Burqa message carries weight
HOW many anti-terrorist bollards do we put up? Where do we put them? Will they be able to stop a tank if the bad guys somehow get their hands on one? What about a plane?
Will bollards stop terrorists on foot? No.
But such is the warped, West-loathing mentality of those who would have us believe they know best, bollards are just a part of life.
We have to accept there are terrorists here and have to hope “Allahu akbar” aren’t the last words we hear.
When Pauline Hanson walked into the Senate wearing a burqa last week, the looks of deep concern from her colleagues proved that her calls for debate on religious face coverings are indeed relevant.
No one in that room knew who she was, and the mouth-agape, rabbit-inthe-headlights stares indicated they thought something very bad was about to happen.
What was lost in the Pauline Hanson furore was her message. She asked if the government would consider banning the burqa to allay the genuine fears of many Australians.
And that’s just it, it doesn’t matter how many times Waleed Aly and others tell Australians the garment is a symbol of piety and that mass Muslim immigration is a good thing, there is more than enough evidence to the contrary to spark genuine fear.
If not for our intelligence services being on the ball, Islamic terrorists would have killed people at football games, airports and army bases.
Late cartoonist Bill Leak had to move house in Sydney because of Islamist threats, and Imam Mohammad Tawhidi in Adelaide – who preaches Islamic reform, and rejection of sharia law in Australia – is constantly fielding death threats from people claiming to be fellow Muslims.
The burqa has been banned in France, Italy, Belgium, and now even Germany is considering it.
So for Attorney-General George Brandis to savage Hanson – to the point he nearly broke down in tears – lies at the heart of why the Liberal Party is so on the nose. They – and Labor and The Greens – don’t get the mood of many towards mass Islamic immigration and burqas, and one wonders when we’re going to hear anyone in Canberra other than Cory Bernardi deliver a similar defence of Christianity and Western values.
As conservative commentator Mark Steyn says, we’d be better off putting figurative bollards at our borders rather than going to great trouble and expense to build them inside the borders.
Another thing to consider is we’d be better off helping refugees where they live rather than inviting them here en masse to a strange land and expecting them to be model Aussies.
Even if we resettled 10 million refugees tomorrow, it would do nothing to solve the dysfunction in their home countries, and in reality, we’d just be importing a hell of a lot of social problems as we’ve seen here and moreso in Europe. Look at Spain where terrorists killed 15 people last week.
Spain is the posterchild for Islamist appeasement.
They’ve withdrawn their troops from the Middle East, and Seville punted King Ferdinand III as patron saint of an annual holiday because he was instrumental in driving out the invading Muslim Moors in the 1200s.
In the capital Madrid, huge signs hang off public buildings stating “Refugees Welcome”.
But despite all this, the extremists still targeted them for death.
If Spain – with all its grovelling abandonment of traditions and craven platitudes – can still be attacked, the world has no hope of winning the ideological war with niceties.
More people aren’t buying the “don’t worry about mass importation of Islam” speeches, they’re turning away from man-made climate change as predictions fail, dodgy modelling is exposed and power prices soar.
They’ve rejected the disgraceful Safe Schools social engineering scam, they’re sick of being told what they’re allowed to say.
But rather than listen to the people, our politicians are so arrogant, dismissive and wilfully ignorant, they can’t even see this taking place.
So you have One Nation and Cory Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives making massive inroads. This should be the canary in the coalmine for the major parties to stop pandering to extreme leftists and realise middle and conservative Australians are great in number and they’re in revolt.