Rudd wants true blue Muslims

[Tina Greco - Melbourne]

Rudd wants true blue Muslims
Article from: The Daily Telegraph



March 11, 2008 12:00am

SPORTING figures, academics and mainstream Muslims will be sought out by the Rudd Government to help recast the overly religious image of Islamic Australia.

The Australian reports a new-look Muslim advisory body is being considered in a bid to help dismantle the stereotypical picture of Islam, despite infighting - fuelled by ideological rivalries and conflicting egos - wracking the former government's board.

And the Rudd Government will also consider reviving the Council for Multicultural Australia - featuring leaders from a cross-section of ethnic backgrounds, including the Jewish and Muslim communities.

The previous government abolished the trouble-plagued Muslim advisory board - set up by John Howard after the London terrorist attacks in 2005 - and the multicultural council after their terms ended in 2006.

But Labor is intent on recasting the two bodies, shifting the focus from the spiritual leaders the Howard government courted - at times with disastrous results - to everyday Muslims.

In the Rudd Government's first statement on Muslims, Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs Laurie Ferguson yesterday told The Australian it was time to tackle the myths surrounding Islam, arguing religious leaders were not representative of the mainstream Muslim community.

"We can't prescribe how the Islamic community is to organise itself," Mr Ferguson said.

"But we certainly must make sure that the fact there are international tensions and terrorist issues doesn't kind of stereotype the whole community in Australia.

"A lot of it is about symbolism, it's about who gets promoted and who gets identified and who gets an option to be seen by Australian society.

"Australia has produced (Muslim) academics, business types, sporting types and it's often not celebrated enough."

[newman]

More PC, 'they're not really like that' BS!

It could be interesting, though.

If they have an advisory board of young muSSlim women NOT wearing veils, living in defacto relationships and wearing normal clothes (that mullahs hate), PLUS muSSlim male athletes who drink beer also doing the above...................it would put the imams, jihadists and other muSSlims in a real spot.

They'd either have to go along with it and look stupid and out-moded OR condemn them and call for their stoning. Either way, the imams and other muSSlim nazis will look like possums' peckers.

[Tina Greco - Melbourne]

Exactly muslims here look and act the same as normal Australians.

[newman]

Exactly muslims here look and act the same as normal Australians.

Not ALL.

There are plenty of 'walking trash bags', sack-heads and bearded weirdos. I do take some hope from a few of the brave young muSSlim females who (at great personal risk) have stated ......."We're sick of being represented by a bunch of old, middle eastern men!".