Christian Copts Cry for Justice Australian Copts Pray for a Peaceful Christmas
(28Dec04)In my recent editorial on my web page (Saturday December 18 th ) concerning the Judgment handed down by Judge Michael Higgins in The Daniel Scot, Danny Nalliah case before the VCAT, I suggested the judge may familiarize himself with the treatment of Copts in Egypt, for example this story Christian Copts Cry for Justice Australian Copts pray for a peaceful Christmas, from www.copts.com
Cracked Icons (Why the left has lost credibility)
(19Dec04)“…here and abroad, the Western public believes that there is a double standard in the moral judgment of our left-leaning media, universities, and politicians — that we are not to supposed to ask how Christians are treated in Muslim societies, only how free Islamists in Western mosques are to damn their hosts; or that we are to think beheading, suicide murdering, and car bombing moral equivalents to the sexual humiliation and roguery of Abu Ghraib….” writes Victor Davis Hanson in Cracked Icons (Why the left has lost credibility) “…In one of the strangest political transformations of our age, the fascist Islamic Right has grafted its cause onto that of the Left's boutique multiculturalism”
The Two Dannys Case: Implications immediate and longer term:
(19Dec04) It looks like it's back to the catacombs in ancient Rome! "...In the light of this decision, and the way in which the case began, we can well anticipate the advent of spies being sent to all Church seminars, teaching sessions,and even Sunday services to examine whether there isany vilification involved." writes Dr Francis Nigel Lee in The Two Dannys Case: Implications immediate and longer term: ".. to continue to preach and uphold truth, conservative churches .. may well have to go underground, meeting in homes and halls on a rotating basis.."
(18Dec04) Jim Ball editorial on the Daniel Scot, Danny Nalliah decision in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Is This the Death of Christianity in Australia?
(16Dec04) “….how does a secular judge with no expertise in religion make such decisions, when Islamic scholars themselves are divided on such crucial questions of theology, interpretation and exegesis?” asks Bill Muehlenberg in Is This the Death of Christianity in Australia? “ .....Much of what the Judge considered offensive was simply quotations from the Quran itself. To argue that quoting a religious book makes one guilty of vilification would put 98% of religious discussions out of bounds….”
Is it only Mr Bean who resists this new religious intolerance?
(16Dec04) “….If a law against religious hatred is passed, even when blessed by St David Blunkett, the natural consequence will be a rise in the hatred of religion…writes Charles Moore in “ Is it only Mr Bean who resists this new religious intolerance? .”….Iqbal Sacranie, of the mainstream Muslim Council of Britain, wants the new law because any "defamation of the character of the prophet Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him)" is a "direct insult and abuse of the Muslim community". “… In effect, he is asking for the law of libel to be extended beyond the grave , giving religious belief a protection extended to no other creed or version of history….”
(13Dec04)“….Europe is trapped in its own utopian race/class/gender rhetoric” writes Victor Davis Hanson in The Ents of Europe “….Gut-check time is coming for Europe, with its own rising unassimilated immigrant populations, rogue mosques entirely bent on destroying the West, declining birth rate and rising entitlements, the Turkish question, and a foreign policy whose appeasement of Arab regimes won it only a brief lull and plenty of humiliation. The radical Muslim world of the madrassas hates the United States because it is liberal and powerful; but it utterly despises Europe because it is even more liberal and far weaker, earning the continent not fear, but contempt….”
(12Dec04) “…Isn't the real job of government to encourage us to feel we belong to each other, and then leave it up to us whether we preserve or junk the old divisions?....” Diverse but divided Andrew Bolt 8th Dec 2004 Herald Sun.
Exodus as Dutch middle class seek new life
(12Dec04) They see no clear message from the government, and they are afraid it's becoming irreversible, that's why they are leaving. ... " The tales range from exhaustion with Holland's epidemic of road rage incidents, to fears that it is no longer safe to go shopping. Read all about it here in Exodus as Dutch middle class seek new life from news.telegraph 11th Dec 2004.
".... People no longer know what to expect from each other. There are so many rules, but nobody sticks to them. They just do as they want. They just execute people on the streets, it's shocking when you see this for the first time, .... " " ... We've become so tolerant that everybody thinks they can fight their own wars here ..." . "We hid the problem for a long time because we didn't want to face up to the truth of what was happening,"
Stop Tolerating Tribal Punishment
(03Dec04)“…Just as white culture is not perfect, some aspects of Aboriginal culture are flawed. Yet saying so is deemed impolite or, worse, derided as a new form of racism……” writes Janet Albrechtson in Stop Tolerating Tribal Punishment " …Critics of multiculturalism are invariably labelled as critics of tolerance. Although tolerance is a worthy goal, it is only meaningful when tempered with moral judgments about what is right and what is wrong…”.
(03Dec04)“….For more than 40 years, the idea of mutually assured destruction was enough to prevent the Soviet Union from launching a nuclear attack against the United States . It wasn't an ideal deterrent, but it worked…..The Islamist world and its allies need to know there will be an unprecedented nuclear response to any attack on the United States with weapons of mass destruction…..By making the plans now and making them known to the world – as uncomfortable and unpopular as those plans might be – may be the only way to deter the deaths of thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions.” Who is going to die? by Joseph Farah WorldNetDaily.com 1st December 2004
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