Scott Sawyer's column "Ignorance when debating Islam helps extremism" stirred up a hornet's nest and prompted Sunshine Coast Safe Communities president Ron Hutchins to pen the following response.

THE journalists at the Sunshine Coast Daily had an opportunity to listen to and judge the policies of Australian Liberty Alliance at the launch in January, however, Scott Sawyer has chosen instead to write an article using the inappropriate remarks of a Facebook visitor to a public page.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Ignorance when debating Islam helps extremism

He has then followed up with a personal attack on the ALA candidate Bernie Gaynor and a slur on Angry Anderson.

Surely the policies of the party are the points to be argued.

Mr Sawyer is ready to use the words "opportunistic" and "short-sighted" based on what premise?

Is this not what he himself is doing; taking remarks from a Facebook page instead of referring to ALA's policies?

We need to ask Scott Sawyer, who is glossing over the abhorrent sexual abuse by priests?

Surely the Royal Commission into Sexual Abuse of Minors in the Catholic Church and investigations into similar abuses in other church groups, government departments and schools is proof no-one is glossing over what amounts to abhorrent abuse.

Scott Sawyer gives us the tired rant about the Crusaders, the Klu Klux Klan and Westboro Baptists.

Does Scott really think that this moral relativism excuses the deadly terrorist attacks by an extreme minority?

Is this Scott's attempt at "cherry-picking the evidence" that he accuses others of?

There is no refuting the terror being waged on innocent civilians all around the world by this "extreme minority" that has the ability to destroy democracies, remove freedoms, damage economies, create divisions and wage genocide.

Lebanon is an example of this danger. A majority was not needed to achieve the destruction of The Paris of the East.

The latest attack in Pakistan specifically targeted to "kill and maim" Christian women and children was carried out in a country where, according to the latest poll, only 28% are opposed to ISIS.

A minority? Really?

The latest attacks in Paris and Brussels were also carried out by a small number of "Islamic extremists" protected from the authorities by their communities.

Every fatal Islamic terror attack since 9/11 have a common denominator - Islam - which codifies and instructs violence.

This is irrefutable fact.

The young Muslim referred to by Scott Sawyer, who may have problems assimilating, will find his biggest obstacle in the Koran.

It instructs him not to make friends of the non-believers because Allah will consign him to the eternal Islamic hell.

Scott speaks about Sharia Law. Often inseparable from Islam, it is a threat to Australian law and our freedoms.

The unregulated and lucrative Halal industry, the segregation of women and men in swimming pools and universities, the increase in female genital mutilation and under-age marriages are all examples of Sharia coming into our society.

In the UK, over 85 Sharia Law Courts operate in parallel with UK Law.

It is concerning that journalists with scant knowledge or learning of Islam have such strong opinions.

As admitted by Scott Sawyer, he has not been following events in Europe, nor has he read, or understood, the Koran, Hadith or Seerah.

So what makes Scott an expert and able to sit in judgement on this topic?

It is not the "moderates" or the "extremists" who define Islam - it is the clear and specific incitement to violence in over 100 verses of the Koran and the example of the warlord Prophet.

Predictably, those who have studied and understood the Islamic scriptures and history and the source of terror are consequently blamed by Scott for this terror.

Scott Sawyer now needs to explain how hiding from the truth will make it go away?