What if your ‘lived experience’ is attending a mosque five times a day? By The Spectator Australia.

The left loves to fetishise so-called ‘lived experiences’. The idea is that there is something unique that ‘normal’ people can never comprehend if you have the ‘lived experience’ of being, for instance, gay, or transgender, black or whatever.

But the opposite is never considered: what if your ‘lived experience’ is attending a mosque five times a day in Mogadishu and having it drummed into you since birth that certain other people are vermin who deserve to die? How healthy is it for a society to import large numbers of people who may have been immersed in such a ‘lived experience’? And why do we imagine that just because our ‘lived experience’ is one of tolerating other lifestyles, the same holds true for everyone else? At what point is social cohesion severely damaged if those we allow to come to our shores have no desire to be ‘socially cohesive’ themselves?

These issues have been worsened by the refusal of the Albanese government to admit, let alone to confront, them. On what planet, in a post-October 7 world, would you think it a great idea to suddenly grant over 3,000 visas to Gazans? …

To what extent do we allow these alien beliefs and discriminatory practices to enter our free and open society? And what to do when it dawns on us that we might have already let in too many? …

No matter how much the left-wing media here and abroad attempt to disguise the reality of the nightmare in France, and indeed in much of Europe, the public have already made up their minds. Islamic values are too often incompatible with Western democratic norms.