sam04u said:
damn....
I hate that a substantial ammount of my fellow aussies, hate me. Because of something I have choosen to live by. I choose to be muslim, even though I know of the other religions and the same scientific theories which any of you do.
They hate your religion. They're still all for letting you live your life here, they're still all for giving you protection under the law from any threats/violence anyone may place on you, they're still for giving you equal pay to all other australians.
In some cases I even know more then alot of others living in Australia who are 'Atheist' by choice.
Let's not make this a 'which belief's intellectual penis is bigger' contest.
I hate how people discriminate against me because I'm muslim, and how thousands could be rallied for the 'expulsion', of my ancestary from a country which they have as little right to as any other citizen.
What do you mean 'little right to' ? That's nonsense. Do you believe that land rights should only come into existance based on history?
I hate when people think a minority of muslims represents the majority of muslims and use that as a tool for attacking the majorities, as an exuse.
What do you mean minority tho? While I'm sure it's a smaller number that are actually willing to pull off attacks, the support for these attacks in the muslim world is imho high. I can see their reasoning for supporting these attacks, I can understand somewhat why the violence is happening... to claim it's just some fringe majority that support this sort of violence is silly.
I hate how nobody, questioned Serius statement "They will preach their religion to me and my customers", yet people questioned that a muslim who prayed 5-times a day, would make sexual slurs at women.
Are you saying that there's not a feeling in the wider muslim community (not just in australia) that allowing women to wear skimpy clothes is a bad thing?
I choose to be muslim, and that defines me, I don't define my religion. Neither should the terrorist minorities, I don't judge you by your minorities and you should return the favour.
I agree, you shouldn't judge individual people by minorities. There are alot individual muslims out there who are really great people. But if we're going to do a thorough analysis of islam today, we have to say there is alot of anger, violence, and suppression.
In Muslim nations, you are not free to say you're christian, to say you're atheist, even if you're a very nice person - or you will be dealt with in the harshest of ways. Here, there is intollerance across the polulation, alot of people don't like muslims because of what they see as happening around the world, this can probably make life as a muslim in a western nation tough - but you're still respected (at least in theory) equally under the law. If someone bashes you for being muslim I and many others will stand up and say 'that's wrong, he needs to be punished'.
This doesn't mean that we should ignore the tollerance in Australia of course, it is still something to be dealt with, but I think it gives it some perspective.