Imagine if, at the same time we were sending our troops to fight Nazi Germany, Australia had invited thousands of brownshirts to migrate to our shores and hold their own little Nuremberg-style rallies. Imagine jack-booted Sturmabteilung goose-stepping down Pitt St in Sydney, chanting Sieg Heil! while thousands of Aussie airmen fought and died in the skies over Berlin. Obergruppenfuhrers hurriedly ushered into Australia as “refugees”, broadcasting Hitler’s speeches on the steps of Melbourne’s parliament building, while the Desert Rats were driving Rommel out of North Africa.
Yet, that’s exactly what we did — and are still doing — during and after the Afghan war.
While Australia sent more than 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan during the 20-year War on Terror, with 41 killed, hundreds wounded, and countless with invisible scars, little did we know, the Taliban were building a base right here in our own country.
Taliban, remember, merely means “students”. The Taliban originated in Islamic madrasas. The same kind of Islamic schools providing a bully-platform for violent jihadi preachers in Sydney and Melbourne.
And on university campuses across the country.
In Australia today, we are witnessing the emergence of a new form of Taliban on our streets, at political conferences, universities and at places where Jews may gather. While their claims appear to be about the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza, this is a moral cover. Their real aim is to extend the Islamist global insurgency’s power and influence. Their narrative is based on conspiracy, humiliation, justice, oppression, survival and duty. All cosy intellectual affiliates of the modern left-wing, victim-based movements overrunning Western institutions.
And the totalitarian preachers of Islam in Australia are using the classic insurgency strategy of co-opting the three nodes of leadership – political, security and religious. It doesn’t matter whether the jihadists are taking over a village in Ghazni, or a campus in Sydney, the application of jihadist insurgent strategy is the same.
And not only Australia. Look at this year’s local government elections in the United Kingdom where Islamist candidates shouting “Allahu Akbar” won several seats.
In Australia we have growing numbers of Islamist sympathisers and Jihadist supporters changing the minds of Federal and State politicians, universities and senior leaders across civil society, business and the media. Our foreign policy is changing because of this influence.
What the so-called War on Terror fatally failed to understand is that jihadism is not defeated on the battlefield, but in the mind.
Being a member of the Taliban is a state-of-mind. The weak can be lured by fantasies. This is the jihad we are witnessing in Australia and other Western countries [since] October 7. Governments assumed our national security and our freedoms could be protected by a strong defence force, borders, and police. As if like a gas, without front or back this movement bypassed all of that. It didn’t even need to sneak in.
Instead, it was and is flown in. The first reaction of the Albanese government to the Gaza war was to fall over itself to scrounge up a few thousand “Palestinian refugees” and roll out the red carpet. Even Argentina at least had the decency to sneak Nazis in clandestinely. Western governments import the detritus of Hamas loudly and proudly — and expect us to pat them on the back for it.
Now jihad is becoming mainstreamed into many aspects of Western society […]Our own democracy is being cultivated, coerced, and co-opted to support one of the most anti-democratic, anti-Western, anti-Christian movements in the world. We have every right to question this Intifada movement in Australia. Because none of this came via Chinese, or Russian or Iranian cruise missiles, battleships, or drones. It is by our own ruling class of elites who are even making us question freedom of speech. Some people realise videos of priests being stabbed in our suburbs awakens the busy mums and dads and grandparents to the fact that something is not quite right.
The Australian
Which is precisely why the Albanese government and its pet censors are so desperate to stop Australians seeing what they’ve imported into our midst.
“Traitor” is too kind a word for these miserable Quisling worms.
