difference as such a threat to you? Are you that insecure? It sounds like you are experiencing what we call refer to as irrational fears of cultural extinction typically exhibited by border loving nationalists.

If a White driver gave you the finger, it'd be road rage wouldn't it Arjay. But because they looked Muslim, the culture made them do it. How convenient.