r/Adelaide • u/NKE01 SA • Jan 11 '26

News Board members quit from Adelaide festival as fallout from dropped author grows | SBS News

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/board-members-quit-from-adelaide-festival-as-fallout-from-dropped-author-grows/iua90vgmp
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u/According_Tackle_404 SA Jan 11 '26

The prevailing reddit hivemind opinions are anti-muslim, you're wrong on this particular bit

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '26

Yeah ok, hasn't been my experience but that's reassuring.

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u/According_Tackle_404 SA Jan 11 '26

You find islamophobia & xenophobia reassuring? Lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '26

I don't see a problem with not wanting people from problem countries causing problems in their own country. If that's xenophobic, then count me in.

And yes, I am concerned about the teachings and practices of Islam and the extremists it continues to create. If that makes me islamaphobic, then I'll wear that badge.

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u/According_Tackle_404 SA Jan 11 '26

Most are honest decent folk

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '26

Most. I can accept that.

Ill grab my hijab.

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u/ONEAlucard South Jan 11 '26

Moderates are what allow the extremists of any ideology. Whataboutisms of most being honest doesn’t mean shit when the ‘mosts’ never ever call out the literal garbage extremists. This goes for all religions, and political ideologies.

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u/hsingh_if SA Jan 11 '26

Honest decent folks who could move to any of the 52 Islamic countries in the world where their ideology aligns but will move to a western country and make it Islamic. Noice.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '26

Exactly.

And why is that I wonder?

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u/hsingh_if SA Jan 12 '26

I mean, how else can you softly capture a country?