holy cow and jesus christ! you two HOMOPHOBES bickering about what people do at home behind closed doors when IN THIS POST ASLAN has told us:
"They will laugh at you, and WHEN THEY DO take the country THEY WILL KILL YOU unless you submit. If you knew anything about Islamic history you would already know this."

CAN WE PUT THIS GUY AND HIS MATES ON THE SAME PLANE OUTTA HERE AS THE 104 YEAR OLD CHINESE LADY.
Scott Richardson argues that we should resist them and us dialectical analysis.

Dear Brownie,

If Islam takes Australia (and that, BTW, is their stated goal) I will voluntarily leave, and you my friend will be sitting in the seat next to me - if you haven't already taken an earlier flight.

AK

Brownie dear :)
I'm sorry to have to mildly speak a chunk of truth in love... (thats Christian speak for put u straight :)

This issue for goodness sake is the shape and mood and values of the community at large, not the specific focus on just ONE issue. It so happens that is a rather volatile one along with the usual batch of lefty ones "women" and choice etc ...
Brownie, deep down we all want the same society, caring, loving, self sacrificing. That's the good news. The bad news is that there is such a thing as morality, and it means that if we give way on our standards, we are miserable, and the community, in time will just flush itself down the gurgler as most who were not able to see the 'end' while playing the game have gone. E.g. the Norse who settled Iceland, destroyed themselves in spite of good advice from the Inuit who told them now to survive. They actually chose to starve to death rather than humble themselves and accept the advice of the 'stupid Inuit'.
Call me homophobe, call me stupid, its all good :) u can give me any name u like. But I'm encouraged that you called on the name of Jesus in the beginning of your last post. He is also your last hope.
Blessings

David - it is good to know you will be able to holiday safely in Fiji.

A need to stop demonising Islam and get to the crux of the present global crisis.

On a recent Lateline programme an American commentator gave the real reason for the shocking human relations now existing between Christianity and Islam. It is not entirely religion. He did not mention the term “blowback” but the term itself was originated by the CIA who warned that their tactics against Middle East nations, and certain Third World countries could cause international friction in the future.

The above would not surprise anyone studying International Relations. As the US commentator pointed out, most Islamic terrorism has been carried out not by poor or destitute Muslims but by mostly intellectuals, including university students. Such was proven in 9/11 as well as the recent London bombings, and of course, every one knows bin Laden is well-educated and belongs to well respected Saudi-Arabian families.

A public reaction could be, unfortuntely, that people desperately fed-up with news of Islamic attacks, would entail either to close down our Humanities areas, or put the curriculums under surveillance, as was done in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.

However, this would not get to the core of the problem, but only make it worse, because former students who had learnt about “blowback” and “payback” might also need to be quietened down with a warning.

As intimated by the American commentator - part of the answer could be for both America and Britain to get out of Middle East territory admitting they’d only been in there since WW1 mostly for oil and strategem. And if our Forum wants more evidence of American plans to overlord the globe, Muslims included, think about the pre-9/11 White House publicised New World Order as well as the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). Certainly not the way to maintain friendship between our world’s two largest religions.
George C - Bushbred

I've rarely read such a reactionary outpouring of postcolnial blah as this. Here's deconstruction for you -- the way in which the so-called author betrays his slavish adherence to critical dogmas. Not that we can blame him, when droves of students are force fed a diet of half-baked Spivak-esque assertions, and then patted on the back for regurgiatating them. How nice it must be for these students that they are no longer expected to take risks in making proper critical evaluations!