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“I beseech you, resist it while you still can, and before the right to complain is taken away from you, which will be the next thing. You will be told you can’t complain because you’re Islamophobic. The term is already being introduced into the culture as if it was an accusation of race hatred.
The barbarians never take a city till someone holds the gates open for them. And it’s your own preachers who will do it for you, and your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you. Resist, resist it while you can.”
– Christopher Hitchens
Once again, Pauline Hanson has infuriated the chattering elite with a commonsense observation: the ‘moderate majority of Muslims’ seem pretty hard to find. If this ‘peaceful majority’ really do oppose the ‘radical minority’, then where are they?
As Christopher Hitchens warned us, though, the only response to such plain-speaking is screeching about so-called ‘Islamophobia’. The elites are holding the gates wide open and the rest of us are being told, like a victim of a ‘grooming gang’, not to resist.
And a slimy PM who went off to play tennis with his fellow millionaires while synagogues burned is clutching his pearls over a couple of pieces of paper.
Anthony Albanese has declared One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson had legitimised hate against Australia’s Islamic community, after the country’s largest mosque was sent a hand-drawn poster calling for the death of Muslims.
This is the same PM, remember, who is openly defending a public figure who led a mob in a chant calling for violence against Jews less than two months after 15 Jewish Australians were gunned down at Bondi.
Are Muslims being massacred on Australian beaches? Are Muslims having to live behind armed guards? Are their homes and cars being firebombed? Are mobs, led by public figures, regularly calling for violence against Muslims? Are nurses publicly vowing to kill Muslims?
No. All we have are a couple of ‘threats’ which could have been made by anyone.
After Senator Hanson declared Australians were no longer welcome in some suburbs with large Muslim populations – naming Lakemba in Sydney’s west – an A2 sheet with the words “Kill the Muslim filth race” and “The only good Muslim is a dead one” was sent to the Lakemba mosque.
This is the same mosque, remember, that regularly hosts Islamic anti-Semitic hate preachers, including members of listed terror groups. The same mosque whose leaders were caught out staging a fake ‘hate attack’ before.
Don’t expect the gutless Liberals to play the fainting aunts any less.
Opposition finance spokesman Claire Chandler has described One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s comments about Australian Muslim’s “disappointing”, distancing the coalition from the right wing minor party’s rhetoric.
The newly promoted coalition frontbencher said it was a shame that Senator Hanson had made generalised comments about the Muslim community.
Is she wrong, though? Cue the ‘some of my best friends are…’ anecdotes.
“I know that there are some very good Muslims here in this country.”
And there were many very good Germans in that nation in the 1930s. How’d that work out?
In fact, only a minority of Germans were ever members of, or voted for, the Nazi Party. Historical surveys indicate that only a minority of Germans supported anti-Semitic policies. The vast majority, roughly 60 to 80 per cent of Germans, were either indifferent to or opposed anti-Semitic policies, especially violence. “The vast majority of the Nazi Party’s members and voters were indifferent and sometimes even rejected this rabid antisemitism,” writes scholar Oded Heilbronner.
So, for all the prattle about ‘I know some really nice Muslims’, the simple fact is that it’s the fanatics who matter.
She said Muslims in “general” wanted a “world caliphate”, suggesting most Australian Muslims supported a goal of world domination under a single Islamic ruler. This argument from Hanson transcends addressing legitimate concerns about Islamist-inspired terrorism and migration numbers, and instead seek to make political mileage by smearing all Muslim Australians with one brush.
But is she wrong?
Globally, surveys of Muslims in the West, from Russia to France, show that nearly half support implementing sharia as the law of the land. In Muslim-majority countries, the proportion rises to 80–90 per cent. Pew surveys find that “large majorities of Muslims see sharia as an essential source of justice and moral guidance. In many regions… most Muslims say sharia should have an official role in their country’s laws.”
Apologists will almost certainly claim that Muslim migrants ‘mellow’ as they live in the West. In fact, multiple surveys have show, unlike other migrant groups, the children of Muslim migrants are more radical than their parents. A Dutch study found that Muslims in that country are becoming more religious, not less. A Swedish study found that Western-born Muslims are more prone to extremism.
So, faint and scream all the elite want, Hanson has the evidence on her side.
The chatterers are mortally offended that Hanson even dare suggest that Muslim migrants assimilate to our values.
She then attempted to issue a version of an apology by saying she did not mean to offend Muslims who pass an extensive criteria of rejecting sharia law; opposing multiple marriages; denying the need for a caliphate; and being against allowing ISIS brides or Gazans into Australia.
How are any of those criteria even remotely controversial?
The chatterers are digging up Hanson’s 1990s comments about Australia risking ‘being swamped by Asians’.
That was a fair concern at the time, one echoed by eminent historians. As it turned out, we got lucky: the majority of South-East Asians turned out to be diligent, hard-working and eminently willing to assimilate into the West.
Many Western countries have benefited from a large South-East Asian diaspora. Name one country which has thrived under Muslim mass-migration.
Afghanistan used to be a Buddhist nation. Iran was Zoroastrian. Just 50 years ago, Lebanon was majority Christian, as was Syria, until recently home to the oldest Christian communities in the world.
How are they faring, under Islam?
“Resist, resist it while you can.”
