UK: Notorious jihadi disrupts ‘The Kerala Story’, depicting forced conversions through “love jihad”

by Christina McIntosh

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Useful Idiots rush to protect and show solidarity with the poor persecuted Muslims while Muslims – completely unmolllified – sneer at their efforts and screech “Islamophobia!” at the very hint of a burqa-and-niqab ban.  (In the meeantime, nobody is in any hurry to give much publicity to the cases of 1400 groomed-and-raped non-Muslim schoolgirls in just one provincial town in the UK, or 200 kidnapped, raped, forcibly “covered” and sold-as-slaves schoolgirls – nearly all of them Christian – in northern Nigeria, every girl whether in Nigeria or the UK a victim of classical Muslim kuffar-hatred and misogyny).  It’s all a most unedifying spectacle.

As breathlessly reported by the ABC.  Natalie Whiting’s report on the mind-bogglingly-stupid “Women In Solidarity With Hijabs” campaign, first.

“Women In Solidarity With Hiajbs Campaign Aims to Unite Muslim and Non-Muslim Australians’.

Good luck with that. Because Islam itself implacably divides non-Muslims from Muslims. Dar al Islam, Dar Al Harb. – CM

‘A new social media campaign encouraging women to take a photo of themselves wearing a headscarf to show support for Muslim women and religious freedom has been launched.

“Religious freedom”. Somebody tell these fools just exactly how much “religious freedom” any non-Muslim minority has or has had in any sharia-suffused Muslim entity, anywhere, ever. Somebody tell them about a Christian woman called Asia Bibi who was – falsely- accused by her demurely behijabbed Muslim female co-workers (they said she had “blasphemed” against Mohammed) and was therefore lynched, and arrested, and charged, and “tried” by a Pakistani Muslim court and condemned to death. Those who are so eager to wear hijab – the uniform of the female portion of the Ummah or Mohammedan Mob or Allah Gang, the Slave Rag that is both a symbol of the woman’s subjection to Muslim males and also a declaration of loyalty to the Ummah, which Ummah intends that Islam shall dominate, everywhere on earth, and Muslims rule, everywhere on earth – would do far better to spare a thought for those whom Muslims, in so many places, are actively persecuting.  They could take a permanent marker and draw on their foreheads or on the inside of their wrists a Coptic cross such as the Copts tattoo on their children so that even if kidnapped and “disappeared” and force-“converted” by Muslims those children will always know that their origins were Christian; or they could paint on the door of their house or church or business the letter “N” in Arabic such as Muslims have painted on Christian homes and businesses in Iraq, to render them all the more conveniently visible to the Islamic State jihadis; or they could don an “I Love Israel” T-shirt, or a Hebrew “Chai” pendant or a Star of David badge or pendant and show a bit of solidarity with the Jews who, all over Western Europe, are now afraid to go out in public in anything that visibly identifies them as Jewish, because of the number of threats and actual attacks Jews there have suffered from… overwhelmingly…Muslims. – CM

‘Women In Solidarity With Hijabs” (WISH) began nine days ago and has already atracted almost 18,000 “likes” on Facebook.

“It comes amid ongoing debate about banning the burkas and in an environment where reports of racial (sic:  arrrgh! accuracy, please, O ABC!  at least, if you must, call it bigotry, not racism! this has nothing to do with race, it has to do with ideology, with the ideas inside people’s heads, ideas that – unlike skin colour or bone structure – are not coded into their DNA – CM) attacks upon M uslim women are being made on a daily basis.

I have not heard of any actual police investigations, yet.  I might be wrong; but if there were any cases of harassment of Muslim women that had been deemed worthy to merit a police investigation, you can bet your boots the ABC would be screaming about it from the hilltops. Since this is not yet happening, I reserve the right to get out my salt-spoon.- CM

‘Mariam Veiszadeh is a lawyer and community advocate who came to Australia as a refugee from Afghanistan.

From Afghanistan. Supposedly fleeing the Taliban, who were wont to kill women who did not wear the burqa. – CM

‘She started the WISH campaign and said she had been overwhelmed by the response.

“It’s been absolutely amazing”, she said. “Every time we share these images the response that we get from everybody is just amazing”.

I bet she’s pleased to discover just how many Useful Idiots and eagerly-grovelling dhimmis reside in Australia.  – CM

“Not only do Australian Muslim women appreciate it, everybody is incredibly grateful that this mere gesture of sharing photos has a much broader impact on the community”.

“It’s bringing it back to basics and saying we have a lot more in common than we have differences“.

Ms Veiszadeh: I assume you are aware of Quran 48: 29.  I assume you are aware of all the verses that forbid the befriending of non-Muslims by Muslims, unless it is done for reasons of temporary expedience.  The verses that denigrate and abuse non-Muslims qua non-Muslims. I seem to recall there is a verse that speaks of “enmity and hatred” – the enmity and hatred a good, pious Muslim is supposed to feel and show toward the non-Muslim.  There is a hadith that speaks of smiling at some people “although our hearts hate them”.  What do you make of those, Ms Veiszadeh? Are you going to tell your naive non-Muslim associated and dupes about those? – CM

‘Ms Veiszadeh said the WISH campaign was especially important amid debate about wearing the burka or niqab.

Three parliamentarians – two senators, and one MP – have, very sensibly, proposed that those face-concealing, identity-hiding garments should – for good and sufficient reasons of public safety – be banned. I support that proposal. – CM

“Australian Muslim women are already bearing the brunt of Islamophobia  (the use of this nonsense word, Ms Veiszadeh, identifies you, my dear, as my enemy – CM) and I suspect the incidents will only increase when the debate is hotting up about the burka”, Ms Veiszadeh said.

‘New security rules introduced in Australian Parliament ban people with facial coverings from sitting in the public gallery. Instead they have to sit in enclosed galleries, where school children commonly sit.

They should not be permitted to wear that ugly and menacing mask, which aggressively declares the wearer’s total rejection of the principle of reciprocity, anywhere in public in this country.  Not inside Parliament House and not in any other public place in Australia, either. Period. Not in the streets, not in the shops, not in the public buildings, not in the park or at the pool or on the beach or anywhere else in the public square, and not while driving on the roads (for one thing, it impairs peripheral vision and hearing, thus endangering not only the wearer of the mask but every other person she may encounter).  Ban the Slave Mask; as the French have done. But then – which the French, alas have not done – enforce it, to the letter.– CM

‘Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said he finds the garment confronting and wished it was not worn, but said the Government could not tell people how to dress.

???? Really??? We arrest “streakers”. And…this is about public safety.  It’s a law enforcement issue.Criminals have committed crimes whilst concealing their identity beneath a burqa or niqab. Wanted jihad gangsters have slipped the net by hiding beneath a burqa or niqab. A slave-masked Muslim woman, in Australia, evaded conviction for a crime, because her face had been concealed at the time the offence was committed and her identity could not, therefore, be firmly established.  If it becomes “normal” for there to be a section of society – steadily increasing in number, as has happened in France and in the UK – that basically goes about in disguise, can anyone pretend that criminals (whether Muslim or non-Muslim) will not take advantage? 

A further point, that everyone is studiously ignoring and that the likes of Ms Veiszaeh are hoping we won’t look into, is that there are a whole lot of cases, both from within Muslim lands, but also from non-Muslim lands, that show us that Muslims feel fully entitled to tell other people – whether Muslim or non-Muslim – how to dress, and to enforce that demand by threats, and even by murdering those who refuse to comply. Here is a link to a story that appeared just now at Robert Spencer’s Jihadwatch website – the story of a Muslim woman in majority-Infidel Georgia in the Caucasus, whose brother stabbed her with intent to kill, in order to punish her for not wearing the headscarf.  

I encourage readers to click on that link, because Mr Spencer has usefully provided links to other, similar stories that have appeared in the press, from various countries, Muslim and non-Muslim, in the course of the past ten years. For example, the story of one Aqsa Parvez, in Canada, who refused to wear the hijab, and was murdered by her Muslim father. Or the story of a Miss Al Safar, resident in the UK. After she took off the hijab, her Muslim cousin rang her at home and threatened to kill her and to harm her family. “Listen, Alya, I am warning you, bif by the 19th of Juhne you are not wearing the hijab back, I am warning you, I will kill you…I am giving you ten days. You brought shame to your family…”.  Lucky for Miss Al Safar, in her particular case her family instead of siding with the cousin sided with her, and took the cousin to court.  Or the story of a – non-Muslim – woman working in a pharmacy in a heavily-Islamified part of London, who “was told to dress more modesty and wear a veil, or the shop would be boycotted.  When she went to the media to talk about the abuse she suffered, a man later entered the pharmacy and told her, “If you keep doing these things, we are going to kill you.” And now, back to our Ms Veiszadeh in Australia, busy reversing reality. – CM

“Ms Veiszadeh said that sentiment was dangerous.

“The timing of this debate is incredibly irresponsible”, she said.

“For our Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, to give credibility to the likes of Jacqui Lambie and Cory Bernardi at a time when community tensions are already heightened, is incredibly irresponsible.”

Is that a threat, Ms Veiszadeh??  Because, behind the sly pretense that you fear that awful Aussie bigots might bash or kill a Muslim woman (if you do, you are being hysterical) I think I detect a threat.  How dare you, Ms Veiszadeh, here in this country, where you, as a woman, are far, far freer and safer than you ever were in Afghanistan, dare to tell us what and when to do or say.  If you do not like it in Australia, then by all means return to wonderful, wonderful 99.9 % Muslim Afghanistan, where those pesky non-Muslims – the vanishingly-small percentage that remain – know their place…under the Muslim boot and whip.  Shall I ask you exactly how it was that the province that used to be called Kafiristan became “Nuristan”???– CM

‘Adelaide woman wears hijab for a week.

‘Kae Leaney is a Christian woman who manages the Welcome Centre in Adelaide – a drop-in centre for refugees, asylum seekers and new arrivals.

‘She decided to wear the hijab for a week in solidarity with her Muslim friends who were feeling threatened in the current climate of fear.

What? Isn’t it non-Muslim Aussies who should be feeling threatened? Who found out, a couple of weeks ago, that there were Muslims in Australia who were threatening to behead them, as per the instructions issued in surah 47, verse 4, of the Quran? Who may be wondering whether, given that the authorities uncovered one lot of folks plotting to behead, there might not be..others, who have not yet come to the attention of ASIO or the AFP? Where’s the sympathy and solidarity with the candidates-for-beheading…namely, every single identifiably-Infidel Australian?  – CM

‘She said the majority of the reactions she received were positive, but not all.

Thank goodness that some people retain their commonsense and are nonplussed by the sight of a chicken parading about dressed up as a fox, so as to show solidarity with foxes. –CM

“People [are] asking if now I was wearing a hijab does that mean I support ISIS as well, and really silly connections like that”, she said.

Not a silly connection at all.  Islamic State have mandated hijab for women – all women, Muslim and non-Muslim – in all regions that they control. And although we hear day in and day out that Islamic State is not Islamic, that they have nothing to do with Islam, the merest glance at what they say and what they do and a comparison with the texts of Islam and the historic record of the deeds of Muslims engaged in jihad is sufficient to show that Islamic State is Muslim to the backbone. Your wearing of the hijab, Ms Leaney, is as if, in 1938, a woman in Britain had donned the Swastika in solidarity with Nazi sympathisers whilst proclaiming her view that people like that horrid Mr Churchill were being just so mean and suspicious and unfair toward the poor innocent Nazis. – CM

“I walked into a petrol station and someone asked me if I was Muslim and I said “No”, because I’m wearing it as a show of solidarity, I’m not pretending to be of a faith that I’m not”.

“When I answered “No”, they said, well what are you wearing that for, then? You look like one of them.”

I wonder what she would have said, if an Aussie infidlel woman had said to her, “You do realize, of course, my dear, that if you and I are standing next to each other and a Muslim bloke – like those chaps in that plot they just busted – comes along looking for someone to behead, he’ll pick me, because I am not wearing hijab, and he’ll think you are a Muslim, and leave you alone?  So which of us is the coward, sucking up to a gang of bullies, and which is the brave woman?”– CM

‘She said the week had given her an incredible insight into what her friends go through.

“We need the voice of love and compassion to drown out that of fear and prejudice“, Ms Leaney said. “If this is a public and practical way that we can do that, then I think we need to do that”.

Chicken tells other chickens: show the foxes how much we love them! Jew in 1935 Germany tells other Jews; “Hug a Nazi!”– CM

“I think all of us as Australians need to band together and do something to show that love will win over fear”.

But the Muslims are not satisfied. Whatever the dhimmis do, to flatter and placate, is never enough. – CM

‘There has been some concern, however, that the WISH campaign could draw attention away from the real issue.

“Aicha Marhfour, a freelance journalist from Melbourne, said media attention should be focused on Muslim women actually being attacked or threatened.

Has anything happened that is significant enough to warrant a complaint to police and the launching of investigations?  Because I’m not seeing any reports to that effect, which makes me wonder just how real some of those complaints actually are.  Our press both publicly and privately owned is so eager to peddle the Muslim narrative, that if there had been any genuinely serious attacks – say, a physical assault – I’m sure we’d never be hearing the end of it. The wailing victim’s face (or, I suppose, her blankly intimidating mask, if she were a wearer of the Slave Mask) would be plastered all over our TV and on the front pages of every newspaper. – CM

“One of the key issues that I had and I think a lot of people also shared, is that they’re well-meaning, but I think it’s more important to hear from Muslims as opposed to people trying to feel our pain”, she said.

“Our pain”?  What of the pain of the two policemen who were damn near killed by a frenzied mohammedthug?  Has any Muslim woman been stabbed like that? No. – CM

She was also concerned the campaign bordered on what she called cultural tourism.

That bit’s true enough, actually. Though I’d call it “cultural slumming.”– CM

“But you’re going to take off that scarf and you’re going to move back into your life, which is free from the threats and intimidation that Muslim women regularly do face“.

From whom, milady? From those dreadful Islamophobic Australian infidels?  Or…given that Muslims carry out 90 percent of “honor” murders worldwide, and given that a British study of family violence (mentioned by Australian journalist Geraldine Brooks in her book “Nine Parts of Desire”) discovered that UK women married to Muslim men were eight times more likely to be killed by their spouses, than any other women in Britain, and given the stories I linked above, of Muslim women and girls who were either threatened or actually killed, by other Muslims, for not wearing hijab, and given that the Quran explicitly commands men to beat women from whom they fear “rebellion”..might not the real threats and intimidation that many Muslim women encounter, be coming from…other Muslims? 

The second story involves more hand-wringing over the claimed suffering of Muslim women, at whom the Evil Aussie Infidels are daringto look funny, or ask pointed questions, because of their proudly-flaunted Allah Gang Uniform. Philippa McDonald reporting, in tandem with a Muslim “minder”, one Mohamed Taha.

“No-one sits next to me any more”: Australian Muslim women on how their lives have changed”.

Some Australian infidels, and not before time, are getting suspicious – how horrible! – CM

“Muslim Australians have reported an increase in discrimination and abuse in the wake of counter-terrorism raids in major Australian cities and the raising of the national terror alert to “high”.

Well?  If there had been a series of major mafia “busts”, surely it would be a bit rich if people went about in T-shirt saying, “I Swear the Omerta” or “I LUV the Mafia” or “Married to the Mob”, and then complained that people were looking at them funny.– CM

“Women who wear traditional Islamic headscarfs (i.e Allah Gang colours – CM) have been the targets of numerous hate attacks.

Numerous? So far as I can see, nothing that has yet triggered a police investigation. I wonder how many of these claims are being invented, and then circulated amongst the Ummah in Australia, in order to feed the feeling of being “persecuted”?  See, for example, the story that is repeated – and unquestioningly believed, and reported as fact – within the following program:

IF it happened it was wrong; but…did it?  CM

‘Fears of Islamic extremism (that is: the entirely fact-based and rational fear that there may be jihad terror raids launched from within the Ummah colonies inside Australia – CM) have led to debate about Islamic full-body veils such as burkas, with Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi and Palmer United Senator Jacqui Lambie among those calling for bans, and new rules at Parliament House prohibiting the clothing from certain areas.

And what’s so awful about that?  – CM

‘The ABC spoke to five Muslim women on the streets of Sydney about what they choose to wear and their experiences in the current political and social climate.

‘Manaya Chaouk 27, social worker and mother, Guildford.

“What happened to freedom of expression? (Let’s discuss Asia Bibi and Theo Van Gogh and the sacralised example of the assassination of Asma Bint Marwan, shall we?– CM)  Freedom of religion? (Shall we discuss the apostasy law of Islam, madame? Let’s consider the recent case of Meriam nee Ibrahim, Mrs Daniel Wani, and the case of Sayeed Abedini, apostate from Islam, languishing in prison in Iran, and the case of Lina Joy, in Malaysia, eh? It’s a bit rich for any card-carrying Muslim to whine about “religious freedom” when there is no such thing for any non-Muslim minority in any Muslim dominated country, and when any Muslim who leaves Islam is in real danger of being killed as per the instructions in the canonical texts. – CM)  We’re already a target“.

Oh, cry me a river.  Who has been targeting whom, all over the world, for years?  It wasn’t Infidel gangs grooming and raping and pimping underage Muslim girls, in Britain; it was Muslim gangs grooming and raping and pimping underage non-Muslim girls.  See here:

“Easy Meat: Multiculturalism, Islam, and Child Sex Slavery”.

Oh, and I could mention all the Syrian and Iraqi Christian girls and Yazidi girls and women whom Muslim jihadis have been targeting for kidnapping, multiple rape, and even murder, in Syria and Iraq.  Or the gross abuse and discrimination regularly meted out by Muslims toward Hindus and Christians in Pakistan, with multiple kidnappings, rapes and forced “conversion” of women and girls, even of married women and of minor girls.  There are plenty of examples mentioned in this report from the British Pakistani Christian Association.

http://britishpakistanichristian.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/the-targeting-of-minority-others-in.html

And here’s one particular case, to drive it home:

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/kidnapped-raped-and-forced-to-flee-christian-experiences-in-pakistan/

Now, let’s consider what Muslims have been doing for years and years and years, to Christian girls and women, in Egypt.

http://markdurie.blogspot.com/2009/11/abduction-and-islamization-of-christian.html

http://www.csi-int.org/pdfs/csi_coptic_report.pdf

“A pioneering new report released by Christian Solidarity International and The Coptic Foundation for Human Rights details the abduction, rape, forced marriage and forced islamization of Coptic women and girls in Egypt.”

Now, after that grim reality check, let’s go back to our collection of complaining Muslimahs in Australian, whose main gripe seems to be that people are giving them funny looks, or challenging them about their Gang membership.

“Now the Prime Minister is helping the bigots and bogans take out their anger on us.

The first lot of raids and arrests happened more than two weeks ago.  Then there were more raids, to foil that Muslim plot to behead Aussie infidels. Then a Muslim man who tried to kill two policemen, got shot. Then another Muslim was arrested, for sending rather a lot of money to Islamic State jihadis.  And in all that time, not one mosque or Muslim house or business has been attacked by a mob, or smashed up, or burnt down. There have been no riots, no lynchings. There has been just one thoroughly-law-abiding protest rally complaining specifically about a proposal to build a mosque in a provincial town.  So: what is this woman complaining about? She’s acting as if mosques have been blown up and cars and houses set fire and persons lynched in the streets. Or as if she thinks this is going to happen any moment now. She’s being hysterical. She’s projecting onto Aussie non-Muslims the mentality of the Mohammedan Rage Boy who was, for example, much in evidence across the world when a Danish newspaper dared to publish some really rather comical and truth-telling cartoons. – CM

“He’s trying to instil fear in people.”

When I hear that Muslim men were planning to snatch random Aussie infidels – people like me –  and behead them and video the beheadings, I feel fear.  And anger. And both feelings are fact-based, and rational; especially when I am aware of the beheading verse in the Quran, 47.4, and of how that has been obeyed by pious Muslims thousands or even millions of times throughout the history of jihad, the towers of infidel skulls that have been piled up all along the pathway of jihad, from the time of Mohammed unto the present day. And especially when I am aware of the beheading of Lee Rigby, by two Quran-quoting converts to Islam, and the recent beheading of a poor non-Muslim woman in Oklahoma, USA, by her convert-to-Islam former co-worker, and the beheading of a little old grannie in London, also by a recent convert to Islam. – CM

“People look [at] me the wrong way”.

Oh, the humanity! Someone gave me a funny look… because I was wearing the uniform of the Beheading Gang.- CM

“They say silly things. I’ve heard a lot of stories and seen a lot of stories.  For any woman to be attacked, that’s not right. There’s still a lot of racism.  Now the bigots have come out of hiding. I’m afraid now. I’m looking over my shoulder whenever I leave my local area.

I, too, my dear, am looking over my shoulder. Because I am not necessarily assuming that ASIO and the AFP are aware of and have stopped all the Muslim men who might have decided to make a beheading video to share with their fellow Muslims. – CM

“That’s wrong, I shouldn’t feel like that.  No-one should feel like that”.

Ordinary Aussie infidels, of all ages and both sexes, ought not to have to worry about whether they might end up as the sacrificial victim, being subjected to ritual human sacrifice for the delectation of the worshippers of allah, the Arab god of blood and war. If we had never permitted even one Muslim into Australia, we would not now have to feel that worry, that fear, to anything like the same extent. We might still worry about raids upon our coast, carried out by Muslims from across the sea, sooner or later, even as the northern shores of the Mediterranean had to fear the Barbary Pirates; but we would not have to fear the enemy within our gates.– CM

‘Randa Jada, 32, accountant and mother, Granville.

“I was born here.  Now that all this is happening (And whose fault is that? Don’t make plots, don’t get arrested. Don’t attack police, don’t get shot. Don’t send money to folks who engage in extortion, rape, kidnapping, enslavement and mass murder…don’t get arrested for it. – CM) I’ve been getting a lot of dirty looks.

And you’ve never indulged in a dirty look or two, aimed at those whom your unholy book instructs you to hate and to harm? Those whom, in the Hadith, you are instructed to “push to the narrowest part of the road”?- CM

“I find it very concerning. They’re ignorant”.

No, it may be that they are not ignrorant; that they have read your Quran, and perhaps explored the Sira and the Hadiths, and other Muslim texts, and felt the hatred and open aggression toward Infidels like themselves hissing off every page like heat off a fresh flow of lava.  It may be that they have visited Youtube, or MEMRI, and listened to hysterical Muslim clerics, from all over the Muslim world, standing in mosques and ranting and raving and cursing, telling outright and obvious lies, and issuing bloodcurdling threats against the Infidel.  It may be that they have had personal dealings with a duplicitous and malevolent Muslim who has harmed them and theirs in some way (for example by business fraud), or that they have visited a Muslim land, and observed Muslim maltreatment of the resident infidel minorities, or have spoken with the non-Muslim refugees from those Muslim lands.  It may be that, if female and unislamically dressed, they have been hissed and sworn at and ordered to “cover up”, or called “sharmuta” (whore) by Muslim females in hijab, or by sinister Muslim men exuding sexual aggression of the creepiest sort. – CM

“What’s their reason to hate us?”

If you seriously cannot see why an Aussie infidel might exhibit wariness toward a Muslim woman who is flaunting the Gang Colours, you have rocks in your head, milady.- CM

“No-one sits next to me anymore, people move their kids away from my kids, people don’t communicate as much. It’s sad”.

Wear the colours of the Beheading Gang, get looked at funny by those who are the designated prey of the beheaders, really, are you surprised?  And now we hear from a sinister-looking niqabette (click on the link, you’ll see the picture).

“I wear [the niqab] because I love it.

Suuuuure.  Maybe you love the game of “I can see you, you can’t see me”??   But if no-one can see your facial expression, don’t complain if no-one smiles at you. – CM

“I do this to please Allah [God]. It’s my choice.

If you are choosing it freely, you are aggressively declaring your allegiance to the sharia system and therefore your hostile and destructive intent toward me and mine, and toward our laws and customs and our whole society.   But there are many women in the world for whom wearing that thing is no choice at all; they get arrested, flogged, doused with acid or killed, if they refuse.  Don’t pretend you don’t know about them. – CM

I’ve been wearing it for one and a half years now.”

“The Prime Minister has to be very careful what he says.

Is that a threat, milady?– CM

“It’s very divisive. It’s all fear-mongering. He’s ruining any chance of bringing the Muslim comunity and wider community together”.

If you subscribe to classical Islam, milady, as your decision to wear the full Slave Mask strongly suggests, then I am sure you are committed to the imposition of the Sharia, and of Muslim rule, worldwide; the assault upon and ultimate destruction of the Dar al Harb (which includes Infidel Australia) by Dar al Islam, which is you. So spare me this nonsense about togetherness.– CM

“Why do we get prosecuted for wearing this?

Prosecuted? It hasn’t yet been banned; though it ought to be.  Presumably she means “persecuted”. How? Funny looks??  From people who have every right to fear and be watchful, given that women in burkas in Afghanistan have been used as human bombs.  Fact-based wariness is not “persecution”. –CM

“We’re productive citizens of Australia”.

I’m not so sure about that. You might be, at the moment.  But it wasn’t long after Muslims settled en masse in Australia, that we had to create the specialised “Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad”, which is kept very, very busy. – CM

“For any woman who is attacked, it’s disgusting. Veil or no veil, Muslim or non-Muslim”.

Funny looks are not an “attack”. You do realize that if they can’t see your face, they can’t know whether you are smiling or scowling, happy or sad?  That they can’t even hear your voice properly, if it’s muffled behind thick cloth? So why are you acting so offended, when people act intimidated?  And although you finish by professing offence at insults toward non-Muslims, I wish the reporters had thought to quiz you about the infamous Sheikh Catmeat and what, precisely, you thought about non-Muslim unislamically-dressed women, especially if they appear in the streets of heavily-islamised Auburn. – CM

‘Maryam Ali, 56, grandmother of eight, Berala.

‘Everybody has got a choice.

Suuuure.  But see the links I provided at the top of this story, which indicate that there is a significant amount of coercion among Muslims both in Muslim and non-Muslim countries, associated with the wearing of the Muslim female Slave Rag. – CM

“It shouldn’t be a problem what others choose to wear.”

But what if a particular garment is the functional equivalent of the KKK hood and robe, or a swastika armband? – A declaration of allegiance to and membership in an Organisation that is explicitly and – in many places, actively – hostile and aggressive toward all non-members? – CM

“I have been discriminated [against] because of my head covering.

Details, please. – CM

“Australian culture is accepting. Let’s respect that”.

Australians have been very, very naive and uninformed. Now, many of them are making the effort to inform themselves about Islam; and the more they learn, especially when they encounter the raw unmediated source texts of Islam, and the evidence of the continuity between those texts and observable Muslim behaviour in many parts of the world, the less willing they are to continue as they have done, unthinkingly accommodating Muslim demands and bending to the will of Muslims. They are waking up, becoming alarmed, and starting to dig in their heels; even pushing back, as witness the fact that three Federal politicians are proposing the most elementary of measures, a ban on the identity-concealing burka and niqab. – CM

‘Hayfa Bakour, 17, Student, Greenacre.

‘The reported (or rumoured? – CM) targeting [of Muslim women] is a bit scary.  It actually makes me more scared to walk around.  Nothing has happened to me directly.

“Now my mum always says make sure you’re never alone, always leave the library with someone, with one of my girlfriends.  When I was younger, I thought I was lucky to live in Australia.

“But now hearing all these terrible stories of women being abused is really confronting”.

“Terrible stories”.  What’s your standard for “terrible”?  I would say, being bashed, or raped (like those thousands of under-age or barely-legal infidel girls in the UK, “groomed” and pimped and tormented by Muslim gangs) or kidnapped and sold as a slave, like  those Nigerian and Yazidi girls.  Mere verbal confrontation, as seems to have happened a few times (though the stories are very vague) is unpleasant, yes, and might qualify as “abusive language” or “disorderly conduct”; following a stranger and acting aggressively – two claimed cases, though seemingly not under police investigation – is also a crime; but neither action is in the same league as, say, throwing acid in someone’s face or stabbing or shooting her because she’s not wearing a veil. – CM