And they want to bring Sharia law to Australia.....?

geomac, I am merely using the commonly used terminology for Islamic Law. Most Islamists seem to refer to their religious law by this term (Sharia Law). I dont believe that there is anything in the Koran instructing its desciples to kill rape victims, but the fanatics in Islam seem able to dredge up passages and "interpret" them to suit their sadistic impulses.

This is not unlike the middle and dark ages, the Spanish Inquisition etc..... Islam does not hold a monopoly on using religion to justify cruel and inhuman practices.

I don't know where you got that information from geomac?  Are you saying that Sharia Law means Law Law?  According to a number of sources that I have looked up, as well as a friend, who is a Muslim Sheik, Sharia means the conglomerate, or combination of Islamic Legal beliefs.

Far too complicated and  mixed cutures does not work no matter what cover or  a pretty picture on it......it only works when the countries of whatever religion want it to work and the answer to that is a hug lump of money for the arms they all buy fighting each other...if they ones in the pot at the moment keep going there will be no Syria left as was before and others coming forward too......we see the mixed marriages here and the little tiny girls from asian places trailing behind the big white chief...lolololol tell me that works only for the money then..................

I have to disagree precious......my wife and I have been married for seven years now and there is about 18 years difference in our ages. She walks beside her "big white chief" (not behind) and has earned her own living since coming to Australia. She is Buddhist and we have never had an argument over religion - hers or mine. She loves Australia and its culture and while she observes her own cultural and religious practices, she also enjoys everything Australian (especially Christmas).

There are certainly many problems with inter-racial marriages or between different cultures, but there are also many success stories.

I dont think you would like my comments?

I'm sitting this one out,so,go for it,i'm a spectator!

billy

I find this subject very interesting.  I go to China on a very regular basis & am very aware that Chinese women MUCH prefer western husbands, because they are treated much better by western men than by Chinese men.

Under the Iranian Islamic Penal code, little girls as young a 9 yrs old, and boys as young as 14 yrs, are liable for execution.

Many, many Iranians detest every aspect of their Islamic Penal Code, which is riven with horrors.    A couple of years ago, they set up a petition that Iran be expelled from the UN until the country came in line with Human Rights as seen in the west. 

They were obviously not successful.

I spoke to married couple, she Australian, he Iranian. They had a successful business here. The mention of Islam and the husband  went completely off the deep end.  He had been a Muslim, but became an apostate.  He recited a litany of "crimes' committed by its founder, and crimes perpetuated now in the Islam's name.  Certainly, events I was not aware of, indeed most westerners wouldn't be.

Some time later, a man delivered goods to me.  He told me his name, and I remarked that it was Iranian.  This also brought forth a bitter tirade against the Iranian regime and highly critical of  its Islamic foundation.  He had been an asylum seeker.

I have since met other Iranians.  They are certainly independent thinkers.

Could a kind soul tell me how I can start up a topic on this forum?  Perhaps contact me privately.

Thank you, geomac.  What would I do without you.

Regarding inter-racial marriage, some years ago an enquiry was made by the catholic church (yes ... I know) into the many abuses and sometimes unexplained deaths of mail-order brides, so popular then.

Aussies (and undoubtedly others elsewhere) were marrying these women and treating them appallingly. I remember one case which was highlighted on tv.  This very young woman from the Philipines was married to an Aussie about three times her age.  They lived in some remote area.  He abused her till she tried to run away with just the clothes on her back.  She was dragged back and abused again.  Some how this came to the notice of the media.

Whilst some disapprove of mail-order brides, one can't condemn young women from trying to get out of mind-numbing poverty, especially when they have the intention of being good wives to those who marry them.  Australia has a history of bridal imports from earliest days.  And certainly, many would have been very successful.

A problem with mail-order brides is that many men (not all) were unable to find women who would marry them and there was a very good reason why.

We don't seem to hear about this now.  Has it died out.

vivity,

It is good to know that marriages which have started this way, do work out.

However, it must be difficult for some of  those who stick out abuse for two years, then get divorced. Some of the abuse can be pretty horrific.

Certainly, you could well be right about women who have a deliberate long-term plan to marry (perhaps anybody) and divorce after two years.  I'd be very surpised if this didn't happen.

Heard of a white South African who was warned by family, his, that was why 2 previous wives had left him. She has married him against their advice because she said 2 years then she and her daughter can stay here and not have to go back to SA. So it happens.