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Australian network hired Sharia-promoting broadcaster because she’s Muslim

May 3, 2017 9:09 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Host Paul Barry of Australia’s “leading forum for media analysis,” Media Watch, has openly stated that the Australian Broadcasting Network (ABC) hired Muslim host Yassmin Abdel Magied solely because she is a Muslim. Now Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun is accusing the ABC network of being “racist and pro-Muslim in its hiring.” When one looks at the evidence, it’s certainly enough to question the hiring practices of the ABC.

Two-and-a-half months ago, a petition that demanded that ABC fire Magied for her open support for Sharia gained 10,600 signatures. The Daily Mail also reported that Magied “reached out to global hardline Islamist political group Hizb ut-Tahrir after her polarising television appearance, where she declared Islam to be ‘the most feminist religion.'” There’s more: on Anzac Day, Magied insulted Australian history when she tactlessly wrote on Facebook: “Lest we forget (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine),” provoking a social media outcry.

The leftist media has long proven itself “tolerant” toward Sharia-pushing Muslims, despite the clear human rights abuses that are practiced under sharia law, but the brazenness of the ABC is telling. Says Bolt:

This means the ABC promotes a relatively strict form of Islam, and largely uncritically. It does not give the same promotion to any other faith, including ones less hostile to our values and freedoms.

“ABC HOST ADMITS: ABC HIRED YASSMIN FOR BEING MUSLIM”, by Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun, May 1, 2017:

ABC Media Watch host Paul Barry says Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s Anzac Day post was “tactless”, and rightly defends her from some of the more hysterical abuse.

But this was his most interesting concession:

Abdel-Magied presents a round-up of ABC news on Saturday morning. She’s also appeared as a guest on Q&A and The Drum. And she partly owes those roles to being Muslim, black and a woman.

So the ABC is both racist and pro-Muslim in its hiring.

But think this through. The ABC has hired this inexperienced and unwise 26 year old on the understanding that she is Muslim – which sends her a message. Stay Muslim, or else your job is in danger.

Then there are the ABC’s other similar hirings of celebrity Muslims. There’s Waleed Aly and his wife Susan Carland, with Maha Abdo and Silma Ihram appearing regularly as ABC panellists. Note that all the women covering their heads. The ABC seems to have no interest in hiring women who have left Islam or who have their head uncovered and thus are not identifiably Muslim.

This means the ABC promotes a relatively strict form of Islam, and largely uncritically. It does not give the same promotion to any other faith, including ones less hostile to our values and freedoms….

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Filed Under: Australia, Featured, journalistic bias, Leftist/Islamic Alliance, Sharia Tagged With: Australian Broadcasting Network, Paul Barry, Yassmin Abdel-Magied


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  1. mortimer says

    May 3, 2017 at 9:17 am

    Token Muslim. She will be criticized for not being Muslim enough. Window dressing.

    • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

      May 4, 2017 at 10:00 pm

      “Window dressing”?

      I agree with your assessment but holy moly! This creature looks like a female Groucho Marx, and that ain’t good!

      And why in the WORLD is this monstrosity smiling? What’s to like about being muslim? Her FGM? The regular beatings at home as one of 4 slaves (whoopsie: I meant “wives”)? What?

      Oh, wait. That’s her job. Taqqiya taqqiya taqqiya….

  2. mortimer says

    May 3, 2017 at 9:23 am

    How ‘feminist’ is Islam?

    • The Confessions says

      May 3, 2017 at 6:40 pm

      For anyone interested, here is a review I did of her “memoir”: https://theconfessionsweb.wordpress.com/2017/03/06/yassmins-story-review-rebuttal-critique/

    • gravenimage says

      May 3, 2017 at 8:12 pm

      Thanks for posting this. The problem always with trying to fight this misogynist violence in Muslim lands is that it is perfectly Islamic.

      • Peggy says

        May 4, 2017 at 1:00 am

        It would help if the women who clearly have a choice didn’t promote sharia.
        But then, women who have a choice are in a position which they would like to keep so who cares about their sisters.

        • mortimer says

          May 4, 2017 at 1:57 pm

          Western feminists are spontaneously promoting Sharia without the slightest idea of what it is. Almost no Muslims have plowed through any manual of Sharia law to learn what they actually say. They would be less supportive if they did.

          So many people today are INSTANT EXPERTS on Islam without having read a single Islamic book or primary text.

        • gravenimage says

          May 4, 2017 at 9:41 pm

          True, Peggy.

  3. mortimer says

    May 3, 2017 at 9:57 am

    FEMINISM IN ISLAM??? HUH???
    Hadiths of Mohammed that insult and degrade all women:

    – I think that women were created for nothing but evil.
    – Women have ten ‘awrat (vulvas). When she gets married, the husband covers one, and when she dies the grave covers the ten (of her shameful parts).
    – A straw mat in the corner of the house is preferable to a barren woman.
    – Women are toys, so choose (your ‘toys’).
    – The woman is a toy, whoever takes her, let him care for her [ or do not lose her ].
    – Had it not been for women, God would have truly, truly been worshipped.
    – Men perished the day they obeyed the women.
    – Obedience to a woman’s advice causes regret.
    – Consult women and act contrary (to it).
    – Sneezing, drowsing, yawning in prayer, also menstruation, vomiting and nose-bleeding are from Satan.
    – When…your affairs are in the hands of your women, the interior of the earth (hell) will be the better for you than its surface.
    – If a woman offered one of her breasts to be cooked and the other to be roasted, she still will fall short of fulfilling her obligations to her husband. And besides that if she disobeys her husband even for a twinkling of an eye, she would be thrown in the lowest part of Hell, except she repents and turns back.
    – Mohammed asked some women, “Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half that of a man?” The women said, “Yes,” He said, “This is because of the deficiency of the woman’s mind.”
    – I have not seen any one more deficient in intelligence and religion than you (women).
    – I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers are women.
    – Bad omen is in the woman, the house and the horse.
    – After me I have not left any affliction more harmful to men than women.
    – Don’t wear false hair for Allah sends His curse upon such ladies who lengthen their hair artificially.
    – Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur’an.
    – Women, slaves and camels are same.
    – Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman.

    • gravenimage says

      May 4, 2017 at 9:50 pm

      Yes–all canonical parts of Islam.

      The idea that Islam is “feminist” is one of the most outrageous lies of all.

  4. mortimer says

    May 3, 2017 at 10:02 am

    Dear Yassmin, For you information, Sharia law says you may not do several things to your appearance that you are doing: 1) no plucking eyebrows 2) no makeup 3) no ‘camel’s hump’ hair-style UNDER the veil. 4) you may not work in the presence of men without breastfeeding them ALL 5) you may not reveal MORE than your eyes and hands.

    Start practicing Sharia NOW, Yassmin. (LOL)

    • JMB says

      May 3, 2017 at 6:15 pm

      Hello Mortimer,

      As to your previous comment that she looks and dresses like a clown, I completely agree. Unfortunately this ridiculous looking and oh so political correct presenter (black, Muslim, female) gets a disproportionately high amount of on-air time including presenting one of our most popular rural Australian Life programs. She looks totally ridiculous and out of place. Only the left-leaning and taxpayer funded national broadcaster would hire a person such as Ms Magied.

      Now as to your comments on her appearance, yes, this makes it all the more ridiculous. She is totally “cringeworthy”. She would look one hundred times better if she were to wear traditional Muslim dress on-air. But so far I have yet t see any comments from the Muslim community about her very public disregard for their laws regarding her dress, appearance and associating with males in public.

      As to her disrespectful comments associated with our fallen soldiers made on our remembrance day; Our Prime Minister simply said; “She made a silly comment”. There are calls for her to be sacked but it won’t happen

      Unfortunately she is fast becoming the “Poster Girl” for black Muslim women in this country as well as the general loopy-left and unfortunately also she is a very smart cookie.

      • mousey says

        May 3, 2017 at 11:14 pm

        i wonder if she’s ever been to a muslim country and seen what being a muslim woman really is. And now that i’ve learned that such a huge percentage of muslim woman have had their clitoris hacked off, im sorry to say that’s one of the first things i think of when i see a hijab or burka.

      • mortimer says

        May 4, 2017 at 1:46 am

        She’s clowning around like a dancing bear. She’s there to be freakish and weird, rather than a sensible trustworthy, sober news source.

        I’m sure she’s an object of pity. This is the worst sort of tokenism.

      • mortimer says

        May 4, 2017 at 1:52 am

        JMB wrote: “…her disrespectful comments associated with our fallen soldiers made on our remembrance day…”

        It is totally intolerable to mock national heroes on Remembrance Day. This is a ‘sackable’ offense. She should be quietly demoted to some less prominent spot and then dropped.

      • Anne Smith says

        May 4, 2017 at 5:16 am

        I think she would look a lot better in a burka.

      • gravenimage says

        May 4, 2017 at 9:52 pm

        Muslims are allowed to flout Islamic law if it works to spread Islam. That is what she is doing here.

  5. jewdog says

    May 3, 2017 at 11:55 am

    ABC: Absolutely Blind and Clueless.
    I listen to the AHA network: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, if you want a black woman who knows something about Islam.

  6. Guest says

    May 3, 2017 at 12:53 pm

    Ironically as the ABC is government funded, it’s the people of Australia who are paying for these insurgents to spew their vile garbage. She and her cohorts are retched disingenuous creeps. They continually berate the society that they live in, the very society that upholds the freedom loving values that they so publically criticize, the same society that keeps them employed. The above mentioned Waleed Aly gave an “up yours” speech while recently receiving one of Australia’s most coveted TV awards, clearly displaying his sense of self entitlement and deep contempt for the broader non-Muslim community. I fear for his Aussie convert wife, when the time comes, during a crucial disagreement when the true colors of Waleed Ali surface, as happens in so many of these tragic couplings when the cloak of deception slips and the violent dictums of Islam arise, and she becomes yet another victim of the ROP

    • Banana Bender says

      May 5, 2017 at 2:17 am

      The ABC is TAX-PAYER FUNDED! The “gummint” has no money other than what it can filch from tax-payers’ pockets.

  7. The Istanbulian says

    May 3, 2017 at 6:10 pm

    Funny how she fails to mention the driving force that led to the need of Europe leaving the old world….Islamic colonialism and expansionism along with the destruction of the many civilizations that stood in its way. #RememberDarfur.

  8. gravenimage says

    May 3, 2017 at 8:00 pm

    Australian network hired Sharia-promoting broadcaster because she’s Muslim
    ………………………..

    And the cringing dhimmitude continues…

  9. davej says

    May 3, 2017 at 11:04 pm

    Like many organizations ABC is trying to demonstrate their virtue and open mindedness, just as many did by accepting gays. It is so fashionable too. But in general gays are well behaved fellow citizens while Muslims are savages and supremacists (who want to kill gays). So you might want to rethink your virtue, you idiots

    • gravenimage says

      May 4, 2017 at 9:57 pm

      True, Dave.

  10. Bronson says

    May 4, 2017 at 3:27 am

    Not solely because she is Muslim but also because they got three for the price of one:

    (1) Muslim (who is obviously so, by covering her hair)
    (2) African and
    (3) Female.

    with the first ranking the highest then the next two (most likely in that order of precedence).

    How diverse is that!

  11. Peter Boardman (Peter the Hermit) says

    May 4, 2017 at 3:46 am

    The worst aspect of this is that it gives ammunition to those who hate the ABC (Corporation, not Network) and would have it only reflect “approved” news and views.

  12. Mark A says

    May 4, 2017 at 10:47 am

    Is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation funded by taxpayers, like the BBC in the UK and CBC in Canada?

    If so, Australians should be letting their political reps know, load and clear, what they think of this sharia promoter.

  13. Peter Boardman (Peter the Hermit) says

    May 4, 2017 at 7:21 pm

    The Australian ABC is taxpayer funded.

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