Dear Toni Lavis,

Spot on, well done.

Ttbn

I'm reading from these posts, your fear of Muslims is bordering on paranoia.

Really, their impact on Australia is insignificant.

I'm a fan of Steven Pinker. Maybe you should read a few of his books to get things into perspective.

“Better Angles of our nature” is long-winded but has some interesting research. I don't always agree with his conclusions, but he puts in the hard-yards proving a point.
You might not be surprised with his take on terrorism, but he makes a point based on statistics. And the point is, in the long run, terrorists morph into the good guys.

“Enlightenment Now” is a recent. That's s bit of a Liberal rant, but again adds to the balance.

Nassim Taleb is no fan though

Aidan has snapped. Hasbeen hasn’t even posted on this thread, but poor old Aidan 'demands’ an apology from that gentle!

dd,

Please show me where I have said that I “fear” Muslims. I do not fear Muslims; I dislike them, and don't believe they should ever have been part of Australia’s immigration program. Like most other apathetic Australians, you don't have a clue about Islam and Muslims. You would prefer to assume that I'm “paranoid”.

Apologies to Hasbeen for conflating you with ttbn.
It's worth noting that one of the reasons Katie got sued was that she made a similar mistake and refused to apologise.

BTW ttbn, everything else I've said stands, and I don't think I've ever driven on Sudholz Road.

Are you sure you have the right person this time, Aidan?

You can forget any apology. As P.G Wodehouse said: “It is a good rule in life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them".

Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information. Anyone can enter or alter material.

First sentence: you know nothing of the kind

Second sentence: you are just speculating.

Third sentence: so suspected jihadist are OK?

Who said it was anything to do with local police? Brussels is responsible.

Finally, I cannot remember you denouncing terrorism at at all. And, terrorists are civilians just the same as ordinary Muslims, whose efforts for jihad are obviously not going to be obvious. If you did some research you would find that immigration to the West is part of jihad; the mad mullahs freely admit this; the mad Western politicians cover their ears, just like you do. They and and probably 80% of Westerners don't want to hear. Much easier for you all to bury your heads in the sand and hope it goes away. It won't go away, and it's getting close to being too late to do anything about it. However, I accept that it's a waste of time telling this to people like you. Hopefully, more intelligent and rational people are getting the message. There is a world outside OLO.

Diver Dan, you, like me must live in one of the more fortunate areas of Oz, yet to feel much effect of Muslim "integration". Unfortunately, my son has not.

He was living in Allawah Sydney when the Muslims decided to make it their next enclave & started converting it to a no go area for European descent Ozzies.

He was attacked by 4 of them one afternoon walking home from the railway station, the resultant kicking resulted in 4 skull fractures. If a couple of passing cars had not stopped, to chase this vermin off, he would probably be a vegetable now.

During his last 3 months in Sydney, he was staying with a friend who still lives in the area. One afternoon the pair were followed by a group of young adult male vermin, making threatening gestures & shouting threats. 6 of them were not enough to actually attack 2 young men, but the threat is obvious & on going, get out or come to harm.

You may be still able to ignore this threat to our wellbeing, but I will not, & it is only a matter of time that you will be unable to. It is probably too late to stop our major cities will become south Pacific versions of Beirut, & the fools of our world are welcome to it.