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Protecting Muslim thuggery from criticism
Gerard Jackson
Tracy Ong and John Stapleton, two of Rupert Murdoch’s resident brain surgeons, conjured up a sob story defending Lebanese Muslim thugs that painted NSW Liberal Party leader Peter Debnam as cynical race-baiter (Libs play race card on beach stabbings, 6 February). Poor old Debnam’s offence was to claim that Labor-controlled Waverley Council and local police had been easy on these thugs.
Ong and Stapleton dismissed Debenham’s accusation with their own claim that the local police had been effective. This was based on a comment by the manager of Ravesi’s restaurant. Gee, you can’t get more scientific than that, can you? Now this is the very same Stapleton who contributed to a story that described the Muslim inspired riots as a “race-hate war, which began as a battle against young white males over use of suburban beaches” (Now churches are targeted, 15 December 2005).
For years Lebanese Muslim thug had been terrorising locals until they decided to fight back. But according to this pair of geniuses resisting Muslim thuggery is racist. What was not pointed out that it was the beating up of three life-savers by this scum that finally triggered the riot and not some attempt by local neo-Nazis to drive non-whites of the beach.
Perhaps this pair would like to explain that if the riots were really racist how the so-called victims (the poor old Muslims are always victims) were only Lebanese Muslims? How come Chinese, Cambodians, Indians, Islanders, Maoris or anyone else who was not of obvious European descent was not involved? And while they are at it, they might explain why Muslims are the only members of the Lebanese community that cause any trouble.
Ong and Stapleton are not the only lefty journalists who are trying to whitewash Lebanese Muslim thugs. Natalie O'Brien was particularly sympathetic to these thugs, portraying them as misunderstood immigrants who were complaining that Australians “just want us to be shit-kickers and cleaners” and that they are made to feel like “Palestinians in an Australian Jewish state” (The night angry ethnic mobs rallied and demanded blood, 6 February).
Since WWII hundreds of thousands of immigrants have made Australia their home, including tens of thousands of Lebanese Christians. They found jobs, started families, bought homes and called themselves Australians. Their children and grand children are to be found at every level of Australian society and in every profession. The recent Chinese inflow is a shining example of hardworking immigrants who lifted themselves up and whose children are rapidly making their mark in all of the professions.
But what do we get from a bunch of whiny Lebanese Muslims? Thuggery, hate and intolerance. While the children of Asian immigrants have become patriotic Australians and are industriously who are making their mark in the community, these Muslim Neanderthals are complaining that Australians are denying them the jobs they deserve. That they treat them the way Jews treat Palestinians.
Note the imagery. Israel is some kind of Nazi state that beats up on the poor old Muslim. These morons are too bigoted to realise that Israel is an illustrious example of what a free people can achieve under the most adverse conditions. And it’s the only place in the Middle East whose Muslim citizens are completely free from oppression. (I’m hoping Iraq will shortly make that two).
What a sorry bunch of vicious losers.
These religious bigots are a political and social canker who despise our way of life. Shahram Akbarzadeh, senior lecturer in global politics at Monash University, unintentionally revealed this when he said that the “reproduction of caricatures of the prophet Mohammed as a terrorist in the European press goes against this foundation [free speech]” (The Australian, 7 February ).
This raises two points: Firstly, Mohammed was not caricatured as a terrorist. If the The Australian had had the moral courage to publish the cartoons the paper’s readers would have known that Akbarzadeh was lying. Moreover, the same cartoons that Mr Akbarzadeh would have us believe devote Muslims find deeply offensive were published last October in
Al Fagr — an Egyptian newspaper. Not only that, we now know one of the pictures imams used to provoke the riots was a fake.
Secondly, no idea, religious or otherwise, is free from criticism, even if the criticism is of the most base kind. In our society only living individuals. Examine Akbarzadeh’s argument a little more closely and you will see that it is really a call for blasphemy laws that would suppress criticism of Islam. He let this slip when he said that Victoria’s “legal code has been updated to cover religious vilification in response to a surge in inter-religious tension”.
Akbarzadeh is lying again. There was no “inter-religious tension” in Victoria. The only tension has been caused by fanatical Muslims using Bracks’ Muslim blasphemy law to persecute two Christians. It says much about Akbarzadeh’s commitment to free speech that he sees nothing wrong with this picture. The same goes for NSW. It was Lebanese Muslim thugs who provoked the riots, not Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs, Hindus, Jews, animists or Zoroastrians. This is a fact that the great majority of lefty journalists are trying to suppress, with a little help from the likes of Akbarzadeh.
Britain is a tragic example of where multicultural lunacy leads to the encouragement of Muslim hate and intolerance. A recent poll revealed that
Nearly two fifths (37 per cent) believe that the Jewish community in Britain is a legitimate target 'as part of the ongoing struggle for justice in the Middle East'. Moreover, only 52 per cent think that the state of Israel has the right to exist, with 30 per cent disagreeing, a big minority. One in six of all Muslims questioned thinks suicide bombings can sometimes be justified in Israel, though many fewer (7 per cent) say the same about Britain. This is broadly comparable to the number justifying suicide attacks in ICM and YouGov polls of British Muslims after the July 7 attacks…
12 per cent of 18 to 24-year-old Muslims believe that suicide bombings can be justified here, and 21 per cent in Israel. A fifth of all Muslims, and a quarter of men, say suicide attacks against the military can be justified, though only 7 per cent say this about civilians.
As they say in the good ol’ U S of A: “Throw the bums out!”
Bracks’ religious tolerance laws
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Gerard Jackson is Brookes’ economics editor
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Monday 12 February 2006