BLOGS: Andrew Bolt rolls out the insanity ...

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.

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 The Age reported:

He warned against any backlash against any ethnic groups in the wake of the latest arrests.

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".

Instead of demonising minorities and fighting cultural wars, the Rudd government prefers to focus on practical measures such as continued surveillance and increasing security at military installations.

Even The Australian editorialised as follows:

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.

With so much sanity now surrounding popular debate about national security, it seems Andrew Bolt may have lost the plot just a tad ...

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.

So what would be the stereotypical profile of the victims of modern terrorism? Would they be Baptists, Greenlanders, Buddhists or Swedes?

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 Usama bin Ladin off the hook.

Which leads me to ask Andrew Bolt the obvious question ...



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BLOG/HATEWATCH: Andrew Bolt allows his imbeciles freedom to spread hate ...

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 analysis of events in Xinjiang in Western China attracts the usual array of fruitloops.

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 Herald Sun website. Consider these mature and considered reflections:

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.
Matthew of Canberra (Reply)
Thu 09 Jul 09 (09:45am)

Devlin Carnate replied to Matthew
Thu 09 Jul 09 (05:34pm)
It looks like the ChiComs are battling another form of totalitarianism to come: Jihadism.
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.
So in what sense are the Uighurs the target here? It looks as if they are fairly efficiently targeting the Han Chinese. …

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 …

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.
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.
jupes of west coast (Reply)
Thu 09 Jul 09 (07:22pm)

I wonder if News Limited chief John Hartigan had his employee Andrew Bolt in mind when he said recently the blogesphere was saturated with people and opinions ...

... of such limited intellectual value as to be barely discernible from massive ignorance.

UPDATE I: Speaking of Xinjiang, here is an interesting analysis of the use of buzzwords by media outlets, comparing the treatment of Tibetans and Uighurs.

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BLOGS: 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 violence against non-white nominally Muslim women, preferably by non-white nominally Muslim men. And not with the intention of showing sympathy toward the women themselves, but rather (especially in Blair's case) to poke fun at a tragic situation.

But one incident of violence against a non-white nominally Muslim woman seems to have passed them by. I wonder why.

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.

Her three-year-old son, Mustafa, was forced to watch as his mother slumped to the courtroom floor.

Why wouldn't Andrew Bolt write about this incident? I mean, there's plenty here for him to write about. You'd think Andrew could at least write ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

What does she expect? She's lucky they didn't turn her into compost. That's what I'd do.

Perhaps Blair and his commenters would even sympathise with Alex W's sentiments.

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.

Or maybe Alex W had been spending too much of his time reading News Limited blogs.

UPDATE I: One of Tim Blair's main informants, a certain Sheik Yermami, has this to say about the sorry saga. And it seems Yermami has similar comment moderation methods to Blair, having allowed this chilling remark to remain:

An infidel! July 12, 2009 at 3:56 am
*Where is the outrage? Where are the violent riots, the carbeques, the attacks on Muslims?

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.

I guess it did take their ilk 6 years to murder 6 million Jews. That was a fairly long time.

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BLOG: More violent racism on Bolt's Herald Sun blog ...

I thought we'd re-visit some of Andrew Bolt's golden oldies.


Andrew Bolt never liked Barack Obama very much. Back on April 05 2009, he castigated Obama for his policy on Afghanistan. Bolt's commenters went further. Here's the very first comment.

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.

History has proven the choice is simple - destroy islam - or destroy societies.

tony of coburg (Reply)
Sun 05 Apr 09 (04:41pm)

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 Herald Sun moderators haven't yet deleted this remark, and I doubt they ever will. Maybe they think all Muslims look something like this dude.


But wait - there's more!

joeallen replied to Margaret
Mon 06 Apr 09 (10:34am)
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.

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.


Bolt blogs more about how to deal with Afghanistan here. And as always, the ferals are allowed full freedom to unleash their genocidal stuff. Here is an example.

Joe replied to Kiwi
Tue 07 Apr 09 (11:51am)
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.

Perhaps Joe should stick to plumbing and leave foreign policy and defence to the experts.

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BLOG: Andrew Bolt on Hawaiian holidays for terrorists ...

Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt has (I presume inadvertently) used his blog to promote a far-Right conspiracy theory about Muslims.

Bolt cites the allegedly conservative blog Qohel 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 "Canada Free Press" for "more detail".

And what does the CFP have to say? Here's how their "report" commences.

Muslims have just tricked the Hawaii Legislature into celebrating Islam on September 11.

To get an idea of just how loopy this CFP is, go to their search feature and type in the words Obama Muslim. Be prepared for nonsensical articles like this and this.

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:

If adherents of this faith hadn’t killed so many Americans, would it have attracted this kind of fawning?

Of course, Bolt did say all that. His comments echoed the views of two Republican representatives in Hawaii as reported by the Associated Press on 7 May 2009.

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.

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!



UPDATE I: Those winderful people at the Crikey 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 here.

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BLOG: Racists against racism ...

Well it's great to see Andrew Bolt lashing out against the UN Conference on Racism, 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.

And what kind of morons congregate around this mediocre tabloid blogger? How about this happy clappy ...

Eric replied to Barrie
Tue 21 Apr 09 (11:26am)
The europeans have soled themselves out to Islamic oil Barrie. This started under DeGaul, post WW2, it is merely gaining momentum now.
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.

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.

Dr Paul Fidlon replied to Barrie
Tue 21 Apr 09 (03:35pm)
... 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?
Can’t imagine the old white South African government doing anything like this.

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?

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.
Rossco of Newcastle (Reply)
Tue 21 Apr 09 (08:35am)

And if genocide doesn't work, perhaps nuclear war might be an appropriate step.

Q: What is flat, lifeless and glows in the dark in the Middle East?
A: Iran, after Israel finally loses patience.
WhaleOilBeefHooked (Reply)
Tue 21 Apr 09 (10:58am)

But out of all this bigotry, one lonely voice of reason stood out.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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”.

Mercurius Goldstein of Sydney (Reply)
Tue 21 Apr 09 (07:13pm)

I am with Mercurius!

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HATEWATCH/BLOGS: More enlightened and informed comment on asylum seekers at the Herald Sun ...

Here are some classics from page 2 from Andrew Bolt's blog on the most recent load of asylum seekers ...

Who really cares, they all should have gone up in flames.
And no rescue effort for the survivors, that will stop em doing these things.
Zarth of mulgrave (Reply)
Fri 17 Apr 09 (09:16am)


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.
The incident is too bizzare to think it was an accident.
Spinfx of Melbourne (Reply)
Fri 17 Apr 09 (09:37am)

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.
This very morning I read from Norway about a pair of asylum seekers caught out. Arrived independently in the country, without papers.
Woman claimed she had been held for years as a sex-salve in the jungles of Burundi.
They both joined up again in Norway after being apart for a certain period.
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.
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.
Another problem they have, gangs get created among these various groups, like Pakistani against African gangs, and narcotics is very common among them.
The general population is generally getting pretty fed up with it all.
Concerned ex-Scandinavian. of Brisbane. (Reply)
Fri 17 Apr 09 (09:49am)

And now from page 3 ...

bushka replied to Stew
Fri 17 Apr 09 (02:00pm)
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?
Is someone from Australia perhaps sending money to enable some to pay people smugglers???? Moslem friends???

More to come.

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HATEWATCH/BLOGS: Enlightened and informed comment on asylum seekers at the Herald Sun ...

Again, no commentary required for some of the fruitloops attracted by this paranoid post:

KRudd now has blood on his hands.
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?
Wake up Australia of Pennant Hills (Reply)
Fri 17 Apr 09 (06:01am)

gonfalone replied to Wake up Australia
Fri 17 Apr 09 (11:36am)
... These boat people are not “asylum seekers”; they are COLONISERS.
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,” ...
To allow more of these people in is national suicide.
Islam delenda est!

Wake up Australia replied to Wake up Australia
Fri 17 Apr 09 (12:10pm)
... 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???

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
that is !!!!!!
Margy of Qld (Reply)
Fri 17 Apr 09 (06:16am)

Harry Buttle replied to Poor Self Funded Retiree
Fri 17 Apr 09 (07:51am)
The policies of the Australian Govt killed those people. John Howard had put in place measures that stopped people smuggling cold.
KRudd removed those policies and put in place policies that rewarded people smuggling.
He put those people in that boat and it led to their deaths.
The question now is “will KRudd be prepared to accept responsibility and reimpose the Pacific solution, or must more people die?”


tony of coburg replied to Bonni
Fri 17 Apr 09 (08:43am)
... 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.

The newer refugees are from a totally different mind set and refuse or can’t adapt to
Australian ways and it is this lack of assimilation which makes them unpopular.
It is hard to understand why Moslems don’t stay in Indonesia which is an Islamic
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
pieces.
Scales of Justice of Melbourne (Reply)
Fri 17 Apr 09 (07:31am)

PG replied to Scales of Justice
Fri 17 Apr 09 (08:35am)
And it might be pertinent to think of Lebanon here. The Christians let in the Muslim
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.

And that's just page 1. More to follow.

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BLOG: In Andrew Bolt's world, only a nigger can be a boong ...

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 ...



Anyway, Mr Bolt seems to think that in Australia only dark skinned persons can count as indigenous people. 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.

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?).



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.



Anyway, enough humour. Time to get depressed as you read the disgraceful comments on Bolt's blog. 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.

I will not reproduce these disgusting remarks. I hope Andrew Bolt and the Herald Sun are prosecuted for racial vilification.

UPDATE I: This educational institution advertises on the Herald-Sun website. Drop them an line and ask whether they want to continuing funding Andrew Bolt's hate-speech.

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BLOG: Murdoch columnist from Australia's biggest selling newspaper publishes comment about future Obama assassination ...

It just amazes me what kind of stuff 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.

But where the hell did this come from? And why did Bolt allow it on?

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.
RonB (Reply)
Sat 11 Apr 09 (12:14pm)

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 Herald Sun's star columnist completely lost the plot??

Apparently Rupert Murdoch is an American citizen ...

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