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So the new Rudd government thinks the citizenship test
is too difficult because a number of immigrants are failing it.
If after four years the would-be
citizens cannot speak enough English to pass an exam where the answers are given
in a booklet before the exam then maybe they are not serious about becoming
citizens.
A government spokesman said that refugees in particular,
find the test difficult. Meanwhile the Australian Federal Police are
investigating reports of African refugees who are using their residency in
Australia as a staging post to return to their homelands to join Islamic Jihad.
The government would do well to heed the words of
Syrian-born academic Wafa Sultan who warned during a visit to Australia last
year that Muslims were "brainwashed" from an early age to believe
Western values were evil and that the world would one day come under the
control of Sharia law.
Dr Sultan who was raised on Alawite Islamic beliefs
before she renounced her religion warned that Muslims would continue to exploit
freedom of speech in the West to spread their "hate" and attack their
adopted countries, until the Western mind grasped the magnitude of the Islamic
threat.
"You're fighting someone who is willing to
die," Dr Sultan said in an interview with The Australian newspaper,
"so you have to understand this mentality and face ways to face it. As a
Muslim your mission on this earth is to fight for Islam and to kill or be
killed. You're here for only a short life and once you kill a kafir, or a
non-believer , soon you're going to be united with your God."
Dr Sultan said Islam was a "political
ideology" that was wrongly perceived to have a moderate and hardline
following.
"That's why the West has to monitor the majority of
Muslims because you don't know when they're ready to be activated, because they
share the same basic belief. That's the problem," she said.
Dr Sultan considered the prophet Mohammad
"evil" and said the Koran needed to be destroyed because it advocated
violence against non-believers.
In an operation called Operation Rochester the
Australian Federal Police are investigating Somali community figures suspected
of encouraging dozens of young men to return to their homeland and join Islamic
jihad.
One person under investigation is Australian convert,
Aisha Whitehead, who is alleged to have encouraged her Somalia-born Australian
husband Ahmed Ali to fight alongside terrorists in his war-torn homeland. Ms
Whitehead travelled to Somalia with Mr Ali in November 2006, several weeks
before he went missing wile fighting with an Islamic militia.
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