So it begins...

[Meclazine for Israel]

@EnglishPete

No I respond to you as a clear anti Muslim poster (at minimum)  because your posting history and your clear emphasis on certain issues. Let's call a spade a spade. You are inherently anti Muslim and clearly that's tied to some sort of cultural identity you have as a European. This isn't a one off for you, its actually a consistent trend.

In simpler terms we call it bigotry. No matter how fancy you dress it up or how many stories you post. The entire forum recognizes it as well. The rhetoric and language is pretty familiar and standard book.

You can toss all the links you want to sound sophisticated but you're still pushing the ugly ideology we've all seen.

You have to stop labelling people TD.

English Pete is entitled to an opinion.

I am not a Trump supporter. I didn't vote for him. But your only conversation with me is trying to label me as such.

I like anti-establishment. I like Bernie Sanders. I like anyone who can turn the media on it's head and bring them to their knees.

You seem fixated on placing individual people into a easily labelled boxes, and then turning the forum against them.

It's starting to get a little old. You are not the forum police.

[Meclazine for Israel]

We are not alt-right people TD. I think you will find we are just fed up with bullsh**t. I don't care for Trump that much, but I love how he got the hot iron out and sticks it into the establishment, hard. The USA needs that. The media needs that. Things need to change.

The US immigration policy is flawed, and any deviation from that flawed policy is viewed as racist. Sudanese refugees now account (as a percentage) for more criminal convictions than any other ethnic group in Australia (they surpass the next ethnic group's convictions by about 200%).

I had never heard of carjackings in Perth until it was imported from Africa. Now it's a fact of life. When you take on refugees, you should have limits and checks in place before you expose your citizens to them.

Japan takes virtually no refugees - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/30/japan-says-it-must-look-after-its-own-before-allowing-syrian-refugees-in

One of the common misconceptions is that "If you support border protection against these countries, you are racist." That is not true.

For example in Australia, we have a bad perception on immigration policy in the USA because we locked our borders to illegal boat arrivals

But to give you some facts:

1. Australia takes more UNHCR refugees per capita than any country on the planet;
2. Australia has taken more Syrian refugees than the USA, total;
3. Australia has not had an illegal arrival by boat since 2013;
4. Prior to 2013, Australia had over 1,200 refugees drown at sea within 24 months.

But we get people on here telling us how illegal and horrible our immigration policy is.

Australia hand selects refugees within their country of origin. We want genuine refugees.

We need to be able to have more realistic discussions about "actual" effective policy reform rather than personal opinions of each other.

I just think you are missing these discussions with people before you put the knife in. You are missing the actual debate and throwing us under a bus. Then people just shut down.

[Meclazine for Israel]

THanks TD, an excellent response.