18 September 2012

Girls are not free to speak out in Islamic countries

I AM so disheartened to read that an eight-year-old Muslim girl living in Australia has such a strong desire for jihad and to live under sharia law.

I wonder if she understands that her right to speak to men, or to be educated, or to live in the freedom she experiences here in Australia, would not exist under extremist Muslim laws. If she lived in certain Middle East countries and was unfortunate enough to be raped, she could be stoned to death.

What have we done, in our compassionate embrace of multiculturalism, to deserve this lack of respect for our own culture? [The Australian] Read more