Last week a former member of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the UK, Maajid Nawaz, appeared on the ABC to make several very sound points. 
"It's incorrect for we, as Muslims and generally, actually, I'd say, those on the left of centre in this debate, to insist that Islamists and jihadists have nothing to do with Islam," Nawaz said. "That's actually an exercise in dishonesty. Of course they have something to do with Islam." Nawaz continued, making a plea to Muslims in Australia. "We, as Muslims, have a task ahead of us, and that is to begin the process of adapting, of reinterpreting our scriptures for the modern day and age," he said.
"Unfortunately, many Muslims today, instead of rising to that challenge are defensive when it comes to this." Among the most defensive are Nawaz's former colleagues in Hizb ut-Tahrir, who have now denounced the singing of the Australian national anthem by schoolchildren as an act of "forced assimilation". According to Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Hamzah Quereshi, the "Australian anthem is based upon a particular view in history, it is a reading of history, and it is a statement which conforms to particular values. Now, if one does not share those values, why would they express it?"Unless they share those values, of course, they fall far outside the Australian mainstream. At which point we can only wonder why they and their families prefer living in Australia to any other nation on earth.