Progressive overreach is driving us into a caste based social order. Following, politics has turned into a client/patron system of delivering spoils to groups in return for electoral support - this is the obvious reason the govt is so weak in response to this issue.
I take your point about a caste based system. The first time I realised this was when someone told me off (about 7 years ago) for writing about native title. I said, “Does your answer change if I have Indigenous ancestry?” They said it did. Then I said, “What if I didn’t know I had Indigneous ancestry when I wrote that piece?” (which was in fact the case). They were stymied. It was quite ridiculous. Why would my perspective miraculously have more value because of who my great-great-great grandfather was?
No, Islam is the problem, those who commit terrible crimes like Bondi are really just devout Moslems doing what the Koran exhorts them to do - kill or enslave the infidels.
The only way out of this is stop all Islamic immigration and get as many as possible of those already here to self deport. If we have to pay them to leave it will be cheap in the long term.
Islam is fundamentally incompatible with Western Civilisation.
There is clearly a problem with preachers such as Wissam Haddad—he seems to have radicalised the perpetrators—and that should be faced squarely, not dodged. After all there was a Federal Court judgment against Haddad.
However, I would never blame an entire group for the sins of a few. Take individuals as they come, and judge them by their behaviour. I’m happy to have someone like Ahmed El Ahmed as part of our society. I know that’s not de rigueur these days, but it’s how I operate.
Progressive overreach is driving us into a caste based social order. Following, politics has turned into a client/patron system of delivering spoils to groups in return for electoral support - this is the obvious reason the govt is so weak in response to this issue.
I take your point about a caste based system. The first time I realised this was when someone told me off (about 7 years ago) for writing about native title. I said, “Does your answer change if I have Indigenous ancestry?” They said it did. Then I said, “What if I didn’t know I had Indigneous ancestry when I wrote that piece?” (which was in fact the case). They were stymied. It was quite ridiculous. Why would my perspective miraculously have more value because of who my great-great-great grandfather was?
That's wonderful, a true paradox of identity crime 😆
I tend to flummox people. I have a whole bunch of identity cards which I have never used. I hope my work speaks for itself, regardless of who I am.
This was lovely, well done finding such a positive but not completely bullshit message in all this !
Thank you. I had to sit on it for a week - I have been very upset.
Fascinating. Thank you for writing this
No, Islam is the problem, those who commit terrible crimes like Bondi are really just devout Moslems doing what the Koran exhorts them to do - kill or enslave the infidels.
The only way out of this is stop all Islamic immigration and get as many as possible of those already here to self deport. If we have to pay them to leave it will be cheap in the long term.
Islam is fundamentally incompatible with Western Civilisation.
There is clearly a problem with preachers such as Wissam Haddad—he seems to have radicalised the perpetrators—and that should be faced squarely, not dodged. After all there was a Federal Court judgment against Haddad.
However, I would never blame an entire group for the sins of a few. Take individuals as they come, and judge them by their behaviour. I’m happy to have someone like Ahmed El Ahmed as part of our society. I know that’s not de rigueur these days, but it’s how I operate.