Comments on: Our leaders lie

By: anthony

anthony — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:27:00 +0000

After all, Western culture - whatever the hell that is - is far superior to, well, everything and everybody

You don’t know what Western culture is Loewenstein? You seem to attack it often enough.

And yes, your right Western culture is superior. At first I thought you were being sarcastic, then I realised you certainly weren’t saying that the illiberal, un-secular and authoritarian Middle Eastern culture is better than the West.

By: boredinHK

boredinHK — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:11:00 +0000

I live in Hong Kong and here the chinese wish all foreigners would sod off!.
And not just sod off but disappear - not in a horrible painful end of life way but just go away so the beauty and wonder of organised chinese society can get on with being itself.
Most chinese I speak with are aware of migration - the chinese being traders and migrants for 1000's of years but those movements are based on trade and improving their financial station.
They don't go to London to become british .
As a group they understand being taunted , vilified and while they resent such treatment, they do exactly the same thing to others who come to greater china.
The question they ask is why do foreigners want to come here anyway ?
Do muslims go to Australia to become australian or to improve their financial position ?
As migrants from places where the inhabitants themselves vilify the outsider why are they surprised when they receive the same treatment they would give others in their home ? The Koran is used to justify various forms of segregation , discrimination against women , slaves and non believers to start.

By: Wombat

Wombat — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:25:00 +0000

I wonder if Howard still holidays in that cheap trailer park called Hawks Nest?

By: Antony Loewenstein

Antony Loewenstein — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:35:00 +0000

He lives in an Australia where he wishes Muslims were either absent…or silent.
After all, Western culture - whatever the hell that is - is far superior to, well, everything and everybody.

By: Nu-Ju

Nu-Ju — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:23:00 +0000

What australia are you living in mr shabadoo? You don’t believe that many muslims have been both physically and verbally abused in the street post september 11 ?

By: Shabadoo

Shabadoo — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:24:00 +0000

Puh-LEEZE!!! Abuse and obscenities? I’d like to see his notes on this conversation.

That Fisk opposed the toppling of the Taliban proves that himself, and the leftists that follow him, believe that there is only one acceptable position for the West: perpetually supine.