tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159598522024-03-23T11:09:38.719-07:00Media MullahWelcome to the Media Mullah blog, an irreverant commentary on all things media-related. Given the propensity for some journos and columnists to defame, this page will refrain from defaming anyone without good reason. Reach the moderator on irfsol@yahoo.com.au.Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-65698668388212819222020-04-06T08:56:00.002-07:002020-04-06T08:56:44.433-07:00THIS BLOG IS NO LONGER ACTIVEThis blog is no longer active.Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-84770150895357999382009-08-05T09:22:00.000-07:002009-08-05T10:33:10.238-07:00BLOGS: Andrew Bolt rolls out the insanity ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgRxejADVwitNRF3zyF1cxrhtwIi95iIspwePW7kgqDNK3gqfOPWwZyf51t1U4gbdiUGcPS7YH2A5mM0Gsg3AkEIo6iFH3OnvkAg-mqsMZzBEp9OeUYd0QfYAEVdAgaDgnioqxbQ/s1600-h/Bolt+book+cover.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgRxejADVwitNRF3zyF1cxrhtwIi95iIspwePW7kgqDNK3gqfOPWwZyf51t1U4gbdiUGcPS7YH2A5mM0Gsg3AkEIo6iFH3OnvkAg-mqsMZzBEp9OeUYd0QfYAEVdAgaDgnioqxbQ/s320/Bolt+book+cover.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366531045347311442" /></a><br />Things haven't been easy for Andrew Bolt since John Howard left the Lodge. Terrorists haven't cease to exist, but anti-terror raids are no longer occasions for politicians and respectable media to say and write remarks attributing responsibility to entire sections of the Australian community based on their ethnic or ethno-religious heritage.<br /><br />During his press conference following the recent terror raids in Melbourne, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd refused to even identify a particular ethnic or ethno-religious group. As <em>The Age</em> <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/national/terror-raids-reminder-of-real-threat-rudd-20090804-e7v0.html">reported</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>He warned against any backlash against any ethnic groups in the wake of the latest arrests.<br /><br />Mr Rudd said that the terrorist threat came from a small number of individuals "who should in no way be taken as a wider reflection of any group in Australian society".</strong></span></blockquote><br /><br />Instead of demonising minorities and fighting cultural wars, the Rudd government prefers to focus on practical measures such as continued surveillance and <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/national/civilian-security-at-bases-to-be-reviewed-20090805-ea4d.html">increasing security at military installations</a>.<br /><br />Even <em>The Australian</em> <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25883544-23069,00.html">editorialised as follows</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland acted responsibly yesterday in pointing out that the broader Islamic community should not be seen as terrorists. The majority of Muslims do not support terrorism and have integrated successfully into Australian life where they are valuable members of the community. If anything, such people have an even stronger interest than other Australians in seeing terror stamped out.</strong></span></blockquote><br /><br />With so much sanity now surrounding popular debate about national security, it seems Andrew Bolt may have <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/nup_cant_see_that_flashing_light/">lost the plot</a> just a tad ...<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>The alleged terrorists arrested in Melbourne yesterday were all Muslims, from either Somalia or Lebanon. They weren’t Baptists or Greenlanders, Buddhists or Swedes. In fact, if you wanted to confirm a stereotypical profile of a modern terrorist, this pretty much fitted the bill.</strong></span></blockquote><br /><br />So what would be the stereotypical profile of the victims of modern terrorism? Would they be Baptists, Greenlanders, Buddhists or Swedes?<br /><br />And so, for some reason, Andrew Bolt now founds himself to be in a headspace where to be a terrorist it it's no longer enough for you to be a Muslim. You have to be a Lebanese or a Somali Muslim. I guess that lets <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/65507/Osama-bin-Laden">Usama bin Ladin</a> off the hook.<br /><br />Which leads me to ask Andrew Bolt the obvious question ...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIrJlhV7u7wVLsJB-09_Pz1yBdEMtG1ZaZoC6ZZP4nmYMo16g4-J7LYooa6k5T7ZkZBczMzI_y9W3ZDFMXMFdcNDV5svc4CydrOgPCYAbfihcpesfM1_7kHe7-B-fYOst4eg2ONw/s1600-h/What_The_Fuck_Were_You_Thinking.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 251px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIrJlhV7u7wVLsJB-09_Pz1yBdEMtG1ZaZoC6ZZP4nmYMo16g4-J7LYooa6k5T7ZkZBczMzI_y9W3ZDFMXMFdcNDV5svc4CydrOgPCYAbfihcpesfM1_7kHe7-B-fYOst4eg2ONw/s320/What_The_Fuck_Were_You_Thinking.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366531694217361554" /></a><br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-12809254772131806522009-07-11T02:31:00.001-07:002009-07-11T02:52:29.438-07:00BLOG/HATEWATCH: Andrew Bolt allows his imbeciles freedom to spread hate ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgywIL49OUeJxIFod5wRH3Kv-RnE_KIP-thKx3lqECpaW3DsANcXzqkkejWP9wflbyeJa60GjdRGtoIn3NIG26PeH7JVqv4O2L0ZaYgsD_3IzbpXyBrAT_EZAP7BS3DrkL8ep4Rjg/s1600-h/andrew_bolt.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgywIL49OUeJxIFod5wRH3Kv-RnE_KIP-thKx3lqECpaW3DsANcXzqkkejWP9wflbyeJa60GjdRGtoIn3NIG26PeH7JVqv4O2L0ZaYgsD_3IzbpXyBrAT_EZAP7BS3DrkL8ep4Rjg/s400/andrew_bolt.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357138222458870930" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0gljJJbolYTYnCQvC28-oNuqVXr4kUMjR1O8TDdq3VIxfg44xn23rrVzjutI0jeaeecfsJ-I3_p_c9WV86ojkHLYVCJD4xBYsSi_zzIeepA8Zbt1sc-wlwQAJbqwZjFmoO436fA/s1600-h/racist.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0gljJJbolYTYnCQvC28-oNuqVXr4kUMjR1O8TDdq3VIxfg44xn23rrVzjutI0jeaeecfsJ-I3_p_c9WV86ojkHLYVCJD4xBYsSi_zzIeepA8Zbt1sc-wlwQAJbqwZjFmoO436fA/s400/racist.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357138015641987458" /></a><br />As we've shown on this blog over and over again, Andrew Bolt's idea of sensible discourseincludes even some of the most xenophobic comment. His <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/g_sheridan/">analysis of events in Xinjiang in Western China</a> attracts the usual array of fruitloops.<br /><br />The situation in the Xinjiang (or East Turkestan) autonomous region of Western China is extremely complex. There is conflict between Han Chinese and indigenous Turkic Uighurs. Then there are other smaller Turkish tribes (such as Kazakhs) caught in the middle. This conflict crosses ethnic, religious, tribal and class divides, and the complexity of the conflict has not been lost on readers of Andrew Bolt’s blog on the <em>Herald Sun</em> website. Consider these mature and considered reflections:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>I was wondering which way you’d jump on this one. Keep in mind that the uighurs probably started the violence - however justified it might be - and they ARE muslim, remember.<br /><em>Matthew of Canberra (Reply)<br />Thu 09 Jul 09 (09:45am)</em></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><em>Devlin Carnate replied to Matthew<br />Thu 09 Jul 09 (05:34pm) </em><br />It looks like the ChiComs are battling another form of totalitarianism to come: Jihadism.<br />Yet another restive Muslim minority with grievances, seizing upon an incident of alleged mistreatment by authorities to stage a riot. Yet hardly no one notices any kind of pattern, or any hint of the Islamic supremacist notion that it is offensive for Muslims to be under the rule of non-Muslims.<br />So in what sense are the Uighurs the target here? It looks as if they are fairly efficiently targeting the Han Chinese. …<br /><br />While I normally respect Greg Sheridan’s opinion, I disagree with his analysis on the Uighurs. Greg is not looking at the big picture i.e. everywhere on Earth that Islamic culture meets another culture, there is conflict …<br /><br />And that’s just this century. Why would Muslims behave any differently in China? … Now they have then gone on a rampage killing dozens of ethnic Chinese. The ethnic Chinese have now responded in kind. I think it is entirely appropriate that the Chinese are cracking down on the Muslims.<br />I believe what is now happening in China is exactly what will happen in Europe within the next ten years. Muslims will commit atrocities against the indigenous population and eventually the locals will have had enough and retaliate. It will be a low key civil war. Whether it escalates or not will depend on whether the European governments crack down on the Muslims or the locals.<br /><em>jupes of west coast (Reply)<br />Thu 09 Jul 09 (07:22pm)</em></strong></span></blockquote><br />I wonder if News Limited chief John Hartigan had his employee Andrew Bolt in mind when <a href="http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25718006-661,00.html">he said recently</a> the blogesphere was saturated with people and opinions ...<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>... of such limited intellectual value as to be barely discernible from massive ignorance.</strong></span></blockquote><br /><br /><strong>UPDATE I:</strong> Speaking of Xinjiang, here is an interesting analysis of the <a href="http://shanghaiscrap.com/?p=3283&source=cmailer">use of buzzwords by media outlets</a>, comparing the treatment of Tibetans and Uighurs. <br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-42779633553888661542009-07-10T22:01:00.000-07:002009-07-11T22:28:14.539-07:00BLOGS: How Bolt and Blair might spin this murdered woman's story ...Serial tabloid hate-mongers Andrew Bolt and Tim Blair love plucking out stories not widely reported in Australian media about violence against women. Actually, not about violence against women in particular or indeed violence against women in Australia. But rather, about <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/two_god_squads_too_many/">violence against non-white nominally Muslim women, preferably by non-white nominally Muslim men</a>. And not with the intention of showing sympathy toward the women themselves, but rather (especially in Blair's case) to <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/hassan_chop/">poke fun at a tragic situation</a>.<br /><br />But <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/world/death-in-a-court-creates-a-martyr-20090709-ddv4.html">one incident</a> of violence against a non-white nominally Muslim woman seems to have passed them by. I wonder why.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>IT WAS while Marwa el-Sherbini was in the dock that the accused strode across a Dresden courtroom and plunged a knife into her 18 times. She had been recalling how the man had insulted her for wearing a hijab after she asked him to let her son sit on a swing last year.<br /><br />Her three-year-old son, Mustafa, was forced to watch as his mother slumped to the courtroom floor.</strong></span></blockquote><br />Why wouldn't Andrew Bolt write about <a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2009/07/07/german-islam-hater-murders-pregnant-muslim/comment-page-1/#comment-111292">this incident</a>? I mean, there's plenty here for him to write about. You'd think Andrew could at least write ...<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>This incident shows how European Muslims just aren't integrating and instead are imposing their dress codes on others. The backlash is natural. We could see that here soon also.</strong></span></blockquote><br />Yes, an Egyptian pharmacist living in Germany is stabbed by a white-skinned European man. It somehow doesn't fit Bolt's stereotype. As for Tim Blair, he'd might even argue that the police officer was right.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Even her husband, Elvi Ali Okaz, could do nothing as his pregnant wife was killed by the 28-year-old Russian stock controller who was being sued for insult and abuse. As Mr Okaz ran to save her he, too, was brought down, shot by a police officer who mistook him for the attacker. He is now in intensive care in a Dresden hospital.</strong></span></blockquote><br />Blair would argue that Muslim men are usually the ones bashing up and beheading Muslim women. I can only imagine what commenters on his blog might say.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>What does she expect? She's lucky they didn't turn her into compost. That's what I'd do.</strong></span></blockquote><br />Perhaps Blair and his commenters would even sympathise with Alex W's sentiments.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Unemployed Alex W. from Perm in Russia was found guilty last November of insulting and abusing Ms Sherbini, screaming "terrorist" and "Islamist whore" at her, during the Dresden park encounter.</strong></span></blockquote><br />Or maybe Alex W had been spending too much of his time reading News Limited blogs.<br /><br /><strong>UPDATE I:</strong> One of Tim Blair's main informants, a certain Sheik Yermami, has <a href="http://sheikyermami.com/2009/07/12/hypocrisy/">this to say</a> about the sorry saga. And it seems Yermami has similar comment moderation methods to Blair, having allowed this chilling remark to remain:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><em>An infidel! July 12, 2009 at 3:56 am</em><br />*Where is the outrage? Where are the violent riots, the carbeques, the attacks on Muslims?<br /><br />It will happen. Like a coiled spring it will unleash at the correct moment. Unlike the hot headed Muslims who carry on for a short while and usually end up killing one another. This will be a massive societal reaction to the murderous monstrocity known as Islam, and will last for a very long time.</strong></span></blockquote><br />I guess it did take their ilk 6 years to murder 6 million Jews. That was a fairly long time.<br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-17424716677900575992009-06-01T20:05:00.001-07:002009-06-01T20:54:29.129-07:00MEDIA: The Oz finally manages to find an Iraqi to support the Iraq war ...The op-ed section of <em>The Oz</em> today published a piece by one <a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=516507">Omar Fadhil Al-Nidawi</a>, a Baghdad-trained dentist.<br /><br />And where did <em>The Oz</em> manage to find an Iraqi prepared to write such absurdities? Certainly not in Iraq. Al-Nidawi now lives in the United States. Clearly the war has served his interests quite well.<br /><br />Others serving his interests well are certain US far-Right loopy groups such as the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, whose website includes among its "favourites" <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/">PajamasMedia</a>.<br /><br />Then there is al-Nidawi's own blog whose links include the Jawa Report, Instapundit, JihadWatch, Little Green Footballs, Michelle Malkin, RightWing News, Tim Blair and a host of other far-Right fruitcakes.<br /><br />In other words, al-Nidawi's online buddies include the types who would happily support torturing people in Abu Ghraib prison and who are known for their <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/28/the-keffiyeh-kerfuffle/">pathological hatred</a> of anything linked to Arabs and/or Islam.<br /><br />So if you're an Iraqi and you want to get published on the Opinion page of <em>The Oz</em>, you obviously have to follow the party line. Thankfully not all sections of <em>The Oz</em> follow the party line. Because if they did, <em>The Oz</em> wouldn't read more like FoxNews than one of Australia's best newspapers.<br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-80084594430453092282009-05-31T22:20:00.001-07:002009-05-31T22:41:24.350-07:00BLOG: Daily Telegraph editor's devastating refutation ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjziugkJ7nN7YUBg3GC1d8KWbi5Axp9A-pXhg48JkDDupnbnDavFjaVo7gXrTHuyk-y4-GJuMPT-4z5zBfeRErSUBpAvZ4MgMeKmZIZgmUg8NcpxJLTAUdtpMSEomzxA-jdKO-BFw/s1600-h/DT_Logo.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342229127345501442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 277px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 90px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjziugkJ7nN7YUBg3GC1d8KWbi5Axp9A-pXhg48JkDDupnbnDavFjaVo7gXrTHuyk-y4-GJuMPT-4z5zBfeRErSUBpAvZ4MgMeKmZIZgmUg8NcpxJLTAUdtpMSEomzxA-jdKO-BFw/s400/DT_Logo.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJnZudncQnIB2cFPrDwsxIJ3MrdCzInecS9XwyvDrR8NosU4RP3qvbuZJqzKaG2hCmqvu-RAQ21o8pTS4fYkCQyBRciLp4kuLKu-F2dQSn23yOkCdOqDdJzvQRCr_y4RPAxUqruQ/s1600-h/TBlair.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342228971529444386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 296px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJnZudncQnIB2cFPrDwsxIJ3MrdCzInecS9XwyvDrR8NosU4RP3qvbuZJqzKaG2hCmqvu-RAQ21o8pTS4fYkCQyBRciLp4kuLKu-F2dQSn23yOkCdOqDdJzvQRCr_y4RPAxUqruQ/s400/TBlair.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Tim Blair, Opinion Editor of the <em>Daily Telegraph</em>, provided a devastating refutation to the suggestion that his blog allowed racist and xenophobic comments to be moderated and posted onto his blog. He posted this refutation on another far-Right blog. Here is <a href="http://margosmaid.blogspot.com/2009/05/irfans-civil-discussions.html?showComment=1243772230251#c4147191486664959038">Blair's refutation</a>.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>By the way, there's another thing besides manufacturing outrage that gets Irf out of bed in the morning. I've heard it's a Caterpillar 966G Series II loading shovel.</strong></span></blockquote><br />My God, the terrifying logic of that response!<br /><br />Of course, Blair doesn't need to use this logic at work. No doubt all staff at the <em>Daily Telegraph</em> satisfy his criteria for acceptable physique. Because if they don't, they should keep their distance from him.<br /><br />The wonderful thing about all this is that questions about the underlying racism and xenophobia Tim allows onto his blog, when made in public, clearly get under his skin. Hence they should be asked again and again and again. And not just to Blair but to all his colleagues. Xenophobia isn't acceptable, even if Blair thinks it is. And the <a href="http://blairboltwatch.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/always-with-the-fat-jokes/"><em>"shut-the-f*ck-up-you-fat-sh*t"</em> response from Blair</a> also becomes a bit tiring after a while.<br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-47578690845762159382009-05-19T20:30:00.000-07:002009-05-19T20:59:24.914-07:00COMMENT: Truth, lies & the Jerusalem Prize ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTItgSlDnyb61orDUt7b49NC9IJG7oCmnPMe7fiIe1c0zxo5caidIh4dBD85bfU3vczy8JxSGJUgPbQgEBKYaJGhHPmqNyxF3QU0OQrNPrb5T8bfgIBVURQOgJ8YrFoQ-KWJ9WGQ/s1600-h/greg-sheridan.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337750581517523202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 260px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 279px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTItgSlDnyb61orDUt7b49NC9IJG7oCmnPMe7fiIe1c0zxo5caidIh4dBD85bfU3vczy8JxSGJUgPbQgEBKYaJGhHPmqNyxF3QU0OQrNPrb5T8bfgIBVURQOgJ8YrFoQ-KWJ9WGQ/s400/greg-sheridan.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />On the May 7 episode of ABC TV's Q&A show, there was an interesting exchange between author Randa Abdel Fattah and columnist Greg Sheridan.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>GREG SHERIDAN:</strong> I don't believe criticism of Israel is generally labelled as anti-Semitism. I reject absolutely the proposition of the question. However, I do think anti-Semitism has swept back both into the western world and the Arab world. Many scholars have examined anti-Semitism in the Arab world. Notorious tsarist forgery, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which is meant to show Jewish conspiracy to control the world, figures prominently on Egyptian television, in Saudi Arabia and so forth. You Google the Hamas Charter, you'll see that the Jews control the Rotary Clubs and the Lions Clubs in order to enact their vicious conspiracies and so forth. It's perfectly legitimate to criticise Israel, as it is any other nation, when it does something wrong. But the insane, absolutely over the top emotional hostility towards Israel from people who couldn't care less about 300,000 Darfuries, aren't fussed about the status of women in Saudi Arabia, couldn't give a bugger about the 300,000 people in North Korean gulag, but Israel somehow is their enemy - there is something going on there which is psychological and very nasty.<br /><br /><strong>TONY JONES:</strong> Randa?<br /><br /><strong>RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH:</strong> I totally disagree with that. I know you've said before that being anti-Israel is fundamentally irrational and evidence of psychological and ideological dysfunction...<br /><br /><strong>GREG SHERIDAN:</strong> I've never said that. No, I've never said that.<br /><br /><strong>RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH:</strong> When you accepted the Jerusalem Prize for being a supporter of Israel...<br /><br /><strong>GREG SHERIDAN:</strong> Yeah. Yeah. I never said that Randa. That's just untrue.<br /><br /><strong>RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH:</strong> Well, I...<br /><br /><strong>GREG SHERIDAN:</strong> That's a lie, Randa. That's a lie.<br /><br /><strong>RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH:</strong> I've got it in print. I'll show you after the show.<br /><br /><strong>GREG SHERIDAN:</strong> Yeah, well it may be in print, but I never said it, I can tell you that.</span></blockquote><br /><br />Mr Sheridan said that he never said these words. His <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21660439-25377,00.html">column on 3 May 2007</a> must have been a figment of our collective imaginations. Here are some excerpts:<br /><br /><blockquote><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">... recently I did get a remarkable piece of mail. It told me that if I would<br />accept, I would be awarded the Jerusalem Prize.<br /><br />Sponsored jointly by the Israeli Government and the local Jewish community, it is awarded to people who have supported Israel conspicuously.<br /><br />Since I believe that Israel is a democracy in good standing I was delighted to accept the award, which has been won by sundry heads of government, foreign ministers, social democrat and conservative European politicians and many others over the years ...<br /><br />Anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment are all different, yet they are all intimately related. They draw from diverse sources, yet they are all, in their virulent forms, <em>fundamentally irrational and evidence of psychological and ideological dysfunction rather than genuine analysis</em>.</span></strong></blockquote><br />And so, as I look outside my window and admire the latest fleet of Qaantas pigs taking off, I cannot help but wonder why Randa could tell such clear and obvious lies on national television.<br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-76962943710521349052009-05-14T18:15:00.000-07:002009-05-14T18:49:47.076-07:00BLOG: More violent racism on Bolt's Herald Sun blog ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Xxv1XYAZqRTvHyZEp-ypVlbTshGsJ0sIfTVfHuV9wKLSmJk74wjI_1uk0Hr9ACwWvBLy0v2ZRkE0T_jN9g9w-MNtzbp-Hy0u8oSa66jyFZI8T9Mwva0n3Uw0QhVsMUPO7Raexw/s1600-h/Herald_Sun_logo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335861509006321042" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 334px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 63px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Xxv1XYAZqRTvHyZEp-ypVlbTshGsJ0sIfTVfHuV9wKLSmJk74wjI_1uk0Hr9ACwWvBLy0v2ZRkE0T_jN9g9w-MNtzbp-Hy0u8oSa66jyFZI8T9Mwva0n3Uw0QhVsMUPO7Raexw/s400/Herald_Sun_logo.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I thought we'd re-visit some of Andrew Bolt's golden oldies.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjMAEGImFPH0W_yTzOM5fEOOUV7VynhGZPgYdIkxt5q6ODFZFvM4KZT7pK7GT-ueqnGQE33uwsLBGn5l1jzAfsmFsFAWYezf-unuvlHDjXn7AlyxiG8z7POYNKNL7__bxq4ytqqw/s1600-h/Jerkajerka.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335860375856316674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 302px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 198px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjMAEGImFPH0W_yTzOM5fEOOUV7VynhGZPgYdIkxt5q6ODFZFvM4KZT7pK7GT-ueqnGQE33uwsLBGn5l1jzAfsmFsFAWYezf-unuvlHDjXn7AlyxiG8z7POYNKNL7__bxq4ytqqw/s400/Jerkajerka.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Andrew Bolt never liked Barack Obama very much. Back on April 05 2009, he castigated <a href="http://oncewereradicals.blogspot.com/2009/04/audio-interview-on-sbs-radio-urdu.html">Obama for his policy on Afghanistan</a>. Bolt's commenters went further. Here's the very first comment.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Actually the only solution to Afghanistan is to stop recognising it as a legitimate sovereign state while it allows islam to continue its illegitimate rule. The now destroyed Buddhas of Bamyan a testimony to a successfull buddhist society, are yet another example of islam ruthlessly destroying societies.<br /><br />History has proven the choice is simple - destroy islam - or destroy societies.<br /><br /><em>tony of coburg (Reply)<br />Sun 05 Apr 09 (04:41pm)</em></strong></span></blockquote><br />So we really have only 1 choice in the world. We can murder (or forcibly convert) all those we deem Muslim before they destroy civilisation. The <em>Herald Sun</em> moderators haven't yet deleted this remark, and I doubt they ever will. Maybe they think all Muslims look something like this dude.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOMTRQSEOM9fCWbtmLQopoyepEwj8B3aBPyTecW49KFpMu4NmwOR2DKUYPzhrF9BC-v3iqUd5zbHlajsVUkbim1kIqGh7n9g6wW1USWm1DXNFPbfKjFdlbLFkEu7je-v-pLZ7_4g/s1600-h/mullah_teamamerica.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335860776116601170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 332px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOMTRQSEOM9fCWbtmLQopoyepEwj8B3aBPyTecW49KFpMu4NmwOR2DKUYPzhrF9BC-v3iqUd5zbHlajsVUkbim1kIqGh7n9g6wW1USWm1DXNFPbfKjFdlbLFkEu7je-v-pLZ7_4g/s400/mullah_teamamerica.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />But wait - there's more!<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><em>joeallen replied to Margaret<br />Mon 06 Apr 09 (10:34am)</em><br />Margaret, we don’t want a war, but the islamics sure do. And have for the past 1400 years. While the Europeans don’t fight, the muslims are taking over their cities. Europe is more concerned about keeping its citizens comsuming heroin, cocaine, and opium that comes from Afghan. That is why the Europeans don’t want to fight. Of course, last century Germany caused 2 world wars that took in excess of 100 million lives. And have a look of how things have deteriorated in Sweden and Finland in the last 3 years as the Muslims burn burn and burn hospitals, Christian schools, and western religion churches in these countries. After all, in the past 1000 years, the muslims have invaded Europe several times. Now they are doing it by immigration, and this is proving far more successful, due to European ideals. These ideals will lead to the extinction of white christian europeans. We are being warned and ignoring the current situation.</strong></span></blockquote><br />Pfft. Geez, Andrew, do people need to fail an IQ test before commenting on your blog? A large portion of Muslim migrants in Western Europe are from Bosnia. The last time I checked, Bosnians were not exactly of the same skin colour of Colin Powell.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLikCQWWfTlZBxhRmE8WSLZppZTu2rrh52LToeavaqcoYpTUVe14f_t1AAsX05Gtr0IjEKFxgTXfdrgSB0_V17fb7gfCWqG_sWhlESwVCaPHfvMG4fzNFrSkxOZj6ZSrXB6Du1TQ/s1600-h/FruityJihad.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335859870391941202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 226px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 233px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLikCQWWfTlZBxhRmE8WSLZppZTu2rrh52LToeavaqcoYpTUVe14f_t1AAsX05Gtr0IjEKFxgTXfdrgSB0_V17fb7gfCWqG_sWhlESwVCaPHfvMG4fzNFrSkxOZj6ZSrXB6Du1TQ/s400/FruityJihad.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Bolt blogs more about <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/kill_the_talibani_before_you_build_the_school/">how to deal with Afghanistan here</a>. And as always, the ferals are allowed full freedom to unleash their genocidal stuff. Here is an example.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><em>Joe replied to Kiwi<br />Tue 07 Apr 09 (11:51am)</em><br />Let’s just carpet nuke the whole country. That way the Brigadier get’s his instant wish, namely the insurgency is completely finished, and the peaceable part can take place of rebuilding.</strong></span></blockquote><br />Perhaps Joe should stick to plumbing and leave foreign policy and defence to the experts.<br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-44646632512808549672009-05-13T17:35:00.000-07:002009-05-14T18:58:16.017-07:00BLOG: Andrew Bolt on Hawaiian holidays for terrorists ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNLYVzyV9dMcdSBVizTd78DiDRxvcDamyNDdwvEktc81spEJ1wGLXn4AnJj2VMddKaECxOgYRG6FA2Cj_2a6LwuhzhUMx_mKrOv-pzNQpA6aqWRw2cxPKjt7YNTMwlpoot1kyBQ/s1600-h/Herald_Sun_logo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335482940343805346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 334px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 63px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNLYVzyV9dMcdSBVizTd78DiDRxvcDamyNDdwvEktc81spEJ1wGLXn4AnJj2VMddKaECxOgYRG6FA2Cj_2a6LwuhzhUMx_mKrOv-pzNQpA6aqWRw2cxPKjt7YNTMwlpoot1kyBQ/s400/Herald_Sun_logo.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixMfO0sYfkklEiO5IWoFf0JbuGZvExtfC3utJEx6J7cidHUyrL6x72klyFaVyO_rfuIPuHyI5XYvR3XmredOkkomZNQNguSTQEmwbl7Ql9LXOEmgDJrDbU-jOvlZqf71Gnv_RrkQ/s1600-h/islam+is+evil"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335482772451372626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 238px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixMfO0sYfkklEiO5IWoFf0JbuGZvExtfC3utJEx6J7cidHUyrL6x72klyFaVyO_rfuIPuHyI5XYvR3XmredOkkomZNQNguSTQEmwbl7Ql9LXOEmgDJrDbU-jOvlZqf71Gnv_RrkQ/s400/islam+is+evil" border="0" /></a><br /><em>Herald Sun</em> columnist Andrew Bolt has (I presume inadvertently) <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/why_this_one_faith/">used his blog</a> to promote a far-Right conspiracy theory about Muslims.<br /><br />Bolt cites the allegedly conservative blog <a href="http://www.qohel.com/2009/05/12/hawaii-islam-day-to-be-september-11th/">Qohel</a> on a proposal by the Hawaii Legislature to introduce an official annual "Islam Day" on September 24. Qohel in turn refers readers to a far-Right conspiracy theorist posing as the "<a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/10972">Canada Free Press</a>" for "more detail".<br /><br />And what does the CFP have to say? Here's how their "report" commences.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Muslims have just tricked the Hawaii Legislature into celebrating Islam on September 11.</strong></span></blockquote>To get an idea of just how loopy this CFP is, go to their search feature and type in the words <em>Obama Muslim</em>. Be prepared for nonsensical articles like <a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover031006.htm">this</a> and <a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover012207.htm">this</a>.<br /><br />Bolt, of course, would never subscribe to any conspiracy theory concerning Muslims imposing an agenda on Hawaii or the rest of the United States. After all, it's not as if Bolt would make the kinds of far-fetched remarks that far-Right nutters would make. You know, remarks like this:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>If adherents of this faith hadn’t killed so many Americans, would it have attracted this kind of fawning?</strong></span></blockquote>Of course, Bolt did say all that. His comments echoed the views of two Republican representatives in Hawaii as <a href="http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/291894">reported by the Associated Press</a> on 7 May 2009.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Hawaii's state Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday to celebrate "Islam Day" — over the objections of a few lawmakers who said they didn't want to honor a religion connected to Sept. 11, 2001. </strong></span></blockquote>Those Senators were right. But then, they were in the minority. What can one say about the rest of those damned Hawaiians? In the mind of Andrew Bolt and his conspiratorial nutter sources, terrorists (i.e. Hawaiian Muslims) have successfully held a gun to the head of the Hawaiian Senate. The terrorists have won. We should have seen it coming. Head for the hills!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2l3zG9y4j1I2Fr82DbGQaSv0pYnTGoi-7PxPgCFicRZfH3PzyckEQs-caus9X_FGd3pN0hkuu8351yyHLQvOZnKy0GSe0g4RY2mLUVy59wtDivO2qPKAsFNexAfDhvghaTaPQYQ/s1600-h/obama+alqaeda.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335482605194415858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 244px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2l3zG9y4j1I2Fr82DbGQaSv0pYnTGoi-7PxPgCFicRZfH3PzyckEQs-caus9X_FGd3pN0hkuu8351yyHLQvOZnKy0GSe0g4RY2mLUVy59wtDivO2qPKAsFNexAfDhvghaTaPQYQ/s400/obama+alqaeda.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong>UPDATE I:</strong> Those winderful people at the <em>Crikey</em> Pure Poison blog have done some thorough research on the Hawaiian Islam Day proposal which, far from being an annual event, was supposed to be a one-off. Read more <a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/2009/05/13/why-this-one-myth/">here</a>.<br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-46104332341076948182009-05-03T09:54:00.000-07:002009-05-03T10:18:12.267-07:00BLOG: The Taliban are coming to Auburn ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjllOLsgVMn6YFfz1BHMSgSfmq7_7GvvQ7GfAfA7bV_rjNf17MXNyvL4tbqCo8UUm74McGHg7ZJ6FXojVmUZlWDcQmc6-brrBeo5zzevvHchDc6O-Xe0Ud3DMZxgC3rmVWZXDAoIw/s1600-h/DT_Logo.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331647799190352930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 277px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 90px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjllOLsgVMn6YFfz1BHMSgSfmq7_7GvvQ7GfAfA7bV_rjNf17MXNyvL4tbqCo8UUm74McGHg7ZJ6FXojVmUZlWDcQmc6-brrBeo5zzevvHchDc6O-Xe0Ud3DMZxgC3rmVWZXDAoIw/s400/DT_Logo.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinD4YPAY21b-6ooYALa3SDEM1j3KfwpTzGtTiwvC95-eP8zQPGSzfs49y1wBTjkzo3yEweNH4RYUyvdWrAPD3LzgkciKr9tOfqWRX-s3-bCA3nLlP3pKfuiAh6aPUcqz8je1VYyQ/s1600-h/Limited+News.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331647687080931122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 304px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinD4YPAY21b-6ooYALa3SDEM1j3KfwpTzGtTiwvC95-eP8zQPGSzfs49y1wBTjkzo3yEweNH4RYUyvdWrAPD3LzgkciKr9tOfqWRX-s3-bCA3nLlP3pKfuiAh6aPUcqz8je1VYyQ/s400/Limited+News.jpg" border="0" /></a>Tim Blair, opinion editor of the <em>Daily Telegraph</em>, links to a report in the Dawn, Pakistan's oldest newspaper, about the dreadful treatment of the tiny Sikh community in the <a href="http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/12-taliban-raze-houses-of-sikhs-in-orakzai--bi-03">Orakzai Area</a> of Pakistan by the Taliban. He then allowed the <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/modern_jazia/#commentsmore">following comments</a> reflecting not on the Taliban but also upon the vast majority of the Taliban's victims:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Pretty much proves the point that Islam is a criminal enterprise writ large.<br /><br />If youse is not with the gang, then youse have to pay the gang protection money.<br /><br />As it the case here - said in black and smudge.<br /><br />MarkL<br />Canberra<br /><br /><em>MarkL of Canberra (Reply)<br />Sun 03 May 09 (08:08pm)</em></strong></span></blockquote><br /><br />Was Mark L talking about Islam as a faith? As law? As people? Was he saying that all Muslims are criminals? That they behave in the same manner as mafia-like gangs?<br /><br />But it doesn't stop there. Heck, why limit it to Taliban-controlled parts of Pakistan?<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Jazia, coming to Auburn soon.<br /><em>boy on a bike (Reply)<br />Sun 03 May 09 (08:57pm)</em><br /><br /><em>kae replied to boy on a bike<br />Sun 03 May 09 (10:22pm)</em><br />I also wonder how long it will be.</strong></span></blockquote><br /><br />Chronic anti-Semite and racist Daniel Lewis couldn't help himself.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Next time you hear an apologist for Islamism saying how well the Jews and other minorities are treated in Muslim countries, remind them that these groups are forced to pay Jizya for the privilege of not being killed.<br /><br />There is an argument that Centrelink is seen as effectively paying Jizya, on behalf of the infidels, to residents of Lakemba who regard themselves as superior. Centrelink regards them simply as long-term unemployed.<br /><br /><em>Daniel Lewis (Reply)<br />Sun 03 May 09 (09:44pm)</em></strong></span></blockquote><br /><br />Tim Blair allows this stuff onto his blog because he regards it as normal and reasonable speech. It's normal to describe all Muslims as part of an organised criminal gang. It's ok to suggest that this gang is present in Sydney suburbs.<br /><br />When I ckicked onto Tim's blog, I noticed a banner advert from The National Australia Bank. My bank fees go toward printing this hate-speech.<br /><br />Words © 2008 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-12987534731335936332009-04-21T07:17:00.000-07:002009-04-22T22:29:55.687-07:00BLOG: Racists against racism ...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmyTeWyM1VLBXHTbwHboRj5DCe5f20p3NvPvqjXJdzO9qUH_SHi9zFPC5dHAA9rwLUFRCpzodsHg2vRH9cCEveIgU7t403o9kyDIQfUMPHT9_dWKqZfaovdGahx5cQQz4Z1kQarA/s1600-h/Herald+Sun+logo.bmp"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 334px; height: 63px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmyTeWyM1VLBXHTbwHboRj5DCe5f20p3NvPvqjXJdzO9qUH_SHi9zFPC5dHAA9rwLUFRCpzodsHg2vRH9cCEveIgU7t403o9kyDIQfUMPHT9_dWKqZfaovdGahx5cQQz4Z1kQarA/s400/Herald+Sun+logo.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327198502854603554" border="0" /></a><br />Well it's great to see Andrew Bolt <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/un_starts_great_festival_of_jew_hatred/">lashing out against the UN Conference on Racism</a>, accusing it of racism merely for allowing Iran's fruitcake premier to speak. This from a columnist who claims Victorian police are deliberately hiding the extent of crime by African migrants, who moderates comments calling for the destruction of entire nations and who thinks that only black-skinned people can be indigenous Australians.<br /><br />And what kind of morons congregate around this mediocre tabloid blogger? How about this happy clappy ...<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><em>Eric replied to Barrie<br />Tue 21 Apr 09 (11:26am)<br /></em>The europeans have soled themselves out to Islamic oil Barrie. This started under DeGaul, post WW2, it is merely gaining momentum now.<br />Well, the bible does prophesy that the world will turn against Israel, and we appear to be seeing that in our lifetimes. God help those nations who stand against his people, it boggles my mind that Christians can stand against Israel when they claim allegiance, at least in name, if not in spirit, with their messiah.</strong></span></blockquote><br />Indeed many evangelical interpretations of Biblical prophecy also state that Jesus will return to earth to finish off the job Adolf Hitler couldn't quite finish. Then of course you have apologists for South Africa's apartheid regime.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><em>Dr Paul Fidlon replied to Barrie<br />Tue 21 Apr 09 (03:35pm) </em><br />... What does it say of a South African government permitting yet another anti-Semitic conference to be held in South Africa itself AND inviting arch-terrorist Ahmadinejad to address the conference?<br />Can’t imagine the old white South African government doing anything like this.</strong></span></blockquote><br />I thought "Durban II" was actually being held in Geneva. But still, the old white South African government always knew how to put racists in their place. And what better way to fight racism than with good old-fashioned genocide?<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>The Muslim world has invented nothing in the last 800 years but are now gathering nuclear weapons to point at the decadent west. Its about time we got a little generous with our nuclear technology and levelled a few of our foes before its too late.<br /><em>Rossco of Newcastle (Reply)<br />Tue 21 Apr 09 (08:35am)</em></strong></span></blockquote><br />And if genocide doesn't work, perhaps nuclear war might be an appropriate step.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Q: What is flat, lifeless and glows in the dark in the Middle East?<br />A: Iran, after Israel finally loses patience.<br /><em>WhaleOilBeefHooked (Reply)<br />Tue 21 Apr 09 (10:58am)</em></strong></span></blockquote><br />But out of all this bigotry, one lonely voice of reason stood out.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>We have survived Pharaoh, the Romans, the Christian pogroms, the Ottomans, the Soviets and the Nazis. Their empires are dust, and we’re still here. We have nothing to fear from a stupid little conference and a jumped-up chickenhawk like Ahmadinejad.<br /><br />So touching Andrew, your support for Jews when they’re thousands of miles away in their ancestral homeland, more numerous, prosperous and secure than at any time in the last few millennia.<br /><br />Yet I can predict how you and your readers would have reacted, if you’d been around when my grandparents arrived in Sydney in 1939, by boat, uninvited, stateless, no passport, no English, telling their stories of persecution in German (and this was in the days before the world knew about the existence of death camps).<br /><br />You’d be calling for the boat to be turned around and my grandparents “sent back where they came from”, wouldn’t you? That’s the reception your readers really have in mind for people like my grandparents.<br /><br />Given your attitude towards the persecuted elsewhere in the world, and your unwillingness to help those who come to these shores in need, I can assure you that Israel and the Jews do not need your particular brand of “support”.<br /><br /><em>Mercurius Goldstein of Sydney (Reply)<br />Tue 21 Apr 09 (07:13pm)</em></strong></span></blockquote><br />I am with Mercurius!<br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" height="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" height="20" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="border: medium none ;" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-40965447617301835662009-04-19T23:39:00.000-07:002009-04-20T02:41:05.591-07:00HATEWATCH/BLOGS: More enlightened and informed comment on asylum seekers at the Herald Sun ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT6dA9MBVeE4l4KWCcRt-Pjn9R5nDl8ag2JjX1UTmgU_Ci6Dmd5zK1JxdX6WpsEahytT_3cLuHfeof8_FQ32GVNMvHuA3EwMmIBdk0soDU7_ud6TVUA9p-nOFDtj59gV-PJxqTSg/s1600-h/Herald_Sun_logo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326664578182303042" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 334px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 63px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT6dA9MBVeE4l4KWCcRt-Pjn9R5nDl8ag2JjX1UTmgU_Ci6Dmd5zK1JxdX6WpsEahytT_3cLuHfeof8_FQ32GVNMvHuA3EwMmIBdk0soDU7_ud6TVUA9p-nOFDtj59gV-PJxqTSg/s400/Herald_Sun_logo.jpg" border="0" /></a> Here are some classics from <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_people_overboard_and_the_kindness_than_kills/P20/">page 2 from Andrew Bolt's blog</a> on the most recent load of asylum seekers ...<br /><br /><blockquote><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Who really cares, they all should have gone up in flames.<br />And no rescue effort for the survivors, that will stop em doing these things.<br /><em>Zarth of mulgrave (Reply)<br />Fri 17 Apr 09 (09:16am)</em><br /></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong></strong></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Try this one people.....were they all refugees seeking asylum or were some of them suicide refugees hell bent on making a statement and possibly inflicting casualities on Australian naval personnel.<br />The incident is too bizzare to think it was an accident.<br /><em>Spinfx of Melbourne (Reply)<br />Fri 17 Apr 09 (09:37am)</em></strong></span><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>I do hope Australia won’t get themselves into the huge problems many European countries now find themselves in. It is a bit of an advantage that we are ‘an island’, and a bit more difficult to cross border.<br />This very morning I read from Norway about a pair of asylum seekers caught out. Arrived independently in the country, without papers.<br />Woman claimed she had been held for years as a sex-salve in the jungles of Burundi.<br />They both joined up again in Norway after being apart for a certain period.<br />Only an observant policeman discovered their false identity. He discovered a wedding photo with the pair, the bride in a quite fancy wedding dress cutting their wedding cake, with their true names on the impressive wedding cake.<br />Also police in Oslo yesterday said the 40 odd cases against violence and rape in the city against Norwegian females over last couple of years were all by these new foreigners, high on the list were Somalis and Kurds. Some of them repeat offenders.<br />Another problem they have, gangs get created among these various groups, like Pakistani against African gangs, and narcotics is very common among them.<br />The general population is generally getting pretty fed up with it all.<br /><em>Concerned ex-Scandinavian. of Brisbane. (Reply)<br />Fri 17 Apr 09 (09:49am)</em></strong></span></blockquote><br /><br /><br />And <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_people_overboard_and_the_kindness_than_kills/P40/">now from page 3</a> ...<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><em>bushka replied to Stew<br />Fri 17 Apr 09 (02:00pm)</em><br />they are not all desperate asylum seekers. There is quite a few questions to be answered. With this lot why were they all men? Don,t they value women?? With the lot before why were they all well dressed?<br />Is someone from Australia perhaps sending money to enable some to pay people smugglers???? Moslem friends???</strong></span></blockquote><br /><br />More to come.<br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-54060068783317986092009-04-19T21:28:00.000-07:002009-04-19T22:09:13.046-07:00HATEWATCH/BLOGS: Enlightened and informed comment on asylum seekers at the Herald Sun ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixDv4biFuWj3wksdLAb33lADQzaXbzL1LCJuL62Hbcf_sVBUEfvh3ObNtHNLsCNO8cXAxUf1GQ7kVuOE-opz3MaPvc1qgX9tiTycHkVxZdt7N3JhRj8kLxd8UTbMsHvzgreBYtsw/s1600-h/Herald_Sun_logo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326636127000393986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 334px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 63px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixDv4biFuWj3wksdLAb33lADQzaXbzL1LCJuL62Hbcf_sVBUEfvh3ObNtHNLsCNO8cXAxUf1GQ7kVuOE-opz3MaPvc1qgX9tiTycHkVxZdt7N3JhRj8kLxd8UTbMsHvzgreBYtsw/s400/Herald_Sun_logo.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Again, no commentary required for some of the fruitloops attracted by <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_people_overboard_and_the_kindness_than_kills/">this paranoid post</a>:<br /><blockquote><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>KRudd now has blood on his hands.<br />Anyone organising a party for a teenager at home knows that they have to be very careful to restrict invitations to only the type of people welcome, ensure that an open invitation is not broadcast and provide proper security - all with the objective of baring undesirables from crashing the party. Therefore, the question I have is, are Australians happy to have a Prime Minister running the country who demonstrably couldn’t even safely organise a child’s party?<br /><em>Wake up Australia of Pennant Hills (Reply)<br />Fri 17 Apr 09 (06:01am)</em><br /></strong></span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><em>gonfalone replied to Wake up Australia<br />Fri 17 Apr 09 (11:36am)</em><br />... These boat people are not “asylum seekers”; they are COLONISERS.<br />Ponder this: Jemaah Islamiah’s Abu Bakar Bashir: “The Islamic faithful in Australia must endevour to bring about an Islamic state in Australia, even if it is 100 years from now,” ...<br />To allow more of these people in is national suicide.<br />Islam delenda est!<br /></strong></span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><em>Wake up Australia replied to Wake up Australia<br />Fri 17 Apr 09 (12:10pm)</em><br />... It is well known that the people smugglers tell the invaders that when they consider that they are assured of being rescued they should destroy their boat (and all identification of course). Therefore seeing that at the time of the explosion there was two Australian navy personnel on board of the vessel I think it is safe to assume that these people were quite happy to murder Australians - are these really the sort of people you want living next door to you???<br /></p></strong></span><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>MMM....Sad times ahead....well if our PM makes it easier for these people to attempt to land on our shores for a free ride,expect more of this to come! Now you have to ask..are these the type of person/s we want as refugees? From their point of view - Hey get a boat ride to Ozzie, free housing, free medical, free dental, free education and some spending money every fortnight....Yeah this is the lucky country....providing your not Australian<br />that is !!!!!!<br /><em>Margy of Qld (Reply)<br />Fri 17 Apr 09 (06:16am)</em><br /></strong></span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><em>Harry Buttle replied to Poor Self Funded Retiree<br />Fri 17 Apr 09 (07:51am)</em><br />The policies of the Australian Govt killed those people. John Howard had put in place measures that stopped people smuggling cold.<br />KRudd removed those policies and put in place policies that rewarded people smuggling.<br />He put those people in that boat and it led to their deaths.<br />The question now is “will KRudd be prepared to accept responsibility and reimpose the Pacific solution, or must more people die?”<br /><br /><br /><em>tony of coburg replied to Bonni<br />Fri 17 Apr 09 (08:43am)</em><br />... Asylum seekers on boats are breaking Australian law - understand. They don’t have rights - and should be towed out into deeper water - or bakc to whereever they just came from. </strong></span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>The newer refugees are from a totally different mind set and refuse or can’t adapt to<br />Australian ways and it is this lack of assimilation which makes them unpopular.<br />It is hard to understand why Moslems don’t stay in Indonesia which is an Islamic<br />country. As well, there are legal facilities for them to apply for refugee status in that country but they queue jump and Australia has to pick up the<br />pieces.<br /><em>Scales of Justice of Melbourne (Reply)<br />Fri 17 Apr 09 (07:31am)</em><br /></strong></span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><em>PG replied to Scales of Justice<br />Fri 17 Apr 09 (08:35am)</em><br />And it might be pertinent to think of Lebanon here. The Christians let in the Muslim<br />refugees and later became refugees themselves because of the very Muslims they let in. This will be Australia’s fate, except for one thing - very soon there will be no Christian countries for us to run to. </p></strong></span></blockquote>And that's just page 1. More to follow.<br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a></div>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-39184380948595383212009-04-19T02:52:00.000-07:002009-04-19T21:27:44.538-07:00BLOG: Aliens from the Planet Blair ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkLIGkiwRssXeOmSGPO5kiJqKNfUIjKqUpdEf5YDyBkLRv1Ua21tgcgjIDNgKbD7IgpkhKtXaVosxbgdI4AfC4Ldt2fuVviFifmxtB-2OFMnB0ZP-iCZnbcBTYUc2X0rfmU4EbFw/s1600-h/DT_Logo.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 277px; height: 90px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkLIGkiwRssXeOmSGPO5kiJqKNfUIjKqUpdEf5YDyBkLRv1Ua21tgcgjIDNgKbD7IgpkhKtXaVosxbgdI4AfC4Ldt2fuVviFifmxtB-2OFMnB0ZP-iCZnbcBTYUc2X0rfmU4EbFw/s400/DT_Logo.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326625554677437394" /></a><br />I'm not sure if there's any point providing commentary to this imbecilic comment left by just one of the many fruitcakes congregating around the <em>Daily Telegraph</em> opinion editor Tim Blair's blog. The bullsh*t stinks for itself.<br /><br />In relation to <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/fired_man_fires_up/P20/">a story about</a> an Iranian refugee who copped a 2 year suspended sentence for trying to set ire to a workmate after found to have been suffering from depression, consider this:<br /><br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>The should throw the stupid judge into prison with the idiot muslim and let events take their course.<br /><em>Peter Wicks of Melbourne<br />Fri 17 Apr 09 (02:45pm)</em></strong></span></blockquote>Lovely.<br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-32730778170176331322009-04-15T07:30:00.000-07:002009-05-14T19:08:00.217-07:00BLOG: In Andrew Bolt's world, only a nigger can be a boong ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVBzpEnms5LlIsZOUJeAEJWepY8y9X8qAcq4nS86taqtGWmkGPeU25nSUtK2H2Zc20yJ6B6HGLZvdb3s2BbV3kspQLbzG2ZMokKkoENr9hHgqjgiptxUO2s2aMem74KPn4XoXC-Q/s1600-h/Herald_Sun_logo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324931968144317250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 334px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 63px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVBzpEnms5LlIsZOUJeAEJWepY8y9X8qAcq4nS86taqtGWmkGPeU25nSUtK2H2Zc20yJ6B6HGLZvdb3s2BbV3kspQLbzG2ZMokKkoENr9hHgqjgiptxUO2s2aMem74KPn4XoXC-Q/s400/Herald_Sun_logo.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Andrew Bolt is obsessed with race and colour. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's something he picked up from Dutch conservatives who settled in South Africa and established a somewhat discredited system of social organisation. In case you're a bit uncertain of what I'm referring to, check this sign out ...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUVNFn3MqTBU0y_2bW9_AdHg2WQ8yW53h_ZgJH20rAxky6v4w_VU4g4FhzbfvckMM-VK55-DXzk7Z-JF64qoyHqNQMACv6a5KDcKiR4DY5Sr2uPX-ALmKlZ68_F9G8f8mv3_MhQ/s1600-h/ApartheidSignEnglishAfrikaans.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324927973350867682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 366px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUVNFn3MqTBU0y_2bW9_AdHg2WQ8yW53h_ZgJH20rAxky6v4w_VU4g4FhzbfvckMM-VK55-DXzk7Z-JF64qoyHqNQMACv6a5KDcKiR4DY5Sr2uPX-ALmKlZ68_F9G8f8mv3_MhQ/s400/ApartheidSignEnglishAfrikaans.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Anyway, Mr Bolt seems to think that <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_white_is_the_new_black#52712">in Australia only dark skinned persons can count as indigenous people</a>. He has been playing this line all along, pretending that he has a greater say in how people identify themselves. Mr Bolt would like indigenous people to refer to him for definitive advice on whether they are indigenous enough. And the sole test he will use is one of physical appearance, of colour.<br /><br />It may only be a matter of time before Mr Bolt starts measuring a Jewish person's Jewishness by their physical appearance (the size of their nose perhaps?).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglVXTVlmoIvulDzAygpIM3LM4vXQYNNAPeuN_kW0uWrCCE93FSTGajGG758DQxF_oPDtxOGgA38mavHQjTCaJNF69_OaFBSSs3yyDnyKhZqU2K08WAPi-O_hSuqExvfh1QwqedEw/s1600-h/Nazi+propaganda.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324931248019135938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 370px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglVXTVlmoIvulDzAygpIM3LM4vXQYNNAPeuN_kW0uWrCCE93FSTGajGG758DQxF_oPDtxOGgA38mavHQjTCaJNF69_OaFBSSs3yyDnyKhZqU2K08WAPi-O_hSuqExvfh1QwqedEw/s400/Nazi+propaganda.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Maybe he'll determine that I am not really of Indian heritage because I look too Turkish. And perhaps the bloke pictured below should really be deemed a member of an al-Qaida cell. Heck, the beard and the turban (and indeed the sword) are dead giveaways! And check out that huge mosque across the water.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD_CAy8_R6hn7l9yIOWxUeS-Gbe1aOKVEySLx5RKtdOaxQIbrgvffkRcANWvH2VPsR0FZS1ABBWvpMz_xBSB_n7-WRYZ68aYnciO3DPfKJDU-qHhV1nUKuC6KtWMmmjBxMuAg_Qg/s1600-h/Sikh+Man+Golden+Temple.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324929812284740066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 282px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD_CAy8_R6hn7l9yIOWxUeS-Gbe1aOKVEySLx5RKtdOaxQIbrgvffkRcANWvH2VPsR0FZS1ABBWvpMz_xBSB_n7-WRYZ68aYnciO3DPfKJDU-qHhV1nUKuC6KtWMmmjBxMuAg_Qg/s400/Sikh+Man+Golden+Temple.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Anyway, enough humour. Time to get depressed as you read <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_white_is_the_new_black/#commentsmore">the disgraceful comments on Bolt's blog</a>. Bolt clearly doesn't like descendants of the first Australians very much, and he seems to hate racial vilification laws even more. Which explains why he has allowed these insulting remarks to be moderated and published.<br /><br />I will not reproduce these disgusting remarks. I hope Andrew Bolt and the <em>Herald Sun</em> are prosecuted for racial vilification.<br /><br /><strong>UPDATE I:</strong> <a href="http://www.cengage.edu.au/">This educational institution</a> advertises on the <em>Herald-Sun</em> website. <a href="http://www.cengage.edu.au/contact-us">Drop them an line</a> and ask whether they want to continuing funding Andrew Bolt's hate-speech.<br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-17364160633806699742009-04-13T14:45:00.000-07:002009-04-13T15:15:02.731-07:00BLOG/HATEWATCH: Piers Akerman and friends comment on African retards ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf9JvzLwNdB5YNZZ9bcpDgco27yavn6VRt98GbQ0B8zAjJhHhzhD8F4ITfdUW3yz-JyA6FLBuC4ms7sG2a5vl1FbDw4d2uSZd7e0rwJhQuXVOj1jLg9Xm7dla13S-dl6m8ZJ3N5A/s1600-h/DT_Logo.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324301700279506786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 277px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 90px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf9JvzLwNdB5YNZZ9bcpDgco27yavn6VRt98GbQ0B8zAjJhHhzhD8F4ITfdUW3yz-JyA6FLBuC4ms7sG2a5vl1FbDw4d2uSZd7e0rwJhQuXVOj1jLg9Xm7dla13S-dl6m8ZJ3N5A/s400/DT_Logo.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOJFJshf6C-p0O0nZJN6RHdNvaixT64846y5kQHbLFHCqXOo-ppPbZDxHVp_SFvhe2H7PBYXu8h8Y_nGQxjw-r_vWw5mlcSghNOkHthRt7_b5EnZBUjV61LRR-FrOMzoxvgjG0cA/s1600-h/DeathPenalty.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324301583583288722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 302px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOJFJshf6C-p0O0nZJN6RHdNvaixT64846y5kQHbLFHCqXOo-ppPbZDxHVp_SFvhe2H7PBYXu8h8Y_nGQxjw-r_vWw5mlcSghNOkHthRt7_b5EnZBUjV61LRR-FrOMzoxvgjG0cA/s400/DeathPenalty.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Piers Akerman, Senior editor at Sydney's <em>Daily Teleraph</em> provides a crucial history lesson on <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/piersakerman/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/lete_the_cannonball_fly_and_hang_them_high/">how to deal with pirates</a>. You can pick up the general vibe of Akerman's solution from the subtle headline:<br /><br /><blockquote><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:180%;">Let the cannonball fly and hang them high</span></strong></blockquote>The moderated comments of Akerman's commenters are even more subtle.<br /><br /><blockquote><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Reality check people. </strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>In the pirates we are dealing with illiterate stone-age savages who come from a racial group whose average IQ is in the 60s (retarded). There is a reason why Africans did not invent the wheel, writing, or any system of government above the tribal level. </strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>There is only one way to deal with these pirates that will make an impression on their dull minds: freaking kill them and the horse that they rode in on ... </strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Anything else will be viewed as weakness and they will continue to laugh at the foolish and weak white man . . . and they will be correct to do so.<br /><em>CarlT of Gold Coast (Reply)<br />Mon 13 Apr 09 (07:59pm)</em><br /><br />What is the stupid Ruddistic UN doing about Somalia? Will the Union-Labor Party bring the poor starving Somalis into Australia? Very likely.<br /><br />If they or their wives are fat in Somalia they are crooks and pirates. Hang or chop the hands off all the fat ones. Leave the Skinny’s.<br />Sink any Somali vessel with a motor. Sails only ...<br /><em>john allen of Southport Qld (Reply)<br />Mon 13 Apr 09 (09:13pm</em>)</strong></span></p></blockquote><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLKLyOmt4UuP4v0izMkx5162iJ-3JVtFUm5rNLRO6r3w2Zi2LNcIxk2dpXo_sd1v0MVPUWspuzTDxYMZlEcmVea52qoeo4P68FF5IsKQZrc0XkRlSnnHepVfZpkgrdhuq9vjP_Yw/s1600-h/dead+bigger+storage.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324302093621988162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLKLyOmt4UuP4v0izMkx5162iJ-3JVtFUm5rNLRO6r3w2Zi2LNcIxk2dpXo_sd1v0MVPUWspuzTDxYMZlEcmVea52qoeo4P68FF5IsKQZrc0XkRlSnnHepVfZpkgrdhuq9vjP_Yw/s400/dead+bigger+storage.bmp" border="0" /></a><br />Witness the enormous respect the <em>Daily Telegraph</em> has for the Commonwealth <em>Racial Discrimination Act</em> and the NSW <em>Anti-Discrimination Act</em>. After reading the blogpost and the comments, I couldn't help but wonder whether it was yet another case of ...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTH4f4Fn9V_1SjQzMcZUhn0yYPTmskt8gIMMs8HgZ1wYqjqN7uw3dDR0Wc2IjRYOlJu1pRutngMmOhlZ8dh1_hnuwT1ksGO0mmiMciowdZiklIfsruYCcHrcx4wbkpIdVmYS8arg/s1600-h/What_The_Fuck_Were_You_Thinking.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324300091420630242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 251px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTH4f4Fn9V_1SjQzMcZUhn0yYPTmskt8gIMMs8HgZ1wYqjqN7uw3dDR0Wc2IjRYOlJu1pRutngMmOhlZ8dh1_hnuwT1ksGO0mmiMciowdZiklIfsruYCcHrcx4wbkpIdVmYS8arg/s400/What_The_Fuck_Were_You_Thinking.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-80928349989849713872009-04-12T01:54:00.001-07:002009-04-12T02:13:35.363-07:00BLOG: Blair sources story from pro-Nazi nutcase ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6OX5Ni74ejK0XO9MxhmV5AjDG01llGqPAOPQWzA-D4qXsYX6MUW32CObiH-jHHVZVla4pQoswJY9zOmr-CAHkRjJl5gu9NUl8DhlCgrTRiiaqj_n-L_S6Ltx4vKqtjaaU2uDGsA/s1600-h/DT_Logo.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323730142144028594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 277px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 90px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6OX5Ni74ejK0XO9MxhmV5AjDG01llGqPAOPQWzA-D4qXsYX6MUW32CObiH-jHHVZVla4pQoswJY9zOmr-CAHkRjJl5gu9NUl8DhlCgrTRiiaqj_n-L_S6Ltx4vKqtjaaU2uDGsA/s400/DT_Logo.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYhJHzKsfEV7003VrZpugTC0tVv2N3HhOjKLFXjVmFOErzoNqCo2eHI1O14VkAt8yO55p97V1Cy3OhUQvTSle8AQEwoMhsOekWZA8uSdq83Z0MS4ZVKjr2rtApAXzthvYtVFTEtA/s1600-h/Barack+Osama.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323730041497980978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 309px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYhJHzKsfEV7003VrZpugTC0tVv2N3HhOjKLFXjVmFOErzoNqCo2eHI1O14VkAt8yO55p97V1Cy3OhUQvTSle8AQEwoMhsOekWZA8uSdq83Z0MS4ZVKjr2rtApAXzthvYtVFTEtA/s400/Barack+Osama.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><em>Daily Telegraph</em> blogger Tim Blair will go to any extent to source a story to spread hatred against a group he hates. Blair is even prepared to acknowledge he <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/calling_all_day/">obtained a story from the blog of a notorious Nazi supporter</a>.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>(Via </strong></span><a href="http://sheikyermami.com/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>Sheik Yer’ Mami</strong></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>)</strong></span></blockquote><br /><br />And who is Sheik Yer'Mami? What kind of material does Yer'mami publish? Well, his website currently carries this poll:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>Are you convinced now that Obama is a Marxist Muslim?<br /><br />°No way!<br /><br />°More Marxist than Muslim<br /><br />°More Muslim than Marxist<br /><br />°Muslim ueber alles!</strong></span><br /></blockquote><br /><br />Feel free to check out <a href="http://sheikyermami.com/2009/04/11/why-does-hussain-obama-still-deny-that-he-is-muslim/">this link</a> where the "Sheik" tries to prove that the President of the United States is "still" a Muslim. Read some of the comments on this racist blog.<br /><br />Welcome to Blair's world.<br /><br />Words © 2008 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-71252991483395031672009-04-11T10:05:00.000-07:002009-04-11T10:37:19.402-07:00COMMENT: Greg Sheridan's anti-Semitism?I learned something new today. I learned that Amharic, the language of Ethiopia is actually a Semitic language. So it is directly related to other Semitic languages - Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic.<br /><br />I also learned Foreign Editor for <em>The Australian</em> Greg Sheridan has this to say about <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25317437-7583,00.html">a group of Semitic people</a>.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Most Arab political cultures are awash in the most bizarre paranoia and conspiracy theories ... Much of the paranoia in Arab culture has a racial element.</strong></span></blockquote><br />On what basis can Mr Sheridan make such an extraordinary remark? Does he speak Arabic? Has he made a detailed study of Arab political cultures and/or the political content in Arabic literature, Arab cinema or Arab art? And just how paranoid is the Arab political culture? Would it share the same degree of paranoia as, say, Andrew Bolt's side of the blogosphere? Or how about <em>Fox News</em>?<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iTcJbDg3HbE&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iTcJbDg3HbE&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />This is an extraordinary claim for the foreign editor of a broadsheet newspaper to make. But then, Sheridan's other arguments in his column made little sense. For instance ...<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>But the real purpose of Obama's speech was his broader pitch to the Muslim world. Much as I love Indonesia, it probably is true that this had a greater resonance in the Arab world by being delivered in Turkey (not that Turks are Arabs) than it would have had if it had been delivered in Jakarta. The speech was carried live on al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya television networks.</strong></span></blockquote><br />Yes, and? Is Sheridan suggesting that Indonesians also don't have access to cable and satellite TV channels? Or don't Indonesians have access to the internet, where they could have <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3PrM9WJZus&feature=channel_page">watched the speech on the President's own channel on YouTube</a>?<br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-88098665299708297662009-04-11T08:15:00.000-07:002009-04-13T13:57:24.269-07:00BLOG: Murdoch columnist from Australia's biggest selling newspaper publishes comment about future Obama assassination ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2gz129NFW6weFzXAajvA7ZphHdISZiHvpr2Mk0qC_KupzSsP4xONyOTxQxTU1YMXwFiLAMYWP77VR4sx3uDkvNS592_59aDuw8uiEyJxwcQvDg_QUJ-ISz5FG4zDBluJ-dLneKQ/s1600-h/Herald_Sun_logo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323455457926823986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 334px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 63px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2gz129NFW6weFzXAajvA7ZphHdISZiHvpr2Mk0qC_KupzSsP4xONyOTxQxTU1YMXwFiLAMYWP77VR4sx3uDkvNS592_59aDuw8uiEyJxwcQvDg_QUJ-ISz5FG4zDBluJ-dLneKQ/s400/Herald_Sun_logo.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-VQsRD1wOE-NppvzQZNy0HUxItkZsvX_LRdQfCEQA9P0SdEQyXS-8xpFNDrUAf0oAdloA0uf5XjgVa0mp5Cq-oFsjS4ROGj6adsA-5pnLvdPqW2Wwmg4uijHX1VK4hg_udiHN-g/s1600-h/assassin.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323455243613284210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-VQsRD1wOE-NppvzQZNy0HUxItkZsvX_LRdQfCEQA9P0SdEQyXS-8xpFNDrUAf0oAdloA0uf5XjgVa0mp5Cq-oFsjS4ROGj6adsA-5pnLvdPqW2Wwmg4uijHX1VK4hg_udiHN-g/s400/assassin.jpg" border="0" /></a>It just amazes me <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/great_obama_praised_for_repeating_idiot_bush/#commentsmore">what kind of stuff</a> Andrew Bolt allows onto his blog. The sheer venom for the US President that Bolt likes to whip up. It's one thing to criticise Obama's response to the global financial crisis. It's one thing to criticise him for showing more respect to a Saudi monarch than a British one.<br /><br />But where the hell did this come from? And why did Bolt allow it on?<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>It still amazes me that the people voted in someone with links to Islam, especially with 9/11 still fresh in their minds.I have always thought there is a bullet out there with Obamas name on it and still wouldn’t rule it out.He’s definately walking a tightrope bowing and scraping to his Islamic friends.<br /></strong></span><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>RonB (Reply)<br />Sat 11 Apr 09 (12:14pm)</strong></span></em></blockquote>Are Bolt's hounds suggesting Obama's flirtation with longstanding US allies and NATO members should lead to his assassination? Does Bolt regard the assassination of the US President to be normal discourse? Has the <em>Herald</em> <em>Sun</em>'s star columnist completely lost the plot??<br /><br />Apparently Rupert Murdoch is an American citizen ...<br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-51383934813617010812009-04-10T08:07:00.000-07:002009-04-11T23:51:14.968-07:00BLOG: Why Obama is a Muslim abortionist ...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh169gSNjUMYuvAwjyliwywHWT07EbOT-12NZKx76B5BWABJfz2dlolaLKP_RupsFVp8MLPLpAPN5ohqq7C8XxD33yedHnIUutJEJ3t8ghBK9tqLyc8seNvYKQh6EVZGLFJFOayZg/s1600-h/Herald+Sun+logo.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323090465547383746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 334px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 63px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh169gSNjUMYuvAwjyliwywHWT07EbOT-12NZKx76B5BWABJfz2dlolaLKP_RupsFVp8MLPLpAPN5ohqq7C8XxD33yedHnIUutJEJ3t8ghBK9tqLyc8seNvYKQh6EVZGLFJFOayZg/s400/Herald+Sun+logo.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwX-OrYKVhHLcugf-IROKAGKyUCc8zR3i52TFnztqUXeMzic-CScdYEmZFaKDT8f8P5ZUt45lT4JNfKjkMdHPPs_idNxUZH1Bt3MBMDu0-GaLJBN4_rlVgnB4VQpGEsDt9VySh3w/s1600-h/andrew+bolt.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323090354630782146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 213px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwX-OrYKVhHLcugf-IROKAGKyUCc8zR3i52TFnztqUXeMzic-CScdYEmZFaKDT8f8P5ZUt45lT4JNfKjkMdHPPs_idNxUZH1Bt3MBMDu0-GaLJBN4_rlVgnB4VQpGEsDt9VySh3w/s400/andrew+bolt.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8l3_uGahUOyIQh-mDrUV83nnHs2vQUwvLjKBQ1z3xVTXJGOyMwnFqSwGUEsl_dRpQKl1hmkzGwnwQ7EhCioUHYSFYWrGvuLCOk_OzCN__ysgZrcDQaTHdGjZrsnEJ_d8XLJlwJA/s1600-h/obama+muslim+cartoon.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323089925419302162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 293px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8l3_uGahUOyIQh-mDrUV83nnHs2vQUwvLjKBQ1z3xVTXJGOyMwnFqSwGUEsl_dRpQKl1hmkzGwnwQ7EhCioUHYSFYWrGvuLCOk_OzCN__ysgZrcDQaTHdGjZrsnEJ_d8XLJlwJA/s400/obama+muslim+cartoon.gif" border="0" /></a><br />I always thought easter was a time for piece and love, when Christians share the joy of salvation. But when it comes to America's Christian President, all the peace and love disappears from some allegedly Christian quarters.<br /><br />On Planet Bolt, you can hear all kinds of theories about the President of the United States. Bolt is upset with Obama for appointing Vatican ambassadors who allegedly support a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy.<br /><br />Fair enough. Bolt perhaps subscribes to a wacky insistence in an absolute prohibition in abortion that would see a <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7930380.stm">9 year old girl raped by her stepfather</a> forced to give birth to the child. But what does all this say about Obama? Let's take a peak at the conversation on Bolt's blog:<br /><br /><blockquote style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">The bizarre thing about this, is that Turkey is not an islamic state - it is in fact a secular democracy (and a successful one at that) - which actually has a HUGE problem with islam and islamic militancy - (armed gards at shopping cenres are not uncommon)<br /></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >tony of coburg (Reply)<br />Fri 10 Apr 09 (07:12am)</span> </blockquote><br />So having armed guards at shopping centres is a sure sign of the existence of a huge problem with Islam. I've seen a fair few armed guards at shopping centres in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Brazil. Imagine the world's future caliphs who drink beer and/or do the haka and/or enjoy ice hockey and/or samba.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><em>Chris M replied to tony<br />Fri 10 Apr 09 (07:57am)</em></span><br /></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="font-size:130%;">He claims to be a Christian but acts rather like a Moslem; well I guess that’s reasonable given that is how he was brought up. A good proportion of Americans believe BO is a Moslem and I tend to agree with them.</span> </span></span></blockquote><br />Bolt's true believers believe Obama is a Muslim. I wonder what Andrew thinks. Care to share that with us, Mr Bolt?<br /><br />Now criticising the US President was once a sign of anti-Americanism in some circles. Bolt certainly subscribed to this view once. Not anymore.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"></span><blockquote style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">nilk replied to txjohn<br />Fri 10 Apr 09 (08:00am)</span><br />The man is a disgrace to his office.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Mick Gold Coast QLD replied to txjohn<br />Fri 10 Apr 09 (01:21pm)</span><br />I would add “transparent” and very, very un-clever ...<br />This clown will self destruct sooner rather than later.</span></span> </blockquote><br />Indeed, Bolt's cyber-Nazis are now looking for masonic conspiracies in all this. Yep, whoever wins, the masons always win!<br /><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"></span><blockquote style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">barney fife replied to Pete<br />Fri 10 Apr 09 (02:16pm)</span><br />pete<br />america is a masonic nation, the one dollar bill alone should reveal that to you if your not into studying history.<br /></span></span><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6534861207969567641"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6534861207969567641</span></a></blockquote><br />Aah, the love Bolt's buddies feel for the United States of America ...<br /><br /><blockquote style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">The gall of the man, to offer people who believe in killing off the unborn. It’s either that or incredible stupidity on his part.<br />Would be nice if the Pope would refuse to meet with the most pro-death president in America’s history. Such a man deserves neither respect nor time, imho.<br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">MK (Reply)<br />Fri 10 Apr 09 (08:16am)</span><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">mike of cnbra replied to MK<br />Fri 10 Apr 09 (11:47am)</span><br />I don’t think its possible to despise a man as much as obama ...<br /><br />The moron is still campaigning, sucking up to one and all. Maybe running for king of the world or something.<br />He is also an incredibly nieve twit with no understanding or respect for reality and thousands of years of tradition.<br />It’s all about him.<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Zog (Reply)<br />Fri 10 Apr 09 (08:34am)</span><br /><br />This clown is a total disaster.<br /></span></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Peter of Chadstone Vic (Reply)<br />Fri 10 Apr 09 (08:45am)</span> </blockquote><br />Obama seems to be stacking the White House with dark-skinned evil people. We all know how scared the far-Right (especially the Dutch Right) are about darkies.<br /><br /><blockquote style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">he’s quite happy to employ Muslims though. I read a very disturbing article the other day how Obama has appointed a large number of muslims to work in the White House - sorry can’t find the source.<br /></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >lethal of WA (Reply)<br />Fri 10 Apr 09 (10:43am)</span></blockquote><br />Pfft. Poor Andrew. Even at Easter time, he is surrounded with fruitloops.<br /><br /><strong>UPDATE I:</strong> Here's Jon Stewart's take on this nonsense ...<br /><br /><table style="FONT: 11px arial; COLOR: #333; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f5f5f5" height="353" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="360"><tbody><tr style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #e5e5e5" valign="center"><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 1px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 2px"><a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #333; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/" target="_blank">The Daily Show With Jon Stewart</a></td><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 2px; TEXT-ALIGN: right">M - Th 11p / 10c</td></tr><tr style="HEIGHT: 14px" valign="center"><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 1px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 2px" colspan="2"><a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #333; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=223897&title=faith-the-nation" target="_blank">Faith the Nation</a></td></tr><tr style="HEIGHT: 14px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #353535" valign="center"><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; OVERFLOW: hidden; WIDTH: 360px; PADDING-TOP: 2px; TEXT-ALIGN: right" colspan="2"><a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #96deff; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/" target="_blank">thedailyshow.com</a></td></tr><tr valign="center"><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" colspan="2"><embed style="DISPLAY: block" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:223897" width="360" height="301" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="window" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="autoPlay=false" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" bgcolor="#000000"></embed></td></tr><tr style="HEIGHT: 18px" valign="center"><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" colspan="2"><table style="MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr valign="center"><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; WIDTH: 33%; PADDING-TOP: 3px"><a style="FONT: 10px arial; COLOR: #333; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml" target="_blank">Daily Show<br />Full Episodes</a></td><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; WIDTH: 33%; PADDING-TOP: 3px"><a style="FONT: 10px arial; COLOR: #333; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/tagSearchResults.jhtml?term=Clusterf%23%40k+to+the+Poor+House" target="_blank">Economic Crisis</a></td><td style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; WIDTH: 33%; PADDING-TOP: 3px"><a style="FONT: 10px arial; COLOR: #333; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.indecisionforever.com/" target="_blank">Political Humor</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-16481228411466126532009-04-10T00:59:00.001-07:002009-04-10T02:03:08.762-07:00HATEWATCH: Stereotyping is bad but murder and racial vilification is perfectly OK ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilcYAAZIUCP8ZswD6tgszYnIjvbKM7E3v50T0-gi1N6rAsfH9MkuF2HqaTORqIi5eFzvmxy0Hv8RVWFgwGsTC1uIF-uFF6PBYMaVhJp2DD4hrstXi0qLy2UxOzdEvVmaAFiHwJHg/s1600-h/Herald_Sun_logo.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 334px; height: 63px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilcYAAZIUCP8ZswD6tgszYnIjvbKM7E3v50T0-gi1N6rAsfH9MkuF2HqaTORqIi5eFzvmxy0Hv8RVWFgwGsTC1uIF-uFF6PBYMaVhJp2DD4hrstXi0qLy2UxOzdEvVmaAFiHwJHg/s400/Herald_Sun_logo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322978732461967874" /></a><br />Today is Good Friday. A time when Christians remember God's mercy.<br /><br />But for <em>Herald Sun</em> columnist Andrew Bolt, Good Friday is as good an opportunity as any to incite racial and religious vilification, to engage in hate-speech and to publish incitement to murder and violence.<br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/stereotyping_is_bad/">Under the heading "Stereotyping is bad", Bolt writes</a> a few words to encourage his regulars to leave messages inciting violence against ... well ... "them". And who are "them"? Well, take your pick. It could be Muslims. It could be Pakistanis. It could be British Pakistanis or British Muslims. It could be people from the Middle East living in Auburn or Bankstown. Plenty of comments about Enoch Powell's infamous rivers of blood speech.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><em>Wake up Australia replied to Alan of Sydney<br />Fri 10 Apr 09 (10:12am)</em><br />... If Hitler had actually succeeded in his invasion it is hard to imagine the UK having any of the race/religion problems it has today - problems that will ultimately destroy its heritage totally. But I suppose are a lot of people who will not mourn the passing - and of course what is left today of the traditional ‘Aussie’ way of life?</strong></span></blockquote>Yep, only Nazism can save "our" way of life. These are Andrew Bolt's Nazis, and the Herald Sun has become a place where they can vent their spleen.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>... Australia should learn a lesson from this and ban any Pakistani muslim from entering Australia, for any reason whatsoever.The risk is not worth the university fee.Let them get on with their primitivism, where they belong,back home.<br /><em>nigel of richmond (Reply)<br />Fri 10 Apr 09 (09:36am)</em></strong></span></blockquote>And who needs trials? After all, such luxuries should only be reserved for "our" criminals, not for "them".<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>The Special forces should be used to eliminate these miscrants. The cost of trials in these days of GFC would be a complete waste of time and money. They want to die in their warped jihadist way, let them die but in a cost effective way.<br /><em>Howzat of Sydney (Reply)<br />Fri 10 Apr 09 (09:37am)</em><br /><br />I grew up near Bankstown, Auban, Punchbowl, Lakemba, and they were nice little Aussie towns; now they look like scenes from the middle east. Multiculturism we thought would add something to our Aussie culture, but instead it is destroying our culture. The majority of Muslims cannot become like us and have no desire to do so, it would be “un-Islamic”. No, we must give ground to them; and that’s the truth. It’s like a cancer, invading every cell of our traditional way of lif, until it takes over the whole body. Our experience of Islam will not be any different to Englands.<br /><em>Kerry of Brisbane (Reply)<br />Fri 10 Apr 09 (02:36pm)</em></strong></span></blockquote>Andrew would say this himself if he had half a chance. He has said it a fair few times on national television. Who knows how many times he's said it on radio?<br /><br />Maybe he says stuff like this dude ...<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/muI9NBwyB0c&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/muI9NBwyB0c&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />By now, many readers will be rather upset and angry that this kind of stuff is being published. Who can we contact to complain?<br /><br />Well, you can start with the man himself:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Andrew Bolt<br />BoltA@heraldsun.com.au</strong></span></blockquote>Then there is his Editor:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Matthew Pinkney<br />Editor<br />Herald-Sun<br />PinkneyM@heraldsun.com.au</strong></span></blockquote><br />Also feel free to contact any of the major advertisers for the <em>Herald Sun</em> website.<br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-25505824991279273082009-04-08T23:13:00.000-07:002009-04-10T00:49:11.061-07:00MEDIA: Getting cross over the cross ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv3PoBASZ6qM8VsHLqDR8wA7hkFC-g2T-Gsmm3rAkS5k2J-s3yFKLo-pBSKYvIDpKOtDgVEx5Dp1toSHQJxS0PyFnRGn-WLWWb3qOVLZ74pPAbPsaBVTXA3YEMoRR8LAYUacTFpQ/s1600-h/DT_Logo.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322577930669253458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 277px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 90px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv3PoBASZ6qM8VsHLqDR8wA7hkFC-g2T-Gsmm3rAkS5k2J-s3yFKLo-pBSKYvIDpKOtDgVEx5Dp1toSHQJxS0PyFnRGn-WLWWb3qOVLZ74pPAbPsaBVTXA3YEMoRR8LAYUacTFpQ/s400/DT_Logo.gif" border="0" /></a>The <em>Daily Telegraph</em> ran a <a href="http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25311152-5006009,00.html">front page story</a> on the eve of Easter about a hospital chapel being stripped of its crosses and bibles.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>WORSHIPPERS at one of the state's largest hospital chapels have been ordered to get rid of crucifixes and Bibles and pull down religious pictures and symbols for fear of offending other religions ...<br /><br />Hospital managers ordered the ban on symbols of any kind because the chapel was increasingly being used by a number of different faiths.</strong></span></blockquote><br />The Mayor of Mosman has stepped in by issuing this fatwa.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>But Mosman Mayor Dominic Lopez said angry patients were offended that the chapel no longer represented a holy place.<br /><br />"I used to sit there and pray when my wife was dying of breast cancer and look at that cross," he said. "Now it is just a hall and the decision is bulls ... You either have a chapel or you don't. It's offensive to have a church or chapel and not have a cross in it." ...<br /><br />"Some two-bit bob bureaucrat has made the decision, just like when someone decided we couldn't sing Christmas carols anymore in schools," Mr Lopez said.<br /><br />"You walk in to the chapel now and it's like walking into a backyard shed.<br /><br />"It's offensive."</strong></span></blockquote>We hope Clr Lopez's prayers were answered. Seeing his wife in such a condition must have been a terrible ordeal for him. But seriously, suggesting that only a place of worship with a cross can be considered "a holy place" would surely be offensive to Seventh Day Adventists and Mormons, let alone Jews, Sikhs and followers of other faiths.<br /><br />And so why did the board of one hospital make this decision?<br /><br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>The hospital defended its decision to ban all Christian and non-Christian symbols, saying it was appropriate to appease all religions. Each faith is allowed to display their symbols during services but they must be taken down and stored out of sight afterwards ...<br /><br />The hospital defended its decision to ban all Christian and non-Christian symbols, saying it was appropriate to appease all religions. Each faith is allowed to display their symbols during services but they must be taken down and stored out of sight afterwards ...<br /><br />A hospital spokeswoman said it was appropriate to "move with the times".<br /><br />"The chapel is now best described as a multi-faith chapel where people of all faiths feel welcome," the spokeswoman said.<br /><br />"The decision was made to display the symbols of each faith, for example the chapel's cross and Bible, during specific services and ceremonies only.<br /><br />"These important religious symbols are appropriately stored and used regularly."</strong></span></blockquote><br />The <em>Tele</em> also ran an editorial on the story which expressed a particular viewpoint without apparently trying to offend anyone.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>The non-religious are more inclined simply not to care about Christian images or documents. Likewise, followers of other faiths are more concerned with their own religious icons.<br /><br />Yet Royal North Shore Hospital management is so concerned that people may take offence at the display of bibles and crucifixes, among other Christian totems, at the hospital's chapel that they have been removed. This is imbecilic. And, moreover, absolutely unnecessary.<br /><br />A quick check with other faiths revealed no particular concern at the presence of Jesus-based items at the hospital chapel.</strong></span></blockquote>It's true. No one was really all that offended. No one felt terribly strongly about it. Apart from the folk at the <em>Daily Telegraph</em>. How so? Simple - it was a slow news day. Nothing like a manufactured controversy.<br /><br /><strong>UPDATE I:</strong> The <em>Tele</em>'s Opinion Editor <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/church_de_jesused/">blogs on the issue here</a>. As usual, Mr Blair has his regular array of neo-Nazis, far-Right fruitloops and white-supremacists leaving paranoid and unmedicated comments about how "the West" has "caved into minorities" thanks to a conspiracy between those two nebulous groups known as "the Left" and "the Muslims". Tim's buddy, Daniel <em>"Irf is stalking me by mentioning my suburb despite the fact that I mention in letters to the editor I get published at least weekly!!"</em> Lewis goes troppo about how nasty Muslims are:<br /><br /><blockquote><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><em>Keysar Trad, from the Islamic Friendship Society, said Muslims would not be offended to use a multi-faith chapel and see images of the cross.</em><br /><br />Tell that to the </strong></span><a href="http://www.vexnews.com/news/3345/doubtful-rmit-islamic-group-claims-its-women-members-are-being-sexually-abused-while-praying-on-campus/"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Muslim Students at RMIT</strong></span></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>, who have indicated precisely that.<br />Dan Lewis (Reply)</strong></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><br />Thu 09 Apr 09 (08:52am)</strong></span></p></blockquote>Daniel, of course, doesn't seem to realise that the RNSH board's decision to remove crucifixes and bibles was supported by a young Christian chap who works for the <strong>Australia-Israel Jewish Affairs Council</strong>. How did I know that? Because on page 2 of the April 9 edition of the <em>Daily Telegraph</em> appears the following words:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>The Australian/Jewish Affairs Council [sic.] supported the hospital, saying more people would be likely to use the chapel.<br /><br />Bren Carlill, a policy analyst, said some from other religions might be offended.<br /><br />"The fact that they are willing to go to such lengths to encourage religious communities to worship is great,: he said. "There are people from lots of different groups who almost like getting offended - and then there are the other people who fon't get offended."</strong></span><br /></blockquote><br />I couldn't find AIJAC's support for the Hospital board's decision mentioned anywhere on the <em>Tele</em> website. I could, however, find a fair few comments insinuating that suc decisions are all the fault of the families of Muslim patients who are deemed to be programmed to mimic the behaviour of some wackos overseas.<br /><br />Should I go to Blair's blog and remind his online morons about a prominent Jewish organisation supporting the hospital decision to "De-Jesus" (as Blair puts it) the hospital chapel? Perhaps not. It might unleash more unmedicated comments about how Christian Australia is caving into the multiculturalist agenda of those nasty Jews.<br /><br />Let's be frank about this. Nazis may have Muslims. But Nazis hate Jews more. And they proved it at least 6 million times during the last world war.<br /><br />Words © 2008 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-13155850476274924122009-04-08T04:04:00.000-07:002009-04-11T23:53:24.558-07:00BLOG: Andrew travels far and wide ...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWXY2Yp77t5drYdT-93pihyNDYsQldb3em8Ef5n-PabEw_0eMY7BPsEVu4yK0FurlBxIqgDkLoDwU1g0PfCtb3dj179K4acqDBtl2RO-Zyt_w82q7TeOGKtYFQr8cRXHk-vHk4DA/s1600-h/Herald+Sun+logo.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322278524322757106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 334px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 63px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWXY2Yp77t5drYdT-93pihyNDYsQldb3em8Ef5n-PabEw_0eMY7BPsEVu4yK0FurlBxIqgDkLoDwU1g0PfCtb3dj179K4acqDBtl2RO-Zyt_w82q7TeOGKtYFQr8cRXHk-vHk4DA/s400/Herald+Sun+logo.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib7oAHNgINj2bjmiH1onFx5JfFuNl4O74OSxKc-2mBNVb8cKfJv9LMZ1UlQ2_MNmj1D253zgvQztOJs1IVpyDd-nKWcmFU9BxYNaqgNMiNnkf_-o2giPfHGhL3EYW-R6TYzSDBjA/s1600-h/Limited+News.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322277990320728546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 182px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib7oAHNgINj2bjmiH1onFx5JfFuNl4O74OSxKc-2mBNVb8cKfJv9LMZ1UlQ2_MNmj1D253zgvQztOJs1IVpyDd-nKWcmFU9BxYNaqgNMiNnkf_-o2giPfHGhL3EYW-R6TYzSDBjA/s400/Limited+News.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Andrew Bolt reminds his readers why he is so tolerant:<br /><br /><blockquote style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">A further thought: I’ve lived in or visited some 50 countries now ... My observations confirmed my suspicions that in fact Australia was not half as racist as [some] people ... believe. Not in comparison to others, that is.</span></blockquote><br />True. But why do Australia's few remaining racists and bigots congregate around Andrew Bolt's section of the blogosphere?<br /><br />Let's look at a story from March 29 2009. Now under normal circulstances, if you met someone of overseas origin who had lived in Australia for some 34 years, you’d hardly describe them as a new migrant. You’d hardly describe Australia as their “new home”.<br /><br />Unless, of course, your name was Andrew Bolt and you worked for the <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Herald Sun</span>.<br /><br />For some reason, Andrew sees a group of 600 thugs belonging to a violent homophobic vigilante group as somehow representative of all persons who <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/bringing_beirut_to_nsw/">migrated from Beirut in 1975</a>. The <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Sydney Morning Herald</span> <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-rise-and-rise-of-new-gangs-20090328-9eri.html">reported the group calling itself</a> the “Muslim Brotherhood Movement”.<br /><br />So who are these 600-odd men? How old are they? When did they arrive in Australia? Where do they come from? Bolt claims they’re from Beirut, though the <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Herald</span> describes them as being<br /><blockquote style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"><span style="font-size:130%;">... young street fighters of Middle Eastern descent.</span></blockquote><br />The last time I checked, the Middle East extended well beyond the city limited of Lebanon’s capital. A large number of Lebanese Muslims come from places outside Beirut such as Tripoli, Tyre and Balbeck. A large number of Lebanese Christians still live in Beirut.<br /><br />But that doesn’t stop Andrew Bolt from trying to turn bikie and similar gangland phenomena as having racial and religious overtones. But he needn’t say too much. His commenters will say it all for him, even if it means endorsing other forms of thuggery.<br /><blockquote style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">mareeS replied to Shebs<br />Sun 29 Mar 09 (10:34am)</span><br />This is what Cronulla 2005 was about, but the softhearts chose to paint it as racism.<br />A group of young Australians drew a line in the sand and said “We’ve had enough of this.” They were smeared by media and the apologists as rednecks and haters.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">MattR replied to Shebs<br />Sun 29 Mar 09 (01:36pm)</span><br />... Exactly, Cronulla was a reaction to these Muslim criminals. However, the media decided to portray the rioters as racists and bigots. They were simply acting out of frustration ...<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Nevillew replied to Andrew<br />Sun 29 Mar 09 (05:37pm)</span><br />They bring their baggage with them and then pass it on to their children. It takes many generations to get it out.<br />I have been watching it for 65 years.</span></blockquote><br />65 years of Lebanese Muslims living in Australia since 1975?<br /><br />It must be wonderful for Andrew Bolt and the Herald Sun to be able to live in a bubble where they aren’t bound by racial vilification laws applying to their advertisers.<br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-89608991574078974502009-04-07T08:44:00.000-07:002009-04-11T23:52:14.741-07:00BLOGS/RACISM: Thank God my father doesn't live anywhere near the Herald Sun Taliban ...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU7XQZE317riiuOjHMdsIE5Z9SNFpWvx2TNXDbpqHzTkWgqyJ694GRGJciIJ_EsQOykdF1lJ_IIwnx_XWLYd_-UivNn4d98Z4PQu9VOOt_DDMEs8ply3BJkfD27tMsygnbxmfVIg/s1600-h/Herald_Sun_logo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321979674797721922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 334px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 63px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU7XQZE317riiuOjHMdsIE5Z9SNFpWvx2TNXDbpqHzTkWgqyJ694GRGJciIJ_EsQOykdF1lJ_IIwnx_XWLYd_-UivNn4d98Z4PQu9VOOt_DDMEs8ply3BJkfD27tMsygnbxmfVIg/s400/Herald_Sun_logo.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRzOv0zCWJ1pd39tvSLTQuBpbOpA2UGLc-wn89Gl9ZYfS-O1FXfMuKoF6ROhfoa0HxRsQcjn1kS7984-udYrztCMVx7U57HT1iFr0sXG8bre01odaRaOFgs3NMzMfB_JXR6OT7gA/s1600-h/MuslimHolocaust.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321979350459140770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 288px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRzOv0zCWJ1pd39tvSLTQuBpbOpA2UGLc-wn89Gl9ZYfS-O1FXfMuKoF6ROhfoa0HxRsQcjn1kS7984-udYrztCMVx7U57HT1iFr0sXG8bre01odaRaOFgs3NMzMfB_JXR6OT7gA/s400/MuslimHolocaust.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />My parents’ eyes have been glued to the TV screen watching Pakistani cable TV reports about the gruesome so-called “punishment” of a 17 year old girl being publically lashed in the Swat region of northern Pakistan, currently ruled by the Taliban. The <em>Sydney Morning Herald</em> (via the <em>LA Times</em>) <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/world/outrage-at-talibans-public-flogging-of-girl-20090404-9sgf.html?page=-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">reports</a> the incident “has galvanised the nation, drawing protests from human rights groups, denunciations from the Government and expressions of revulsion from Pakistanis” (including overseas Pakistanis like my Dad).<br /><br />Yet this awful Taliban action has galvanised an unequal and opposite reaction from <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/humanity_filmed/#commentsmore" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">certain sick and demented folk whose comments</a> are regarded as perfectly fit for publication by moderators of one <em>Herald Sun</em> blog:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>The whole place should be nuked.<br />Just start again.<br />Then Pakistan.<br />Don’t laugh. Think about it for a second- what hope has the free world<br />got against radical islamists?</strong><br /></span></span><a title="Add a reply to Mrs Robinson - or add a new comment at the bottom of the page." rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><em><strong>Mrs Robinson (Reply)</strong></em></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><strong>Sun 05 Apr 09 (01:44pm) </strong></em><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><strong>JayGee replied to Mrs Robinson<br />Sun 05 Apr 09 (02:43pm)</strong></em><br /><strong>I agree. This is just ANOTHER manifestation of the savagery that is tolerated by this mob.</strong><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><em>AussieTraveller replied to Mrs Robinson<br />Sun 05 Apr 09 (03:11pm)</em></strong><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Amen to that sister!!<br /></strong><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><em>Futureproof replied to Mrs Robinson<br />Sun 05 Apr 09 (03:34pm)</em></strong><br /><strong>As seen on a T-Shirt, “Nuke ‘em all and let God decide”</strong><br /><br /></span><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">How dare you draw attention to the brutal plight of women in Afghanistan, Andrew.<br />I’m off to tell Scott Bridges and Jeremy Sears so they can publish another blog entry condemning you.<br /></span></strong></span><a title="Add a reply to Abu Chowdah - or add a new comment at the bottom of the page." rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong><em>Abu Chowdah (Reply)</em></strong></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><em><span style="font-size:130%;">Sun 05 Apr 09 (02:51pm)</span></em></strong><br /></span></blockquote><br /><br />And this blog boasts one million hits per month. If these comments are any indication of the <em>Herald-Sun</em> readership, Dad should be happy he’s not living in Victoria, let alone the Swat valley!<br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img height="10" alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img height="20" alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15959852.post-28944424759594803622009-04-05T08:13:00.000-07:002009-04-05T08:54:24.589-07:00BLOGS: Bolt's brain-dead buddies ...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1HurR94mNqQeKQw9Yt2aZo6RngQ8YVF4k9wpp5ReSI-RxFHnsHKQoY-PDoSKYYcFIuqKhyphenhyphenpf0-0jOw2laznM1O28BOFdeiZwLOZc90rjZUfi5TEnT5oF0Qq9xXsa9N2D80a5qEQ/s1600-h/Herald+Sun+logo.bmp"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 334px; height: 63px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1HurR94mNqQeKQw9Yt2aZo6RngQ8YVF4k9wpp5ReSI-RxFHnsHKQoY-PDoSKYYcFIuqKhyphenhyphenpf0-0jOw2laznM1O28BOFdeiZwLOZc90rjZUfi5TEnT5oF0Qq9xXsa9N2D80a5qEQ/s400/Herald+Sun+logo.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321235730722758866" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrpUUEd_bsIIdYRUbaZzbqUIbIZJD1mmVQkrRa8W9eLmGNdMcVmDa7ij7ySi1ae0Iic4xjnafP8W8yUsvbb5L5ITg1lORaLX-i2GIFwCK4LBPDqjIMaekAfL6IW6jcuUIJogeQ6A/s1600-h/islam+is+evil.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 238px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrpUUEd_bsIIdYRUbaZzbqUIbIZJD1mmVQkrRa8W9eLmGNdMcVmDa7ij7ySi1ae0Iic4xjnafP8W8yUsvbb5L5ITg1lORaLX-i2GIFwCK4LBPDqjIMaekAfL6IW6jcuUIJogeQ6A/s400/islam+is+evil.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321235567940874514" border="0" /></a><br />After following Andrew Bolt's blog commenters for some months, it's clear to me that a prerequisite for commenting on minority ethnic or religious groups is failing an IQ test. There are some seriously stupid people leaving comments on Bolt's blog. Why does he entertain them? Is he hoping to feel more sensible by surrounding himself with stupid people?<br /><br />Bolt's least favourite minority group is ... well ... it's hard to say. I've never read him say anything nice about Somalis, Sudanese, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and/or Muslims. So in a <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/no_more_finger_pointing_at_the_faith/#commentsmore">typical post about nasty Muslims</a> allegedly accusing Christians of being racist, Bolt allows the following beauties to pass his moderation test:<br /><blockquote style="font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;" >A ‘phobia” is having an irrational fear of something.<br />When you look around the globe and see that the majority of atrocities involve muslims and someone else, having a fear of muslims is entirely “rational”.<br /><br />So Christians, Hindus, Buddhists etc are NOT Islamophobic!<br />Even in predominantly muslim countries like Pakistan, there are daily atrocities of muslims killing other muslims. Look at the ethnic cleansing of black african muslims who aren’t on the same scale as other muslims.<br />Islam IS the PROBLEM.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">geoff from the west (Reply)</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Sun 05 Apr 09 (03:43pm)</span></blockquote> Those wretched Muslim suicide bombers controlling the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam. And what about the FARC Islamic militia? Islam is the problem. Not violence. Not terror. Not extremism. Believing in one God and praying 5 times a day (something many Muslims don't do) is the problem.<br /><br />But here's my favourite. Nothing like an injection of some good old-fashioned bestiality.<br /><blockquote style="font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;" >Koran justified beheadings, suicide explosive murderers and clerical rules for fornication with livestock.....but Who Cares?<br /><br />You have a PR problem, dhimmi.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">TT (Reply)</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Sun 05 Apr 09 (04:04pm)</span></blockquote>Is this TT fellow accusing Muslims of being a bunch of Kiwis? Anyway, as it's the season for economic meltdowns, try this for sensible economic analysis:<br /><blockquote style="font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Nick Charles replied to winston</span> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Sun 05 Apr 09 (08:52pm)</span><br /><br />There are no impoverished Western countries, you dork. That’s because they were all founded on Christian principles. They’re only becoming poor - both spiritually and economically - now they’re post-Christian. But they at least still have strong armies, that’s why they don’t get invaded (except via multicultural immigration).<br /><br />No, brainstrust, Muslims invade weak impoverished countries such as Somalia and Ethiopia. Recent enough for you? ...<br /><br />You really need to get out more ...</blockquote>Yes, we need to get out more. As in outside the Milky Way and onto whichever planet Nick Charles is living in. Christian countries all rich? I could start by asking what on earth is a Christian country, but let's assume Nick refers to countries the majority of whose occupants see themselves as belonging to a Christian denomination.<br /><br />The last time I checked, Central and South America were not regarded as part of the Third World. Neither were the Philippines, East Timor, Haiti, Iceland, Ethiopia, Armenia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Croatia or Georgia. Israel has a very strong currency, but it isn't exactly a Christian country.<br /><br />But why are we even talking about this stuff anyway? Who cares about whether following a particular religion brings prosperity or not? What kind of imbecilic forum would host such an imbecilic discussion?<br /><br />Why, Andrew Bolt's online forum, of course.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn_WI_s7REHGKZRNkAy_8-A-DIe8BgOsmjCKSxy0WyTWbWxjsgw9kqgfv_5svQWfnrHzmmfi1I4BFotxmv3OMZj8p0wxRGxGig-LLh5f80-yqaJ5TdjI1Un8LHKgGPpewDt7J-Vg/s1600-h/cloudbbqmecca.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn_WI_s7REHGKZRNkAy_8-A-DIe8BgOsmjCKSxy0WyTWbWxjsgw9kqgfv_5svQWfnrHzmmfi1I4BFotxmv3OMZj8p0wxRGxGig-LLh5f80-yqaJ5TdjI1Un8LHKgGPpewDt7J-Vg/s400/cloudbbqmecca.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321235847797491282" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Words © 2009 Irfan Yusuf<br /><br /><img alt="Delicious" src="http://static.delicious.com/img/delicious.small.gif" width="10" height="10" /><br /><a onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" href="http://delicious.com/save">Bookmark this on Delicious</a><br /><a href="http://digg.com/"><br /><img alt="Digg!" src="http://digg.com/img/badges/100x20-digg-button.gif" width="100" height="20" /><br /></a><br /><a href="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/?user=&ref=Get-Flocked.png"><img title="Get Flocked" style="border: medium none ;" alt="Get Flocked" src="http://spread.flock.com/buttons/Get-Flocked.png" /></a>Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.com0