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Even for Anthony “I’m a man of my word” Albanese, this is shocking in its brazenness. As for oily NSW Premier Chris Minns, he’s only showing, yet again, what he’s really made of.
Only days ago, the PM was talking tough on ISIS brides trying to return to Australia. Now, just days later, both are preparing to welcome nearly a dozen hardcore jihadis from the collapsed caliphate back into the open arms of the Sydney Muslim community. All with the indefatigable aid of supposedly the nation’s leading ‘moderate Muslim’.
This was Labor last week:
Kurdish authorities overseeing the refugee camp in northeast Syria where a group of ISIS brides is based have claimed the federal government formally advised them the 11 families were “terrorists” and that it did not want them returned to Australia – further deepening confusion about the role of the Albanese government in the controversial repatriation saga.
Albanese declared he has no sympathy for, and would provide no assistance to, the group trying to re-enter the country, even as a close associate of Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke is reported to be helping them leave Syria.
“We have a very firm view that we won’t be providing assistance or repatriation,” Albanese said on ABC Radio.
Note the weasel words, there: ‘we won’t be providing assistance or repatriation’. Except that, as we now know, the Albanese government last year negotiated in extreme secrecy with third-party groups to facilitate the entry of dozens of extremist jihadi women to Australia. The exact details are not known, because Home Affairs Tony Burke – whose seat has the highest concentration of Muslims in the country – deliberately excluded note-taking public servants from the closed-door meetings.
Still, Anthony Albanese wanted us all to hear him talking tough on these jihadi brides.
Albanese said in the ABC interview that: “My mother would have said, ‘If you make your bed, you lie in it’.
“These people went overseas supporting Islamic State and went there to provide support for people who basically want a caliphate … We want to make it clear, as we have to the people involved, if there are any breaches of the law, they will face the full force of the Australian law.”
Weasel wording again, but the intent was clear – and an utter lie.
This is Labor, this week.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has insisted that ISIS brides have “rights” to return to Australia, despite legal provisions that would allow the government to block their return.
The group of 34 women and their children have been planning to return to Australia from Syria, amid calls for the government to ban them from the country.
Which, as I’ve already reported, the government can easily do – if they wanted.
The government has blocked one individual from returning through the use of a Temporary Exclusion Order (TEO), but the exclusion has not been extended to the wider group.
It has since emerged that under Section 14 of the Australian Passports Act 2005, the minister has the power to refuse or cancel a passport.
This right is reserved for if they “suspect on reasonable grounds” that issuing it “might prejudice the security of Australia”.
Hands up who thinks that women who fell over themselves to join in an orgy of beheading and sex-slavery “might prejudice the security of Australia”? Let alone children who’ve been brought up to think that that kind of thing is normal, including children who proudly posed holding severed heads?
All good, says the NSW premier who wants us to think he’s cracking down on Islamic extremism and anti-Semitism.
Up to a third of the 34 ISIS brides and their children could be returned to NSW from a refugee camp in Syria, Premier Chris Minns has revealed.
Speaking on Monday, the Premier said he had sympathy for children in the group, adding the state government had spoken to the commonwealth about issues including the children’s entrance into the NSW education system.
“The NSW government would educate them, and we would make sure that they were safe, and we would make sure that they were within an organisation or a group or … a school that had Australian values, because I think that’s important,” Mr Minns said.
Good luck finding a school in Australia that has Australian values. Least of all in Western Sydney.
For all his blatherskite about ‘extremism’, Minns just can’t help showing who he really is. It was on his watch, after all, that a Muslim mob stormed the Sydney Opera House, chanting ‘Gas the Jews’ – and nothing was done, except arresting a Jewish Australian. For two more years, Minns did nothing at all about the escalating anti-Semitism, until the Bondi massacre forced him into pretending to talk tough on extremism. Yet still, behind the scenes, his government is appointing a virulently anti-Israel judge to the NSW Supreme Court – and publicly advocating for the worst extremists to be welcomed with open arms.
He will make sure the children of jihadis are safe – while endangering everyone else’s children.
All to scrounge up the Muslim vote.
Oops, the ‘moderate Muslim’ vote. Like this guy.
The effort to bring the families back to Australia is being organised by western Sydney doctor and Lebanese Muslim community figure Jamal Rifi, according to sources who cannot be identified because they are not authorised to speak publicly.
Rifi is the media and political class’s go-to ‘moderate Muslim’ spokesman. He’s touted as the face of the friendly-Muslim-next-door we’re told to believe are the rule, not the exception. So much so, he was made Father of the Year (just like virulent anti-Semite Grace Tame was allowed to besmirch the Australian of the Year award).
Yet, here he is, tirelessly working to import the most febrile, violent extremism into Australia.
