Here is another indication of how skillfully Islamic advocacy groups have portrayed Muslims in the West as victims, such that any criticism of Islam’s exhortations to violence is considered to be “racism” and hence unacceptable. The people in Officeworks are just standard Leftists who have been indoctrinated to believe that any criticism of Islam is somehow wrong. They’re well on their way to embracing Sharia blasphemy laws and imposing them on the rest of us.
“‘Absolutely I’ve been discriminated against’: Man claims Officeworks refused to let him print posters criticising Islam because it’s ‘the holy month of Ramadan,'” by Gavin Butler, Daily Mail Australia, June 15, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
An activist who was refused service at Officeworks for attempting to print out anti-Islamic posters has hit out at the chain store, claiming his right to freedom of speech has been violated.
Avi Yemini and Ralf Schumann of the Australian Liberty Alliance are both regular customers at the Officeworks branch in South Melbourne: printing and laminating any materials there that are too large to print in their own office.
Like, for example, an armful of flyers for an upcoming rally they’ve organised in support of free speech and defense of Sonia Kruger.
The store manager allegedly told Mr Schumann that Officeworks ‘will not print anything that is offensive to Muslims and especially not in the holy month of Ramadan’
‘We went there this afternoon like we have for 3 or 4 years,’ Mr Schumann told Daily Mail Australia.
‘The chap on the counter puts the USB stick in like he always does, gets the first screen up like he always does – and calls his young manager over.
‘[The manager] then gives me a lecture on their shop policy and tells me that they will not print anything that is offensive to Muslims and especially not in the holy month of Ramadan.’
One of the posters declares that: ‘Criticising perverse ideologies is not racial discrimination. Islam does not equal race’.
The second features the face of Sonia Kruger – who is due to face the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal over blasphemy and vilification charges – alongside the text: ‘Mass blasphemy! Half of Australia agrees with Sonia #LetsTalkAboutIslam.’
Mr Schumann went on to explain how the store manager told him ‘we [Officeworks] can’t print these racist things.’
‘So I wrote a brief email to the manager to tell him that his store policy does not override federal or state anti-discrimination laws,’ said Mr Schumann.
‘These laws happen both ways: you can’t discriminate on religious grounds OR political grounds.’
Mr Schumann insists that, in this case, he’s the one who is the victim of discrimination.
‘Absolutely I’ve been discriminated against,’ he declared….
Steve says
I’d bet my life these leftist stooges would print a joke about Jesus, any day of the week. Gladly
JMB says
+1
DragarOz says
Agreed, brainwashed bastards. Looks like I am boycotting Office Works now.
J D S says
ISLAM IS NOT A RACE! Since when is it discrimination for criticizing ones religion…In some cases it may be very ugly of one to criticize someone’s religion but it isn’t racist to criticise it….so one would think
But when it comes to Islam oh noooooo…. that would be racism and islamophobiaism of the worst kind.
What has happened to the west? What has happened to western and for that matter Christian values??…. islam butts up against everything taught in Christianity…Oh I know there are too many today that align themselves with Christians but do not follow Christian values..leading to what’s going, on not only in businesses, but in every day man on the street life.
I don’t know if it would work or not…But if Christians. and even those who align themselves with Christians, would band together and boycott businesses like this one..it just might get their attention….Oh well I guess that would be considered discrimination…So much for them peanuts.
shoehorn says
“the store manager told him ‘we [Officeworks] can’t print these racist things.’”
There you have it; it’s racist to say Islam’s not a race.
Indiana Tom says
Catch 22.
Its racist to not call something racist.
mortimer says
NO … ISLAM IS FIRST AND FOREMOST A SUPREMACIST, POLITICAL IDEOLOGY
PROOF?
1) the Islamic calendar begins with the founding of the POLITICAL ENTITY of the Islamic empire.
2) the name ‘ME-DINA’ means the PLACE OF THE GOVERNMENT or THE CAPITAL.
3) over 60% of Muslims agree that they need a CALIPHATE (a universal Islamic dictator who will subjugate the kafirs)
4) the Pakistan government has a branch called the Council of ISLAMIC IDEOLOGY.
5) Koran 9.33 calls for subjugation: He it is Who sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, that He might cause it to prevail over all religions, though the pagans may be averse.
6) 51% of the Islamic Trilogy (foundational texts of Koran, Sira and ahadith) is concerned with politics.
– K.9.33 “He it is Who sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, that He might cause it to prevail over all religions, though the polytheists may be averse.”
– “Aside from its significance as an Islamic doctrine that is frequently pronounced in the Qur’an and in numerous ahadith, jihad owes its prominence to one of Islam’s greatest theologians, Taqi al-Din Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328). For him, the chief trait of Islam was its refusal to separate religion from politics. He was also probably the greatest champion of Islamism–the ideologically motivated use of the religion as a political force…”
– “Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj (1954-1982), a young theoretician and a follower of Sayyid Qutb who led the Islamic jihad in Egypt, is best known for his original thinking on the near enemy versus the far enemy and his categorical preference for attacking and defeating the near enemy: “To fight an enemy who is near is more important that to fight an enemy who is far.” Muslims must concentrate on establishing “the Rule of God’s Religion in our own country first, and to make the Word of God supreme…There is no doubt that the first battlefield for jihad is the extermination of these infidel leaders and to replace them by a complete Islamic Order. From here we should start.” The Muslim rulers, in his view, were “in apostasy from Islam”, and they should be punished more severely than those who were by origin infidels; in short, such rulers should be killed. The jihadists implemented that thinking in 1981 when they attacked and killed President Anwar Sadat of Egypt.” from Chapt. 3, “The Islamic Challenge and the United States: Global Security in an Age of Uncertainty” By Ehsan M. Ahrari
– Earlier this year (2017), the crown prince accused Tehran of promoting an “extremist ideology” and having ambitions to “control the Islamic world.” Asked if there is any room for dialogue with Iran, the 31-year-old prince replied: “How can I come to an understanding with someone, or a regime, that has an anchoring belief built on an extremist ideology?”
boocat says
This is the crux of the entire problem. The corrosive influence of I-slam can never be mitigated. It is anathema to Western humanist values. All that can be done is to deport the ideology back to Arabia and confine it there, for the good of the planet.
Phil Copson says
“…. Earlier this year (2017), the crown prince accused Tehran of promoting an “extremist ideology” and having ambitions to “control the Islamic world.” Asked if there is any room for dialogue with Iran, the 31-year-old prince replied: “How can I come to an understanding with someone, or a regime, that has an anchoring belief built on an extremist ideology?”
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Which crown prince is being referred to here ? It’s certainly too much to hope that Prince Charles would ever speak openly about the brutal realities of life in the muslim world – I expect you’re quoting Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia ?
Aussie Infidel says
Mortimer – I bought some blank core-flute board from Officeworks for the ALA rally to ‘Free Tommy Robinson’. But I simply used a whiteboard marker to write my ‘one off’ message. Next time, I’ll go to a local printer of political signs and beg or buy a few sheets.
The treatment of the ALA is a classic example of what happens when governments start limiting freedom of speech. Obnoxious groups like militant Muslims – and their enablers like Officeworks – take advantage of our stupidity. Even though Islam is not a ‘race’ or an ‘ethnicity’, they evoke a ‘moral equivalence’ to those groups and exploit the intent of the legislation for their own purposes. And you can bet your last dinar that these dhimmis haven’t read the Quran, and know bugger all about the pernicious nature of Islam. They might be Labor or Greens supporters, or have been to dawah presentations or interfaith dialogue with the ‘religion of peace’. Whatever their background, it seems that they have been thoroughly brainwashed with political correctness.
This should be a lesson to Americans to never surrender their First Amendment rights on freedom of speech. Unfortunately, our Constitution protects freedom of religion but not freedom of speech, because naively, our founding fathers thought “we wouldn’t need to go that far.” And pigs might also fly!
I’ll be sending Officeworks an email expressing my disgust at their narrow minded and appeasing attitude toward Muslims.
On Medina: When I was in the Middle East recently – in the UAE, Jordan and Oman – I saw many businesses that still used Medina’s former name of ‘Yathrib’ on their shop fronts. There was the Yathrib Trading Co, Yathrib Islamic Clothing, etc. So old Mo didn’t manage to obliterate history entirely.
Also, I had a go at one of the tourist guides in the Grand Mosque in Oman. He was responding to a question from a Canadian lady – who was wearing the compulsory hijab – about a suicide bombing in Yemen the previous day. He gave her the usual propaganda that most Muslims were peaceful people; that Islam is a ‘religion of peace’; and terrorists were just a minority of extremists. I asked him how else those extremists would interpret the command for violence in verses like Quran 9:5? He looked at me rather shocked, and said that he “had not read that particular verse.” I said, “Really? You haven’t read the Verse of the Sword? The most infamous verse in the whole book?” I simply couldn’t resist replying to his consummate taqiyya. I hope he learned that some kafirs have read his ‘unholy book’, and understand the true nature of Islam. Maybe in future he’ll be more careful – and tell the truth.
But of course, all that has nothing to do with Islam – or the dhimmis at Officeworks, who won’t print anything “offensive to Muslims”!!
Frank Anderson says
Can the day be seen in the near future when owning one’s own “all in one” printer/scanner/copier/fax will subject a person to police supervision? A few dozen of these in the “wrong” hands could put out as much paper as any “small” print shop. I recently purchased one such machine for a tenth of what I paid years ago for a printer in my office, which is just as fast, with a scanner that is infinitely more reliable than the one purchased earlier. There is almost always an alternative if one is sought.
ec says
Agree get the message out any way you an.. Low iq leftists should never be a problem
Robyn Todhunter says
We have a grave dilemma in Australia with our supposed right wing conservative political party having morphed so far into a pro-left lobby that there is no discernible difference between the two parties.
Indiana Tom says
Ask Mussolini about this feature. Yes, you can be ultra right and left wing all at the same time. You really can have it all!
JMB says
Unfortunately, and rightly or wrongly, this Officeworks store is simply complying with Australia’s somewhat draconian human rights and anti-discrimination laws. If Officeworks had printed this material they could face massive fines and jail time. Needles to say, these laws mainly protect the Islamic community here in Australia.
boocat says
Well, for some unknown reason (money? pay-offs?) the West seems to be trying to destroy all the human rights from the Enlightenment and replace them with a 1984-style Sharia society.
I wish I could figure out exactly what is going on here, because it really needs to be stopped.
Elisha says
“the West seems to be trying to destroy all the human rights from the Enlightenment and replace them with a 1984-style Sharia society.”
LOL!! Since when was the “Enlightenment” a movement for human rights? The “Enlightenment” was a move away from God’s truth in the Holy Bible and towards the philosophical delusions of sinful, unrepentant human beings, like Voltaire, who hated God and His word in the Bible. It is BECAUSE of the “Enlightenment” we have the philosophical delusion of Darwinism, which in turn gave us Marxism, and is EXACTLY the reason we are headed for a 1984-style Sharia society. Seriously, you couldn’t buy a clue.
JMB says
In all of these things we see a glaring double standard. Here in Australia we have had a royal commission into the abuse of children who were brought up in institutions. Quite rightly there have been many prosecutions and Australia’s senior Catholic, Cardinal Pell is still facing the courts. But at every level of the media there is pure venom printed and spoken about the abuse of children in Catholic institutions.. There is ongoing no-holds barred criticism of the Catholic church. (Other institutions including government run facilities were also involved.) But, try and say something bad about Islam in this country, this includes child brides, institutionalised domestic violence, FGM and welfare fraud, you will be taken off air, closed down if you a re newspaper and will certainly face prosecution.
Chand says
“It is BECAUSE of the “Enlightenment” we have the philosophical delusion of Darwinism, which in turn gave us Marxism, and is EXACTLY the reason we are headed for a 1984-style Sharia society.”
Totally wrong, Elisha.
It is BECAUSE of The Enlightenment and the advent of scientific materialism, Darwinism and also Marxism and other humanistic philosophies that we have new tools to attack the delusions and false claims propagated by organized religions, including Islamism, Sharia-ism, or whatever they are called..
tim gallagher says
JMB, I totally agree with what you said about Islam’s being left out of the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse. It was a complete double standard. A protection racket being run for Islam. Of course, the Royal Commission was a good idea and necessary. I sent an email to a radio commentator on 2GB, several months ago, (I think it must have been when the recommendations of the Royal Commission were coming out) making that exact point. The presenter did read the email out and agreed with me although, from what I remember, he didn’t actually mention Islam but said something like “a certain other institution” or “a certain other section of society” have been ignored by the Royal Commission, instead of using the word Islam. It’s a sickening double standard. I agree with what you say, boocat, about the bizarre suicide of western societies. It puzzles me as well. How anyone can want any of the barbaric garbage Islam provides puzzles me.
carpediadem says
It’s the New World Order/Agenda 21 movement worldwide. Absurd but true.
DragarOz says
If you are in Australia you need to vote for the Liberal Democrasts, Australian Conservatives, Australian Liberty Alliance, One Nation, Shooters and Fishers first above all the others.
Then the scum at the bottom if you want to come back to some level of common sense and logic.
Angry Aussie says
Yes indeed. Being in Qld, I vote PHON. I don’t always agree with the redhead, but her policies are more aligned with genuine Australian values and views than the big two. If I were in SA, I would vote Australian Conservatives. Palmer is rehashing and rebadging PUP. It is a shame he doesn’t appear to be too concerned about our influx of salafi mosques and those that breed on welfare to fill them.
DragarOz says
Palmer is a dud in my opinion and I dont think he will get the votes he got last time.
We need to get some Australian Liberty Alliance senators in, at least four would start a good roll on. Avi for the Senate!
Angry Aussie says
For the record, they did get an apology from Officeworks stating there were staff members who had misinterpreted policy. Avi posted the apology online.
Avi is fabulous. Definitely a charismatic man on the side of good.
carpediadem says
He does a lot of good work and is running for office. More Aussies should do the same.
dumbledoresarmy says
Running for office, eh? Good idea.
GRRRRRR.....!!!! says
Next they will be required to report you to the authorities when you try to have them print something “racist”.
This is part of their written policy as posted on their website:
4. Prohibited conduct
You must not provide us with any material which:
violates or infringes the rights of others (including their privacy and intellectual property rights);
is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy, vulgar, obscene, profane or which may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to, or incite hatred of, any person; encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law.
Officeworks reserves the right not to produce any item that:
it reasonably believes may contravene Australian law, regulation or industry code;
contains explicit or sexual imagery;
is invasive of privacy;
it reasonably believes is vulgar, obscene, profane or which may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to, or incite hatred of, any person.
Any perceived violations of laws including laws relating to child pornography, child abuse and animal abuse will be reported by Officeworks to law enforcement authorities.
Emilie Green says
Self-service copy machines,
No Fear says
I will send an email to South Melbourne OfficeWorks asking if they will print out the Quran verses calling for the beheading of non muslims.
DragarOz says
Do it! let us all know if you get a reply.
TWG says
No Fear
DO IT!!! Yes, indeed! Please do this and let us know the results!
Tony says
sure would like someone to explain how being islamic is a race.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Either all people have a right to freely associate with those they find similar, or they don’t.
But remember, liberals: Without “racism,” no “races” could have ever come into existence!
Lydia Church says
How many discrimination lawsuits will be filed in that case???
It’s all a double standard.
These days you need your own printing press, or a really fat marker and poster board paper!
Yup, it’s getting darker out there.