Treatment has sheik wary of returning home

The Australian ^ | January 06, 2007 | Martin Chulov

[Fred Nerks]

A dangerous divide is forcing Australian Muslims to abandon their homes, says Sydney cleric Feiz Mohamed in Lebanon reports Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov ----------

AUSTRALIA'S most influential firebrand cleric feels like an alien in his own country. And Sheik Feiz Mohamed is not alone. He believes a rising anti-Islamic tide has made Muslims wary of their countrymen, forcing at least eight families to abandon their homeland for the Middle East. From the foothills of his ancestral village in north Lebanon, the man with the most sway over the nation's Islamic youth says five years into the war on terror a dangerous divide exists here.

In a rare interview, Feiz, an Australian citizen, says he is apprehensive about returning home after spending more than 12 months in Lebanon caring for his ailing father.

"Imagine me going to the Opera House and taking photos," he says. "I can't walk through the airport without hundreds of eyes on me. They are like foxes trying to eat sheep.

"Before I left I was at a restaurant in Sutherland (in southern Sydney) with my wife, eating spaghetti, and we were like aliens from Mars. I said, 'Let's get out of here'.

"We are just human beings. I am not saying Australia is negative or not good, I am saying it has changed.

"There are about seven or eight families who have left in the last few months and many more who are planning to go."

[MediaMole]

They are like foxes trying to eat sheep.

He's got it backwards, it's like sheep watching a wolf in their midst.

[Fred Nerks]

Interesting discussion. Let's ask ourselves a few logical questions.

Australia has a population of 20 million. Our muslim population is around 350,000. We have a regular census, on which we are asked to ID our religion. (It's not compulsory to answer.)

Your population is around 300 hundred millions.

How would it be possible that you only have say, four times as many muslims in your country as we do?

It just doesn't make sense to me. It's not logical. Australia is only settled and fertile around the coastline. Its Centre is mostly desert. Your continent is filled with towns and cities! (In Australia, ostriches, wild camels, wild donkeys and kangaroos populate more territory than we do.)

I think, if you sat down with a sharp pencil, and started with your industrial cities, one at a time, beginning with Dearborn...you would get to 1.5 million in a few minutes!

I could be wrong...but hey, there are around four hundred of them in ICELAND!

[chit*chat]

IT'S A START . . .

[RebelBanker]

Reading the detailed citation from the folks at adherents.com, they are quite willing to accept a number twice as high as reported - just under 3 million or 1% of the population. Muzzies are highly concentrated in places like Dearborn, but all but nonexistent in the smaller cities and towns in much of the heartland. Just on an intuitive level, there are lots of small towns all over the country that have a couple of hundred people, almost all of whom will self-identify as Christians. That averages out the high muzzie concentrations in certain cities.

[Fred Nerks]

well, here's an example of one of our succeeding generations...

The enemy within - Muslim fanatics in Australia Martin Lehmann - 23 August 2005

A number of Muslims living in Australia openly flout our hospitality and tolerance while advocating the replacement of our democratic system with theocratic fascism.

Wassim Doureihi, the firebrand leader of the Australian branch of Hizb ut-Tahrir - the Party of Liberation- claims he is a Muslim first and an Australian second.

Doureihi has refused to condemn the September 11, Bali or London terror attacks. He asserts Muslims' rights to fight Western "oppressors". He claims suicide bombers were the reaction of Muslims to Western forces occupying their lands, including Iraq and Afghanistan, where Australian troops are stationed.

Australian-born of Lebanese parents, Doureihi said that just because Muslims were born in Australia "doesn't mean we have to accept these conditions".

It is possible that Doureihi's fanatical followers could be already fighting against Australian troops...

http://www.australian-news.com.au/enemy_within.htm

[RebelBanker]

Sounds like treason to me!

Good night and God bless, my FRiend! It is after midnight here on the east coast of the US and I need to be off to bed. Great article and discussion, hope there are plenty more.

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/1

looks to me as if nobody really knows.

[Fred Nerks]

thanks, and goodnight.

[jackibutterfly]

" I am not saying Australia is negative or not good, I am saying it has changed."

Gee, I wonder why! Duh!

[Fred Nerks]

Lebanese Muslim thugs spark riots and the media blame “racist” Australians:

http://www.brookesnews.com/051912muslim_print.html

[Luigi Vasellini]

I remember reading a Gallup Org poll which stated that at the time there were 2.8 million muzzies in the USA. I believe those were 2003 stats. I cant remember the criteria of what they called a muslim