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""By that same fact, nearly all Western declared terrorists are Muslim. But obviously not all Muslims are terrorists"
So if that is the case Captain what do countries like Australia do to keep safe ? If 10000 Muslims want to come to Australia and…"
So if that is the case Captain what do countries like Australia do to keep safe ? If 10000 Muslims want to come to Australia and…"
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But being Muslim may help in a very very small way of navigating the healing and Ahmed Al Ahmed can be the symbol of what it means to be Australian....
lol go down to his shop and meet him. 95% of his customers wouldn't even know what religion he was . Totally integrated into the local community.
no Burqas , no prayer bits of cardboard laying around everywhere , and he calls himself Aussie .
The media are making out like he's just jumped off a boat from Syria , this dudes been here many years and integrated into a mostly white Anglo Saxon and deemed " racist " area with ease . The real question is , why can't others intergrate into much easier areas ? The thing is , the shire would've had some unspoken guidelines he noticed when he arrived , standards if you will . Ultimately they'd have helped this family integrate and succeed . Funnily this week the media had been going on about the bad racist shire and how unfairly we treated immigrants , leaving out the issues raised before the infamous events . And now you have this family who are treated like one if the locals , simply because they're respect us and we respect them .
Anyone who has ever attended a Pro-Palestine rally and chanted to 'globalise the intifada', or 'From the river to the sea' congratulations. You succeeded. WTF did you think those words meant?
They know exactly what they rallied for . Just backtracking now as they probably didn't expect some fucker would make it real . Sounded cool when they were spruiking it .
Even this place had some very questionable comments allowed which I'm sure people have doubled back now to sort out .
Exactly
Whenever something horrible or evil happens within our country, it is the response (not the vile act) that shows what being Australian is all about.
Those who responded, including the lines to donate blood yesterday stretching for blocks and blocks, people waiting 3+ hours to give blood. Including the absolute hero Ahmed who tackled the gunman putting his own life at risk to save many others.
This is what makes Australia great - the response to evil, not the act of evil.
I'm proud to be Australian based on our response - I got turned away giving blood yesterday, the lines were too long...too many people trying to help. What a good problem to have.
As we go forward we need to use these events to bind us even more strongly as a community, to reject the evil individuals who are trying to stoke fires of division, and to embrace the togetherness and diversity that makes us uniquely Australian.
It really sucks how people bring their problems associated with their countries into countries like Australia. The reason people like my parents migrated to Australia is to avoid the shit present in our home countries and to leave that world behind. For example, being an Indian (though I am born and raised in Australia), we obviously have that rivarly with Pakistan. Yet my parents and myself know that is the governments back in both countries being corrupt and fucking useless. So we dont bring that ideolgy into our lives in Australia when we see Pakistani people. It fucking sucks that many people don't do this regardless of where they migrated from.
@EA you are totally spot on; My old man came from the old Yugoslavia (or Jug of Saliva as my HS mates told me) and for similar reasons (end of WW2 and more). He always says when he came here he was Australian, and left the issues behind, even though workmates etc at times wanted to bring up issues with the Croats / Serbs and of course Muslims...etc. He wanted nothing of it, and like many back then came here with F all and worked and worked....and never got a handout! Its called being Australian and assimilating. Leave your S%$T behind.
The vast, vast, vast majority of people in Australia are like your parents though EA - they migrate here and keep all the great things about their culture alive (eg the Diwali celebrations through Parramatta were amazing) and leave the bad stuff behind.
It's a tiny proportion of people who hold on to the bad stuff.
Unfortunately now with the internet people can be radicalised without ever stepping foot in the country or culture who is radicalising them. Imagine being convinced to kill innocents and children by a culture you have never actually been a part of for a conflict that has no impact on your current way of life.
Very scary. But at the zoomed out level Australia is the best example of why multiculturalism is great. A few insane/evil/bad people don't change that fact.
Glad we have people like your parents to show how it should be done and that they've enriched this country with their own prior culture in a positive way!
RANDY ,the difference between you and me is I'm a conservative and your are labor socialist fanatic
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