The Aussie Appeasers

  Guess when I wrote this letter below, published in Australia's The Age.

TO: The Melbourne Age, from PF, Hong Kong.

RE:  Melbourne terror accused…. The Age, 5 August xxxx

Two of your Op-ed contributors, Daniel Flitton, “New twist in the old, familiar al-Qaeda story”, and Berhan Ahmed, “Strong African communities will defeat terror recruiters”, both of August 5, xxxx, offer variations of the “tiny minority of extremist” arguments, to urge caution and treatment of the events “with care”.

But are the would-be Jihadis a "tiny section of the community" (Flitton), or a "few marginalized people" (Ahmed)?

In a poll conducted in 2007 and broadcast on Britain's Channel 4 TV, nearly 25% of British Muslims said the July 7, 2005, terror bombings in London were justified. Another 30% said they would prefer to live under strict Islamic Sharia law rather than England's democratic system.

One in four justifying terror may not be a majority, but it certainly isn't a "tiny section" either.  Is there any reason -- other than wishful thinking -- to think that the figures in Australia would be significantly different?

Perhaps a “tiny minority” is a matter of personal opinion.  Reuters, for example, reported on October 15, 2006, that “just” 10 percent of Indonesian Muslims said they backed jihad and supported bomb attacks on the island of Bali aimed at foreign tourists.  But Indonesia is home to more than 200 million Muslims, which means there are some 20 million Muslims in Indonesia alone who are willing to say out loud that they support the use of violence and terror against innocent human beings.

Australia needs to wake up to the threat within our society from Jihadis driven by well-documented and clear Islamic doctrine, which calls for the killing of non-Muslims.  No amount of trying to deal with “marginalisation” or “alienation”, or adjusting our foreign policy, is going to appease such people.  A robust facing up to the Jihadi’s motivation is the first step in trying to deal with the threat.

And the answer is: I wrote that letter in 2009. Not yesterday, or just after the Bondi massacre last month, but 16 years ago. Here it is, as I posted in 2009. 

Things have only got worse since then. As the video above shows clearly. Australians across the board, and in particular Muslim Australians, like the ones quoted in the video, are ever more keen to protect and excuse any horrid act by their Muslim acolytes. 

Which makes me wonder, of course. Why on earth do I keep on banging on about the threat of Islam? Good question, except I just keep on writing just because I like keeping on writing. I've long past the hope that the day would come when people would say "You know what.. you were right!"

I was wrong to think, as I seemed to do 16 years ago, that:

The Australian public is, I think, more robust on the Jihadi terror threat than the media or politicians.

Australia seems even more averse to talking about the real issue. Straight after the Bondi shooting, the mass murder, by a Jihadi father & son team, of 16  random Jews celebrating Hanukkah on the beach, the government of Anthony Albanese blamed "right wing elements" and "guns". Nothing about radical Islam. Nothing. 

When ex-PM Scott Morrison, a man I've not much time for, by the way, suggests that Islamic leaders, the preachers in the mosques, should take some responsibility for de-radicalising their flocks, he is roundly smeared by the Lebanese Muslim community. In an article that is pretty much 100% ad hominem. No facing of the issue. No arguing with the points ScoMo made. No, just smear his record and irrelevant issues. Deny and Deflect, iow. All supported by the luvvies, the fellow travellers, the appeasers, the "don't scapegoat Muslims" crowd at the ABC and elsewhere in the media. I'm going to be done with this earth soon-ish. But my kids and grandkids? What about them? Will they be living in an Islamic society? If so, I feel for them, for that is a pinched and crabbed society. One where noone can achieve their full potential. 

The UN Human Rights Report has all the Islamic countries right at the very bottom of their table. Islamic countries are always at the bottom of tables of Women empowerment. They are at the bottom of tables of Press Freedom.... I could go on, but it's just too dreary. Just too dreary now much Islamic countries fail. And yet how much they demand to be the sole power running things. 

16 years ago I headlined the post "The Aussie Jihadis". Now I label this one "The Aussie Appeasers". 

For it seems the Appeasers are more to the front than ever, while the Aussie Jihadis are just blending into the background, avoiding all direct responsibility for the rabid anti-semitism, the outright murder of Jews, that's been happening since then, ever more horridly and violently anti-Jew, since October 7.