Here's another link to add to the discussion:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-02-23/brullleaders/44400

I would like to share an article, by a Muslim

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/my-muslim-religion-has-problems-that-need-fixing-20140828-109ibb.html

Quote: When will Muslims stand up and accept that yes we have problems within our faith. Maybe a few more problems than other faiths, but sure, we have problems. They don't just affect us as Muslims, they affect our friends, their families and our neighbours. They affect a society that welcomes us here, treats us as equals and gives us the opportunity to live a decent and dignified life. Democratic Australia gives us a voice and tries its best not to judge us.
The issues that we face within our religion range widely from individuals brutally beheading people in the name of establishing an Islamic Caliphate to, at a local level, female genital mutilation.
Muslims need to be able to discuss these issues openly and denounce barbaric behaviour. Instead, we choose to remain silent and then criticise a government that tries to make Australia safer

The Islamic Council is against the government taking steps to secure its citizens from Australian fundamentalists who fight wars in other countries. It's their prerogative to fight wherever they want. But these fundamentalist want to bring this war back to Australia. They do not value what Australians have. They do not agree with our way of life. They do not want to respect the law and the democracy in which we thrive.

Mr. Mohammed asks a lot of questions that most Muslims never ask. I wish we would ask himself why is it that hate, discrimination and violence come so easily to Islam and Muslims, but that would be really too much. We can't expect Muslims to question anything about Islam, only about the actions of other Muslims, as if those actions had nothing to do with Islam. In any case, thank you, Glenn.

Here's a couple more links to add to the discussion:

http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2014/07/11/4043888.htm

And -

http://theconversation.com/the-australian-liberty-alliance-and-the-politics-of-islamophobia-24225

Hey, individual, no need to start lashing about just because that internet snippet had made a fool of you.

>>Poirot, you hear ? Moron ? Can't wait for your next unintelligent reply quip<<

I bet you hate Snopes.

And not that it is any business of yours, but...

>>Pericles, You obviously haven't been to France in the past ten years<<

Not only have I "been to France" on any number of occasions over the past ten years - last year being one of them - I have stayed in some of the places often described by ignorant foreigners as "racial tinderboxes" and the like. The reality is that most of France is as tolerant as most of Australia. It is only the fear-ridden bigots and close-minded xenophobes who witter on about the "dreadful influx that is an unintended consequence to wrongly so-called multiculturalism".

The rest of us just get on with our lives.

Pericles,
What internet snippet ? When you visit France do you always strap your blacked-out glasses on ?

Foxy,

Keep up that spin and soon the victims themselves will be responsible and blameworthy for the dreadful crimes committed against them.

No surprise that the same political correctness that stymied official action and even victim complaints in Rotherham is being used here in this thread to derail and block discussion of the report into Rotherham.

When she was PM, Julia Gillard herself was sledged by the politically correct for even re-stating the obvious and accepted right of nations to control who comes across their borders. She was slammed for criticising Rudd's Big Australia - apparently according to some Australians should have no right to protect their quality of life and culture, or even to register protest about crippling taxes to fund the enormously expensive infrastructure and social benefits required by over-zealous immigration targets. Other politicians have been sledged for wanting to put Australian workers first, before importing foreign workers.

However, it takes a lot of gall and the front of a Sydney double-decker bus to spin ordinary concerned citizens as 'xenophobes' and 'racists' for even discussing the political correctness that prevented victim, friend and relative, and public officials (including police!) alike, from reporting and taking the required action in Rotherham.