Moderate Aussie Muslims are time and time again thrown to the wolves by Australian authorities who have held out to them the hope of support.
Repeatedly moderate muslims are told that they should stand up and speak out. The inference is that they will be supported. The ignorant do not know how hard it is for them. Social and religious exclusion and failure to be invited to mosque ceremonies are just the start.
Imagine how hard it is for a young girl, a child, to stand up against being forced to marry. Everything she has been taught at an Australian school tells her that she has rights.
She has the guts to stand up to her parents, brothers and sisters, local imans and the "husbands" relatives as well. Honour killings and mutilation are not out of the realms of reality.
She believes all the propaganda that she will be supported. And then gets none.
The Islamic Schools issues are another indicator. When moderate Aussie Muslim parents came out against the hard line faction taking over. (SA Islamic College) The Federal Minister said it was a State Matter and the State Minister said she had no control.
Moderate Muslim parents who are trying to be both Australians and Muslims again left bereft and at the mercy, or lack of it, of the hardliners.
We Australians must put into practice what we preach.