Coach, Irfan

It sounds like if you stopped allowing your respective scriptures to get in the way, you'd both be on the same page (no pun intended).

Irfan

You say "Deep down inside, they hate me for the same reason their ideological ancestors hated Jews 60 years ago." I do not know who you are referring to but my family have lived in Australia for over 100 years as Jews and have never met people here who hate us. In fact all the Australian Jewish histories I have seen point to a unique lack of hatred or discrimination to Jews in this country.

I wish I could say that other groups have enjoyed the same level of tolerance. The various Asian and Muslim groups have all gone through a rough deal not to mention the original inhabitants. Perhaps it is their different skin toning although many other immigrant groups have had to wait for acceptance.

It does help to produce a Military leader or a High Court Justice or generally supply a few community leaders to be accepted. Certainly our Prime Minister supplied a leadership in racial prejudice to save his own skin at a regretable cost to Muslims.

fleurette

It does you no good to show your anger Your normally reasoned and sensible arguments loose their force when you do. I have my own bias which you well know but have only seen good things from those Muslems I know and do not stereotype, at least I hope not.

logic,

Thank you for your remarks. I just thiught i should point out that i was referring to 'ideological ancestors', not literal ancestors. Indeed, Australia has been very kind to its Jewish inhabitants. It's often forgotten that our first Australian-born Governor-General, Sir Isaac Isaacs, was of Jewish faith.

Boaz_David,
Would you try to find out what info we give to prospective migrants before they decide to immigrate?

The DIMA website reveals little and two letters to DIMA have simply got the responce that they are not permitted to give out information.

It looks as though Irfan cannot help either, but I will keep trying other avenues. It would not surprize me if we give little info about our culture and society to migrants. I think it is important that we find out. The beginning is always a good place to start.

It is far too late when they get here.

Banjo, I think migrants are expected to make their own inquiries. I'm not sure what info is provided by Australian embassies and high commissions overseas.

Irfan,
Thanks for that. I intend to find out one way or another. If we simply tell prospective migrants, in a lazy and offhand way, that we are a Multicultural society, it is not good enough.

We are deceiving them and fooling ourselves. Migrants have a right to be properly informed about our culture and society.

How can we expect migrants to intergrate if we do not inform them about what is acceptable and what is not.

Thanks again, I will keep trying to find what we DO tell them