Re: Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law have been told leave Australia
hey pussi… I have no problem whatsoever with muslims and agree that they have just as much right as anyone else to live in this great country. The more the better in fact as long as they understand how america works. Anyone who espouses views like “secularism is evil” or that “the west is the enemy of muslims” is a traitor in my view (not to mention a hypocrite) and needs to be treated as such.
Re: Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law have been told leave Australia
Anyone who tries to mix religion with politics has no place in America, it's one of the bigger threats to the country. Personally as far as U.S. politics are concerned the religious right Christians are more of a threat in doing this than Muslims.
Re: Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law have been told leave Australia
Maybe “some” Aussies don’t want that, those “some” happen to be Muslims so what? Consitution is a man-made law, so if some men of the land want changes in it whats your problem?
Re: Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law have been told leave Australia
stu_pig..why do ppl who say “secularism is evil” need to be treated as traitors…why doest freedom of speech cover that..otherwise usa wudnt be a great country..dont u agree?
Re: Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law have been told leave Australia
So when are we going to unload the burden of the highly unproductive bible belting Christian fanatics and their right wing cohorts in the republican party and elsewhere…When would they be shown the door…
Re: Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law have been told leave Australia
//unproductive bible belting Christian fanatics and their right wing cohorts in the republican party and elsewhere...When would they be shown the door....
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These christian fanatics are not flying planes to crash into buildings. They are just blabbering....
Re: Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law have been told leave Australia
//Rashguy. if they ask you to eat meat, not just bhindian would you follow their laws?
that is if you are indian Hindu, would you leave your religion and follow them?//
What an analogy...
If the govt mandated that I eat meat, I would eat loads of it since I am a meat eating catholic who lives in India....
Taking ur analogy, if I feel that my religious belliefs interfere with the law of the land, I would rather leave the country rather than stick on as a parasite
Re: Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law have been told leave Australia
Fact is that in some cases religious dogma is inconsistent and incompatible with secular law. The Pope says abortions violate scripture and that Roman Catholics cannot have them. In the US, where abortion is a matter of choice by secular law, Roman Catholics can abide by both scripture and secular law by simply choosing not to have abortions. Religious dogma and secular law are compatible.
In China, which enforces a one child policy through forced abortions and sterilization, religious dogma is incompatible with scripture. Roman Catholics living in China don't have the option of putting pre-eminence on scripture over law. If you don't like the China law, move out of China.
I'm sure there are parts of Sharia law that are not inconsistent with Australia's parliamentary law. As to those, no problem. But implementation of Sharia law as interpreted by radicals, in and of itself, is incompatible with democratic systems and institutions and the very concepts of man-made law. The challenge becomes one to the fundamental aspects of governance and the validity of the governing system itself. When you urge and incite actions that attack the underlying system itself, this is not free speach. It is called treason. Australia is inviting those who would advocate treason to leave or be locked up. The invitation to leave is pretty generous.
Western governments have put very little emphasis on prosecuting people under treason laws for a very long time. That's because treasonous talk was viewed as nothing more than "just talk" by a few nutballs and did not lead to dangerous action. Now we see that, at least, the islamic nutballs talking treason find other islamic nutballs to actually take action based upon the treasonous talk. Time to get tough.
Re: Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law have been told leave Australia
wussi, why is this so difficult for you to understand? Secularism and democracy form the basis of the american governmental system. The validity of the system is the one thing that all americans (liberals, conservatives, democrats, republicans, libertarians, vegetarians and librarians) agree upon. Attacking these systems in favor of something else is treason. I agree completely w/what myvoice said above:
to put it in terms you might be able to grasp (but it’s probably still a stretch), it’s analogous to a muslim who disbelieves that mohammad was the last prophet and/or messenger.
Re: Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law have been told leave Australia
Aren't some of you missing the real point here? The Australians by this proclamation have clearly established the supremacy of their nationa's law over Sharia. So that there's no longer any clcowns that go around asking for exceptions under religious grounds.