ssainhu said:
I also think it's interesting that you point out how horrible the US government is. I'd love to see how many people are flocking to Islamic Republics around the world compared to those fleeing from them. Look, both sides have issues, but it's easier to accuse the other of being *that much* worse.
I have watched documentaries and forums here in Australia about Muslim beliefs and attitudes displayed here.
I was rather surprised to discover that there are many "branches" of Islam....all with conflicting views.
In Australia, our welfare system is flooded with Muslims who have fled the awful conditions in their own countries, and sought a better life here. Many are taking advantage of our generosity, using it as an open field for fraud and misappropriation. Muslim men with several wives and children in different households are claiming benefits for all of them whilst not lifting their rear ends of a couch to work to support their own families. Australian taxpayers are fully supporting their new lifestyle. They would not be so well off in their own countries. And they laugh at us because we do it. We are the stupid ones for giving them a system they can exploit apparently.
This is what gives people a bad taste in their mouths. Other Muslims want to force the local people to respect their religion, when they have no respect for ours.
I am speaking in generalities here because not all Muslims display these characteristics. It's the ones who do that create the bad feelings.
The more radical elements are a terrible advertisement for Islam in general and this is what the media focuses on. No Australians welcome this element into our country, yet we are powerless to stop them. They are a endless source of fighting and turmoil that we can do without.
Many are hard and embittered by their former lives and end up bringing their battles to our shores. They in turn indoctrinate their children with the same attitudes and hatreds. Some extremists who engage in terrorism are "home grown".
We have enough ratbags of our own...we don't need these people trying to create the very problems that they have fled from in their former countries.
When Muslims try to tell us how bad we are, we just feel like showing them their own dregs and the constant trouble they cause, and saying "please clean up your own backyard first"...maybe then there will be grounds to complain about us. :sad: