Aidan,

"I don't dispute the Koran has sexist content. But none of the verses you quoted command men to disrespect women."

Perhaps not, but they are loaded with encouragement.

Armchair Critic,

The key feature of prejudice is that it is always
rooted in generalisations and so ignores the
differences among individuals. Therefore someone
who is prejudiced against Muslims will tend to
have a negative attitude toward any Muslim in the
belief that all Muslims share the same supposed traits.

My attempt was to try to point this out that some
people tend to think in terms of general categories, if
only to enable them to make sense of the world by
simplifying its complexity.

What do any of you really know about Islam? Yes over the
past decade religious fervour has erupted in the Islamic
world in general and in the Middle East in particular.
This fervour has been inspired by fundamentalism.

To many Westerners Islamic fundamentalism seems like an
almost scandalous return to a medieval morality. It
conjures forth images of women behind veils, of adulterers
being stoned, of thieves having their hands cut off,
of public floggings and executions, of martyrdom in holy
wars, and in extreme cases, of political fanaticism exemplified
in aircraft hijackings and terrorist bombings.

This picture is rather distorted, for it is based on what is
newsworthy rather than what is typical.

You seem to be under the impression that I am somehow condoning
these extremist activities. I'm not - people who commit these
sort of acts are extremists. And they exist amongst all religions.
You then tell me I should move to an Islamic country - and not
to take this personally? Are you serious? That is not logical.
And I shall ignore it.

Suffice to say that your concern for our country being swamped
by Muslims (they only make up less that 2% of our population)
is unwarranted. Getting into this country is not easy for
a start - people are put through all sorts of scrutiny - and
so your fear-mongering is just that. You say that this is your
country and you are concerned about it. It's my country
too and it is also the country of the 2% of Muslims who live
here as well.

Foxy quote "Getting into this country is not easy for a start - people are put through all sorts of scrutiny"

I would say that statement only applies when the Labor party is not in office, over 50,000 during Rudd and Gillard most were not properly assessed before being let into the community.

Judging by the rubbish coming in, ‘scrutiny’ is inadequate no matter which galahs are in government. Getting into Australia is definitely too easy.

What should be considered to change Muslim males indoctrination is to only let female muslims into the country. They've proven to be open to enlightenment but they should be encouraged to keep distance from the western feminist movement. That way they'd be close to being perfect women to help rebuild the nation.

individual,

I generally go along with you, but I have say say that I have not seen any evidence that Muslim women are much different from the men, or that they are particularly "open" to anything. There is also the little problem of Muslim women not being allowed to go anywhere without permission. It's too late now. No Muslims should have been allowed into the country in the first place, and they would not have been if our ignorant politicians had been aware that immigration is a much more dangerous weapon than terrorism in the colonising of the West.