Category: Australia

Comment worth noting: Criticism of Muslims not allowed in Australia

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BL, who has commented here before, wrote this interesting comment in response to my post, The heart of a refugee and the culture of violence:

I have commented previously about how my city (Sydney, Australia) has had problems with Middle Eastern Arabs. I don’t know how or where we lost our freedom of speech but it seems that it is increasingly difficult to freely express our opinions and/or concerns. When you cut through all the politically correct nonsense you are left with the truth, which is they are not the same as us. Some races are predisposed to certain tendencies and characteristics. In the case of Muslim Arabs, they are naturally aggressive and violent. The Muslim Arab community in my city have been here for decades and for as long as I can remember, they have always been a menace to this city and this hasn’t changed one bit. If anything, I would say that it has gotten worse and will only progressively get worse as we allow them to manipulate our free society to their will.

“Many of the Vietnamese who came here in the 1970s and 1980s were traumatized too, having lived through a war, a communist regime, often prison camps, and harrowing escapes. But their culture and their resulting characters didn’t lead them to express their trauma in violence”.

For me, this is very fitting as I am in fact a Vietnamese Australian. It seems that, in Australia at least, ethnic Australians such as myself are more open about their true feelings and will voice their concerns more liberally than our fellow Anglo Australians. This maybe attributed to the fact that they may not want to be tagged as racist, which is a fair reason. Such is the dilemma of our free society where you are damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

If the current trend to disallow criticism of Islam in some Nations spreads globally, then Muslims will certainly exploit this and we will see their hypocrisy and true intent. A small minority of courageous people such as the people here at RRW and Jihad Watch are aware of their hidden agenda (although it really isn’t hidden when their intent is clearly stated in the Koran) and are expressing their concern. If only this concern was shared among the ignorant in our society because it will only take a majority to cut through all the political garbage that is littered all over this issue.

I will do my part to protect and preserve our beautiful Western Society by spreading my concern to my fellow peace loving Christians. I can only hope and pray that more people will see through the politics and rise up to tackle this issue head on

Somali tricks reported in Australia

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Here is one for our folks at Homeland Security to watch out for, especially as our missing youths might return someday.   Somalis with Australian passports ‘lose’ them while visiting elsewhere…..

Somalis are getting into Australia through “miraculously” lost passports in Malaysia, a Liberal MP has told federal parliament.

Jason Wood, a former Victorian police officer, said he would formally raise the issue with Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus.

Mr Wood said a number of people of Somalian descent holding Australian passports had gone to Malaysia, which had no visa requirements with Somalia.

“What happens there is that they miraculously lose their Australian passports and then a similar looking person gets possession of their passport, and it is still not reported as stolen,” he said.

“The person who now has the stolen passport arrives back into Australia and gets through customs.

“My enquiries show that the normal process, which happens after two or three days, is that the person applies for refugee status to get all the benefits.

“The person of Somalian origin who had the Australian passport issued then reports the passport stolen in Malaysia.

And, presumably then gets back into Australia too!

Australians organizing to oppose refugee resettlement

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Just now browsing around and reading news on refugees I came across a blog from the southeastern corner of Australia (not far from Melbourne).   This is the blog’s banner: 

PORT MACQUARIE PRESERVATIONISTS – resisting the refugee madness in the Hastings

 Port Macquarie Preservationists are a group of concerned Hastings citizens who seek to inform the Hastings community of the dangers of the area becoming an official, or even unofficial part of the federal government’s refugee relocation program. We cite four soild reasons for refusing the scheme: #1: The region’s housing crisis #2: The region’s medical crisis #3: The health threat posed by refugees and #4: Refugee crime and terrorism links as experienced in other areas of the country.

I thought this was interesting because these folks don’t seem to be intimidated into silence by the multiculturalists that surely must be part of the Australian elite.   Also, they aren’t shy about saying they are attempting to PRESERVE their way of life, and I found that refreshing.

Read some of the blog entries and see what I mean.

Free speech is in bad shape in the west

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As a counterbalance to my previous post about the Dutch’s new confidence in their culture, here’s an article from the Australian called Talk About Surrender. It’s already New Year’s Eve in Australia, so it’s kind of a roundup of the state of free speech in 2008.

If 2006 will be remembered as the year the West rolled over when tested on free speech – think the Danish cartoons, which large swaths of the media refused to publish for fear of causing offence – two years on, things are worse.

The year 2008 deserves to be seen as a year of anticipatory surrender, a year when the West decided to roll over on free speech of its own accord. Just in case. No threats. No demands. Just suppress controversial speech in advance, just in case it causes offence. You understand, we don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings. In fact, such a trashing of core Western values is difficult to understand.

The author, Janet Albrechtsen, gives a brief rundown of events, beginning with “the the comments of Mark Thompson, director-general of the BBC, who announced in October that Islam deserved different coverage in the media compared to other religions because Muslims were an ethnic minority.”  A comedian commented that the BBC would let vicar gags pass, but not imam gags, and the BBC agreed. Then:

The same rank capitulation occurred in the private sector when, in August, Random House pulled the publication of The Jewel of Medina, a book by Sherry Jones that told the tale of Aisha, the child bride of Mohammed.

The publisher had received no threats, just “cautionary advice” that publishing the book “might cause offence to some in the community (and) incite acts of violence by a small, radical segment”.

She goes on to mention Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders, who are heroes because they will not be silenced. She also mentions a Dutch cartoonist who was arrested and interrogated for his cartoons that mocked Islam.

And in Canada, Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant were hauled before that country’s Human Rights Commissions for being critical of Islam. (Steyn’s case was especially bizarre because he was cited for saying something which was actually a quote by a Muslim.) These two are also heroes.

But her point isn’t to highlight the heroes. It’s this:

If large sections of the media – normally devotees of free speech – cave into what the BBC’s Thompson called the “growing nervousness about discussion about Islam”, that self-censorship ripples out to all corners of society.

After the Danish cartoons fiasco, the onus was on the West to show its spine, to reassert its faith in freedom of expression. So far it has failed on that score. Let’s hope 2009 is a better year for free speech and the West’s confidence in itself.

Amen. Let’s hope indeed. Perhaps the Dutch will now lead the way.

Australia could take Gitmo prisoners for resettlement

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Looks like governments around the world are lining up to take those hot potato Guantanamo Bay prisoners.    I guess they are assuming these guys just need some tender care, love and understanding and they will become model citizens.  From The Australian:

KEVIN Rudd has left open the possibility of Australia taking former inmates from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.

But he warned that any US request for an inmate to come would be subject to legal criteria and assessed on a case-by-case basis, The Australian reports.

Then this part was surprising to me, but I don’t know much about Australian politics, the Greens are protesting against the plan already.  I thought the lefties pretty much stuck together.  Here in the US the major environmental groups hang tight with those promoting open borders.   Maybe this isn’t so in Australia.

As the Greens warned the Prime Minister he faced a political backlash if he accepted detainees held in the US military jail at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a spokesman for Mr Rudd confirmed US authorities had approached Australia and other countries about resettling the detainees.