Of course, that should be "holy book".

But since I'm wasting a post, here's a video of a monkey dancing:

http://youtu.be/KHtocSC7hRU?t=13

SuseOnLine writes: "JayB, no matter how much you want to quote your obviously well-studied Koran passages, you can't make the majority of intelligent Australians believe that all Muslims follow that old book to the letter"

Herein lies the cognitive dissonance in which two quite different statements are conflated and nimbly flicked from one to the other and back by appeasers.

#1 Islam is a vile, authoritarian, sexist cult whose cruelty and intolerance of dissent marks it as bigotry on steroids (true from the evidence of its holy books which can't be blithely dismissed as "that old book")

#2 All adherents of Islam follow "that old book" to the letter (untrue from our observation that they obviously do not).

People (I'd hazard a guess that it's overwhelmingly most of them) who recognise the truth of #1 and are concerned about its social impact also recognise the untruth of #2 and their calls for social measures responding to the truth of #1 are not dependent on #2 being true.

All claims that recognising the truth of #1 presupposes #2 are not merely illogical but are examples of intellectual dishonesty. This applies (inter alia) to SuseOnLine's response to JayB.

EmperorJulien, how nice to see you jumping to JayB's defence, but you, like him, live in a fantasy world that says all Muslims are alike. With millions of Muslims all over the world, this can't possibly be true. That would be like saying all Christians are alike...

Suggesting that most people believe your version of events is untrue as well. 500,000 voters apparently blindly followed the racist One Nation party and their strange leader, hoping they would 'save' them from rabid local Muslim terrorists.
Over 13 million didn't.
So where do you get your figures from to support your theory?

SuzeOnLine if you read my post you would see that I specifically rejected as patently untrue the notion that all followers of Islam are alike. I suggest you re-read it and keep re-reading it and thinking about the logic of it to avoid statements that could only be identified as embodying intellectual dishonesty.

I might add that unlike you I reject as incompatible with a decent society any cult that assigns a lesser value to women, as you will also see by re-reading that very short and simple post. If you were a feminist (which you seem not to be) you would do likewise.

"Feminists don’t challenge radical Islam because real misogynists are terrifying

JUNE 9, 2015 BY JANET BLOOMFIELD

Phyllis Chesler has a piece up at the New York Post demanding to know why feminists refuse to challenge radical Islam in any of its manifestations.

The Middle East and Western Africa are burning; Iran is raping female civilians and torturing political prisoners; the Pakistani Taliban are shooting young girls in the head for trying to get an education and disfiguring them with acid if their veils are askew — and yet, NOW passed no resolution opposing this.

What is going on?

Chesler diagnoses rampant feminist cowardice, and she is quite correct. Feminists are largely spoiled, middle-class white girls unaccustomed to concepts like accountability or responsibility, and courage is a rare sight with this lot. But Chesler misses just what feminists are terrified of:

Feminists are, typically, leftists who view “Amerika” and white Christian men as their most dangerous enemies, while remaining silent about Islamist barbarians such as ISIS.

Feminists strongly criticize Christianity and Judaism, but they’re strangely reluctant to oppose Islam — as if doing so would be “racist.” They fail to understand that a religion is a belief or an ideology, not a skin color.

The new pseudo-feminists are more concerned with racism than with sexism, and disproportionately focused on Western imperialism, colonialism and capitalism than on Islam’s long and ongoing history of imperialism, colonialism, anti-black racism, slavery, forced conversion and gender and religious apartheid.

And why? They are terrified of being seen as “politically incorrect” and then demonized and shunned for it..."
http://tinyurl.com/q7y4a68

Suse,

Here's an entertaining article on Q&A on Monday night from Neil McMahon, who, incidentally, told me he deleted the word "plastic" in reference to the "swizzle stick that passes for a thought process in the Hanson mind" - in the interests of fairness.

Lol!

Hanson is particularly dense....that is her greatest strength...she feels she can say "anything".

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/qa-recap-would-pauline-hanson-ban-a-young-muslim-sam-dastyari-from-australia-20160718-gq8i5y.html