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Among one or two other accomplishments, the late Nelson Mandela inspired this toe-tapping tune:

UPDATE. A clear-eyed view from the Wall St Journal:

The bulk of his adult life, Nelson Mandela was a failed Marxist revolutionary and leftist icon, the Che Guevara of Africa. Then in his seventies he had the chance to govern. He chose national reconciliation over reprisal, and he thus made himself an historic and all too rare example of a wise revolutionary leader …

He started his life sentence at Robben Island prison near Cape Town a would-be Lenin. He walked out of jail on February 11, 1990—at age 71—an African Havel.

Age mellowed him. Times changed … Mandela became the biggest of African men by refusing to act like a typical African “Big Man.” He transcended his party’s history of Marxism, tribalism and violence. The continent and world were fortunate to have him.

That’s debatable.

Mandela DIDN’T murder millions. He DIDN’T become a Mugabe. What an achievement!

And Moonbats in the west praise him for not behaving like the savage they expected him to be?

The legacy of the South African Moonbat Messiah:

“The Pretoria Church Street attack on May 20, 1983 killed 19 and injured more than 200 people when a car with 40kg of explosives was detonated outside the SAAF headquarters.

Two MK cadres, who were in the car at the time, were also killed because the bomb exploded two minutes early. A huge pall of smoke rose hundreds of feet into the air as debris and bodies were strewn around the scene of the explosion. It exploded at the height of the city’s rush-hour as hundreds of people  were leaving work for the weekend. Glass and metal were catapulted into the air as shop-fronts and windows were blown out. Many passers-by had limbs amputated by the flying debris. Others bled to death. In his book “Long Walk to Freedom”, Nelson Mandela wrote that as a leading member of the ANC’s executive committee, he had “personally signed off” in approving these acts of terrorism. This is the horror which Mandela had “signed off” for while he was in prison – convicted for other acts of terrorism after the Rivonia trial. The late SA president PW Botha told Mandela in 1985 that he could be a free man as long as he did just one thing: ‘publicly renounce violence’. Mandela refused.”

Professor James Allan:

THIS government’s commitment to repeal at least parts of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, the so-called anti-hate speech laws that were used against Andrew Bolt, raises at least four crucial issues.

First, any commitment to free speech is a commitment to allowing people to say and write things you may not like, that you may detest, that you may disagree with and find offensive. If the words spoken are words we all agree with and find congenial, then there is no need for any commitment to free speech…

The next point about the repeal of these existing hate speech provisions is that they were grossly misused in the Bolt case…

The whole Bolt saga was an embarrassment to Australia’s liberal credentials…

Next, there is the democratic issue. Tony Abbott and the Coalition went to the September election with a major pledge to repeal all or most of section 18 of the act. So it is right that, having won a big majority, they do what they promised…

The fourth issue relates to the prudential aspects of running a newly elected government. George Brandis, our new Attorney-General, made plain his commitment to free-speech principles before the election. And he is clear that he will proceed with some sort of repeal…

This repeal needs to go ahead. All four aspects of this provision, the ones aimed at offending, insulting, humiliating and intimidating, they need to go. A half-hearted repeal would hardly make Brandis or the Coalition defenders of free speech and liberty. Honour your campaign pledge, Senator Brandis.

I have been particularly disappointed to be treated as collateral damage by Jewish community leaders and political players who have been demanding these illiberal laws be kept. Several have privately assured me they found the case against me a misapplication of the law or even an injustice. But not one publicly said so. Every one of them knows what a supporter I have been of the Jewish community, not just in print, yet not one publicly protested when a Jewish QC told a Jewish judge in my case something far more foul than anything I had written – that my thinking resembled that of the Nazis who drew up the Nuremberg race laws.  That obscene slur struck me as a legally sanctioned defamation.

I do, however, single out Danny Lamm for offering to speak on my behalf. I am grateful to him.

But I believe the Jewish community – or those members involved in public advocacy – should reflect on whether principle here has been trashed for advantage by representatives who should know better.

Continue reading The Liberals must restore free speech, even if we have to drag them there kicking and screaming!

Because, you see, whenever non-Muslims do anything at all that smacks of opposition to Jihad, this constitutes persecution and oppression of the poor, poor Muslims.

As reported by Ean Higgins in The Australian yesterday.   

“Muslim Arrests to ‘silence’ Community”.

Kudos to Mr Higgins and the editor of The Australian for using the M-word, without qualifiers, in a headline. – CM

‘Islamic activist group Hizb ut Tahrir (‘activist group’? – now that’s a newie on me, by way of a euphemism for ‘bunch of sinister jihad-inciting-and-plotting gang bosses’ – CM) described the arrests yesterday of two Muslims (congratulations, Ean Higgins and The Australian, once again, for calling them what they are – Muslims. Just Muslims.  Bog-standard Muslims, engaging – as per Quranic instructions – in Jihad fi sabil allah – CM) alleged to have tried to join the struggle (interesting choice of words: does Mr Ean Higgins know that ‘jihad’ in Arabic equates to ‘struggle’ in English or ‘kampf’ in German? – CM) in Syria, or to have arranged for others to do so, as a bid to “intimidate and silence” the Muslim community.

Personally, I’d have preferred for these and all the other aspiring ‘soldiers of allah’ to be wafted on their way out of the country…but with their Aussie citizenship quietly and inexorably cancelled, or else a sentence of Outlaw and Exile For Life brought down upon them, as soon as it was known that they were in Syria, in the dar al Islam, back where they belong, and where they ought to be required to remain. – CM

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• Heart Surgeon Goes Jihad, Turns Homicide Bomber, Detonates “for Allah”
• Australian Copt Describes Muslim Oppression of Copts in Egypt
• Australia: Muslims tried to rob ATM to finance jihad in Syria
• Syria: “A massacre in taking place and the West cannot look on. Nations and the Pope must intervene.”

‘Hizb ut Tahrir, an international organisation (‘organisation’ is a good word, but ‘crime syndicate’ would do as well: see the following article from Russia Today on the manner in which Hizb ut Tahrir raises money for jihad:

Continue reading Hizb ut Thugs feel “oppressed” Down Under

“After nine years sick souls on the internet still give me the creeps.” Me too. “New Threats Against “Pig” Wilders,” by Audrey Graanoogst for NLTimes.nl, December 4: (JW)

Researchers from the Israeli/American Security and Intelligence Company (ITRR) intercepted a new threat on an internet forum for Jihadists, directed toward PVV-leader Geert Wilders. The message is a call to murder Wilders in an attack with explosives.The writer of the message calls Wilders a “pig” and a “coward.” The message was posted in a response to Wilders’ recent call to add a text to the flag of Saudi Arabia, that reads: ‘The Islam is a lie, Mohammed is a criminal, the Koran is poison.’Wilders is a frequent subject of threats on internet forums and through email and social media. Just last Friday he tweeted: ‘after nine years sick souls on the internet still give me the creeps.’

Since the assassination of Theo van Gogh, early November 2004, the PVV-leader has lived under police protection. On the party’s website Wilders “celebrated” that fact: ‘since that ominous day, nine years ago, I’ve been forced to live under police protection. I have lived in barracks, jails, and safe houses. The threats continue and have robbed me of my privacy and freedom.’

Muslims groups around the world are crying Islamophobia and playing the victim card as horrific Islamic-motivated crimes, such as grooming and rape-gangs, rage on with impunity throughout the Western world, especially in Europe. Rape or grooming gangs, which are almost entirely Muslim, are committing a crime that is religiously mandated in Islamic doctrine.

Muslim grooming gangs have been operating unchallenged in Europe for over 20 years, especially in the UK, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, and France. These widespread and highly organized gangs continue to rape and pimp non-Muslim underage schoolgirls who are used as sex slaves and sometimes tortured or killed. Just recently, in mid-2013, British police arrested 45 mostly Muslim men (mainly Pakistani and Bangladeshi) in West Yorkshire belonging to the largest grooming gang uncovered in the UK.

Continue reading Grooming Gangs and Sharia

ONE man is dead and three others injured after a fight broke out at a Melbourne mosque, reportedly when one of the men was denied entry to morning prayers.

Here’s the story from The AGE:

One killed, two injured, in stabbing at Dallas mosque

Not to be confused with Dallas/Texas. Dallas in Melbourne is a heavily enriched suburb.

Continue reading One (Musel-)man dead, three injured in Melbourne mosque stabbing