Debate in Australia.
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Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia and her Queen at a special meeting with Prime Minister John Howard, he and his Ministers made it clear that extremists would face a crackdown. Treasurer Peter Costello, seen as heir apparent to Howard, hinted that some radical clerics could be asked to leave the country if they did not accept that Australia was a secular state, and its laws were
made by parliament. "If those are not your values, if you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then Australia is not for you", he said on National Television "I'd be saying to clerics
who are teaching that there are two laws governing people in Australia: one the Australian law and another Islamic law that is false. If you can't agree with parliamentary law, independent courts, democracy, and
would prefer Sharia law and have the opportunity to go to another country, which practices it, perhaps, then, that's a better option", Costello said. Asked whether he meant radical clerics would be forced
to leave, he said those with dual citizenship could possibly be asked to move to the other country. Education Minister Brendan Nelson later told reporters that Muslims who did not want to accept local values should "clear off.
Basically people who don't want to be Australians, and who don't want, to live by Australian values and understand them, well then, they can basically clear off", he said. Separately, Howard angered some
Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. Quote: "IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians." "However, the dust from the attacks had barely settled when the 'politically correct' crowd began complaining about the possibility that our patriotism was offending others. I am not against immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a better life by coming to Australia." "However, there are a few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some born here, need to understand." "This idea of Australia being a multi-cultural community has served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity. And as Australians, we have our own culture, our own society, our own language and our own lifestyle." "This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials
and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom" "We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society .. Learn the language!"
"Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly
documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture." "We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us." "If the Southern Cross offends you, or you don't like "A Fair Go", then you should seriously consider a move to another part of this planet. We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don't care how you did things where you came from. By all means, keep your culture, but do not force it on others.
"This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our
Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, 'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'." "If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted."
The Australians have found the guts to "speak truth to power" and to end the political correctness fostered on Americans by overblown intellectuals. This is the courage that neither party candidates for President are showing in the United States; but it is what the people want to hear. It is time to end the debate on immigrants and Muslims. The value of multi-culturalism and diversity is the "big lie" of the past twenty-years. The United States has never been a multi-cultural society in the way that it is being implemented and there is no evidence that there is any positive, social or economic, value to multi-culturalism or diversity. The problem is the same; none acceptance of the Judeo-Christian morality and Anglican norms. Their culture is anti-American that is why they are here not in their home country. More significantly and often overlooked is that unlike other immigrant waves in the past, both of these new groups are overwhelming in numbers and procreation. Like locusts they are and will overwhelm every culture and society they come in contact with just by shear numbers.
For future action and attitudes we need to take a page from the Australians and learn what it is to stand up for one's self. We lost the war on terrorism the day after the war when President George Bush made the United States into a false multi-cultural society by raising Islam, alone, to an equal level with the Judeo-Christian tradition. This the Australians know better.
As documented by the Chicago Tribune last year and by the FBI in their ongoing investigations and indictments the center of the radicalism of Islam in the U.S. is Chicago. Dearborn, Michigan, with a larger Muslim (but older) community, may have issues, some of which one may disagree with, but most of that Muslim community there consists of American-Muslims that considers themselves American first, with all that it means. (In some cases more American than some "American" intellectuals of multi-culturalism we all know.)
The radical Muslim's and the illegal Hispanic's goal, intentional or accidental, is to end all the values that make America worth while and worth fighting and dying for. It is one thing to criticize policy, which all Americans (residents or citizens), are encouraged to do; it is another thing to demand that the very culture and society that you came to by choice change to fit the society and culture you ran away from.
One, it is empirically wrong that there is not an American standing above all else. Two, it is immoral; becaue the level of acceptable morality in practice in America by far exceeds all other countries combined. (This does not say it is perfect; only relatively so.) Three, it is not polite, which is the Anglo-Saxon way of saying shut-up or get out of my house.