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| Fatima Payman Senator for WA, above. Peta Cradling:“Should Australia be on the side of an apocalyptic death cult Hamas, or a liberal democracy like Israel?" |
But in the case of Australia's new Labor Senator, Fatima Payman, it's “one crosses the floor”.
[ADDED: and now resigned, or forced out, of the Labor Party, for that crossing].
That’s what Australian Labor Senator Fatima Payman did when the vote was on statehood for “Palestine”.
The Labor Party view on this is that they will not vote for "Palestine statehood” at the United Nations. What you think of that policy is irrelevant. What is relevant is that the Labor Party of Australia requires that once the Caucus has made its decision on a policy, you must support that policy in any vote in the floor of parliament. That’s the way it’s been since 1901.
That’s the way it’s been all along for anyone who signs up to be a member of the Labor Party.
There’s not question about it, and if you don’t follow the policy you’re kicked out of the Party.
But for our poor Fatima. She crossed the floor to vote with the Greens, to recognise the “state of Palestine” said she’d do so again, and was eventually evicted, per 123-year Labor Party policy. To which she cried “I’m the victim”, called on other Muslims to support her, which they duly did, demanding changes to Labor policy.
Poor, poor Fatima.
What are we to make of this?
Answer: there’s a rule in place. It’s clear. You may not like it. Too bad. If you break the rule you suffer the consequences. Suck it up.
Her actions speak to a bigger issue: how Islam reacts with the societies that enters. We know from the way it’s done so all over the west that it does not just fit in. It demands special treatment; in the sorts of foods (Halal), in the laws they should follow (Sharia), in the clothes they should wear (Burkas and Hijabs), in the fasts they should observe, and then demand that schoolmates and work colleagues follow (Ramadan).
Being influenced by a foreign values system would not be a problem if it were better. But it’s not. There’s not a single way in which Islam is a better system than what we have in the west. To be sans pork, sans alcohol, sans smiling faces, sans the rights to freely think and freely worship. All that is what is brought by the baleful strictures of Sharia, which are specifically called for by the increasing number of Muslims in our western countries.
Fatima Payman came to Australia with her family in 2003 at 8-years old.
Her family were political refugees first from Afghanistan to Pakistan then economic refugees from Pakistan to Australia. She was a refugee from a society, run by the Taliban, where women are forced to wear Burkas or Hijab, and are not allowed to work. In Australia, instead of revelling in the freedoms of the country her parents chose as their escape, she wears the exact clothing of the repression of Afghanistan. WTF?
I call that being an ingrate. And stupid. Both for her sartorial choice. And for the choice to support the statehood of Hamas. Not only rewarding terrorism, but going against the United Nations requirements for a State: that it (1) have recognised borders, that it (2) have a recognised effective government and that it (3) be willing to live in peace with its neighbours. Gaza is none of these. Adding the West Bank adds nothing to the requirements.
Yet to support a death cult that has explicitly genocidal intentions towards the jews, Fatima the abstainer “martyrs” herself.
Done with you, Fatima.
Peta Cradling at the video top, is a good analyst. She hits the main points, 100%.
We don’t want sectarian political parties in Australia. That only leads to tribalism. But it seems that’s what Payman is about. Is that helpful? No. Does it add to the wonderful tapestry of our rich multicultural society? No.
Does she try to get Australia involved in a war that we have zero influence on? Yes. Does that make that war something to divide Australians even more? Yes.
Nothing good in the sectarian nature of Fatima’s crossing the floor. She’s talking to the newly-established Australian “Muslim Party”. It’s pure religion. And pure not-good for Australia.
It is not a good for Australia to have religious-based political parties.
