Wolly.
99% of Christians in Australia support the establishment of Islam as the third arm of an ecumenical bloc alongside Catholicism and Protestantism so it's a purely hypothetical question.
The small number of Christians who do oppose Islam, such as Catch The Fire Ministries are ignored because everyone knows who's pulling their strings and that they're nothing but useful idiots for the local Likudniks.

Poirot,
What do you reckon Poirot, do we ignor the event or just turn the other cheek as we have in the past. This is not the first time such contempt has been displayed.

Do you and Paul claim the article is not true? I am no Christian but we are far too leinient with law breakers. Yes, I do have a problem, and so does our society, when laws are not administered adequately.

I understand that there are about as many Buddists in Aus as there are moslims, yet one seldom reads about their bad behavior. Is that a media problem or are they just better behaved.

Whadaya reckon, Banjo...about this?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-10/credlin-avoids-punishment-on-drink-driving-charge/4947944

"Peta Credlin, Tony Abbott's chief of staff, avoids punishment on drink-driving charge"

What do you reckon, Banjo, do we ignore the event or just turn the other cheek as we have in the past. This is not the first time such contempt has been displayed.

According to Peta - and applying it to her own case - (and I quote):

"Justice doesn't have to be done, it has to be seen to be done."

Poirot,
No, she should have been convicted and fined, even a suspension, as any other person would. If not her first offence the penalty increased.

I object to high profile people getting off lightly or females using their gender to escape penalty. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

The criminals referred to in the first post should get an extra 6 months, with no parole, and brought back. If they refused to stand again, then another 12 months. Money well spent, they have to be educated.

Jay what is an ecumenical block? You use it in a fashion as to suggest that it is a congress that has some power over outcomes. The clergy from the three predominant faiths in Australia, the Christians, Buddhist, and Muslims have been ecumenical for two decades now, the first stab at an ongoing congress was in the late 80’s, started by the Anglicans and Catholics meeting to discuss the dwindling church attendances. They got together because business was bad.

In the last census 61.1% of Aussies identified as Christian, about 13 million but only 1.8 million attended churches. So I don’t know how valid that 99% acceptance thing is given the other 11 million Christians have the mass media as their social conscience rather than a weekly dose of church.

Jay I do not understand your point, is it a validation of acceptance by the Christian community? Two years back in answer to a like thread on OLO, I asked 15 Caucasian work colleagues from the office to the shop floor who would they least want to have bought the house next to them, an Asian, a Muslim, or an Aboriginal.............fifteen instant replies....a Muslim.

Me personally, I don’t care, all immigrants were well represented where I grew up. I do not place religious tolerance above the law of the land. I would charge them with contempt each and every time they refused to respect the court. If it means they stay in goal forever so be it, it's their choice

There are a lot of low life petty and not so petty criminals that display no respect for the law. Almost nightly on the TV news (all channels) we see examples of some crook receiving a slap on the hand for his umpteenth offensive and as he departs the Court, gestures the finger to the cameras.

Those low life that bashed the old guy and stole his money were flipping the bird and quite often we see criminal's relatives behaving just as badly.

Every single person who drives after having their license suspended is effectively saying the laws do not apply to them. I consider this as contempt of court. Their lack of respect and their repeat offenses are often rewarded with another limp wristed sentence.

I suspect a lack of early childhood discipline and the glorification of bad behaviour in crappy popular movies and video games also contributes to the justifications in the offender's minds. Not all offenders are young which also shows some people might simply be born with a predisposition to crime; or perhaps there are more sociopaths in society these days.

It doesn't matter what religion a person is, or if they didn't have an ideal upbringing, if they cannot behave properly in court (given they most likely broke the law to be there in the first place) they should get put in the naughty corner where they belong. Maybe if we took the TVs out of the prisons we might finally have a real deterrent to crime.

Don't turn this into an anti-Muslim issue. These people are anti-social and don't deserve the same freedoms of non law breakers.