polite_gandalf wrote on Sep 15^th, 2014 at 4:03pm:


Why would Muslim women feel too scared or embarrassed to report Islamophobic attacks?

Perhaps they are simply used to the mistreatment.

Your argument might make sense if it was sexual assault. What is it about 'non-Muslim' culture that might make women scared about reporting Islamaphobic attacks? Are they worried about all the fawning Brians of the world?

polite_gandalf wrote on Sep 15^th, 2014 at 7:53pm:



How about this:

Putting on a hijab in Australia is a malicious act.


Look around. The natives do not have hijabs. They have a COMPLETELY different concept about the sexes. They have a COMPLETELY different view of what is normal behaviour and attire in the public sphere.

Why not respect that?

Why challenge or ignore that?

Why not fit in and not demonstrate separateness at every turn?

Didn't they know that Australia is not a Middle Eastern country when they applied to settle here?
Don't they know that this is not a repressive Islamic country?
Why insist on challenging the norms of the country that gives them an opportunity to bloody well get over their primitive Arabian obsessions about hair?

Why come here if they want to be just like they are back in Hellholeistan??


Please explain, Gandy, because I have no idea why you do it - other than deliberately undermine and white-ant.

It simply doesn't make sense otherwise.

freediver wrote on Sep 15^th, 2014 at 7:40pm:


Do you really believe that the only underreported crimes against women are sexual? What about domestic violence?


When I wore hijab, I was verbally abused, spat at a few times and shoved down stairs at a railway station. Ever been spat at by a filthy bogan? It's one of the the most revolting and humiliating things out there - far worse than the push down the stairs. I remember standing waiting to cross a set of traffic lights and being spat at by a dickhead in a passing car. My best friend was surrounded on a train by a group of teenagers and had her scarf torn off. This was all before 9/11. I never once considered reporting anything to the police.

I pulled over not long ago to assist at the scene of an accident. A scarfed Muslim woman was sitting by the side of the road crying hysterically. She'd t-boned a lady at an intersection. It wasn't a serious accident. The woman she hit was on the phone to the police saying that she believed she'd been hit intentionally and was a victim of terrorism. The scarfed woman was absolutely petrified. It was awful.

It's okay that you don't understand the perspective, but you're so harsh. In your rush to condemn Muslims for anything and everything,  you seem to always jump to the most negative of conclusions without proper consideration. 

Annie Anthrax wrote on Sep 16^th, 2014 at 6:18am:


Your experiences are not unusual - unfortunately. I had no idea about how rampant this hijab-abuse issue was until I read a few reports on it. The studies I mentioned earlier interview muslim women, and the exact same sorts of anecdotes are repeated - over and over - the shoving, the spitting and of course ripping the hijab off. But its never reported on - because as you said, women are just too humiliated and ashamed to - and besides, whats the point? A bogan drives by and spits in your face - what can be done?

And then we have not only FD jumping to blame anyone but the actual perpetrators, but also Soren's class act of describing the donning of the hijab as "a malicious act". Makes you proud eh? 

Soren wrote on Sep 16^th, 2014 at 8:27am:


you'ld be jailed.

But, the muslims here will say that is all ok

polite_gandalf wrote on Sep 16^th, 2014 at 10:18am:

So why bring the sh*thole customs all this way?

Yeah, right.