"So, Poirot, behead me"

Oh, Wow, Loudmouth -

You've been waffling away here and I've only just noticed you.

(I'm not really interested at the present juncture in your feeble attempts to get up my nose - but I'm sure it will keep you amused to go on trying:)

Carry on......

Joe,
Nobody in Afghanistan has clean hands, the Hazara ended up with the rough end of the pineapple because their fighters and spiritual leaders worked as Iranian proxies in the Afghan wars of the 1990's, they are no more "innocent" than any of the other groups.
http://afgstudygroup.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/what-really-happened-afshar-operation.html
The situation regarding the Tamil Tigers is well known and there have been numerous instances of war criminals and terrorists entering Western countries as refugees.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9926441/Sudanese-war-criminal-living-rent-free-in-Birmingham-house.html
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/egyptian-terrorist-in-higher-security/story-fn9hm1gu-1226626492853

Australia needs to end all refugee resettlement programs, they've been a disaster, they're setting Whites against Whites, legal immigrants against illegals, immigrant against native born, immigrant against immigrant.

Dear Joe (Loudmouth),

For your information:

Women comprise one third of the Parliament of Egypt.

Whereas despite a few high profile roles women
comprise less than one third of all Parliamentarians
in Australia and occupy less then one quarter of all
Cabinet positions.

http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BN/2011-2012/Womeninparliament

Thank you, Lexi,

I don't know where you got your figures from. This article suggests that only 2 % of the current Egyptian Parliament (Waf'd) are women:

http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/INF30.pdf

To quote from the article:

"Women’s representation in parliament fell from 13 per cent in 2010 to two per cent in 2011 despite the fact that the number of women who nominated themselves for office had doubled."

i.e. 2 %, or nine members of Parliament.

And I wouldn't mind betting that a high proportion of them were urban, Cairo-based, Coptic Christians and secularists, going by this:

http://democratizingegypt.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/names-of-women-in-egyptian-parliament.html

Don't believe everything you are told, Lexi :)

Joe

It seems Loudmouth is right, Lexi.

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/19/145468365/in-egypts-new-parliament-women-will-be-scarce

Loudmouth,

Do you reckon those remaining women parliamentarians "believe in germs"?

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=5769&page=0#161288

Yes, a high proportion of them, I'm sure - some of them are doctors actually. It's not 'kunder, kuche, kurche,' for all Egyptian women, Poirot, and a very high proportion of women from some religious groups there have been to school :)

Joe