Or so the conservative nationalists would have us believe.
Waleed Aly has an interesting article on immigration
and how government is doomed to repeat the stereotypes that immigrants have faced in the past.
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Tim Dunlop states that Islam is incompatible with democracy
. He is wrong, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia have all voted in secular political parties, rather than religious ones. The muslims in these nations have chosen good government first. Iraq's problem is that their equivalent of the "Bearded Men" is deciding what the country will look like for the next century.
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