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The Left and IslamThe Unholy Red-Green Alliance

The Left does not love Australia, our institutions and our Western values. It is the Left in our univer-sities, the bureaucracy and in the media who runs down all things Australian while promoting toler-ance of everything that is opposed to our Western civilisation.

As far as the Left is concerned, anyone who is in favour of smaller government, economic restraint, family values, self-reliance, na-tional identity, controlled migra-tion and migrant assimilation into mainstream society is called a ‘Right-wing extremist’ and vilified as intolerant and ignorant. Anyone who flies the Australian flag is con-sidered to be a racist. Anyone who questions the spread of Islam, same sex marriage and the causes of cli-mate change is maligned and sub-jected to personal abuse. The power of the Left dominated media makes it difficult for any dissenting voice to be heard. Even the voice of a government that fails to conform to the approved world-view of the Left is ridiculed or played down. On the matter of Syrian refugees coming to Austral-ia, the media silenced any debate about helping persecuted Christian minorities to resettle here.Our parliamentarians and the public service elite, the media and the universities all have an attitude of “we know better than you” and it seems that many are not prepared to defend our Aus-

tralian identity and way of life. Instead they appear hell-bent on destroying our Western values and by default have formed an al-liance with Islam. When David Cameron was elected Prime Minister of Britain in 2010, he argued that Britain needed a stronger sense of identity if it were to confront the menace of Islamic extremism. We Australians also need to advocate for our identity

Melton, outer Melbourne, anti-Reclaim Australia protesters.

Bill Leak The Australian January 2015.

and way of life. But very few of our leaders are up to the task.Advocating for our identity and way of life involves defending in-stitutions and beliefs such as the Westminster democratic parlia-mentary system, natural law, the separation of church and state, gen-der equality and Christian values like the sanctity of human life.Our Western civilisation is ground-ed in these ideas and secures a foundation that ensures peace, prosperity and basic legal and po-litical rights, including freedom of speech and expression. Unfor-tunately, many highly educated elites in Australia and the rest of the Western world are unwilling to defend our values and beliefs on the grounds of cultural relativism (which sees all cultures as equal and that it is impossible to make judgments of relative worth about different cultures). The Left Does Not Support Our Values and Heritage Within Australian universities a rainbow alliance of neo-Marxist, feminist and post-colonial theorists

have decried Western civilisation, arguing that it is oppressive, racist, misogynist and based on European history and culture. That world-view is the prevailing outlook in academia and any contrary opinion is ignored, ridiculed or silenced.Today the average student is de-nied the opportunity to hear dif-ferent opinions, think, question and learn. Higher learning is no longer about challenging assump-tions and speaking freely and openly about issues and ideas. On university campuses, lecturers, stu-dents and sometimes even admin-istrators seem to have become ever more eager to block any idea with which they disagree. It seems there is a rush to demonize the person or organization presenting the offend-ing idea, rather than to open an academic discussion.

Given that most of our top opera-tors in politics, the public service, the military and the media have a university education, they have been well and truly schooled in anti-West ideas.

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What is Islamophobia ?A word created by cultural Marx-ists. The Oxford Dictionary defines ‘Islamophobia’ as a dislike or preju-dice against Islam or Muslims, es-pecially as a political force. The Organisation of Islamic Co-op-eration defines the word to their own advantage and to stop any criticism of Islam. The OIC states that ‘Islamophobia’ is a contempo-rary form of racism and xenopho-

bia motivated by unfounded fear, mistrust and hatred of Muslims and Islam. The charge of ‘Islamophobia’ is used to silence opponents of the ji-had ideology. There is even an Aus-tralian Islamopobia register (www.islamophobia.com.au) which re-cords incidents of ‘Islamophobia’. Stephen Schwartz, The “Islamophobes” That Aren’t, Front Page Magazine April 2--5.www.libertiesalliance.org.2013/09/22/problematic-definition-islamophobia/

Military Manoeuvres“Let’s remember that the core job of a military force is to fight a war, if

necessary, to keep a country safe.” Greg Sheridan, foreign affairs journalist with The Australian

The Australian Defence Force, which is supposed to protect us, is under attack from within and the cultural diversity brigade is firing the shots.2015, a year of multicultural madness in the military, started in 2013 with the appointment of an Islamic advisor to the Royal Australian Navy.By February 2016 the rumours were confirmed that the Australian Army had complied with Islamic law by introducing halal certified rations.

2015 February The Australian Defence Force sends the assistant to the Chief of Navy’s Strategic Advisor on Islamic Cul-tural Affairs to observe the Prince Sultan International Military Quran Memorisation Competition in Sau-di Arabia. The competition is for members of Defence Forces from all over the world to see who could best recite the Quran from memo-ry. Delegates had the opportunity to participate in discussion ses-sions related to issues concerning their service personnel and lessons learnt in establishing infrastruc-ture, policies and organisational structures to assist with the integra-tion of Muslims in Defence Forces internationally.

March 31The Royal Australian Navy’s Islam-ic advisor Captain Shindy presents a paper about Islam in Australia to the Royal United Services Institute of New South Wales. She calls for the removal of the word ‘Islam’ from all reporting on Islamic State, ISIS, ISIL.

June 5 Australian Defence Force appoints an Islamic sheik to the ADF’s Reli-gious Advisory Committee to the Services. The sheik is a key member of the Aus-tralian National Imams Council (ANIC) and has called for the implementation

Royal Australian Navy Chief Petty Officer Zulkarnain Naim, at the final ceremony presentations of the Prince Sultan International Military Al Quran Memorisation Competition, Riyadh Air Base. Navy Daily 5 March 2015 Royal Austral-ian Navy.

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October Army chaplains opt to remove the motto on their hat badges. Their motto ‘In this sign conquer’ are the words uttered by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 312AD upon seeing a cross of light in the sky. The Christian cross is offen-sive to the followers of Islam. A Defence spokeswoman stated that “The motto of the Australian Army Chaplains is being changed to bet-ter reflect the diversity of religion throughout the Australian Army”.

OctoberThe RAN’s Islamic advisor Captain Shindy used the@navyislamic twit-ter account to criticise the newly launched anti-Islam political party the Australian Liberty Alliance (ALA). “Real shame to see these extreme ill informed fringe groups threat-ening #community#cohesion #auspol #teamhumanrace,” @na-vyislamic

November Five days after the Paris attacks by Islamic extremists that killed 130 people and injured hundreds more, the RAN’s Islamic advisor used the @navyislamic twitter ac-count to declare the Grand Mufti, Ibrahim Abu Mohamed, a “right-eous & courageous man who cate-gorically denounces” Islamic State and terrorism. She also tweeted the

hashtag #IStandWithTheMufti. To many Australians, the Grand Mufti’s initial statement after the Paris attacks calling for “causa-tive factors” such as “racism, Islamophobia, curtailing free-doms through securitisation, du-plicitous foreign policies and mili-tary intervention” to be addressed was unacceptable. This tweet had no place on a social media site as-sociated with the ADF. Nor did Captain Shindy’s sneering political asides about Mr Tony Abbott.

2016 January The @navyislamic twitter account is closed.

Memory competition has an Australian fla-vour. RAN (author) Navy Daily 5 March 2015. Shindy, M, ‘Islam in Australia in 2015: an Australian Muslim’s Perspective’, Unit-ed Service, 66(2), 2015, pp. 9–12. The call to remove the word ‘Islam’ is on p. 11. http://news.navy.gov.au/en/Jul2013/Peo-ple/172/Chief-of-Navy-appoints-an-Ad-visor-on-Islamic-Cultural-Affairs.htm#.Vr-RySBGqpBc. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/army-chaplains-to-remove-conquer-from-102yearold-motto-because-it-is-offensive-to-muslims/news-story/637626171244b43c7661a9f430fc2c16. https://www.awm.gov.au/talks-speeches/speech-royal-australian-navys-inaugural-rama-dan-iftar-dinner/‘Social agendas are sure to wreck the mili-tary’ by Greg Sheridan, The Australian, 29 Jan 2016. ‘Row over Navy’s Islamic account after Tony Abbott retweet’ by Rosie Lewis, Cameron Stewart, The Australian 5 Jan 2016. ‘Most Australian Army rations now halal, kosher or vegetarian’ by Jared Ow-ens The Australian 17 Feb 2016.

of Islamic sharia law into the Austral-ian legal system. The ANIC has op-posed laws prohibiting the promotion of terrorism on the basis that the laws would infringe the free speech of Is-lamic preachers.

June 23 After fasting during Ramadan, the Chief of the Australian Navy (Vice-Admiral Barrett) addressed the inaugural RAN Ramadan Iftar dinner. He said:“I have fasted today in soli-darity with you all, to properly im-merse myself in the experience and purpose of Ramadan and to gain an appreciation of the c h a l l e n g e s and rewards Muslims experience dur-ing this important month in the I s -lamic calendar.”

September 30 The Deputy Chief of Army endors-es ‘R222018658 ADF Combat Ra-tion Pack User Requirement’ which means that one third of combat ra-tions must be halal certified. There are fewer than 100 followers of Islam in the 28,000 strong Australian Army. Bernard Gaynor, the ALA’s Sen-ate candidate in Queensland, criticised the decision as “politically correct” and “dangerous appeasement”. Liberal Senator for South Australia Cory Bernardi said: “This is just an-other step in the encroaching Is-lamisation of Western civilisation ”

Two-thirds of army rations conform to halal, kosher or vegetarian guidelines.

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Take the example of the Australian Curriculum Studies Association (ACSA), the peak body represent-ing academics, subject associations and researchers with a special in-terest in the school curriculum. The ACSA argues that it is wrong to privilege our Western civilisa-tion over others. Australia is a mul-ticultural, multi-faith society, so Judeo-Christianity is simply one belief system alongside “Islamic, Buddhism, agnostic and atheist be-liefs”.

That statement ignores the fact, based on the 2011 census, that Christianity is the leading religion in Australia at 61%, compared with Buddhism at 2.5%, Islam at 2.2%, Hinduism 1.3%, Judaism 0.5% and no religion at 22.3%.

It is true that Western civilisation is far from perfect, but it is unique in that it has the ability to critique itself and overcome cruelty and in-justice. The American historian Ar-thur M. Schlesinger Junior noted:

The crimes committed by the West have produced their own antidotes. They have produced great movements to end slavery, to raise the status of women, to abolish torture, to combat racism, to defend freedom of inquiry and expression, to advance personal liberty and human rights.

Instead of myth, superstition or hearsay associated with primitive cultures, Western thought is based on reason, inquiry, analysis, science and discussion. Western civilisation supports universities as centres of learning that, since the medieval period, have acted as sanctuaries for academic freedom, debate and research.

Yet today, it is the universities in which so many Left leaning aca-demics teach cultural relativism and cultural Marxism. Students are taught that all social relations are based on oppression – for example, women are oppressed by men; Is-lam is oppressed by Western civili-zation; and workers are oppressed by capitalists. Academics and stu-dents vigorously defend Islam and the media echoes their actions.The Left in the media are just as keen to knock Australia and our Western values, and rush to defend Islam against so-called ‘Islamophobiaʼ.

If you follow the issues of global warming, marriage ‘equality’ and Islamic refugees you will see that there is a pattern followed by the Left. Anyone who strays from the Left-wing view is abused, treated with contempt and even intimi-dated. Anyone who suggests that humans alone do not cause climate change is a ‘denier’. Anyone who questions same sex marriage is la-

belled a ‘homophobe’ and a ‘hater’. Anyone who questions the nature of Islam is called a ‘racist’ and ‘Is-lamophobe’.

It doesn’t matter whether the issue is international in scope or local, the approach is the same. The ex-treme Left saturates the formal and informal communication channels so effectively that it crowds out or suffocates alternative views. It is a triumph for Leftist ideology and the culmination of decades of in-doctrination from primary school to university.

The Left Aligns With Islam Because They Want To Destroy The WestThe extreme Left holds a special animosity to Christianity and Isra-el, but is protective of Islam. When homosexual people are persecuted in Islamic countries, there is never a word of protest from the Left, yet they attack Israel where homosexu-al people live freely. The feminists who scream about misogyny in Australia never say a word about the incidence of child brides, polygamy and female geni-tal mutilation in our Islamic com-munities. In their hatred of the West, the radicals of the Left de-fend and support Islam.

For Left opinions look at the ABC, SBS and the Fairfax organisation, along with The Guardian, Crikey, The Conversation, The Monthly, New Matilda, The Saturday Paper and The Green Left Weekly. They are the major media presence in Aus-tralia and they consistently present a common Left-wing position on most social, economic and political issues.

Similarly, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Herald Sun and the ABC are shameless in their bias against Western values and ordi-nary Australians. The media care-fully selects topics and subjects where Left-leaning ‘experts’ push and reinforce that bias. Common decency and morality is vilified as ‘intolerance’ and ordinary Austral-ians are mocked as ‘ignorant racist bogans’.

The Left has done such a good job of denigrating Western cul-ture and civilisation that we have become ashamed of our heritage instead of being proud of it. If we don’t believe in the importance of our own cultural values, then we will be unwilling to fight for them. In any society cultural pri-macy belongs to those who are willing to fight the hardest and, at the moment, that isn’t us! Sources and further reading: Daniel Mael ‘The “Speech-Denialists”’, Gatestone Institute, 2 June 2015, http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5870/speech-denialistsKevin Donnelly, ‘Academic centres turn on Western civilisation’ in The Australian 11 July 2015. Maurice Newman, ‘Doubt-free progres-sives stifle alternative views’ in The Australian 11 September 11, 2015. In Vol 35, No 1of the ACSA’s journal Curriculum Perspectives Michael Kindler argues against our Western Judaeo-Christian values.

US President Barrack Hussein Obama flashes the one finger affirmation of Islam to delegates at the US-African leaders conference in Washington DC in August 2014.

Note the reactions of Abdelilah Berkirane, the prime minister of Morocco pictured just behind Obama’s left shoulder, and Ibrahim Boubacas Keita, the president of Mali in white garb and hat. They are followers of Islam, and they are all smiles. They knew what Obama’s upright forefinger meant.

http://admin.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2015-02/194108_5_.jpg IS fighter displays the gang sign. To Muslims, the extended forefinger isymbolic of the fundamental belief of Islam: There is but one God and Muhammad is his messenger.Read more at http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/obama_and_the_muslim_gang_sign.html#ixzz42wwnSgjw

Continued from Page 1With Friends like These Who Needs Enemies?

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IS fighter displays the gang sign. To Muslims, the extended forefinger is sym-bolic of the fundamental belief of Islam: There is but one God and Muhammad is his messenger.

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From the 1890s to World War I, Germany intended to use its ally Turkey to unleash an Islamic jihad against the British and drive them out of India. Jihad would have the support of the Shah of Persia and the Emir of Afghanistan, and be funded mainly with the loot of British gold held in the vaults of the British banks in Persia [now Iran]. The policy was called Drang nach Osten – the Drive to the East, which led Germany to build the Berlin-to-Baghdad railway that was intended to eventually reach India.

In 1898 the German Kaiser spread the rumour that he had converted to Islam and he then visited Istan-bul with farcical ceremony. Shortly after Britain and France signed

1914 “Deutschland Uber Allah”

by John Severustheir ‘Entente Cor-dial’ alliance, the Kaiser turned up at Tangiers to demand independence of Morocco from both nations. Germany held no Islamic colo-nies, so had nothing to lose by this provo-cation, known as the First Moroccan Cri-sis. After the Second Moroccan Crisis in 1911 the British navy took on the role of protecting the Chan-nel ports of Britain and France, leaving the defence of the North African colo-nies to the French navy.

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We will stop the Islamisation of Australia Since the genocidal slaughter of 1.5 million Christian Armenians by the Turks in April 1915, Turkey was seen as an outcast by the European allies. A jihad was ordered against the allies by the Turkish Ottoman Sultan who, as Caliph of all Islam had the sole power to do so. In preparation, Turkey had been armed with Ger-man weapons and low-interest Deutsche Bank loans from Berlin.

At the outbreak of World War I, two German war-ships were trapped in the Mediterranean while

on the run from the French. To escape, they sailed with Turkish consent through the Dardanelles and into the Sea of Marmara to be welcomed in Istanbul by the Turk-ish government. After the crews declared “Deutschland Uber Allah”, they went on to shell the Russian ports around the Black Sea.

In an act of war, a German general closed the Dardanelles to all traffic and Britain’s reaction later led to the British and ANZAC landings on the Gallipoli peninsular. The general then commanded Turkish forces and organized the Gallipoli Campaign and its coastal defences.

Further reading, see: Peter Hopkirk, The Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire, 1994, John Murray, London.

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