Oh no! Someone was honestly critical of Muslims!
Cure arrogant, flippant apologists and their robotic propaganda.

Suseonline “we can't be seen to ' implement selective immigration' in Australia.
How do you think that decision will go down with all the Muslim countries?”

Who cares how we are “seen”.
This *our* present and future society.
We shouldn't have to include any foreign people whatsoever, unless *we* want them.
It doesn't matter what *they* want.

And being “multicultural”? No.
We have a core culture than can and does incorporate elements from elsewhere when *we* want to (e.g. surfing, pizza).

“How do you think the Muslim countries will continue trading with us if we say we don't like their citizens? We get most of our petrol from them!”

Think they'll stop selling their one trick pony? It's all they've got!
And “Muslims” don't sell us petrol, commercial companies who want to make money do.

“we have to live in the wider world community and not in isolation in Australia.”

The wider world does not have to be duplicated *within* Australia.
Should it also be duplicated in Tibet? Oh no, Tibet's for Tibetans only!

worldwatcher “science mandates that we ALL originated from Africa. That being true, we must all have a touch of colour in our ancestry.”

Well, that's one theory. Nobody really knows for certain. And it's *irrelevant*!

We have “evolved” since then, not only into variant physical forms, but more emphatically different *cultural families*.

Today's immigration is not the same as the Greeks/Italians/Yugoslavians of yesteryear.
They are *related* to us, sharing a fundamental foundation, only differing in the surface, the details.

This is not comparable with the unrelated ethnicities of Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Oceania, which now account for 3 out of 4 new migrants.
This is “stealth genocide” and it is INDEFENSIBLE!

Shockadelic,

The touch of colour remark was meant as a funny. Even serious subjects need a touch of humour now and then.

Shockadelic, Australia has weathered many new groups of immigrants over the past centuries.
Many people ranted and raved about the Italians and other displaced European people arriving after the world wars, who were apparently going to destroy our English way of life.

Then they were aghast about the Vietnamese 'boat people' coming to bring communism to our shores
Successive wars and conflicts have brought us many other different immigrant cultures, and the sky still hasn't fallen in.

I honestly don't believe this current wave of Muslim immigrants will be any different.
Our children and grandchildren will be discussing the current paranoia about these immigrants sometime in the future, no doubt...

I had quite purposely kept out of this thread especially pre-Christmas as who needs the aggravation during the festive season. Anyway it was the same old knocked kneed types doing their spiel, peddling the same crap they have for the last year.

So let them be I thought, even they deserve a break from me over Christmas, but out it comes, the perennial linking Muslims to Nazis. I'm afraid no more sitting in the stands.

Well if the Nazi card is to be played lets see what we can do with it.

Do you want to know what the Nazis were about Belly, they were about vilifying and demonising the race and religion of a certain part of their citizenry. They then rounded them up, poisoned them and burnt their corpses in ovens.

The Nazis were Christians, and many other Christian countries in Europe colluded in the slaughter.

Very few people spoke up against what was happening, I hope that is never said of me. The Nazis were actually quite surprised with what they got away with in the early part of their campaign to persecute the Jewish people.

Why shouldn't we consider you an active precursor to similar horrors Belly? Are you going to dress up in a uniform with a few other thugs, smash some windows of Muslim businesses and paint crescents on their shop fronts?

Are you a Nazi Belly?

See I can play this game too till the cows come home.

Now how about parking the Nazi references, the scaremongering, the beating of drums and the rest of the rubbish. You have every right to express concerns about criminal activity, even about the difficulties some migrants have with adapting to Australia but to blow this out of proportion and to instigate and stoke a thread like this does you no credit.

csteele,

It's amazing how many threads on OLO can accommodate this garbage...they're wall to wall most of the time.

Anyway, thanks for your input (and yours too Suze).

Makes a pleasant change from the fear-induced xenophobic rantings that abound around here.

Thanks Poirot.
Csteele, I love your post.
I am glad there are some voices of reason amongst the angst...