[Galveston Grl]

This is "progress" to the left. If Howard can control speech and teaching of Islam, commies can do that to
Christians to see if anyone bad talks sodomy or socialism. They will do it in the name of "hate" to Christians just as Australia must do this to contain the violence of Islam. Moral relativity...

Thinking about what the left has done here in race hate for power and preferences game; imagine what they will do with the power to directly control and arrest incorrect Christians and the power to create hate doctrines (multiculturalism) and inspire violence against Christians.

In this way, Islam will kill social freedom and Christianity in the West. The Left will leave Islamists alone and they will campaign against Christians. The division in Europe will be Islamic, socialist and commie versus everyone else. The jihadists will be the Left's Nazi brown shirt enforcers.

[Neophyte]

They will do it in the name of "hate" to Christians just as Australia must do this to contain the violence of Islam. Moral relativity...

That's drivel, Gal.

Do you understand what priorities a government has? Howard actions are for the security of the nation he is responsible for.

Yeah right, Australia is a secular country... and if so, they're right not to allow the Jihadists to use our Western democratic values to sap our way of life, freedom of faith including.

[Alas Babylon!]

Howard is a conservative. In Australia, like other parliamentarian system nations, the Liberal party is actually conservative, and the Labor party is liberal (read Leftist). The Socialists are just that: socialists.

[MillerCreek]

It's not a case of targeting one religion with potential because of that to target all religions, it's a case of one group of people who resort to violence of the most extreme and barbaric kind as an aspect to their group character.

That then becomes a defense issue. So far, I haven't seen Christians and/or Jews resorting to blowing themselves up and others along with them as "heroic" acts and similar.

Muslims are actually seen cheering and laughing when people are killed and destruction such as 9/11 occured. They aren't religious in any sense that is familiar to anyone else in the civilized world, to my view.