Not unrelated: Muslim leaders to boycott Scott Morrison’s terrorism roundtable.

Muslim leaders, including the Grand Mufti, will shun a round table meeting with Scott Morrison this week following his comments calling on them to do more to stop terrorism in Australia.

Grand Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohamed joined the leaders of state and federal Islamic groups today to release a statement declaring they will boycott the proposed government round table this week to discuss extremism.

The statement comes after three men in Melbourne were charged with terrorism offences with police alleging they planned to shoot at crowds, and a fortnight after the Bourke Street terrorist attack.

community including the undersigned are deeply concerned and disappointed with statements made by senior Government ministers and the Prime Minister in the recent past which infer that the community is collectively culpable for the criminal actions of individuals,” the joint statement reads.

“These statements have achieved nothing to address underlying issues, but rather, have alienated large segments of the Muslim community.”

Just what are those underlying issues that have alienated large segments of the Muslim community? That is what such meetings are designed to work through.

From Instapudit.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Men afraid to mentor young female lawyers, solicitor chief claims. “Senior male partners at law firms are refusing to mentor younger women because of fears that unjustified allegations will be made against them, the head of the profession claims. There has been an unanticipated and unwanted backlash caused by the #MeToo movement, Christina Blacklaws, president of the Law Society, argued last week. Ms Blacklaws told a conference on gender diversity that senior men were reluctant to engage in formal mentoring schemes with younger female colleagues for fear they might leave themselves open to allegations of inappropriate behaviour.”

Unanticipated and unwanted.

Which somehow goes along with this: MICHELLE GUTHRIE’S #MeToo MOMENT:

Late during last night’s ABC investigation into itself, sacked managing director Michelle Guthrie levelled an astonishing charge against former ABC chairman Justin Milne:

Michelle Guthrie believes she was sacked as managing director of the ABC in part because she had accused then-Chairman Justin Milne of inappropriately touching her, a claim he denies.

An explosive investigation by the Four Corners program into the chaos that gripped the public broadcaster in September has delved into a host of damning claims, from government interference to management incompetence.

That’s some show they’re running over there. And on our taxes.

But it was an allegation by Ms Gurthrie that she was “inappropriately touched” by Mr Milne at the end of a dinner function in November 2017 that packed the most punch.

“Inappropriate touching is the best description of it,” Ms Guthrie told the program. “It was … I felt icky. You know, it was inappropriate. It was unprofessional and inappropriate.”

From The Jerusalem Post: NEWLY-DISCOVERED 1945 LETTER REVEALS HOW TEL AVIV SURVIVED A BRITISH SIEGE. A bit of forgotten history, but the underlying anger remains almost as deep today as it must have been then. Not entirely a representative para, but it is the one that I felt the strongest emotion when reading.

We know that your aeroplanes and tanks can turn Tel-Aviv, within a few hours, again into the sandy desert which it was before we began to build it thirty years ago. We know that you can turn the whole of Jewish Palestine, our towns and settlements our schools and colleges, into dust. Might is on your side, but yours is no longer a good cause. You are fighting for the Arab Pashas who want to see Palestine reduced again to the condition of desolation and stagnation in which our pioneers found it fifty years ago. You are fighting for the oil magnates who, for the sake of their profits are ready to sacrifice to the Pashas and Effendis all that we have built up in this country with our sweat and tears. What do they care for progress and development? They want you to finish the job that Hitler and Himmler began – to crush the Jews. This prosperous young city which gave refuge to many thousands who would otherwise have died in the Nazi gas chambers – is it to be smashed up by your bombs and tanks? Our agricultural settlements about which so much has been spoken and written and where so many of your comrades found rest and recreation in the darkest hours of the war are they to be turned again into swamps and stony deserts as in the good old days of Arab misrule?