It's not wrong to worry about immigration in the wake of terror
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It’s not the fault of decent Muslims all over the world. Decent Indonesian Muslims died in Bali alongside our Australian victims.
Nonetheless it has rightly caused security services to focus their efforts and it has certainly focused the minds of Australians. People are now apprehensive about and in some cases afraid of being the victim of a radical Islamist attack. If you can honestly say that it has never crossed your mind, for example when you’ve been at an AFL grand final, or a State of Origin decider, or the Opera House, or just on a busy street, then you’re a lucky person.
Having that concern, apprehension or fear is not being racist. Self-preservation is one of the strongest emotions. For a government of any persuasion to ignore that concern would be a dereliction of its duty. Labor hero Mick Young rightly said that if you are in favour of immigration you will run the program in a way that maintains the support of normal Australians. Dress it up any way you want, radical Islamist terrorism has made many Australians anxious about our immigration program.
Islamophobia is not, as one writer so eloquently put it,“rooted in racism”. The spread of Islamic extremism and terror is the main cause of Islamophobia. People are understandably appalled at the idea of others, let alone themselves, being beheaded or mowed down by a truck or blown to bits. The problem we all face is the not knowing who is and who is not a terrorist. It’s a double problem for the millions of decent Muslims who also face apprehension and suspicion of themselves by others.
Article source: https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/billionaire-investor-kerr-neilson-s-fund-comes-unstuck-on-china-bet-20190109-p50qcn.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed
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