TRUTHNOW78

'if cultural diversity and pluralism lead to dissatisfaction, why do governments support these ideas?'

The loudest voices seem to get heard. Just like the screams of the Greens has contributed greatly to the bushfire tragedy, the same voices get heard when it comes to immigration. Anyone opposing people with different value systems immigrating here are labeled racist and sidelined. When racial riots start these same people are not to be seen. Their only answer is that the racist Australians treatment of them has caused this problem.

Governments support these ideas not because they are good for anyone but they want acceptance from decadent organisations such as the UN. This is where a lot of the crap comes from.

Dear runner,

" Thus Jesus would speak of a new
commandment, "that you love one another as I have
loved you."

Whatever happened to this basic tenet of Christianity?
Nowhere did Christ speak of excluding those who spoke
a different language, or were from a different cultural
background. He did not specify to love only the
"White Anglo-Saxon Protestants!" (WASPS).

Christ has no boundaries, and His love cannot be
limited by the blindness or egotism of frightened men,
right?

Practice what Christ teaches, and perhaps one day you'll be
able to say to Him, "I have tried to be a decent human being!"

Hi Bronwyn.

<< At first I thought you were being a tad obsessive, but I'm really finding them annoying and off-putting too now. >>

Actually, I find them amusing more than anything. It's quite fun pointing out the duplicity (and hence inherent dishonesty) of the frootloops who tend to use them to get more bandwidth for their crackpot ideas.

<< I'll definitely leave the detective work to you though from now on! :) >>

Yes, they tend to get quite nasty when exposed, as you may have noticed ;)

Bronwyn,

“Yes, Islamophobia is alive and well, very much here on OLO, and too on the Internet more generally. An anti-Muslim email, based on the Denmark situation according to Islamophobes, Daniel Pipes and Lars Hedegaard, as far back as 2001, is still doing the rounds. I had a friend contact me just the other day who was taken in by its ostensibly reasonable tone, and thought it was current news and that there might be something to it. “

As if to prove your point a friend of mine sent me an email with 5 juicy stories commencing with:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1141267/Saudi-judge-sentences-pregnant-gang-rape-victim-100-lashes-committing-adultery.html

Naturally the email was addressed to multiple recipients and the obvious intent of the viral email is to incite Islamophobia.

I came back because the same friend sent me another such email today with a bunch of stories obviously gathered for Islamophobic purposes. This thread doesn't seem to be moving but I'm here so I'll post this anyway. I didn't even bother to count them this time but probably about the same number. The lead link was:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25056815-1243,00.html

mjpb

Thanks for posting and helping raise awareness about the extent of this problem.

Yes, George Bush, John Howard et al have a lot to answer for. One can only wonder just how many of these closet bigots they've helped create, all out there behind their computers cowardly waging their phony so-called 'war on terror', stirring up fear and and besmirching the character of all Muslims in the process.

We do need to work together to combat the influence of this misinformation. Where there's a link for comments, we need to point out the bigotry and register our disgust, no matter how repetitive it might become. We have to get the message out there that this rubbish is not truth-based, but is deliberate and dangerously divisive propaganda. Likewise, a letter to the editor or emailing the editorial staff are other worthwhile options.

Where there's a name given as some sort of authority or expert figure, as there was in the Denmark email I referred to earlier, a google search can often clearly expose these people for the true Islamophobes they are. That information can then be fed back to help put the offending piece into its proper perspective.

In that particular case, when I googled the two names together, I was lucky enough to turn up a compelling rebuttal written by a Danish government authority at the time, which I then passed onto my friend to forward to the sender of the offending email. The letter was dated which is how I knew the email was eight years old, which was another useful piece of damning information!

Good on you, mjpb, for picking this up. Hopefully, others do too, and can chip in with some more ideas on how we can all work together to combat this garbage, and the fear and misinformation it's generating within the community.