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Howard hits out at 'jihad' Muslims (Australia's PM)
The Australian ^ | 20 Feb 06 | George Megalogenis

Posted on 02/19/2006 3:39:44 PM PST by Fair Go

JOHN Howard has strongly criticised aspects of Muslim culture, warning they pose an unprecedented challenge for Australia's immigration program.

While he remained confident that the overwhelming majority of Muslims would be successfully integrated, the Prime Minister said there were two unique problems that previous intakes of migrants from Europe and Asia did not have. "I do think there is this particular complication because there is a fragment which is utterly antagonistic to our kind of society, and that is a difficulty," Mr Howard told The Australian.

"You can't find any equivalent in Italian, or Greek, or Lebanese, or Chinese or Baltic immigration to Australia. There is no equivalent of raving on about jihad, but that is the major problem."

(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: australia; howard; immigration; islam; jihad; johnhoward; women
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
"They hate the West. Why are they here ?"

Because the West let them!

21 posted on 02/19/2006 7:56:02 PM PST by TheLion
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To: xrp
lol - you're getting there!


22 posted on 02/19/2006 8:16:02 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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23 posted on 02/19/2006 9:25:36 PM PST by xrp (Every time Chuck Norris sneezes, a third-world country is annihilated from the face of the Earth.)
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To: varon

Nicely put.


24 posted on 02/20/2006 5:54:12 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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