Moonbattery on steroids
Andrew Bolt:
Why is Penny Wong demanding negotiation with Iran’s surviving leaders and Anthony Albanese saying worshipping them is just inappropriate?
Does our government understand cultures can actually clash? I’m worried, after two bizarre statements about Iran’s Islamist leaders.
First, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said mosques mourning Iran’s assassinated Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, were merely being “inappropriate”.
Then Foreign Minister Penny Wong called for a “return to diplomacy and dialogue” with Iran’s surviving leaders, as if we could compromise with such men.
I won’t list everything Khamenei and his regime have done to prove talk is useless – the Iranians they’ve massacred, the promises they’ve broken, the terrorist armies they’ve financed, the nuclear weapons they’ve worked on, the missiles they’ve now launched at 12 countries.
I’ll just quote the Islamic regime’s founder and former Supreme Leader, Ruhollah Khomeini, and Khamenei, his successor, to show it’s dangerous that mosques here mourn such men, and foolish to think we could negotiate with such a regime.
Khomeini, for instance, decreed any non-Muslim country was “the tool of Satan” and “jihad means the conquest of all non-Muslim countries”.
Killing infidels was doing them a favour: “If one kills the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him.”
Gays should be killed, and “all those against the (Islamic) revolution must disappear and quickly be executed”.
Khomeini’s moral rulings would have him jailed here: “Intercourse with a woman is not allowed unless she attains the age of nine years”, although he had “no objection in other enjoyments like touching lasciviously”.
Khamenei was hardly better. Iran still hangs gays and lets girls be married off at just 13, but even earlier if their father and a judge agreed.
He’s also declared Iran’s mission is “to erase Israel from the map of the region”, adding: “Death to America.”
The regime that survives Khamenei also continues to murder people challenging its rule.
When Iran’s women’s soccer team last week refused to sing their national anthem at their game in Brisbane, the regime’s state-controlled TV called them “wartime traitors” who “must face a definitive and severe confrontation”.
In Thursday’s game against Australia, the terrified players sang.
An officer of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corp also went on TV to warn Iranian parents “we do not want to kill your children”, but if any “utters a word that aligns with the enemy’s voice … their death sentence has been issued”.
Tell me why Wong demands “negotiation” with such men, and why Albanese says worshipping their leaders is just “inappropriate”?