Jason Morrison with a few ugly truths
Thursday, 15 January 2015
Jason Morrison is on the money again with this column in today's Daily Telegraph.
He writes of the weaker sections of our media going out of their way to accommodate Muslim intolerance.
Held hostage by a fear of ugly truths
YOU can only hope those offended by cartoons of Mohammed are equally as offended by images of those who behead, execute and detonate bombs in his name.
They must be angry, too, when that child, looking no older than 10, raises his arm in praise and triumph to his god as he steps over the corpses and walks away.
And here we are treading carefully over a cartoon.
So sick and out of proportion is the situation that newspapers are considered brave for reprinting the latest Charlie Hebdo cover, with the forbidden front page.
In Australia some media outlets have elected not to — they say out of religious respect. I’d say cowardice.
Then again, you’re not dealing with an army of letter writing complainers. Radical Muslims have a tendency to overreact when upset.
It’s why many Western nations such as ours continue to dance around the real issue and tolerate the intolerant.
On Monday morning ABC TV news showed its respects to the religion of peace when it launched into tolerance overdrive.
They were about to screen footage of the French magazine’s front page when the lady co-host pre-empted what was about to happen with a disclaimer:
“A warning now to our Muslim viewers. We are about to show a caricature of the prophet Mohammed. It’s on the front page of the first Charlie Hebdo magazine published since the terrorist attacks in Paris.
“And, if you feel you’ll be offended by this image, please look away now or … switch off.”
The presenters then looked at each other righteously, nervously nodding in agreement, paused for a few seconds, and the show went on. I assume this will be the ABC’s new benchmark when they air offensive stuff on all religions. Doubt it.
Lots of people in the civilised world are offended by a range of things - I had regular listeners on the radio who quite genuinely could not listen to Julia Gillard's voice because of the offence it caused in them. Should they rate a warning and an apology? Of course not, we just get on with it - why then the kowtowing to Islamists. What makes them so special?
Jason goes on to nail the extremists in our midst.
Picture: Jane Dempster at the Sydney Muslim riots September 2012
Who were the hundreds marching down the city streets during the 2012 Hyde Park Muslim riots?
Remember thugs armed with baseball bats?
The signs “behead those who insult the prophet”.
The rows of riot police required to restore order.
Who are the 150 or so so-called Australians who’ve taken up arms to fight for IS?
Stupidly, we’ve let 20 of them come home.
What about the dozen men spending their lives in maximum security, convicted of plotting acts of terrorism on Australian soil — mass murders that would have happened had the authorities not got to them first.
And then there are the now weekly counterterrorism raids happening in suburbs all over the map.
It is even fashionable to believe Martin Place terrorist Man Monis was not a terrorist at all, just a “lone wolf”, ignoring that he had 14,000 followers of his anti-Australian rants on Facebook.
The few politicians who dare to question the growth of radical Islam in our community are branded alarmist. Commentators who raise the issue are portrayed as racists.
I know that feeling! Jason's right to speak out. So should you if you value our way of life - lest families grow up in our midst celebrating attitudes like this one - proudly on display in Sydney's Hyde Park.