"Some of the key findings of the study included:

    57 per cent had experienced racism
    62 per cent had experienced racism in the workplace or when seeking employment
    1 in 10 Sydney Muslims had "very high" rates of exposure to racism
    86 per cent believed relations between Australian Muslims and non-Muslims were friendly
    Unemployment was higher among those surveyed (8.5 per cent) than the general Sydney population (3.7 per cent)

"Professor Dunn said most Sydney Muslims had a high sense of religiosity, or were strongly committed to their faith.

"That religiosity is positively associated with a sense of belonging to the country, and a sense that Islamic ways align with Australian norms," he said.

"Those Muslims with stronger levels of religiosity have a stronger level of self-belonging in the country.

The majority of Australian Muslims in the study not only identified themselves as Australian but also felt a sense of belonging to Australia."

What utter nonsense.

"Western Sydney University Professor Kevin Dunn, the report's lead author, said the results were consistent with other studies that showed high rates of Islamophobia in Australia"

Islamo - what?

A readers comment ...

"zengard

11:38 AM on 30/11/2015

Hi, really wish people would stop using the word racism when describing what is actually a religious problem. Doesn't the Oxford dictionary state racism as " mass noun]

1Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior:
'a programme to combat racism'"

The statement in your article "•86 per cent believed relations between Australian Muslims and non-Muslims were friendly" is not surprising considering they wish to settle here and have their children grow up in this country, they are not about to say otherwise.

I don't consider myself racist, however I do have an issue with a religion which specifically teaches violence against others. But then I am an uneducated person so possibly I just don't know any better. Lets be realistic here, the Asians don't come to western societies to kill and maim, nor do the Indians yet they have different religions. So what are we left to think, except Islam is not a religion for Australia.

Just my thoughts".

A sense of belonging??? They won't let their daughters marry a non Muslim though.

greggerypeccary wrote on Nov 30^th, 2015 at 7:34pm:

What a total trolling prat you are, turd.

... wrote on Nov 30^th, 2015 at 8:38pm:


Polygraphs?

How does the bottom of that barrel look, Wes?

Soren wrote on Nov 30^th, 2015 at 8:33pm:


Incredible isn't it?

And then on another thread we've got a 'mod' threatening all sorts of dire consequences to myself and others if we continue behaving in a delinquent fashion ... and all the while this bot-fly 'gregg' is allowed to roam the board at will with his graffiti paint can in hand making a bugger*** nuisance of himself with tagging and one-liner interruptions to the flow of conversations.

Lord Herbert wrote on Dec 1^st, 2015 at 5:28am:


Herbie speaking on behalf of all Australian Muslims.

What a guy!

double plus good wrote on Nov 30^th, 2015 at 7:32pm:


I know a Lebanese muslim woman with 2 daughters, her husband blamed her for having girls and divorced her.

Leila arranged for her daughters to be married to good muslims from Lebanon, it helps the muslims to colonise Australia by bringing out 2 more men and their families under the family reunion program instead of having them marry local muslim men.

A muslim man can marry a non muslim woman, it's haram for a muslim woman to marry a non muslim.

freediver wrote on Dec 1^st, 2015 at 12:30pm:


Gandalf is always finding himself on the back-foot trying to defend the moral delinquencies contained in the Koran.

School-children are now being morally blackmailed and threatened with ostracism if they should show any signs of 'racism' and 'Islamophobia' towards Muslims.

In the vast majority of our schools there are no teachers except Far Left luvvies who are wedded to political correctness, multiculturalism, Climate Change, the Greens or Labor Party, anti-Israeli rhetoric, anti-USA hate speech, etc etc.

And so the schoolkids hear this drivel without anybody giving them an alternative view. 

It's not 'racism' any more than criticising the Catholic Church is 'racism'.

And Islamophobia describes a 'morbid fear of' which is quite distinct from saying that Islam stinks because of some of the barbaric practices and attitudes that are uniquely defining of Muslims.