Ordinarily I wouldn’t put up a piece that is a month old, but this column by Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun (thanks to ymr) states the obvious that so many Westerners miss: that Muslims are associated with terrorism because Muslims themselves make the association, not because of Western xenophobia.
WE pay Bill Jonas at least $200,000 a year to be our conscience, and we sure get enough tears for that money.
This Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commissioner released his report this week into racism against Muslims and broke down when he told the ABC of one of the worst cases.
Jonas: “I actually find it very difficult to say ’cause I get too upset about it, but that seventh generation (Muslim Australian) being told to go back to the country . . .(stifled sob)”
Reporter: “I’ll give you a moment.”
Jonas (brokenly): “Every time, it just really upsets me when I read it.”
If I may interrupt Jonas’s tears, I’d say if a dill telling a Muslim to “go home” is the worst racism he found after grilling 1400 Muslims for horror stories, then we must be angels. And since a guest at his launch was Australia’s Mufti, Sheik Taj el-Din el-Hilali, Jonas and his Race Police might now think of far more potent threats to our harmony to probe.
It’s Hilali, after all, who said Jews were the “underlying cause of all wars”, using “sex and abominable acts of buggery” to “control the world”, and that suicide bombers were “heroes”.
But, surprise, Jonas ignores the hate speech of Hilali and even more extreme imams. It seems he’d rather repeat wild claims that the real racists are mainstream Australians….
True, other cases cited in HREOC’s report are nasty. A few Muslims have suffered awful name-calling and threats, thanks to cretins who think every Muslim is a terrorist. But who gives just that wicked impression?
This week newspapers published a petition attacking the Howard Government’s new laws against terrorists as “fascist”. And who were the main signatories? Muslim leaders, including Hilali, a fan of the Hezbollah terrorist outfit. So who here equates the war on terror with a war on Islam?
Meanwhile, leaders of 25 Muslim groups signed a letter claiming “anti-terrorism legislation enacted in this country has unfairly targeted Muslims: only Muslims have been arrested”.
There’s a reason for that, dear imams — no Christian or Jewish groups have been found here plotting to kill civilians or help terrorists.
NOR are their leaders as troubling as your radical Sheik Muhammed Omran, who signed your letter against our terrorism laws — maybe because he’s a friend and acquaintance of men jailed or charged over links to al-Qaida.
So once again it’s Muslim leaders who equate terrorism with Islam. Such stupid leadership — seeming to side with the worst Muslims against good Australians — is tragic. No wonder both Muslims and non-Muslims fret. It’s enough to make me cry with Jonas, except my tears you can have free.