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What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
Got to be the letter of the day. “…Monty Python couldn’t make this up. Governments subsidise unreliable renewable power to the point where fossil fuelled baseload generators are forced to close. Then when lights go out as predicted, they propose to “incentivise” — in other words subsidise — fossil fuelled generators to operate continuously. Meanwhile, this foolhardy exercise has made our power prices among the highest in the world, drives our heavy i…ndustry and smelting offshore and effectively transfers wealth from the poorer segments of society to the better off. To what end? This destructive policy has not made one iota of difference to the planet..”
David Meredith, Singleton, NSW
Muslim public schoolboys ‘excused’ from shaking hands with women — Rebecca Urban, The Australian
This is exactly what is meant by the term “creeping sharia” or sharia by stealth. Or if you like death by a thousand cuts. These things tend to present themselves in single file, one at a time so you don’t notice. But combine this single instance with other “single instances” like the defiance and belligerence of not standing in court for the judge or the proliferation of halal branding in your suburban supermarket or the segregation of men and women and you start to get an understanding of how creeping sharia operates. It’s a clash of cultures, nothing less. Creeping sharia is as insidious as it is incremental and builds the edifice of sharia law one little brick at a time, even over something as seemingly innocuous as shaking hands with the opposite sex.
Sharia, a dark ages death sentence — Jennifer Oriel, The Australian
How much anti-Australian propaganda will we be forced to endure during SBS’s #FU2Racism programming next week? Perhaps SBS will surprise us by using taxpayer funds to discuss the benefits of Enlightenment thought and the constitutional values that helped Australia resist 20th-century totalitarianism.
How do you solve a problem like sharia? — Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Australian
Finally, at last, someone is asking Ayaan Hirsi Ali, someone who actually knows what she’s talking about, for her opinion. As a matter of interest Ayaan Hirsi Ali will be in Australia in April to discuss reforming Islam. It’ll be interesting to see if she’s invited on to the desk of Q&A with the ABC’s pet in house go to Muslim Abdel Magied, but it won’t be surprising if she’s not. After all the ABC has invested a lot in the “credibility” of the uppity, loud, brash and illinformed, Abdel-Magied and that “credibility” would be totally shredded for good if she were to square off against Hirsi Ali.
Terrorism Denial On The Left
Is that the sum total of your argument? That lawn mowers, ladder accidents and falling out of bed kill more people than terrorism? Key word here is accident. Since when did lawn mowers and ladders present an existential threat? Actually I find this kind of, “nothing to see here, move along” denial and deluded argument more dangerous and more offensive than the spectre of attacks by killer lawn mowers or blood lusting ladders than terrorism itself.
We are dealing with a serious mental illness. Nothing less.
The Coalition must get its act together because if Bill Shorten wins, we all lose — Peta Credlin, Sunday Telegraph
In a case of a choice between bad or worse than bad, and as bad and as hopeless Turnbull and the Libs are, the alternative is diabolical and should fill you with dread. This is a sobering assessment by Peta Credlin that should hit most people in the face like a bucket of ice water. It should scare the living daylights out of just about anyone with a pulse. The baseline, as most people are aware, is that 10 years ago Australia had zero debt and 10’s of billions in the bank. That was then, this is now and a peak into the future…
An Empty Hijab Makes the Most Noise — Quadrant Online
Most disappointing is that the testimony of those who have actually lived under Islam law doesn’t matter to the creed’s apologists. Nor do the criticisms from notable experts conversant with the stifling effects of Sharia when applied with literal devotion. The insights of informed figures such as Sam Harris, Ayaan Harsi Ali and Christopher Hitchens mean nothing to them.
A George Soros Led Mutiny — American Thinker
Employing the Cloward-Piven Strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis, Soros seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands and grievances; thus, pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven were two radical socialist Columbia University professors inspired by Saul Alinsky’s revolutionary blended concepts of bringing down a U.S. government. Similar to Alinsky, Cloward and Piven encouraged demonstrations, protests, and riots as a means to generate public attention and wreck institutional havoc. Their goal was to force the collapse of their target.
Big Ideas ABC — Muslim’s Invented Flight 1100 Years Ago
No one challenges or calls these people out or pulls them up on such claims like Yassmin Abdel Magied on Q&A. (notable exceptions The Australians John Lyons and Caroline Overington) So politically correct and deferential is The West (a euphemism for gutless) and fearful of offending, they continue to get away with it.
Brian Williams’s Truth Problem, and Ours — Victor Davis Hanson
There’s been a lot of talk since the US election about Post Truth and Alternative Facts so away from the static and hubbub of election proper, it’s interesting to revisit this story from February 2015. Suffice to say the phenomenon is not new.