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Hugh Fitzgerald: What’s Up Down Under

Jul 14, 2016 9:32 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

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Pauline Hanson is a well-known political figure in Australia whose general anti-immigrant stance has recently become much more focused on Muslim immigration. After years in the political wilderness, on July 2 Hanson was elected, as a Senator, to the Australian Parliament. This has greatly alarmed Muslims and their apologists. The comments on her unexpected victory were hysterical in tone, deploring her “racism” and “bigotry” and her “spreading racist and Islamophobic vitriol and abuse which threatens and marginalizes” and so on and so predictably forth. Her party, One Nation, includes in its platform a ban on new mosques and on halal certification, and a policy of zero-net migration (where the numbers of migrants who are admitted to Australia match the number of permanent departures each year).

One Nation is not the only party making such proposals; three other smaller parties, for example, have included a ban on halal certification in their platforms. But what has been supported only by One Nation, and deserves respectful attention, is Hanson’s proposal that a Royal Commission be appointed to study Islam. Royal commissions are ad hoc formal inquiries into matters of great significance, usually staffed by retired judges; Hanson wants one set up to determine whether Islam is a “religion or an ideology” or, in her forthright formulation, “Let’s determine if it is a religion or a political ideology trying to undermine our culture.”

By this one assumes Hanson means to have asked, and answered, a series of questions that the political and media elites have not addressed. These would likely include: Is Islam akin to other faiths, in what it asks or demands of its adherents? In Islam is the “church” separate from or part of the “state”? What claim to worldly power does Islam make? Is the role of Islam limited in its claims on individual believers, or does it attempt to supply them with a Complete Regulation of Life? What does it mean when Believers are to think of themselves as members of a collective Umma (the Community of Believers), all over the world, who have not merely the right but the duty to spread the faith through every possible means, including but not limited to force? Does Islam, as some have claimed, view the world as divided between Believers and Non-Believers, that is, between Dar al-Islam, the territory where Islam dominates and Muslims rule, and Dar al-Harb, where Islam does not yet dominate and Infidels, for now, still rule? Does Islam encourage free and skeptical inquiry or severely limit such inquiry by punishing any questioning of the faith? Does Islam permit Believers to leave the faith, or does it, rather, prescribe death as the proper punishment for apostasy? Does Islam allow for equal treatment of non-Muslims under Muslim rule? What, according to Islam, are the rights of women?

These are the sorts of questions that a Royal Commission might take as its remit, if Pauline Hanson were to get her way. And from everything we now read, many Australians, like the Germans and even Canadians, who have until now been among the most open and welcoming to migrants, are having second thoughts about the desirability of Muslim immigrants. There is a general unease in the West about the numbers of Muslim “refugees” arriving, about their behavior once in the West, especially toward Western women, about the increased threat of domestic terrorism, about the assertiveness of Muslims who reject integration but attempt, rather, to force changes in Western societies in order to accommodate their mores. This unease only grows with the continuing pollyannish claims of apologists that “diversity is wonderful,” or the attempts to silence any criticism of Islam by wielding the billy-club of “Islamophobia.” It has dawned on many people in the West that those who are in power have a responsibility to study both Islam, and how Muslims have treated non-Muslims over the past 1400 years, after they conquered so many lands and subjugated so many non-Muslim peoples. Hanson and her One Nation party believe it makes sense to study the texts and teachings of Islam to determine if it looks more like what we think of as a religion – Christianity, say, or Judaism – or more like a totalitarian political movement, akin to Fascism or Communism, bent on conquest, power, and control.

Pauline Hanson’s request for a Royal Commission apparently did not go down well with a figure on the Australian Left, one Anne Aly, who is described in a puff piece in The West Australian as “Dr Aly, a renowned counter-terrorism expert” who, elected at the same time as Pauline Hanson, has become the first female Muslim in Australia’s Parliament. Her “renowned counter-terrorism” expertise had previously been on display in a letter she wrote to a court on behalf of a radical Islamic preacher, offering a character reference for Junaid Thorne, who, because of his comments, which included publicly supporting the Charlie Hebdo massacre, calling Jews and Christians “filthy rapists,” and defending his own brother, who had tried to flee Australia to join the Islamic State, had been forbidden from flying. Thorne had defied the ban and taken a plane nonetheless, and it was for this that he was facing punishment. Dr. Aly suggested to the court that instead of being given prison time, Thorne could be moved to Perth, where he could enroll in one of her “de-radicalization” programs. This would be a way, she wrote, of keeping Junaid Thorne “on the right side of the law.” The New South Wales District Court was not impressed; instead of Anne Aly’s program in Perth, Thorne got the jail time he deserved.

Anne Aly – I’m not sure who decided she should be called a “renowned counter-terrorism expert,” but I suspect Anne Aly herself — has been, in the real world, an adjunct professor and “Early Career Research Fellow” at Curtin University. She is greatly alarmed by Pauline Hanson’s proposal for a Royal Commission that would look into Islam. This was, she sternly warned, a “divisive” proposal. But what does Anne Aly mean? Why would such a proposal be “divisive” – or rather, how can she know in advance that it would be “divisive”? If there is nothing to be discovered about Islam that would alarm Infidels, then what is there for Muslims to worry about? Clearly Dr. Aly believes that more information about Islam, made public by a Royal Commission, would not be reassuring to Infidels but, rather, cause unspecified “divisions.” What Dr. Aly wants, what many other Muslims in the West want, is to be able to continue to suppress such study of Islam, where they cannot control the outcome, for as long as possible. If greater knowledge of Islam would raise the level of Infidel anxiety – i.e., be “divisive” — then such knowledge must not be sought in the first place.

But Pauline Hanson is once again a formidable political force in Australia, and Aly may not be able to stop that proposed Royal Commission. “I think Hanson will have a huge impact on how Islam is discussed in Australia,” political commentator Margo Kingston said. “Right now these matters are not discussed or only discussed by the far-right. But now it’ll go mainstream.”

So what else can the anne-alys of this world do except what they’ve been doing all along, to keep issuing bromides about “diversity” (Always Good) and “Islamophobia” (Always Bad) in the hope that that will be enough to shut down thought, and then all shall be well, all manner of things shall be well, with a peace that — as per usual, I’m afraid, and not only in Australia — passeth understanding?

 

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  1. JSLA says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 10:01 am

    It’s good to see Hugh Fitgerald pick up his mighty pen, he wields it like a sword.

    • John spielman says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 10:36 am

      Agree

    • William says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 2:15 pm

      The pen in Mr. Fitzgerald’s hand is like Excalibur in King Arthur’s.

      • William says

        Jul 14, 2016 at 2:16 pm

        It makes a clean cleft.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 5:30 pm

      Indeed so.

  2. Emilie Green says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 10:06 am

    “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”

    Louis Brandeis

  3. PRCS says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 10:08 am

    And this Australian politician, too:

    Kirralie Smith

    http://tinyurl.com/znrvbs9

    “One policy Smith put forward was to force mosques, above any other place of worship, to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights…as she stated that only the Islamic community would “have a problem with it.”

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 5:32 pm

      Thanks, PRCS.

    • Lioness says

      Jul 15, 2016 at 11:59 am

      They will sign the declaration, big deal. Taqiya in action. They will laugh at it all the way to the next jihad.

      • Susan says

        Jul 17, 2016 at 10:17 pm

        Spot on Lioness! Sacred Deception – Taqiyya. Watch this 4 minutes video, time well spent so you understand the lie/deception. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg5TY5CPrzk

  4. andra says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 10:11 am

    Lucky Australia. Even ithough there are a lot of islamophiles and Muslims already, it seems that free speech is still a value over there. In Germany yesterday there have been raids in homes of people who are accused to have written hate speech in the word wide web. Germany develops to a surveillance state more and more. Australia still has a Chance to survive.

    • Michael Laudahn says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 10:33 am

      Germany has never had a chance to really grow up, under the heel of its traditionally totalitarian judiciary always serving the powers that be in any given era. It’s one of few countries where you still will be prosecuted if you have ‘insulted’ (‘beleidigung’) someone’s feelings, and there is even a special sub-category to protect the government’s civil servants from such tort called ‘beamten-beleidigung’ – insult to a civil servant. Go figure.

    • Stewart Davies says

      Jul 15, 2016 at 2:55 am

      This diabolically evil creed is protected, and its goal of the subjugation and conquest of the West is essentially facilitated by the very political and legal institutions of the “free, democratic” societies that Islam is hell bent on annihilating. This is what we euphemistically call “political correctness”. Do you seriously suppose that what is in reality cultural marxism has been any less incorporated into the politcal and social fabric of Australia than is the case in France, or Germany, or the U.K. or North America? Because I can assure you that such is indeed the case. And at times like this, it drives me to the point of despair.

    • Anne Smith says

      Jul 15, 2016 at 5:21 am

      Hardly surprising when you consider that Merkel grew up and flourished politically in East Germany where the infamous Stasi network ruled the state. Perhaps she is just introducing the old time honoured Stasi system into today’s Germany.

  5. Dum Spiro says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 10:17 am

    Everyone in the US and Canada should study Islam objectively. A good quick starting point would be YouTube videos featuring Robert Spencer and Dr. Bill Warner.

    Those videos (barring any threatened censorship) should be readily available…
    — Spero

  6. Angemon says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 10:20 am

    Dr. Aly suggested to the court that instead of being given prison time, Thorne could be moved to Perth, where he could enroll in one of her “de-radicalization” programs.

    I, for one, believe that Ali’s – sorry, Aly’s – alleged “de-radicalization” programs should be carefully scrutinized. Are they having the expected results? What’s being taught in them?

    • Jack Diamond says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 11:22 am

      What kind of de-radicalization program? The kind to get her invited to White House as part of a “counter violent extremism” summit. She is all about “violent extremism” the way Obama is.

      Another Australian puff piece on her says, “Aly has spent the past decade trying to get inside the heads of extremists of all kinds, from right-wing nationalists to jihadis.” And always the unfair anti-Muslim bias is there: “There are anti-­Islamic groups like ‘Reclaim Australia’ or ‘Ban Halal’ posting up messages that are ­violent, like ‘Kill all the Muslims’. Yet their houses aren’t ­getting raided” she says.

      The article continues: “We talk about Anders Breivik, the Norwegian right-wing extremist who gunned down and blew up 77 people in 2011, and this leads neatly into Aly’s theory about the similarities between jihadis and ultra-nationalists.”

      And how her work began after 9/11 when “I wrote my first letter to the newspapers after I saw a mother and teenage daughter sneering and snickering as they walked behind a woman in a hijab. We were ­suddenly sanctioning this kind of behaviour. My fear was not of more terrorism, but of a backlash against my boys.”

      Her doctorate was not on terrorism, but rather “The Fear of Terrorism.”

      Her sole focus on Islamic violent extremism is the Islamic State, which, predictably, she says is not real Islam at all and she goes into the usual suspects–bigotry, lack of jobs, the alienation of youth, the Internet, mental illness–anything but the teachings of Islam. No, she isn’t “de-radicalizing” any Muslim youth but she fighting to bring in more immigrants from the UNHCR, from a seat in Parliament (a seat she won, apparently, after the redrawing of the district to include many more Muslim voters).
      http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine/how-anne-aly-is-fighting-the-radicalisation-of-young-muslims/news-story/f9d57293a83597daae6b1c5c7326e07a

      • Jack Diamond says

        Jul 14, 2016 at 11:26 am

        “is fighting to bring in more (Muslim) immigrants from the UNHCR”

    • discernable says

      Jul 15, 2016 at 2:30 am

      “de-radicalization program” mmmmm. The authorities ask the question; “what is causing the radicalization of so many young Muslims”. That’s totally the wrong question. When you read the koran you see that it’s the koran itself that is radicalizing them, it spews nothing but hate. The right question that should be asked is: what is making muslims moderate, because it’s most assuredly not the Koran.

      • Jack Diamond says

        Jul 15, 2016 at 9:39 am

        Then you’d get the response Hamid Mir made to Robert Spencer when he quoted from the Qur’an: “Why are you pushing me to adopt a more radical form of Islam?”

    • j_not_a says

      Jul 15, 2016 at 9:39 am

      The only “deradicalization plan” that would work on a moozlim would be a lobotomy,

      • Tom Binard says

        Jul 16, 2016 at 11:24 am

        A lobotomy done with a .308…

    • ninetyninepct says

      Jul 15, 2016 at 9:53 am

      “de-radicalization” = electric chair.

  7. Hwilsongoon says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 10:25 am

    One Nation’s policies seem sane and civilized. Therefore the far left and islamists have branded them as racists, neo nazis, fascists and knuckle dragging skinheads.

    Patton shouldve been allowed to have rearmed the Germans and wiped out Communism.

    It’s patently obvious the Communists won the udeological cold war.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 5:51 pm

      There are a lot of sane voices in Australia–but hardly all. Anne Aly is based there, as well, along with other Muslims and Muslim appeasers. Like most of the West, it is a mixed bag. Australia is likely better than most Western nations, though–something for Aussies to be proud of.

      • JAR says

        Jul 14, 2016 at 6:38 pm

        It seems that Aly is an ally to the true-believer Alis of this world.
        May Sen. Hanson help see to it that “This unease only grows” there and elsewhere, leading to efforts in real “counter-terrorism.”

    • Guest says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 5:54 pm

      I read the policies and thought so too. In particular the policy on immigration is absolutely sane:

      “One Nation believes in balanced, zero net immigration (subject to review depending on economic conditions)” and “Current policy is encouraging large numbers of illegal migrants and it is time Australia, while recognising the contribution made by migrants in the past, sends to the world the message that mass immigration has passed its “use by date.”

      Every country in this over-populated world should employ this policy. It is totally sane. Countries that continue to produce more people than they can support need to have better contraception and health care.

      • Peggy says

        Jul 14, 2016 at 7:31 pm

        Yes, migrants have made a huge contribution to Australia, especially on the Snowy Mountains Scheme and the Gas Pipeline in the 70s. Migrants have introduced (not forced) their cuisine and cafes, especially Lygon Street and Lonsdale Street in Melbourne.
        BUT, these are migrants from Christian countries of similar values and integration was not an issue not the Muslims who cannot fit in to any society.
        I don’t have a problem with immigration provided it’s monitored and people are carefully chosen on basis of what is needed here and if they come from a similar culture.

        • Peggy says

          Jul 14, 2016 at 7:35 pm

          Sorry, I forgot the Chinese influence which has been very positive.
          Chinatown is great.
          Actually everyone except for Muslims offers their food and culture to be sampled. Muslims shove it down our throats and demand that we take it or else.

  8. Ian says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 10:26 am

    It’s great to see Pauline flying the flag for Australians. While I would prefer to see the Australian Liberty Alliance with a more articulate and considered view on Islam there, the fact is Pauline had the public profile and notoriety to get a Senate spot and ALA couldn’t yet.
    The downside is her platform 20 years ago of being anti Asian immigration and being, as we call in Australia, a bit of a bogan. She was never a racist in the genuine sense, she just has common sense and pride in protecting our core values. But she waa probably a bit too early in seeing and understanding the real threat. Ironically, I think it is our high Chinese and Indian immigration that keeps us well placed not to be demographically overwhelmed as quickly like Europe and then a beacon for Western flight.
    But in a very crossbench Senate I am so proud that there is a voice for what’s demanded in this article. The problem is that outside Queensland it’s toxic to support Pauline, not just for fear of “Islamophobia” but her history albeit as distorted by the media. So the most respected anti Islam thinkers would not want to support her, even Cory Bernardi I suspect.
    Anyway, I love her bravery and her iconic status as the “fish and chip shop owner” who said enoughs enough! and put it all on the line for her values and culture.A culture worth defending.

    • Guest says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 6:04 pm

      “Ironically, I think it is our high Chinese and Indian immigration that keeps us well placed not to be demographically overwhelmed as quickly like Europe and then a beacon for Western flight.”

      Yes. In New Zealand I’m grateful for the Asian immigrants that are excelling in the sciences and arts and among whom I see women taking the same opportunities as men. Another advantage we have in Australia and NZ is that we have a points-based immigration system. I do think this does need to be tweaked to keep out people with misogynist, homophobic and dhimmi-hating views (how exactly though?).

      And for sheer infrastructural reasons, a zero-net policy is needed here too (people are sleeping in cars!).

      I hope her ideas aren’t deemed too toxic for wider Australian discussion. How do you see it? In Germany the elite see the AfD (Alternative for Germany) party as far-right and toxic, yet some of their sensible ideas (eg copying the Australian points-based immigration system) are slowly creeping into mainstream party thinking, because there is clear public support. Could that happen in Australia?

      • Ian says

        Jul 15, 2016 at 6:51 am

        Thanks for responding. The key issue is Pauline’s “baggage”. But the more the death cult keep killing in the West the more people will turn to her, if even secretly in the ballot box. Aus and NZ are best placed to wake up when it gets beyond a joke. Not only demographically but I still believe when push comes to shove we’ll not take any more shit. The US too who are, as always, the leader in freedom. Canada I don’t know enough about. Europe is rooted!

    • Roberts says

      Jul 15, 2016 at 5:53 am

      Ditto – let’s hope the Australian Liberty Alliance keep going strong. Indeed at the recent election, 1.2mio Australians voted for right parties that have as a basic platform the immediate cessation of Muslim immigration. Once that’s in place, we’ll see where we go from there

  9. Jay Boo says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 10:39 am

    We need more Senator Hanson’s in the US.

    Is Islam a religion or a political ideology?
    Muslims try to indoctrinate children and puppets in video.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 10:58 am

      ARE YOU SLEEPING ??
      (Frère Jacques)
      How pertinent that the Muslims would choose the nursery rhyme (Frère Jacques) for their melody

      The song tells the story of a sleeping monk who needs to wake up in order to ring the church bells for morning mass

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC6rvbxdywg

      Translation
      Are you sleeping, are you sleeping?
      Brother John, Brother John?
      Morning bells are ringing, morning bells are ringing
      Ding ding dong, ding ding dong.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 6:23 pm

      *Blearaaaaaaage*

      Yes, they had to rip off the Western Christian children’s song “Frère Jacques”, here.

      Here’s a more typical “Beautiful Nasheed”:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOySbDaFp7Y

      These vile things, usually with blood-spattered imageryand bristling with Kalashnikovs, are all over the web.

    • billybob says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 6:45 pm

      The was a long commercial for “Ali’s Snack Bar”.

  10. Angry Aussie says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 10:59 am

    I am pleased to say, Pauline Hanson stems from my own state of Queensland, and I most definitely did vote for her (alongside Kirrilea Smith’s Australian Liberty Aliance party (endorsed by Geert Wilders)). Pauline is a truly remarkable woman. Despite being jailed by a previous government on falsified electoral fraud charges, and released, Pauline has a charisma that resonates with the common people. She is a feisty woman of her word. She has grown in the past 20 years and has a much larger following now than ever before.

    I have had the pleasure of attending several functions and rallies where Pauline has been guest speaker and has mingled with the masses afterwards. She is very likeable. She is a real threat to the career politicians because she will not be paid off by Islam.

    Anne Aly is from the opposite side of the country (originally from Egypt). Anne Aly commonly features on Islamo-friendly shows like Q&A on our government funded ABC network. She openly calls to embrace extremists (without calling them extremists). She refers to them as ‘disengaged youth’ and reminds the rest of Australia how the path they have wandered down is somehow mainstream Australia’s fault. She refuses to accept that Islam and the Quran are directly responsible. Anne Aly has been supportive of the likes of Junaid Thorne and Zaky Mallah (and more). In her ideal world, these type of people should be handed highly paid and secure government positions to help them recover from their disenfranchised state and Australians should be stupid enough to grant her demands. Absolutely ridiculous.

    Zaky Mallah has been a trouble maker who has been jailed for death threats against the Australian Federal Police. He was released on a technicality. Junaid Thorne has been deported from Saudi Arabia for his radical views and teachings of Islam. Now that’s really saying something.

    If there in any person worthy of cloning in Australia right now, it’s Pauline Hanson. Australia needs her.

    Sadly it may be too little too late. We have a Prime Minister and Opposition Leader hellbent on destroying our country. Prior to the recent federal election, they passed legislation that enables our infrastructure to be sold off to the Arabs. They also made allowances in the budget to expand Sharia Banking in Australia.

    We currently have Islamists who are meant to be in solitary confinement, in our Super Max jail, bashing people who refuse forced conversion to Islam. We have a jail official saying one thing, then the Dept of Corrections saying another. I am counting on Pauline to help sort out this nonsense. The sooner the West grows a pair big enough to name the demon, the better off we will all be.

    http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-14/nsw-prison-brawl-sparked-by-attempt-to-convert-inmates-to-islam/7628128

    • Peggy says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 6:57 pm

      I too have voted for as anti Islam parties.
      Australian Christians is also a good party to vote for. They are formed by Vickie Jensen who used to be with The Q Society of Australia.
      Unfortunately the Liberals have won enough seats to govern in their own right in the H of R but at least we have a senate which is a mixed bag.
      I have spoken to as many people as I could before the election and informed them that voting for Labor or Liberal is not advisable even though I knew that one of the parties will take office, but I was hoping that they would have to rely on minor parties to form government.

      Comforting to know that so many people have turned away from the two major parties and are looking for answers in elsewhere.

  11. eduardo odraude says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 11:01 am

    Because I love diversity and multiculturalism, I’m against Islam: When Islam becomes strong enough, it tends to impose a monoculture and destroy freedom.

    To get more of the multiculturalists on our side, we need to stop attacking multiculturalists for their excesses (such as being so tolerant that they include a culture that will destroy multiculturalism), and start telling them we resist Islam because it will destroy multiculturalism. If the left and right remain as divided as they currently are, Islam stands a much better chance of dominating in the end. So let’s stop attacking multiculturalists and start pointing out that Islam imposes a monoculture.

    • Kay says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 1:52 pm

      Yes. I agree.
      Most of my connections consider themselves “progressive” and thus remain ignorant of the threat of Islam (to freedom and diversity) because they are stymied by the verbiage (you all know it) thrown at those who know anything about Islam.

      Freedom of speech here is good; AND we need to figure out how to increase awareness into other sub-groups of Americans.

    • KnowThyEnemy says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 2:30 pm

      You have made a very good point. Multiculturalism is not the problem. Islam is! Unfortunately, the liberals failed to take Islam to task for its subversive nature and now paying the price for it as most western anti-Islamists are revolting against multiculturalism itself!

      There is a lesson here for people who immigrate from foreign places and like to identify themselves as hyphenated-Americans (or hyphenated-Australians, etc). They should not be trying to protect other immigrants (or their culture/religion) who are venomous because if they do, they themselves will be thrown under the steam roller along with the bad guys. That is how things work in the real world!

      • Margaret Williams says

        Jul 18, 2016 at 3:29 am

        It is the truth to say that multiculturalism is not the problem. In earlier years immigrants were sourced from European countries and Asian refugees that had created a successful blend of cultures that was capable of living together in peace and harmony

        Since the influx of muslims and Middle Eastern people it is obvious that we will never again know that same unity. These people will never assimilate, obey our laws nor adopt our social structures. It is clear that we desperately need a lot more Pauline Hansen’s

        The islamic doctrine is to dominate and destroy our way of life as well as our Legal and Monetary systems. This is a calamity that has been allowed to eventuate because ALL the major political parties have allowed them selves to to become nothing better than political prostitutes for the use of the muslims hordes.

    • Guest says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 8:37 pm

      Excellent points, I agree. I must say, a lot of comments on this post are looking truly liberal, pro-equality and against oppression. It’s good to hear these voices in the anti-jihad movement.

  12. efoc says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 11:16 am

    Good article Hugh, glad you have picked up on this. “Dr” Aly is an imbecile….I’ve never seen someone spew such trash. It’s unbelievable she could be elected. She is as dishonest as they come and she would never debate a serious scholar like Robert Spencer because she knows she hasn’t got the goods. A royal commission about Islam is perfect and obviously makes Aly queasy because it would expose her poisonous ideology for what it really is. Then she would have no place to turn to.

    • Angry Aussie says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 12:48 pm

      Agree 100%.

      • efoc says

        Jul 14, 2016 at 1:12 pm

        Thanks Angry Aussie.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 6:31 pm

      I don’t think Aly is an imbecile–instead, she is Taqiyya artist, deliberately whitewashing the horrors of Islam.

      • Roberts says

        Jul 15, 2016 at 5:54 am

        As I write, she’s on the news apologising over the event

    • Peggy says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 7:00 pm

      I don’t know anything about the electorate she represents but either there are a lot of Muslims there or a lot of idiots.

    • Baseplate says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 10:39 pm

      Though I cannot remember the context, a couple of years ago, Aly made a statement to the media that, in Islam, men and women are considered equal. Doesn’t get any more Taqiyya than that.

      • Jenny H says

        Jul 15, 2016 at 10:30 am

        Baseplate, I think men and women are supposedly considered spiritually equal, although the theology doesn’t support that and the reality on Earth and in the Muslim afterlife is much different.

  13. Jay Boo says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 12:09 pm

    A bit Off topic
    The Victimhood Game

    Muslims and black RACISTS of Black Lives Matter Playing the same game.
    Have they no shame at all?
    Before the innocent police officers are even buried they are crowing the victimhood meme

    Black celebrity STUNT at

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/keys-calls-famous-friends-star-racial-justice-vide-220206909.html

  14. awake says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 12:19 pm

    The only effective de-radicalization program for Muslims is apostasy.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 14, 2016 at 6:34 pm

      So true.

  15. Mirren10 says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 4:02 pm

    “Let’s determine if it is a religion or a political ideology trying to undermine our culture.”

    The trouble is, it’s **both**, as they’ll find out if/when they pursue this Royal Commission. But kudos to Pauline Hanson. It seems that people *are* waking up, however gradually.

    As for Ann Aly, isn’t she the one who refused to debate Robert, and then said she had received a load of ‘hate mail’ ?

  16. Mirren10 says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 4:04 pm

    Yes, here she is. Meretricious, lying bint.

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/australia-muslim-prof-claims-she-got-hate-mail-after-her-deceptions-exposed

  17. gravenimage says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 5:28 pm

    Bravo Pauline Hanson!

    And what else do we know about the sinister Anne Aly?

    Here she is, lamenting “harsh law enforcement action that has defined the government’s approach to de-radicalisation”–in other words, any attempt to oppose violent Jihad terror.

    She lambastes arresting Jihad terrorists as “seeing men being taken away from their mothers”. She says they should not be convicted, because “prison only makes them more violent”.

    http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/lunch-with-anne-azza-aly-20160203-gml7n8.html

    Her supposed “deradicalization” site, the vaguely titled “People Against Radical Extremism (PAVE)” makes no explicit mention of Islam at all.

    The page on “Violent Extremism”–which she cutely calls “VE”–mentions Christian extremists, Zionists, reformers (!), radical left-wing, radical right-wing, ethno-nationalism, and even extreme environmentalism–never mind that the only example given is a small group in the US who never harmed anyone, and who have all since peacefully turned themselves in.

    “Militant Islamism” is buried in the fine print. You would *never* get the sense from this that Islam is by far the most violent creed, and has been responsible for almost 29,000 terrorist attacks just since 9/11.

    http://www.pave.net.au/

    In other words, this is not about fighting violent Jihad, but just about whitewash and obfuscation.

  18. JayT says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 7:23 pm

    Can’t they handle this problem in a similar way to the salties? Posting signs to beware of crocodiles can also be adopted to signs that state beware of Jihadists. Such signs can be posted at every mosque. At restaurants that serve pork and alcohol, they can post signs indicating it’s an Islamist free zone……

  19. William Bernick says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    Islam is definetly not a religion.It is a Cult… a bloodthirsty cult……
    the definition of islam… is submission…. in fact… forced-submission…!!!!

    so .. what kind of organisation uses ..’deadly-force’ to keep its’ adherents.. in line…???

  20. common sense says

    Jul 14, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    All they have to do is consult Robert Spencer and Co to investigate what Islam is. Even Robert’s videos and a few phone calls will suffice. The disingenuous lies of Islam and Jihad that are broached here are not difficult to comprehend.

    Tidbits of good news are popping through here and there. Maybe Europe will see the truth before its too late. Austria did it in April, Switzerland is following suit in some regards. January can’t come soon enough in the US.

  21. Kasey says

    Jul 15, 2016 at 5:41 am

    Many Australians have become frustrated by our politically correct timid politicians not confronting the Islamic threats to not only Australia but the whole World. Thus the election of not only Paulone Hansen but so many other independents or minor parties other than the big 3.

  22. Roberts says

    Jul 15, 2016 at 5:57 am

    Make no mistake, we in Australia will fight Islam at every corner. We’ve stopped their sea invasion and with the return of Pailine Hanson, the next step is a complete ban on any Muslim residency visas. Who knows after that

  23. Scorpio says

    Jul 15, 2016 at 6:19 am

    I do not doubt that Australia or any Western country could do with many more people like Pauline Hanson but is there any need for a Royal Commission on, or a study into, the rights and wrongs of Islam? We already know the answers to the “benefits” that Islam brings to our communities; indeed the Islamists spare no opportunity to explain in graphic detail what it means to be Muslim and consequences of us not embracing this cult. Just ask the French, they receive lessons on a very regular basis but they are remarkably slow learners.

    It is therefore not necessary to glean more information about this poisonous cult but to act on the immense amount of data that is already known and to devise a means of permanently eradicating the scourge of Islam from its influence in the West.

  24. Rik says

    Jul 17, 2016 at 5:59 am

    This article actually gives me a little hope , more politicians like this need to lift us out of this islamic dark age . Dare we hope for more.

    Much Respect Hugh Fitzgerald brilliantly written.

  25. Manuele says

    Jul 21, 2016 at 5:27 am

    My congratulation to Pauline Hansen and her victory as a Senator, to the Australian Parliament. Every Australians Christians especially Pacific Islanders to support her. The future of everyone depends on this Party accept the Muslims and their BIGOTRY

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