Posted on 01/11/2007 11:24:35 AM PST by Alouette
Australia's first Muslim life savers are due to qualify this week as part of a drive to represent more accurately the country's multi-cultural mix.
The bronzed, blond life saver has been the embodiment of beach culture for a century and ranks alongside the bushranger and jackaroo as a quintessential Australian icon.
[...]
The campaign to recruit Australians of Middle Eastern heritage has been funded by a A$600,000 (£242,000) grant from the federal government. It is an attempt torebuild community relations after the Cronulla riots of December 2005, when gangs of white and Middle Eastern youths clashed, smashing car windows and screaming racist abuse at each other at one of Sydneys busiest beaches.
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Please don't tell me there's a "Surfing Imam!"
Hehehe
I think it's a great idea...guaranteed to make the imam at the local mosque very very angry...the one thing islam can't afford to allow is assimilation of muslim youth.
Preserving The
Islamic Identity in The West
Threats & Solutions
http://web.archive.org/web/20041024220339/http://www.islam.org.au/articles/18/identity.htm.old
Normally Id wear cotton trousers and a top but they get very heavy in the water. This meets our cultural requirements,
Maybe we get some Imams to issue a Fatwah against her compromising here.
That would put the kibosh on the whole "camel in the tent" exercise of the Liberal PC crowd.
Just show the Mullahs that the new JihadiBabeWatch togs look this...
And even
who didn't require $600,000 recruitment
Dick Dale, king of the surf guitar, is half-Lebanese/half-Polish. But he included Hava Nagila among his songs so they weren't necessarily "muslim" Middle Eastern melodies.
Beach Boys (at least some of those) are based in part on Chuck Berry songs (which at times are based on OTHER songs like Promised Land is The Wabash Cannonball).
I wasn't implying they were necessarily Muslim, just Middle Eastern/Mediterranean.
Be sure and check the link at post 17.
:^)
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