Let’s Play: “What If A Muslim Leader Had Said It?”
Ok, I know with a title like that I’m going to get a lot of people complaining that I’ve restricted their free speech even though I’m nowhere near them, but I always work on the theory that if they’re writing their comments here, at least they’re not writing them on a site where anyone might get them to join one of those nationalistic movements that wants to promote Australian values by deporting everyone in Australia apart from a handful of people who agree with them.
Let’s see this week, we’ve had a whole range of things happen and it’s taken me a while to get my head around them. There was the Eddie Maguire joke about drowning a female journalist, the Scott Morrison complaint about being subject to the sort of bigotry that gay people just don’t understand, the Labor Party’s scare campaigns that concern the Liberals because it could lead to a change of government which would result in open borders and the sort of debt that not even Malcolm Turnbull and Jon Faine’s grandchildren could pay off, various sporting bodies being given almost as much money as it would take to hold a plebiscite on gay marriage, and…
Mm…
I’m sure that there’s something that I’ve forgotten, but I’ll probably remember if I just start to put my brain in gear. I mean, remembering is sort of my plan, and because I have a plan then just saying something like “brains and recall” will be enough to make my plan work. Yes, I have a plan for “brains and recall”, so you can trust me because I’m the one with a clear plan and we need stability.
Where was I? Certainly not at Malcolm Turnbull’s dinner for Muslim leaders. And not just because I wasn’t invited! I wasn’t there because I’m not a Muslim and how unfair is that. When’s Turnbull going to have a dinner for old, white males, eh? God, we’d have to be one of the most neglected groups in this country. Why isn’t there a day to remind everyone to be nice to us, eh?
And anyway, I would have boycotted the dinner because of who else he had on the guest list. I would have joined the outrage of the Murdoch Minions when I discovered that one of the guests had made statements to the effect that gay people were committing a sin against Islamic teachings.
I mean, where does this man get off? He has no right to say such things. This is Australia and we all know that gay people are committing a sin against Christian teachings and that this part of the persecution that Scottie Morrison was complaining about. Being hostile to gay people is the exclusive preserve of people like me. Good Christian people. Or at least, if I’m not Christian, I’ve at least been to Church and I say “Merry Christmas” and send Christmas cards, even if I ignore every other teaching for 364 days of the year.
But I guess that’s the thing, isn’t it? We’re all judging people based on who they are, not what they’re saying. Take Eddie Maguire. He’s the president of the Collingwood Football Club and when he made a joke about drowning a female journalist because she’s written things that he didn’t like, the political correct brigade jumped all over him. They were suggesting that just because he’s on air joking about violence to women, that this somehow encourages violence to women. I’m sure Eddie would be happy to encourage drowning anyone he didn’t like, male or female and that he wasn’t be sexist. Or serious. So why aren’t the PC brigade out there complaining about people who are actually committing violent acts rather than worry about a joke between some men. It’s probably because they’re white. As Scott Morrison pointed out, privileged white men are subject to a lot of misunderstanding… And not just because they talk like Barnaby Joyce.
I mean, let’s be real. If some Muslim leader had come out and suggested that it’d be good to drown Christopher Pyne – whether as a mercy killing, or in anger – nobody would have cared a fig. It was only because Maguire’s target was a woman that people got all touchy feely and called it inappropriate. Nobody worries when a Muslim leader says things that are politically incorrect. Why the Prime Minister even has them for dinner and serves Halal food – which as we know funds terrorism and enables vaccines which cause autism in people who look up and see the chemtrails – and nobody has a problem with that until it’s pointed out by intrepid journalists like me and Andrew Bolt.
No, it’s only when people like George Pell and Eric Abetz attack gay people that the left get all concerned, which is just the sort of oppression for religion that Scot the Brave is complaining about…
Mm, I was going to say something else, but I seem to have forgotten. Let’s see, brains and recall, brains and recall, brains and recall… I have a plan for brains and recall…
Nah, it’s just gone.
Gee, you would have thought that if you just keep repeating something often enough, that it’d happen.
Well, thank God, we have the Liberals in power so we can have stability in government, whereas Labor want us to change the Prime Minister again. And they want us to remember how badly that turned out last time.
Oh wait, they want us to remember how badly that turned out the time before that…
No, the time before that. Not Abbott, Rudd. Oh, and Gillard. And Rudd.
The change to Abbott was awesome, as was the change to Turnbull, so just remember when you go to vote, that an election is not the appropriate time to change a Prime Minister. Wait until after, when Tony will have the numbers to challenge again.
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Return to home page“There are elements of Islam which are very hard to reconcile with a modern secular pluralist society,” Mr Abbott said. “Serious Muslims need to think about this and find ways of addressing it.”
They should be more like the Catholic Church who won’t allow women to be part of the clergy, who insist that priests remain celibate, who are anti-contraception and anti-abortion, and who think being gay is a sin. If we are a secular society, why are we spending hundreds of millions on school chaplains and why are our politicians saying prayers in parliament?
Lots of people – well, more than usual – seem to be waking up, looking around, seeing broken things everywhere and wondering what the hell’s happened.
There’ll be a national discussion about that on July 2 …
When someone says “Believe what I say and do as you are told then, you will live forever.”, what are you gonna do? Even better if you add a few virgins to help pass the time. Sounds like Heaven eh?
Only by indoctrinating children can religions perpetuate themselves. This, in my opinion, is child abuse. Religion should be R rated then, after a generation or two, a lot of problems will have disappeared.
I would like to know how long Scott Morrison and others have had their delusions of immortality. Are they also victims of child abuse?
“A husband should be allowed to lightly beat his wife if she defies his commands and refuses to dress up as per his desires; turns down demand of intercourse without any religious excuse or does not take bath after intercourse or menstrual periods.”
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/husbands-can-beat-their-wives-if-they-refuse-sex-according-to-islamic-council-of-clerics-and-scholars_06042016
Typical Abbott-centric, the unconsidered assumption that it is up to others to adjust to him and his ilk rather than the other way round, which of course would be beyond even consideration.
On the subject, I felt sure I had read somewhere that Islamic societies have been more tolerant of homsexuality than we might think. There is probably a cultural rather than religious factor involved, because across the Islamic world responses range from the death penalty to complete tolerance. In Turkey it is no big deal, despite Islam being a Religion of the Book and thus influenced by Old Testament (and Xtian) thinking; the Wiki reckons it all goes back to Sodom and Gomorrah and self indugence which is of course puritanism, a shared trait.
Christians being victimised is, of course, a big thing with Tea Party thinking in the US and what goes down there is always unthinkingly sucked up like a sponge here.
With Eddie Maguire, what many won’t know is that he and Wilson work for rival talk back radio stations and that this sort of stunting goes on year after year, Caroline Wilson is anything but a shrinking violet and so much of the bunkum is contrived anyway. Maguire was responding to his own public dunking in a recent publicity stunt and some public needle from Wilson over his misfortune by advocating she cop a dunking sometime also and it proved an unwise move, because he was then accused of wanting to drown women.
The final blow for Eddie and the next stage in the antic has come today with an even bigger idiot, Sam Newman, who works at Maguire’s radio station, sticking his oar in on behalf of fast Eddie.
People should consider a parallel the sort of nonsenses that used to go on at Sydney talk back where Alan Jones and John Laws used to publically feud, half out of petulance and half for the publicity stunts that kept their audience amused and themselves in the public eye.
“If some Muslim leader had come out and suggested that it’d be good to drown Christopher Pyne – whether as a mercy killing, or in anger – nobody would have cared a fig.” I think that that comment, in the mind of the LNP at least, would be considered a potential threat of terror and the person who said it would be on the end of an investigation very swiftly.
I may be premature but political pundits tell me that 60% more Queenslanders have pre-polled this time than ever before. Now once upon a time that was seen to be a symptom that people were eager to vote the existing government out. I sincerely hope that this is still the case. I have been informed by same that existing polls are taken only on landlines and that young people do not use landlines, so there could in fact be a huge landslide about to take place on July 2. As for the USA initiated “politically correct PC” SPEAK. I wouldn’t give you two bob for it. I was raised to respect everyone black, white or brindal, I dislike immensely ‘conservative politics’ only because it causes harm to my ilk and I. I am NOT religious in any way, but follow their moral objectives as closely as is possible for a man to do so, and try to instill same in my daughter. I saw what I man, and mean what I say not to be misinterpreted in a negative or bad way. I still use Australian English and dislike the yank “guy” and “all” other yankism’s.
True, Kronomex, it probably would be classed as terrorism. Funny though that they didn’t see it that way when right-wing shock jocks wanted to see Julia Gillard drowned.
I second Paul’s comments about the McQuire incident..I’m viewing both the far lefts reaction and the AFL establishments to as a sort of “1984 thoughtcrime” situation..and agree fully with the fact Sam Newman is a far, far worse tool fool.
How I miss those good old days when real estate dominated the dinner party conversations; even in the trendy inner-city we did not bother about who slept with who, religions ,like Islam, never got the look in, times were good and politics was a side-show….
Now it’s all about Muslims, and even though Labor and Liberals are not all that different, there is a war out there.
I left Sydney BECAUSE of real estate talk, now I MISS it…