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The state of free speech in Australia is in crisis

Battlelines drawn on free speech

With the Senate voting down the Coalition’s proposed reforms to section 18C, the battle lines for free speech have now been drawn: on one side we have the free speech true believers, and on the other we have those who campaign for government control over what we can or can’t say. The Senate decision is a blow to all who campaigned to reverse the destructive and chilling effect 18C has on public discourse.

To make matters worse, shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus QC gave an indication that Labor would be open to consolidation of discrimination legislation such that offence laws like 18C would also cover sexual orientation, gender, age and disability should they win government. If this were to happen, any chance of a public debate on same-sex marriage would go out the window along with the freedom for religions to speak publicly about their beliefs. Labor MP Anne Aly went further with her suggestion that there is scope for religion to be included in any extension of the legislation, which would in essence be a form of blasphemy law.

Federation of Islamic Councils president Keysar Trad has come out in support of Dr Aly’s suggestion, which is no surprise; offence laws must seem very appealing when you are trying to quash public criticism of your preferred ideology. But other religious leaders have spoken out against the proposed inclusion of sexual orientation in future legislation for the obvious reason that they will no longer be able to publicly express their views on sexuality and same-sex marriage without the risk of censure.

This highlights one trouble with laws based on a subjective measurement of offence given: everybody wants in. Under an extended regime of offence laws, Christians and Muslims would risk censure for offending the LGBT community if they expressed anti-SSM views in public and the LGBT community would risk offending Christians and Muslims when talking back. Muslims, Christians and members of other faiths would probably do a very good job of offending each other. What a merry-go-round. The only winners here are lawyers and the bureaucrats at the AHRC. It might suit your purposes to support a law that is designed to silence your critics, but when it hampers your own ability to speak freely, what then?

18C and these proposed new laws which seek to make causing offence on the basis of religion, sexual orientation, age or disability unlawful, represent a contravention of Australia’s obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination which seek to ‘guarantee the right of everyone to equality before the law and equality in the enjoyment of the rights to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of opinion and expression’. It is very difficult to exercise your right to criticise religious belief or the concept of same-sex marriage without offending somebody whose opinions on these topics are held with deep conviction.

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Stockholm terror attack: Images of wanted man released after truck plows into store killing 3

Update:

Swedish PM: Truck attack an ‘act of terror’

A manhunt is underway for the driver of a hijacked beer truck that plowed into a department store in central Stockholm on Friday, killing at least three and injuring many.

Police released two photos from CCTV surveillance footage of a man wearing a grey hoodie who they said is wanted in connection to the attack.

Two men have been taken into questioning in relation to the attack, according to Sky News.

Police spokesman Lars Bystrom said: “I can confirm that we have taken in two people for questioning, but that does not necessary mean that they are suspects.”

Stockholm police denied previous reports that a man had been arrested at the scene, saying that the driver had not been found.

“We have no contact with the person or persons who drove the truck,” Sweden’s top police chief, Dan Eliasson, told a news conference.

Related to this case:

Sweden: Manhunt on for truck attacker who murdered at least three

Swedish police released this photo of the man they’re looking for. If the attacker is a Muslim, as is almost certainly the case, then this is the direct result of Sweden’s immigration policies. If he is a native-born Muslim, that only shows that these policies are long-standing and that Muslims aren’t assimilating. These attacks are fully the responsibility of the Swedish government for pursuing these policies and demonizing those who opposed them. This is the Sweden they wanted. Now they have it.

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Vehicle Jihad In Stockholm

People injured as truck hits pedestrians in Stockholm

A number of people have been injured as a truck was driven into pedestrians on a street in Stockholm, Swedish police say.

Initial reports suggested the truck had smashed into the front of a department store in Sweden’s capital city.

A police spokeswoman said officers were on the scene responding to the emergency call.

Update:

The incident happened near Ahlens Mall in the centre of the city.

AN UNKNOWN NUMBER of people have been injured after a truck drove into a crowd in Stockholm, local police say.

The incident happened near Ahlens Mall in the centre of the city.

Local media reports number of people being injured.

“Police received a call from SOS Alarm that a person in a vehicle has injured other people on Drottninggatan,” police wrote on Twitter. The incident occurred just before 2pm Irish time near the city’s biggest pedestrian street.

Infidel Holidays ‘Haram’: Sheikh Feiz Muhammad Tells Muslims To Stay Away From Royal Easter Show

Sydney Islamic group urges Muslims to stay away from the Royal Easter Show – claiming attending is a ‘SIN’

Remember when they told us he was “deradicalised” and no longer poses a danger to our society? Here he is making sure that Muselmaniacs in this country live shari’a conform.

Islamist community group Sydney Islamic Lectures issued Easter Show warning
It told its Facebook followers many Muslims were ‘attending without knowledge’
Group posted ‘must share ASAP’ video of Muslim leader Sheikh Feiz Muhammad
In fiery speech, he said it was a ‘major sin’ for Muslims to join non-Muslim event

Muslims are being urged to stay away from the Sydney Royal Easter Show by a community group linked to Islamist fundamentalists.

Sydney Islamic Lectures posted a ‘must share ASAP’ message on Facebook as thousands of people flocked to Homebush in the city’s west for the opening day of the annual showcase of agricultural produce.

‘The Easter Show is on again this starting week. Many Muslims are attending without knowledge,’ it said.

Sheikh Feiz Muhammad says it is sinful for Muslims to celebrate non-Muslim events

An Islamist community group said many Muslims were unwittingly attending the Easter Show

The group, which posts links to Islamist groups and sharia law lectures, shared a YouTube video of fundamentalist Sheikh Feiz Muhammad.

He gives weekly fiery sermons at Auburn, which is a few suburbs away from Homebush, where about 850,000 people are expected to attend the Easter Show during the next 13 days from Thursday.

The fundamentalist founder of the Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah Association in Auburn told his followers Muslims should not take part in non-Muslim festivities.

‘Is it part of the sharia? Are we allowed to entertain ourselves with celebrations that are built on non-Muslim concepts?,’ he said.

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Macron wants to sacrifice France on the altar of the Utopian agenda of the one world village

Macron the Multiculturalist

Thanks to Gallia Watch

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If the English-language press keeps up with events in France, then you must know that the push to make Emmanuel Macron the next president is accelerating dramatically as political luminaries rally to his side. Including former Prime minister Manuel Valls.

While the MSM press spares no effort to promote, however discretely, Macron’s image, the patriots are experiencing genuine fear of a Macron victory. Despite the popularity of Marine Le Pen, an energized Macron is appealing to the immigrants as did François Hollande five years ago. What worked then, could very well work again.

There are all kinds of rumors regarding this election, but I prefer not to waste time on articles that aren’t reliable. Remember, Saturday was April Fool’s and the French are very talented at creating completely plausible, yet totally false, tales of political intrigue.

The following from Jacques Guillemain, writing at Riposte Laïque, recounts the appearance in Marseille on Saturday April 1 of Emmanuel Macron. But this is no joke. Macron pulls out the standardized ode to multiculturalism, his voice rising in pitch until the final “I see Frenchmen!” that blows the crowd away:

“Être patriote…”, l’anaphore d’Emmanuel… by BFMTVMacron is certifiable.

In Marseille, Macron shouted his lungs out as he showed us his true concept of the France of tomorrow. He is a veritable grave-digger of the nation, a destroyer of our identity, the slayer of our Judeo-Christian roots.

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Australia: Shari’a Clown Yusuf Irfan Doesn’t Know What Terrorism Is

It is a disgrace that the Canberra Times, an extremely leftish Moonbat rag, gives Islamo-tosspot Yusuf Irfan a soapbox, from where he can excrete nonsense like this.

Another segment in out long running series of

Yusuf rubs it

What exactly is terrorism? What makes a person a terrorist? Is it sufficient that the perpetrator be a Muslim or non-white? Should an Anglo-Australian who stockpiles weapons in his house for a far-right organisation be treated as a terrorist? What about a white American who attacks black churches and massacres their congregants?

Or does the existence of terrorism depend on the victims’ identities? In an editorial last month, The Australian newspaper made this extraordinary claim: “Apart from innocent civilians and police slain in attacks such as that in London, most victims of Islamist extremism’s war on modernity are the Yazidi, Christian and other minorities who’ve endured harrowing persecution by Islamic State on the frontlines in the Middle East.” What is it about these minorities? Is it just their religion – Yazidi or Christian?

The cost of fighting terror

An extra $1.5 billion has been spent fighting terrorism in Australia since 2014 – here’s where it’s gone.

So what do we make of the hundreds of thousands of Kurdish victims, most of whom are Muslim? What about Shi’ite, Sunni and Alawi Muslims in Syria? What about the Sunni and Shi’ite victims of Islamic State in Iraq? Moving away from the Middle East, what was the background of the 70-plus devotees killed during an IS strike against the shrine of Qalandar Lal Shahbaz in southern Pakistan? Is it only terror when the victims are “our” people?

In mainstream media and political discourse, terrorism is increasingly a phenomenon in which the perpetrator is Muslim and the victim isn’t. The reality is less simple. In the not too distant past, Nelson Mandela was classed as a terrorist in the United States. He remained on the US terrorism watch list until 2008. The life of late Northern Irish polit-cian Martin McGuiness was celebrated at his funeral last week. During his years in the IRA, he wasn’t exactly averse to using violence to achieve republican goals.

The moment five hostages fled the Lindt cafe in December 2014, where they had been captive. Photo: Andrew Meares There was a reason experts couldn’t agree on whether the Lindt cafe siege was a terrorist act.

Why so many terrorism laws if no one can define terrorism?

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Australia: Shiite Imam Rejects Burqas, Construction of Mosques, Shari’a Law….

The question is, if he doesn’t like Islam, (and rest assured he knows his Islam,) why does he still wear the beard, the turban and the clothes of an imam? Shi’ite Imam Mohammad Tawhidi makes all the right noises, and it is probably true that righteous believers would love to murder him for it. But the Islam he proclaims to follow doesn’t exist, so it is hard to imagine what he is trying to achieve. Both sunni & shiite teachings are equally vile; no version is better or worse for us infidels, so what is he actually hoping to sell?

Questions, questions:

Australian Shi’ite Imam: This ‘Entire Religion Needs A Review’; Australian Intelligence Should Monitor Muslim Religious Leaders; ‘Palestine Is Jewish Land… Who Doesn’t Know This?’

We Did Not Come to Australia to Have Burqas Running around – Australian Shiite Imam, MEMRITV

Speaking at the Rotary Club of Adelaide, Australian Shi’ite Imam Mohammad Tawhidi said that some Islamic books, like the Bukhari compilation of hadiths, should be banned in Australia since “every act of terrorism is taught from that book.” The Iranian-born Sheikh Tawhidi supported limiting the building of mosques, and said that his father had not come to Australia to see “burqas running around.” He called on the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) to keep tabs on religious leaders to see who funds them, and called on female Australian politicians not to wear a headscarf when going to visit counterparts in Muslim countries. “This will get me in trouble,” Tawhidi added, “but Palestine is Jewish land. I mean, come on, who doesn’t know this?” Tawhidi argued that Muslims in countries like Australia must either obey the “law of the land,” or return to where they came from. He also stated that Australia must take an active stand against terrorism, and said that even in Australia, some Muslims fear death for speaking out against extremism.

Imam Tawhidi is a graduate of the Islamic seminary in Qom, Iran, and is the Imam of the Islamic Association of South Australia. The lecture was posted on the YouTube channel for the Adelaide Rotary club on March 21, 2017.

Following is a transcript of the talk: Continue reading Australia: Shiite Imam Rejects Burqas, Construction of Mosques, Shari’a Law….

Toxic Paleostinians

PLO EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER HANAN ASHRAWI: MEMRI IS THE MOST TOXIC ORGANIZATION

PLO Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi: MEMRI Is the Most Toxic Organization

Speaking at an event organized by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian legislator and a member of the PLO Executive Committee, labeled MEMRI “the most toxic organization.” Ashrawi accused MEMRI, with its “tremendous funds” and “access to Congress” and “decision-makers,” of distorting the Palestinian message. The lecture, titled “Palestinian Perspective on the Peace Process,” was posted on the YouTube channel of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs on March 27.

Hanan Ashrawi: “Then there are toxic organizations, as you know, and they have been very effective in distorting the Palestinian message and reality – like MEMRI. You know? M-E-M-R-I? You should be aware of this. This is the most toxic organization. It is run by Yigal Carmon, who used to be the advisor to the military governor. Then he became an advisor to (Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak) Shamir on terrorism, and so on. He used to interrogate me once in a while. But now he has this organization with tremendous funds. He monitors everything, and then he has access to Congress, particularly, but (also) to many decision-makers, and he distorts Palestinian utterances and anything that is published. We can talk about this later.”

HAMAS OFFICIAL AHMAD BAHR: ON WOMEN’S DAY, WE SALUTE JIHAD-FIGHTING PALESTINIAN WOMEN LIKE (SUICIDE BOMBER) RIM AL-RIYASHI

Transcript:

Hamas official Ahmad Bahr, deputy chair of the Palestinian Legislative Committee, said that while Europe celebrates the woman on International Women’s Day, its men sell their wives “like merchandise.” He went on to say: “We salute the Jihad-fighting Palestinian woman, who tends to the martyr and tends to her husband, and perhaps will become a martyr herself,” recalling Rim Al-Riyashi, who carried out a suicide attack against Israelis in 2004. Bahr’s address was broadcast on Al-Aqsa TV on March 9.

Ahmad Bahr: “The Palestinian woman is held in esteem. She is a wife, a daughter, a sister, and a grandmother. The Palestinian woman is held in esteem in Islam – in our religion, our moral values, and our faith. Every year, on March 8, the world celebrates International Woman’s Day, a holiday invented by Europe. Let me say, in a nutshell, that Europe celebrates the woman, but at the same time, it kills women. It celebrates the woman, but as you know, the (European) man sells his wife in front of the whole world, as if she is merchandise to be bought and sold. In the West, where they are celebrating the woman today, they want to present women naked in halls and stores, in order to attract customers. In Islam, in contrast, the woman is respected. As the Prophet Muhammad said, women are the sisters of men. Therefore, on Women’s Day, we salute the Jihad-fighting Palestinian woman, who tends to the martyr and tends to her husband, and perhaps will become a martyr for the sake of Allah herself, like the Jihad-fighting sister (suicide bomber) Rim al-Riyashi, who sacrificed herself for the sake of Palestine. The woman, who is being honored today, serves, makes sacrifices, and maintains her ribat for the sake of Allah.” Continue reading Toxic Paleostinians

History: The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

by Christina McIntosh

Interlude, After London and St Petersburg. The Legendary Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

In the wake of the latest Muslim jihad atrocity perpetrated against unarmed civilians in an infidel country – I refer to the attack on the St Petersburg subway – I observe, as per our Aussie ABC, the now-familiar ritual of the laying of piles of flowers and lighting of little candles (which you will see if you click on the link provided).

“Residents have been bringing flowers to the stations near where the blast occurred. Every corner and window-sill at the ornate Soviet-built Sennaya Square station on Tuesday was covered with red and white carnations”.

Flowers, tears and candles, weeping and praying, in response to extravagant ritualistic Mohammedan human sacrifice of hapless infidels, carried out over and over and over and over again, in the First World, in the Third World, against Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists (not to mention, of course, the neverending butcheries of the ‘internal struggle’ indulged in within the dar al Islam).

As for me… once, just once, after one of these bloody Mohammedan butcheries carried out on Infidel soil, in the heart of the lands of the non-Muslims, I’d like to see someoneresponding a bit more in the spirit of the legendary Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmet IV’s demand that they Submit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks

As the story goes, the said Cossacks had defeated the Muslim Ottoman forces in battle. Mehmed nevertheless imperiously demanded that the – non-Muslim – Cossacks submit to Muslim Turkish rule. The Cossacks, led by Ivan Sirko, responded with a blisteringly defiant letter laced with ribald insults.

According to the translation of the letter exchange provided by wikipedia (which has its uses, from time to time), the Sultan (at that time, of course, styled Caliph of all Muslims) wrote the following:

“Sultan Mehmed IV to the Zaporozhian Cossacks:

“As the Sultan; son of Muhammad; brother of the sun and moon; grandson and viceroy of God; ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper and Lower Egypt; emperor of emperors; sovereign of sovereigns; extraordinary knight, never defeated; steadfast guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ (!!!??? – CM); trustee chosen by God Himself; the hope and comfort of Muslims; confounder and great defender of Christians (!!! – CM) – I command you, the Zaporogian Cossacks, to submit to me voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks. – Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV.”

To which display of overweening Mohammedan pomposity and demand for abject Submission the Cossacks reply, thus (WARNING: this translation does not obscure the obscenities of the original).

“Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan!

“O sultan, Turkish devil and damned devil’s kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight are thou, that canst not slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats.

“Thou shallt not, thou son of a whore, make subjects of Christian sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, f*ck thy mother.

“Thou Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-f*cker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, pig of Armenia, Podolian thief, catamiteof Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our d*ck. Pig’s snout, mare’s arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw thine own mother!

“So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife.

“You won’t even be herding pigs for the Christians.

“Now we’ll conclude, for we don’t know the date and don’t own a calendar; the moon’s in the sky, the year with the Lord, the day’s the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our *rse!”

“Koshovyi otaman Ivan Sirko, with the whole Zaporozhian host.”

The Two Faces of Islam: Why All Muslims Benefit from Terrorism (David Wood)

All Muslims believe they benefit from (more) Islam. This is because both peaceful and violent Muslims tend to share two important goals: (1) the conversion of non-Muslims to Islam, and (2) the silencing of critics of Islam. Since terrorism helps achieve these goals, all Muslims benefit from Islam.

Muhammad was right: here’s proof that women are “deficient in intelligence”.