Is Multiculturalism a failure?

[Neferti]

AUSSIE is a RACIST!

[boxy]

I've always admired your debating techniques, Naf. Subtle and intelligent, always.

[Rorschach]

Most Indians are Nef...

[Rorschach]

The issues in Logan are those many migrant or ethnic youth face: clashing values, clashing behavioural expectations, limited resources, and unclear or even dubious role models.

Elisabeth Betz (doctoral candidate in anthropology at La Trobe University.)

Sounds like just about every ethnic group brought into Australia. When will we learn?

[Rorschach]

Fear doesn't need a visa, and it's on tour already
February 7, 2013
Paul Sheehan
Sydney Morning Herald columnist

Two of the films nominated for best picture in the coming Academy Awards, Argo and Zero Dark Thirty, contain warnings, with plenty of creative licence but also plenty of historical accuracy, about the challenge to democracy posed by a resurgent strain of uncompromising Islam.

The threat has been deemed real enough in the Netherlands, which now has more than a million Muslims in a nation of 16.7 million people, for a million Dutch voters - one in seven - to vote for the Party for Freedom, led by Geert Wilders, who will be making a lecture tour in Australia later this month.

Four years ago, in an interview with ABC Radio, Wilders was asked why he wanted to curb Muslim immigration to the Netherlands. He said the integration of Muslims was failing:

''If you look at all the statistics, you see that non-Western people, often from … Morocco and Turkey … are over-represented many, many times when it comes to crime, when it comes to prison population, when it comes to illiteracy, when it comes to dependency on social benefits.

''We see also in the second-biggest city of the Netherlands, Rotterdam, that in three years' time the majority will be from non-Western backgrounds. You see in the same city, and most of the south … 55 per cent of the Moroccan youth under the age of 24 have been in contact with the police. You see that there are more mosques being built than churches. You see that once again the Dutch people are tolerant … but they fear for the identity of their own country.''

All of this is contested territory. Muslims protest about being lumped in with the fundamentalist fringe. They protest, too, that traditional problems associated with immigration are conflated with Muslims.

What is not contested is that a dangerous Islamic fringe is active in numerous countries. Wilders will be accompanied to Australia by five Dutch police officers. He lives under permanent 24-hour security.

Fear has arrived here before him. On Wednesday, the organiser of the tour, Debbie Robinson, told me yet another venue had cancelled and there had been another act of corporate suppression directed at the tour.

''This morning the venue in Sydney cancelled. There was a meltdown. The events manager at the venue was screaming. Right now we have no Sydney venue.''

It was not her only setback. ''Yesterday PayPal froze the funds in the account that is processing ticket sales. They will not tell me why. All staff keep saying is the account is under review. It's been like an Orwellian nightmare.''

This follows a refusal by Westpac to allow her to set up a payment system and refusal by more than a dozen venues to host a Wilders event, citing security concerns.

The first attempt at a lecture tour last year was cancelled due to visa problems. The then minister for immigration Chris Bowen delayed granting a visa until after the cancellation.

This was just the start. On January 21, the president of the Q Society, Geoff Dickson, sent an invitation to 830 state and federal politicians in all parliaments: ''On behalf of Q Society of Australia I would like to issue you a warm invitation to attend one of the speaking engagements we are offering to listen to the Honourable Geert Wilders.''

The invitation said Wilders would be speaking in Melbourne on February 19, Perth on February 20 and Sydney on February 22.

''Mr Wilders is a Dutch politician who heads the Party for Freedom, which won 10.1 per cent of votes in the Dutch House of Representatives at the September 2012 elections. Mr Wilders will be here to share his experiences on how Islam is changing the Netherlands in particular and Europe more generally.

''Q Society is a volunteer, Australia-wide organisation whose charter is to educate Australians as to how Islam may change this country … We believe Islam is different from other religions and poorly understood …

''If, in 20 years, some Australian politicians are living under armed guard because of comments they have made about Islam, we believe we would have failed as individuals, and collectively as a society, to protect our democracy and our freedom.''

Of the 830 invitations sent out, only four were accepted. The other 99.5 per cent of politicians declined or did not respond.

Robinson is disheartened by all the fearfulness. ''The Sydney event may have to be cancelled if I can't even get a venue. I'll have to refund everyone. This is supposed to be a democracy but something Orwellian is going on.''

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[Black Orchid]

A man was arrested in Australia Thursday after allegedly decapitating his father after he stepped in to protect his wife during a family quarrel, reports and police said.

Toufic Zahab, 69, died after he was reportedly attacked with a brick and a knife inside his home in a western Sydney suburb.

Police confirmed the man's head was cut off and his wife was being treated for shock after the attack allegedly carried out by their son Khoder, 42.

"A man has been arrested after a body was found in a home in Bankstown this morning," police said.

"Police were called to the home... shortly after 6am today, responding to reports of a domestic violence incident."

Khoder was arrested but has not yet been charged.

"The scene itself is quite disturbing. It's been a difficult morning for both the family and the police, and ambulance (staff) are currently looking after their welfare," acting Bankstown superintendent Glen Fitzgerald said.

Relatives gathered outside the house told media that the son pushed his mother down the stairs and then attacked his father when he tried to intervene.

Zahab's grandson Abdul, told the Sydney Morning Herald: "Everyone's devastated and shocked.

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Just another day in Sydney's south west

[Aussie]

Yeah the brutes are always ethnics.

[Neferti]

We shouldn't have let the darkies in, they always cause trouble. Especially the Indians and Sudanese.

The Asians are a pushy lot and many an Old Man, like Aussie, has bought into one of these and married them with the idea that they have, for the rest of their miserable lives, a sex slave and housekeeper.

There is currently one of these scenarios up there in Qld ....... Young Asian wife (34?), Elderly (65) Aussie husband ... she goes missing and his comment on TV is "listen bitch, get your arse back home, OK". He thinks he is a Big Dealer and took their 2 kids overseas BEFORE ringing the Police to say that his wife was missing.

You can follow this onhttp://www.websleuths.com/forums/showth ... p?t=198516

[Rorschach]

Danny Naliah has registered a party.
Betting it will be pro-Australian with anti-muslim and various other ethnicities.

[Aussie]

Danny Naliah has registered a party.
Betting it will be pro-Australian with anti-muslim and various other ethnicities.

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