Dear Yvonne,

Thanks for the link - I hadn't seen it.

Excellent article.

At least some newspapers are being responsible.

There's hope yet.

Did anyone watch the ABC's "Q and A," program
last night - Monday 22nd September 2014 at 9.35pm?

It was an interesting panel and audience.

I am curious as to what others thought of the
discussion.

'I am curious as to what others thought of the
discussion.

extremely predictable with an atrocious panel with apologist for Islamic violence.

justification for violence

- our supposed suppport of Israel
- victimhood of muslims
- blaming the West for 1400 years of violence

Tony Jones was pathetic. The abc should not be funded with taxpayers money to propagate such rubbish in the guise of open discussion.

The whole show was pathetic, poor Muslims are being targeted.

If that's so then it was fellow Muslims that are working the target frames.

It's all a conspiracy to take peoples minds off the budget.

One panelist bleated that the presence of the news cameras was for the theatrical effect.
The police may have initially, a few years ago, thought that having the cameras along was good for the image but now it's mainly so that everyone can see what is going on and false accusations are not easy to level.
It's also democracy in action, the people should be able to see what is happening, commensurate with the safety of news crews.

None of you in the blanket anti-Muslim brigade has ever experienced the constant hatred for what another thinks you represent or what another thinks you are. Especially as a minority group. With no chance of ever being able to say anything to the contrary about yourself. Just by walking out on the street. Opinions about you are set by others who nothing about you. None of you could even imagine what that feels like.

The lot of you would have felt right at home in Nazi Germany with people being forced to wear a yellow star on their jacket. It didn't matter whether you were Orthodox Jewish, had a smidgen of Jewish blood in you, followed bits of the Jewish faith or were totally secular. You were the scapegoat to galvanize a people to get them to wage war.

Nothing changed after the twin towers came down, except that now it takes a ridiculous long time to board a flight. Planes still fly and still crash without the aid of terrorists.

More people get killed driving to and from the airport then from terrorist attacks. More people get killed by random drunk drivers, partners, drive-by shootings and gang violence, sharks and crocodiles, yet we still go about our daily lives without being panicked.

If you are a disenfranchised loser, who gets accused of stuff anyway, why on Earth wouldn't you want to join the biggest baddest gang on the block making everybody running scared?

I lived in the UK when the Brighton hotel where there was a Lib get together was bombed by the IRA with Thatcher (the PM!) in residence. One minister got killed. Was there a campaign against all Irish, all Catholics? No.

Come off it Yvonne, time to grow up kiddo.

We have dozens of races here, tens of religions, & when many of these came, their qualifications, if any, were not recognised. Most, if not all of these people disappear into the community, & within a decade have effectively disappeared.

Our current crop of Muslims have walked into the land of milk & honey. Not only are our laws not enforced with them, [bigamy], our welfare system is quietly adapted to facilitate their practices.

They have set themselves up to stand out against the crowd, while becoming the most skilled at ripping the system off, in every way possible.

I'm sure they don't have a word for decency, or for gratitude, & their arrival has brought only disharmony & pain to all of us.