"Now this is really cool - HErald Sun 28-01-2006
"HIJABS replaced hats and halter-necks when Melbourne Muslims celebrated Australia Day with a picnic and swim at a Port Melbourne beach.
Sun smart swimwear is heading in this direction. ;-) While temperatures soared and other beaches were packed with half-naked revellers, the Muslim women wore headscarves, long sleeves and ankle-length pants or skirts in the water.
Australia Day Celebrations 920R M O'Donnell Please stop projecting, I posted on social issues, your adolescent tumescent twaddle is your own problem, Sure you do, thats why your wear frilly floral frocks and a bonnet. ... Clearly, the...
"We come here because we fit in here," said Jamana Chaaban.
"You go to St Kilda and there's nothing but bikinis everywhere."
Ms Chaaban said she had never been harbutted for wearing her hijab. "Melbourne is not like that," she said when asked about recent tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims at Sydney beaches.
"Australia Day to me means to be Australian, to be having a good time and respecting other people."
If only the racists and thugs, from any background, could get it!
Australia Day Celebrations 922KANGAROOISTAN See, I knew you could do it! oops.. no committment.. It's hardly surprising, we have 23% of our population born overseas from 150...
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"There is a fundamental distinction between multicultural and Multiculturalism, which racists constantly and deliberately confuse.
A society is multicultural if it has more than one culture being practised within that society.
'Multicultural - A society which embraces a number of minority cultures' - Macquarie Dictionary
Multiculturalism is two things, the -ISM indicates that it is a set of beliefs or ideas about multiculture, ie a recognition of multicultural REALITY, an acceptance of it, a celebration of it. But it is ALSO a set of government policies to formalize that recognition, acceptance and celebration! Thus the Howard government has a Department which documents the positive economic social and foreign policy benefits from having a successful, open, democratic multicultural society."
- fasgnadh
come from different cultures, and live different lives that could be categorised into groups if you chose to do so.
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- Rev. Headjob, liar and thief demonstrating the deliberate confusion.
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