Dear Is Mise,

For your information, according to the Taxi Service
Commission assistance animals such as guide dogs
for people with a vision or hearing impairment must be
accepted by the taxi driver for carriage within the
cab. All other animals are not permitted in the cab
and drivers must refuse for them to be carried.

I believe that exceptions are made for animals who travel
to the vet.

I too shall be watching Q&A on ABC tomorrow night.
Leoj said;
It is very clear that the apologists for Islam (on OLO too) are
cleverly trying to bracket criticism of Islam as being solely about
terrorism. That allows the apologists to then declare that it is only
some madmen, just a few, who the apologists then say have got the
'wrong take' of Islam.

I had not really thought that out but it is true.
The two aspects, human & women's rights and the terrorist activities
are two different subjects but are so strongly connected to the same
texts that it becomes difficult to handle them separately.

It is probably why the media overseas pretends that the no go zones
in Sweden and Paris do not exist. The human rights aspects
are closer to home and make more politically correct news.
It is a more comfortable subject for gentle souls who shall be unnamed.

I don't doubt that Tony Jones will be interrupting as usual with irrelevancies already tried on Ayaan Hirsi Ali by the ABC, "What about Americans shooting each other (usually lower socioeconomic black, gang and drug related), or US military killed in war etc." That is after bracketing criticism of Islam as being solely about its terrorism.

In a recent ABC program where the woman(!) interviewer tried that on, that critics of Islam were being 'alarmist', Ayaan Hirsi Ali calmly said that of course one could go on too about the number of people who fall in their bath compared with the number killed by terrorists, but the criticism of Islam is not only about the violence, it is about large numbers of people adopting the belief that Islam is the 'higher path' for everyone, about the segregation of men and women and other toxic practices that have no place in modern society. The poignant example of the last mentioned was that as an apostate herself, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has to die. The vigilantes willing to carry that out are everywhere, including in Australia.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is primarily concerned with Islamic Law, Sharia, 'Wherever Islam is implemented, there is a segregation of society'.

She is saying that the debate should be about whether Islam is the recipe for a modern society - 'it is not only about terrorist attacks, it is about a coherent, whole ideology that those who believe and those who are promoting it want to implement in society' and 'It is not a recipe for a peaceful, modern society and that is what we should be discussing'.

Will Tony Jones and that 'special' Q&A audience allow her the respect and politeness to do that this time?

The ABC has a technique that they use to undermine a guest
They do it by selecting the audience and placing people
in the audience that undermine the guest.
I understand it has resulted in a number of people refusing to appear.
Most are politicians I think. Anyway it will be interesting to watch.

Totally agree with the posts bringing to our attention that it's not just terrorism, but the whole rotten Islamic deal that is wrong with Islam. There is not a single thing good about Islam.

So where do we place "Honour Killings" ?
Human rights or terrorism ?

I would say Human Rights.
However there is a complication;
Moslem countries have not signed the UN Human Rights convention.
However they are on the UN Human Rights Commission and at one time
even chaired the commission.
So they sit in judgement on countries that have signed it.
Moslem countries cannot be judged on their acceptance of honour
killings and we cannot complain about that acceptance.
I will be interested to see who is inserted into the audience.
Don't be surprised if there is someone who will represent an
Islamic Organisation that will bring up the UN Human Rights commission
and our operations in the ME.