Manny. You have every right to make comment, but really, your status does not give your comment substance.

What I want to know is why are Australians so averse to finding out what Muslims here really think?

In Britain, polling organisations have done survey after survey among Muslims to find out how radical they actually are. Such surveys have turned up a frighteningly high level of radicalism and support for terrorism, particularly among the young.

Nothing like that has gone on here. Instead we mouth platitudes like "It's only a tiny minority", yet somehow Hilaly remains in his post no matter how disgusting his hate-speech.

I strongly suspect that if we actually did these surveys it would no longer be a mystery why Hilaly survives.

You don't think that John Howard is going to relinquish Sheik Hilaly that easily.That smelly old rag created by Paul keating against all the advice of his public service is now a political football and has an inordinate negative influence on our society.He is still here because of a lot of support in the Muslim community.

Irfan apparently sees the evil Anglo racist people of Cronulla as the sole protagonists in that conflict.Irfan you are losing more credibility at every comment.The people of Cronulla have tolerated this anti-social behaviour by Muslims for decades.After the assault of the life savers and the attack on a pregnant woman,they had had enough.Irfan makes no mention of the revenge attacks whereby an innocent man was almost knifed to death.Irfan makes no mention of the revenge attacks that had no media graphic footage of of a convoy of over 200 Muslims destroying private and public property in an orgy of destruction.Irfan makes no mention of the many of verbal and physical attacks on the innocent people both at Cronulla and around the Suburbs of Sydney.I have seen these thugs in action myself and the hate and distain they have for our culture is unbelievable.

Why are we not talking about the Buddhists,Jews or Hindus in the same vain? Muslims have a serious facist attitude problem and have to learn that they are just one of the many belief systems on this planet that isn't necessarily correct.

We have 3% of our population giving us an inordinate amount of grief.It seems to be the same pattern all around the planet.

Obviously, the boofheaded Hilali must go. But that decision must somehow be made by the Australian Muslim community - although it seems to me to be far from clear what structures and processes are available to Australian Muslims for them to make such collective decisions.

However, I fail to see how a B'nai B'rith apparatchik like Manny Waks can assist in this process by making stridently hollow demands as he does in this article. I suppose to his credit he has the virtue of not pretending to be unbiased.

Rhian said: "I’m a supporter of multiculturalism, which I see as comprising acceptance of the equal rights and responsibilities of people from different races, religions and birthplaces; celebration of cultural diversity and the benefits it brings; and tolerance of differences, including differences of opinion and faith."

How heart-warming! Sadly, cultural relativism is a Western invention, and thus self-invalidating. Non-Western cultures do not extend such noble egalitarian values to other cultures or even necessarily other ethnicities. Rather, most other cultures are built around self-preservation and solidarity. Almost all espouse conformity and their own supremacy. Understandly, they thrive as a minority within a Western urban environment where a subservient "dhimmi" majority is too embarrassed, or simply too captivated with airyfairy "diversity", to promote its own culture and traditions at the risk of offending migrant minorities. If we don't respect and embrace our own culture, then why should minorities?

Multiculturalism equips non-Western minority groups with disproportionate power relative to their ethnic representation. Rather than promote integration and the adoption of not only the values but the culture of mainstream society, MC acts as a disincentive to integration. In the long-term, a nation cannot survive such internal ethnic disunity unless there is sense of community underpinned by shared cultural identity.

Diversity
1. the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness.

Votes were the reason Keating gave Hilaly citizenship, and it appears votes are the reason Howard is happy to have him around:

"Labor-aligned commentator Christine Wallace, the wife of Beazley's former chief of staff Michael Costello, made the extraordinary claim that the Howard Government was behind the reports of the Sheik's disgusting remarks.

"I think there's a level of political activity, involvement and interest in this story that does point to it possibly being the new Tampa in terms of the 2007 election, with the Government trying to use this as the latest kind of ethnic wedge against Labor, with Labor, in contrast, really focussing on economic issues," she told the ABC."

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/opinion/story/0,22049,20670730-5001031,00.html

Keating is from Bankstown, so we should deport him back there.