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Plan to teach Muslims local values
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18222583-29277,00.html
More muslim lip-service. The muslim community cannot teach muslim youth Australian values. This is like a fish teaching another fish how to be a bird. It just cannot happen.
Try to imagine local muslim non-leaders teaching their muslim youth to be good Australians. At the same time muslim youth are taught that they are compelled by holy fatwah to kill cartoonists who draw mohummad. At the same time muslim youth are taught a disaster plan to protect muslims from retaliation WHEN a muslim terrorist attack happens in Australia. Muslims are unwilling and unable to live along side Australian culture let alone assimilate to it.
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lass='quotemain'>MUSLIM leaders will call on Australia's Islamic youth to assim
ilate and refrain from extremism in an effort to prevent a repeat of Sydney's racial violence.
A meeting of the nation's imams next month would urge Islamic community and religious leaders to teach "Australian values" and promote tolerance and harmony, conference organiser Munir Hussain said today.
The two-day conference, originally scheduled for this week but postponed until March 25-26 because of logistical problems, will be held at Greenacre in south-western Sydney, heart of Sydney's Islamic community.
Dr Hussain said the conference, organised by the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, would be a crucial step in improving relations between Muslims and non-Muslims after the December 11 Cronulla riot and retaliatory attacks.
He said Islamic leaders wanted to shun extremism and play a greater role in helping young Muslims to feel connected to the
communities in which they lived.
"We want to teach Australian values and stop giving out any statements which will create disharmony in the c
ommunity," Dr Hussain said.
"We'll be talking to Muslim youths ... we're trying to assimilate them with Australian values.
"That's the whole idea ' to create better harmony in the community, particularly through preaching to the Muslim youths, so that these incidents like Cronulla could be prevented in the future."
Dr Hussain said he wanted imams to refrain from making "fiery" public statements likely to inflame tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims.
Also on the agenda for the conference will be the thorny topic of religious vilification laws, which Dr Hussain wants introduced in NSW to "protect" the sanctity of people's religious beliefs.
"With the cartoons in Denmark, they wouldn't have been printed if there were laws in that country to
protect the interests of religious groups," he said.
The NSW government under former premier Bob Carr steadfastly refused to introduce laws against religious vilification, although they were brought in ' controversially ' in Victoria.
Up to 120 imams from around Australia are expected to attend the conference, along with guests including government representatives.
Dr Hussain said the conference had been delayed by four weeks because organisers wanted to broaden its scope, invite more guests and obtain extra government funding.
The full agenda and guest speakers were still being finalised, he said, adding that the conference could be a turning point in ethnic relations.
"This will help the situation in Australia," he said. [/b][/quote]
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18222583-29277,00.html
More muslim lip-service. The muslim community cannot teach muslim youth Australian values. This is like a fish teaching another fish how to be a bird. It just cannot happen.
Try to imagine local muslim non-leaders teaching their muslim youth to be good Australians. At the same time muslim youth are taught that they are compelled by holy fatwah to kill cartoonists who draw mohummad. At the same time muslim youth are taught a disaster plan to protect muslims from retaliation WHEN a muslim terrorist attack happens in Australia. Muslims are unwilling and unable to live along side Australian culture let alone assimilate to it.
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lass='quotemain'>MUSLIM leaders will call on Australia's Islamic youth to assim
ilate and refrain from extremism in an effort to prevent a repeat of Sydney's racial violence.
A meeting of the nation's imams next month would urge Islamic community and religious leaders to teach "Australian values" and promote tolerance and harmony, conference organiser Munir Hussain said today.
The two-day conference, originally scheduled for this week but postponed until March 25-26 because of logistical problems, will be held at Greenacre in south-western Sydney, heart of Sydney's Islamic community.
Dr Hussain said the conference, organised by the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, would be a crucial step in improving relations between Muslims and non-Muslims after the December 11 Cronulla riot and retaliatory attacks.
He said Islamic leaders wanted to shun extremism and play a greater role in helping young Muslims to feel connected to the
communities in which they lived.
"We want to teach Australian values and stop giving out any statements which will create disharmony in the c
ommunity," Dr Hussain said.
"We'll be talking to Muslim youths ... we're trying to assimilate them with Australian values.
"That's the whole idea ' to create better harmony in the community, particularly through preaching to the Muslim youths, so that these incidents like Cronulla could be prevented in the future."
Dr Hussain said he wanted imams to refrain from making "fiery" public statements likely to inflame tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims.
Also on the agenda for the conference will be the thorny topic of religious vilification laws, which Dr Hussain wants introduced in NSW to "protect" the sanctity of people's religious beliefs.
"With the cartoons in Denmark, they wouldn't have been printed if there were laws in that country to
protect the interests of religious groups," he said.
The NSW government under former premier Bob Carr steadfastly refused to introduce laws against religious vilification, although they were brought in ' controversially ' in Victoria.
Up to 120 imams from around Australia are expected to attend the conference, along with guests including government representatives.
Dr Hussain said the conference had been delayed by four weeks because organisers wanted to broaden its scope, invite more guests and obtain extra government funding.
The full agenda and guest speakers were still being finalised, he said, adding that the conference could be a turning point in ethnic relations.
"This will help the situation in Australia," he said. [/b][/quote]