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Grand Mufti of Australia blames “racism” and “Islamophobia” for Paris jihad massacre

Apr 23, 2016 9:34 am By Robert Spencer

“Mohammed had issued a statement two days after the 13 November attacks saying he ‘mourn[ed] the loss of innocent lives’ and conveyed his ‘deepest condolences to the families and friends of the deceased.'” None of that constitutes a clear condemnation of the jihad attacks in Paris. He could be referring to the jihadis as the “innocent lives.”

He also said: “There are no words to truly describe the devastation of these acts but we will continue in solidarity and pray for peace.” In solidarity with whom? What kind of peace? Is the “devastation of these acts” a reference to the jihad terror attacks themselves, or the “Islamophobia” that supposedly provoked them? For he also pointed to the “causative factors” of the jihad massacre: “racism, Islamophobia, curtailing freedoms through securitisation, duplicitous foreign policies and military intervention”.

Every causative factor to which he points is the fault of non-Muslims. He is displacing responsibility from Muslims entirely, and implying, when he lists “curtailing freedoms through securitisation” as one of the causative factors, that counter-terror measures cause terrorism. If only we would surrender, all would be well.

Ibrahim Abu Mohamed

“Grand mufti sues News Corp’s Daily Telegraph for defamation,” by Michael Safi, Guardian, April 22, 2016 (thanks to Kenneth):

The grand mufti of Australia is suing Sydney’s Daily Telegraph for defamation over two stories and a front page it ran in the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks depicting him as the three “unwise” monkeys.

A statement of claim was filed in the New South Wales supreme court on Friday alleging the News Corp tabloid had suggested Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed was “an apologist for the terrorist attacks in Paris”, a supporter of “violent Islamic holy war” and had deliberately refused to attend a vigil after the attacks, among other claims.

The newspaper’s front page on 18 November depicted Mohammed, the most senior Sunni Muslim scholar in Australia, in three poses covering his eyes, ears and mouth, with the caption: “Sees no problems, hears no concerns, speaks no English.”

The two stories were headlined “The unwise mufti” and “Even Hamas condemn the Paris attacks so why won’t Australia’s Grand Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohammed?”

Mohammed had issued a statement two days after the 13 November attacks saying he “mourn[ed] the loss of innocent lives” and conveyed his “deepest condolences to the families and friends of the deceased”.

A statement on his Facebook page the previous day had read, in relation to the attacks and another bombing in Beirut: “There are no words to truly describe the devastation of these acts but we will continue in solidarity and pray for peace.”

A line in his Monday statement also pointed to what he believed were the “causative factors” of terrorism, including “racism, Islamophobia, curtailing freedoms through securitisation, duplicitous foreign policies and military intervention”.

The Daily Telegraph claimed in both stories that Mohammed had shown a “stubborn refusal to condemn the Paris terror attacks” and accused him of “snubbing” a requiem mass held in the aftermath, attended on his behalf by the head of the Muslim Women’s Association, Maha Abdo….

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  1. Don McKellar says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 9:43 am

    A brilliant practitioner of moslem logic! You just can’t argue with a master like that! Their moslem logic is flawless!

    • jihad3tracker says

      Apr 23, 2016 at 11:11 am

      Hello again Don — On this first half of the weekend, when many of us with traditional Monday-Friday jobs have a bit of time for non-distracted viewing of videos, I will again recommend one by the brilliant counter-jihad expert David Wood:

      “Three Stages of Jihad” — appropriate to Robert’s post above because the Grand Monkey (or is it Grand Mufti ?) is jumping on Islam’s favorite trampoline, victimhood. In David’s 25 minute video, he discusses the fact that Muhammad used the same tactic.

      “Persecution” is how David describes it — the early Muslim community bitchin’ and moanin’ over slight insults and PROVOKING non-believers, so Muhammad could use that for strategic growth: “This persecution was the best thing that ever happened to . . .” [I have forgotten the very end of David’s sentence].

      The video contains his usual ladle full of dark humor, but, as typical of David’s deep knowledge, is backed up by citations from the Qur’an and Sunna. Our favorite secret-Allah-lover, alias Barry Obama Soetoro, even drops by to offer guidance on the journey to wisdom about Islam. Those appearances get more frantic as the video proceeds.

      By the way, stay with it until the final minutes — David adds a 4th stage regarding Westernized Muslims and their huge ignorance of full mandates in the sacred texts. If you have even a touch more free time, and have never seen them, I would strongly recommend “The Jihad Triangle” [5 minutes] and “Taqiyya” [7 minutes].

      Also, consider sending David a thank-you in the comment section of his blog — http://www.answeringmuslims.com. The videos don’t just drop from heaven ready to go: they take thinking, writing, recording, and posting — done enthusiastically by him because he knows how important it is to wake up the millions of clueless fellow citizens who are still camped out at theological Disneyland.

      • Raja says

        Apr 24, 2016 at 7:24 pm

        Jihad3Tracker,

        Thank you for the informative comment. I still have hope that the evil Islam will be exposed in these days of internet/satellite TV, social media and so on.

        Isaiah 11:9– For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD
        As the waters cover the sea.

        By the same logic the devil will be exposed, i.e, Islamic terror

    • Shapleigh says

      Apr 23, 2016 at 8:52 pm

      The logic goes back to Mohammed himself, when he moved to Medina, and started raiding the caravans going to Mecca. From Harry Richardson’s ‘The Story of Mohammed’: “Always play the victim. Mohammed twisted his situation around. Although he had attacked innocent people without provocation he blamed them. He said that they had stopped others from becoming Muslims, and had worshiped idols. The attack was their fault and the Muslims were the victims, not the Kaffirs.” His book is short and sweet. I know it is important to start reading Robert’s many books, but I’m starting somewhere, at least

      • rabrooks says

        Apr 26, 2016 at 3:53 am

        You got it man! The victim is the offender. Mix the with the “ummah” thing, and you get world wide insanity. Take the “burn a koran” thing. Since a kaffir (in florida) insulted pislam, it was the duty of every mudslime any where in the world, to take vengeance on the closest kaffir. The news showed the carnage that followed, with their dupes claiming this was to “protect allah” and punish the kaffir for the insult to pislam..
        Rape victims are the ones that “seduced” the raper into doing it.
        To resist being converted is an attack on pislam.
        To protect oneself from being killed is “islamophobic”.
        As far as they are concerned, the very existence of a kaffir, any where on the planet, is reason to jihad.

  2. Deport the Grand Mufti says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 9:44 am

    The Grand Mufti has lived in Australia around 20 years and refuses to speak English. He speaks Arabic and has a ‘translator’. He openly calls non Muslims ‘kuffar’. He is a rude, arrogant piece of work, and if you speak with individual Muslims, they say “he doesn’t represent me”. Horrid man wrote a paper on why the Western birth rate is low. According to this piece of excrement, western women are promiscuous and full of gonorrhea.

  3. David says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 9:53 am

    Just one question? Why isn’t this barbaric savage in JAIL right now? ??

    • mortimer says

      Apr 23, 2016 at 9:55 am

      The mufti has broken no law.

      • Stephen says

        Apr 23, 2016 at 12:39 pm

        Really? So it’s OK to shout fire in a crowded theatre? If you look at it closely everyone who practices any part of Sharia Law in a european based/civilized nation is breaking some law against either an individual or the common good! We just don’t have the guts to admit it.

        • Fessitude says

          Apr 23, 2016 at 2:17 pm

          The higher law of Politically Correct Multi-Culturalism prevents nearly the entire West (including many in the Counter-Jihad) from seeing that all Muslims are breaking the law — laws, that is, pertaining to the framework of war & sedition.

        • Angemon says

          Apr 24, 2016 at 1:05 pm

          Fessitude posted:

          “The higher law of Politically Correct Multi-Culturalism prevents nearly the entire West (including many in the Counter-Jihad) from seeing that all Muslims are breaking the law — laws, that is, pertaining to the framework of war & sedition.”

          Push comes to shove – imagine you come across a muslim walking down the street. Can you prove in a court of law he’s breaking the law?

        • mortimer says

          Apr 23, 2016 at 3:55 pm

          You may disagree with what the mufti says, but that’s his human right. If you can’t stomach listening to him, don’t listen. The mufti can’t stomach any criticism of Islam, so he shouldn’t be living in a country where there is free speech.

          Muslim countries lock people up when they express dissent. We don’t. It’s called free speech. It’s for everyone. For Muslims too.

          However, censorship is normative Sharia law. The mufti wants to impose Sharia by using the Australian court, but the court will dismiss the cartoon as normal editorial comment.

          The mufti will be unable to show he has a special right to be above criticism. That’s called ‘supremacism’.

        • Jay Boo says

          Apr 23, 2016 at 8:39 pm

          Mortimer is right
          If we put him in front of a firing squad and shoot him in pre-emptive act of self defense, we will then have to deal with the awkward task of apologizing later for removing a potential threat who pushed the limit of the law to the edge without technically crossing it and be forced to sing the Britney Spears one liner “Oops I did it again.

        • Stephen says

          Apr 24, 2016 at 12:22 am

          I quess if you believe free means I can do and say whatever I want the mufti was practicing “free” speech but if you believe free means a creature is free when he conforms to his Creators will the mufti is lying and hence a danger to the common good, I.e., a criminal.

          I may have been given a free will by my Creator but when I exercise that free will in chosing wrong I am no longer free but a slave to sin. When I choose to ram that sin down societies throat with public utterance of my lies and frivilous law suits I may be exercising “free” speech but my speech is not free there is a price to pay.

          I am free to use the roads but if I abuse that freedom by driving drunk I lose the freedom. Freedom was never understood outside of the Christian understanding of responsibility until very recently and it is irresponsible to postulate freedom means I can do and say whatever I want even if it is not in conformity with truth.

          The mufti and all like him should be imprisoned or deported to the Islamic hellhole of his choice and if he chooses further jihad against the free world then he should suffer the consequences of his evil choice.

  4. mortimer says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 9:53 am

    Sharia does not tolerate dissent. Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohammed believes Islam is perfect and thus no criticism of Islam is permissible. That implies a demand for censorship.

    A major tactic of the mufti’s civilization jihad is shaming, suppressing and even criminalizing criticism of Islam. That is what the mufti of Australia is trying to do. He throws post-colonial guilt in for good measure, calling anyone who dissents from Islam a ‘racist’. (If in doubt, ALWAYS call ‘racist’…even though Islam isn’t a race.)

    He is consistent about Sharia law. No criticism of Islam no matter how small is acceptable, and no matter how valid. And no dirty kafir may ever criticize a Muslim. Sharia law considers a valid criticism of a Muslim to be ‘slander’ (ghiba). There is thus no valid criticism in Islam. Every critic must be censored.

    The mufti’s goal is to apply Sharia censorship. Ibrahim Abu Mohammed is an implacable enemy of free speech.

    • Jay Boo says

      Apr 24, 2016 at 7:40 am

      Sharia does not tolerate …
      Sharia law considers …
      Blah, Blah Blah

      He is clearly disloyal
      Give him a sandwich, put in a row boat with his deportation papers and tell him we are sorry that we are not good enough for you, and then point him to Dar-al-Islam where he will be much happier.

      Problem Solved.

      • Jay Boo says

        Apr 24, 2016 at 2:37 pm

        “And no dirty kafir may ever criticize a Muslim.”

        You had to go to that 1st person viewpoint ( “dirty kafir” well ) again Mortimer.
        Why not just say they call us that?

        So soon after you come to defense of a Muslim’s right to free speech.
        Here is some free speech

        I quote from Islam’s most holy book

        “— Dirty Muslims burn in hell. —-“

  5. Max Publius says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 9:56 am

    We need to realize this guy is on auto-pilot. The non-introspective laziness in this clown’s “analysis” is not an answer at all. It’s just automatic, like asking someone, “How’s it going?” and getting a “Pretty good” reply.
    Muslims fear the real answers, they are in total denial that the fault lies with their “religion.” Easier to blame others.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 23, 2016 at 4:01 pm

      Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohammed is highly educated about Sharia law, but nothing else. He’s narrow.

      He’s trying to impose Sharia on Australia, but will fail. His unexpressed opinion is that ‘Islam is perfect and Sharia law says it is impermissible to criticize Islam or for a dirty kafir to criticize a Muslim.’

      Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohammed is PERFECTLY consistent with Sharia, but to Western ears, his rant sounds incoherent mumbo jumbo. The mufti is DEADLY SERIOUS.

      DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS GUY.

      • Max Publius says

        Apr 23, 2016 at 8:01 pm

        I agree he is devious, but I also think he is lazy & simply used to phoning in accusations of “islamophobia” without much effort expended because the press eats it up without questioning him. He’s an rigid old man who’d get flustered, confused and pissed off if the press were to actually do its job of being critical of accusations made by someone like him with something wicked to gain.

  6. Jerry says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 10:06 am

    These blatant denials by muslims and their political suck-ups is blatant propaganda and a gross denial of the facts. These liars don’t even respect us enough to come up with a decent lie. It’s just the same old ludicrous excuses of “islamaphobia” and race hate. They’re bullies that think they can spit in our ear and we’ll call it truth.

    These heartless and passive-aggressive tactics by muslims are a bomb of social discord. It does nothing to improve relations and it aids their jihad attack on our culture and safety. These are tactics used by governments in time of war, what they’re doing. They have shut down all debate with these absurd denials and evasive tactics, you can’t talk with liars that ignore the truth.

    Their jihad is apparent in everything they do and say. We need to confront this massive assault on our communities and nation in equal measure. Islam does not want peace, it wants control and domination over the rights and religions of others. We don’t need a fancy argument to know that’s evil, we need only act against it.

  7. Westman says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 10:30 am

    Well, lets hope the court system doesn’t make a rich man of this weasel-word master. It would be Jizya For Taqiyya. If they do, it should be 2 Aussie cents followed by, “Now get the hell out of here mate!”

  8. Angemon says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 10:40 am

    The grand mufti of Australia is suing Sydney’s Daily Telegraph for defamation over two stories and a front page it ran in the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks depicting him as the three “unwise” monkeys.

    The monkeys should be suing the newspaper, not the terrorist-apologist.

    The Daily Telegraph claimed in both stories that Mohammed had shown a “stubborn refusal to condemn the Paris terror attacks” and accused him of “snubbing” a requiem mass held in the aftermath, attended on his behalf by the head of the Muslim Women’s Association, Maha Abdo….

    Well, did he?

  9. SoCalMike says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 11:20 am

    The time has come for a real backlash.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Apr 23, 2016 at 5:41 pm

      The Daily Telegraph should up the ante with more cartoons. Perhaps they should contact ex-Muslim Bosch Fawstin and commission him to do a weekly cartoon for them on the subject of Islam, Mohammed, and the global jihad.

      And contact the Israeli Cartoonist ‘Dry Bones’ and offer to reprint – paying him for it, of course! artists need to be properly paid for their work – every cartoon pertaining to Islam and Jihad that he has produced in the course of the past ten years. There would be plenty, and they would all be searingly, blackly funny… and accurate, oh yes, demonstrably accurate.

      And then they could sign up Lars Vilks and Kurt Westergaard, into the bargain.

  10. Xombie Rainbow says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 11:23 am

    Anyone non-Muslim who uses phrases like “religion of peace” or “religion of tolerance” has been bribed.

    Proof that the bribes are working is no western leader talks about:

    1) Female genital mutilation
    2) Punishing rape victims
    3) Honor killing
    4) Child Brides
    5) Sexually enslaving women
    6) Punishing homosexuals
    7) Murdering homosexuals
    8) Child marriage
    9) Domestic Violence
    10) Disciplining or Punishing Wives
    11) Beating Wives
    12) Violence Against Women
    13) Forced Marriage
    14) Women being beaten or raped for wearing “inappropriate clothing”
    15) Women being beaten or raped for leaving the house without a male relative as a chaperon
    16) Women and men beating beaten and sometimes killed for expressing inappropriate thoughts in a blog.
    17) Women and men being beaten and sometimes killed for being accused of disrespecting the religion of peace and tolerance.

    Also, the belief that flogging, stoning, beheading and imprisonment are appropriate punishments for adultery, apostasy, witchcraft and blasphemy.

    • Stephen says

      Apr 23, 2016 at 12:50 pm

      Lets not forget the truth no one seems to admit the widespread practice of sodomy especially with young boys. Islam does not forbid homosexual activity as with most oriental cultures for pleasures sake it forbids the practice of homosexual affection esp. in public. Anyone wonder why it is such a violent and vicious culture of death? It is not a civilized culture and it cannot be civilized without conversion!

      • firefoxhits says

        Apr 24, 2016 at 3:11 pm

        The major hurdle to any reformation lies in the fact that all the peaceful and religious parts of Islam as practiced in the Meccan period of Islam were abrogated by Mohammed during the Medinan period after he realized he could get what he wanted by the sword.
        To reform from that abrogation, and accept only the peaceful part of Islam is to deny Mohammed’s apparent message from his allah, which would be an act of blasphemy and apostacy. Islam hangs on its supremacy and the koran’s command for world dominance. To deny any part of it is to deny it all. Islam is the false religion of a false prophet, but it has a billion+ followers, half of which are fervent believers but are illiterate.
        Its like they’ve been painted into a corner, with those in command unwilling to give up their luxuries of position, and too fixed in the insanity of Islam to see anything other than the culmination of their belief in Armageddon.
        I still think the best hope for reform would come from deporting every migrant and every Islamist in Europe and North America back to the Middle East and have them stew in the backward society that Islam is, and then probably sooner than later they would realize that their continued fight against the world only brings them isolation and suffering and that they need to change. The west makes it far too easy for the Islamists to fight from the comfort of a life living on the dole. Let them have the caliphate life they say they want now back in Iran, Iraq, or whereever else they ran from. Islamists have not earned the life of freedom or any of its benefits.

        • Jon says

          Apr 24, 2016 at 6:26 pm

          As I understand it the passive partner in homosexual acts is the condemned one. The active member is seen as just doing what’s natural for a man to get sexual release. The recently shown clips and pics of men being thrown from high buildings have all featured passive partners being done to death.

          However the great paradoxical hypocrisy is that there are institutionalised areas of homosexuality that are acceptable, such as the Bachi Baji dancing boys of Afghanistan.

  11. Sonja says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 11:24 am

    Love it when they play the Islamophobic, racism card. Blaming the foreign policy of the West for the attacks. But….. in the Phillippines, Thailand, Taiwan, India, Pakistan and so on are also -almost daily- terrorist attacks by Muslims. So how does the foreign policy of the West or the racism in the West work there? But because main stream media hardly show any attacks in those countries being daily reality the people in the West don’t know about it and believe that these attacks are actually in some way their own fault because of their ‘racism’ or their goverments’ foreign policy.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 23, 2016 at 10:37 pm

      Islam is ‘perfect’ so may not be criticized. The kafirs refused to submit, so they have it coming to them. The kafirs should be silent and convert or get ready for more jihad.

      The muftis is basically saying: ‘Our jihadists are attacking you because you criticize Muslims…so silence!…or we will kill you. Kafirs do not have the right to criticize anything at all that Muslims do.’

      • Jay Boo says

        Apr 24, 2016 at 7:32 am

        mort

        — Dirty Muslims burn in hell. —-

    • Alistair cromley says

      Apr 24, 2016 at 7:21 pm

      Taiwan??? As far as I know there have been no islamic terror attacks there. Did you mean Indonesia?

  12. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 11:25 am

    The grans Mufti of Australia by blaming that brutal, murderous jihad massacre in Paris on “racism” and Islamophobia”has shown two things. First, his words prove the truth of that old saying.. Which is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.” Second, that Mufti is trying to shift the blame. That’s an old,lame and cheap trick. The real blame for those vicious Islamic murders in Paris the doctrine of violence and killing that are contain in the Koran, is in 4::89. 5:33. 9:,5,123. such verses in the Koran are the actual reason the the jihad massacre in Paris France. To be even more specific this “holy book” of Islam instructs in 9:111.”The believers fight in Allah’s Cause ,they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” This Koranic teaching was put into practice lat November in Paris. Likewise , the Koran also instructs in 47:4. “Whenever you encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…” Using firearms , grenades and other kinds of bombs as those Muslim who were also jihadists did that awful night in Paris can sure make a greater “slaughter among them” then a sword can. That grand Mufti who made that false and outrageous statement to shift the blame is playing the old game of “blaming the victim.” Shame on him.”

  13. Stephen says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 12:31 pm

    Can someone in charge just sat Fu** you to these a**holes!

  14. Stephen says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    “The grand mufti of Australia is suing Sydney’s Daily Telegraph for defamation over two stories and a front page it ran in the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks depicting him as the three “unwise” monkeys.”

    They should be sued for insulting monkeys not the mufti who cannot be insulted enough!

  15. Jay Boo says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 1:34 pm

    Just like MO – Australia’s Grand Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohammed is:
    — “displacing responsibility from Muslims entirely”
    ————————————————————

    Does his ‘religion’ allow him to criticize JIHAD against “infidels”?
    If the answer is no, then allowing the practice of Islam has to be no.

    Mr. Mohammed “Tear Down That Wall”
    Bulldoze that mosque.

  16. Infidel from Down Under says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 6:38 pm

    The mufti has lived in Australia for well over 20 years yet can speak virtually no English nor has he taken the time to even try and learn some. So I cannot see how he could sue over the “speaks no English” bit, which leads to what other parts of what the paper has written can the mufti claim are not true?

    I wonder if the mufti is actually aware he is in Sydney now not some Middle Eastern muslim boghole where contrary to Sharia Law , perjury is an offence punishable by jail in Australia

    • SpiritOf1683 says

      Apr 24, 2016 at 5:03 am

      He’s aware he’s in Sydney, and he’s also aware that he can get away with it.

  17. JMB says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 7:09 pm

    It should be noted that Australia has very strict racial vilification laws which make any discussion on race or immigration not only almost impossible, these laws also include severe penalties for any breach. The politically incorrect crimes of racism and Islamophobia are taken very seriously by the authorities here and unfortunately have the support of most media outlets.
    As such the Sydney Daily Telegraph is to be commended for it’s ongoing (often front page) stories which expose Islam in Australia for what it is.

    • Infidel from Down Under says

      Apr 23, 2016 at 7:23 pm

      You are 100% correct JMB re; Australia’s vilification laws and I fully support your sentiments

      However on this occasion as I understand it the Mufti is suing for defamation claiming the Daily Telegraph has published things which are either not true and/ or claiming he has been misrepresented damaging his reputation and some may rightfully query ‘what reputation’

      • JMB says

        Apr 23, 2016 at 9:23 pm

        Hi “Infidel”, Yes I understand and I hope that the Daily Telegraph wins it’s day in court, I also hope that any trial will give even more negative publicity to Islam in this country.

        And yes; “What reputation???”

        And as always, great to see comments from Australia on this web site.

    • No Fear says

      Apr 24, 2016 at 6:50 am

      There are laws in NSW preventing discrimination (by employers etc) on racial grounds.

      There are no laws in NSW against religious vilification. There are laws against religious vilification in Victoria.

      • Jon says

        Apr 24, 2016 at 7:08 am

        Australia hasn’t quite gone too far down the road of ‘racial vilification’ yet, but it’s in the offing. I foresee us getting like Sweden where any criticism of migrants, especially Muslims’ is viewed as a criminal offence.
        Just a matter of time………..

  18. particolor says

    Apr 24, 2016 at 3:23 am

    Get that Disease out of Australia before He Infects the rest of them more than they already Are !!

  19. SpiritOf1683 says

    Apr 24, 2016 at 5:02 am

    And too many people believe we’ve been ‘racist’ and ‘must have done something to offend them’, rather that coming up with the real reason, because what we find might ‘shock us’. A civilization which hates itself is doomed to fall.

  20. SpiritOf1683 says

    Apr 24, 2016 at 5:02 am

    And too many people believe we’ve been ‘racist’ and ‘must have done something to offend them’, rather than coming up with the real reason, because what we find might ‘shock us’. A civilization which hates itself is doomed to fall.

  21. Kasey says

    Apr 24, 2016 at 5:33 am

    And this guy is no Australian in the real sense of the word anyway, as , after 30 years here, he still can’t carry on a real conversation in English…so much for his support for integration and assimilation. Justmaintain Islamic enclaves within our society seems to be his motto as well.

    • Angemon says

      Apr 24, 2016 at 1:09 pm

      Kasey posted:

      “And this guy is no Australian in the real sense of the word anyway, as , after 30 years here, he still can’t carry on a real conversation in English…”

      Right? If for whatever reverse of fortune I found myself forced to spend 30 years in whatever hellhole he crawled out from, I’d be a published author by then – that is, assuming I wasn’t lynched by a raging mob over a charge of “blasphemy”.

  22. Jon says

    Apr 24, 2016 at 5:46 am

    For a man who speaks no English the Mufti exhibits acute sensitivity to what people have been saying about him. But maybe we owe that to his right hand man, Keysar Trad, who was such a loyal advocate for the previous Mufti, Al-Hilaly, a man who earned the opprobrium of the entire Australian population when he dismissed the girls raped by the Lebanese predatory gang as ‘uncovered meat only fit for cats’.

  23. Politicallyincorrectistruth says

    Apr 24, 2016 at 5:46 am

    What a dogs breath this mufti is, and a disgrace to Australia. Just like the previous mufti`s who have also said things like”the reason they get raped is because of the way they dress….like meat left in the street attracts flies.Another disgrace is the federal police who have time and time again failed prevent muslim attacks, in part because of this crazy “political correctness”. It`s gone too far in the way of political correctness… muslims can say almost anything about killing non-believers or openly carry signs saying how much they hate the country they`re in and wanting islam and sharia to rule the world,islamic schools and mosques preach hatred of non-beleivers and nothing is done because they would SCREAM racist islamaphobe.Islam is at war with the modern world..the fact that the majority is not violent, is irrelevant.Just like most germans were not violent, and most japanese were not violent. How many will die from muslim jihad before the penny drops and this insane political correctness is revised.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 24, 2016 at 6:56 am

      My message to our naïve Western elites: It’s the ideology, stupid.

      • Jay Boo says

        Apr 24, 2016 at 7:19 am

        Dirty Muslims burn in hell.

        Quoted from the Qur’an

      • Jay Boo says

        Apr 24, 2016 at 7:30 am

        My message to mort.
        Don’t call elites stupid if you insist on coyly beginning your paragraph with the Muslim point of view while playing innocent. Your passive aggressive dualism was condemned at Nuremberg. I have absolutely no doubt at all that you are growing a shaggy Just-in Case beard to go along with your perverse love of talking like a jihadi.

        Mort said a few comments up
        “Islam is ‘perfect’ so may not be criticized. The kafirs refused to submit, so they have it coming to them. The kafirs should be silent and convert or get ready for more jihad. ”

        At least be consistent.
        Don’t be a hypocrite and criticize the following

        — Dirty Muslims burn in hell. —-

        • Jay Boo says

          Apr 24, 2016 at 7:31 am

          P. S.

          — Dirty Muslims burn in hell. —-

  24. particolor says

    Apr 24, 2016 at 7:26 am

    Further to above. Who does that Self Appointed Jerk think he is ? The “of Australia” OFFENDS me !! Shitwit Elitist is all he is. And what Dribbles out of its Gob is Blasphemy and Hate Talk !! Why isn’t he ARRESTED ??There’s no Pope “of Australia” NOR Arch Bishop “of Australia” !

  25. Steven says

    Apr 24, 2016 at 8:02 am

    How about we take this bloody mufti to court for defamation by accused us “racism, Islamophobia, curtailing freedoms through securitisation, duplicitous foreign policies and military intervention”. The islamic terrorism attacks are nothing to do with these rubbishes…. the attacks are everywhere all over the world even in islamic countries….. it’s their passion and hatred and death-loving and inspiring from islamic clerics, mullahs, muslim leaders, imams and so-called prophet peadophile mo-ham-mad,

  26. Singh the Sikh says

    Apr 24, 2016 at 2:12 pm

    The cunning and ugly face of Islam. Parasite. Dole bludger. Of no real use to Australia. Just a threat to the country. He should do the honorable thing and FO back to his shit country. But these low-down inbred bastards has no honor to begin with.

  27. firefoxhits says

    Apr 24, 2016 at 2:37 pm

    Disregarding Obama’s closet love affair with Islam, why are we condoning the practices of a treasonous group on our soil. Islam’s beliefs in practice are sedition and treason and a declaration of war against all people and governments in our communities and our countries.
    Islam is the only religion that espouses discrimination, hatred, threats, terror, extortion, murder, brutality, barbaric mysogenystic treatment of women, the murder of homosexuals, the promotion of an assortment of human rights crimes, rape, child marriage, Imams sucking the tongues of little boys, pedophilia, necrophilia, beastiality, totalitarianism, Naziism, war, slavery, supremism, expansionism by the sword, or through lies, deception, utterance of threats, harrassment, acts of terror, violence, rape, civil disobedience, or any act either immoral or criminal that is done to advance the main goal of Islam: threaten, fight into a humiliated submission or kill all Jews, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, and all remaining infidels until world domination is achieved. This is the religion of Islam.
    It’s not hard to understand how Barry, er …Obama could get this confused with the definition of “peace”, but what sane community or country would knowingly want this in its midst.
    How insane have our leaders become believing that pandering to these barbaric hoardes and allowing any part of Sharia to be established is a good and healthy addition to the freedoms and liberties our forefathers bled and died to provide for us.
    Islam must be stopped dead in its tracks and all adherents provided an ultimatum: live here free abiding by the laws of the land or you will leave.
    Every no-go zone needs to be surrounded and everyone inside jailed and deported.
    All migration of Muslims must stop, the borders policed, and every non-authorized migrant deported.
    Every hate and dissent promoting Imam is to be jailed and that mosque closed.
    Every Sharia law court dismantled.
    Islam as a political system of belief must be outlawed as an eternal world threat, as was Naziism.
    Its high time this false religion of hatred and deception and terror was confronted and destroyed in our midst.
    Support and vote only for those that have the sense to recognize this evil threat and the courage to protect the precious freedom and liberties that so very many fought, bled, and died for.
    If we do not stand up to this cancerous scourge now, it may well be the end of us.

  28. Fessitude says

    Apr 24, 2016 at 4:04 pm

    Meet the new Grand Mufti — just like the old Grand Mufti.

    The old one being Fehmi Naji el-Imam of Melbourne (as of 2005 he was, apparently, general secretary of the Board of Imams of Victoria, Australia)

    At a round-table on Australian radio or TV, Fehmi said about a Muslim cleric at the time notoriously sayiing that Osama bin Liden was a “great man” —

    “Sheikh Omran is entitled to express the view that Osama bin Laden is a great man.”

    He then went on to weave some tawriya (= a variant on taqiyya, deploying studied ambiguity):

    “…but do I agree that bin Laden is responsible or not, I do not know. I am here, Sheikh Fehmi Naji El-Imam, in Australia, and bin Laden is, God knows where he is, I don’t know what he’s doing every day, what he decided and what he has done in the past or not. I cannot pin it down because there’s nothing confirmed to me 100 per cent that he has done it, or somebody confirmed to me he has not done it.”

    And as part of that report:

    “Sheikh Fehmi Naji El-Imam is the general secretary of the Board of Imams of Victoria and he told Natasha Simpson that some Muslims have been driven to violent acts because of the West’s actions in Iraq and Afghanistan…”

    Sound familiar?

    Margaret Coffey, participant at that round-table at the time, interjected:

    “This explanation for terrorism is labelled the Jerusalem theory by a prominent British Muslim…” [meaning, putting the blame off the terrorists and onto supposed “aggressors” who are thus supposedly provoking the attacks]

    Sheikh Fehmi stood his oily ground:

    “Attacking Iraq is the reason. Attacking Afghanistan is the reason. The case of Palestine…”

    Natasha Simpson, moderator:

    “So are you saying the actions of the West have driven some Muslims to this sort of action?”

    Sheikh Fehmi:

    “It is, it is.”

    Another report on that incident fleshed it out:

    THE refusal by Australia’s new Mufti to accept Osama bin Laden was responsible for the September 11 attacks has sparked a mass brawl online.

    In his first day in the job, the cleric Sheik Fehmi Naji el-Imam stuck by his long-standing view questioning whether bin Laden was behind the 2001 attacks.

    “What evidence?” he said when asked if he now accepted bin Laden’s role in the atrocity.

    Two years ago, when asked the same question, he said: “How would I know? He’s unable to be found.”

    –extracted from The World Today, 8/7/05

    Other fishy details about the former Grand Mufti of Australia:

    For example, he said he didn’t know that jihad camps run by the extremist Indonesian political movement, Ahlus Sunnah wal Jammah, which is associated with terrorist group Laskar Jihad, were using his mosque (Preston Mosque) for recruitment and organization — with Muslims from all parts of Australia — including Algerian, Somali, Lebanese, Palestinian and from the Philippines being part of these jihad camps.

    “Sheikh Fehmi said while mosque patrons ran many summer camps for children and adults, he was not aware of mosque patrons or members organising military camps.”

    “But Sheikh Fehmi said the existence of such camps, or the presence of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jammah could not be ruled out as the mosque had between 500 and 1000 members.”

    Fehmi must think we’re pretty stupid (and, sadly, he’s mostly right).

    Also, after it was found out that UK-based Al-Qaeda operative Abu Qatada had given a speech at Fehmi’s mosque and Fehmi was sought out for comment, it was reported that:

    While Sheikh Fehmi said he could not remember exactly what Qatada preached, he remembered the cleric as a “good speaker” who spoke of Islam in general and toured “various cities”.

    And Fehmi was quoted:

    “At the time, nobody knows [sic for “knew”] Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda just created lately. Don’t you worry, if we know he’s coming back we will inform the necessary authority.”

    Also:

    Sheik Fehmi – who has previously insisted Hezbollah militants are freedom fighters, not terrorists – also avoided giving direct answers to questions on extremists, jihad, and the colourful outbursts of his predecessor Taj Din al-Hilali.

    That’s the infamous al-Hilali who compared female victims of rape who he assumed must have dressed skimpily out in public to “raw meat” that would entice wild cats to get them.

    Speaking at his Melbourne mosque, Sheikh El-Imam tried to avoid questions about his controversial predecessor, who once compared scantily clad women to pieces of meat.

    The new mufti says his predecessor is a good man and has urged the media to be more accepting of people from other cultures.

    He has also blamed the media for labelling Sheikh Al Hilali as controversial and says he wants to see a better relationship with a more accepting media in the future….

    Sheikh El-Imam says his predecessor has a good side and has been misunderstood.

    “Maybe sometimes you let your tongue go too far, but still maybe you don’t mean to harm others,” he said.

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200706/s1948093.htm

  29. Nutjob says

    Apr 24, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    This guy is a fraud, no wonder Muslim kids are planning terrorist attacks in Australia when you’ve got an apologist like the mufti to encourage these plans.
    You only have to look at this muftis track record before he came to Australia, the speeches he has given and the books he has written, all are anti-western, anti judeo-Christian and downright abhorrent to most Australians.
    The media of course largely ignored this.
    The guy has been in Australia for 20 years, says he can’t speak English. Uses his lackeys to interpret for him, his speeches are full of derogatory references to non-Muslims, but he doesn’t attempt to hide it, free speech I guess, but will the media cover it, not a chance.

    The Muslim community in Australia are their own worst enemy, they just don’t get it, that’s why they’ll continue to blame everything on islamophobia.

  30. Telh says

    Apr 24, 2016 at 7:45 pm

    There is nothing ‘grand’ about this Mufti. Just another parasite suffering from the Muslim disease. A massive inferiority complex and a paranoid need to blame anyone/everyone else.

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