Black Orchid wrote:Super Nova wrote:Islam can do more to educate the rednecks however I'm sure any message will not get through, being a redneck means you are closed minded and bigoted typically from an early age.
It's not only rednecks who oppose having a Mosque in their suburb.
Super Nova wrote:I have stated this before here. My grand mother told me "not to play with the local abo kids". "Why is that nan?". "Because they are dirty". I never played with them again..... Bloody rednecks. It's handed down through the generations.
It has nothing to do with race. Many applications for Mosques in Sydney have been rejected by Councils only to have the Land and Environment Court overturn their objections.
There are over 16 Mosques/Musallahs just in Auburn/Lidcombe. I think that is way over the top and I would think the same way if it involved 16 Churches. 16 Churches in one area would certainly not be allowed so why so many Muslim prayer sites?
Perhaps you have to live in Sydney to appreciate why residents of quiet family oriented and non Muslim communities are beginning to get more and more angry at the decisions being made by Courts that go against the grain of the neighbourhoods, Councils and the wishes of the residents.
Something has to give.
Excellent point about the sheer number of religious buildings in one relatively small area. Such a concentration of Catholic churches would raise some eyebrows.

, and suspicions of some sort of takeover. The Italians never did that when they came here and moved into relative ghettoes, for example.
An extension of the essentially ghetto mentality of MANY Muslims who come here, and the way they concentrate in groups and areas, and also have this rigid adherence to things religious as handed down.
If you have read any of my stuff, it is this handing down of absolute knowledge and understanding, and all already contained in the Koran, and its acceptance without question that is at the root of the Islam problem. Any 'new Caliphate' under IS would be an abortion of the Caliphate, with its spirit of inquiry and science and learning.
We do not need or want any 'new Caliphate' adherents here.
Footnote:- It is perhaps bizarre that movements such as IS claim that virtually all of their chosen enemies are pursuing 'Crusaderism' in attacking Islam - yet seem incapable of seeing that they are engaging themselves in a form of 'Moorism', perhaps 'Saladinism' (though Saladin was primarily defensive strategically in that he counter-attacked rather than initiated) by attacking others and wresting territory etc from them at the point of the sword.
Seems to me to be two irreconcilable issues there between the West and IS.
This has always been the way for some adherents of Islam and they know no other.