Woops, I meant to say that Bolt described Stone as an "idiot". There goes my 2-response a day quota!

Gee Popovitch,
your tales of the Ummayyad Emirate remind me of Lebanon, just the other month (let alone Gaza,West Bank, Falluja!). For example, Just today Haaretz revealed a million illegal clutzer bombs had been indiscriminantly scattered acccross southern Lebanon by the IDF. Also hidden away in the corner of some publication, comes the suppressed information of a major battle in Afghanistan- 500 dead!
Just as well its only the Moors of a thousand years ago that were the sole humans to ever show brutality to their fellows! (ain't nuttin' to what Joshua did to the Moabites, either!!)

If Nayeefa and Irfan find Australia such a depraved and sinful country,why are they not living in a Muslim country,free from such evils?

Good on you Arjay.
I think you have said it well; when you said (If Nayeefa and Irfan find Australia such a depraved and sinful country,why are they not living in a Muslim country,free from such evils?)
Now, please excuse my ignorance, and I have no real idea who these groups of people are, BUT, it doesn't matter who they are, I strongly believe that if persons, or groups of persons, dont like the Australian way of life, then they ought to find somewhere else to visit, or live.
I'm an Aussie, of many generations. I like it here. Others come, and either criticise our way of life, or wish to impose their own 'ethnic' culture, or way of life upon us.

Accept us as we are, or GO AWAY.

This is Australia - we like it like this.

If you dont like our way, then stay away! (Sounds like the basis of a song there somewhere, eh?

Note; I have been admonished by the moderator for using too many exclamation marks - sorry, but these are necessary to emphasise the relevant point - is there REALLY a need to constrain one so?

Cheers all.

Of course, it does not matter, Aussiefella, who people are as long as they used to dirty cash in hand works only and they do not pretend on anything professional supposed in Australia for a higher race of Anglo-Aussie fellas.

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Respected readers,

Peace be with you.

I planned initially to refrain from commenting on the thread as I left it to the readers to decipher whether or not it was possible for the Mossies to remain true blue Aussies. Clearly, however, it seems I have failed to communicate my message – after all, English is my second language.

Frankly speaking, the individuals I think most highly of come from U.S.A., Australia, U.K. and other parts of the world. My friends who I admire the most are from agnostic, Christian, Jewish and Muslim backgrounds. I have been to a number of countries and spent a long time in Australia and Japan. Australia and Japan offer *very* different cultural atmospheres. To be honest, both countries offer cultural elements I found benevolent (e.g. integrity, courtesy, humility, fair treatment of the others etc.). That said, these benevolent cultural elements already formulate a part of the Islamic principles. That’s what I actually attempted to express – “[t]he perceived clash between the Islamic and Western values is a fallacy.”