Yes rehctub,

This is a telling point: <<They gained it from the faith they DIDN'T leave at the front gate when they were invited to join us.>>

And it apparently went over the head of some here :-P

Monis and many other kindred souls came to the West claiming they seeking sanctuary from extremism ... we took them at their word .., and now us and France are paying a high price for our nativity

SPQR,

"....and now us and France are paying a high price for our nativity."

That could be the most impressive typo/Freudian Slip I've ever encountered!

Australia has been successful in banning the gathering of some anti-social religions in the past. We only need to ban the meetings of Sunni Muslims in Australia, for it is primarily they who preach hatred of our democratic values.

Josephus,

I wonder how that would go down with the West's bestest buddies and head lopper-offerers Saudi Arabia? Most of the population of that country are Sunni.

Actually, it's the great irony of our times that because the Saudis control the provision of fuel to power our way of life - they're excused from being put in the same basket as the others.

Yep, I think that pretty much sums up the fear and loathing part, rehctub.

>>This is precisely what Mulsilms as a whole have managed to do, remove our freedoms. The freedom to walk the streets at night in safety. The freedom to go for a coffee with friends. These are now gone, taken from us by either invited guests, or their offspring that they claim to be so called Australians.<<

I don't know where you live, rehctub, but here in Sydney I walk the streets at night in safety, and - coincidentally - I have just come back to the office from having coffee with friends.

I will admit, though, to steering clear of drunken footy players in the Cross at 3a.m.

When only two out of every hundred people in Australia are Muslim, the sheer amount of shock-jock fear demonstrated on this thread says an awful lot about our collective ability to keep our lives in perspective.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/2014/oct/30/australians-think-muslim-population-nine-times-greater

I personally refuse to accept this petty, mozzie-bashing fear-mongering as anything except a load of hot air coming from a bunch of saddos who give every appearance of being afraid of their own shadows

The Gathering Storm.
There is to be a rally/protest/recruitment rally whatever at Lakemba
station next Friday.

This is where ASIO should be recording everything said.
Judging by the outspoken statements made last Friday then it should be
a time for a good harvest.

Well Robert your concern about government over reach with legislation
and its effect on the lawful population is valid, but it is the old
problem of balance.
It is worth noting that the Islamists have made a major change to the balance.
As far as banning the Koran it might be easier than we think.
How about I publish and sell a book advocating the killing of Jews
and Arabs and other believers, and enslaving their wives and daughters.

Do you think that book would be banned ?
If it was not banned there would be such an uproar that the law would be changed.
So either way the Koran could be banned.
Likewise organisations with similar objectives could be banned.
Not being a lawyer, I suspect that the Koran may be illegal already.

A time will come when everyone, politicians included, will have to
make a stand and declare their position.

Has any other religion pushed us into a situation like this ?