Karnal wrote on Jul 2
nd, 2015 at 4:16pm:
aquascoot wrote on Jul 2
nd, 2015 at 3:40pm:
i used to quite like Waleed, but he has become a bit full of his own self importance.
i find the project is just a channel 10 version of an ABC current affairs show , except the presenters have all got collagen, botox and prettier clothing.
Waleed really needs to rally the muslim community to reach out to "real australia". He is in a position to do a lot of good.
He could organise a free kebab day and arabic cooking festival and form some good links in the community.
There could be belly dancing etc etc.
Camel rides for the kids.
Instead of always trying to make "real australia" feel bad about itself (which will only harden attitudes against islam) he could be building really good community bonds.
the greeks, italians, chinese, vietnamese and taiwanese communities all have massive food festivals that i always took the kids too. this is good.
I am yet to see one from islam. maybe they dont have many nice dishes
Yes, dear, but you don't live in my multicultural ghetto where there's a free barbecue with balloons for the kids every year to celebrate Eid.
How often do you host festivals?
this is good, some people get it.
i heard about a seikh in darwin who was abused as a taxi driver by nasty bogans.
He started up a weekly seikh cook up down at the waterfront and now 100's attend, he is integrated, the darwin people would probably belt any bogan who vilified a seikh.
hearts and minds K.
How often has waaleed been on the telly promoting these sort of good news stories.
Very rarely i suspect.
If every muslim would spend a month doing what the seikh taxi driver did, the whole issue would go away and waaled would be out of a job.
i suspect waleed doesnt want to solve the problem any more than abbott wants to solve the problem.
Yet again, it will be up to people at a community level to solve this problem.And that is usually the case. Dont expect the media or politicians to be part of the solution when they all have so much invested in keeping the problem going