Dear Bazz,

My mother-in-law wore scarves as she aged.
As did my Gran. I'm proud of my hair and
I like to show it off. Who knows when I get
a bit older, I might resort to wearing scarves as
well.

Thank You for your referral of the Geert Wilders
book. I'm a bit hesitant about reading it though.
Here's why:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/qasim-rashid/geert-wilders-marked-for-death-a-muslim-response_b_1537884.html

As the author points out - how would you feel if someone
applied Wilders approach to criticize Christianity,
they would present KKK members as authentic
Christians, Bible-bash with anti-Christian hate websites
to show Christianity's alleged existential threat to
humanity?

It doesn't sound very appealing.

Foxy: Do you really know Islam that well as to be qualified to speak about it? I don't know my own
religion that well.

Well I know Christianity very well & it’s History, even the bad stuff from 100’s of years ago. How they assimilated different religious practices into Christianity to absorb others cultures & aquire their lands. I have studied the Koran & the Hadiths & a couple of other Books that moslims quote often. It’s frightening & their Sharia Law is even worse again. If you wish to talk about brutality & equality. By the Way, did you know that the Grand Caliph is exempt from all the Sharia Laws. He is a law unto himself & has the power of life & death & can change the Rules anytime it suits him. The Caliph only answers to Allah.

Foxy: Can you really speak for all the 183 different Muslim groups that come from different cultures, have different languages and practice their religions in different ways that are currently living in Australia?

Regardless of the Country or Cultural background of any of the 183 different moslim groups in Australia, they all have a common goal. To convert the World to Islam by one of the three afore mentioned methods & because there are 183 groups, as you say, they will then fight each other to the death. Eg; ME. Can you see World peace under a World Islamic Caliphate? I can’t. It’s bad enough now. It would be dam side worse then, with each of the 183 moslim groups accusing the other of being Apostate. As they do now in the Middle East. In fact what is happening in the Middle East now would be happening all over the World non-stop.

Shadow, I do believe you made with a funny, not like a crusty old conservative like yourself to be making with the funnies, but there's a first time for everything. Auntie Lee and Dearest SHY in burqa's, is that to hide their ugliness? But the Uglies is a Liberal faction in NSW once led by Lyenko Urbanchich. You do remember good old Lyenko don't you, he would make a good running mate for the lovely Pauline, if he was still around.

Well Foxy read it yourself and decide. He has been widely attacked by
moslems. He has travelled fairly widely in the Middle East.
He is under police guard all the time and lives in a safe house.
The Dutch police are pretty twitchy about politicians as one was
murdered by moslems. A film maker was also murdered for making a film
about Islam as it was considered blasphemous

Hi Foxy,

As usual you are spot on with what you say;

"for all the 183
different Muslim groups that come from different
cultures, have different languages and practice
their religions in different ways that are currently
living in Australia"

Some wrongly believe Islam is some uniform block religion, (as if you can have such a beast) in which all adherents think, believe and act the same. Your doctor has as much chance of turning into a crazed Islamic jihadists as I do of becoming Pope. Although many in the west through fear and/or loathing are mistakenly doing their level best, with their demands for punitive action against all within the group, to drive moderate thinking Muslims out of main stream society and into radicalism. There are populists politicians out there, like Hanson and others of the radical right, who are cleverly exploiting these fears in many to gain in popularity, at what cost, and to what ultimate end, only time will tell.

On burqas, my personal view is they are only a physical sign of mans dominance and control over women, and are demeaning of women in that respect. Although the wearer does not necessarily see it that way. Like the woman who is subjected to domestic violence, she can rationalize it all to believe it is tolerable or even warranted, same applies to burqas. Should burqas be banned, of course not. Should women be educated as to what they really stand for, yes.

One day I will have to ask, my educated Muslim woman friend, what her opinion of the wearing of the burqa is, after all she is a spokesperson on women's issues in the community. I find among Muslim people, those who are educated, are far less influenced by the religion, that those who are not, but that applies as a general principle to Christianity as well.

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Did you know the Mormon religion dictates what kind of underwear a woman can wear, but does not apply the same rules to men. I find it incredulous of religions that they say "we are all equal in the eyes of God," then hypocritically tell women to get to the back of the queue.

My sermon for the day.