Hi Toni,

"Just have a rule that says you swim with the public or not at all. They can take it or leave it. If they're sensible they'll start to let pragmatism outweigh dogma once the mercury gets past 310 K; if not the silly buggers can put up with the heat."

I agree 100 %. It should be made clear to would-be immigrants that they leave their peculiar attitudes to equal rights for women, etc. at the door. Although one can't predict how gutless any particular government may be in its pursuit of votes, I fervently hope that Shari'a will never, ever be law over any part of Australia.

If people want to buy and consume kosher or halal meat, that would be their choice. As I understand it, Jewish butchers do all their own slaughtering and processing for their own customers. So I'm mystified why on earth non-Muslim Australians should have to pay extra for halal certification: why don't Muslim butchers follow the obviously sensible example of Jewish butchers ?

By the way, in yesterday's Australian, mention was made of an imam in Sydney and his two wives. Does any Australian jurisdiction recognise such breaches of the law ? How does that work ?

That's enough spleen for one day.

Cheers,

Joe

Hi Paul,

Yeah ! What has Swaziland ever done for us ?

Joe

Paul, the Swiss know pretty well what Hitler was thinking, which is why they came through the war in such a good shape. You now claim to know more than they do, well fountain of knowledge as you imagine yourself, I'll back their wisdom and information over yours.

Hitler was not beyond some common sense. What he needed to get through Switzerland was his trains of freight, heading for Italy. Those sealed trains were allowed through, as long as he paid his freight bill like anyone else. Swiss banks remained open to anyone, as the country was neutral.

Given the Swiss alps and the size of resistance from armed Swiss, nobody can get freight through as without bridges it is impossible and it is too easy to blow them up and not so easy to build them.

So even if Hitler had invaded Switzerland, he would have still failed at moving freight across the alps, so the whole thing would have been pointless for him.

The Green Gestapo gets off the subject and drags up anything it can to rubbish Switzerland, because, unlike them, the Swiss have pride in their country and culture and, totally reject attempts by foreign ingrates to undermine their values. And, undermining the West is the only reason Muslims are infesting the West. That they are not refugees is plain to see in the very fact that they want to abide by the same oppressive, chauvinistic rules that fools in the West think they are escaping from. These 'moderate' Muslims are the enemy: far more dangerous than ISIS and rag tag terrorists. They don't have to kill anyone. All they have to do is keeping coming, with the help of political useful idiots, gain citzenship, and eventually take over democratically through the ballot box. When the crunch comes, I will be long gone, and I do not wish you, young, Green/socialists good luck. I hope you get what's coming to you.

Joe said;
mention was made of an imam in Sydney and his two wives.

Nothing will be done if he has married twice, because the powers that
be have been brainwashed into believing that enforcing the law is
Islamafobia.

Of course the second "wife" may not be legally married..
Are Islamic marriages legal ?
If 2nd marriages are performed then obviously not.
The real crunch comes with claiming various benefits including public housing.

Hi Bazz,

While there is supposed to be a separation of church and state in Australia, surely ecclesiastical law can't conflict with civil law ? Church or mosque can't enforce or create rights which conflict with Australian law ? i.e. in this case, the superior rights of men over women ? After all, those marriage 'rights' flow over into other fields of law such as divorce, property settlement, access to children, etc. ?

Perhaps there may be a feminist somewhere who is monitoring, or even protesting against, such unequal 'rights' ?

No, this is 2016, not 1976, so maybe not.

Joe