This is the headline your ABC used to promote its main story about yesterday's Muslim riots in Sydney
Muslim fury simmers on over film link to ABC
On the same morning, this is the headline it uses to promote a story about 2 fights at an under 15s rugby match in Queensland
Mass brawls at junior rugby league games link to ABC
Prime Minister Gillard's government has made an official representation to the Government of Russia over the sentence handed to the members of the Russian band Pussy Cat Riot but she's yet to say anything about the Muslim riots in Sydney.
This transcript is from an interview she conducted on landing in Vladivostok, 7 September, 2012
JOURNALIST: Prime Minister you have arrived in a country where they have jailed three young women for an artistic performance, a controversial artistic performance, for two years. What do you think of the jailing of Pussy Riot, do you think they should be freed?PM: We have indicated our view that the sentence for these young women we believe is disproportionate and that view has already been conveyed to the Russian Government.
JOURNALIST: How was that conveyed to the Government?
PM: That was conveyed through our Embassy at the time that the sentence was first announced.
JOURNALIST: Would you expect to have the opportunity to speak with President Putin himself and if you do would you raise it with him?
PM: Look, I’m not going to pre-empt the kind of discussions that I have in the margins of the meeting but I do understand I’ll be seeing President Putin obviously as he chairs APEC.
What business is it of our government? And where is she on the real riots in Sydney.
Full transcript from the Prime Minister's website
In the real State Department, the U.S. embassy in Cairo is guarded by Marines with no ammunition, but they do enjoy the soft-power muscle of a Foreign Service officer, one Lloyd Schwartz, tweeting frenziedly into cyberspace about how America deplores insensitive people who are so insensitively insensitive that they don’t respectfully respect all religions equally respectfully and sensitively, even as the raging mob is pouring through the gates.
I sent this note to the Premier a few minutes ago. I'll let you know what he says.
This photo was taken by Ilya Gridneff of the Sydney Morning Herald in the Pitt Street Mall in Sydney today.
I'm sure I won't be the only one, but as one small example I will follow up with NSW Police tomorrow to find this man and to make sure you know whether and with what he is charged. I'll follow it through to the prosecution on your behalf.
"Behead all those who insult the prophet"? Go to buggery.