Yuyutsu said,
If you close the stable doors now, you will still find me inside, as
well as many others who do not share your Western values.

Huh, then why are you here ?

Dear Buzz,

<<Huh, then why are you here ?>>

Weren't you singing "We've boundless plains to share"?

I have a life here, a very good life: I have not come FOR the Australian culture, but DESPITE it, because the culture where I came from was even worse.

Nobody, including the Australian consul who interviewed us for immigration, ever told me that Western values are a requisite for living in Australia - and indeed they are not: here I am, writing against such values and nobody arrests me.

Dear Onthebeach,

<<I have never heard of an of the hundreds of prospectors using metal detectors ever finding evidence of such conflict in Australia.>>

Of course, no metallic weapons were needed in that battle: the chemical formula of the invaders' weapon of choice is C2H5OH, a most valued substance in Western civilisation.

Yuyutsu,

I did once find a large number of 10 gauge, Brown Bess musket balls in a gully at the rere of Macquarrie Fields House, where, presumably Governor Macquarrie's guard had been having a bit of target practice.

http://collection.hht.net.au/firsthhtpictures/resbyfield.jsp?term=Macquarie+Field+House+(Macquarie+Fields,+N.S.W.)&field=SUBJECT&searchtable=CATALOGUE_SEARCH_PICTURES&displayFormat=TABLE

You are right though that very little trace of early conflicts survive because the sword and the sabre were much favoured as weapons; no necessity to reload.

Another go!

http://collection.hht.net.au/firsthhtpictures/resbyfield.jsp?term=Macquarie+Field+House+(Macquarie+Fields,+N.S.W.)&field=SUBJECT&searchtable=CATALOGUE_SEARCH_PICTURES&displayFormat=TABLE

if it didn't work just click on it and the stub will take you to the Historic Houses Trust, lotsa great pictures.

Well it is not unusual, but we have run away from the threads subject yet again.
Why not we do not care about female mutilation.
Why should we consider the fate of young girls forced to wed men twice even three times, more, their age.
Westerners are being reduced to non caring people, not all of us but too many.
We are willing to ban coal seam gas and save the green tree frog, we are quite willing to complain about Crunulla and hide the evidence, years of racial taunts ,from the children of migrants.
Aimed at Australia, but we can not muster the will to take a stand against a culture from the dark ages that treats females as sexual slaves.
A read this morning of the British press shows increasing WASP recruitment in to a religion that teaches them to hate why ignore that?

To get back on subject, the OP said "Every time we bend to accommodate another cultures practice we compromise our own culture. Not to even mention the effects on Australian born girls."

Which is very true, and denying Indigenous Australians their rights as Australian citizens compromises our own culture.
It is not only the Muslims in our society that have practices that are against the law, FGM for instance is also practiced by some Christians.

"Medical anthropologist Carla Obermeyer writes:
Regarding religious differences, it is now generally recognized that even though a number of the countries where female genital surgeries are found are predominantly Muslim, the practices are not prescribed by Islam and are, in fact, found among non-Muslim groups such as Coptic Christians of Egypt, several Christian groups in Kenya, and the Falasha Jews of Ethiopia. In CDI [Côte d'Ivoire], the prevalence is 80 percent among Muslims, 40 percent among those with no religion and 15 percent among Protestants, and in Sudan the prevalence is highest among Muslim women ... In Kenya, by contrast, prevalence is highest among Catholics and Protestants compared with other religious groups ... Thus, there is no unequivocal link between religion and prevalence. - Carla Obermeyer, 1999"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_on_female_genital_mutilation