Still coming unreported by main stream media last 2 days 3 more boats with excess of 200 people.

Good one Julia why don't you just send the navy to the middle east to bring them here.

Csteele I do, I just LOVE opposing you.
Your history shows some pure bigotry, in defense of Muslims and Lebanese ones in particular.
You droned on about drones killing while not seeing western troops killed.
You defended in strong terms and as rude as anything I EVER put in print, a lie telling woman convert who tried to have a polices man job.
No Nazi, no coward, a true ALP voters who speaks for middle and most Australians.
AK47 is a weapon so too are the words of damp squibs like you, afraid to admit your true colors.
Saw my guests off 3am, long trips ahead, watch the news.
Muslim murdering Muslim.
Do not discard the link to our beginnings, we all came from Africa.
And today, to the best of my understanding , ONLY FOLLOWERS OF ONE GOD KILL EVEN THEIR OWN IN HIS NEVER EXISTED NAME.

Notice? are we men aware in the eyes of the girls our MAINSTREAM VIEWS are racist?
That no one of them has stepped up in thread after thread to DEMAND an end to FGM in this country?
Oh yes it takes place, but those young women, little girls, are collateral damage, not victims.
The signs saying we, and our lady friends, csteele to, no friend, are going to hell.
Stand and be men!
If you are upset by my words craft a post telling me.
But do not cringe in the corner like Mice.
Because the mother love instinct has blinded SOME.
This very day, some where in AUSTRALIA, young women barely in their teens, are being told of a trip HOME.
Maybe not knowing it is to a forced wedding, with a much older man, who will pay her parents, for her sex parts, to beused under SHARIA LAW as a toy.
Rather be a bigot than lie.
White feathers in ww1 and two, now we are defamed for?
Being honest, saying what our country men and women, the massive majority of them, think.

Belly,

I do believe somewhere in the annals of OLO are my words "FGM is barbaric"...however, I suffixed that point with my observation that snipping little bits of baby boys was, in principle, a similarly questionable exercise.

For that , I was flayed alive by Loudmouth who referred to the practice of the latter as merely removing excess flaps of skin (as if evolution provided us with excess flaps of anything in the skin department).

I wonder if our anglo origins and our subsequent geographical circumstance helps shape this nation's psychology, coz majority group-think in this country is about as insular as it comes in a world of shifting populations...it's always been a world as such - nothing new there.

Nor is there anything new about folks lining up, one behind the other, to spew their anti "whoever-isn't-like-us" rhetoric ad nauseam.

Dear Belly,

I grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney (Parramatta).
And admittedly I haven't been back there for quite a few
years fo I can't comment on the changes that you speak of.

As far as Muslims in Australia are concerned however,
I don't believe that we can tar them all with the same
brush simply because they are so very diverse. They come
from different regions for a start - Indonesia, India,
China, Russia, and many black African countries. And of course
there's the Middle East. I believe that Muslims in
Australia make up only 2% of the population.

We tend to forget that the picture that is presented in the
media of Muslims usually deals with a minority within the
Muslim group - the fundamentalists (extremists). They are a
minority and do not represent the mainstream Muslim
community. Also to many people - Muslims conjure forth
images of women behind veils, of adulterers being stoned,
of thieves having their hands cut off, of public floggings and
executions, of martyrdom in holy wars, and in extreme cases,
of political fanaticism exemplified in aircraft hijackings
and terrorist bombings.

This picture is rather distorted, for it is based on what is
newsworthy rather than what is typical in this country.
We have so many Muslims that are peaceful and are a part of
the mainstream of our communities - who have contributed
so much to this country. We should not blame all of them for
the actions of a few within their group.

Read the previous link that I gave - and I'm sure that
you will see that your fears are groundless.

Belly I think it goes without saying that all women on this site would abhor FGM.

As it happens though , FGM is more of a cultural practice than a Muslim practice.
It is against the law in Australia so I can't see what more you want us to do about it other than also campaign for that other barbaric practice of circumcision of boys?