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Racism 'not behind Islamic school knock-back'
A south-west Sydney council has denied suggestions religious intolerance was behind its rejection of a controversial plan to build an Islamic school.
Bits that made me incoherent while reading this at work:
The proposal had divided the community and sparked fierce opposition from locals. Some protesters left pigs heads draped in the Australian flag at the site last year.
So, not only have you gone out of your way to offend Jewish and Muslim people, you've defiled your own country's flag. Well done. What was your point again?
Outside the meeting, some residents expressed relief there would not be an influx of Muslims in the area, including a woman wearing an akubra hat decorated with Australian flags.
"We just don't want Muslim people in Camden," she said.
"We don't want them not only here, we don't want them in Australia. They're an oppressive society, they're a dictatorship."
Another resident said: "It's not for racist [reasons], just all the crime and stuff that other foreign people bring into the town."
I console myself with the idea that the ABC staffers were probably laughing their arses off at you while they were putting this together. It's helping. Sort of.
A south-west Sydney council has denied suggestions religious intolerance was behind its rejection of a controversial plan to build an Islamic school.
Bits that made me incoherent while reading this at work:
The proposal had divided the community and sparked fierce opposition from locals. Some protesters left pigs heads draped in the Australian flag at the site last year.
So, not only have you gone out of your way to offend Jewish and Muslim people, you've defiled your own country's flag. Well done. What was your point again?
Outside the meeting, some residents expressed relief there would not be an influx of Muslims in the area, including a woman wearing an akubra hat decorated with Australian flags.
"We just don't want Muslim people in Camden," she said.
"We don't want them not only here, we don't want them in Australia. They're an oppressive society, they're a dictatorship."
Another resident said: "It's not for racist [reasons], just all the crime and stuff that other foreign people bring into the town."
I console myself with the idea that the ABC staffers were probably laughing their arses off at you while they were putting this together. It's helping. Sort of.
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Probably said as tucking down on a pizza, some special fried rice and a Guiness.
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Sometimes I just don't understand the disgusting stuff that people do.