Category Archives: Cultural

Who’s he hiding from?

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And what’s he afraid of? This is all the story there is.

An imam forced into hiding after saying Muslim schools should close and for supporting a controversial anti-Islam speaker now is calling for Australia to appoint a female mufti to give women a voice.

Adelaide-based Sheik Mohammad Tawhidi, who is in hiding in a remote location, said he supported the views of former Dutch politician Aayan Hirsi Ali, who on Thursday night told The Bolt Report that Muslim women were too afraid of retribution to speak against sharia law. She also described a group of Muslim women who protested against her visit to Australia, before it was cancelled early this week, of being “fake feminists” carrying the flag for Islamists.

Sheik Tawhidi said there were no women on the National Imams Council and they did not have a voice. “If Australian Muslims want to prove they’re responsive to women, we need to change,” he said. “There’s not one woman on the grand council who’s given a voice. We need a female mufti in Australia.”

He said although other Islamic countries were changing, Australia was not, and the religion needed to reform to respond to the changing roles of women.

“There’s no elevation of women in Islam … of course women are downtrodden, this is something nobody can deny.”

The council did not return calls seeking comment on the issue.

Sheik Tawhidi said he had received hundreds of calls from Muslim women at his Islamic Association of South Australia office, alleging spousal abuse.

“Women are too afraid to speak out. I’ve had over 500 calls to my office since January 2016, saying their husbands beat them,” he said.

“When I speak like this they’ll kill me because I’m saying it from the inside. The cultural dimensions of the Muslim community don’t allow women to stand out.”

Born in Iran, Sheik Tawhidi describes himself as a Shia Muslim “creationist, educator, speaker, preacher, thinker, researcher and author”. He is the imam at the Islamic Association of South Australia, but told The Weekend Australian he did not preach at a mosque and instead operated from venues, university theatres, ministries and offices.

Sheik Tawhidi said he had hired lecture theatres at the University of South Australia and lectured at the University of Tehran, the Simon Fraser University in Canada, and Carleton University in Ottawa, although the international universities could not be confirmed. He says he started his studies in Perth before undertaking studies at the Islamic Seminary in Qum, Iran, before returning to Australia in 2015.

The Trump administration has arrested more than 3,000 pedophiles in the last two months

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I am beginning to think the Democrats are promoting this business about Susan Rice to distract from Trump’s increasing number of successes. Here’s a story you won’t find in the papers because it is about Trump doing something about ridding the US of paedophiles rather than restricting its mention in the news only to attack Christianity and the Catholic Church. The left are repellent for many different reasons, but their absolute refusal to say anything positive about others who are doing good works is their most primal of instincts. In their own minds only they are virtuous, when in fact many of the horrors in the world are their own either by commission or omission. Is it really the case that Trump never has and never will do anything good?

So this is the question: where is this in any news story you have come across: Trump’s Pedophile HUNTING RAIDS Just Busted 474 more Demons Putting ELITE IN ALL OUT PANIC … THEY’RE NEXT!.

Folks, did you hear that the Trump administration has arrested more than 3,000 pedophiles in the two months? No mainstream media is actually reporting this.

In comparison, the entire last year of Obama’s presidency only 400 low-level pedophiles were arrested.

Of course you wouldn’t hear about any of that. Not a long story but worth your time as well as the almost ten minutes you should spend watching the video. There is evil in the world, there is no doubt about that. In the meantime, does the name Rotherham mean anything to you?

What would a lawyer know about human rights?

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I have been thinking about this disgusting story of far left fascist immorality and the more I have thought about it the more angry I get. She is a Nazi through and through and other than a few tinselly bits of law knows nothing worth knowing about human rights or free speech. Seriously, how much closer is she to Beria and Che than anyone who has ever attempted to defend our freedoms? All she lacks are the concentration camps into which she can put people whom she disagrees with. Now she just punishes them by driving them through the courts to drain them of any excess funds they may have and cost them their jobs and career if she can make them notorious enough. How can this woman be the head of our human rights commission? Does no one any longer even understand what human rights are?

“Sadly you can say what you like around the kitchen table at home,’’ she said.

I don’t even care what she thinks the sad part of that is. What I do care is that she thinks it is morally OK for her to use the full force of the law to harass and prosecute people who say things in public that she disagrees with, things she believes should not be sayable and that she and her cronies should be the judge of what can and cannot be said by Australians to each other. And what’s more, she thinks that she ought to be able to sit in judgement over what they say to each other in private. But OK, we already knew that’s what she thinks. The AHRC is already a monstrous modern-day replica of the Gestapo or Stasi or whatever you want to call the anti-free-speech judicial arm of the Australian left. She is obviously too dull-witted to understand her Nazi pedigree.

The problem really is the government, not one of which has said a single word to criticise her for what she said.

And I will add as someone else mentioned to me re the Alex Joske story, that had he not had the Chinese side to go with his white anglo background but had been 100% white, the hounds of political correctness would never have let up. Meanwhile Ayaan Hirsi Ali – even though not a white anglo male – has been forced to cancel her tour of Australia. Most people eventually get used to living in a fascist country. You can easily see how well we are adapting already.

Sadly she can say what she likes in a public forum

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“Sadly you can say what you like around the kitchen table at home,’’ she said.

Mind you, it’s not that she can say it but that she does say it that matters. The one thing she never has to worry about is being called up before the Human Rights Commission. But as the other notable story from the weekend also shows, it’s not what you say but who says it that counts.

Woroni last month announced plans for “our very first ethnocultural edition”. It posted on its Facebook page: “For our 5th edition, we will be taking on a team of guest sub-editors who identify as Ethnocultural and we will be sourcing contributions solely from students on campus who identify as Ethnocultural.”

This identify thing is important since the story is about Alex Joske who is half Chinese but identifies as an Australian. Sorry, no writing gig for you. A long story but very disturbing.

Mark Steyn in Canada

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You have to be Canadian, perhaps, and it lasts an hour with questions, but when all and said and done, it is Mark Steyn who is saying and doing. At the link at Youtube:

Published on Apr 1, 2017

Mark closed out the recent Manning Centre conference (Canada’s CPAC) with a live stage performance of The Mark Steyn Show from the Shaw Centre in Ottawa.

For our American viewers, his opening contains a few obscure Canadian jokes – Sir Mackenzie Bowell’s fisheries minister and so on – but the meat of his presentation on free speech does, we think, apply across the civilized world.

There are also questions from the audience, and a live performance by Tal Bachman, scion of Randy of Bachman-Turner Overdrive and a hitmaker in his own right with songs like “She’s So High”. This time, though, Tal is performing a couple of other writers’ classics – one English, and the other the first ever Billboard American Number One, which turns out to be a Canadian song.

You can’t fire me I quit

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No Outsiders!!!!!!

The point about free speech is not that you can say anything you want if you are brave enough to take the consequences. The true point is that if there is free speech, you don’t have to be brave at all since saying what you believe is consequence-free. What we have seen is that free speech is practically dead in the West in most areas where it really matters.

For more on this story see the article by Roger Franklin at Quadrant Online: After Latham.

“The ethnic threat to free speech”

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That’s the heading put on today’s article in the AFR by David Leyonhjelm – the Libertarian [!] member of the Senate. Me, I won’t say a thing about any of this, but here is how he starts:

When Labor, the Greens and certain Liberals in western Sydney seats seek to explain their reasons for opposing changes to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, they mostly refer to the concerns of ethnic, religious and racial minority groups.

Representatives of Armenian, Hellenic, Indian, Chinese and Vietnamese groups have joined Jewish, Lebanese Muslim and Arab groups to oppose any changes apart from procedural, arguing that amending section 18C will unleash a torrent of “hate speech”.

While we occasionally hear half-hearted claims that minorities require special protection from hurt feelings, the main driver of opposition is the political clout of these groups. A dozen or so federal seats are held on margins smaller than the populations of these groups. And in the recent WA state election, certain Muslim leaders openly endorsed the Greens.

And then let me give you the last para as well:

Opposition to changes to 18C is a wake-up call. Australia’s traditional liberal values are under siege like never before. With one side of politics already in full retreat, it is vital the other side steps up to protect those values before it is too late.

Next thing you know, he will start to agitate for us to build a wall across Australia’s north.

Did people always seem this crazy?

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There is always much to read on Quadrant Online and of course in the magazine as well, but the one regular contributor I will always read, and almost always immediately, is Peter Smith. Today he has written something even more remarkable than usual: Delusional, Malevolent or Both? I will give you his first para and the last. Now go the link to read what comes between.

Backwards we go to windmills, then to cultural oblivion, and onwards to terrorising the enemy on the battlefield with our gender-nuanced battalions. Insanity is abroad. Fancy is replacing reality. Subversion and sedition are in the air. . . .

Often, though not always, you find that those who favour windmills, who despise our culture, and who see the military as suitable terrain for social experiments in gender fluidity and feminism, are one and the same. They are of the modern left; the alt-left. They are delusional. Or, are they malevolent; or are they a bit of both? Can you imagine what George Orwell or any self-respecting socialist of not so long ago would have said of them?

Mad as a meat axe the lot of them. Malevolence is in their hearts but irrationality is what drives them on.

Waleed says what he thinks

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This is from Tim Blair and although he doesn’t say it, represents as blatant an example of anti-semitism in the public space as ever I have seen in this country. Tim’s title is: WALEED SPEAKS FIRST, THINKS LATER.

Even for an intellectual, Waleed Aly is surprisingly dumb.

His assumptions are often informed more by media class groupthink than by any study of objective reality. Recall, for example, his 2013 claim that the Boston Marathon bombers could have been “self-styled American patriots.”

Brainiac Waleed subsequently offered another theory, this time about a Melbourne self-defence training program:

The class at the gym in Caulfield, Victoria, in Melbourne’s south-east, teaches people Israeli Army combat techniques to ‘take down terrorists’.

During a panel discussion after the segment was aired, Aly, a Muslim, raised his eyebrows, smiled and asked: ‘If I rocked up with my mates Mustafa and Hamoudi, do you reckon they’d let us train?’

Waleed should have asked a few more questions first:

The Krav Maga program’s founder, Avi Yemini, said a Muslim had been enrolled in that same class and demanded the TV host take back his ‘underhanded’ remarks.

Nailed it, Waleed. The Logie-winning bore, by the way, yesterday described the London terror attack as an example of “international extremism”, whatever the hell that is.

“Whatever the hell that is” is misdirection. A euphemism for radical Islamic terrorism, the invisible and non-existent – that is, invisible and non-existent on the left – form of mass murder that will only get worse until it is dealt with. Here is a more accurate approach.