Part of me feels compelled to blog about the recent riots in Sydney and part of me feels like they are so awful I don’t want to dignify them with a response. One of my reflections after coming back from a trip to Europe (which I blogged about here) was that deep down Australia is a racist country and that really we never got over the white Australia policy.
It sickens me to my stomach when I hear things like…
“this multicultural experiment just isn’t working”
or “This is a Xn Country”
or “they don’t mix”
These three things all contradict each other.
If we are a multicultural country then we are not a Xn Country and we accept differences and that at time we won’t all mix together.
If we were a Xn Country surely we would "welcome the stranger" or even "love our enemies" (if indeed they were)
If people are not mixing there is a two way problem. At a party usually the hosts and the guests share some of the blame for this.
None the less the biggest problem, I think, is how our political leaders reinforce that
A) it is Muslim people who cause trouble, particularly terrorist type trouble. The reality is that terrorists who are also Muslim are almost always from Muslim countries where there extreme views are not welcome.
B) People are wanting to come to this country as refugees could be here to perform acts of terrorism. The reality is that most Muslim terrorists are in Muslim countries and wish to overthrow governments that are too liberal for there liking (such as Indonesia). 911 was an exception to the rule and the terrorists certainly did not come into the country by boat.
It sickens me to my stomach when I hear things like…
“this multicultural experiment just isn’t working”
or “This is a Xn Country”
or “they don’t mix”
These three things all contradict each other.
If we are a multicultural country then we are not a Xn Country and we accept differences and that at time we won’t all mix together.
If we were a Xn Country surely we would "welcome the stranger" or even "love our enemies" (if indeed they were)
If people are not mixing there is a two way problem. At a party usually the hosts and the guests share some of the blame for this.
None the less the biggest problem, I think, is how our political leaders reinforce that
A) it is Muslim people who cause trouble, particularly terrorist type trouble. The reality is that terrorists who are also Muslim are almost always from Muslim countries where there extreme views are not welcome.
B) People are wanting to come to this country as refugees could be here to perform acts of terrorism. The reality is that most Muslim terrorists are in Muslim countries and wish to overthrow governments that are too liberal for there liking (such as Indonesia). 911 was an exception to the rule and the terrorists certainly did not come into the country by boat.
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