Hmmm, celebrating ramadan, I could'nt think of anything worse. It appears increasingly clear that minorities are being imported for political advantage. Eric Claus uses the plight of minorities for political convenience: a platform to vent cultural cringe.

I am compassionate towards minorities. Especially when I walk into a factory and notice that the entire factory floor is staffed by immigrants, who probably lack the english speaking skills necessary to tell the boss how bad the job is. It is then you realise what tolerance for diversity is all about: exploitation. Which is why it is important to look past the B.S and understand why, mostly employers, demand a multicultural society.

To fully understand the mindset of people like Eric Claus, look no further than Michael Moore. Here is a link: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-11-05

Pay particular attention to point number 8, and realise why he should be ignored.

"It appears increasingly clear that minorities are being imported for political advantage".

Now is that a loony statement, or what?

Yikes.

Morgan :(

Sorry, ericc, you are not fooling me. There is almost never such a thing as an 'innocent' question or observation. We all have agendas, and I see your "just think it is a good idea" as an attempt to prise open a doorway to destroying yet more of the tradition that represents, promotes and therefore protects a Christian belief system.

A slippery slope', ericc. This society ise already a long way down it, thanks to far too many new, untested "good ideas" over the past fifty years.

Nobody takes the time and effort to write an essay and have it published just for the hell of it. You have an agenda. Now telling us you don't is at least as disingenuous as your essay.

Ringtail.... one person's "humble idea" is another's society's disaster (ask the Russians about Marxism), so ditto your trying to play down the implications and ramifications of this socially disasterous "idea". You obviously haven't read my complete response and rebuttal of eric's essay (at http://www.oz-aware.com/debate5.htm).

The greater tragedy of your kind of thinking is that you quite clearly do absolutely not understand the harm your viewpoints bring to the wellness of our society (and the word 'society' includes YOU). There is not a single important point in my rebuttal that you could discredit, yet, refusing to revise your ideology, you persist in pushing your "humble ideas" regardless of the fact that informed reason and unassailable logic clearly shows how damaging these "newthink" (http://www.oz-aware.com/evil.htm#newthink)propositions are to our nation's present---and disasterous to our future. (The Oz-Aware website's entire purpose is to explain this).

I'm genuinely sorry to say this to Ringtail---and all those who think like her---but your kind of thinking truly is 'evil' (http://www.oz-aware.com/evil.htm) to the wellbeing of our nation. Please make the effort to try and understand why.

Because, as I so dispairingly often try to get people like yourselves to understand, if this social "ship" (known as the Australian nation) sinks, then we ALL sink---YOU too!

And the reality is---we are. Even Prime Minister John Howard has referred to "the coarsening" of Australian society....

Ozaware: Ramadan is cool because it is a celebration like Cup Day, or Anzac day, or the Queens Birthday, or Christmas, or Labour day, or my birthday,or New years day - living in Brunswick next to a Muslim family as i did for a long time it came with a lot of singin' and dancin' eventually - they wore great clothes as well. It was a bit like an up beat Lent.

As for a different perspective, I dont understand.

Have a Happy Compassion Day - one and all!

Inkeemagee

Ozaware, thank god you have found me out. Its all true - I want the world to suffer. To bring this about I spread joy and company to our elderly citizens, I make abandoned animals suffer by cleaning out their cages at the local animal shelter. Worse, I regularly make donations of money and goods to a variety of charities.

Even worse, I’m honest too, I accidentally hit a parked car last year and located the owner so I could pay for repairs! Even my business imposes suffering on people gullible enough to want a low water/low maintenance garden design. I won’t be happy until everyone is like me spreading our compassion, oops I mean suffering to all – even you.

Thanks for the post I printed it out and showed all my friends and business associates – thanks to you they have been warned about my evil ways.

Long live Compassion Day!

Morgan, speaking from very real experience, the day when 'migration' legal or otherwise ceases to be a political tool, on that day pigs will fly to the moon and back.
In Sabah, when the Catholic guy was Chief minister, all the 'refugees' came from Timor (Catholic area) when the Muslim guy held sway, they came from Southern Philippines (Muslim area) do u really think that our political parties have no interest in who comes here and what their predisposed voting pattern is likely to be ? and into which areas, and what political impact they may have ? Wake up my boy, or grow up, its a grown up world out there. No offence, but the only thing loony was you suggesting that political interests in the migration program don't exist. Have u ever heard of the Liberals 'Business migration' emphasis, and Labors "assylum seeker" ?

Ringtail, you are definitely evil :) cute, but evil. That qualifies you (as it does for me) to come to the throne of Grace and empty yourself of it all and embrace a new life of selflessness which is FREE from the 'If I do enuf good things it shows I'm good' view u currently seem to have .. actually, on a social level, u are surely doing a great job, no argument there.
Speaking (u did) of animals, my pussy cat is laid out on the desk by my keyboard here absolutely loving the warmth and relaxation.

The point Ozaware is making, is that to try to change the association from Christ for Easter Monday to a 'Compassion day' is actually an attack on our culture. No problem with naming a particular day Compassion Day, but not at the cost of a long standing and important tradition in existance.
RAMADAN mentioned by Inkee, u have to fast from WHACKING your wife, but for the other 11 months of the year u can beat her. (want chapter and verse ? :)