I do not seek to silence you. I do seek to advance my point of view and refute the contrary.
I wonder if you would permit me to comment? Apparently you feel that your permission is needed. And to challenge you to debate.
Here in Australia we celebrate our multi-ethnic, multi-national, multi-faith and multi-ethnic backgrounds. I certainly do.
I am on the public record for writing, publishing and lobbying in support of Aussie Muslims. I lobby in many other areas of public and social equity as well. I have sought to lobby for human rights where I find breaches including to garner support for the Muslim parents at the Adelaide Islamic College.
I would like to take your post – point by point. I have increased the font size and italicised what you say and interposed my comments in the same script as this.
Recently, rallies have been called throughout Australia by the racist- It is not immediately obvious to me how you can call a group which is against an idealogy – call it a religion if you like – “Rascist”
Islam is not concomitant with any “race”. I would also have thought that your supporters may well subscribe to the modern anthropology that theorises that there is no such thing as race. I disagree with that theory but never-the-less maintain that being anti a “religion” is best distinguished from being anti a race. If you disagree – perhaps you could advise which race anti-Islam groups are against.
group Reclaim Australia. These rallies have vilified - Muslims and migrants in particular, I accept that I vilify Islam in the proper sense of the word. I want to lower it in worth. I do want to make it of little or no account and I do want to put it down as morally vile. I deny that I target Muslims generally – the 75% who are said to be moderate and the majority of Australians and immigrants who are Muslim who wish to comply with Australian civil and criminal law. I say that I make a particular effort to ensure that there is a distinction between the two. Those who I revile - Islamists, and those whom I support – Aussie Muslims.
and call for a return to a White Australia policy. I was specifically asked by the TDT channel 7 reporter as to whether I wished a return to the White Australia Policy. I am on record as having said “No” The question was put to me after I pointed out that in 1971 there were only .2% of the Australian population that identified as Muslim and in the 2011 census that had risen to 2%. I have since written about the Federal Government’s Intergenerational Report failing to note that over the life of the report it can be expected to rise to 20% and I have noted what occurs in all other countries where the Islamic population is that high.
Many attendees were Nazis. I attended, and spoke by invitation, at the Adelaide Reclaim Rally. I was there before, during and after, It is simply false to say that Nazis attended. I neither saw, spoke to, nor heard any such persons.
This should piss off anyone who is against racism! At the Melbourne counter demonstration last month we outnumbered the racist – I have dealt with the misuse of the word rascism. creeps by over 3 to 1.
Most of them left without being able to link up with their bigoted –the word bigoted tends to be a war cry, rather than an accurate description. A bigot is someone who – according to my dictionary, is hypocritical or a superstitious adherent to a religion. Or an obstinate and unreasonable adherent of a religious or other opinion. An intolerant and narrow minded person.
It is important to note that obstinate means adherence to the opinion or religion in the face of reason. A reasoned based position, such as mine, is always open to change based on fresh or better or new facts. As soon as I am convinced that a man rode to visit Allah on a horse with a woman’s face and wings, and that it is proper to clitorectimise infant girls, and that in 2017, 12 year old Australian girls should be “married” and that young boys should be told that they will go to heaven and be rewarded with virgins if they kill,
Then at that time I will be happy to change my view. This is not obstinate, there is no reason presented to me that would make me conclude I should support such ideologies. On the contrary, reason shows that such things are repugnant and must be resisted at every opportunity.
I defy you to identify an Islamist who would consider a reasoned argument. I assert that it is Islamists who best fit the description of “Bigot” brethren, a spectacular victory for anti-racists.
They've called another Australia-wide rally. The Adelaide rally is on the .... There is NO WAY we can let fascists and racists openly meet and rally in our city and on our streets. This is unacceptable, and we call for all Adelaidians who oppose racism to come out and counter the racists. Join our side of the march and show everyone that racism is not tolerated on the streets of Adelaide.
It seems to me that in Australia there is EVERY WAY in which people holding one set of opinions can and should, “let” (I dispute that I need your permission) those with contrary views voice theirs. It is repugnant to our way of life that one group should seek to silence another. It is our way to listen and dispute with reason.
I would like to hear a single statement from you that reasonably, and I use that word in its proper sense, refutes my position.
I do not seek to silence you. I do seek to advance my point of view and refute the contrary.
I would be happy to attend and debate with you or any of your representatives at any reasonable time and place of your choice.
Are you happy just to stand on the streets and rave your unreasoned chants.
Debate me rationally at your campus if you dare.