Tolerance is in the eye of the beholder.
Is accepting intolerance the price of tolerance? Is coming to terms with beheadings and amputations under Sharia law tolerant?
One Islamic group in Sydney says, “Aywah”.
A radical Muslim group held a conference on Saturday afternoon discouraging members and their children from singing the Australian national anthem – while refusing to condemn ISIS.
Global Islamist political party Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is campaigning for Sharia law, hired a community hall at Campsie, in Sydney’s south-west, for the event.
In another part of the discussion, Mr Doureihi condemned an elderly white, pro-refugee male customer at his shop who had described Sharia law Hudud punishments as ‘barbaric’, which can involve the amputation of a hand for stealing.
‘We’ve probably bought into the lie that is tolerance, diversity and multiculturalism,’ he said.
‘We’re sold the rhetoric of acceptance of diversity, and different people’s and different opinions and different religions but not realising the reality of what that entails.
‘I said, “What’s your position on the Hudud in Islam?” He goes, “barbaric”.
‘I said you’re not tolerant.’
If you oppose chopping off people’s hands, you’re an Islamophobe.