Bazz, you surely can't mean assie's have no responsibility to new migrants?
All the programs for immigrants defies that logic. I must say I'm surprised at your reaction to my post.

The site made me feel better about being accused of racisism when I'm not, and its on an Islamic site?
We do have obligations to new migrants, as they have to us, or Australia. Our history says as much, the successful immigration of 1945/50 included all, even Nazi's apparently.
We have a problem of mutual resposibillity here and need to sort it, not fight it.
fluff

Personally I don't want Australia to become a sharia state.

Why not?

Because Plantagenet,
Religion should be the personal choice of the individual and to have it forced on people against their will is undemocratic and intolerant. Beware of the priests who earn their living off the donations of their followers. They can not allow any truth if it flys in the face on their teaching,because if they dont have many worshippers at their church and they cannot derive their income then
they could literally die in the street from hunger and poverty.

Thats why the christian priests imprisoned Gallileao in earlier centuries when he dared to say that the earth wasnt the centre of the universe as they proclaimed;that in fact the Sun was.

The priests are playing their own power games in this war on terror.
Read your Koran but beware the priests. To give control of your country to priests is madness they straight away become totalatarian regimes and the people lose their right to any vote.

There has never been any country in history that has benefited by being under the control of priests and usually terrible cruelties and suffering are inflicted on people who dont conform to their idea of Godliness. Bloody Mary Queen, of England beheaded everyone who wouldnt convert to the catholic faith. For heaven sake learn the lessons of history.

Sharkfin people didn't want Australia to become a Communist country either.

Do you want to know what I think of those people? Apart from them being incredibly stupid and ill informed?

Actually nevermind. We'll excuse those people because they didn't know any better. It was the first time round after all. But what excuse do they have now for thinking the same thing?

No scrap that. I'm sure most of the Vietnam veterans are just as anti war as ever. I'm sure they think this "fear of terrorism/Islam" is just as nonsensical as the fear of Communism in the 1950s

If we do indeed live in such an enlightened and democratic society then shouldn't we start to act like it?

Boaz David. My father who recently moved to England does not declare that he is English. He is Australian. Kinda puts a jam in the flow of your argument there. It poses the question - what makes us so great that you have to become one of us in order to live here? Why can't we accept diversity? Isn't that part of democracy and freedom?

sharkfin,

>>There has never been any country in history that has benefited by being under the control of priests ...<<

Do you know of any country that has benifited from being under the control of imams?

fleurette my dear,

>>what makes us so great that you have to become one of us in order to live here? Why can't we accept diversity? Isn't that part of democracy and freedom? <<

It is democracy and freedom - but when a group comes here with opposite values to democracy and freedom - one must not allow such an allien group to mix in our midst - integration is not on their agenda, because it requires change something islam does not allow.