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Reclaim Australia Rally Drowns Out Counter Protesters

icyfroth — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 03:49:23 GMT

Reclaim Australia protesters held their largest rally yet on Saturday in Canberra kicking of a wave of Anti-Islam demonstrations in cities across the world.

Canberra organiser Daniel Evans labelled it "preservation of Australia Day" and at the podium congratulated 250 "fellow patriots" for making the journey to the capital.

Saturday's protest was the first in a series of global rallies against the Islamisation of the West co-ordinated by German anti-immigration movement the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA).

As the crowd marched up Federation Mall and flooded onto a Parliament House Lawn, split in two by barricades, a dubbed version of John Lennon's track Imagine came over the PA featuring the lyrics "Imagine there's no Islam".

Born and bred ACT resident and father of three Mr Evans said the position of Reclaim Australia was broadly misunderstood by the greater community.

"We are a multi-ethnic country but we have one culture, Australian culture," he said.

"I'm not against Muslims. I'm against the ideology of Islam. We have extremists here preaching hate. These are the ones we need to get rid of."

Arabella McKenzie, dressed as a Suffragette complete with parasol, said she felt compelled to "roll out of her grave" and protest with Reclaim to stand up for women's rights.

"Women's right to vote was nothing compared with what women are facing today in Sharia run countries," she said.

"A lot of people say "what culture in Australia are we defending?" but there is a culture here where woman can be free, have rights and are considered equal human beings. That's a good culture to preserve."

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Re: Reclaim Australia Rally Drowns Out Counter Protesters

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 04:01:19 GMT

oh, i didn't realise it was a worldwide

protest.

Re: Reclaim Australia Rally Drowns Out Counter Protesters

bluecat*dancing — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 04:48:12 GMT

Canberra organiser Daniel Evans labelled it "preservation of Australia Day" and at the podium congratulated 250 "fellow patriots" for making the journey to the capital.

Three months in the planning and thats all that they could muster? 24 hours notice and thousands gathered for compassion. Looks like the hate brigade is going down the gurgler, as it should.

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debra9275 — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 05:23:35 GMT

Wow! 250 people? LOL

what's our population again?

I remember the first March in March ( which we attended) the crowds were estimated to be somewhere between 30,000 to 60,000 . Packed in like sardines, it took us about 2 1/2 hours to get around the corner of Bourke St. LOL it was an interesting experience, but I don't think I'll do that again. these reclaim rallies really do not seem to attract many people at all.

Re: Reclaim Australia Rally Drowns Out Counter Protesters

the_great_she_elephant — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 05:30:00 GMT

"The crowd marched up Federation Mall and flooded onto a Parliament House Lawn" All 250 of them

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bluecat*dancing — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 05:34:23 GMT

I'm still recovering from last week's protest but figure that my pain will have subsided enough for me to attend the Palm Sunday March which will be this year's big one. A young woman has walked from Melbourne and is soon to arrive in Canberra to present a pollie with a petition. I admire her dedication. I had enough trouble walking from the State Library, along Swanston St, up Bourke St, on to the Immigration Building and back again, let alone all the way to Canberra. I'd expire before I'd even leave the city.lol

Re: Reclaim Australia Rally Drowns Out Counter Protesters

bluecat*dancing — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 05:35:42 GMT

That's not a flood, thats a leaky tap.

Re: Reclaim Australia Rally Drowns Out Counter Protesters

the_great_she_elephant — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 05:52:12 GMT

@bluecat*dancing wrote:
That's not a flood, thats a leaky tap.

250 drips!

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***super_nova*** — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 06:00:12 GMT

They do not get it, do they. Muslims are not trying to convert anybody to Islam! That is totally the domain of Christian missioners. Correct me if i am wrong, but through the history, was there ever another religion that had recruiters going to other countries gathering souls?

Re: Reclaim Australia Rally Drowns Out Counter Protesters

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 06:32:29 GMT

Muslims are not trying to convert anybody to Islam!

of course there have been many

cases of forced conversions to

islam. there is also a death penalty

for renouncing the faith.

this man believes its his duty, just as

some christians do. to say that

muslims are not trying to convert

anybody to islam, is simply not true.

Re: Reclaim Australia Rally Drowns Out Counter Protesters

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 06:40:55 GMT

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
"The crowd marched up Federation Mall and flooded onto a Parliament House Lawn" All 250 of them

i imagine we will be seeing more

of what is happening in europe..

with over 65 thousand facebook

followers and growing...

maybe not so funny.

Re: Reclaim Australia Rally Drowns Out Counter Protesters

go-tazz — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 06:43:20 GMT

@***super_nova*** wrote:
They do not get it, do they. Muslims are not trying to convert anybody to Islam! That is totally the domain of Christian missioners.

They don't want to convert non believers,(doesn't their holy book say to kill them instead?).

Correct me if i am wrong, but through the history, was there ever another religion that had recruiters going to other countries gathering souls?

Didn't Islam originally conquer others and it was convert or die,(does that count?),

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donnashuggy — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 06:47:43 GMT

Re: Reclaim Australia Rally Drowns Out Counter Protesters

***super_nova*** — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 06:48:00 GMT

@go-tazz wrote:

Didn't Islam originally conquer others and it was convert or die,(does that count?),

I thought that was the crusaders who did that ?

Re: Reclaim Australia Rally Drowns Out Counter Protesters

the_great_she_elephant — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 06:49:46 GMT

Dare I insert the word "Inquisition" into the argument?

Re: Reclaim Australia Rally Drowns Out Counter Protesters

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 06:50:25 GMT

super nova should read up on

early muslim conquests

Re: Reclaim Australia Rally Drowns Out Counter Protesters

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 06:51:43 GMT

@***super_nova*** wrote:
@go-tazz wrote:

Didn't Islam originally conquer others and it was convert or die,(does that count?),

I thought that was the crusaders who did that ?

that was later

Re: Reclaim Australia Rally Drowns Out Counter Protesters

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 06:55:27 GMT

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
Dare I insert the word "Inquisition" into the argument?

to argue against muslim conquests?

to state the obvious ie christians did that

too?

or for what other purpose?

Re: Reclaim Australia Rally Drowns Out Counter Protesters

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 07:18:45 GMT

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
Dare I insert the word "Inquisition" into the argument?

i wonder why these topics often

turn into a competition?

they were as bad as each other

(but who started it?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Persecution_by_Muslims

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Persecution_by_Christians

Re: Reclaim Australia Rally Drowns Out Counter Protesters

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 07:21:57 GMT

dont you just love the smiley

codes in links?