I love this country, it is my home and it is home for my family.

I love it because it is a beautiful place to live, it is a great place to work plus it is home to the Mighty South Sydney Rabbitohs.

Now I see myself and my family as your ordinary run of the mill Aussies, but for some reason we are expected to justify our loyalty to this country or why we live here.

Nobody has the right to proclaim themselves a better Australian than us just because of the colour of their skin or their religon, and that brings me to the demonisation of Muslims in this country.

We've had some stupid comments from some stupid polticians looking to score political points, we've had beatups from Newspapers and Television shows looking to generate more ratings, and we've had the usual shock jocks preaching to us about how Muslims don't fit in.

In this country most Muslim voices are ignored, instead the media tends to focus its attention towards the people and self-appointed leaders who will give them a great headline.

Fact of the matter is that there hundreds of Mosques in Australia and hundreds of Imams, yet we only see 2 or 3 different ones in our media- and you guessed it they are the ones making the controversial comments.

So why does the media do it? Simple- it sells newspapers and generates ratings, I mean what better tool than fear of the unknown.

I'm not just playing the victim here, far from it, but next time a person with a Muslim name does something wrong I want you to count how many times the word Muslim is used to describe that person and then when a person with a Christian name does something wrong count how many times the word Christian is used.

Truth be told, us Muslims aren't really that exciting our lives are quite mundane- work, family, and home.