Are they ready yet to admit that multiculturalism has failed? That it was always going to fail, because it’s a dangerously flawed ideology? As poet Les Murray wrote, the worst ethnic chauvinists are the purest multiculturalists. “All’s permitted… when they migrate.”
Australia is reaping the failure of multiculturalism more brutally than ever, as antisemitism surges from the Muslim enclaves of Western Sydney and engulfs the entire Australian left.
In a new and disturbing first, immigrant communities are now driving Australia’s foreign policy in ways that are at odds with the national interest.
The Albanese government’s changing policy towards the Middle East is the result of pressure from Muslim activists. There are now three websites, which this paper reports are “circulating among political and community circles”, seeking to mobilise the country’s almost one million Muslims to use their local voting power to force the government to change Australia’s long-held and previously bipartisan support for Israel as the only liberal, pluralist democracy in the Middle East.
The Australian
The weak excuse that ‘Criticising Israel is not antisemitism’ isn’t fooling anybody, either. Not when they’re valorising Byron C Clark’s favourite terror group.
Pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Queensland’s encampment have flown the flag of an internationally recognised terrorist organisation on the same day a rally locked down two buildings on campus.
The flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was seen flying amid the placards and banners on the third day of the university’s ‘Gaza solidarity’ encampment at the St Lucia campus in Brisbane.
This is the terror group, BFD readers may recall, for whom New Zealand’s ‘extremism expert’ was busily raising money, back in the 2000s.
The PFLP is a designated terrorist organisation in the United States, the European Union and Canada, while Australia has the group on its consolidated list of organisations subject to financial sanctions.
Organisers of Students for Palestine UQ refused to condemn the decision to hang the flag on Wednesday.
The Australian
Big surprise.
Like German university students in the 1930s, they’re at the vanguard of violent antisemitism. The baby Brownshirts of today, just like their ideological fellow-travellers nearly a century ago, are merely the bootboys for a government being wagged by the tail of violent antisemitism.
Labor frontbenchers, such as Tony Burke and Jason Clare (whose electorates are more than 30 per cent Muslim), failed to condemn unequivocally the October 7 atrocities, have supported local councils flying the Palestinian flag and have told local Muslims that they’re advocating for them in cabinet. The Albanese government only briefly suspended aid to the UN agency active in Gaza, despite clear evidence that much of it has been channelled to Hamas and that staff were involved in the October 7 killings […]
Worst of all, our Foreign Minister has called for the recognition of Palestine even though this would reward the apocalyptic death cult that has been running Gaza.
So, I ask again, are we ready to admit yet that multiculturalism is a disaster?
This eruption of ethnic politics into what’s best for Australia should be a reminder that migration doesn’t just build the country; it can change it, too, sometimes in unwelcome directions.
And also a reminder that non-Muslim countries import Muslims at their peril.
Exhibit one is the Muslim Votes Matter website: “The Muslim community,” it declares, “is the largest and among the fastest growing minority groups in Australia. Our collective voting bloc is the most valuable, yet under-utilised asset we have.” Muslim Votes Matter aims to unlock “this highly influential tool”, as the website call it, in the “over 20 (federal parliamentary) seats where the Muslim community collectively has the potential deciding vote”. That may not sound like much, says the website, but “in the last 25 years no federal government has been elected by a margin of more than 15 seats”.
It specifies 32 federal seats (all bar two currently Labor held) where Muslim votes “have the potential to move the needle” and for each one shows the Muslim vote against the seat’s margin […]
Harnessing religious solidarity with Marxist militant minority tactics, and cleverly pitched to culturally adrift adolescents and young adults, the aim is to have the 4 per cent of voters who are Muslim change the national position, not just on Palestine but “on a broad range of issues … which resonate most with the Australian Muslim community” […]
What’s striking, though, in this push by Muslim leaders to change Australia’s policy on the Middle East is that there’s no attempt to appeal to Australia’s long-term national interest. It’s taken for granted that what matters most is local Muslims’ solidarity with their fellow Muslims abroad.
The Australian
Well, duh. For Islam, it’s always about the “Ummah”. This is what the Multicult and the Islamophilic left utterly fail to comprehend.
To their own peril, as well as the rest of us. The Australian left might want to consider what happened to Iran’s communists after they helped the Khomeinists seize power.
