Re: Australia now despised in the region

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:41:54 +1000, "Peter Terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>
>Thanks to the ruling Liberal Party and John Howard's insistence with
>antagonising Arabs, Moslems and Asians for cheap political gain,
>Australian's can no longer feel safe within their own borders.
>
Thanks to Islamist terrorists no-one can really feel safe anywhere.

>Even New Zealanders once Australians greatest political and cultural friends
>are quietly shocked at the sharp political turn around in this country
>towards fascism and Americanism.
>
You clearly have no idea what fascism actually means. Please buy a
history book. As for 'Americanism', Australia and the US have been
close allies since they fought shoulder to shoulder in the second
world war.

>We are now specific targets of AlQuida and despised by our neighbours,
>greater Asia and the Pacific Islands.
>
Almost everyone is a target of Al-Quaida. They regard most Moslems as
heretics and blasphemers, never mind non-Moslems.

>The responsibility of the Bali terrorist bombing which murdered Australian
>citizens is firmly upon the shoulders of Australias racist PM John Howard
>and it's only a question of time before we take yet another terrorist hit as
>a reprisal for our contribution in the murder of so many thousands of Iraq
>civilians in that country.
>
The responsibility for the Bali bombing rests with the murdering
Islamist terrorists who carried it out. The only thing that Australia
could do to guarantee immunity from further attacks would be to become
an Islamic state along the lines or Iran or Taliban Afghanistan.
--
Stephen Horgan,  http://www.horgan.org.uk

"intelligent people will tend to overvalue intelligence"