Why future Muslim migration to Australia must be halted urgently.

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The policy promoted by the late Mr. Al Grassby, that immigration should be decided regardless of culture, race or religion, has had serious effects in regard to Australia's security. The development of a non-assimilating and culturally hostile Muslim minority in Australia has provided increasing grounds for concern.

The dangers of a militant and extreme minority are illustrated by such comments as those by Mr. Wassim Doureihi, spokesman for the Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir, who recently asserted that suicide bombings should not be condemned because they were reactions against oppression, and that Australia would pay for joining the United States in Iraq: (1)

"We have to expect that if this government continues to ally itself with those countries that are destroying entire countries, that are uprooting entire peoples, that are bombing entire villages, then you have to expect that it will come at a price."

The dangerous tenets that are adopted by many Muslims in Australia are well represented by the Melbourne militant cleric, Abu Bakr (also known as Abdul Nacer Benbrika), who has stated, (2)

"I am telling you that my religion doesn't tolerate other religions. It doesn't tolerate ... The only one law which needs to spread--it can be here or anywhere else--has to be Islam ... Osama bin Laden, he's a great man. Osama bin...