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Pauline Hanson was there to declare she is not a ‘racist’.

“I am not a racist. Criticism is not racism.” Ms Hanson said she was merely a proud Australian fighting for the country’s democracy, culture and way of life.

Reclaim Australia supporters, wearing Australian flags, blue and wielding signs like “Kill ISIL” and “No Sharia Here” cheered as speakers preached anti-Islamist views and castigated the United Nations for criticising Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers. (From the Courier Mail)

Update:

These socialist blockheads are no friends of FREE SPEECH:

Andrew Bolt

Organiser Mel Gregson said No Room for Racism was formed with the express purpose of shutting down the 16 rallies across Australia planned by Reclaim Australia. 

Reclaim Australia Brisbane rally met with crowd of people protesting against them

Reclaim Australia plan second rally after Newcastle ‘success’

PHOTOS: Reclaim Australia is planning to rally again in Newcastle after organisers dubbed the group’s Saturday protest a success.

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Fairfax commenters are as dense and clueless as their scribblers.

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Lunatic Rabble Marching

The organizers claim they want “to show the people of Australia we have had enough of minorities not fitting in and trying to change our Australian cultural identity.

“We’re not out to demonize the larger Muslim population because we can see the good that they’ve done. You can see that they’ve denounced terrorism,” Reclaim Australia’s spokesman, John Oliver, said.

When did they do that? Have we missed something? 

Anti-Islamic marches to be held across Australia slammed as ‘racist’, counter protests planned

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Anti-Islamic ‘Reclaim Australia’ marches are planned for 16 major cities on Saturday. Opponents have lashed out at the event in social media, calling it ‘Nazi’,… RT.COM

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Anti-Muslim rallies take place Australia wide

Combined force of anti-Islam groups – marching under banner ‘Reclaim Australia’ – clash with opposition protesters.

World Bulletin / News Desk

Tempers flared and mounted police intervened as protesters took to the streets to march against a combined force of anti-Islam groups across Australia on Saturday.

Marchers draped in the Australia flag carried signs screaming anti Islam messages such as “Sharia Law equals Pedophilia,” and “God Save Us” in Sydney, while in Perth a line of mounted police and other officers, some with dogs, kept opposing sides apart.

A media release on behalf of Rise Up Australia – a group participating under a “Reclaim Australia” banner – stated that the “grass roots movement” started off with just a few Aussies who “were sick of staying silent while Islam, through Multiculturalism, was slowly but surely taking away all of our rights and freedoms.”

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We also have a “Philadelphia mom.” The enemedia goes into overdrive to obscure the reality: Pamela Geller

How much longer can Islamic leaders keep saying this has nothing to do with their faith?  (Andrew Bolt)

Islamic leaders must urgently reform their faith – or admit that this is a consequence of it: 

Two New York City women have been arrested and accused of planning to carry out a “terrorist attack” in the United States, according to a federal criminal complaint made public on Thursday.

Noelle Velentzas, 28, and Asia Siddiqui, 31, plotted to hit police, government or military targets based on their “violent jihadist beliefs,” according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn.

It said Velentzas and Siddiqui were conspiring “to prepare an explosive device to be detonated in a terrorist attack in the United States.”

The complaint said Velentzas had praised al Qaeda’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and said she and Siddiqui were “citizens of the Islamic State.”…

When they were arrested, agents found bomb-building materials including propane gas tanks, soldering tools, pipes, a pressure cooker and fertilizer, authorities said.

The women also voiced support for beheadings of Western journalists and others by militants in control of territory in Syria and Iraq, the complaint said…

Separately on Thursday, Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh, a U.S. citizen accused of training with al Qaeda in Pakistan, appeared in Brooklyn federal court on charges he had conspired to provide personnel to be used by Islamist militants in support of efforts to kill U.S. citizens and members of the U.S. military abroad.

UPDATE

Instead of reform we get this, from Victoria’s biggest Islamic school:

Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne has asked the principal of al-Taqwa College to explain why he told students that Islamic State was a Western plot.

The move comes as a former teacher at the school said principal Omar Hallak also told students that Israel did not exist and Jews were horrible people.

Don’t mention Islam

Strangely, no mention in the Lateline report and interview of the words “Islam” and “Muslim” in discussing the slaughter of more than 140 Kenyan students, almost all Christian, by the Islamist al Shabab.

About that attack:

New details emerged Friday about how a handful of fighters from the Shabab militant group, with just a few light weapons, managed to kill nearly 150 students in Kenya’s worst terrorist attack since the 1998 bombing of the United States Embassy in Nairobi.

Survivors said many students had fallen for the militants’ trick, voluntarily leaving their dorm rooms and obeying commands to lie down in neat rows, only to be shot in the back of the head…

The Shabab tried to justify the attack on Thursday by saying this part of Kenya was “a Muslim land under colony.” A Shabab spokesman called the university part of Kenya’s “plan to spread their Christianity and infidelity.”

UPDATE

Why does ABC host Tony Jones still treat Robert Fisk as his oracle – and the ABC’s preferred guru – on the Middle East? This time Fisk is soft-soaping Iran.

What is it with socialists and free speech? 

Andrew Bolt

Hundreds of people washed spit from their faces on Saturday evening after an ugly stand-off at Federation Square between supporters of Reclaim Australia, an anti-Islamic movement, and No Room For Racism, a coalition of trade union, community and left-wing groups…

Organiser Mel Gregson said No Room for Racism was formed with the express purpose of shutting down the 16 rallies across Australia planned by Reclaim Australia. 

Former One Nation leader Pauline Hanson tells crowd ‘criticism is not racism’ as nationwide protests and counterprotests trigger scuffles and police intervention

From the  extreme left Guardian

Mounted police were forced to separate the two sides in Melbourne as tensions soared and scuffles broke out across Federation Square, with paramedics called to treat several injured people.

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The group Reclaim Australia is holding nationwide rallies against “sharia law, halal tax and Islamisation”. Around 200 marched on the square, a handful bearing swastika tattoos, others in T-shirts reading: “If you don’t love it, leave”.

They were met by several hundreds protesters carrying signs that read, “No room for racism”, and promoting a variety of other causes.

Dozens of police stood several rows deep to separate the angry crowd but arguments and shoving broke out across the square.

In other news:

Reclaim Australia Rally – Melbourne

The police allowed these counter protesters to lock arms in front of their horses creating two barriers that stopped all the Reclaim Rally supporters from entering.

Here’s the Herald Sun:

Reclaim Australia and No Room for Racism in competing rallies at Federation square

Reclaim Australia campaigners at the Fed Square protest. Picture: David Crosling

Reclaim Australia organised a number of protests in cities across the country opposing “sharia law, halal tax and Islamisation”.

Socialist Party organiser Mel Gregson said its protest was a way of fighting Islamophobia in Australia.

“The only thing we agree with Reclaim Australia on is that there are problems in Australian society,” Ms Gregson said.

Reclaim Australia protesters at Federation Square. Picture: David Crosling

Reclaim Australia supporter Scott Driscoll said: “I don’t have a problem with Muslim people – my problem is with the doctrine of Islam.

“I see a human being and I can distinguish between that person and their ideology.”

Protesters clash at the rally. Picture: Hamish Blair

Police get between protesters. Picture: David Crosling

Protesters clash during a rally newly formed anti-Islamic group Reclaim Australia at Federation Square. Picture: Hamish Blair

Reclaim Australia protesters at Federation Square. Picture: David Crosling

Police in a line to separate rival protester groups. Picture: David Crosling

Police try to hold back protesters at Federation Square, where anti-racism campaigners confront the newly formed Reclaim Australia group. Picture: David Crosling

Anti-racism protesters at the rally. Picture: Hamish Blair

Police hold back protesters at the rally. Picture: David Crosling

Reclaim Australia protesters wave flags at Federation Square. Picture: David Crosling

Continue reading Reclaim Australia rallies: protesters clash in Melbourne and Sydney

“We saw beheaded bodies when we escaped. It is very bad, they have killed many people,” an emotional Njeri said.

So much for al -Shabaab.

Boko Haram beheads 40 people with chainsaw

Militants from extremist group devout Muslims from Boko Haram attacked several Nigerian towns, torching houses and fatally shooting those who fled before reportedly beheading some of the bodies with chainsaws. The string of terror attacks comes amid the presidential vote, RT reports.

At least 25 people were killed and more than 30 injured in the village of Buratai in Borno state, local officials confirmed.

Surviving witnesses described gruesome scenes of murder, saying that not only did the extremists set homes on fire and shoot those trying to escape, but also decapitated the bodies.

Local politician Ibrahim Adamu, who fled the scene, told CNN that Boko Haram “slaughtered their victims like rams and decapitated them,” adding that “they burned a large part of the village and we are afraid some residents were burnt in the homes because most people had gone to bed when the gunmen struck.”

Meanwhile, at least 14 people were killed in separate attacks by the radical Islamist group in the towns of Biri and Dukku, located in Gombe state. The victims included a legislator, AP reported. 

In other news:

Lying SOB Imam Saad Baig said extremist groups do not represent the teachings of Islam, and violent outbursts typically are fueled by personal agendas and political issues.

“Islam teaches us to respect other faiths and live in harmony with one another, and that’s what majority of Muslims in the world practice,” Baig said.

Don’t get too exited. I suspect it was a ‘sensitive’ police raid. The kind of raid where no dogs are allowed and the police has to take their shoes off when they enter the prayer room. Anyhow, Mr Ahmed was not in when the police did their thing….

‘Shocked’shiite: Shakil Ahmed said he was ‘shocked, worried and extremely upset’ that his son was among the group and urged him to come home ‘as soon as possible so I can find out what’s going on’

Rochdale Labour councillor’s home raided by anti-terror police after his 21-year-old son was arrested on Syrian border with his aunt, cousins and four children

• Police search home of Labour councillor after son’s arrest on Syrian border
• Anti-terror officers raided Shakil Ahmed’s house last night and again today 
• Son Waheed, 21, was detained alongside 8 relatives – including 4 children 
• Mr Ahmed, a councillor since 2012, was recently pictured with Ed Miliband

Anti-terror police have raided the home of a Labour councillor whose 21-year-old son was arrested on the Syrian border with his aunt, cousins and four children.

Shakil Ahmed’s Rochdale home was searched by police last night and again this morning after his son Waheed and eight relatives – including four children – were detained in a remote Turkish border town.

Mr Ahmed, a respected local politician, was not in as police raided the house in connection with his son’s arrest, searching computers for any links to militants in Syria.

Rochdale Labour councillor Shakil Ahmed, pictured with Ed Miliband, whose son has been caught trying to enter rebel-held Syria

Laughing: Waheed Ahmed, the 21-year-old son of a Labour Councillor, is one of nine Britons who have been held by Turkish security officials are attempting to slip illegally into Syria in an apparent bid to join ISIS

Continue reading Police search home of Labour councillor after son’s arrest on Syrian border

Collateral damage matters only when we do it. For Western journallie the soldiers of allah can do no wrong.

Israel to expel African immigrants to a “third country”.

The Allies At Gallipoli: Defeat In 1915, Disgrace In 2015

The author of this essay, David Boyajian, is an Armenian American. He originally posted it at CounterCurrents, asking us to mirror it.

(See CounterCurrents article for full-sized image)

It would appear that we have yet another sad example of plus ça change…see if your country is among those willing to stand up to Turkey.

Continue reading By ignoring the Armenian genocide, NZ and Australia are “tacitly complicit in” genocide denial

Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker and Nino Bucci/SMH

Federal police are investigating a record number of human trafficking cases in Australia involving sex slavery, forced marriages and child brides.

The number of active investigations into human trafficking has doubled in the past two years to 60. Despite the increase, police warn trafficking crimes remain grossly under-reported.

Continue reading Sex trafficking, slavery and forced marriage on the rise in Australia, say police