Australians Protest

From Yahoo:
"Hundreds protest Islamic law in Australia"

Protesters waving Australian flags and carrying signs such as "Yes Australia. No Sharia" rallied around the country on Saturday in events organisers said were against Islamic extremism. The "Reclaim Australia" events drew hundreds of supporters but also triggered counter-rallies from other groups who criticised them as racist and called for greater tolerance. "We are pro-Australian values and anti-extreme Islam, but we're not anti-Muslim," Reclaim Australia spokeswoman Catherine Brennan told AFP, adding there was no racism behind the rallies, which she said had attracted people from diverse backgrounds. "Since when is it being racist to love your country and to love the values and culture that you've been brought up with?" Reclaim Australia's John Oliver told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the group was "not against any particular race or any particular religion". "We're against the extremists of one particular religion," he said.  "I know in Sydney and Melbourne they've got Muslims already signed on to attend because they can see what's happening and they don't like what's happening." In Sydney, hundreds braved the rain to rally in Martin Place, near the site of a deadly siege in which a lone gunman inspired by the Islamic State group took customers and staff hostage in a cafe in December. Two people, and the gunman, were killed in that incident. "We have an extreme ideology called Islam which is starting to gain a foothold in our societies," one speaker told the event, in which one person held a home-made sign reading "No Islam.

In Melbourne, tensions between competing protesters led to scuffles, with police on horseback forced to form a barrier between the groups, and paramedics treating several people for injuries. Police arrested three people in Melbourne, while a man in Hobart was arrested for assault and two women were removed for breaching the peace at the Sydney rally.  In Queensland, former politician Pauline Hanson defended the rallies, which on its website Reclaim Australia said were against sharia law and the burqa and in support of gender equality. "We have people here today who stand against racism. So do I," Hanson said.

 

^ Good for the people of Australia that support the extremists. They do not want their country to be changed to something it was not created to be. Every Western country needs to stand-up for its core values and as long as they don't discriminate against any whole group (only the extremists) then I see no problem. There are enough Muslim countries that practice Sharia Law and any person who wants to can move to one of those countries and live under it. Places like: Canada, the US, UK, Australia, and most of Europe should not be forced to change who they are because a handful of people want make the world Islamic (under their extremist viewpoint.) ^

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