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Uncharted waters...Meet the Royal Australian Navy’s trailblazing Muslim Captain Mona Shindy
Daily Telegraph (Sydney) ^ | 29th October 2015 | Jennifer Sexton

Posted on 10/30/2015 5:42:44 PM PDT by naturalman1975

WHEN Captain Mona Shindy climbed aboard HMAS Canberra to test missiles in the Pacific, a locker had to be converted into a sleeping quarters to accommodate her.

Never before had an active Australian warship carried women. But aged 23 and launching what would become a 26-year career with the Navy, this was just the first hurdle of a trailblazer.

Already she had a University degree in the blokey domain of engineering. Weapons engineer. And if this were not unusual enough, Captain Shindy happens to be Muslim, and for most of her career in the navy, has been a mother.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailytelegraph.com.au ...


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From everything I have ever heard, Captain Shindy has earned her rank and the respect that comes with it. She's a credit to the Royal Australian Navy. I wish all Muslims in Australia were like her - and from what I've heard, she does what she can to try and encourage those she has any influence over to be.

“The moment my parents migrated to Australia, they were determined to feel as Australian as anyone else."

I think that may be the key that is missing for far too many. They come here to live, but don't want to be part of this country. They want to change it to be more like what they came from - which, when many of them were fleeing those places seems especially odd.

1 posted on 10/30/2015 5:42:44 PM PDT by naturalman1975
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Make a trip to Iran or Saudi Arabia, and they’ll dig a hole & stone her to death for her apostasy.


2 posted on 10/30/2015 5:49:52 PM PDT by twister881
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I always read your posts with interest, and always comment with Australia's and Australian's best interests in mind.

I hope this works out well for Australia, you guys are the only ones holding the underside of the planet together.

3 posted on 10/30/2015 5:50:56 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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Nice lady, but why are so many honkies UTTERLY DESPERATE to prove they don’t hate non-whites..?

What is this burning, horrendous crime they’re trying to get over..?


4 posted on 10/30/2015 5:55:09 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Navy Patriot

I hope this works out well for Australia, you guys are the only ones holding the underside of the planet together.


...and if it breaks, it’s all going to spill out the bottom.


5 posted on 10/30/2015 5:59:39 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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“The moment my parents migrated to Australia, they were determined to feel as Australian as anyone else.”

Didn’t know Australian head gear was a white towel. How many orthodox Jews serve and wear headgear appropriate to their religion? Or Sikhs? Are Christians allowed to wear crosses?


6 posted on 10/30/2015 6:02:01 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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If you get a chance to read it, a book called, 'Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus by Nabeel Qureshi, is a good read. Like this young lady, his moslem mother and father came to the US, and the father served in the USN for 26+ years. Because of their sect of islam, Ahmadi, they were persecuted in Pakistan by the Sunnis as being non-moslem.

Unfortunately, because of his conversion to Christianity, Dr. Qureshi has been estranged from his parents for years.

7 posted on 10/30/2015 6:03:38 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: naturalman1975

Encouraging. Bless her.


8 posted on 10/30/2015 6:09:32 PM PDT by ZULU (Mt. McKinley is the tallest mountain in N. America. Denali is Aleut for "scam artist.")
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Hope her first officer is ready to take her out if they ever have to fight against muslims and she starts acting weird.  photo original_zps64kikmek.jpg
9 posted on 10/30/2015 6:13:51 PM PDT by Raymann
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Politically correct crap.


10 posted on 10/30/2015 6:16:22 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Yup PC horseshit and the reason our countries are getting over run look at Europe they are finished


11 posted on 10/30/2015 6:18:39 PM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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The Australians have lost their collective minds. This woman is going to choose sides when the time comes and it won’t be Australia’s.


12 posted on 10/30/2015 6:24:43 PM PDT by bergmeid
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Thanks, was looking for the opportunity to point out that she will stand with her faith before country. It’s history, oh ya, it has been destroyed in the now queer camel riding muuslum countries.


13 posted on 10/30/2015 6:35:35 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Beware of the propaganda, tis the delight of evil!)
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Actually if you read the attached article, you will realize this happened more than 20 years ago. (c.1990)

If she hasn't changed her mind since then, she is probably not going to.

14 posted on 10/30/2015 6:35:47 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (It's funny 'cos it's trure - Homer)
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To: gaijin
Nice lady, but why are so many honkies UTTERLY DESPERATE to prove they don't hate non-whites..?

What is this burning, horrendous crime they're trying to get over..?

I've been mulling a theory in the back of my mind for quite some time. I'm not sure I can express it well, but it goes something like this.

The North Eastern elites don't want to entertain the possibility that they may have been wrong about the Civil War, and so they go out of their way to do the very opposite of what they thought the bad guys (In their minds, the South) would do. (A sort of Doubling down on their original premise.) They bought in so heavily to being "anti-racist" (because that was their ex-post facto justification for the war) that they have pursued it long past the point where it makes any sense. (As have the Germans, but for a different war, and for different cathartic reasons)

Likewise, the Democrats get a great deal of their power by pandering to the races, and of course the Democrats are the inbred siblings of the Media systems, and those carry the message to the rest of the nation and the world.

They also influence the rest of the world through social contact with the people who consider themselves the elite class in other countries.

But basically it is to double down on the Civil War. At least that is a theory that might explain some of it. They aren't even doing it consciously, it's just social momentum at this point. They inherited the mindset from their parents, who inherited it from their's, going all the way back.

15 posted on 10/30/2015 6:36:10 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Yup PC horseshit and the reason our countries are getting over run look at Europe they are finished

They are not finished yet, but I dare say their collective nations are about to get a good blood drenching. I personally think the Europeans will win the confrontation, but they are going to have to throw off their sissy predilections and start fighting for their survival.

16 posted on 10/30/2015 6:38:13 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: naturalman1975

Allahwahoo Wackbar!/S

May she live to bear many children and be a good wife, InshahahahaAllah.


17 posted on 10/30/2015 7:03:14 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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Exactly....and SJS could happen when Shindy must train ship’s weapons on people who are part of the Umma.


18 posted on 10/30/2015 7:05:02 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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