I'm just gona say something over here. Excuse me if I go over on a tangent, but I'm gonna say a lot of different things quite randomly and whether you agree with it or not, I'd like your input. Anyways...
Do you remember the guy on the news from Epping Boys High School? His name was Tamim and he tried to sneak from Australia to Syria to join ISIS. I have a friend who was in the same year as him and in the same school. And according to my friend, although Tamim was born and raised in a muslim family, he wasn't religious. Although all of a sudden he started to have some really extreme views. ----> And now fast forward to what happened in Nice, the neighbours and family of the man who killed all those people also said that he wasn't religious. I quote, "he didn't fast, and he didn't pray." I will point out that as far as I know, the majority of the ISIS attacks in western countries were done by those who were brought up in the western world, so generally speaking immigrants are unlikely to be carrying out these terror attacks. However, I do believe there are some of those immigrants who aren't refugees. As someone already said, some of the alleged migrants are committing crimes and such in their detention centre, I don't think people like that are genuine migrants, instead are probably just finding a cheaper way to get into Australia. But, it was reported that the majority of the immigrants on Manus Island were genuine refugees. Taking all that into consideration, I believe that since Australia is capable of helping the genuine refugees out, then we have a moral right obligation to do so. However I think each person should be checked to see whether or not they're genuine refugees and their criminal history should be checked if it is available.
I know I'm not the only one who thinks this, but a lot of the genuine refugees were professionals in their respective countries, whether it's in trades or in medicine. Germany has made it compulsory for refugees to learn German, and I think if Australia did the same for refugees to learn English, then these refugees could become like Australian citizens and contribute to a part of out society by working in their respective profession.
I see a lot of people especially on the Facebook comments saying that Muslim leaders should be doing something about the radicalisation of Muslims. I don't know what goes on in every Mosque, I do know about a few such as Imam Hasan Centre in Annangrove who around last week have had speakers from various faiths come in to speak to everyone. The goal was to promote friendship and unity amongst Muslims and non Muslims. You can check the Imam Hasan Centre Page on FB, they have a small sample of what one of the speakers were saying.
And another controversial thing I want to bring up is, halal slaughter. So I see people arguing over how it's considered barbaric but the halal slaughter that takes place in Australia abides be the Australian laws, meaning the animals are stunned before being cut. From my travels around Pakistan and India, I've seen chickens get slaughtered the halal way and it truly is quite bloody, but the chickens are dead within about 10 to 15 seconds and they seem to have been kept in better quality than the chickens you would see on the news that are locked in cages. TBH i don't know which method is better. The halal way, as I outlined before, or the normal way, where chickens are hung upside down and clubbed to death. Both kinda make me wana become vegan.
Sooo, hope you enjoyed my essay lol. But I'm keen to see what your opinions are on those random topics.