and here it is:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22879059-2862,00.html

SIKH students in Victoria have been given the green light to carry small daggers to school under a plan that has outraged teachers and principals.

A Victorian parliamentary committee has also given the green light for Muslim students to wear hijabs in the state's classrooms.

Now we have crossed the line. IF it is ok to take WEAPONS to school in the name of religion.. then all religions and all weapons considered 'important' should/must be allowed. The Malays would use a 'kris' a wiggly dagger type thing.

This is just a further example of the madness that 'difference' is creating.

ALTERNATIVE. Rather than simply caving in to foreign cultures, how would it be, if we simply told them BEFORE they come here that
a) b) c) etc are not, and will not ever, be acceptable in Australian society.

This then of course raises the other issue of 'those already here'..and highlights the lunacy of considering our country 'multi' cultural. We say "As long as they adhere to the laws of the land" wel... last time I checked, carrying a concealed unlicenced weapon, which includes knives is illegal.... why then should the status of such things even be a questio

BD,

More of the same, we can expect more of this crap now we have a labor Govt.

Perhaps if I was a Palestinian I could take an AK47 to school that seems to be part of thier religion

Perhaps if I was Rastafarian I could take joints to school and smoke them at recess, wouldnt that be fun.

Whoever approved this crap must of been smoking joints, brought to you by a Labor government how wonderful.

Oh. My. God!

So an extremely small proportion of Indian kids - adherents of a famously peaceful religion who are required to pray daily for the wellbeing of all mankind - will be taking small ceremonial daggers to school that they're not allowed to use!

Well I don't know about you people, but I am going to lobby for a complete freeze on immigration effective YESTERDAY and am immediately converting to Christianity!

RUN FOR THE HILLS PEOPLE! YOU'LL BE LUCKY TO ESCAPE WITH YOUR LIVES!

PS For learn more about the Sikhs and the kirpan, see http://www.sikhinterfaithvic.org.au/kirpan.htm

It's pretty obvious that this is a concernt for fraidy cats only.

Hi Scotty.. yes.. who knows eh.

BASS HILLS ISLAMIC SCHOOL.. the sequel.

There were thousands of objections to this, 2500+ and 600 or so 'for'... Main objections were on 'planning' grounds, but the 'tone' of the objections included reference to the religious aspect.
The 'pro' group sought to portray themselves as 'ordinary people looking to educate their children'.... here is a comment from one such person.

MARIJANA (supporting construction)
>>This is a prosperous and exciting opportunity for the whole of South - Western Sydney region. Given this opportunity at any other suburb I am sure that they would bounce at such an exciting development and it really is saddening see a minority in the Bass Hill region opposing this great opportunity) want to behave like the uneducated,uncouth,foul mouthed,intimidating, out of control people that they are, that's their problem. They only showed Council and any other interested parties their true colours!<<

CONCLUSION. The 'difference' between communities creates a pressure cooker of seething resentment. One day, one of 'them' (or us) will refuse to pay a bus fare, be rebuked by the driver, go home and tell 'the rest' that they were picked on by 'them' and "Poso/Ambon" will visit us all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=govrPJZ8Y7M

Thanks Botheration - and enlightening link.

It just goes to show how bigoted and racist some people are. They are doing more harm to their cause than they realise.

They misrepresent the truth for their own agenda and instill fear in the minds of their target audience.

And they do this in the name of God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost? - how hypocritical is that!

I see that Boazy and his mate in hate Scotty have been doing a fair bit of textual frothing at the mouth over the last couple of days. How nice to see they've found a soulmate in each other.

Actually, I agree that the decision to allow initiated Sikh kids to wear the kirpan under their school uniforms is unwise - but I can't see any great risk from allowing hijabs. They might even mitigate the headlice plague that seems to bedevil most schools these days :)

However, I disagree that these are examples of multiculturalism per se. Rather, I see the issue to be the encroachment of religions into secular public schools where they don't belong. In recent years we've seen Howard's Christian chaplains insidiously introduced, and now we have this Sikh nonsense and the issue of Muslim hijabs in schools.

I think that all overt displays of religions and their paraphernalia should be banned from public schools. It is religions that are divisive, not multiculturalism.