Comments on: Kevin Andrews’ immigration crusade

By: Lisa Crago

Lisa Crago — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I know that you know the middle east politics well and this information about Kevin ‘Mr Bean’ Andrews is no surprise. I know that iron fisted rule is not very PC, but weren’t Iraq Christians much safer under Saddam than the Islamic fuelled street gang anarchy that has seen the churches in Bagdad closed and their faithful killed or moved on?

By: Irfan

Irfan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

They certainly were, Lisa. Hence, I refer to Saddam’s regime as “aggressively secular” in that it did not tolerate any form of sectarian politics. Al-Qaida activists would have been lined up against the wall and shot, as would have their family members, under Saddam.

The sad reality was that Saddam’s sectarian-free agenda didn’t have sectarian-free results in the long term. I’m really troubled by the situation facing Middle Eastern Christians. Especially Palestinian Christians.

By: Daniel Batt

Daniel Batt — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Fair enough to attack Andrews, who was a hopeless minister. But spare a thought for the Christians of the Middle East, who have been fleeing to the West since early last century, not in small part due to the Islamic influence in governance that treated them as second class citizens. I can’t find the figures, but they are astonishing, from double digit minorities to single digit proportions of the population.

No matter who makes the submission to the Minister, let’s deal with it on its merits.