This is from BuzzFeed, and so the vicious bias is not surprising, but this is a particularly striking, and revolting, example of a hard-Left propagandist running interference for the imposition of Sharia blasphemy laws. Muslim MP Anne Aly explains that “anti-Muslim hatred” should be considered racist.
No violence against any innocent person is ever justified, whether it’s called “racism” or not. The problem here is that numerous Islamic groups have made clear that in referring to “anti-Muslim hatred,” they mean not just attacks on or harassment of innocent Muslims, but also any honest analysis of how jihad terrorists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and make recruits among peaceful Muslims. Thus to label this racist is an attempt to shut down all critical analysis of the jihad terrorists’ motivating ideology; they will then be able to advance unopposed and unimpeded.
Anne Aly would have you believe that those who oppose jihad terror and Sharia supremacism “have the same motivations as racism.” Yes, that’s right: in Anne Aly’s world, opposing jihad terror and speaking about its Qur’anic justifications stems from the same impulse as segregated drinking fountains. She doesn’t even entertain the possibility that someone might oppose jihad terror and Sharia oppression out of a concern to preserve and defend societies that respect human rights and the freedom of speech.
More below.
“This Muslim Politician Nailed Why The ‘Islam Is Not A Race’ Argument Doesn’t Work,” by Mark Di Stefano, BuzzFeed, April 1, 2017:
Last week Labor’s Dr Anne Aly sparked conservative outrage as parliament debated reforming Australia’s Racist Discrimination Act, by suggesting attacks aimed at Muslims should also be covered under the law.
Aly sat down for the latest episode of BuzzFeed Australia’s political podcast Is It On?, laying out *her* argument for anti-Muslim hatred being considered racist.
BuzzFeed wouldn’t dream, of course, of letting opponents of her measure explain themselves.
She is also well aware of the “but Islam is not a race” retort used by trolls online:
You see, it’s only “trolls online” who dare to assert that Islam is not a race. No serious person would think such a crazy thing.
Aly explains:
Because (attacks on Muslims) have the same motivations as racism and the same impacts of racism. So you can define racism as only being about a certain category or in terms of its mobilisers and its impacts. If you look at its mobilisers then you would consider hate speech against Muslims, racism.
BuzzFeed then bats down another objection to Aly’s absurd argument:
Dr Aly, who worked as de-radicalisation expert
On “deradicalization,” see here.
before entering parliament last year, brushed off a claim by Liberal MP Tim Wilson that she’s actually arguing for blasphemy laws.
She pointed to the fact that hatred against Jewish people and Sikhs could both be protected under the Act’s controversial 18C, despite neither being “a race”….
Australia needs to clarify what exactly a “race” is, and how it proposes to distinguish between legitimate criticism and “racism.” In any case, if Aly’s proposal is adopted, it will be the death of Australia as a free society.
EmHotep says
Islam will use democracy especially western democracy to reach its target. This is taqiyya to get protection for any type of muslim including the terrorist ones. Do not let it happen…
The Confessions says
Anne Aly: how’s that’s “deradicalization” going? Got any good results yet? Please do tell.
This woman is a joke but a danger to a free society all the same.
Richard Paulsen says
How come muslims are allowed to sperad its garbish all over the world having the best livingstandards and human laws in the world.
Must join agatinst. Out with ther traitors – indeed traitors – and in with those able to rule to stop islam. Reconquista.
Richard Paulsen says
Muslim know how to do. They manage to get all rights in other countries, slowly forcing islam on them. When forming the majority abolish the present system installing islam instead.
Muslims should be stopped from coming into non muslims countries. They should not have rights to vote. They will vote only for their own system and to abolish any other system. That is they will abolish the politcal system and state in Australia and replace it with islam and sharia law.
Learn from how islamic countries are towards others than muslims. Reconquista the only way to save the free world.
Terry Gain says
Mohammed insulted Christ by claiming that He faked his death and insulted God by claiming that He facilitated the deception. And Mohammed insulted God by claiming that God chose a psychopath as his Meesenger. And I could give a hundred more examples.
Redmond says
Jews can also claim that Christianity is a blasphemy of their religion. Zoroastrians can also claim that the Jews blasphemed their religion.
T.G. says
So what. I don’t see any of those that were hurt going crazy over it. Within Christianity there are many denominations. They agree to the right to disagree. With Islam, not so. Most Muslims don’t have the freedom to speak out for fear of severe retribution and/or death.
jayell says
If anyone turned up at my door saying that they were from (say) the electricity company, I would ask for ID and could always phone the company for verification. What was the verification for Mohammed’s claimed status as the Messenger from God? Any transcendental phone numbers? Did he carry a holy badge or some other verifiable sign of authority? And he couldn’t have faked one because he couldn’t write. So I presume the only method of persuading people of his ‘authenticity’ would have been the well-documented Qu’ranic accounts of him and his henchmen shooting off unsubstantiated garbage from their mouths or threatening/carrying out acts of violence? (Cf. the archetypal East End conman/gangster…”Oi, mate, we’re from the Gas company so let us in or we’ll turn your place over, know what I mean?). Reminiscent of Ms Aly (sorry, DOCTOR Aly) – “Islam is a ‘race’ because I say so whatever you think, so that I can legally twist your arm, so you’d better get used to the idea before my associates have to persuade you, know what I mean?”
What a WONDERFUL person she is!
Phil Copson says
Exactly – it’s the Sinn Fein/IRA approach – “You can deal with me or you might get a visit from the boyos. Not saying that you will, and of course I don’t know any of them personally, but things do happen on dark nights…..”
yoga guru demon baur from underworld says
Muhammad is a fiction. Fatima is a fictional lady.Islam a demonic tool controlled by non Arab companions of Mo.
Charles says
If (and it is a huge if) they do include other groups I would be willing to bet my life that no muslim would ever be prosecuted for remarks against Jews.
Wellington says
As Cogito Ergo Sum suggested here at JW some time ago, well then take Muslims and their silly dhimmi supporters at face value with their ridiculous argument about Islam being a race (though of course it isn’t) and then quote passage after passage from the Koran which deal with other religious believers in very deleterious ways as evidence of MASSIVE racism on Islam’s part (e.g., Sura 98:6 which refers to Christians and Jews as “the vilest of creatures”).
Being the lawyer that I am, I learned long ago about the rhetorical benefits of “arguing in the alternative.” Yes, you at first deny the logic and legitimacy of your opponent’s argument, e.g., that Islam is a race, but, in the alternative, assuming it is logical and legitimate, then by using their own argument against them, you still win, as I exampled above.
Outthink these enemies of truth, freedom and justice, which Muslims and their dhimmi supporter are, and give them no way out. Yes, no way out——-including by “arguing in the alternative.”
Michael Hendra says
Thanks for your post.Excellent.
somehistory says
Where is her garbage bag covering? Where is her ugly scarf?
She is using falsehoods, deception, etc. to get her way. Wonder if she’s going to like not being a part of the “speaking government”? Wonder how she’ll feel when she can no longer show some skin as she is showing and can no longer leave home alone?
Here a little, there a little….creep, creep, creep by all of the lying creeps who wish to rule over the rest of us, but not realizing the devil is ruling over them.
Resist the mark of the beast…the mark means destruction.
gravenimage says
Australia: Muslim MP says offending Muslims is “racist” even though Islam isn’t a race
She is also well aware of the “but Islam is not a race” retort used by trolls online
……………………..
How can those arguing be “trolls” if they are telling the truth?
Asking such a question is probably “racist”…sarc/off
mortimer says
Criticizing a supremacist and misogynistic political ideology is not RACIST. It is political science.
Tobermory says
I have looked at the career of Dr Ann Aly this morning while trying to decide if she is for real or not. She describes herself as a secular Muslim. Her PhD is in the way people perceive terrorism. In other words, a sociology approach to terrorism. She recommends a soft approach to de-radicalisation, basically mums trying to steer their sons away from terrorism and toward family activities. She claims getting tough makes it worse. Her approach seems to be the approach of the social worker. You see it in schools, where the bully gets sympathy and the victims are ignored. Her concern seems focussed on the damage to Muslim families first. She does not seem to acknowledge the existence of families and imams that support jihad, as if it’s only a teenage thing. We have all heard of co-dependency. The social worker gets too involved and she changes, not her client. In the last few years, according to books she has contributed to, her focus seems less on counter-terrorism and more on racism and fear of foreigners.
umbra says
She is BS paddler with a doctoral degree in garbage. Universities (humanities dept) today just love BS paddlers.
utis says
“Racist” is not a description, it’s a weapon. These manipulators use “racism” and “racist” as kill switches for debate and conversation. The “racist” label shuts down everything. The speaker has to stop talking about his topic in order to defend himself from the attack.
I hope this weapon blows up in their faces soon, as victims start to retort, “O.K., I’m a racist, you’re a moron. As I was saying, …”
Barry says
…so, sense (nonsense) ‘apparently’ Islam is a race now…..that would mean Christianity is also a race, just like Jews are a race….As a Christian, I’ve never before thought of myself in the context of being a part of a specific race (Christian race). It’s bizarre to me….but new and exciting! and since Jew-hatred and Christian-hatred and in fact all non-muslim (infidels/ Kaifrs) hatred is replete in the Quran, I look forward to the near future when the Quran is banned from the planet….This is good news….I can’t wait to talk with the Australian MP about all this race stuff….
carol says
“ARGUING IN THE ALTERNATIVE” is a noteworthy idea but this RACE is so prone to lying they might shut down their sincere evil parroting for a decade or so and then emerge from their fuzzy blankets all refreshed and baa’ing in greater numbers.
If our democratic voting institution has a fatal Achilles heel then it seems we’ll have to come right out and ACKNOWLEDGE and ban EVIL – the GERRYMANDERED voting race of Islam! It’s absurd to be caught off-guard by their Catch-22. The only thing they have going for them is OIL MONEY. This piratical race – toting Sharia rule-books – does not deserve to live in the company of decent men.
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mortimer says
ISLAM IS A POLITICAL IDEOLOGY.
If criticizing ISLAM is RACIST, will I be a RACIST if I criticize NAZISM?
mortimer says
Since Islam is now a RACE, then Islamism is a RACIAL IDEOLOGY.
Like Islamism, NAZISM is also a RACIAL IDEOLOGY.
Why is NAZISM a BAD racial ideology that I may criticize?
Why is ISLAMISM a GOOD racial ideology that I may NOT criticize?
No Fear says
Exactly. You beat me to the post.
carol says
yes, Mortimer…so stop it now, like the good fella we assume you are!
PKG says
NO religion should be exempt from examination and criticism as a set of beliefs and ideas. Criticism of Islam as a religion is often conflated with a form of racism toward the members of that religion and some see it as a form of ‘religious racism’. The same does not apply when one criticizes Christianity:.i.e., people do not automatically conclude that someone who is critical of Christianity is somehow racist toward all Christians. Similarly, the notion of ‘religious racism’ is an absurdity….a non sequitur.
I recently read a PhD in which the author based her entire thesis on the notion of ‘religious racism’ which she argued is practiced against Muslims……….same ‘reasoning’ was applied…the author identified as an Aussie Muslim ( a bit of an oxy moron…with the emphasis on the latter)..
This ‘Dr Aly’ is totally farcical …if not dangerous…….she has said that young Muslim men who become radicalised do so because they don’t listen to what their Imams are telling them????? !!!!!
No, DR ALY,….maybe it’s because they listen only too well!!!!
PKG says
BTW Great comment Barry!!
Bryan says
people really need to wake up to this
Bryan says
Sarcasm does a mind wonders lol thanks PKG
davej says
Deceit – Islam is a religion of peace.
Deceit – Islam is a race.
Deceit – any opposition to Islam is racism.
Deceit – if Muslims are offended by anything it is automatically hate speech, “Islamophobia” and racism.
yoga guru demon baur from underworld says
Muslims think Koran is an update version of bible. But Koran is 600 BC demonic and barbarian propaganda published on 600 AD. Islam is man made and fake Mohammad is a fiction. Islam is old Greek philosophy of Socrates(Zoroastrian) and Plato(Pluto,Thomas, Tamass,Dark age).
yoga guru demon baur from underworld says
Greek dark age philosophy=Islam
sidney penny says
How did she get into Australia’s Parliament?
You need some education don’t you?
She was an academic before.
She needs to go back to basics to learn the mean of race and the difference between race and religion.
sidney penny says
Aly says:
“She pointed to the fact that hatred against Jewish people and Sikhs could both be protected under the Act’s controversial 18C, despite neither being “a race”….”
Not correct as Sikhs would in the majority of cases be classified as Indians and therefore a race and able to make a complaint under Section 18C as Indians.(race) not as Sikhs ( religion)
Therefore Jews and Sikhs cannot be protected under Section 18C.( not a race)
frederick King says
Anti-supremacist, yes. Muslim is not a race, it is a supremacist cult.
PKG says
yoga guru demon baur from underworld says:
“Islam is old Greek philosophy of Socrates(Zoroastrian) and Plato(Pluto,Thomas, Tamass,Dark age).
Greek dark age philosophy=Islam”
Wow -what an enlightened statement this is!!!!
Greek philosophy/philosophers were eons ahead of anything Islam could ever be….Greek thought meant critical thinking and enlightenment……the total antithesis of Islam….
Better get some education before you make such imbecilic comments!
Dennis says
As for Sikhs in India….they are usually Punjabi people. Sikhism has a people hood about it. The Jewish people also have a sense of people hood about them. Many groups and tribes take on a Jewish personhood. I like that.
Crusades Were Right! says
Many people claim that Islam is an ideology, or a political ideology or something similar, rather than a religion.
To me, it is simply an organisation with a code devised for and by a band of criminals to protect and advance the criminal interests of its members, to encourage other criminals to come and join it, and to discourage any of its members from leaving it or exposing it for what it is.
In short, I regard it as the world’s oldest and largest mafia.
Troybeam says
Racism, a misused and understood word, has nothing to do with Islam as Islam is made of many different people from different origins. One common practice for Islam is to use any means true or false to advance its agenda and sadly people are falling for it.
The more you allow Islam into a nation and government the more it will take over and eliminate the current with Islam’s sharia law all done very slowly and subtle so that its not deemed a threat.
NEVER PUT A MUSLIM IN A GOVERNMENT POSITION, Koran states a Muslim cannot serve a foreign government unless it’s to advance Islam, look for the pattern…Nation born Muslim runs for office and gets it, look at England and the new Mayor, all for Islam wipe out everything else as the nations Islamic population grows be it birth or refugees and surpasses the nations other citizens.
gee says
If attacking and/or insulting Jews (which are a race unlike Islam) were made criminal then Islam would be outlawed. The Qu’ran and Hadiths are replete with hundreds of calls for robbing, raping, enslaving and murdering Jews.
So by all means out Islamofascism
Politicianphobia says
I read the Qur’an expecting love. Everyone should read it, especially all the people who say Islam is a religion of peace. I have encouraged others to read it and always the same reaction–WHAT A HATEFUL BOOK. I now believe Islam is an evil cult and nothing more. Many years ago I questioned a federal politician for changing his vote on a subject he said “If elected he would vote for”. He told me I would have to trust him he knew more than I did. I asked my MP to vote against M-103 and got a similiar reply. I told her to read the Qur’an, study Sharia law. I asked her if it was OK what Hibz ut Tahrir is spewing in Canada. She voted for M-103. I now think she is just another stupid puppet or perhaps a traitor. Is it against the law to call a MP a traitor? Oh well
Jeanette says
Gee, where have we heard this before in the US?
Right – from that race called “Mexicanoids.”
davulek says
“No violence against any innocent person is ever justified, whether it’s called “racism” or not. The problem here is that numerous Islamic groups have made clear that in referring to “anti-Muslim hatred,”
Hating anything is an opinion, not violence. This woman is just a Muslim Taqiyya practitioner.
Angemon says
Why am I not surprised this came out on April Fools’ Day?…
lodesman says
Anne Aly would have you believe that those who oppose jihad terror and Sharia supremacism “have the same motivations as racism.”
If you decide to live in the West you must accept critical thought and free speech because these are the very foundation of any real civilization. There are laws that can be used to discipline slander and defamation. Reacting by shouting ‘racist’ or ‘islamophobe,’ as the ultra left are prone to do, does not cut it.
Phil Copson says
Shouting “racist”/”Islamophobe” etc at people innocent of these things, IS slander, of course…… which brings me to a question with which some of your more thoughtful readers may be able to assist ? Q: if it is such a terrible thing actually to BE a bigoted,sexist, racist, fascist, Islamophobic, Muslim-targetting xenophobe as our self-selecting commentariat constantly avers, then as surely as night follows day – (or precedes it, depending on your point of view….) – it must be equally as serious an offence to falsely accuse people of these things, with the deliberate intention of intimidating them into silence, bringing them into social obloquy, and making them liable to be physical attack ?
Has anyone ever successfully sued after being slandered in this way ?
Just today, for instance, I was at the Town Hall and was advised that a woman had accused two members of our party who were out canvassing, of having made “racist remarks” about her daughter.
Is there a name for this phenomenon, I wonder ? I know that when a conservative tells the truth about anything the Left espouses, it’s classed as a “hate crime” – so what do you call it when anyone on the Left lies about a normal, well-adjusted, member of society ?
Or am I worrying over nothing ? Maybe this simply never happens, in the same way that we are assured that non-White people are apparently congenitally incapable of racism, Islam is based on respect for all and equal rights for women, and Liberals can’t be fascists ?
Phil Copson says
Damn – should read – “physically attacked”….
Steve B says
This piece talks about Islam and cultural racism. Yet it doesn’t then say that anti Christian or anti west or anti American comments also constitute cultural racism. The whole concept of cultural racism depends on changing the definition for racism. By doing that anything and anybody can be racist. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/8591660
solsticewitch13 says
SICK TO DEATH OF THIS INSANE CRAP!!!!
I hate these feeble headed religious NUTTERS more each day!!!
Juan Jeanniton says
A certain female Mahometudinarian (muslimah) Leftist politician, named Dr Anne Aly, the first Mahometan female politician and MP in Australia, is only using Taqyyieh (which is an Islamic law which permits Muslims living in a country ruled by non-Muslims to lie, dissemble, or conceal their Islamic faith in order to weaken the defenses of the non-Muslim nations against Islam). Furthermore she says, “Because (attacks on Muslims) have the same motivations as racism and the same impacts of racism. So you can define racism as only being about a certain category or in terms of its mobilisers and its impacts. If you look at its mobilisers then you would consider hate speech against Muslims, racism.”
This may be true _de facto_ (i.e. in actual practice) of many of the “pogroms” and “riots” against Muslims, but there is one crucial factor this female Muslimah politician has not taken into account. But before that, I would like her to note that her “rebuttal” is fallacious. It is known as the fallacy of Bulverism. Bulverism consists in _assuming_ that your enemy is wrong, and based on that assumption, attempting to explain _why_ he chose to make that error – usually by attacking your enemy’s _motives_.
Dr. Aly has engaged in Bulverism by saying that the “attacks” against Muslims are motivated by the same motivations for racism. While this may be true in many cases, this does not address the most _fundamental_ reason _why_ the conservatives and Tories in the UK are motivated to defend themselves and the UK against Islamic ideology. The reason is because of the precepts of the Islamic sharia law themselves. They are intrinsically incompatible with the British constitution. Furthermore, the Quran and Sunnah strictly DEMANDS jihad warfare against non-Muslim nations, and is therefore a threat to the existence of the UK. Furthermore, the Sharia Law strictly FORBIDS women to hold public office of any kind!
Jami` at-Tirmizi Book 31 Hadiss 2262:
Abu Bakrah said:
“Allah restrained me with something that I heard from the Messenger of Allah (Sallal-Lahu Aleihi Wassallam [which means May the Salutations and Peace of Allah be upon him]). When Kisra was destroyed, he said: ‘Who did they have to succeed him?’ They said: ‘His daughter.’ So the Prophet (Peace be upon him) said: ‘A people will never succeed who give their leadership to a woman.'” He said: “So when ‘Aishah arrived – meaning in Al-Basrah – I remembered the saying of Messenger of Allah (Peace be upon him), so Allah restrained me by it.”
Abu Eisa said: This Hadith is [Hasan] Sahih [i.e. it is genuine and authentic].
If this Dr Aly had dared presume to exercise even 1 part in 1000 equal parts of the liberties [given to women only because of the Woman Suffrage movement] in strict muslim nations like Iran and Saudi-Arabia she enjoys in the British Commonwealth of Nations, every Islamic CLERIC in the WORLD would declare JIHAD war against her!
If this reason I am giving against Islamic ideology were truly motivated by the motivations of racism, then I would be moved to discriminate against them even if they were Christians or Jews who didn’t even BELIEVE in Sharia Law! But because I don’t discriminate against Christians (nor against Jews) from predominately Islamic, Middle Eastern, or Asian countries on the grounds of their skin color or ethnicity, therefore Dr Aly’s argument is fallacious. It misses the point entirely.
Furthermore, she twists the meaning of “racism”. The _true_ definition of “racism” is this:
“1: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race [and which beliefs often make the tacit assumption that these races are discrete, eternal, Platonic, mutually exclusive unchanging and unchangeable essences] 2: racial prejudice or discrimination”.