Mosques being built

[lobs211]

Bendigo is in the goldfields - beautiful old buildings, unbelievable gardens, right into sport, really good looking place.

Very multi cultural - stong Indigenous history, huge Chinese history (museum, gardens, joss house etc etc), heaps of Karen refugess, biggest Buddhist Temple and Centre so u can see it very multi cultural

What we dont have is a mosque. What the Muslims are planning to build is a mosque.

OMG = Shame Job = people are protesting, I am so embarrassed by these people. Why these people do this? Are they ignorant or what? Or are they really truly scared these Muslims (Who live here already) are all of a sudden gonna turn into terrorists cos they have a mosque?  This is very weird.................. they pray now but at the Uni, there be a prayer room, whatever thats called, they want there own place.

So I ask these people - "What exactly is the problem here?" And I get stuff like "terrorists, go home to their own country (When they say this I lift an eyebrow and stare at em but they miss it ofcourse)

Im not Muslim, I dont even know a Muslim but I dont understand one bit why we protest against people wanting a church, this embarrasses me LOL

Do you people have mosques near you? Is this a big deal?

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People focus on the extreme...the extreme can be found anywhere.

We have Laws here to protect us all

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Australia The Land Where Time Began

Makassar Traders

People from Makassar, now Ujungpandang, in the southwest of Celebes, now Sulawesi. They visited the north of Australia for at least hundreds of years, though probably much longer, fishing for trepang - sea cucumber - and trading with the Aborigines. These visitors contributed to the language, art, economy and genetics of the northern aborigines. The contact has left its mark on both sides of the Arafura and Banda Seas.

http://austhrutime.com/macassan_traders.htm

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it's got the Councils go ahead hasn't it ? It is just a small number rallying against it for their own reasons .

I see comments like this often  and agree with the writer 

The Facebook group dedicated to opposing the Mosque (but not the Catch the Fire Ministry) says:

“We live in a democracy and we are exercising OUR right to say NO to what happens in OUR country.”

- They’re quite right, they live in a democracy and they have the right to oppose. That’s absolutely correct. But I take issue with the phrase “OUR country”. This subtly hints that their right to oppose should be considered more important – as non-Muslim citizens of Australia – than the secular right of Muslim citizens of Australia – whose country it also is – to worship where they choose

http://futiledemocracy.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/support-the-mosque-in-bendigo/

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Many are too receptive of what they read in the media...fearmongering,gossip over truth and fact

and directing blame and hate onto others is a desired thing.

That sort of stuff (bs and scapegoating) can bring power to the wrong people .

I think people need to know the facts more than media hype fiction.

At the same time, when a person in a position of authority speaks publicly, it is reasonable to expect that people will take notice.

THE controversial Muslim leader Sheik Taj el-din al Hilaly has savaged Australia in an interview on Egyptian television, claiming there is no freedom or democracy for Muslims here and that English people are the most unjust and dishonest.

The senior cleric said Muslims were more Australian than Anglo-Saxons because they came here voluntarily, that Australians played the "fear card" to keep Muslims down, and that racial prejudice was the reason for the 55-year sentence given to the gang rapist Bilal Skaf.

www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/01/11/1168105115861.html

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It depends on the individuals in both cases (the listener and the speaker) .To just believe because someone has authority without looking beyond their  words is imo to choose to not learn rather than learn.

With the big anti muslim scare campaign which supported and helped the current Government get into power ...to 'Stop the Boats' and the existance of Parties such as Rise UP and now another party with an anti muslim focus (designed to take the Rights other Australians have away from Muslim Australian's...Muslims of course having a long association with this Country and it's people)....the message in that post of yours is not without reason

 what some want to or choose to fear from others they infact create themselves .

we can choose to be peaceful and live by our Country's values or we can create segregation....or create anger and hostility 

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or= and 

apologies for my errors . 

The best way for us to have hostility in Our Country is to deny certain Australian their rights 

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Lobs, I think that unfortunately there are people who have their own personal view of what 'An Australian is and does' which goes against that which the Government of this Country has set out in writing.They fight for a kind of personal ownership of this Country and the people within it.Yet using that thinking they should be going right back to a time when this Country was not a multi cultural one...(note I said should ) .

It's those kinds of people who make their views public and draw others into their way of thinking...I think of when I see or hear about Australians attacking others Australians for looking and sounding different to them and their ignorant view of what and who is an Australian...they are the people causing harm to Australians

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we can choose to be peaceful and live by our Country's values or we can create segregation....or create anger and hostility.

Exactly.   Statements by people in  authority such as the ones I quoted earlier, can only cause divisions.   Spiritual leaders should be working towards peace and unity.

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Why on earth would the OP be hoping that I'm not writing things to get her in trouble?!!! OMG whoever brought my name up can jump. and rasberries for your obvious attempt to dis me failed hahahaha

Hope this doesnt upset the OP but people do know that she doesn't represent all of her race?!!??? so I have no idea why anyone would think this thread is in reply to what I wrote....far out! this place is a trip!!

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IMO our PM should Meep, rather than supporting preferences going to Rise Up in the last election .