Canberra residents in Favour of Islamic School

Silentforce said :

The parents of these children CHOSE to come to Australia (and Canberra). If their intention was not to contribute and assimilate to Australian society, are they otherwise commiting a crime? Would the society of their homeland accept an Australian culturally oriented school and what goes with it without controls?

Possibly not, but that is one of the things that make this country a damn good place to live as opposed to the countries where they came from.

Silentforce said :

The parents of these children CHOSE to come to Australia (and Canberra). If their intention was not to contribute and assimilate to Australian society, are they otherwise commiting a crime? Would the society of their homeland accept an Australian culturally oriented school and what goes with it without controls?

The great-great-great-grandparents of those children may also have been the ones that CHOSE to come to Australia and open up the red centre. Do a bit of research and you will find out why there are camels in the outback, and how they got there. The Media is the enemy of Australia, not the Muslim.

Would our society accept that Aboriginal languages should be a mandatory subject in all schools? Of course not. STFU and act white, middle class and British is the policy, nothing has changed except the methods used to disguise it.

Plus a lot of Muslim countries DO have English or American schools.

…live and let live I say…and don’t think the ACT Government wouldn’t try to make a quick buck no matter who bought the bloody land…

The parents of these children CHOSE to come to Australia …

I’m sorry, but how in the hell does a child choose to be born in Australia?

Silent force said
The parents of these children CHOSE to come to Australia (and Canberra).

This is an islamic school, not a school for overseas students. A lot of muslims I know were born here and are as australian as the rest of us.

Pretty ignorant comment.

What is this Bang the Table forum? i’ve never heard of it.

I’m going to go and fill this Bang the Table forum with racist bile to even out the debate and get our well earned Racist Redneck mantle back.

I-filed said :

I looked through Bang the Table and I wouldn’t say the reaction was “overwhelmingly in favour” – I’d have said fairly neutral and open-minded. Which is not too bad!

Currently the poll on concerns results sit at:
– changed traffic and parking options: 0% (I think)
– public access to the arboretum area: 8.7%
– proximity to residential dwellings: 4.3%
– size of the school: 13.0 %
– no issues of concern: 74.0%

The issue is not ‘why would anyone have a problem with an Islamic school’ – the issue is, how can the government think it is OK to give away a public resource to a private concern, and how did this private concern obtain priority over, eg, a new Dairy Flat Farm (for disruptive high school students) or other equally necessary public educational facility?

I looked through Bang the Table and I wouldn’t say the reaction was “overwhelmingly in favour” – I’d have said fairly neutral and open-minded. Which is not too bad!