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Sharia law in Australia ?
it was suggested today that australia should consider introducing elements of sharia law this would allow more islamic finance to be done in australia as more muslims could live happily in australia. the things asked to be changed include marriage and divorce laws to be introduced.
my view is that this would create a dualistic society and really i see it as a great disrespect to even ask. australia already has its culture and even though i have largely supported muslims during the iraq war and other events i dont agree that any countr should change its laws around another religion. if religion is more important to you than the laws of the country then you really dont belong in that country and should be in a country lead by religion not law. Australia like all western democratic coutnries are ruled by law not religion and even the catholic church has no power in australia except to sack priests and nothing more.
the catholic church banned condoms for example. australia hasnt.
4 AnswersLaw & Ethics1 decade agoIs nuclear fallout healthy in some cases ? ie. are you uneducated ?
I heard some news reports in response to the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns stating that exposure to nuclear radiation can in some cases be a healthy thing. This was then justified as it is sometimes used to cure cancers.
Honestly as a student of neucleonics from my limited knowledge i find this incredibly ridiculous comment to make. Firstly radiation has at the core the property of being the infection of strange atomic structures into the body with a variety of affects ranging from the shutdown and destruction of certain cellular activity such as production of red blood cells completely to the altering of human tissue and cellular structure via the introduction of potent free radicals into the system. This is very simula to poisoning except it is much more insipid an seems deep into the very cells that even poisons attack.
As a comparison poisons attack tissues, acids burn and attack outside tissue such as skin, radiation attacks the cells that make up all those tissues. And it is very much an ongoing attack.
Furthermore the radiation is known to react with exposure to varied conditions in different ways. Some radiactive material has a half life of 1000 years whilst other material is only raioactive for a week. Worst of all some material has enough mass and weight to remain lodged in garden beds and rivers and on soils and spew out radiation for the next 1000 years.
So how is it possibly healthy ??? anyone ??
1 AnswerCurrent Events1 decade agoCan we harness the power from lightning ?
We know that lightning will strike in certain regions of earth regularly and we also know how to induce lightning in weather. So would it be possible to harness this power. For example set up high top receptor points to receive lighting strikes and this electricity is then stepped down via massive transformers and fed into the grid at thousands of voltage bursts ? Would this hypothesis be possible ? Ideas ?
6 AnswersPhysics1 decade agowho murdered Michael ?
OK.. so we've now seen footage of Michael only a day before his sudden death.. where it was claimed he was so sick he couldn't stand up.. truth is the man was very fit for his age..
clearly he was killed just like so many before him. from Elvis to Hendrix.. from Tupac to Heath Ledger,..
they're all dieing when royaly checks are maxed out.. and suddenly and of these exotic overdoses..
i was only one degree from one of the named superstars who died from a drug overdose.. and can assure you.. they never took drugs in their lives !!! the media made out he was a regular drggie.. he wasnt..
same with michael. he was no addict.. the film of him performing the day prior now proves this..
his doctor and the ones who precscribed him the drugs.. need ot be thoroughly investigated now and exposed ot the world.. for the whole scandal it is.. all their links and connections should be exposed..
coz in my view.. michael was doomed when he purchased the beatles catalouge for $47mill and it is now worth nearly $2bill.. i think someone had his name out since then.. and they finally suceeded ..
so who thinks MJ was murudered in some dodgy hollywood plot.. with the eventuallity that MJ will now loose squillions in death..
personally.. i have absoluty no question that he was murdered.. i followed this story for the past 8 years .. when i woke to hear he had died last week.. my first words were.. "they got him!"
8 AnswersCelebrities1 decade agoDo you think the use of the word "wog" to describe non British Europeans is RACIST?
Following the trailblazing sucess of Eastern Suburbs very own racist.. the Chk Chk Boom girl.. who is now going to become a singer no less.. I am asking this question.
The Sunday Program on Chanel 7 interviewed her this morning and actually state that the word WOG was no longer a racist term.. in other words it is OK to just call certain European migrants WOGS !!
WOW !!!
so does this mean WOGS can now call Aussies SKIPS again ??
can we call Jews .. tighasses again ?? can we call black people n*gG**s ??? can we call Indians currymunchers and pakistanis just paks ??
i dont think Europeans with darker brooding features like the word WOG no more than anyone likes the tersm i used above .. and i also know most brooding Europeans would react strongly to the word being used against them to refering ot them.
so why is it a major TV network openly decalres the word is no longer a racist word ??
are we now a racist country then?? openly racist towards European migrants ??
so please.. help a wog out here.. do you think it is acceptable to refer to a European migrant as a wog ? and should th word wog be banned like all the other racist terms.. and should European migrants who also lost millions during WW1 and WW2.. infact hundreds of millions of chrsitians died in both wars.. HUNDREDS of MILLIONS.. and yet Jewish people have anti-semitic laws ot protect them.. whilst chrsitan Europeans are just wogs..
please explain..
4 AnswersOther - Society & Culture1 decade agoChk Chk RACIST .. is the word WOG acceptable ?
I just heard the Chk Chk Boom girl now plans to be a singer and she even told the Sunday program how she hasnt even seen the songs because clearly she has no musical skills nor has she ever sung before.. she is just a typical media plant.. she'll be paid 1% of earnings and end up broke again.. meanwhile she will have LEGITIMISED the word "WOG" !!
This is what the media is obviously keen to do !!
The Chk Chk Boom girl has put herself in the firing line now.. and the major networks are pulling all the strings for her.
I just wonder what would have happened if it wasnt Miss Eastern Suburbs who said those famous words.. i wonder if a Pakistani student had said .. "oh yeah a fat skip was fighting a thin currymuncher and one pulled out a gun and Chk Chk Boom" .. would that Pakistanoi now be famous ?? what if it was an African who'd been asked.. and he replied.. "oh yeah.. this jewbag was fighting with a ****** and one pulled out a gun and said Chk Chk Boom" .. would that be OK ??
So why is it OK that she said WOG and the whole media is running with it opn every network now for weeks ??????????????????????
like i said.. someone is trying to further belittle European migrants.. by making the word WOG an acceptable term.. when it is far from accetpable.. a WOG by definition is something you spit from your throat !! it was given to migrants as a derogatory term.. and is UNACCEPTABLE !! like the nasty terms i've used in this post to illustrate the point..
who agrees ??
2 AnswersCelebrities1 decade agoIs the word WOG racist ?
The word "wog" in Australian slang translates as something you spit from your throat.. somehow European migrants have been branded as "wogs".
10 minutes ago on Channel 7's Sunday show they stated that the word "wog" is no longer a racist term.. as a migrant i find this HIGHLY disturbing. Especially since I can go to prison for insulting a homosexual, a jew or a black man by using any number of foul and racist terms against those groups, words such a n*GG*r I would never utter nor would anyone these days.. YET it's STILL OK to call a European migrant to Australia.. a WOG !!
so who think the word Wog should be a banned word as it is clearly offensive and belittling to European migrants who have been disadvantaged in Australia due to their second rate citizenship.
I'm not a wog, I thought I was an Aussie once !!
With Sunday rpogram now STATING in support of that silly Chk Chk Boom girl.. now that she has a singing career in waiting.. now even the Sunday program is excusing the use of the word wog and actually said.. it is now not a racist term !!
looks like we'll be going back to the 60's again... i'll be a wog.. and you can be skippy..
OR can be all just be aussies one day ?? after all.. I've given my life already for this country .. having worked multiple jobs since age 11 and damaged half my body in the process of earning those $12 hourly paychecks.. my first pays i was earning $2.26 per hour !!
my mum was making pasta in italian restaurants before Australians knew what olive oil was.. before australians even ate tomatos which Italians brought ot Australia.. along with most of the other fruit and vegetables you now have on the farms.. they came from EUROPE !! wogland !! Australia's entire urban cutlure came from Europe infact.. so did America's culture.. America was after all named after an Italian called Amerigo Vespucci and both Australia and USA were DISCOVERED by Europeans but colonised by England.. but still.. European sailors discovered these lands..
how is it we end up as just WOGS now ??
we built half the country !!
so hows about a bit of respect ??
can we ban the word WOG !!
25 years later.. am i just a wog am I ??
9 AnswersLanguages1 decade ago