And the new principal who was brought in to clean up the mess was threatened by Muslims:”Mr Patruno was confronted by two men of Middle Eastern appearance yesterday who reportedly told him: ‘We’re going to get you, we’re going to f*** you up, you dog.'”
“Students at controversial Sydney school ‘were bullied into attending Muslim prayers, lectures on the Koran and cut their hair to conform to Islam,'” by Kate Darvall, Daily Mail Australia, March 9, 2017:
High-school students are being pressured to attend daily prayer meetings, lectures on the Koran and even cut their hair by peers badgering them to conform to Islam, according to ‘scared’ parents at Punchbowl Boys High School.
The Punchbowl high school in Western Sydney has been identified as one of 19 New South Wales schools at risk of radicalising Muslim students, according to The Daily Telegraph.
The NSW Government listed 19 schools across Western and South-Western Sydney taking part in a counter-extremism program called School Communities Working Together.
Punchbowl Boys High School former principal Chris Griffiths initially refused the deradicalisation program, claiming he was not comfortable with prayer groups being monitored or the school being ‘stigmatised’.
Mr Griffiths, who converted to Islam in 2014, was sacked in 2016 by Education Department Secretary Mark Scott.
Since the program was refused, ‘scared’ parents have spoken out, claiming the school was run more like a mosque than a school.
The parent of a Year 7 boy, who remained anonymous for the privacy of her son, said he was bullied by other children for not conforming to the Sunni religion.
She said he was pressured into praying, and even bullied for having longer hair because it didn’t meet popular religious demands.
‘The kids come up to my son and ask him ‘come and pray, come and pray’. But we do different things to other families and the school. Why doesn’t prayer have to be in school time,’ she told The Daily Telegraph.
‘He goes to school to learn, it’s not a mosque. Religion is for the home, not for the school.’
The worried mother said her son felt pressured to follow common practices at the school, including prayer groups run during the school day.
She said she believed former principal Chris Griffiths was responsible for the religious activities, and was happy to see him gone.
Mr Patruno has accepted and thrown his support behind the anti-radicalisation program.
The program involves a team of experts who are educated on how to ‘scan’ for at-risk students, The Daily Telegraph reports.
The team, which includes psychologists, IT workers and support workers, also assesses religious leaders working at the school.
The program also works to ensure students or religious leaders don’t attempt to convert non-believers to the religion.
Not everyone in the Punchbowl community was thrilled about the decision to sack former principal, and Islam convert.
A petition of support for Mr Griffiths received 1650 signatures.
Punchbowl Boys High School mother Rana Dergham said her two sons, students at the school, were upset about Mr Griffiths’ sacking.
She claimed the sacking was a shock to the school community, and they were left without a chance to say goodbye.
New principal Robert Patruno was met with threats of violence when he started in the position.
Mr Patruno was confronted by two men of Middle Eastern appearance yesterday who reportedly told him: ‘We’re going to get you, we’re going to f*** you up, you dog’. …
The Confessions says
Last year Robert Patruno visited our university and gave students an inside-look of the different work he had done with juvenile delinquents. He looks like an IT geek and proved to be a wonderful man who has done a lot of good in the education system. Whilst I am glad he has taken over this position, I am unsure how his meek and mild-mannered disposition will influence the culture at the school. In my opinion, it will be seen as a weakness. I’m not surprised he has already received threats and fear he won’t last long in this position.
As for stealth jihadist, low-life scum Griffiths – ship him off to some sharia state where he can practice totalitarian Islam. He doesn’t deserve to live in Australia.
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gravenimage says
Thanks for the additional information on Mr. Patruno. But if he has successfully worked with juvenile delinquents, he may be tougher than you think. I hope so.
The Confessions says
Thanks gravenimage. I hope so – let’s hope he gets the support he needs.
FYI: you might think I am new to Jihad Watch yet I am a long-standing reader who also uses another name. I’m now also using this new name based on my blog where I will be writing different essays and pieces about various issues, particularly Islam.
Keep well mate.
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gravenimage says
Good blog post, The Confessions. I like your citing Mark Steyn–he is a treasure, and a staunch Anti-Jihadist.
dumbledoresarmy says
Mate.. perhaps you could send Mr Patruno a copy of Niccolai Sennels’ Among Criminal Muslims.
Encourage him to read it, as Mr Sennels, just like Mr Patruno, worked with youths – both Muslim and non-Muslim – in juvenile detention centres in Denmark, and wrote the book in the process of reflecting on his experiences.
Have you heard of Sennels? He is basically part of the Danish resistance to Islamisation, these days.
Send Mr Patruno a printout of this article which is an interview with Mr Sennels.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/Nicolai_Sennels/Muslims_and_Westerners%3A__The_Psychological_Differences/
Make sure you quote this paragraph of the interview, to Mr Patruno:
“Expressions of anger and threats are probably the quickest way to lose one’s face in Western culture. In discussions, those who lose their temper have automatically lost, and I guess most people have observed the feeling of shame and loss of social status following expressions of aggression at one’s work place or at home.
“In the Muslim culture, aggressive behavior, especially threats, are generally seen to be accepted, and even expected as a way of handling conflicts and social discrepancies. If a Muslim does not respond in a threatening way to insults or social irritation, he, not “she” (Muslim women are, mostly, expected to be humble and to not show power) is seen as weak, as someone who cannot be depended upon and loses face….”.
“…
This cultural difference is exceedingly important when dealing with Muslim regimes and organizations. Our way of handling political disagreement goes through diplomatic dialogue, and calls on Muslim leaders to use compassion, compromise and common sense. This peaceful approach is seen by Muslims as an expression of weakness and lack of courage. Thus avoiding the risks of a real fight is seen by them as weakness; when experienced in Muslim culture, it is an invitation to exploitation…”.
Encourage Mr Patrunoa to “be the strong horse”.
Islam inculcates a “bully mind”. He must *assume* that the Mohammedans are *all* bullies, whether openly aggressive or passive-aggressive; therefore he must NOT show weakness, NOT back down. I’d advise he get a big black dog and keep it with him at all times; and if he isn’t doing martial arts, he *should*; because if he does it regularly, then he *will* give off a different sort of aura, the “don’t-mess-with-me” aura. If he projects “prey” he will be treated as prey. But if he doesn’t, then even though he is a hated infidel, they will back off.
carpediadem says
Sennels does excellent work.
Slightly off topic, I know:
Unfortunately much “diplomacy” of Western nonMuslims hides the bully beneath, bullies with a soft voice who do severe damage.
Rather a brief bout of hot temper than a soft-voiced bully whose bullying, physical and emotional goes unpunished, as frequently happens.
The Confessions says
Hi DDA – I’m aware of Sennels from Jihad Watch. Recently watched his interview with Gad Saad on YouTube.
I don’t know Patruno personally but am happy to send him those materials. He must be more steely than what I saw of him in a lecture theatre. Either way, I wish him the best – it will be a tough task ahead.
gravenimage says
Yes–Nicolai Sennels has contributed many excellent articles to Jihad Watch over the years.
BINDON blood says
When will governments and officials learn that “radical” Islam is an invention of Western politicians? There is Islam. It has a ”tis different sects but almost all of them follow the Koran exactly and the ahadith; Shia have slightly different ahadith. With Islam one is either in or out,there is no ” moderate” Islam. Muslims cannot be “radicalised”; this men’s just learning about Islam. To deradicalize a Muslim means telling him to ignore large parts of the Koran and ahadith which immediately turns him into an apostate. To ignore large parts of the Koran and ahadith is tantamount to calling Muhammad and Allah liars. This is a serious offence in Islam. The ideology in total has to be deconstructed; It is a totalitarian ideology masquerading as a religion.
PRCS says
Some thoughts:
The article is rife with errors and PC assumptions and assertions.
*As it’s Qur’an, the word Koran (and similar) demonstrate unfamiliarity with the subject (the article’s author–Kate Durvall–epitomizing that).
*You are correct–the notion of “radicalizing” Muslims is pure pap (which makes the concept of “deradicalization” both illogical and a waste of time, labor, and money). It is, of course, predicated upon the bogus notion of “radical” Islam.
*And note that actual experts would not be scanning for students at-risk for “radicalization”.
*And about what does that team “assess” Muslim religious “leaders” and why–if Islam is all roses and daffodils –are they working to ensure said “leaders” and students aren’t attempting to convert “non-believers” to “The Religion Of Peace”?
*Note, too, that “counter-extremism” is predicated upon the ignorant belief that a Muslim’s compliance with Qur’an and Sunnah constitutes “extremism”. Do the Kate Durvall’s of the world ever wonder if the Pope has been “radicalized”?
*The article also references “the Sunni religion”. What in Hell is that and did she concoct that idiocy all by herself?
I fully agree with your statement that “To ignore large parts of the Koran and ahadith is tantamount to calling Muhammad and Allah liars. This is a serious offence in Islam. The ideology in total has to be deconstructed; It is a totalitarian ideology masquerading as a religion.”
Carolyne says
And the standard response to something they don’t like is a threat of violence or violence itself. I wish this man well, but he is up against murdering animals.
Kim says
It may be counter-intuitive to us, “…God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;” This is by the one and only true God, how can you tell, because He will never force anyone to do anything.
Carolyne says
Neither does Allah because he, too, is a myth. The force in Islam is by Muslims themselves, not a mythological figure.
panda says
“Mr Patruno was confronted by two men of Middle Eastern appearance yesterday who reportedly told him: ‘We’re going to get you, we’re going to f*** you up, you dog’. …”
Are these two ragheads still alive? If so, why??
gravenimage says
Australia: High school students “bullied into attending Muslim prayers, lectures on the Koran”
………………………….
And this was not just the students–the school’s Muslim convert *Principal* was enabling this brutality.
No surprise that the new Principal is now receiving threats. I hope Aussies here send him messages of support to Mr Patruno.
Here’s contact information:
Punchbowl Boys’ High School
Kelly St
Punchbowl
2196
Phone:9708 6122
Fax:9796 7921
Email:punchbowlb-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au
Tommy says
Did Australia ban guns?
abad says
Yes.
JIMJFOX says
NO
gravenimage says
Yes and no–guns are not completely banned in Australia, but gun ownership became much more difficult after legal changes there following the Port Arthur case in 1996.
This article notes that since 1988, the proportion of households in Australia with a firearm fell by 75%.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-28/alpers-the-truth-about-gun-ownership-after-port-arthur/7365790
The Confessions says
After the Port Arthur massacre in 1996.
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abad says
So, how do you guys keep criminals from acquiring guns Down Under?
Douglas says
https://ssaa.org.au/news-resources/politics/senate-inquiry-majority-report-a-positive-outcome-for-ssaa/
http://gameconnsw.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/McPhedran_Baker_Mass_Shootings_JPJ.pdf
The gun grabbers have won in Australia but they do not want to accept their victory. Instead, gun owners and the remaining and easily led majority are continually bombarded via MSM with obtuse assertions by the Greens et al that law abiding firearm owners are a threat to public safety. One core assertion was that criminals obtain guns from LAFOs. This was fully debunked in the first link above.
There is no statistical data to back this up.
This is a good collection for summing up the gun scene in Australia
http://gameconaustralia.org/gun-crime/
Peggy says
We don’t. Criminals are armed so this buy back just took guns from legitimate gun owners like my dad. He used to hunt and then when all this happened he handed his gun in.
We went though a Mafia war here in Melbourne after that and they weren’t short of guns.
dumbledoresarmy says
We didn’t “ban guns”. It’s not like you *can’t* have a gun, period.
We placed restrictions on certain *types* of guns.
After we left the ‘frontier wars’ era, Aussies just didn’t develop a ‘gun culture’ like Americans seem to have, even though we have always had *some* people who used guns to hunt things like feral pigs.
Up until the 1960s in most parts of Australia people didn’t feel *threatened* by one another or by the general public, in their suburbs or towns, enough to think they *needed* guns. You won’t believe this, but during my husband’s youth in a middle-sized country town in the mid-1970s, people still used to *leave their keys in their cars* when they went shopping! Yup, they’d park the car in the main street or a side street, sometimes not even bother to wind up the windows, and amble off. The cops thought this was just a bit too careless, so one day the cops went round and snaffled up all the cars that had been left with windows open and keys inside, hopped in, and drove them all down to the local cop shop, and then (using the number-plates) rang up the owners, who then – humiliatingly – had to go and rescue their cars from the ‘pound’, and get a talking-to about commonsense precautions against property and car theft, when they did. But the thing is.. they wouldn’t have been leaving their cars like that, if car theft had been common.
Some of those people, being farmers, would have had rifles at home, to use on vermin (feral dogs, feral rabbits, etc or to euthanase animals that were terminally ill or injured). But I doubt any of them would have felt any need to bring the gun with them when they went *shopping* or to visit the doctor or the dentist; I know for a fact that my own father,a farmer, though possessing a gun for use on the farm, would NEVER have taken it with him when he did the weekly shopping trip; nobody walked around the local country town with a gun in their pocket, it would have been seen as somewhat ridiculous).
JIMJFOX says
More correctly, Americans didn’t “develop a gun culture”- it is written into their Constitution via the Second Amendment.
Michael Ray says
The 2nd amendment was not written for times like you describe. It was put in place for times such as we find ourselves in right now. Does the Austrailian constitutional document have any comparable provision?
panda says
SO, how wunnerful that was. Our gun culture is, indeed, written into our Constitution (thank God). Until recently, it never occurred to me to carry — with the influx of gangsters from south of the border (and not just Mexicans, we have a fair share of ragheads coming over also) and just plain ragheads as ‘refugees’ (thanks to Obama). The troublesome thing for Americans is that you (and, even worse, the idiots in Europe) are a foreshadowing of what will occur here.
Back in the day, both our countries were safe. What’s the excuse now, Dumbledore? At what point do we hit critical mass?
Carolyne says
It was written into the Constitution because our forefathers knew there was a danger of a renegade government taking control without consent of the people. Europe and Australia would do well to consider this and realize what their governments are actually doing and stopping it if they still can.
There is no “Gun culture” as such, but Americans are independent people who will not be dictated to by a bunch of raghead lovers. Whatever it takes.
Peggy says
Many people like my dad handed their guns in even though they could’ve kept them. They made a big deal out of guns being so bad that even guns deemed ok were tainted.
abad says
My advice: for the concerned parents to take their kids out of that school, educate them elsewhere.
gravenimage says
Many of the students there appear to be Muslim–many of the acts of bullying sound as though they were aimed at other Muslims who were deemed to be “insufficiently Islamic”.
abad says
So is Punchbowl an Islamic school?
Kind of a weird name for an Islamic school if it is.
dumbledoresarmy says
It’s not an Islamic school at all; though it has been ‘stealth Islamised’.
It is a state school, though it is single-gender. *As* a state school, it is supposed to be *secular* (though in Australia, a state school, whether at primary or secondary level, usually permits R.E. [religious education] lessons and some have chaplains, usually Christian, who focus on counselling and pastoral care).
You’re not Aussie? If you’re not: you need to know that we have private schools (mostly church run, though there are a few Jewish schools, and also, these days, schools created and run by and for Muslims) and there are ‘public’, i.e. ‘state’ schools, some of which, at high school level, are single-gender, either all-boys or all-girls (usually because of being older establishments) and some of which are ‘selective”, focusing on high-achieving kids for whom specially challenging programs are offered.
Punchbowl is the name of the *suburb* in which the school was established. The suburb and the school were named *long* before Islam arrived on the scene.
Here’s the wiki entry for the suburb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punchbowl,_New_South_Wales
The name, it seems, was inspired by a feature of the local *geography*.
“Punchbowl is named for a circular valley, called “the punch bowl”, which is actually located in the nearby suburb of Belfield at the intersection of Coronation Parade, Georges River and Punchbowl Roads.
“This feature gave its name to “Punch Bowl Road” (now Punchbowl Road). In the 1830s, an inn built by George Faulkener, close to the corner of Liverpool Road, was called the Punch and Bowl.
“John Stephens had a property there in the 1830s and his son is mentioned in the Wells Gazetteer in 1848, “Clairville or Punchbowl, in the Parishes of St George and Bankstown, is the property of Sir Alfred Stephens”.
“When a railway station opened on this road in 1909, three kilometres away from the ‘punch bowl’ itself, the surrounding suburb came to be known as Punchbowl.”
The school – Punchbowl Boys High School – was established in 1955 – long before the Mohammedans arrived on the scene.
What has happened *here*, is Hijra: the Muslims have swamped the suburb, from the mid-1970s on, and ‘taken over’ the school by ‘swarming’.
abad says
Thank you for the info, Dumbledoresarmy. It is appreciated. 🙂
I’m American not Aussie.
Robert says
It’s a state school in a very heavily Sunni Arab Muslim population. As their birth rate is around 3.5 per woman, the school is about 90% Muslims. Check out the local Wiley Park girls high school, also 90% Muslim. With the later, local Muslims don’t want gender inclusion and want it female only.
Oh how the irony
My brother attended the former school decades ago; not a Muslim in sight.
Pierre Le Kuffar says
Punchbowl is full to the brim of Lebanese Muslims, if the few remaining non moslems vacate the school this is what the hijrah jihadis want- to create a completely muslim bubble world ( and stupid lefty idiots tolerate and even encourage it in the name of DIVERSITY!!) It’s what the cancerous religion of death has done in every country it has infested. eg. Brussels’ Molenbeek area is now an ALL MUSLIM NO GO ZONE. Sweden’s Malmo is now an ALL MUSLIM NO GO ZONE …….. and worryingl Hungary, one of the only Euro countries to stand up to massive muslim immigration says there are 960 more towns, cities and suburbs in Europe where
revolting scheming malignant islam has infected and made MUSLIM ZONES…SHARIA ZONES. When Oh when will we learn?
James Taylor says
Wonder if Trent attended school there!!
Martel says
Since the mid 1990s all white students have been directed not to attend this school, due to fears of their safety. There is a hard core in your face racism against whites in this area. I left the area after the Cronulla riot revenge violence that carried on for weeks in this area.
The Syrian army emptied the filth of the Lebanon into these areas during the Fraser gov Lebanese resettlement concession , close to 200,000 have come. Crime has morphed into hatred of police and wider oz society. The result unfortunately will be Islamic jihad terrorism, it is brewing and about to burst forth, such is the intensity of hatred. The iraqi ambassador to Australia has just warned of this, and we should listen to him and be forewarned.
dumbledoresarmy says
I wouldn’t call it so much ‘racism against whites’ as ‘Muslim hatred of Infidels.’ I am sure that any Vietnamese Buddhist kid or Indian Hindu kid – or Iraqi Syrian Christian kid – would be targeted just as ferociously by the Muslims, as any ‘white’ Anglo non-Muslim kid.
gravenimage says
True, DDA.
Martel says
I lived there for over 30 years, and the Muslims have begrudgingly a respect for some of the groups you mentioned, because they unite and stand up for themselves . That is why 5% of this school are Asians, but no Anglo’s can go there. Their Koran and sunna should dictate that they hate all Kaffir equally, but they seem to reserve a special place in hell for Anglo aussies, maybe because we are still the power in this country, and they find that detestable.
Retired Australian Teacher says
80% of Australians live in the city.
Private schools are a very, very popular choice for parents of all ethnicities.
Governmentally approved and Islamic based schools exist. ie parents have to pay significant fees.
Australian private schools also receive some funding from the Federal government. Some contend the payments are overly generous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malek_Fahd_Islamic_School
Wellington says
Proving again that to the extent you have Islam, then precisely to this extent you have problems. As here in Australia.
Every Western nation would be better off with no Muslims. Yep, none at all (except for embassy staff of Islamic nations).
Anyone care to refute this claim of mine? Well then, go ahead. Waiting.
abad says
Nope, I agree with you 100% +.
There is simply no reason for Muslims to keep entering the western world if they hate us so much so as to want to kill us.
They can and should stay in their own Middle-Eastern nations.
JIMJFOX says
You’ll be waiting a long, long time, Wellington!
Robert says
When you spot a virus in another land you don’t import it to become a pandemic in your own
Jeanette says
Obama did. Remember Ebola?
Down Under Dave says
No reasonable, rational, objective person will disagree.
gravenimage says
Fine post, Wellington.
Peggy says
In total agreement.
marina says
“A petition of support for Mr Griffiths received 1650 signatures.”
Now what is wrong with the Aussies?
dumbledoresarmy says
Those 1650 signatures would, I BET, all be signatures of MUSLIMS.
The suburb of ‘Punchbowl’ is one of those suburbs in south/ southwestern Sydney that have been simply *swarmed* by Mohammedans from the 1970s on.
gravenimage says
Yes–I’m sure Muslims are the only ones complaining about this vile principal being fired–as well as the only ones threatening the new man.
mortimer says
Government security agencies should now realize that Islam is a Death Cult, Rape Cult, Misogyny Cult and Enslavement Cult. None of those are compatible with a free, democratic society.
GGovernment security agencies should therefore create protocols for deprogramming Muslims right out of Islam. The time to start is now, before World War III begins started by Iran or some other Islamist group.
Michael Ray says
WW 3 is well under way. You could point to 9/11 as the first major battle. That it was an abominable, cowardly act perpetrated by liars upon non-combatants shows the real nature of this war.
Time we got serious.
Carolyne says
Personally, I think that when a Muslim is allowed entry into a civilized country, they should be informed that women will not be allowed to wear garbage bags or other repressive clothing over their heads or faces and the men will not be allowed to dress in rags with a dish towel on their heads. They will dress according to local customs and understand that they left these barbaric practices back in the hellholes they came from. This would go a long way toward at least a modicum of civilization in them.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, you have never said why Muslims would ever listen to the ‘filthy Infidels’.
Jeanette says
I call it the Sex & Death Cult.
Sex for them; death for us.
They are not civilized and don’t belong in civilized countries.
Edgar Allen says
THE MUSLIM BULLIES ARE SIMPLY FOLLOWING MUHAMMAD’S ORDERS – Muhammad said: “Teach the boy Salat when he is seven years old, AND BEAT HIM (IF HE DOES NOT PRAY) WHEN HE IS TEN.”
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 407 – Book 2, Hadith 260
https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi/2/260
Pierre Le Kuffar says
Why would there EVER be a need to allow immigration from repulsive regressive muslim countries? No sooner do they touch a mucky leather sandal on our shore after having begged to be allowed in and they’re agitating to get things running just like they were back home in the backward villages and desert hovels they tried to escape from.
I don’t buy it. It’s a big part of the religion to COLONIZE. And when I read articles about all the MUSLIM RAPE and all the MUSLIM CRIMES all the silly praying 5 times a day (it’s ocd to have to do silly rituals like these)even at work and the religion being forced down everyone’s throats….the fact that most of them stay on welfare and all the bloody militancy : the hide of them to constantly be demanding more and more, being OFFENDED at the drop of a hat and threatening to do untold violence when someone dares to have an opinion about a grown man marrying a 6 year old and sleeping with a NINE year old!! When I hear all this stuff I simply wonder why a country like Australia lets these malcontents in. They don’t belong in modern society. Pooooh
Carolyne says
Pierre, you are right. It is OCD when they practice these silly rituals and beat their heads on the floor until they have a big knot on their forehead. Apparently they fear that if they do not perform this ritual five times a day, something bad will happen to them. A classic symptom of OCD. Never thought of it in that way before.
They are barbarians and should not be allowed to live with decent peaceful people whom they regard as creatures to be subjugated. They are worth nothing. .
Peggy says
Oh but they enrich our society, or so we are told.
trish says
My friend has family living in this Granville/Punchbowl area. Driving past a state school one morning rec ently, she noticed the flashing lights of a signboard in front of the school. Her passenger informed her one sign read “We are Lebanese” and the other “We are respected”.
(For non-Australians, a state school is public-funded and supposedly sectarian, whereas private schools are usually religion based and funded, although part-funded by government grants.)
There are also Islamic schools, also part-funded by government grants. A majority of these have re cently been threatened with closure and withdrawal of government funds for financial mismanagement, with funds being drained to other Islamic organisations. There are also newspaper reports on unpleasant harassment of female staff in some such schools.
dumbledoresarmy says
You wrote -” For [the information of] non-Australians, a state school is public-funded and supposedly sectarian,”
I think you meant to write – “NON-sectarian”?
Phil Copson says
Quotes: “You wrote -” For [the information of] non-Australians, a state school is public-funded and supposedly sectarian,”
I think you meant to write – “NON-sectarian”?
________________________________________
Did you both mean “secular” ?
trish says
Oops, sorry. Of course I meant non-sectarian, as is obvious from the rest of my post
Yet, on reflection, I think a case could be made for stating that state schools in Australia are ‘sectarian;. .We expect these schools to teach Australian values of equality, democratic freedom and tolerance, We expect them to instil in their pupils the acceptance of men and women as equals, of giving everyone a ‘fair go’ and of rejecting violence as a means of achieving political ends.
Most immigrant groups also endorse these values. One group strikingly does not and obviously regards our society and our schools as very much sectarian. We do not support misogyny, child marriage, FGM, terrorist violence, and sharia law. So, yes, our state schools are proudly sectarian in this respect.
john smith says
Again and again, it is as if Western leaders have no clue what they are doing…Western tolerance backfires upon itself, because Islamists do not care about Western values…but, Western leaders stuck in dogmatic thinking, think there is some friendly way to fix things…guess what: there isn’t.
Jeanette says
The problem is that if those western leaders want to let the Muslims kill them, that might be okay, since their lives are their own.
But when they start deciding that the rest of us should be subjected to Muslim violence and we are killed, that is murder and they are just as responsible as the Muslim(s) who wielded the knife, gun, bomb, etc.
The sooner we can get that embedded into the minds of western citizens, the sooner the “leaders” will have to start supporting their own citizens rather than whoever they can dredge up from primitive, savage, disease-laden populations.
Pal says
Take a look at another group persecuted by islam:
The Bloggers Infidels.
“Kill Them!” – Bangladesh.
http://nation.com.pk/blogs/27-Sep-2015/atheistophobia-it-s-time-to-talk-about-the-most-persecuted-minority-in-the-world
Bangladesh and the whole of North-East India, namely Bengal historical region, became the origin and the heart of Buddhism on Earth, after its initial spreading in neighboring area by the Prince of Buddha, who came from Nepal, 5th century B.C.
It remained as such until the Blackest Day in History for the area, when the Islamic-Turkic conqueror Bahtijar Hilji started to invade in 12th century. His troops slaughtered thousands of Buddhist monks, burned sacred towns and temples, demolished Nilanda library and University (equal to Alexandria University and library), and thus decisively broke the backbone of perhaps the most peaceful religion on Earth, opening another space for islam. Hilji even wished to cross the highest Himalaya Mountain Range and spread the ideology of the truth and peace across Tibet.
Let It Burn in Hell!!!!
gravenimage says
All true, Pal, Muslims have a hideous history in South Asia.
mad aussie says
Give This Guy A Couple Of Body Guards If The Threat Is That Real.
Baucent says
“Mr Patruno was confronted by two men of Middle Eastern appearance yesterday who reportedly told him: ‘We’re going to get you, we’re going to f*** you up, you dog’. …”
What a good advertisement for muslim migration. Why would Australia want these people?
Jeanette says
It isn’t “Australia,” just as it isn’t “Germany, France, Great Britain, the US, Canada,” etc. It is the globalist elites who have had power in those countries for so long, and who seem to be using the Muslims to begin the massive depopulation of U.N. Agenda 2030 by letting them kill the native populations of their own countries.
If we let them get away with something so heinous, we deserve whatever we get.
Imnokuffar says
What the hell is the use of having anti radicalization classes they simply do not work.
They are run by people who have no real knowledge of Islam or its methods of
Indoctrination.
Comparing Islam to democracy is like comparing apple’s to oranges.
Therefore I have have no Faith in this Don Quixote enterprise.
The only things that most Muslims respect are strength, purpose and power.
Deciet is also a useful tool like American undermining of the Arab oil market through the use of fracking whilst smiling warmly at them and selling the. Tons of arms and materials.
Matthieu Baudin says
The only way for this to have gotten out of hand in the first place, given that this is a secular educational institution in a secular country, would be for the the state (New South Wales) government educational administration to have become immersed and indoctrinated by radical multicultural values. In this case religious compliance has been permitted to creep in and become established in the guise of minority cultural needs. A vast swamp in need of draining on the other side of the Pacific Ocean!
Kay says
It starts slowly– a girl or two in hijab and you want her to feel included; a few can’t eat pork so you stop serving pork; someone needs a special holiday or a special test schedule and you want them to succeed . . . soon you have more and more who want the special treatment and fewer and fewer who remember the secular values. Then you add in the shaming over being white or Christian or colonizing.
We have 2 issues in the West now– how to wake up our governments to keep from further invasion and what to do with the ones we’ve already got.
We have inclusive accepting societies and most all immigrants have found a way to embrace their new countries and become contributive. Islam is different. As free countries we must not accept their uncivilized and brutal beliefs and practices.
Jeanette says
Stopping the welfare free ride for recently arrived foreigners (even if they have obtained citizenship in the new country) would encourage a lot of them to return to the support system of their friends and relatives in the old country.
At the same time it would help the native populations tremendously by leaving them with more money to spend on their own families, instead of the litters of Muslim babies produced by most Muslim women.
Florida Jim says
Australians seem to have a good handle on muslims and how to deal with them, either they convert or deport them. That is exactly what the world should do.
Down Under Dave says
Florida Jim is spouting fake news or Hogwash as they would say in the USA
Says New South Wales Doug who lives in Sydney Australia.
ronald says
There is one solusion- ban islam and 90 % of worlds problems are solved.
rappini says
The only way to handle those two ragheads who threatened him is to put them both in a hospital with some broken bones. All they know is force eventually they will get the message.
Angemon says
Right, no conflict of interests whatsoever…
Retired Australian Teacher says
Upon his conversion to Islam the workload of Mr Griffiths he previously experienced with antisocial students would have been greatly reduced. The students would have then had to respect his directions and opinions.
All coincidental I presume, my guess is that he is a smorgasbord Muslim, taking only the bits he wants to deal with.
Craig Kirk says
It is frightening that our Public school system has been infiltrated by Islam. How many other schools in western sydney have become islamised. What mosques do these families attend need to be investigated by counter terrorist authorities. The families who have threatened the new principal Mr Patruno should be charged as well as the students who have threatened to behead staff’
Lydia says
No one could bully me into going! My answer is a flat NO!
I will not attend any function of another religion that honors another god.
Not interfaith either, or any other nonsense like that.
I will stand on my Christian faith and not deny Jesus not matter what.
If they want to persecute me for that, I say let them!
So they persecuted the early Christians too and martyred them and they
went on into glory. Come and get me!
I’m not afraid. I will never deny my Christian faith, come what may.
Matthew 10; 32-33. That is true discipleship. And we are all disciples if we
are Christians. Christian is just another name for disciple, that is found in Acts.
Stand firm church, the storm is going to get worse.
Kasey says
Does anyone need any more proof that Islam is totally incompatible to Western society? On that basis, the choice should be mandatory.now , either abandon Islam or emigrate to an Islamic nation.. Seems harsh? But why should we , in the long term, suffer the life-style and conflict these migrants and their children want to impose on us by force or intimidation.The longer the West waits to act, the greater the chance of Islamic domination, and have economic and violent catastrophes as consequences of their dominance?
Jeanette says
It doesn’t seem harsh at all, compared to small children being crucified, whole Christian populations being massacred, people burned alive, drowned, having their heads sawed off.
Sadly it seems as though many westerners will have to experience some of the above personally before the penny will drop.
Lucia Bartoli says
Friends of mine just returning from Australia and New Zealand (they are “kiwis”) couldn’t believe how things have changed. If my child was being forced to this nonsense, I’d have instructed him/her to walk out and come home. I would have then found a way to home school. You will never win if your gov’t. refuses to protect its citizenry from lunatic islamists (and that IS what they are.) Take control of your own country…before it is too late. Put those evildoers on a big wooden boat and ship it out to sea…rations only for one week and then it’s up to them to find a way to survive. Make sure you launch it into the area of all of those shark infested waters. I believe in preserving nature and making sure the sharks and other sea creature have an opportunity to eat sufficiently. Islamists make great “chum.”
GuruTulu says
Do not allow this primitive behavior in schools. freedom of choice, freedom rings loud and clear in America…
We will fight for our freedom in America schools, cities, and towns.
Do the same in your great country.