Over the last few years, many so-called Islamic-Studies centres have sprung up on many 
Australian University campuses. One such place is the Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies(CAIS) at the Australian National University(ANU), Canberra.
It is certainly a good idea to study religion in an academic set-up and thus there is nothing fundamentally wrong in having the CAIS at the ANU or any other Islamic-study centres at other Australian Universities. However, there are no dedicated centres for Buddhist or Jain or Parsi or Hindu studies at any of the major Universities in Australia. Of course, to understand the reasons for this omission and commission in Australian University campuses, would require a study of the synergy arising from the concentration of left-leaning academicians in our Universities and those with an Islamist agenda, amongst other factors.
It goes without saying that CAIS would not indulge in any activities such as a critical study of the consequences of Political Islam around the world. Here is an example list of subjects that would NEVER be studied at Islamic centres such as the CAIS:
- Religious freedom in Saudi Arabia
- The plight of minorities in Islamic countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh (such as Hin
dus and Buddhists). - How Sharia law has violated the human-rights of minorities in Muslim countries.
- The spread of Islam through the sword in Asia, accompanied by the large scale genocide of non-muslim people and the eradication of indigenous cultures in Asia.
- The persecution of Muslim minorities such as the Ahmediyas by main-stream Muslims such as the Sunnis in Pakistan, Indonesia etc.
- The sources of monetary funding and theological/ideological inspiration behind 9/11, 7/7, 26/11 and other terrorist attacks around the world such as the Bali Bombings, Madrid Train Blasts, Mumbai Train blasts etc.
- Inseparability of Politics and Religion in Islam and their consequences on humanity.
CAIS itself boasts of the funding that it receives from the Iranian Government and the Turkish Government. Off-course, CAIS also receives a lot of funding from other Saudi Arabian sources. Thus, it cannot be expected that they study the subjects outlined above. This is a classical example of inseparability of Politics and Academics. Just as the importance of the separation of the church and government is vital to the evolution of democracies around the world, the separation of church and academic studies is vital to University studies and scholarly research. However, centres such as CAIS and the mushrooming of such centres on Australian University campuses are ‘going back’ full circle and integrating church and academic studies(well, in this case, the mosque and academic studies) and thus are becoming centres of Islamic lobbying rather than centres of learning.
Future Australian Diplomats may be trained in such centres and may be responsible for shaping Australia’s future foreign policies. There is a real danger that the world-views of these future diplomats may be shaped through the prism of Islamic lobbying centres such as the CAIS. This danger might generate ill-conceived foreign policy nightmares for Australia, especially with countries such as India, China, Russia, Thailand etc, as these countries all have Islamic
-separatist problems within their countries.
The likelihood that Australian government representatives and diplomats would be influenced by lobbying centres such as the CAIS was clearly visible in the 2020 Summit facilitated by the Rudd government not too long ago. The advertisement for the 2020 summit said that the government needed some good ideas (to govern!) and that the 1000 "best and brightest" minds would be selected and that these minds would provide the government with good ideas. After the summit, the prime minister said that the top ideas would be acted upon by his government. There were 10 subjects for discussion in the summit, each with 100 experts, thus making up the 1000 “best and brightest” Australian minds. One of the ten subjects was Australia’s security. One would have expected the best 100 minds in the security domain to have participated. There were indeed some security experts amongst this 100. However, amongst this “100 security experts” were
- Prof Amin Saikal. (Director, CAIS, ANU)
- Mr Waleed Aly. (spokesperson for the Islamic Council of Victoria).
- Assoc Professor Samina Yasmeen. (Director, Centre for Muslim States and Societies, University of Western Australia).
Clearly, the present Australian government sees people in “Centres of Islamic learning” including people dependent on “Islamic governments” for their careers, as “security experts” and allows these people to counsel them on matters of security including Australia’s policies with other countries on matters related to security. This is clearly a dangerous sign of things to come not only to Australians, but to non-Muslim populations and non-Muslim governments in Asia.
Lobbying centres such as the CAIS are very good in deceiving the general public about their intentions. In the month of June this year, Prince Turki Al-Faisal, President of the King Faisal 
Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia presented a public lecture entitled ‘The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Today’ hosted by the CAIS at the ANU. Amongst other things, he said that Palestinians could follow the example of Gandhi to get Israel to accept their demands. Without a doubt, this is a very good idea and a radical one as far as Political Islam is concerned. But then the Prince was trying to deceive his listeners with his noble-sounding talk.
The deception was unmasked, when one of the members in the audience questioned the Prince, saying that while he was advocating the Gandhian idea of non-violence, would there be a chance of implementing the Gandhian idea of religious freedom by building a Hindu temple in Saudi Arabia. The prince replied that this would not be feasible as it was Mohammed’s idea not to allow any other religion in the country!! So much for Ghandian tolerance and freedom.
The word University derives from the Latin word ‘universus’ which means ‘whole’ or ‘entire’. Thus Universities are places where anything and everything can be studied in its entirety. According to this definition, University studies should be free from bias, for knowledge, by its very nature is eternal and free from bias. Thus it is appropriate to study everything including religion in an University. However, when there is an extreme bias in studies, thus deliberately depriving the ‘study’ of its entirety, then the study is no longer worthy of being conducted under the umbrella of a University.
Thus, it is not a good idea to study religion in a University centre, when the study is sponsored heavily by pro-religious fundamentalist groups, where the content of discourse is heavily biased in favor of these fundamentalist groups. Australians should never allow Universities to become lobbying centres for pro-Islamist groups or any other religious groups for that matter. There is a need for our parliamentarians and policy makers to understand the dangers of pro-Islamist groups in Universities (including formal Islamist groups such as the CAIS at the ANU).
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I don't think anyone is gonna get anything out of that class except for "Praise Mohammed' and "praise Allah," because you know what happens when Islamic scholars study the Quran! 
Thanks for this timely article.
The "oil money" and the ongoing islamisation of our universities are already claiming some outstanding successes.
Just look at these official pages of our own Federal Government departments: Rewriting Australian history and Blaming Australians for Muslim 'disengagement'
From the way they talk and act, I could already believe that many of our politicians have graduated from ACIS.
Education ministers simply don't undersatnd the threat of islam. They don't learn from history.
There is not a single country in the world where non-muslims are allowed to integrate into muslim countries, yet our leaders cling to this theory of moral Relativism.
PS. I never knew the background to "Hindu Kush". I didn't realise there was a muslim connection.
Those links are worth reading.
I remember reading Circe's articles about the muslims "educating and befriending" our aboriginals. How the muslims love to distort history and the truth. They really understand Taqiyya and Kithman.
And the "grassroots movement for assimilation og muslims into Australia", what a joke.
Dont they understand "Al Wara wal Bara"? LOVE and HATE for Allah.
Muslims MUST HATE over 20 million Australians because they are infidels.
Muslims are NOT ALLOWED to mix with infidels.
If a muslim follows his faith, it is IMPOSSIBLE for him to assimilate.
Look around the world at the 57 Islamic countries if you don't believe me.
Thank you for your comments.
Iam actually surprised that the Saudi support for these lobbying centres are not investigated by the media and thus the public is largely unaware of these lobbying centres.
I was at a conference recently in a Uni campus in Australia. In the same building, there was a introductory session to an acaedmic course on Politics. One of my friends at the conference happened to know a Malaysian lady attending the Politics course. The Malaysian lady was burka-clad and from the Malaysian consulate. I asked her if she was a visa officer. She told me that she was not a visa officer and that her role was to study Politics and Muslim affairs in Australia and pass on the information to the Malaysian Government!!..
Note that muslims complain about “racism and discrimination” in Australia.
Isn’t that cognitive dissonance for them?
Muslims are used to the shoe being on the other foot and they don’t like it!
Recently it was reported that sections of the Turkish military planned to eliminate the remaining Christians in Turkey. There is obviously NO assimilation plan for Christians in Turkey, is there.
Look at how muslims have treated Christians (and others) in Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Iran and Sudan (to name a few).
It is time to focus on LGAs and we will write to our councillor and explain why muslims CAN’T integrate with infidels.
I notice that Coles has held “morning teas” to encourage engagement with muslims. Coles of course are already stocking about 200 lines marked as Halal in their supermarkets. Bless their little souls!
Gandhian,
I remember when Malaysia called Australians "the white trash of Asia". Charming country.
Yet these fn unis, leftoids and pollies have their head so far up their arse they ignore it at the peril of all else and doing so bring hate and evil . islam the enemy within
I wondering what the meaning of Hindu kush was
She told me that she was not a visa officer and that her role was to study Politics and Muslim affairs in Australia and pass on the information to the Malaysian Government!!
That doesn't surprise me. I've been aware for a long time that Malaysia or Malaysians have a burr up their arse about Australia and Australians. It may well go back to the 50s and the Malay Insurgency. The Australian military presence once maintained in Malaysia may be another reason.
The issues really came to the surface when that slaphead Mahattir took offence at Paul Keating's remark and used it for political purposes. Mahattir also started interfering in aboriginal issues. Some of this might go back to the book Turtle Beach which covered Malay treatment of Vietnamese refugees.
Other issues were the abduction of Jacqueline Gillespie's children (who have recently reunited with her) and the incident at Sydney airport where Malaysian trade minister Raffida Aziz refused to have her bags searched (even though she had no diplomatic immunity). She cited some female-related nonsense (implied she was having her periods perhaps) but the beagles at the airport are only trained to sniff for drugs. I went to her trade promotion at a Sydney hotel. Can't say I was impressed with her (very rude, arrogant and piggish). Basically, all she was trying to promote was doing manufacturing in Malaysia (which means losing jobs in Australia). Someone at my table asked what the minimum was over there, did the maths, and said it was way too expensive compared to Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines.
Geoff,
Note that muslims complain about “racism and discrimination” in Australia.
Isn’t that cognitive dissonance for them?
Yes, arselifters can dish it out but they can't take it. Personally, I would love to see arselifters treated as second class citizens in the West. No political rights, their religion openly repressed, they have to pay jizya and any agreements with them should be frangible. Of course, our courts should also dispense sharia law to them only. The slightest infractions treated harshly. Give them a nice taste of their own medicine.
I remember when Malaysia called Australians "the white trash of Asia". Charming country.
Which is funny because Malaysia is a real dump. I'll never go back there. The Malay people are very backward, their language is very primitive and their manners and habits leave a lot to be desired. Indonesia is supposed to be even worse but, luckily, I've not been there nor am I ever likely to go.
"GEORGE TOWN (Nov 19, 2009) : She was only seven when she was told to take an oath to embrace Islam and renounce her original faith.
Kedah PKR Youth Deputy Chief Gooi Hsiao Leung (left) talking
to Banggarma Subramaniam, 27 ( second left) and her husband
S. Sockalingam, 31 (right), with the present of their children,
Kanagaraj, 8 (center, back) and Hisyanthini, 2 (center, front).
Both Kanagaraj and Hisyanthini are showing their birth
certificates, which does not bear the name of their father's.
Siti Hasnah Vangarama Abdullah, now 27, was in a government welfare home, Rumah Kanak-kanak in Taman Bakti, Kepala Batas, when she and several other children, some of whom were Chinese, were told by Perkim and the Penang Muslim Affairs Council to take the oath and renounce her original Hindu faith.
Born Banggarma Subramaniam, she practised Islam in the welfare home until the age of 15.
"I was more mature and realised what had happened, and started practising Hinduism again," she said in a press conference yesterday to highlight her plight.
Banggarma said ran away from the welfare home three years later, unable to cope with the stress of living in the home."
http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=40424
Clearly, the present Australian government sees people in “Centres of Islamic learning” including people dependent on “Islamic governments” for their careers, as “security experts” and allows these people to counsel them on matters of security including Australia’s policies with other countries on matters related to security. This is clearly a dangerous sign of things to come not only to Australians, but to non-Muslim populations and non-Muslim governments in Asia.
An excellent article that asks so many pertinent questions of our "elite", Ghandian. I look forward to more of the same. (I have taught at ANU, so I have a keen interest in this). The section I quoted is worthy of a thesis in itself; what chance one coming from the ANU or any of our dumbed-down, PC institutes of higher conformity?
How any person, charged with the security and wellbeing of this nation, could skip blithely past evidence such as this, is beyond me. However, we have abundant confirmation of an intellectual ‘lightweightism’ from both sides of politics, which sets itself up against logic and fact and sides with emotionalism and popularism.
None has struck me, for sheer dismissive arrogance, harder then Laurie Ferguson who, despite the obvious credentials of our writers, (after all, the National Library doesn’t archive nonsense) declared that he considered himself far better informed on islam then any of us and his “take” was that we were bigots and xenophobes, an odium to his good self and his fellows! His final comment was that we would be, therefore, summarily dismissed, both from any answers from him or any ongoing debate. Not that there is any debate!!
The same dishonesty is being played out as we speak, in the ETS debacle and the manipulations it involves. With poltroons like this at the wheel, where is can the ship of fools go, except onto the rocks?
Great to have you on board. Please keep writing and informing us and other members of the public.
It's alarming how Islamic centres are proliferating on campus. As you say, CAIS would not indulge in any activities such as a critical study of the consequences of Political Islam around the world. And political Islam is the only thing that we kuffars need to concern ourselves with. Muslims can pray and ablute how they like - it does not concern us, just as how Jews, Hindus, Jains etc pray does not concern those who do not follow those particular religions.
But we must be concerned with how political Islam impacts upon us and upon Australia. It is there to establish a worldwide Calliphate and to destroy democracy. We must not tolerate a fascistic totalitarian system which will end freedoms of speech, thought and religion.
Maikeru ,
A center for Islamic religious studies that is heavily funded by Saudi Arabia? sounds suspicious to me too. Maybe that's because it IS suspicious.
Geoff Dickson
Yes, it does seem that Islamic depts have influenced our politicians. That and the loads of cash that are doled out to compliant ministers and ex-ministers.
"There is not a single country in the world where non-muslims are allowed to integrate into muslim countries."
That's because Islam is superior and must dominate. Coming to the West very very soon if we don't all get off our backsides. Now is not the time for apathy.
"How the muslims love to distort history and the truth."
They are already re-writing our school and uni textbooks, while we smile sweetly and murmur words about the richness of diversity.
Gandhian Gautama
"Iam actually surprised that the Saudi support for these lobbying centres are not investigated by the media."
I'm not. Papers like The Age get much of their advertising revenue from Arab sources - Etihad, Emirates, Qatar airlines etc - so go along with the Islamic narrative. The media, with a few honourable exceptions, have been completely corrupted by Islamic money.
Scary about the Malaysian lady rom the Malaysian consulate. Even more scary is the amount of Muslims in our immigration and other government depts.
Geoff Dickson,
The Turks successfully "assimilated" the Armenians during WW1. That's the only sort of assimilation they practice.
siennna ,
Doesn't seem like islam and marxism are much into reciprocity!
Gary Rumain
I would love to see Islam banned in the West. It's the only way we will be safe.
Not a bad idea to turn the tables and get them to pay jizya etc. As you say, give them a nice taste of their own medicine.
Thiagan ,
The Islamic record towards Hindus is absolutely horrific. I was sickened when I read MA Khan's book, "Islamic Jihad". It's one of the many accounts that we Westerners are mostly unaware of.
Blue Heeler
With Islamists like Waleed Aly involved in our security, we should be very very afraid.
Anyone know how to write Arabic? Some apt verses from the koran or slogans like "arselifters go home" in Arabic.
1) Taxpayers and customers are paying for some of their mosques and ablution places, some of which are used for nefarious purposes, or simply for quietly smoking dope during working hours, from what I have heard.
2) Their ablutions use gallons upon gallons of water, five times a day, when we are in a drought and the rest of us cannot wash our cars and take short showers and carry buckets to our gardens.
And that's just the start of what annoys me!
Ghandian: I have a friend in that department (CAIS) in the ANU, doing a PhD, or I did until I said I was concerned about methods of Islamization in the African world in an email. Didn't hear from her again. Maybe they check her emails. No doubt her PhD will be a fun read.
When exposes like this are written there is usually an attempt to silence the messenger - or to say that the 'tone' of what is being said is not right. Well here the messenger is safely hidden in cyberspace and there is no 'tone ' to criticise - just the facts to ponder. The facts in this expose speak for themselves and it is disgusting that ANU academics and others allow themselves to be used in this way.
http://www.parliamentofreligions2009.org/
I can't understand what this course has to do with Australia and banking and finance?
There are 3 recent articles on this site (links below).
Each article has many references and videos which may help you.
Basically, Islamic Finance is a device to fund Jihad (when boiled down) and is a subterfuge as it pretends to be interest free money but in fact interest is hidden.
Sharia Finance Update No.2 (02/12/09)
http://www.islammonitor.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3106:sharia-finance-update-no2&catid=185&Itemid=59
Sharia Finance Update No.1 (12/10/09)
http://www.islammonitor.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2910&Itemid=96
STOP Sharia Compliant Finance (08/08/09)
http://www.islammonitor.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2670&Itemid=96
"A religion not at peace with it self will never teach peace."
So true. Of course, it isn't a religion at all in reality, but a bloodthirsty death cult.
Let's hope that just as it lives by the sword, it will quickly die by the sword and not take too many of us with it.
Gary Rumain
The Parliament of the World Religions is a travesty. Roughly a third of the speakers are Muslim, and the rest are no doubt bowing low in order to respect Islam.
Why it is called a Parliament is beyond me. It should be called "Propaganda Machine to subjugate All Other Religions to Islam." This would more aptly describe what is happening.
Renee ,
"I'd be prepared to relocate anywhere in Australia to a university that hasn't been brainwashed by the socialist communist agenda."
I don't think there is anywhere in Australia left untouched. Maybe there should be more private universities which are real centres of learning. But they would have to be staffed by academics committed to telling the truth and objective exploration and most academics have succumbed to groupspeak by now.
Imagine a university teaching about the real Islam. And the real climate change. And how communist utopias are really hellholes.
Can't see it happening in my day.
La Trobe University's degree in Master of Islamic Banking and Finance should be exposed for what it is - one of the many pronged attacks on the Western democratic system, which it intends to replace by sharia.
Geoff Dickson ,
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Basically, Islamic Finance is a device to fund Jihad."
Yep, that about sums it up!
The tragedy is that we fund these Islamic brainwashing and propaganda centres!. The pro-Islamic lies that issue from them are given credance because they come from a university!
They are also places for Muslim employment in cushy jobs selling Islam and in the provision of easy PhD's ---just write nice stuff about Islam and have it assessed by a Muslim or Muslim apologist and 'hey presto' PhD in Islam and you become an instant authority on Islam and can give those so informative talks on Islam for a 'small' fee! Remember we pay for it!
Remember, Muslims cannot criticise Islam and clearly agree with its sick ideology or they wouldn't be Muslim. Muslims cannot be employed in such centres if they are seriously intending to do a critical analysis of Islam...but they're NOT doing any such assessment!
The provision of such centres, the funding by Islamic groups plus the immense funding from Australia along with the provision of separate toilets/washrooms/prayer rooms etc for Muslims while others don't receive the same is clear discrimination against others. Universities involved should be sued for such discrimination and for creating 'unequal' learning environments including creating environments that via the clear promotion of Islam, make others eg those who have fled Islamic persecution, apostates from Islam, women, those who know what Islam is etc UNSAFE and THREATENED!
Monash has even given land and money to build a mosque....no such provision is made for all other religious groups!
Where's my 'safety' room to run to when Muslims are on the rampage for some 'offense' or just venting some hatred of filthy kuffars!!
Such centres for Islam are at the forefront of the Islamization of Australia so of course they are 'well funded.'
as for Tim fisher--I don't even want to start!
Why it is called a Parliament is beyond me. It should be called "Propaganda Machine to subjugate All Other Religions to Islam." This would more aptly describe what is happening.
Yes, that's what it appears to be. I wonder if there'll be protesters? Or just the usual gaggle of dhimmi journalists?
I haven't been following events too closely recently with the run up to Christmas, but I think it was the usual gaggle of dhimmi journalists. Geraldine Doogue devoted her Compass programme to the Parliament last night, but fortunately I didn't watch it - it would have raised my blood pressure too much!
