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Originally Posted by alias  PM STANDS BY MUSLIM COMMENTS
1.9.2006. 14:42:21
Prime Minister John Howard says he has no need to apologise for telling Muslims they need to embrace Australian values.
Mr Howard sparked controversy yesterday by saying on talk-back radio a small group of Muslim migrants had refused to accept their adopted country's values and had not learned English.
He told Macquarie Radio Australia had benefited greatly from immigration, but “there is a section, a small section, of the Islamic population ... which is very resistant to integration”.
"What I want to do is to reinforce the need for everybody who comes to this country to fully integrate," Mr Howard said yesterday. "Fully integrating means accepting Australian values, it means learning as rapidly as you can the English language if you don't already speak it.
"And it means understanding that in certain areas, such as the equality of men and women, the societies that some people have left were not as contemporary and as progressive as ours.
"People who come from societies where women are treated in an inferior fashion have got to learn very quickly that that is not the case in Australia."
Rest of the story at this link. SBS - The World News |
I agree. Anyone who moves to a different country should be required to learn the language and adapt to the new culture as soon as possible. There are people that have lived in America for 10 or 20 years who barely know English!
In France they banned religious clothing from schools and I could not agree more with this ruling. I wish we could implement something like that in American schools. I think it would be healthy. French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia --- help me Instant Runoff Voting, you're my only hope --- There is little doubt that the world in general is more liberal than it was 50 years ago and beyond. Conservatives are simply roadblocks on the path to an ever more progressive and liberal world. What a sad existence.
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