Stop being racist: Steggall to Dutton

Originally posted by Taurisk: ↑

@Fact Finder anyone with a modicum of education knows that about Islam, however there are countries in which the Islamic faith is practiced very much like the Catholic Religion used to be practiced over the centuries; by "Lip Service" only, and following prescribed religious traditions, because these traditions may have been part or became part of the intrinsic 'difference' in clothing styles, customs, we all have developed over hundreds of years. In essence these difference are tribal, objectively they add colour to the multi-coloured dreamcoat of humanity, but uniforms of any style can become weaponised as we also know.
(Do Italian women still wear a head scarf when in church?)

Western Society has from the Enlightenment onwards, managed to separate the Church from the State - I am afraid Islam has never done that and it tries to inflict the virus of religion on the Western societies it often lives in an uneasy truce with. Uneasy on both sides, especially since their representatives are seen as people who contribute nothing, just exist on welfare, produce children, non-working husbands, wives. All of which does happen, but it discounts those who are well integrated into Western society.
I feel our law givers need to make laws to strengthen the separation of church (I include 'temple' and 'mosque' in 'Church') and state.
Laws can be worked out by us and by wise lawmakers, before we are overwhelmed by the Islamic population explosion which is partly due to Western Welfare systems (child allowance payable per child, means that many Islamic fathers need not go to work, and thus contribute nothing to society).
I do apologise to those people of the Islamic faith who diligently work in our various industries, driving taxis, working as nurses, cooks, on factory assembly lines, etc. - these people are an asset to any society.
Taurisk

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@Taurisk; re your post which included "... Western Society has from the Enlightenment onwards, managed to separate the Church from the State ...".

Sorry mate but that's factually wrong.

For example, Australia funds Catholic education better than it funds public schools and even affords 'charity status' to the Catholic Church [no accountability, tax free, able to send funds overseas etc]. As to the response of 'the state' to the Biblical Flood of revelations about the conduct of men of the cloth ... all the way up to our High Court and overseas all the way up to the Vatican ....

Scott Morrison proudly and boastfully thrust Pentecostalism into the Australian political arena even as his great mate ended up fronting US courts - I'll avoid the temptation to remind other posters of all the water flowing beneath that bridge.

The unrivalled 'special protection' afforded to those identifying as Jewish by both the Coalition and Labor includes state funded armed security guards at Jewish schools, oppressive legislation almost criminalising without charge or trial those who dare criticise the conduct of a genocidal regime such as Netanyahu's and even provides Jewish lobbyists with privileged access to government denied to others.

The highest priority assigned by politicians to rescue / fast track Christians from Syria is at the other end of the scale from Dutton's response to orphaned Palestinian babies whose parents have been vaporised by US bunker-busting bombs.

And of course the extent to which our governments have bank-rolled the establishment of privileged, elitist and select entry religious schools is without equal anywhere else on Earth.