Muzzling Andrew Bolt

The death of debate

Andrew Bolt

Several disturbing questions are raised by this story:

The Australian Federation of ­Islamic Councils is facing mounting calls for an overhaul… A week into his new role as AFIC president, [Keysar] Trad is facing criticism over his first media ­appearance — last week’s interview with conservative columnist Andrew Bolt on Sky News.

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Mr Trad has been widely critic­ised on social media, including ­accusations that he was out of touch in propagating the idea that radicalisation and terrorism were key issues to Muslim Australians.

One prominent Muslim psych­ologist slammed his decision to be interviewed by Mr Bolt, calling for a boycott of AFIC.

Mr Trad has been asked by ­several of AFIC’s state-based constituent groups for clarification of his call for radicals to be jailed.

But Mr Trad, who was appointed to head up the embattled federation on August 3, stood by his comments, telling The Australian Muslims had a responsibility to discuss their religion, even with critics.

If Trad is attacked for even talking to me, what does that say about the willingness of some Muslims engage in genuine debate?

What does it say about many of my colleagues that I’m seen as so beyond the pale in questioning Islam? Anyone seeing my interview with Trad would have to concede we had a civil and informed discussion.

Or is the word “informed” the clue? Here is a review of what happened.

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‘One dead and 20 injured’ after bombs hit Thailand resort town of Hua Hin

 in  now in lockdown, after 2 bombs went off. At least 1 person killed and 12 more injured

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Yep. Its those “separatist rebels” again:

At least one person was killed and 20 others were injured on Thursday in a twin bomb attack in the popular Thailand resort of Hua Hin.

Foreign tourists were among those hurt by the bombs, which were hidden in two plant pots, police said.

At least four people were said to be in a critical condition last night, and  it was unclear whether any British nationals were injured in the attack.

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“Applicants from a Muslim background are strongly encouraged to apply for this position”.

Update from Andrew Bolt:

Modern “diversity”: no Buddhists or Jews may apply

This is the opposite of diversity. I mean, can Christians, Hindus, Jews or Buddhists apply?

The AFL is offering 10 “diversity trainee” positions worth $34,000 a year exclusively to Muslim youth as part of a Federal Government-funded program.

Why is the Turnbull Government promoting one faith above all others?

Mustards only. Kafirs must not apply

THE AFL is offering 10 “diversity trainee” positions worth $34,000 a year exclusively to Muslim youth as part of a Federal Government-funded program.

“To help assist Muslim young people make that step into employment, the Federal Government has provided funding support for 10 traineeships for Muslim young people to work across the AFL industry over a 12 month period to gain critical work experience and job skills.

“The AFL in turn has partnered with AFL SportsReady to offer a unique traineeship opportunity as part of the Bachar Houli Employment Program.”

Turnbull hosted the dinner at Kirribilli House. Picture: Andrew Meares/Fairfax Media
Turnbull hosting Muslim dinner at Kirribilli House.

In NSW, which is the only jurisdiction without a clear “special measures” provision in its anti-discrimination legislation, the listing reads: “Applicants from a Muslim background are strongly encouraged to apply for this position”.

NSW applicants must instead have “a demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the Muslim faith”, “a demonstrated knowledge and understanding of multicultural communities”, and “a demonstrated ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with diverse communities”.

The fulltime positions receive the National Training Wage Award plus superannuation, which comes to slightly over $34,000 for the 12 months.

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The End Of Private Halal Certification In Australia

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It is vital that those who speak the truth about Islamic halal certification and other Islamic impositions are not silenced by time-consuming and expensive court action.

Kirrawee Smith

CORRUPTION. Extortion. Price fixing. Involuntary funding of religion by unwilling consumers. Links to extremism and terrorism. It’s all about to end. The Australian Federal Government is moving to snuff out the 33 or more private halal certifiers from our food chains.

The self claimed ‘halal millionaires’ and profiteers will either need to retire, find other means to extort monies or move overseas to other unsuspecting consumer markets. One Australian halal businessman now has his eyes on wider halal prizes with offices in South America, China and Ireland.

As more governments wake up to the ‘private halal certification’ scam, with all its systemic problems there will come a global push for one internationally recognised, corruption free, halal certification standard, a singular intergovernmental trademarked logo possibly under the auspices of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) which regulates international trade.

That’s not to say there won’t be internal corruption, after all we are talking about a cultural mindset where power and money corrode moral virtues. But any internal corruption will have widespread ramifications for a body like the WTO, or any individuals or companies mixed up in it, damaging the ‘halal’ brand.

In Australia the federal government will soon set up its own singular agency, certification and trademarked stamp. This is nothing revolutionary or radical.

Every Islamic country has just one ‘halal’ agency or government department.

Australia has an unregulated mess of private businessmen and profiteering Islamic bodies whose annual reports show that millions of dollars are being bled from consumers’ pockets then redistributed to Islamic causes here and overseas. These causes range from directly funding mosques and Islamic schools in Australia and Islamic countries, to donations to Islamic charities with known links to banned terrorist organisations.

The 1981-’82  Woodward Royal Commission into the Australian Meat Industry recommended one halal government stamp, one government body. That was never implemented, resulting in the growth of an unregulated market of halal cowboys. Islamic industry players point the finger at each other, fighting for the spoils, accusing others of corruption and price fixing.

Consumer hostility is white hot with ‘boycott halal’ sites and social media sites attracting tens of thousands of followers.

Halal will never go away as long as there are Muslims. Australia benefits enormously from the halal export market. Halal itself is not the issue.

The Australian certification system is the issue, a system which was originally designed for meat exports to Islamic countries has morphed into a monster with its claws in the wallets and purses of every Australian. Over 80 per cent of our supermarket purchases is halal certified, funding Islamic causes – 80 per cent of domestic groceries funding a religion that represents two per cent of the Australian population.

Halal is a religious requirement for Muslims. The word simply means ‘permissible’ in Arabic. Halal existed for 1400 years without the need for the recently fabricated and profitable ’certification’ system.

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Hillary Clinton’s ‘Sympathy for the Muslim Brotherhood’ a ‘Disqualifier’ for the Presidency

Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policytalked with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon Wednesday about Khizr Khan, Seddique Mateen, and Huma Abedin, and how he sees the three coming together in the person of Hillary Clinton.

Gaffney said:

How do any of these folks get selected? Khizr Khan, as we’ve talked about in the past being another example. They’re obviously being recruited by the campaign. Whether they’re coming out of the blue and offering their services, or someone is identifying them saying, “Hey, this is a guy we want to use as a prop for our propaganda against whatever, against those who are critical of Hillary, against those who are running against Hillary, against those who are calling out the Muslim Brotherhood, or other Islamic supremacists.”

He went on to say, “It’s really a matter, I believe, of a concerted political warfare operation against those who are standing up for the Constitution and opposing sharia, which is what these Islamic supremacists believe. It’s God’s will, must be imposed upon Americans and everybody else, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.”

Seddique Mateen is the father of Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen and was recently pictured behind Hillary Clinton at a political rally. “You don’t get to be a prop for a presidential candidate without somebody having decided this is going to be good for the campaign,” he said.

He then stated:

Here you have Hillary, I believe, with Huma Abedin’s influence, engaged in a whole host of activities that speak to a kind of sympathy for the Muslim Brotherhood for sure and, frankly, for Islamic supremacism more generally. That ought to be on its face a disqualifier to be the next commander-in-chief of the United States.

As for Clinton’s infamous aide, Gaffney said:

“Who is Huma Abedin?” is a question I’d like to have addressed. Huma Abedin is a woman whose family business has been, for decades, with funding from Saudi Arabia through the Muslim Brotherhood, promoting so called Muslim minority affairs internationally.

And what does that mean, Steve? That means promoting the idea that Muslims should not assimilate in their host country. They should remain segregated. They should be radicalized. They should try to take down the nations in which they find themselves and transform them into Islamic republics. That’s what her dad was pursuing. That’s what her mom has been pursuing. That’s what her brother and sister have been pursuing.

And oh, by the way, Huma Abedin has been at the right hand of Hillary Clinton for over sixteen years now, and I’ve got to ask the question: When you look at what Mrs. Clinton has been doing, when you look at the record, the vaunted record, on which she is supposed to be running – when you look at the judgment that she is … the vaunted judgment that she is supposedly now qualified more than anybody else in American history to be president with, right? You got to ask yourself, that judgment, that record has been, I believe, profoundly influenced in a whole host of ways by Huma Abedin.

And when you wonder how does a Taliban supporter get next to Hillary Clinton? How does a guy who’s been promoting, through the EB-5 program – and by the way, we’ll have a paper on this, I believe, at the Center for Security Policy today, a facility that allows people who have access to money, their own or somebody else, to buy entry into the United States and a fast-track to citizenship? Not just permanent resident status, but citizenship. Do you want a Khizr Khan encouraging that kind of thing? I don’t think so.

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UK: Fist-waving mob screams ‘praise for the Prophet Muhammad’ in support of assassin

Fist-waving mob screams ‘praise for the Prophet Muhammad’ as cowardly killer is sentenced

SUPPORTERS of a cowardly Muslim knifeman who murdered a popular shop keeper raised their fists and screamed “Praise for the Prophet Muhammad” as he was jailed for life.

It never ceases to amaze my how these savages rejoice in murder and mayhem. 

Fist-waving mob screams ‘praise for the Prophet Muhammad’ as cowardly killer is sentenced
SUPPORTERS of a cowardly Muslim knifeman who murdered a popular shop keeper raised their fists and screamed “Praise for the Prophet Muhammad” as he…
EXPRESS.CO.UK|BY ZOIE O’BRIEN

 

The court heard Tanveer Ahmed, 32, travelled from Yorkshire to Glasgow to confront Asad Shah at his store before pulling out a knife and stabbing the 40-year-old over a religious spat.

Ahmed claimed to have been offended by clips Mr Shah had posted online which he said “disrespected the Prophet Muhammad”.

Just hours before he was murdered popular Mr Shah wished his Christian customers a happy Easter on Facebook.

Australian Muslim Party founder Diaa Mohamed charged over alleged fraud racket

Australian Muslim Party founder Diaa Mohamed charged over alleged fraud racket

The founder of the Australian Muslim Party is facing criminal charges after allegedly carrying out a lucrative fraud racket worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Political hopeful and western Sydney businessman Diaa Mohamed was arrested and charged with nine fraud offences in May following a lengthy and wide-ranging NSW Police probe.

The 35-year-old’s case is due on Wednesday to come before Parramatta Local Court, where an additional drug supply charge will be laid.

It is understood the charge stems from cocaine allegedly found at Mr Mohamed’s home during a search warrant. Police will also present him with further fraud charges.

Police will allege Mr Mohamed and four others set up fake businesses and applied for loans through a company that loaned funds to purchase business equipment.

The fraud allegedly ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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In other news:
Australian charities at risk of being exploited ‘to fund terror’

Australian not-for-profit organisations, including charities, are at risk of being used to fund terrorism overseas, a major report has warned.

The alert comes only days after the Australian government suspended aid to World Vision in the Palestinian territories after the head of the agency’s Gaza branch was ­arrested for allegedly funnelling aid money to the military wing of terrorist group Hamas.

The director of World ­Vision’s Gaza branch, Mohammed el-Halabi.

 Nobody gets past Hamas in Gaza.  All charities or NGO’s are being fleeced by Hamas. Stop supporting the terrorist racketeers!

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PuffHo Islamopropagandist Lies, Downplays Sharia Law to Make It Acceptable

Sharia is a scary word because sharia is scary.

The supremacist tenets of sharia law inform the creed apartheid, gender apartheid, Islamic Jew-hatred, codified bigotry, misogyny, free speech prohibitions and homophobia inherent in Islamic law. Sharia is scary because it is punitive, supremacist, racist and misogynist.

But Ansari says it’s scary because “for starters, it’s short and easy to pronounce. When you add the word ‘creeping’ in front of it, it starts to look even creepier. Especially since American people know very little, or nothing, about Islam, according to a Pew Research Poll.” She adds: “The word ‘Sharia Law’ has Americans conjure up images of guys with turbans.”

No, sharia law conjures up the images of girls murdered in honor killings, beheadings, slaughters of gays, non-Muslims, apostates, and secular Muslims, whippings, floggings, amputations, and public hangings commanded in Islamic law. “Guys with turbans”? Hardly.

It further erodes Ansari’s argument that she evokes the Sikhs. Sikhs have been brutally persecuted under the boot of Islam. Her article includes a picture of the actor and fashion designer Waris Ahluwalia, who is not a Muslim and follows a different religion called Sikhism. Waris is Sikh. I repeat, Waris is not Muslim, he is Sikh. But he wears a turban, so for Ansari’s purposes he must be Muslim, and he probably follows Sharia Law. Except that again, he is Sikh, not Muslim.

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Islamic Schools Should All Be Shut Down

Any child growing up in a country as free and full of opportunity as Australia should be allowed to partake in sport and music, writes Rita Panahi.
Any child growing up in a country as free and full of opportunity as Australia should be allowed to partake in sport and music, writes Rita Panahi.
Islamic education methods need to be more closely scrutinised, writes Rita Panahi

IT’S time we took a closer look at the conduct and curriculum of Islamic schools.

There are around 30,000 Australian children enrolled in Islamic schools across the country and they deserve better than to have their education corrupted by religious doctrine that intrudes on every facet of their school life.

Meanwhile, gutless government bureaucrats look the other way instead of subjecting these institutions to the same scrutiny faced by other public and faith-based schools. Of course there will be religious instruction in a religious school but that theology, whether it’s Islam, Catholicism or Christianity, should not interfere with other subjects to the point it completely compromises what students are taught.

More questions need to be asked about Islamic education, writes Rita Panahi.

Denying children the opportunity to learn music in defiance of Australian guidelines, or discouraging girls to take part in sporting events because they may “lose their virginity”, is simply not acceptable. Nor are secondary school science classes on reproduction that barely mention sexual intercourse but include three pages from the Koran.

Religious doctrine should not be allowed to undermine the syllabus or make children abide by backward beliefs that are at odds with Australian values.

Can you imagine the outcry if it was a Christian or Catholic college principal who claimed they’d never had a gay student in their school?

And, yet when the principal of Al-Faisal College, Ghazwa Khan, made that claim there was barely a whimper from hypersensitive activists who would normally rail against any hint of anti-LGBTQI sentiment.

The principal of Al-Faisal College, Ghazwa Khan, says the school has never had a gay student.

Not only is the claim a statistical impossibility, particularly given the fact there are around 2800 students currently enrolled at Al-Faisal, but it speaks of a deep intolerance towards homosexuality.

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This is not a “crisis”, this is jihad

MAX HASTINGS:

The crisis is so grave that we need a minister for migration

Another minister  will not fix this. Britain needs a minister for jihad. And a minister for the hijra. This is not  a “crisis”, this is about self-preservation. This is western civilisation on its last legs.

Sending home Polish plumbers was never what all this was about.

Britain is to leave the EU, and a substantial proportion of those who voted for this did so because they want much tighter control of immigration.

Indeed, if there is one aspiration that unites most of the British people in these divided days, it is this. But how can it be accomplished?

So far, all we really know about Brexit is that it means Brexit. Detail is absent.

That is why we should welcome a pamphlet published this week by David Goodhart, of the think-tank Policy Exchange, which offers some practical proposals for curbing Britain’s soaring population.

The Italian Navy ship Bettica on patrol in the Mediterranean where it rescued 870 migrants in the Sicilian Channel
The Italian Navy ship Bettica on patrol in the Mediterranean where it rescued 870 migrants in the Sicilian Channel

He writes: ‘It would be hard to justify the disruption of leaving the single market if the headline net immigration figure did not fall below 200,000 a year’ — from the current 330,000.

Here, he makes an honest start by acknowledging that it is neither possible nor desirable to reduce the number of incomers to zero.

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We need workers with special skills, workers for the NHS and welfare services, for catering and tourism.

But we do not need — or want — the vast numbers currently coming, and here is Goodhart’s shopping list of ideas for regaining control of Britain’s borders.

The vast numbers currently coming are undesirable welfare seekers. They are unassimilable savages who will never be able to contribute anything valuable to civilised society.

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