Andrew Bolt:
Are Jews really safer if Ali gets his way with me?
I would caution my Jewish friends, especially those fighting Tony Abbott’s free speech reforms, to interpret this warning correctly – as a plea for laws to muzzle those of us who have warned against the rise of Islamist extremism:
Afroz Ali, the president of the al-Ghazzali Centre for Islamic Sciences and Human Development and founding member of the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change, warned on his Facebook page yesterday that Tony Abbott and Attorney-General George Brandis were trying to “have their racist ways to protect prejudiced sophists like Andrew Bolt and such ilk of hate-speech spreaders”.
He cautioned that if 18C was repealed, it would become “illegal to make any hate speech against Jews, but fully legal to make hate speech against the indigenous people of Australia, for example, and get away with it as an excuse of ‘freedom of speech’ “.
Jewish community leaders should consider: if I am to be muzzled by someone like Ali,moderate though he may be said to be, are they safer or more exposed?














