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New migrants should get taxpayer subsidies to visit overseas relatives, an Islamic group has told the Federal Government.

The Islamic Women's Welfare Association also says Muslims prefer to live close to their own people and Australia should consider how to "facilitate the purchase of homes for new migrants".

The last thing Australia needs is more migrant enclaves, especially Muslim ones. Let's try not to emulate France, shall we?

In a submission to a federal multicultural inquiry, the association has urged the Government to give tax deductions to newly arrived migrants so they can visit relatives in their homelands.

"Migrants face a lot of sacrifices such as having to travel long distances to visit relatives, spending on communication costs, missing out on some events occurring in native countries etc," the submission said.

"This loss should be compensated by the Government in one way or the other to retain migrants in their country of adoption."

It’s really stupid ideas like this which puts a wedge between non-Muslims and Muslims. Why is that it’s always some Muslim group who wants “this” or “that” special treatment?

Talk about insulting the host.

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Radical Muslims Declare Jihad on Dogs in Europe

It seems “Man’s best friend” is no friend of radical Islamists.

 

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Holy Jingle Bombs!

Charlie Brown converts to Islam, radical Islamtard Choudary asserts Jesus would be a Muslim and Ahmadinejad promotes government-approved apparel for women.

Read all about it here.

 

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Creeping Sharia, Yet Again

Bill Muehlenberg 

Hot on the heels of my public debate with a leading Muslim last week, plenty more examples of what I warned about in my talk are coming to light. Indeed, there are far too many to choose from, so let me just highlight three examples of how the religion of peace is not quite living up to its own PR.

The first two examples come out of the UK. The first has to do with the very worrying trend of a rise in ‘honour’ crimes. As the Guardian reported this week, women are experiencing a big rise in attacks associated with honour killings and retaliation.

The article begins this way:

“The number of women and girls in the UK suffering violence and intimidation at the hands of their families or communities is increasing rapidly, according to figures revealing the nationwide scale of ‘honour’ abuse for the first time.

“Statistics obtained under the Freedom of Information Act about such violence – which can include threats, abduction, acid attacks, beatings, forced marriage, mutilation and murder – show that in the 12 police force areas for which comparable data was available, reports went up by 47% in just a year.

“The figures, shared with the Guardian by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (Ikwro), also reveal that a small number of forces – including four in Scotland – are still not collecting data on how often such violence occurs.

“The 39 police forces that gave Ikwro figures recorded 2,823 incidents in 2010. Ikwro estimates that another 500 crimes in which police were involved were committed in the 13 force areas that did not provide data. But this is likely to be only the tip of the iceberg, campaigners say, as so many incidents go unreported because of victims’ fears of recriminations.”

The article also contains the story of one such poor woman:

Monash University’s Muslim Handbook

Unless you have an iPad (which I don’t) then you would have missed this excellent story by Daily Telegraph columnist, Miranda Devine that should be read in full:

Monash University prides itself on its "multicultural learning environment" and yet it produces a handbook for one certain class of students, and not for others.

Salaam Monash is the title of the glossy 50-page "handbook for Muslim students".

"At Monash we understand that Muslim students have specific social, religious and cultural needs," writes Professor Stephanie Fahey, deputy vice-chancellor, in a foreword to the handbook.

The booklet lists Islamic banking and financial institutions, Muslim publications, women's groups and schools. It also lists Muslim medical and dental practitioners, which splits up doctors into male and female groups…

…But there is no similar handbook for other religious or ethnic groups, not for Buddhists, Taoists, Germans, Greeks, Sikhs, Mormons or vegans.

Why encourage one group of people to maintain an identity separate from other Australians?

Good question, Miranda. Why indeed the need for Muslim only handbook.

 

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Whatever happened to the separation of mosque and state?

Bill Muehlenberg 

OK, I was wrong. I have complained about the war against Christianity and how the secular state is squeezing it out of every part of the public arena. I have noted how the iron wall between church and state has resulted in Christians becoming second class citizens in their own Western nations.

But one counter-example has just appeared, so I guess I was wrong. It seems there is hope yet. It appears that there is a Melbourne Council which is actually using tax monies to fund Christian outreach and evangelism. So I guess the secular crusade against Christianity is not so bad after all. Indeed, read for yourself what the Darebin Council is advertising:

"Darebin Christians Reaching Out - Project Officer...

An opportunity exists within the Community Planning Partnerships and Performance Department for a motivated Project Officer. This is a temporary, full-time (38 hrs per week) position....

You will be responsible for implementing the Jesus Peace - Darebin’s Christian Reaching Out project, funded by the Federal Attorney General’s department.

You will be responsible for: 

• Working in partnership with the Christian Society of Victoria to strengthen its role and effectiveness in organising events, dealing with the media, resolving conflicts, and managing stakeholders 
• Developing and implementing activities that assist the Christian Society of Victoria to dispel myths and misconceptions about Christianity and Christians 
• Organising a series of seminars and events around interfaith and intercultural dialogue targeting community members to learn about Christianity and its practices."

Well, I guess there is hope after all for our secular society that the state and Christianity can peacefully co-exist and work together. I guess the wall of separation between church and state is not as bad as I had previously thought. Wow, that is such a relief...

Oops...

Oh, sorry, I just went back and reread that ad, and I actually made a minor mistake. All of the above information is completely true, but I misread ‘Islam’ for ‘Christianity’, and ‘Muslim’ for ‘Christian’. Hey, my mistake. So simply replace every Christian term in that ad with a Muslim term, and you will in fact have the real story.

It always starts as a small Ripple: Creeping Sharia

This is so wrong.

Man bans are spreading as two more council functions are declared off-limits because it is "not appropriate" for men to mix with Muslim women.

And in a surprise twist, VCAT backed the latest bans, declaring there was no discrimination and councils no longer needed to apply for exemptions

I thought it was all about assimilation and not separation?

So at what point do we say enough is enough? Are we soon going to be warned that certain neighbourhoods just like in the UK will become persona non grata to non-muslims?

Make no mistake; Creeping Sharia is happening here too.

 

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Our Censors At Work, Again

Bill Muehlenberg looks at the smears against Senator Cory Bernardi proposing to bring Geert Wilders to speak:

Sack him! Kick him out of the Party! This is an outrage! No political party should allow such contemptible behaviour! He must be disciplined at once! Dump this creep! Wow, so what are all these frenzied calls all about? Are we finally getting serious about that Labor Party sleaze character, Craig Thomson and his prostitution scandal?

I wish. Instead we have something apparently much more horrendous. You see, a Liberal Senator actually wants to bring a freedom fighter to speak here. Someone who has taken a courageous stand for freedom, and who has warned about the very real dangers of the Islamists, and their war against the West.

I refer to Senator Cory Bernardi (SA) and his proposal to bring Dutch politician and defender of freedom, Geert Wilders to speak here. This has got Labor and its sycophantic MSM supporters in an uproar. 

So let me see if I got this straight: Labor and the MSM think ugly sex scandals involving Labor MPs are just fine, but daring to allow freedom of speech and a warning to the West about jihad by stealth is beyond the pale. Talk about inverted values and a sickness of the soul.

Note how the Melbourne Age introduces this story: “Ultra-conservative Liberal senator Cory Bernardi has provoked outrage by offering to help controversial anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders during his visit to Australia.”

“Ultra-conservative”? Gee, he sounds like he must be a Nazi. I wonder why the Age never calls a lefty an “ultra-radical”. Only conservatives it seems are ultra. So what makes him so evil? Well, he is pro-faith, pro-life, and pro-family. That makes anyone an evil Nazi who should obviously be crucified, in the eyes of the leftist controlled MSM.