Current mood:	tired
Current music:	Robbie Williams - Old Before I Die
Entry tags:	australia, jihadis, politics

so mr.muslim, where do your allegiances lie?
the australians look like they may move to follow the new zealand example of demanding oaths of allegiance to tolerance from muslim immigrants。 here's the treasurer：

"Rather than try and censure me ... they should make a clear statement that they subscribe to all of these views - that they are loyal to Australia, they respect the rights and liberties of others, they believe in democratic government and they believe that all Australians should live unequivocally under the one law made by the Australian parliament - and endorse these values and recommend them to their followers," Mr Costello told Southern Cross Broadcasting.

"Pledge themselves unequivocally to these values first of all, and then call on their followers to pledge themselves unequivocally to these values.

"This is what I would invite them to do, rather than to criticise me because all Australians should in my view subscribe to these values."

the prime minister (howard) is backing him。

i continue to be amazed by how few sane muslims are opening and vocally stating that their loyalties lie with free tolerant societies and not with the jihadis。 as i wrote elsewhere today：

it amazes me that the sane muslim responses are as yet so tame and few..
it's as if the sane ones haven't yet cottoned onto the fact that if they
continue to let their not-so-sane brethren escalate, they themselves will be
given no quarter alone with their nutty 'friends'. they don't seem to grok
the extent of the danger staring them in the face. if the sane muslims should
once let this situation go over the brink, i would expect muslim populations
to be systematically wiped out across the western world.

this apparent unawareness amongst the sane muslims worries me far more than
the spineless behaviour of the pols and fossil media, although the two are
obviously interrelated.

these oaths are in any sane muslim's interest。