Do you agree?
Last night (July 16) residents living in Narre Warren North and Doveton almost fought with the municipal hall, and the police fought!
The reason: the city hall approved a proposal to establish mosque in these two areas.
In fact, the plan is not a day or two, as early as a few years ago, the growing Muslim group has hoped to build more mosque to meet their faith requirements.
They negotiated with government to see if they could set up mosque on Bendigo,Melton,Narre Warren North and Doveton.
（Narre Warren North）
（Doveton）
Among them, the loudest opposition is the proposal to establish mosque in Melbourne CBD.
Mayor Robert Doyle has publicly said he is very supportive of building a large mosque in Melbourne`s CBD.
"Melbourne is one of the greatest multicultural cities in the world, and it is also necessary to build a large mosque," Doyle said at the time. "the construction of a large mosque in the CBD region will complement Melbourne`s multiculturalism."
At the time, the Virginia Islam committee hoped to be able to build a large mosque with a capacity of more than 2000 people in Docklands or Hoddle St, but the proposal has not yet been followed because there are too many departments to be approved and too controversial.
However, the construction of these two mosque in the southeast region has now been approved by the City Hall.
Soon, construction of two mosque will begin here, and one of the mosque will also build a funeral room.
There, they can park the body, wash it, and then have a funeral.
When the bill was announced yesterday, 800 local opponents were aggressive and eager to work with city hall commissioners.
One of the people was so excited that he scolded the city hall committee directly.
Valentina Crnkovic, a resident, told the media directly: she is "disgusted" by the city hall resolution.
(Narre Warren North mosque effect diagram)
"at least 800 other residents are strongly opposed to the establishment of mosque here. Why did the city hall make such a decision and why didn`t they listen to the residents?"
Victoria Islam councillor speaker Adel Salman said the construction of mosque in the Casey district has led to opposition from so many residents, which I think has something to do with "mutilophobia."
"looking back on the last few years, you`ll see that this emotion is getting worse and worse now."
At yesterday`s residents` meeting, Terry Ryan, who has lived in the Casey district for 30 years, said the decision was terrible.
"now the bill is passed, but that doesn`t mean we agree. We will fight for our community to the end. The city hall did not listen to us at all."
The mosque, which will be built in Doveton, can hold about 600 followers.
Many people feel that it is not appropriate to build mosque in this area.
"I don`t have a problem with building mosque, I don`t have a problem with religion," one resident said. "but I`m very unhappy to build the funeral morgue here because it`s close to where we live."
(Narre Warren North mosque effect diagram)
In Australia, the vast majority of mosque do not actually provide funeral baths and cleaning facilities.
But for followers, it is important for them to find a mosque that can complete the process. This is also an important reason why they want to build a full-featured mosque here.
Mayor Amanda Stapledon said she thanked residents for their comments, but City Hall needed to weigh the views of both sides.
"I have met with the residents and have looked at the construction plan in its entirety," the mayor said. "all the layout and construction plans in the plan fully meet the requirements of the city hall. The constructors will do their best to make the mosque construction in line with the local environment."
(image drawn by protest)
Although the mayor had tried to explain to the public, it still aroused the strong dissatisfaction of many residents, and the crowd even appeared violence tendency, and finally had to ask the police to come forward in order to maintain the scene.
In recent years, with the increasing tension of international relationship, the policies of various countries have returned to conservative. Totalitarian religious forces are on the rise, and extreme white right-wing groups have committed heinous crimes in New Zealand.
This year`s Christchurch massacre in New Zealand killed 50 Islam followers in the hands of a far-right advocate of white supremacy.
In just a few months, Sri Lanka`s Islam extremist group retaliated in tourist attractions. Death has 290 people, one of whom extremist also studied at Swinburn University of Science and Technology in Melbourne.
The conflict has upset many Melbourne residents about building mosque in their communities for fear that similar security problems will arise in their homes.
Moreover, Melbourne people have been quite dissenting with the Sultan Muslim.
The Memba Festival disturbances in 2016, the smashing of the Ikoville Community Center in 2017, the runaway assassination of the Melbourne CBD apartment party in 2018, and the paroxysmal unrest in St Kilda often made Melbourne anxious about the Sultanate Muslim.
But in 2018, 73.5 percent of Victoria crimes were committed by native Australian and New Zealanders, according to a 2018 report.
Ethnic groups in Sudan and South Sudan account for 1.1% of crimes.
Overall, white residents have a higher crime rate.
But many people are still reluctant to take the risk of building mosque.
Netizens also have a lot of comments on this, and their opinions cannot be unified:
(is there any Muslim group that refuses to establish a Catholic church? The answer is no!)
(let you vote for the Labour Party again!)
These mosque are not approved by a "build" word, and it doesn`t matter how big it is. It looks like government is going to add a new agenda to globalization, and the common country is trying to improve the authority of people in the Western world. The Western world is accommodating all, refugee, asylum seekers, immigrants, and absorbing unsustainable people from failed countries. This will cause disaster to all Western countries. Take a look at the chaos in European countries. Look at Tommy Robinson, in England. He was sent to prison to defend his country. This is wrong!)
(similar things go on, and it won`t be long before Victoria changes its name to Mecca. )
(Herald Sun can`t be racist! What a pity)
The editor would like to hear your opinion: do you agree to the construction of mosque in these areas?
