Homer - and Earth to Lefty Elitist - it was Muslims who suggested the plan. The government has never proposed “licensing clerics.�

So is it good because we can restrict and delicense Imams, bad because Muslims came up with the idea or what?

But this actually makes the government’s actions worse than they already were. Adopting proposals on the basis of the self-serving ethnic lobby’s demands is precisely the opposite course one would like to see.

Once again, we are seeing governments blatantly interfering in organised religion, all in the name of “fighting terrorism”.

Recently he commented at another site where he was happy to see the Victorian chapter of this “religion’ go after people under Bracks Blasphemy laws. He said this after the “Unequal Opportunity Commission� set up the two Christian pastors under this law. For those who don’t know, May. Halou, an employee of this commission got a few Muslim converts to spy on the pastor’s preaching against the dangers of Islam and then complain to the Tribunal about them. The Star Chamber all over again.

Do you have a link to these comments?

Lefty E, please continue with your cataloguing of RWDBisms. It’s proving most enlightening.

I saw that doco, Shaun. Though I think the concept of justice and forgiveness - let alone ‘loving thy neighbour’ - is far too un-Christian for C.L.

My point: sooner or later, I do hope the West realises what poor ambassadors for cultural and poltical achievement our current crop of Neo-Con leaders are.

Good look for your blog.

Islam is a cult?

I’m sure if you read Currency’s blog, Pavlov’s Cat, you’ll find numerous instances of this sort of lanaguage being used. He’s known as Crusader Lad because his rhetoric faithfully reproduces 14th century denunciations of Islam with almost no updating.

Auslander Raus doesn’t mean ‘Foreigners piss off’ (without specifying what flavour of foreigners)?

Geez, I must have gone to a really, really bad school.

What the plan’s MUSLIM promoters suggest is that pretend authority figures who preach violence, 9/11 denialism or - for example - that women who get raped asked for it, should be “named and shamed.”

In Europe, Scientology is more or less persona non grata (pardon the anthropomorphisation). Islam is a far more dangerous cult and should be treated with the same kind of sophisticated Continental disdain.

The Soviets had “licensed” religious leaders who had to read right off the government script. The Soviets also had “anti-hate laws” (http://awesternheart.blogspot.com/2005/12/communist-origins-of-anti-hate-laws.html), which were introduced to control religious expression. The Soviets also had torture camps and gulags where “deviants” would be held without charge and “re-educated” if necessary. We have now either implemented or openly endorsed all of these items.

However, this does not mean that we should ignore the spectre of radical Islam. It’s just that turning Australia into a Soviet police state is unlikely to do anything to combat radical Islam - it certainly did not work in Russia.