the case of the Muslim Cleric

I don't only want to the tone of this blog to be only bashing Australia, after all I was born there, lived most of my life there and I love the place.

It was a great place to grow up, bush was never far from the city and we could as kids be dumped in places like this without our parents wondering if we would be abducted, robbed or raped by some kiddy porn "jason".

Things have changed in our society heaps since then, that's for sure.

I'm thinking that part of the reason thing were safe is that we had a society which was more or less run by the moral standards of our families and that our community was not massively divided.

As I grew up I wanted to explore and experience more than was provided in our small town, something new. Moving to explore the capital cities of Australia (like Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney) I found there was great diversity in many parts provided by migrants to our country.

Now diversity does not equate to divided.

I was reading that the Muslim Cleric (Mansour Leghaei) who is presently in strife about a number of things has currently the threat of deportation hanging over him. No small problem, but before we cry foul lets look at why. The reasons for the seeking of his removal from our community are based on some ASIO assessments of him being a threat to our security.

There may be some doubts about the ASIO assesments (unless made public who can be sure) however what is more certain is his attitudes towards Australians. It has been alleged that he wrote letters to the families of deceased Australian Service Persons saying things such as:

In one case, Sheik Haron is alleged to have written a letter to the family of killed serviceman Gregory Sher, saying: "I feel bad that you have lost your son but I don't feel bad that a murderer of innocent civilians has lost his life."

emphasis mine

If this is true then I feel like this is exactly the sentiments we do not want in Australia.

Now, forgetting for a moment if Australian Service personnel should or should not be in Aftanistan, the point is that it is not the role of individual soldiers to make these decisions. That rests with the Government and the Army. How dare he violate the home of the grieving, who's family were lost in doing their job, with this sort of shit.

If you don't agree with what the government is doing then take it up via the appropriate channels.

This is not diversity, this is dividing.

He was accepted into our community as a migrant, yet his focus remains on the things he left, the places he left. Why leave them if you feel its better here?

If you feel that its better here, well, perhaps there are reasons for that, perhaps there is something wrong with where you left?

He claims to speak words of peace and love but delivers poison to the hearts of who ever is not a Muslim it seems.

There are some expectations we can have of our visitors, respecting our ways and respecting our lifestyle is among that.

So I ask Chris Evans ... why shouldn't he be deported?