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As I’ve written before, we’re constantly lectured about the ‘peaceful majority’ of Muslims: if so, though, they seem awfully shy about it. If this ‘peaceful majority’ really do oppose the ‘radical minority’, then where are they?
Where were they, for instance, on the night of October 7, 2023, when the Muslim suburbs of Western Sydney erupted in spontaneous celebration of the worst massacre of Jews since WWII? Where were they, two nights later, when thousands of the very much not peaceful Muslims stormed the Opera House, chanting ‘Gas the Jews’? The weekly marches, ever since, calling for ‘intifada’ (violence against Jews) and flying the flags and symbols of Islamic terror, such as Hezbollah and ISIS?
Is this ‘peaceful majority’ the reason more Australian Muslims flocked to join ISIS than the ADF? The reason roughly 90 per cent of terror in the past two decades or so have been Islamic? Was it the ‘peaceful majority’ who cruised the suburbs of Sydney in hundreds of cars, on those December nights in 2005, beating and stabbing anyone ‘Anglo’ they could find? Who were only prevented from mass murder attacks with machine guns and grenades by astute police work?
Finally, a major public figure has had the guts to ask the same questions. And, boy, are the left-elite mad.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has defended statements she made that questioned whether there are “good Muslims” by doubling down on her calls for a ban on radical Islam, prompting backlash from the country’s top Muslim groups.
“Prompting backlash from the country’s top Muslim groups” is like bombing fish in a barrel. These glass-jawed fanatics will happily scream their unhinged hate till the camels come home, but heaven forbid anyone say anything back.
The right-wing leader had been asked about the cohort of ISIS-linked Australian families attempting to re-enter the country when she claimed Muslims “hate Westerners”.
Senator Hanson said the “ISIS brides” had “supported their men to fight in terrorism and against our values, our laws”. But the interview quickly turned to a broader debate about immigration, less than a day after a migration “policy” leaked from the office of ousted Liberal leader Sussan Ley.
“We’re in a situation now in Australia where you can either go down one path and we will reap the rewards of our tough stance against Islam and the radicalisation that we would be facing. Or, if we open up the borders and allow more into the country, we’re going to suffer,” Senator Hanson told Sky News.
“Future generations will (suffer), as other countries have, like France and Denmark and England and all these other countries and Canada.
“I’ve got no time for the radical Islam, their religion concerns me because what it says in the Koran. They hate Westerners, and that’s what it’s all about. You say there’s great Muslims out there, well, I’m sorry, how can you tell me there are good Muslims?”
Hanson’s only error is to talk about ‘radical Islam’. There is no ‘radical Islam’ – just Islam. The only difference is how seriously its followers take its commands to violence. A call that Muslims in Australia first heeded in 1915, unleashing the nation’s first terror attack in response to a call to jihad from the Ottoman sultan.
“If jihad is ever called, and people must understand this, go and research, go and understand about this, and the ones that will suffer as those Jews did on that (beach) when they were murdered and slaughtered, and that’s what we’ve got to realise could happen,” she said.
The fundamental mistake non-Muslim apologists make is to assume that the Koran ‘is just like the Bible’. It absolutely isn’t. Unlike the Bible, the Koran must be believed by Muslims to be the literal, directly transmitted speech of Allah. So, when the Koran says, “slay the unbelievers wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush”, that’s not ‘open to interpretation’: it’s a direct command from Allah.
The other gambit is to selectively cherry-pick and misquote verses. A favourite of the apologists is Sura 5:32: “whoever takes a life it will be as if they killed all of humanity”. Except that that’s not the full verse, which specifies “unless as a punishment for murder or mischief in the land”. Where simply being a practising non-Muslim is a “mischief in the land”.
They also ignore the very next verse: “the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and spread mischief in the land is death, crucifixion, cutting off their hands and feet on opposite sides, or exile from the land”.
“Religion of Peace”?
We can judge just where these ‘good Muslims’ might be, by the very people they choose to represent them.
Australian National Imams Council president Imam Shadi Alsuleiman said Senator Hanson had a track record of “harmful” statements about Australian Muslims.
“Harmful” statements, eh? Shall we examine the shady sheikh’s track record? Preaching that the “evil actions” of homosexuality bring “evil outcomes to our society”, for instance? How about organising a teleconference at Australia’s biggest mosque, starring a notorious al-Qaeda recruiter? Telling schoolchildren to “prepare us for the jihad”, and pray for “victory” to the people fighting Australian soldiers?
Alsuleiman is just one of a concatenation of extremist preachers chosen by the Australian Islamic community to lead them.
So, tell us again about this ‘moderate majority’.
“Pauline Hanson should get some spine and tell people what she would actually do on immigration,” an [Australian Muslim Advocacy Network ] spokesman said.
“Would she ban all Muslim immigration to Australia? Will she ban Islamic schools? Will she ban Muslim Australians from entering parliament?”
We can only hope just one politician will have the guts.
