Free speech nobbled

Below is letter published in The West Australian Newspaper:

Shame on Western Australia

Shame on WA, when a visiting politician, who has spoken in the US Senate, the British House of Lords and other European parliaments, is not allowed to speak to people in Perth.

WA residents have been denied the opportunity to listen to visiting Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Why? Because he is opposed to Islam – so what.

The Federal and WA governments refused to even speak to him, let alone provide a venue. Commercial speaking venues have broken contracts for unspecified reasons. Are they all scared of protesters and social activists? So scared that they have stifled free speech and diversity of opinion in WA.

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In late January I blogged that I was concerned about free speech and freedom of association. Well, in Western Australia Geert Wilders was not allowed to speak in public. The Federal Government would not provide a venue, and Colin Barnett (the State premier) refused any assistance, and said Geert Wilders was not welcome here. Mr Barnett does not speak for all Wesernt Australians.
Commercial venues were also frightened off. Several accepted the booking and then cancelled, the last one which was fully paid for in Perth, Western Australia, cancelled at 9.20 pm on the Friday night before the talk on Wednesday. Due to security concerns, no venue could be found at such short notice. And so, we who had booked tickets were deprived our right to listen to Mr Wilders.
Similar antics occured in Melbourne and Sydney, the Melbourne talk finally took place at a slightly out of town venue, and 500 people paid, attended and braved the agressive protesters, who screamed, shouted and tried to stop people attending. The police had to move in to stop their nonsense. The protesters were unclear if they were protesting about the 'underclass', the Palestinians or Pauline Hanson. I have read Geert Wilders' speech and it is not about class, race, Palestine or Pauline Hanson.
Geert is a proponent of free speech, and as a result of criticising Islam, he has lost his freedom. He has to go everywhere with several full time security people, he cannot walk down the street without security and disguise. He and his wife live in a secret house, and his wife also has no freedom.
Surely governments and social acitivists should be protesting about the Muslims who want to kill him, for merely speaking freely.

But No 

The Government of this country (Australia) will allow people such asTaji Mustafa – the British leader of Muslim extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir; and Sheik Al-Sudais – who says Christians have a poisonous culture and Jews are the rats of the world – into this country to talk. Universities are happy to provide venues, and local councils offer facilities. So if you criticize Christian values, that is all OK; but if you criticise Islamic values, it is an absolute no no, and you will be risking your life.
 It is reported that Julia Gillard has agreed to attend the "Islamic Peace Conference" (a real oxymoron) – to be held in March in Melbourne, which includes many of the extreme Muslim speakers. Will she wear a hijab, out of deference to their cultural values?
It appears that only the politically correct brigade and left-wing progressives have the right in Australia to free speech. But why, when a democratically elected leader of a major party in a western democracy has been invited by Australians to talk, he is not allowed. He is branded by those, who have never really listened to him speak, as 'extreme', and full of 'hate speak'. That is a lie, and those who wish to shut him up because his views are different from theirs, are extreme and full of hate speak.

Shame on us

Our politicians and all Australians should be standing up for free speech, not trying to close it down.

 

The stupid media

I am anything but a fan of Julia Gillard, or her partner (whatever he is), Tim Mathieson. However the beat up made by the media on what was a harmless joke/comment when talking to principally a male audience , was ridiculous.
He was talking about prostate cancer, a subject of interest to him and to most males. He suggested that the PSA test was far from perfect, and the best test was the rectal digital test. An unpleasant experience so best to choose an asian with a small finger. In the context a fun remark, and for gods sake if we cannot make jokes like this where has our Australian sense of humour gone.
Various people got on the band wagon that it was inappropriate, racist etc. etc. even Tony Abbott did not laugh it off. So Mathieson had to appologise and Julia said he could have chosen his words better.
This is political correctness gone mad, and if Nichola Roxons anti discrimination bill is ever passed there will be no room for jokes which have any sort of innuendo.

Halal baby shampoo

Whatever next. Johnson and Johnsons baby shampoo is now Halal certified. There must be a reason that a large company pays a fee to have its Baby shampoo certified halal, but the reason is not obvious to me.

The halal certification business is huge, world wide billions probably trillions of dollars. Usually it refers to food products, but as the baby shampoo indicates certification is not limited to food.
There may be a need for some products sold to the Middle East or Islamic countries to have Halal certification. However from my own observations in these countries, their stores have lots of products that give no indication they are Halal, and I have never noticed Muslims shopping in our stores in Australia reading the labels to check if the product is halal.
In Australia most products that are certified halal do not have a symbol advertising he fact, so how does one know that the food is halal.

• Does certification improve the quality or nutritional value of the food- NO
• Does certification ensure good quality control over the production-NO- we have ample laws covering health and safety.
• Does certification lower the standard of our food-NOT USUALLY
• Does certification increase the price of the product-YES- a fee has to be paid to an Islamic body for the certification each year.
• Does certification increase the cost of production-SOMETIMES- Halal slaughtermen are sometimes paid more that non muslim slaughtermen.

The reasons many many companies small and large pay money to Islamic certifying bodies, is unclear however that is not the big question, the big question is:

What happens to the money paid for certification

Where does the billions of dollars raised certifying products go? The income is above the cost of certifying, so does the surplus go into building Mosques in the resident country, does it go to helping poor communities, is it just used corruptly to make some people rich. A video on air  showed the head of the Halal certifying bodies, stating that halal certification had made him personally, very very rich. 

 

Or does some of it get sent overseas to help terrorist organisations? Overseas money paid for halal certification has been traced to terrorist organisations.. To my knowledge no one in Australia knows, and the certifying bodies are not saying. The NSW police are still I believe  investigation the Australian Federation Of Islamic Councils -AFIC- over the disappearance of millions of dollars of money given to Islamic schools by the NSW and Australian Government. The NSW government has asked for the return of over $9.0 million. I wonder where it is?

 

This talk below could be extremely interesting and a real eye opener for any with some doubts about Islam

 

 

Freedom of speech and association

 

Freedom of speech and association seems to be a one sided right. The unionists, progressive left and human rights advocates, are fierce defenders of free speech. That is until someone expresses a differing view from theirs, and then they become the most ferocious attackers of free speech and association. Australians will remember, hopefully with shame, the disgraceful behaviour of the progressives towards Pauline Hanson. A simple politician, who had a view, that all in Australia should be treated equally-One Nation. This meant that some groups who had special privileges would lose them. She was branded as extremist, far right, and whenever she tried to give a talk anywhere, her venues were invaded by screaming egg throwing unionists, progressives and human rights activists - denying her the right to present her views. Hardly democratic. She still won nearly 15% of the vote.

 

Now we have a visit of a democratically elected member of the Democratic Dutch Parliament. Polls say his party is now tied with the Dutch labour party making it equal with the largest Dutch parliamentary party. Now many will disagree with his views that Islamic multiculturalism in Europe has been a disaster,that all immigrants should seek to actively assimilate Dutch values, that Islamic immigration should be stopped. In a democracy people have every right to disagree with other peoples views, this has made the West great, and I endorse their right to disagree, and their freedom to speak their mind.

However I do not agree

with attempts to prevent him from speaking in public. The Dutch governent provides him with 24/7 security to protect him from being killed by Islamic extremists. Australia's federal government delayed giving him a visa to enter Australia in 2012 long enough so his visit could not go ahead at that time. The government condemns his views that Islam/Sharia law are not compatible with western culture and values. The government had no problem issuing a visa to a Muslim cleric Taj Mustafa who was proposing the setting up of an Islamic caliphate in Australia, and allowed a very young girl to promote jihad. Even the most liberal left organisation the Europen Court of Human rights has found that Islam/Sharia law are not compatable with westen democratic rights.

Colin Barnett the premier of Western Australia has forbidden that any government facilities be made available to this Dutch politician on his visit to Western Australia. The Westpac bank after agreeing to help set up a ticketing purchase site, withdrew the offer since they felt it was inappropriate. Since when has a bank been the guardians of our moral values. Several venues after agreeing to the use of their facilities for his talk then reneged on their offer. I doubt the venues were making a moral judgement, they were just scared that the great proponents of free speech and assosciation would cause havoc and damage their business in attempts to close down the right of this man to express his views of declining freedom in Europe.

One can anticipate that when Mr Geert Wilders arrives there will be protests, by those who disagree with his views, and that is their right in this democratic country. However it is not their right to try and stop others who wish to listen to his views, from heariing his talk. The organisers of his visit The Qsociety will not release details of the venue till a day or so beforehand to again try and limit disruption by the left wing activists. 

They are all mad.

A soldier's words.

I was recently in the Philippines, a land with the friendliest people I have ever met.

One day my wife and I decided to explore the hills above Dumaquete. To do this we caught a bus and for the last 13 kms had to travel up a rough track on the back of a motorbike. My wifes motor bike driver was called Mario, an ex soldier who had spent 35 years in the army.

For the last 17years he was based in Mindanao Island. The Philippines is extremely Catholic the result of some 400 years of Spanish occupation.However on the large southern island of Mindanao, there has always been a significant Muslim population, owing to its proximity to Indonesia and Malaysia.

Periodically some of these Muslims become terrorists, and seek in their usual extremely violent way some sort of autonomy, which they have been granted. Hence the Philippine army maintains a significant presence there to stop the bombings and murders.

Mario said this about these Muslims:

• They are all mad
• They are lazy
• They hate Christians
• They fight and kill each other
• The terrorists rob, kidnap and murder people
• They rape old women
• They have no respect for men in uniform

Words from someone who knows,-17 years experience- and it rings true of what we often read in the news.

I do not believe that  people with a strong Muslim faith are compatable with democracy and good citizenship.

Catholic, Sharia or State law

Why State law must prevail

Muslim Cat has Halal food

Halal Cat food really?

 

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I was so worried this poor pussy cat could not get Halal certified food, and would be sent to purgatory.

 

But no someone has thought of this and come up with halal certified cat food, so poor pussy can go to heaven with all those virgins, but won't have to be one of them.



 

Purina Halal certified cat food

 

Have we gone mad? Here is a company paying money to an Islamic council for Halal  certification of cat food, and we still do not know what happens to the millions of dollars paid by companies for certification. I doubt it is for the benefit of most Australians. If this is mad go to the petition and read more. Sign here

What did you eat for breakfast

 

            This morning, when you smeared vegemite on your toast, you were giving money to the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils. Their use of your money is less than transparent, and I doubt that it is for your benefit or Australia’s. If the bread for your toast was made by Tip Top Bakeries, you gave more money to the Islamic Councils. Likewise if the butter was Western Star, or if you used Wescobee honey instead of Vegemite, you gave even more money to the Islamic Councils. You may not have known that your eating habits are supporting Islamic causes.

Perhaps you did not have toast, but Weetbix or Allbran or Kellog’s corn flakes, and perhaps you poured milk with the Woolworths or Coles brand on your cereal –  then you gave still more money to Islamic causes. If you finished your breakfast with a cup of Nescafe, you also gave money to the Islamic Councils.

            Most consumers probably like yourself, who have a typical Australian breakfast, have NO idea that a portion of your purchase price is being paid to Islamic Councils for Halal certification, because most companies do not advertise the fact. At least Vegemite has the certification symbol  on the label AFIC – the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils.

            Who are AFIC and what do they do? They appointed that  notorious man, Taj el Din-Hilaly, as head Mufti of Australia. A convicted criminal, and well known for his anti-Australian rhetoric (remember he called Australian women cats’ meat). AFIC received funding from Gadaffi of Libya. More recently, the NSW Minister of Education has asked the NSW police and ASIC to investigate AFIC to determine where the millions of dollars of government money given to Islamic schools has actually gone.

            To say that the use of money paid by you and other consumers to Islamic Councils for Halal certification is less than transparent is perhaps an understatement, but again, I doubt it is for your benefit. If you agree with me then please   Sign the Petition  and maybe we can start to change things.