Time and again, we are lectured about the ‘moderate majority’ of Muslims. Leaving aside that a moderate majority is often meaningless in the face of a highly motivated extremist minority, it has to be said that there seems to be an awful lot of the extremist minority getting around.
There were sure a lot of them letting of fireworks and hooning around the streets of Western Sydney on October 8. There were even more marching on the Sydney Opera House the next night, chanting, ‘Gas the Jews!’ There’s been thousands of them flooding the streets of Sydney and Melbourne nearly every weekend, chanting Hamas’ genocidal slogan and brandishing its red triangle death mark.
Oh, but these are just the noisy minority. Not like the moderate majority who flock to Western Sydney’s mosques to mourn terrorist masterminds.
Sydney mosques have remembered slain Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah as no normal ‘martyr and jihadi’ but a ‘history-maker’ whose blood had not been ‘wasted’, at commemoration services on Monday night.
Not, note, on the usual Friday night prayers, when it might be excused that mosques were just full of normal, moderate Muslims. No, these are dedicated services for a bloodthirsty, anti-Semitic warlord.
And the mosques were packed to overflowing. Literally.
Three Sydney mosques across the last 48 hours have held commemoration ceremonies for Nasrallah: Kingsgrove’s Al Rahman Mosque – also known as Masjid Arrahman – the Sayeda Zainab Centre in Banksia and Al Zahra masjid in Arncliffe […]
The Monday night service [at Al Rahman] was so popular that mosque-goers were forced to watch proceedings outside and were told that Nasrallah had no equal and that becoming a martyr for the sake of Allah was the “path”.
Indeed, the packed mosques were overflowing with celebration of Jew-killers and Islamic death-wishing.
“When martyrs depart, they leave behind a timeless legacy of good deeds and reputation that (forges) a path for future generations who will carry forward the ideology and movement, and will shake the thrones of injustice everywhere,” one leader said in Arabic and translated by the Australian […]
“If (a person) is killed for the sake of Allah, there is no righteousness above him,” one leader said.
The hero-worship of the fanatical anti-Semite spread right across Muslim Sydney.
Concurrently, a few suburbs away in Banksia, the Sayeda Zainab Centre also hosted a service, with its leaders calling Nasrallah’s death a “painful tragedy” and that the community was “indebted” to him and Hezbollah’s other martyrs.
“The blood of our martyrs are a testament of honour and we owe them all a great debt,” one of the centre’s leaders said, adding that the centre was “grateful” to the slain Hezbollah chief.
He called Nasrallah’s death one of the “greatest tragedies” and that it had left the centre and its community “upset”.
The supposed ‘extremist minority’ have friends in very high places, too.
In August, the Sayeda Zainab Centre hosted Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi for a film about Palestine. The centre’s social media pages have also depicted children wearing clothes embroidered with Hezbollah symbols.
Of course, there’s no Islamophilic show without the venal Punches of Labor.
On Tuesday, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said he didn’t “understand the reason” for why memorial services were held for slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah at several mosques in Sydney on Monday evening.
Can anyone help him out? Well, don’t ask Australia’s [taxpayer-funded left-wing propaganda outfit] ‘national broadcaster’.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has lashed the ABC and says it “is in greater trouble than even I first imagined” after one of its reporters asked a question about why Hezbollah was determined to be a terrorist organisation.
This is what our billion dollars plus in taxes gets us.
The reporter asked – after a slight to-and-fro – “if you could just sort of explain what determines something as a terrorist organisation”.
“I had presumed up until this point at least that the ABC supported the government's laws and the government has passed laws, supported on a bipartisan basis but not by the ABC it seems, in relation to the prescribing or the listing of a terrorist organisation,” Mr Dutton said.
“Hezbollah under Australian law is a listed terrorist organisation.
“Now if the ABC doesn’t support that they should be very clear about it because I think that’s quite a departure. But you asked me why our country has listed Hezbollah.
“They’re a terrorist organisation, they organise terrorist attacks and if that is not clear to the ABC then I think the ABC is in greater trouble than even I first imagined.”
Yet another reason why the ABC should be defunded of every cent of taxpayers’ money.
