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Of blame deflected

Opinion.

Waleed Aly says our responses to terrorism are not about the loss of innocent life—we only think it is.  He also claims terrorism is just a perpetual irritant. Aly would have us believe that while terrorism is an inconvenient pain in the butt, it kills relatively few people and is not any kind of existential threat. Such thinking conveniently ignores the London bombings, the killing of over 3,000 innocent people at the World Trade Centre, the two Bali bombings and a string of terrorist bombings and thwarted terrorism threats here in Australia.

Aly, is an Austraian-born Muslim who thinks multiculturalism doesn't lead to parallel societies, or isolated sub-cultures, as he calls them.  He doesn't believe there is any link between multiculturalism and terrorism.  This claim, of course, dismisses the experience of countries such as France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, and lately England, all of which are either legislating, or about to legislate, the end of multiculturalism. Aly completely ignores the words of Lee Kuan Yew, the father of modern Singapore, who said that only Muslims refused to be integrated into the Singaporean society.

The Muslim problem

This perspective on a touchy subject comes from a young, Aboriginal man who feels need to speak out about a looming problem. GC.Ed.@L.

Prior to the 70s it was the Aboriginal Problem. Mainstream society was concerned that the Aboriginal population would over-take those of non-Indigenous Australians. Some politicians were concerned that politics would be side-tracked and made to pander to Aboriginal Affairs until kingdom come and essentially under-valuing non-Indigenous Aussies. 

Every generation has a Youth Problem, "those trousers are too creased!", "that music is too loud", and the golden-oldie "what's those things in your ears?". Well as a nation we now have the Muslim Problem. Society goes through eras where a particular people are placed under the social, political and academic micro-scope. Which, given Australia's rather cagey history (i.e. White Australia Policy) when it comes to new comers, can be understood. It is a part of growing up, it is a part of educating ourselves on those who come to our shores. It is the process in which we compare old values and perceived values and then decide on maintaining or re-forging a national identity.

In the late 60s we did just that, and grew to be a nation inclusive and non-discriminatory (in theory) towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. One would suss out someone on one's door-step attempting to enter the home, and so I say people hoping to come here should be sussed out likewise by society.

British PM - head in sand

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has called the brutal murder of a soldier by two suspected Islamists on a London street an attack on Britain and a betrayal of Islam.

He added: "There is absolutely no justification for these acts and the fault for them lies solely and purely with the sickening individuals who carried out this appalling attack."

Those "sickening individuals" Mr. Cameron were violent Islamists! Wake up people! Gc.Ed.@L.

Read full account: Via UK Telegraph

The Netherlands to Abandon Multiculturalism

It appears the Netherlands are set to Abandon the longstanding policy of Multiculturalism. 

Read More: http://conservativepapers.com/news/2013/01/26/the-netherlands-to-abandon-multiculturalism/#.UXpS17X-FIF

Not even true to themselves

According to many observers Brother Razvi brings new meaning to the term, "honour among thieves." His apology for the no-show of his key attraction, the speaker who would attract the bulk of paying attendees, came but a day before kick-off.

Advertised as "Australian Islamic Peace Conference" stalls were offered to other church groups.

Dutch politician Geert Wilders received no such easy ride with the media. GC.Ed.-at-Large.

BROTHER Waseem Razvi, the organiser of the Australian Islamic Peace Conference, opened the event in front of about 2000 faithful yesterday with two apologies.

Advertised keynote speaker Sheik Abdul Rahman al-Sudais -- the imam of the Grand Mosque of Mecca, whose invitation had drawn opprobrium from Jewish, Christian and interfaith groups concerned about his calls for the annihilation of the Jews and descriptions of them as "pigs and monkeys" -- could not make the Melbourne conference "for personal reasons".

Some Christians who had approval to hire a stall giving away Bibles at the Islamic ‘Peace Conference’ at the Melbourne Showgrounds this weekend have had this approval withdrawn. The Christians, from various churches around Melbourne, had been offered a 6 x 3 metre stall for $600. The Islamic Research and Educational Academy (IREA) contacted them last night and said that the Bible stall could not go ahead because it would be “unsafe”. 

Read more:http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/sheik-a-no-show-at-islamic-event-for-personal-reasons/story-e6frg6nf-1226598628474

With Wilders on the road to woe

Quadrant Online's Roger Franklin and Tony Thomas give an excellent report on Geert Wilders' Melbourne speech. In the confusion of much leftist-biased reporting with cherry-picked, out-of-context quotes, this article will be refreshing to all who still cherish the truth. GC.Ed.

Beside the Hume Highway heading north from Melbourne and just before you pass the Ford plant, a striking billboard towers above the traffic. It pictures a bearded chap in a Muslim prayer cap, arms wide and palms open in a Messiah-style invitation to attend an upcoming “peace conference and exhibition” at which a certain Dr Waseem Razvi will be the chief speaker.

Read more:http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2013/02/with-wilders-on-the-road-to-woe

Gutless sellouts should be remembered

Where are our spineless politicians when Australia needs to stand up, defend democracy, and rail against militant Muslims? Geert Wilbers is an elected member of Dutch Parliament, not a criminal and as such deserves the right to speak in Australia. His audience should be the deciders of his delivery, certainly not commercial enterprises driven by fear. Threats from a handful of rabid militants is not good enough.

The Dutch politician's tour has moved beyond freedom to speak in Australia, it is now a shameful surrender of law and order by our politicians and our police to a violent few who have discovered exactly how to hijack a society of 22.6 million. What will be their next assault upon majority rights? The international media will run with this story and based on Europe's experience of violent Islamists it will be a gutless image of the "fair go" land down under. Shame, shame! GC.Ed.

...What is not contested is that a dangerous Islamic fringe is active in numerous countries. Wilders will be accompanied to Australia by five Dutch police officers. He lives under permanent 24-hour security.

Fear has arrived here before him. On Wednesday, the organiser of the tour, Debbie Robinson, told me yet another venue had cancelled and there had been another act of corporate suppression directed at the tour.

'This morning the venue in Sydney cancelled. There was a meltdown. The events manager at the venue was screaming. Right now we have no Sydney venue.''

It was not her only setback. ''Yesterday PayPal froze the funds in the account that is processing ticket sales. They will not tell me why. All staff keep saying is the account is under review. It's been like an Orwellian nightmare.''

This follows a refusal by Westpac to allow her to set up a payment system and refusal by more than a dozen venues to host a Wilders event, citing security concerns.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/fear-doesnt-need-a-visa-and-its-on-tour-already-20130206-2dyki.html#ixzz2K9adJCuP

President Morsi in his finest hour

Egyptian President Morsi had strong views about Israelis when he made this interview in 2010. He referred to Jews as Bloodsuckers and "Descendants of Apes andPigs.” GC.Ed.