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There are some people whom, whatever they say, you should automatically assume the opposite.
The legacy media are a classic case in point. Consider their ‘reporting’ of the insurgency in Minnesota. They’ve claimed that ‘ICE agents detained a child’: in fact, they tried to detain the child’s illegal immigrant father – who promptly ran off, abandoning his own child. ICE agents took the abandoned child to CPS. Now, media are lying through their teeth about violent insurgent Alex Pretti, and, incredibly, including peddling faked AI images. This is not fringe social media sites, either: MSNBC used the fake images in their headline ‘news’.
Now, Labor’s Multicultural Affairs Minister Anne Aly is scolding former PM Scott Morrison for supposedly ‘inflaming community tensions’ and ‘fuelling fear’, which means that Morrison must be over the target.
What’s got Aly in such a tizz? Asking supposedly ‘moderate Muslims’ to step up and prove it.
[Morrison] gave a speech in Israel on Tuesday (AEDT) that called on Australian Islamic leaders to enforce stronger standards within their own communities.
Morrison said Muslim leaders should start licensing preachers, translating all sermons into English and setting up a board to police radicals.
“Their radicalisation did not take place in a madrasa in South-East Asia or an Iranian hawza, but in the suburbs of southwest Sydney,” he said of the Bondi shooters.
Morrison’s suggestions are in line with other countries, such as Denmark. Aly is a supposed ‘de-radicalisation expert’, even though she has no qualifications at all in such (her academic qualifications are in English and teaching). Nor is her success in her self-appointed role much apparent: her most famous ‘de-radicalisation’ alumnus, Junaid Thorne, is currently held in isolation in a supermax prison. Aly provided Thorne with a character reference in court.
More recently, Aly publicly bragged about her father’s involvement in the Six Day War. That is, a war with the express intention of genociding the Israeli state. A war Aly apprently regrets Egypt losing (she called it a ‘humiliation’). Aly has also refused to endorse Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s pending visit to Australia.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much about Scott Morrison’s call for Australian Muslims to begin de-radicalising at home.
Aly said that the comments of Morrison and [Andrew Bragg] must be understood “in a broader and troubling context; one where Muslim Australians are repeatedly expected to account for violent acts they neither committed nor condoned”.
Hmm, rather like white Australians, then?
She’s not the only Australian Muslim to react furiously to a simple request to show us that they really are the ‘peaceful moderate majority’ they keep banging on about.
The nation’s imams have demanded an end to the use of terms like “radical Islam” and “extremist Islam”.
This implies that there is no ‘radical Islam’ – just Islam. Talk about saying the quiet part out loud.
ANIC leader Sheik Shadi Alsuleiman has gone further, declaring terrorism and Islam should not be linked at all and that terms describing radical Islamist ideologies are damaging social cohesion.
Ah, yes: that would be the same shady imam who oversaw notorious al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar Al-Awlaki addressing Australia’s biggest mosque via phone link. The same fellow who told students at a UK secondary school to “prepare… for the jihad” and pray for a Taliban victory in Afghanistan and who also preached hateful, homophobic rhetoric. In that case, at least he told the truth that such homophobia is Islam’s unchangeable teaching.
This is who the ‘moderate peaceful majority’ of Muslims chose to be their top representative.
To really ice the cake, the shady sheikh claims that:
“Associating terrorism with Islam is wrong, rejected, and has no factual or moral basis.”
Except that the facts say exactly the opposite. Statistics show that the overwhelming percentage of terror attacks, and nearly all deaths from terrorism, are fuelled by Sunni Islam. In the EU, terrorism is an overwhelmingly Islamic phenomenon. In Australia, nearly all terror attacks and thwarted plots are Islamic.
And when a prominent Australian asks mainstream Islamic leaders to step up and show the rest of us that this is only caused by a fringe minority of extremists, they erupt in fury and lies. When they’re asked to not be anti-Semitic, they screech about ‘Islamophobia’.
Which kinda tells us all we need to know, really.
