or they are Christian Anglo-Saxon heritage Muslim converts who have been taught Arabic by Middle Eastern Arabic speakers.
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the current round of terrorists are "extremists muslims"
this tars the other 99% of muslims who have done nothing wrong as being bad.
people associate arabs with muslims
people hear about teaching arabic at kindy and think terrorist.
people also generalise arabs with being hot headed which doesnt help either.
Can some moderator delete this bullcrap thread?
Yes, but the Irish have always been a much larger proportion of the population - probably at least 10+% compared with the current ~1% Muslim. My point was that to a large extent the attitude has changed and is now seen as a quaint historical relic, but it was still there in my childhood.
John
As well as the Irish being a larger percentage of the Australian population - the two religions that were central to their "troubles" were both much more significantly represented in the Australian population, so their was less likelihood of Australian people being prejudiced towards either side of the Irish disputes based purely on religious views.