Obviously, it is these small-minded people who aren't well read....
Suseonline,
Those small-minded people get their opinions from real life experience unlke those who read too much.

Here's a link that may be of interest:

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/44400.html

Islamophobia, not Islam is the real threat.

Bertrand Russell's quote at the end is quite interesting.

Cheers.

The ABC, Foxy?
You don't even need to read it to know what it says.

"Why wouldn’t the Australian people listen?"

Because the ABC audience isn't "Australian" in any representative way.

Progressives talk of tolerance, yet can't spend a day without Christian-bashing and/or White-bashing.

Does it ever occur to you that secularists, gays and feminists might also be concerned about Muslim immigration, not just conservative Christians?

Bertrand Russell "Persecution only ceased after long and bitter experience of its futility"

Yes, but it *ceased*.
Such wisdom has yet to emerge in the Muslim world.

Foxy, sigh, the link doesn't change anything.
Islam is still the belligerent political movement it has always been since its inception.
Its religion just makes its followers feel better.
It gives them the excuse they need to justify their actions.

Dear Shockadelic,

Lets take a look at how conflict has "ceased."

Over the centuries, the number of people involved
in, and killed by, warfare has increased dramatically.
Alexander the Great set out to conquer the world as he
knew it with an army of less than 40,000 men. William the
Conqueror invaded England with 50,000 men. The Napoleonic
Wars involved hundreds of thousands of soldiers. In the
American Civil War, nearly 2 million men were under arms.
During World War I, some 65 million troops were mobilised
and 19 million people were killed.

The carnage of that pointless and dreadful conflict so
stunned the world that people called it "the war to end all
wars," for they knew humanity would never commit such folly
again. World War II followed a mere twenty-one years later -
and this time, almost 100 million people took up arms, and
an estimated 38 million soldiers and civilians were killed.

The fighting still continues throughout the globe - wars
have not "ceased." And today the major powers maintain huge
standing armies. Over the past quarter century, global spending
for military purposes has consumed an estimated $14 trillion
(that is, $14,000,000,000,000).

This represents a colossal diversion of funds from socially
useful goals, for example, a single hour's worth of these
expenditures would suffice to save, through immunisation,
the 120,000 children around the world who die
each day from preventable infectious diseases.

And that is not something that any of us can be proud of.

So let's run a check list through another typically hateful thread.

Started by inaccurate link – check

Use of push button terms;

'Invasion' – check.

'Slippery slope' – check

'World domination' – check

'Multiple wives' – check

'Female genital mutilation' – check

'Child brides' – check

'Theocratic government' - check

Use quote; "We have no need to go to war to take over Europe, we will take over by the wombs of our women." - Check

Attack multi-culturalism – check

Not a bad effort lads. Forgotten 'terrorist' and 'suicide bomber' it would seem although you may be holding them for later.

Sigh. Same old same old from the usual suspects, high on hysteria but short on facts.