It's not muslims we should ban, it's terrorists.

Anyone who supports any terrorist organisation anywhere in the world should be denied the right to come to Australia (except if they're already Australian).

Pericles,

"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."

Right on.

rehctub,

I agree with Pericles, where do you live!

Most of the assaults I read about involve the average garden variety drunken/drug-fueled Aussie thug.

Do you have a plan for them as well?

This thread is like a little coven of paranoids - hope you don't mind us gatecrashing.

Well Poirot, I guess you are only saying what many Parisians were
saying recently.

Bazz,

There appears to a tide of Muslim migration (for various reasons) out of their historical geological sphere regarding the Middle-East, not least because of Western interference and destabilisation in the 20th/21st centuries....oil!

Conversely, the same hasn't occurred in regions closer to us. The world's largest Muslim population resides in our closest neighbour, Indonesia (12.7 % of the world's Muslim population). 62% of the world's Muslim population lives in South or South East Asia. Only 20% live in Arab countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country

'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.'

Yes Pericles with such a tiny proportion of the population they sure do manage to be over represented in terrorist attacks, crime and imprisonment. Maybe you would like 10% like France where they make up 80% of the prison population. Maybe you would like to ask the thousands of Dutch girls raped what their thoughts are. The economic cost for security and imprisonment alone is astounding. Then again why should you care as you can for now afford to live far enough from the ghettos called a white ** .

runner,

Of course, when you've got a drum to bang, you'd never countenance that most of those incarcerated French Muslims emanate from communities that are blighted by poverty and unemployment - those ghettos ain't the best environment.

You could say the same for Australia and the US (any Western country) that those who make up the majority of the prison population are from the wrong side of the tracks.

You can hang causation on the correlation hook anytime you like in that case, Muslims, Blacks, indigenous - you name it, there's a ready-made racial/religious demonisation cloak available.