MeowCanuck: The pastors weren't persecuted for their religion, though. It was for their repeated offenses for blatantly disregarding public health orders, not because they were Christian.
When members of one religious group are arrested and harassed for practicing their faith and
others aren't, that is very much a religious issue, wouldn't you say? Again, the pastors were politically, forcefully and disproportionately prosecuted, whereas the mosques and pro-Palestine protesters got off scott-free. Do you really not see the problem, let alone the gross double standards here?
I believe they're working on it. Not that your or my thoughts on this matter as this is an Australian issue that should be solved by Australian people.
No one is claiming otherwise. My point remains made by virtue of the very lack of provision for religious discrimination.
He wasn't fired for his religious beliefs, but dismissed on the grounds of gross misconduct. It's because his bosses told him to teach the new curriculum and he actively disobeyed orders and voiced dissent in meetings. He could've refused or quit out of protest, but instead he actively undermined the policy.
Do pardon my French, and please don't take this as directed at you personally, but that's bovine manure. It's sophisticating around the issue to skirt the central point, much like
teacher who was also fired for "gross misconduct". Whereas, if you show a picture of a certain prophet, the school will fall over itself to apologize and happily throw the blasphemer to the [url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/29/fear-will-murdered-batley-teacher-tells-father-amid-worries/]wolves.
(And yes, the three matters are entirely unrelated. I mean only to illustrate that "gross misconduct" has nothing to do with it).
Prevent is a program that looks after both violent and non-violent extremism and it's up to their courts to determine if he was falsely flagged.
That's not how a non-oppressive society works. You don't need "courts" to determine if a Christian chaplain delivering a sermon about the Christian viewpoint on identity questions qualifies as extremism.
How are case proceedings irrelevant if they set precedents for other similar cases within regional jurisdictions? This is how legal systems are designed to work.
Forgive me, but it feels like you're caught up in legalese or overlooking the point. As evidenced by the search results I sent you, the ACLU is waging targeted lawfare that doesn't care about precedents, hunting for technicalities and amenable judges and returning to the fray whenever they fail to do so.
So do you have any evidence that there's systemic mistreatment investigating crimes against places of worship with different religious affiliations? Or is this your perception from news articles?
Yes, looking at events throughout the West and seeing the pattern. The double standards on hate crimes may be glossed over or outright denied by academia and secular observers, but are no less evident for it. Once again, because any vandalized mosque or synagogue immediately leads to thorough investigations, condemnation and contrition, with full mobilization of resources, self-flagellation of heads of state and stern, serious looks of TV anchors as they ominously describe the vile crimes that are oh-so inconceivable in the 21st century. Whereas the victims of anti-Christian attacks are lucky if the perpetrators are ever caught, let alone properly convicted.
Oh, and I forgot to include the source for the said "polite persecution" in my previous post. [url=Here]https://acninternational.org/religiousfreedomreport/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Executive-Summary-2021-EN-single-pages-small.pdf[/url] you go (page 38).
Hate-motivated crime is difficult to define based on different countries and their laws. In all those cases you've replied to, they were all investigated fairly to see if it was a hate crime. Like all cases, sufficient evidence must be collected before charges can be laid by prosecution.
Indeed. But only if crosses are involved. Stars and crescents earn the "hate crime" badge by default, often a priori.