* Just for laughs:
* Single minded Islamo-agit prop Yusuf Irfan lectures us once again about the difference between ‘genuine free speech’ (which means anything Muslims say to vilify unbelievers) and ‘hate speech’ – Â for Yusuf anything critical unbelievers say about Islam is is automatically “hate-speech”- and while he’s at it, he tells us who is permitted to speak in Oz (Islam good) anything against Islam= BAAAD! Who guessed it?
            
        Just wait: one day I will be the immigration minister, you filthy kuffars…!
It’s hard to know how best to approach hate-mongers seeking to grace our shores. For years, genuine free speech (as opposed to hate-speech) advocates and anti-anti-Semites agonised over how best to respond to visa applications by Holocaust-denier David Irving. Should they lobby for Irving’s visa to be denied? Or should they allow him in and hope good sense will prevail and people listen to him and realise just how loopy he really is?
No doubt similar concerns will be relevant should the likes of Raphael Israeli plan a further visit to Australia. The Howard government’s attitude to foreign hate-speech was somewhat inconsistent, refusing visas to some thick-Sheiks whilst funding Mark Steyn to lecture us all on how dirty smelly Mozzlems are turning Europe into Eurabia (a decision even Andrew Bolt opposed). Even the illustrious folk at Quadrant have hosted a Eurabia lecture by a man who continues to insist Barack Obama is telling lies about his religious heritage.
         
          Irving good, Griffin bad
And now I’m wondering if it’s a good idea to write about Nick Griffin, leader of the far-Right British National Party (formerly known as the British National Front), accepting an invitation to visit Australia. Am I giving him attention he simply doesn’t deserve? Am I giving his tour some much-needed free advertising?
Far-right fruitcakes like Griffin no longer sound like fruitcakes. Whilst previously extremely racist and anti-Semitic, Griffin’s party has shown a greater degree of political sophistication in its rhetoric. In the lead-up to the last UK Council elections, the BNP almost overnight transformed itself into a pro-Israel party, with one British Jewish leader quoted as saying the BNP’s website is one of the most Zionist of any British political party. Griffin has jumped on the same sophisticated smear casting bandwagon as the dozen pundits recently exposed by a US-based media watchdog.
(Of course, that didn’t stop the BNP website from writing this eulogy of the late Austrian neo-Nazi leader Jorg Haider.)
Racial and sectarian hatred is becoming a booming political industry. Mainstream conservative parties and their pollsters-cum-advisers are happy to engage in minority-bashing. Far-Right parties are taking advantage of this conservative posturing. The articulate likes of Griffin need to be watched. But how do we combat the fires of hatred without adding oxygen or turning them into free-speech martyrs? And how should the Immigration Minister exercise his discretion in relation to Griffin’s visa application?
Far right fruitcakes? Yeah, that Mark Steyn’s a really menace to society.
Between the constant cries of “islamophobia” and the loony left advocating all kinds of nonsense it’s safe to say that the only ones who are far out fruitcakes are those on the left.
Another fan, more publicity. Too bad only about three people read his blog.
Yusuf whom????
Darrin, I think the number of Irf’s readers is at least 100 times the number of people who voted for you in the last Local Government elections.
Hmmm … that still isn’t that much.
“Irfan”?
Is that short for Irate Fanatic?
If Hindus are ‘mushrik’, what are we?
The Arabic word mushrik in Islamic theology means ‘one who associates a worldly object with Divine power’. If the Hindus are mushrik in this sense, so are we, the majority of Muslims in the subcontinent. They associate with God Almighty numerous idols put on pedestals and we, numerous saints of antiquity buried in their graves. They worship God through the medium of images seen as sublime symbols, we petition dead saints to intercede with God to grant us earthly and heavenly favours. If one way is shirk, so is the other. If despite all this Islam remains a “monotheistic” faith, so does Hinduism, says Professor Tahir Mahmood, Member, Law commission of India and former Chairman, National Minorities Commission.
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