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Tony Abbott on Islam: 'Not All Cultures Are Equal'
Townhall.com ^ | December 13, 2015 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 12/13/2015 5:12:27 PM PST by Kaslin

Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is taking heat for comments he made about Islam, saying that the West "can't remain in denial about the massive problem within Islam."

"Islam never had its own version of the Reformation and the Enlightenment or a consequent acceptance of pluralism and the separation of church and state," he wrote in a letter published in a Sydney tabloid last week.

"It's not culturally insensitive to demand loyalty to Australia and respect for Western civilization. Cultures are not all equal. We should be ready to proclaim the clear superiority of our culture to one that justifies killing people in the name of God."

Abbott, who remains a member of parliament, was accused by political foes of bigotry, with some even saying he sounded like the Australian version of Donald Trump.

Abbott didn't back down, however.

After speaking at an event in Singapore on Wednesday, he told the audience, "not all cultures are equal."

 "I am more than ready to assert the superiority of a culture that is decent and humane, open and welcoming, over a culture that thinks it's right to kill in the name of God."

H/T: CNS News 


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: culturalism; elections; immigration; islam; tonyabbott; trump; trumpwasright

1 posted on 12/13/2015 5:12:27 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The left never likes truth, they never refute it, just mock those who espouse and explain it.


2 posted on 12/13/2015 5:15:19 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Kaslin

Islam is a religion based upon cruelty to the unbeliever.

Their founder and prophet was a slave trader, slave owner, sex slave pimp, pedophile, rapist, mass murdering thief and a liar.

Radicalized muslim are just muslims who actually live their life as their founder did as documented in the koran and hadith.


3 posted on 12/13/2015 5:16:13 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Kaslin

ISIS IS the islamic reformation.


4 posted on 12/13/2015 5:18:06 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Kaslin

He is right and I support his views.


5 posted on 12/13/2015 5:18:41 PM PST by I want the USA back ( Islam is a violent, world-domination political ideology cleverly disguised as a religion.)
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To: Kaslin

> We should be ready to proclaim the clear superiority of our culture to one that justifies killing people in the name of God.

Imam Baraq will issue a Fatwa.


6 posted on 12/13/2015 5:19:18 PM PST by Ray76
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To: Kaslin
Tony can take "the heat".

The extreme, leftwingnut commie libs forced us to kiss the asses of homosexuals and other sexual deviants or pay fines and/or go to jail.

Now they are trying to force us to kiss the asses of Muzzie Islamoterrorists? The savages who want all of us dead?

Liberals are more retarded than I already give the credit for being.

7 posted on 12/13/2015 5:21:18 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Have you unpacked from your white privilege guilt trip yet?)
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To: Kaslin

It is sad that something so completely obvious could possibly be controversial,


8 posted on 12/13/2015 5:23:45 PM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: Kaslin

The truth just kills them. That’s why they get so childishly angry . . .the truth hurts


9 posted on 12/13/2015 5:23:52 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Muslim silence = complicity. Muslim immigration: END it, can't mend it)
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To: Kaslin

We lost the respect of the world in 1973 when we began the slaughter of 60,000,000 unborn babies.


10 posted on 12/13/2015 5:27:08 PM PST by donna (Radicalized Christians become missionaries; then, they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
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To: Kaslin
Multiculturalism and diversity are a crock of crap. Created to dis empower western civilization, especially America.
11 posted on 12/13/2015 5:29:01 PM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Fungi

Yep, ad-hominem attacks are a standard tactic of a liberal who has lost or is losing an argument/debate/discussion. Of course, any time a liberal debates someone equipped with facts and reason, they end up on the losing end. Having insults and personal attacks hurled at you by a liberal is basically an achievement badge all good, rational conservatives should earn. ;-)


12 posted on 12/13/2015 5:32:26 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: All

The future must not belong to those who deny the true nature of Islam

John Quincy Adams on Islam

In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.

Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus (Blunt, 1830, 29:269, capitals in orig.).


13 posted on 12/13/2015 5:43:13 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Fungi; All
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14 posted on 12/13/2015 6:14:25 PM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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To: Awgie

Yep, just the communist way of destroying America. Diversity is horrible.


15 posted on 12/13/2015 6:34:29 PM PST by Carry me back (.Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: Kaslin

that’s right, some cultures are actually vast cults , in disguise.

it’s time for the mask to come off.


16 posted on 12/13/2015 6:42:34 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Awgie
Multiculturalism and diversity are a crock of crap. Created to dis empower western civilization, especially America.

You're right.

17 posted on 12/13/2015 7:02:25 PM PST by GOPJ (The enemy? (UWEE) Unified Washington Establishment Elites (UWEE -sounds similar to a pig call.)
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To: Vince Ferrer
ISIS IS the islamic reformation.

There is truth in that.

ISIS is a back to Islamic basics as practiced by Muhammed group. -Tom

18 posted on 12/13/2015 7:05:17 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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