Kekenidika says "you have migrated here and you have to integrate into OUR society".

Well number 1, Mr. K: where did you come from, and did you or your forebears drop all their customs and beliefs when they came to Australia?

Number 2, Mr. K: what a wonderful Australia we would have if we all integrated into YOUR way of life. I suspect we'd all be eating wonderful cuisine like meat pies, listening to wonderful music like, like, like... maybe John Farnham.

Playing such a range of sports like Aussie rules (maybe not, that's probably an Aboriginal sport), certainly not soccer or cricket, they belong to overseas cultures. We couldn't be Christian, because that's supposed to follow the beliefs of some Middle Eastern communist.

Come to think of it, that's the way we are heading under Howard - such a relaxed and comfortable monocultural society full of narrow minded intolerants who've probably never travelled further than the Gold Coast.

Don't give me any of that foreign muck - where's me meat pie, cheese and onion crisps and glass of Fosters?

To tell you just exactly just how I see and read and listen,to this carry on,what else can be expected,you take as for an example,of two in particular in the media oulets,the Herald Sun in Melbourne,is without doubt a rightwing paper,and to add to it they have their Andrew Bolt,who for years have spread his racist opinion of certain races and religions,he has by that helped to keep the flame of racism very much alive,he is one of the main causes,he is a backer of the Prime Minister John Howard,who also is a professed racist and has never changed,then there is the Daily Telegraph in Sydney,aepeat of the above,and they have their Piers Akerman,so what else does anyone expect others to say about Australia and its Racists,when you have AMBASSADORS like,John Howard,Andrew Bolt,Piers Akerman,and the others in Australia that hold opinions like thses,you will find them all over,in pubs,bars,at the WAGA,the MCG,SCG,GABA,so there you have it,we look for trouble,but cannot face it when,we get back a DOSE of our own medicine,so there you have it as I see the situation in Australia,as long as you have your John Howard,your Andrew Bolt your Piers Akerman,and all the other closet racists,this will be the view and opinions of the rest of the world.

Kekenidika how do you manage to walk about without any feet? I've heard about foot-in-mouth disease - I never expected such a text book case. I bet they study you at University and you just got let out.

With statements like:

"I do respect our women collectively" - OUR women? Not respected individually?

followed by:

"Stop dragging your knuckles along your cave floor and rejoin humanity" - well I guess it takes one to know one.

Who else on OLO owns women - come on, don't be shy, 'fess up fellows how many women do y'all have? Inquiring minds want to know.

Irfan with true blue Aussies like these; fundy Islam is starting to look good - well not really, but just who did let Kekenidika out of his holding cell?

Oh well that's my 2 P.P.T's used up.

To be fair to The Oz, whilst it did print Mark Steyn's anti-Semitic article, it also published an editorial deploring Danna Vale's comments on Australia becoming a Muslim country.

Tell me one country that retains its peaceful status after taking in Muslim immigrants.
As soon as the Muslims are settled in they want their own hours at public swimming pools, shopping centres, mosques , food and their loud complaining everytime they fail to get their demands met are unmissable.
Then ,as in UK, the next step will be to have their own no go areas with Sha'ia law, polygamy and then all the rest of the Islamic delights will come about in due course.
They follow a type of apartheid. Their host's laws, traditions and customs are never good enough for these people, they leave their own defective countries to spread their own defective rules through a world that does not want them. There is no victim like a Muslim.
How can they be so ignorantly blind?

Irfan,

Your heart is in the right place.

Just for one day, stop being at the coalface of the Muslim charge and sit back as a subjective Australian and analyse.

Yes, there are the majority of Muslims who are normal, quiet people, just like christians.

Then there are the Skinheads etc the minority who causes problems. Just like Muslims.

The difference is, Skinheads dont crash planes into buildings and bomb train stations, they are not suicide bombers a skinhead is a skin head when you look at them, not a sleeper trying to fly under the radar until the day arrives. that is why there is fear. that is why Howard is right in what he is saying, you have Afgani refugees coming from fighting and living in fundamentalism, who must have a certain welath base (or be funded) to escape the country in the first place, Howard is right in his analysis.

It is common sense, not anti muslim. If it were skinhead christians, Howard would highlight the same.

It is not always a conspiracy against you. Life is 10% what happens, 90% how you deal with it. Thank your lucky stars you are not in a truly racist country.

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, dont expect your PM to not call a Spade a Spade.

It is the truth Irfan, you are good bloke and it is unfortunate that the only people who can stop the anti muslim facets of society is the Muslims themeselves, you know who and where to find these frightening fundamentalists, yet they are ignored or protected by you.

This fear people have you can stop. If as Australians AND muslims you weed them out and save lives, you will be very highly regarded and your people can get the recognition they deserve as a peaceful people who can integrate with society.