Last night in discharge of its charter duties, the ABC brought us a Muslim child prodigy.
She bears her exclusion from mainstream society and the denial of a voice in this country's affairs stoically.
As this biographical note demonstrates.
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a mechanical engineer, social advocate, writer and 'petrol head'. Debut author at 24 with the coming-of-age-memoir, Yassmin’s Story, the 2015 Queensland Young Australian of the Year advocates for the empowerment of youth, women and those from racially, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Yassmin is passionate about making 'diversity' the norm. At age 16, she founded Youth Without Borders, an organisation that empowers young people to realise their full potential through collaborative, community based programs.
Yassmin was named one of Australia’s most influential engineers by Engineers Australia, and has been recognised for her work in diversity by the United Kingdom’s Institute of Mechanical Engineers. The youngest woman named in Australia’s 100 Women of Influence by the Australian Financial Review in 2012, Yassmin was the Young Muslim of the Year in 2007 and Muslim Youth of the Year in 2015.
A sought-after advisor for federal governments and international bodies, Yassmin currently sits on the Boards of ChildFund, The Council for Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR) and the domestic violence prevention organisation, OurWatch. She is the Gender Ambassador for the Inter-American Development Bank and has represented Australia through multiple diplomatic programs across the globe.
You can also find Yassmin presenting on TV, currently hosting ABC's weekly show, Australia Wide. She is a regular on Q&A, The Drum, The Project, and internationally on the BBC. On radio, Yassmin is a regular on Triple J's Hack, Radio National, and moonlights as a casual broadcaster on ABC Local. She is the host of the motorsport podcast Motor Mouth, and is the host for the groundbreaking documentary The Truth About Racism, due for release in March 2017.
Yassmin's TED talk, What does my headscarf mean to you, has over 1.5 million views. Yassmin has written extensively, her writing appearing in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, AFR, The Griffith Review, Huffington Post and others.
The sought-after-advisor-for-federal-government-and-international-bodies was a bit feisty.
She remonstrated somewhat with the Senator from Tasmania Jacquie Lambie.
Index fingers were deployed at 5 paces with host Tony Jones supervising the duel.
Who knows who prevailed in the gladiatricial theatrics.
Perhaps we'll need to tune in to the next episode to hear what the judges thought.
There was one clear winner to the money spinning exercise.
Advertisers funding the ABC's non-commercial (as in it keeps the profits) commercial-partner Twitter.
And Twitter. All that fury and noise, all those customers, all delivered free of charge courtesy of the Australian taxpayer.
Amongst them was another helpful Muslim promotions-department enlistee Ms Mariam.
Ms Mariam was on message during the height of the online seeming, as this very comforting statement suggests.
Well might it be a very comforting statement for the incurious and easily comforted.
But it is also stunningly incomplete, misleading and deceptive.
Muslim leaders in fully Sharia compliant jurisdictions have a somewhat different view from the people in PR.
So did beheader in chief Muhammad, the illiterate Arab to whom an Angel appeared bearing dictation homework from Allan (could be a typo, will someone get Gabriel to check pls).
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/loyalty-to-non-muslim-government.aspx
In Islam, loyalty is to Allah and his religion. It cannot be to a kafir country. As the former mufti of the Grand Mosque in Mecca put it in a recent fatwa, "His homeland may not be Islamic, so how can he be loyal to his homeland?"
Scholar Jamal Badawi (a favorite of CAIR) insists that, "Muslims should not melt in any pot except the Muslim brotherhood pot."
Recap Erdogan, the Turkish leader who began his country's transition from secularism to Islamism in thuggish fashion said, "You cannot be both secular and a Muslim! You will either be a Muslim, or secular. And why is that? Because Allah, the creator of the Muslim, has absolute power and rule."
A CAIR executive director (in the United States) recently said, "if we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land."
The Calcutta Quran Petition says of Muslim communities that "even fresh converts tend to become highly orthodox people and follow the sayings of [the Quran] with a fanatical zeal with the result that whichever country as their sizable number amongst its population can never have peace on its soil." Where Muslim minorities exist, there is unusual social strain manifested by dissention, demand and disloyalty - as well as a cohesive group identity that resists self-reflection and thrives on the perception of victimization by the majority.
Islam teaches that nations are in one of two major categories - Dar-al Harb (house of war) and Dar-al-Islam (Muslim rule). Any nation that is not Muslim is therefore, by definition, at war with Islam (or, at best, in contradiction to the preferred order). Muslims cannot be expected to maintain loyalty to a nation that is at war with their religion.
Ahmed Fahour’s Invergowrie estate and the neighbouring mansion Avon Court (pictured) are considered Hawthorn’s finest residences.