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Because they're ignorant.How they have come to the conclusion of a Mosque being stage one of seizing a country
See above.How Sharia law could even be implemented when in Muslim countries itself they circumvent it by rewriting the laws as and when they see fit.
They don't let logic get in the way of their outrage. They feel as if their values and identity are under threat from an outside force that wants nothing more than to replace everything that stand for with something new and alien and then force them to identify with it.Forcing all women to undergo genital mutilation?? Where has that come from? Circumcision (if that is what they are referring to) for women has been encouraged (and is practised in many places) but is not something that Islam says you have to do at all.
This is not a new fear in my country, only the latest incarnation of it. During the Cold War, the "Domino Theory" was very popular, suggesting that nations would fall like dominoes to communism, allowing communism to build momentum and overrun its original intended target, Australia. It was the justification used for our involvement in the Vietnam War, a war we had no business being in. In the 1990s, that fear morphed into the fear of the Asian invasion; that over-populated Asian countries would wage covert economic warfare, buying up our land and assets and becoming de facto rulers of thr country.
Sometimes I think so. I can only speak for what I see, and sometimes I see the media - particularly the conservative commentators like Andrew Bolt and Miranda Devine - who love to hate Islam and terrorism. They detest the terrorists and everything that they do, but love the idea that such a thing could exist because it's proof positive that our way of life is "right". Australia is still a very white, very Christian country, and outsiders are sometimes viewed with a latent, passive suspicion.What I see here, and correct me if I am wrong @prisonermonkeys because you're good with all this stuff, is a world of people who think they know Islam because they have heard stories, seen cultures practise such things that just happen to be Muslim and are buying every word the media tell them?
So that's it then, is it? "They're not violent, so they're not a problem"? Believe me, Muslim youth who are angry, but not violent are viewed as potential terrorists, so why then are Caucasian youth who are angry, but not violent are sumply viewed as exercising a right to free speech?You answered your own question.