Discussing the details about islam completely misses the point. Having studied islam and lived in predominantly islamic countries for 5 years i can assure you that when the crunch comes all the people who identify as muslims will be our active enemies, including you. Religions are forms of mental illness that combined with the mob mentality and fueled by a sense of spiritual superiority are far more dangerous than any purely political ideology.
Inevitably the global population will be seperated into muslim/other than muslim zones so the sooner 'the west' stops wasting time and resources in Afghanistan etc the better.

I find it ironic that the Jamila Hussain describes Yusef al-Qaradawi as a "noted Egyptian scholar" when, in fact he is a radical Islamic rabblerouser who preaches the legitimacy of suicide terrorism.

In 2004, the BBC's "News Night" program interviewed Qaradawi at his home in Qatar, asking him about the religious legitimacy of suicide bombings against Israeli civilians. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3875119.stm>

"SHEIKH YUSEF AL-QARADAWI
(Qatar University)
(TRANSLATION):
It's not suicide, it is martyrdom in the name of God, Islamic theologians and jurisprudents have debated this issue. Referring to it as a form of jihad, under the title of jeopardising the life of the mujahideen. It is allowed to jeopardise your soul and cross the path of the enemy and be killed.

THE BBC'S PETER MARSHALL:
In the mind of Sheikh Yusuf Al- Qaradawi, that view prevails even though women and children are often the innocent victims.

SHEIKH YUSEF AL-QARADAWI
(TRANSLATION):
Israeli women are not like women in our society because Israeli women are militarised. Secondly, I consider this type of martyrdom operation as indication of justice of Allah almighty. Allah is just. Through his infinite wisdom he has given the weak what the strong do not possess and that is the ability to turn their bodies into bombs like the Palestinians do."

So Qaradawi's bottom line is that the deliberate targetting of Israeli women and children is a praiseworthy act. And this is the guy Jamila Hussain wants to pass off as some sort of model moderate.

She is singing from the same songsheet as former Muclim Reference Group chairman Ameer Ali, who contends that Hizbollah doesn't engage in terrorism. Tell that to the families of the 100 or so victims who died in the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires. BTW - Argentine authorities recently issued a indictments in that case that includes former Iranian president Rafsanjani.

This sort of disingenuous double-speak coming from prominent members of the Muslim community only exacerbates already extant social tensions and suspicions.

Citizenship: Comming to Australia, a new reality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?search=&mode=related&v=CRSaoCnfBx0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wPglHZQf-0&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YUUB_VSROc&mode=related&search=

A big E- to Muslim convert Jamila Hussain for her report.

I'm afraid it's Samuel Huntington and not Francis Fukuyama that wrote "The Clash of Civilizations", and no, he has not moved away from this theory at all. Francis Fukuyama wrote "The End of History". Moreover, Fukuyama still believes that capitalist democracy represents the end point of history - certainly not an Islamic Sharia state or any other irrational religious state.

I fully agree with Huntington's clash theory, although I think that the China-Islam alliance that he postulates will never happen. I cannot see Muslim terrorists messing with China and getting away with it - in China there are no bleeding hearts or minority rights brigades and there is not the supine cultural self-loathing that suffuses Western elites. China will sink the boot in without mercy at any hint of separatism in heavily muslim Xinjiang Province or if Hui Muslims start demanding special this or separate that wherever they live throughout China. Moreover China now stipulates no Islamic education for young Muslims until over 18 and no Haj Pilgrimage to Mecca until over 60 years old. I applaud these policies and China would be well served to continue them in order to protect their culture against radicalisation of Muslims living within China, while at the same time showing light years more cultural generosity than the rudely intolerant Saudi Arabia does to non-Muslims.

In fact I think this is the reason that Muslim extremists have not added Xinjiang to the list of grievance areas like Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine etc is that they are painfully aware that China has backbone and the weight of 5000 years of continuous literate civilisation that it will defend without quarter. In fact I think China will be a bulwark against Islamic expansionism in the coming decades.

It is NOT the individual Muslim migrants and/or citizens that are of concern. These are the innocents.

What we are more concerned about is the religion itself. That is, Islam as an active political monolith. Currently, Islamic politics tends to the extreme and is anti-liberal. It cares nothing for different cultures or diversity of opinion. Islam as a theocratic political force IS by its very nature totalitarian.

It is the rise of political parties dominated by Sheiks and backed by the monolith of Islam that concerns us!