The Australian is reporting that some Muslim identities are calling for a return of the ill-fated Muslim Community Reference Group (MCRG).
…Aziza Abdel-Halim yesterday stressed the importance of forming another government-backed Islamic body to shield Australia’s almost 350,000 Muslims from being racially and religiously targeted by opponents of Islam.
The last MCRG didn’t do much to shield Australian Muslims from being ‘targeted’. In fact, the group of “professional Muslims” (as opposed to Muslim professionals) didn’t seem to do much at all except perhaps provide the media with a nice source of embarrassing quotes and antics.
So when members of the MCRG stress that the answer to all our many problems is another reference group, one can’t help but recall the shopkeeper in Monty Python’s famous “dead parrot” skit (see below).
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“all our many problems”
Just what ARE the many problems of Muslims in Australia? (As opposed to the problems of any clannish recent immigrant group from a peasant background.) That polygamy is illegal? And?
I’d say the remark was made in the same tone as the rest of post, Antish. But in any case, Muslims, like anyone else, have problems. Hard to believe, huh?
Nope – never heard the Cypriot or the Dutch or the Maltese or the Greek or the Vietnamese communities assuming that they had “many problems”. Yes, there were issues that concerned them, no they didn’t assume the foetal position, thumb in mouth, hiding under the bed attitude that the Muslim community (or at least the Sydney Lebanese Muslim community) seems to.
I actually did that once, you know. But I got a cramp and it was dark under the bed so I got scared.
Seriously, Antish, of all blogs to whinge on, why choose Austrolabe when the contributors are generally quite cynical themselves about some of the stuff so-called Muslim “leaders” say about the community and their problems?
Well, I find the Victimology Lite on here more subtly amusing than the dumb stuff on the less erudite sites. And more hypocritical. At base this site is about the desirability of a theocracy (via the detour of libertarianism if necessary) as much as any HT loony site.
“We love Australia that’s why we hate Gays. We don’t allow Gays and Lesbians destroy the future of family values in our country. We hate the evil of Lesbians because we love the Angel of Australia.”
You’re such a weirdo, antish. Do you spend hours coming up with these gems? Like Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice, who often amuses himself by penning little sayings that are always acceptable to the ladies?
In any case, if this place is a loony site, welcome to the asylum, you nong.
I’m more like Mr K in ‘Emma’
This IS the internet. Posting here is like muttering at the TV screen. Pointless but harmless.
Perhaps, but I always enjoy annoying you, antish. Not sure why really.
P.S: Mr K, huh? Captain Wentworth (Persuasion) is the best Austen hero, imho.
Actually, ‘Emma’ is the only one I’ve read more than once, and I don’t remember the others all that well. Are you a Muslim? If so, do you still read novels? If not, why are you on the cheer squad?
You should read Persuasion then. It’s much better than Emma.
Yes, I am Muslim.
I was taught how to read when I was in kindergarten. I thought I might use the skills as an adult and read books with big words in them. Some Muslims do actually read, you know. Strange, huh? Lucky for me, as my reading helps me to interpret your inane posts. (Sorry, I just could not help it).
OK, I’ll stop derailing this thread. >
Antish, the MCRG is being promoted as the answer to our problems. Hence, I made mention of “problems”.
Anyway, everyone has problems or challenges. It’s only ‘victimology’ if you blame others for those problems and I don’t think we’ve ever done that on this site. In fact, we have always advocated that Muslims themselves must take responsibility for solving whatever issues they may have (or think they have).
Shhhh… this is what I think of the situation…. shhh don’t tell anyone I said this.
Now that little Johnny HoWARd is out of office, attention on The Muslim Problem will invariably die down as Labor has a different modus operandi.
Consequently Professional Muslims are sensing that their opportunities for grants, conferences and other jollies are going to become slim pickings, and are getting a wee bit desperate.
Hence, if they can set up an ongoing body to sit upon, at least they might be able to secure the last vestiges from the Islamophobia Business before it dies down to a mere hint of a whiff every decade or so.
But you didn’t hear that from me
All this would be pretty reasonable except that I’ve seen that this blog adopts exactly the same bitchy attitude (more of a full-on cat fight, really) towards Muslims who get government money that the less sophisticated Muslim sites do.
Antish,
Who’s rattled your cage mate?
Sara – my question was: do you STILL read novels?
Not to speak for Sara, but why wouldn’t/couldn’t she? I do.
Antish, can you tell me where that quote about gays and lesbians came from?
It’s a public holiday long weekend so Antish probably forgot to pick up his medication. He’s hallucinating now.
GMan, it’s the main theme of the Australia Day Address (sic) by the no-longer-Fake Sheikh. An example of the not-so-subtle school of Muslim thought, true, but not one that Muslims here can disagree with, is it?
Antish, did you actually read my post? As I mentioned, I use the reading skills I picked up in kindy as an adult. I keep a dictionary handy though, to help with the Big Words.
Why wouldn’t I still read?
I assume that you read – I’m asking (for thr third time) if you still read novels.
Thanks Antish, just read it. Hopefully they’ll be shipping him back to his family and not the other way around. And this is a “liberal” cleric? “We love Australia and they don’t.” From his ravings he sounds like he’s suffering from some sort of mental illness – late stage syphilis or something.
Yes, Antish. I read a variety of fiction, literature, classics, poetry and, occasionally, Instyle magazine.
Oh, sorry, you only wanted to know if I read NOVELS.
GMan – I’m not sure whether I’m more annoyed by his untruths (he doesn’t actually love Australia in the sense that one would normally say that) or by his assumption that we’re dumb enough to believe him.
Ta, Sara.
OK Antish, every time you open your reptilian brain from now on, I will consider it my duty to humiliate you to the point that you will be forced to take another pseudonym.
I’ve also noticed that your spelling and grammar have not improved, your mental retardation seems to be affecting even your computer, perhaps it is contagious?
I should also point out that your stupidity is so profound that it makes any alternate identity porous to it.
Welcome back T Cell. You have been missed.
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