Amir Butler
Amir Butler is an author and lawyer, as well as the executive director of the Australian Muslim Public Affairs Committee, co-convenor of the Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network and frequent media commentator on social and political issues.
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(Libertarianism) with its emphasis on small government and minimal taxes, would put an end to the multiculturalist pork barreling that has nurtured an unproductive growing class of tax-eating Muslim ‘leaders’. In recent years, we’ve seen a conga line of Muslims emerge with their self-serving pseudo-research and demands for more and more money to be poured into their projects and causes; projects that are more often designed to meet the political objectives of the State than any genuine need in the Muslim community. For example, we’ve had people paint the Muslim youth as drug-addled, dangerous time bombs whose fuses can only be extinguished by more public money; and we’ve seen malleable Muslims handpicked by the State, placed on government committees and publicly-funded ‘reference groups’ and then used by the government to promote its agenda.
If we love God, then it requires us to hate idolatry. If we believe there is such a thing as goodness, then we must also recognise the presence of evil. If we believe our religion is the only way to Heaven, then we must also affirm that all other paths lead to Hell. If we believe our religion is true, then it requires us to believe others are false.
Muslims have a credibility problem. In the modern era, we have a tendency to believe and repeat wild theories, with our only criteria for accepting those theories being that they lend support to pre-existing attitudes. It takes an extremely sympathetic person to overlook such a deficiency, and sympathy for Muslims in a post 9/11 West is in short supply.
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