Panther wrote on Jan 20^th, 2015 at 7:01am:

So Australian school kids are being taught that the first core of law is protection of religion. From what? Gandalf should fend this.

Bias_2012 wrote on Jan 20^th, 2015 at 9:49am:


Which "Sydney Muslim primary school web site"?  Please provide a link so we can check for ourselves what it says, as against what you claim it says.   

And on it goes:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2918388/Five-Chechens-suspected-planning-terror-attack-arrested-France-day-800-000-Muslims-marched-Chechnya-praising-Charlie-Hebdo-killers.html

Five Chechens arrested in France and ‘dangerous explosives’ recovered a day after 800,000 Muslims marched through Chechnya praising Charlie Hebdo killers

    Five Chechens in possession of explosives have been arrested in France
    Arrests follow widespread protests throughout Grozny yesterday
    Locals are angry at Charlie Hebdo's caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed
    The five people have been arrested on suspicion of plotting an attack

Protesters marched through the streets of downtown Grozny, releasing balloons and carrying posters that read 'Hands off our beloved prophet' and 'Europe has only united us'.

Russia, which has a large and restive Muslim population and waged two devastating wars against Chechnya in the 1990s, offered its condolences to France after the attack but has warned local publications against reprinting the Charlie Hebdo cartoons that featured the Prophet Mohammed.

According to Russian news agencies, 15,000 people joined a similar demonstration in the neighbouring region of Ingushetia on Saturday.

A Bulgarian court has agreed to extradite a French national with alleged links to the terrorists who carried out the attack against the Charlie Hebdo newspaper.

Protesters yesterday also gathered in the main market square in Bannu, Pakistan, chanting 'Death to the government of France', before setting fire to dozens of French flags and an effigy of the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

As the anger mounted, some demonstrators even set fire to an inverted Italian flag, which they mistakenly thought belonged to France.

A second effigy destroyed in the protest was said to represent the editor of the Charlie Hebdo, the magazine which was subject to a brutal attack earlier this month, after two masked jihadist gunmen stormed the Paris headquarters and killed 12 people.

The dramatic scenes came as more than 2,000 Iranians protested outside the French embassy in Tehran, shouting 'Death to French' and urging the ambassador to be expelled.

Meanwhile, in Tehran, a protest - which was organised by students but attended by all age groups - was given a heavy security detail of around 150 Iranian police, and although noisy it passed off peacefully after two hours.

One speaker said the demonstration was to 'condemn the insult of Charlie Hebdo,' but also to denounce that 'the embassy forces women to remove their veils to get a visa'.

As in customary in Iran, men and women were segregated at the protest.

Demand to read Charlie Hebdo forced the distributors to lift the print run of the 'survivors' edition' of the magazine to an unprecedented seven million copies - 120 times its normal 60,000 circulation.

Police in Niger fired teargas on Saturday at hundreds of rock-throwing protesters in a second day of clashes over Charlie Hebdo's publication of the image.

France's embassy in Niamey advised its citizens against going out in the streets and urged caution due to the demonstrations.

Five people were killed on Friday in the Zinder, the second city of the former French colony, while churches were burned and Christian homes looted. The death toll was revised up after a burned body was discovered in a Catholic Church.

Forty-five churches in total were torched over the weekend in Niger's capital.

freediver wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2015 at 10:13am:

Nuffin' to do wiv Islam. Islam is absolutely compatible wiv Western liberal democracy and anyone who says otherwise is an islamophobe and will be killed.

Soren wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2015 at 12:56pm:


You know something Soren?  I'm not sure if Islam is against free speech but I do know you are!   

Bias_2012 wrote on Jan 21^st, 2015 at 4:57pm:


Exactly what is your problem with this, may I ask?

I see little difference in intent between what you claimed it said and what many Christian schools state on their websites as their "core beliefs" are.  Invariably they place belief in religion above all other matters.   Should they be condemned for doing so?   

Brian Ross wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2015 at 7:24pm:

Islam is contrary to every single Western value. It is a backward step in every way. I don't think Western schools should encourage or tolerate such regression.
Islam has made not one single improvement in the world. That's the gist of the objection to it in this case and in every other.