Good evening to you IS MISE...

Small world eh ? I was attached to the local CIB as part of, TFN, that had been established there, not quite twenty five years ago, nevertheless quite a few years ago now ? There's some nice people in the area, small business, local shop keepers, decent people actually, who happen to wisely and quietly vanish, as darkness approaches. This situation existed as far out as Wiley Park, Lakemba, Punchbowl, Greenacre, Yagoona, Belfield, Belmore, Campsie, in fact quite a lot of previously decent suburbs. Sad really ?

Thanks IS MISE.

Shockadelic "Just wait, it's coming".
Oooh, really?

How often have we heard that phrase over the years from doomsayers?
They said it after the first and second world wars, when waves of displaced people came here from Europe and beyond.
Remember those dreadful Italians, Jewish, Chinese...the 'Yellow peril"?

They said it after the Vietnam War, and all those terrible Communist Vietnamese came to Australia...in boats no less!

And here we are again, with all the 'White Australia Policy" tragics frothing at the mouth and predicting doom to us all.

Ho hum....

We are living in a World with a spirit of hostile anger against Governments and violence on the street is the order of the day. Egypt, Ukraine, Thailand, Iraq, Afghanistan etc, etc; and the same spirit is emerging worldwide. We have accommodated and raised a group of warlike thugs here that deal in drugs to raise their money. They have no respect for authority or laws. When you look at the images from Manus Island they seem to be young men willing to act violently against authority.

O Sung Wu, my wife's cousin is a prison officer and he confirms that
the same violent attitude continues in prison. So much so they have to
try and segregate the moslems out.

They are the bully boys in prisons.

Foxy, I think I understand; hi !
You have had cataracts removed OK ?
The lenses the surgeon implanted were Rose tinted ? OK ?

60 million Frenchmen can't be wrong.

Suse,

Have you been to Bankstown lately or any of the nearby suburbs?
Been harassed for not wearing a head scarf?

When there it is quite amusing to listen to some of the conversations of people who think that they can't be understood by the nearby Europeans.
My wife is fluent in Arabic and translates quietly for my benefit.
The best bit though is when she then speaks to me in Arabic and I reply with a stock phrase that she has taught me.

You should see the faces [:-O]

It seems that Islam has been transformed by
Westerners from a diversely expressed, international
faith to a narrow political identity. It's now a symbol.
Westerners use terms such as "radical," "militant,"
"extremist," Islamist," "Jihadist," - but the distinction
between these labels is never clearly articulated.
Engagement with Muslims then is reduced to a one-dimensional
fiction and there's little if anything in-between.
No Muslim can be complex - which is to say - human.

And that is something I don't like to see - an entire group
of people reduced to. If that makes me in the opinion of some
looking at things through "rose-coloured" glasses. That is
something that I shall wear with honour. Better looking
through rose-coloured glasses than not being able to see at
all.