Brainwashing
To The Australian Friday, March 09, 2007
Amongst the many thousands of Muslim new Australians, there are some children whose lives are confined within a narrow Muslim milieu. Some of these hot-house children are exposed to Islamist preachings. Hate-preaching today means blood in the streets tomorrow. Australia has had a broad-minded tolerance of cultural diversity for so long now, many Australians are unaware of the power of brainwashing children and the violent fanaticism that can result.
To understand future bombers of innocent people, you need to think back to violent religious conflicts in western history. I know from my own personal childhood experience of IRA indoctrination, that children are pawns at the hands of charismatic, hate-mongering elders. Merely targeting the young hot-bloods after they've struck is a half-baked approach to the problem of terrorism.
The Lebanese Muslim Association ban on anti-Australian pronouncements (The Australian, 9 March 2007) shows diplomatic good sense. But we're not getting to the root of the problem unless Muslim parents save their children from having their minds poisoned with hate ideology behind closed doors. If the children could be spared this benighted practice, we would be protecting them as well as other people's children.
Philip O'Carroll