In his inimitable style and with more than a degree of tongue in cheek, Mike Carlton , writing his weekly column in the SMH, highlights the way the so-called threat from Muslims has been beaten up [no other word for it!]:
"Not nearly enough is being done to alert us to the danger of the Muslims in our midst, the enemy within. Naively, too many real Australians refuse to recognise that the young woman in the hijab on the bus, or the mild-mannered Pakistani doctor at the country hospital emergency department, is almost certainly an al-Qaeda terrorist sleeper only awaiting the command to bring death and destruction down upon our peaceful, sea-girt home.
But some people are standing watch, like the geese that guarded Rome. At the Murdoch flagship newspaper, The Australian, not a day goes by without the alarm sounding. "Australian Islamist warning. Home-grown jihad threat," it honked across the front page last Monday. "Up to 3000 young Muslims in Sydney alone are at risk of becoming radicalised by fundamentalist Islam as community leaders warn that Australia has become a 'prime country' for hardliners pushing extremist ideologies."
By Tuesday, the threat had escalated, with the Oz shouting again that "about a dozen Muslim clerics have been identified as key hardliners preaching fundamentalist messages potentially influencing thousands of followers throughout Australia".
Not to be outdone, its stablemate, The Daily Telegraph, bored in with: "In the race for the hearts and minds of young Muslims, the fundamentalist fanatics are exploiting teenage angst to set up ideological sleeper cells of potential terrorists ready to be pushed over the brink."
Quivering with angst myself, I googled some Sydney Islamic websites to see what the evildoers are up to. The news was shocking, from both FAMSY, the Federation of Australian Muslim Students and Youth, and GIYC, the Global Islamic Youth Centre based in suburban Liverpool.
Only yesterday, the GIYC scheduled a "Boyz Will Be Boyz" evening, for Muslim children aged four to 12. A "fun and games night", said the ad, with a jumping castle, treasure hunt, quiz and giveaways.
And the horror doesn't stop there. Be warned that tomorrow there is to be a Muslim girls' swimming carnival at the Roselands Aquatic Centre, with competitions, novelty events and "fun in the pools, including a BBQ lunch".
Plainly, these homicidal extremists will stop at nothing to destroy our wonderful Aussie way of life."
John Howard, the racist he is, must be loving seeing Tampa II sail onto the horizon as an election looms. It's those Muslims and the threat from terrorists.......!!!!!
"Not nearly enough is being done to alert us to the danger of the Muslims in our midst, the enemy within. Naively, too many real Australians refuse to recognise that the young woman in the hijab on the bus, or the mild-mannered Pakistani doctor at the country hospital emergency department, is almost certainly an al-Qaeda terrorist sleeper only awaiting the command to bring death and destruction down upon our peaceful, sea-girt home.
But some people are standing watch, like the geese that guarded Rome. At the Murdoch flagship newspaper, The Australian, not a day goes by without the alarm sounding. "Australian Islamist warning. Home-grown jihad threat," it honked across the front page last Monday. "Up to 3000 young Muslims in Sydney alone are at risk of becoming radicalised by fundamentalist Islam as community leaders warn that Australia has become a 'prime country' for hardliners pushing extremist ideologies."
By Tuesday, the threat had escalated, with the Oz shouting again that "about a dozen Muslim clerics have been identified as key hardliners preaching fundamentalist messages potentially influencing thousands of followers throughout Australia".
Not to be outdone, its stablemate, The Daily Telegraph, bored in with: "In the race for the hearts and minds of young Muslims, the fundamentalist fanatics are exploiting teenage angst to set up ideological sleeper cells of potential terrorists ready to be pushed over the brink."
Quivering with angst myself, I googled some Sydney Islamic websites to see what the evildoers are up to. The news was shocking, from both FAMSY, the Federation of Australian Muslim Students and Youth, and GIYC, the Global Islamic Youth Centre based in suburban Liverpool.
Only yesterday, the GIYC scheduled a "Boyz Will Be Boyz" evening, for Muslim children aged four to 12. A "fun and games night", said the ad, with a jumping castle, treasure hunt, quiz and giveaways.
And the horror doesn't stop there. Be warned that tomorrow there is to be a Muslim girls' swimming carnival at the Roselands Aquatic Centre, with competitions, novelty events and "fun in the pools, including a BBQ lunch".
Plainly, these homicidal extremists will stop at nothing to destroy our wonderful Aussie way of life."
John Howard, the racist he is, must be loving seeing Tampa II sail onto the horizon as an election looms. It's those Muslims and the threat from terrorists.......!!!!!
Comments