The hole she dug for herself is deep enough to bury her, but ABC-tards are bitter clingers when it comes to African cultural enrichment:
Yassmin Abdel-Magied has lost her little ABC gig – but may be offered a new tax-funded job.
SHOW GOES, YASSMIN STAYS
Tim Blair, The Daily Telegraph
A “sweeping restructure” is apparently to blame:
The ABC is axing the program hosted by Yassmin Abdel-Magied a month after the television presenter and activist sparked outrage over her Anzac Day comments.
Australia Wide is set to be shelved in the coming weeks as part of the national broadcaster’s sweeping restructure. As well as programming changes, as many as 200 jobs are being slashed in order to reinvest $50 million a year back into regional and online content.
But Yassmin fans shouldn’t despair:
The ABC is discussing future opportunities with Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied, despite axing the show she hosts.
Abdel-Mageid recorded 7 months before Anzac Day, “If I (rubbished) the Anzacs & Gallipoli I would get crucified”
“… I don’t know, like I feel like sometimes people get annoyed if you
want to claim anything for yourself or want to say well actually something is sacred umm… and then, and, but I’m not able to take it the other way around. So if I went around saying well, the ANZACS were kinda rubbish, you know like Gallipoli, what is that, I would get crucified. I mean look at me, I’m a brown Muslim woman. Like imagine if I went around hating on Gallipoli? People would die. I would, like, but… anything that is deem… that I deem as sacred, is fair game..”
And a tremendous debt of gratitude to Seeker of Truth for pointing out the location and contents of that recording.
Bye-bye Yassmin
ABC axes Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s Australia Wide
An ABC spokeswoman told The Guardian the show’s been canned as part of a restructure. “ABC News is changing how we deliver long-form local journalism in order to better match our audience’s needs,” the spokeswoman said.
They have a long way to go.
Abdel-Magied whinges she was “treated unfairly” over Anzac post. Let’s take a look at that treatment…….
Let’s be clear: Abdel-Magied’s comments about Anzac Day were inappropriate, diabolical and unacceptable. She does not deserve a public platform to spew her hatred from, or public support.
“Lest We Forget (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine …),” she wrote on social media before hastily deleting.
It was a clear case of Anzac versus activist.
Dignity versus deluded.
Honoured versus horrendous.
And, it will forever be clear who deserves respect.
The ABC has denied that cancellation of the program is related to her Anzac Day comments. “This decision has been under consideration for some time and was not to do with any controversy over presenter Yassmin Abdel-Magied,” the ABC spokeswoman continued.
Interesting timing, indeed.
Bear in mind, the news came hours before a Senate estimates committee. The issue would have been raised – loudly.
Have blushes been saved?
Fraught questioning cancelled?
Too late.
Yes, Senator Eric Abtez would have torn shreds. Rightly so.
SMH reports, “ABC staff still believe Abdel-Magied’s comments all but sealed the program’s fate.”
If it takes your previously loyal social media followers, a furious nation and livid politicians, to spell out for you why your comments were utterly unacceptable, you’re lecturing an invisible crowd.
It’s time the ABC got its act together – this should just be the start.
The last show will air on July 1.
No, Yassmin Abdel-Magied is not “feisty”.
No, she was treated “unfairly”.
No, it had nothing to do with “racism” or lack of “diversity”.
Quite simply, she was wrong.| The Spectator Australia
Update:
The ABC is discussing future opportunities with Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied, despite axing the show she hosts.
The ABC is discussing future opportunities with Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied, despite axing the show she hosts.
Ms Abdel-Magied generated a furore last month with her controversial Anzac Day post: “Lest We Forget (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine …).”
But the national broadcaster says the decision to scrap her Australia Wide show was unrelated to the backlash over her comments.
“ABC News is changing how we deliver long-form local journalism in order to better match our audience’s needs,” a spokeswoman said.
“Instead of concentrating on one weekly broadcast slot, we will be using our best local and state-based longer-form pieces across the news channel, the extended weekend 7pm news and online.
“As a result, Australia Wide has not been renewed for another season.”
The axing of the show, which Ms Abdel-Magied has hosted since last year, is part of a broader ABC restructure, which will see as many as 200 jobs cut in a bid to reinvest $50 million back into regional and online content.
“This decision has been under consideration for some time and was not to do with any controversy over presenter Yassmin Abdel-Magied,” the ABC spokeswoman said.
“Yassmin was aware the program was under review, and we are discussing with her future opportunities at the ABC.”
Australia Wide screens on ABC News 24 on Saturday mornings and ABC TV on Sundays.
The show’s blurb touts Ms Abdel-Magied presenting “stories from the people and places that make ups the Australian experience — from the city streets to the urban centres & beyond, we look behind the stories that make the news,” it says.
On Monday the Sudanese-Australian mechanical engineer told 60 school students at a Sydney Writers Festival workshop she was treated unfairly over the Anzac Day post.
Ms Abdel-Magied has been contacted for comment.
The rights of a Maggot
Hidden in the last paragraph of The Australian’s story below is this new little gem.
Who is anyone to tell me what it means to be Australian?,” she said. “The only people that have the rights to this land are indigenous people. So if it’s an indigenous person saying to me ‘girl, take a step back’ then I will listen to that.
The only people that have the rights to this land are indigenous?
She’ll only listen to indigenes giving her advice?
God help us that Julie Bishop continues to have confidence in this woman advising the government.
‘I was treated unfairly over Anzac post’
“I posted an apology very quickly afterwards, but one of our senior cabinet members said ‘Well Yassmin is un-Australian for saying this’,” Abdel-Magied told the group of Year 9 students from Dapto High School.
“Then somebody asked well, another dude wrote a whole article about how Anzac Day is problematic, what do you think about that? And the same person who just criticised me as unAustralian said ‘Well he’s allowed to say what he thinks’. Why is he allowed to say what he thinks and I’m not — I don’t know.”
It was not clear to whom she was referring.
“Who is anyone to tell me what it means to be Australian?,” she said. “The only people that have the rights to this land are indigenous people. So if it’s an indigenous person saying to me ‘girl, take a step back’ then I will listen to that. But … I’m an Australian citizen and, unless we get to the point where I get deported for misdemeanours, then I’m going to say what I want and you just have to walk away.”
ENDS
Treated unfairly hey.
8 May 2017
Abdel-Magied stays on government boards – Bishop advises Abetz “concerns” removing her might inflame Muslim tensions
Officials were concerned that removing her from the board could ignite further social and ethnic divisions at a time when intelligence agencies were stressing the need to engage with the Muslim community.
Ms Bishops was convinced that no good would be served by Ms Abdel Magied’s removal and that instead she would be “mentored”.
Making a declaration is meaningless to many. It’s just a means to get citizenship. A Muslim’s first allegiance is to Islam. So, Yassmin, just about everyone is entitled to tell you what it means to be Australian. One thing I can assure you – you are not, no matter what it says on your passport.
Lest we forget
9/11, Beslan, Nord Ost Theatre, Domodedovo International Airport , Volgograd-1 station , Bali, Madrid, London Tube, Nice, Berlin, Stockholm etc
But we certainly should forget clown faced Abdel-Magied
Good riddance to the ugly token muslim