Green Loons continuing War on Christianity

It should be noted that the Greens and their Co Party partners,the Australian Labor Party are the responsible for the Open Borders "Immigration"Policy that saw 50,000 plus, predominantly Muslim males, 18 to 28 years of age, imported into Australia under their "Co Party"government of the past six years, led by Rudd, Gillard and again Rudd.

Lord, deliver us from this time wasting Green idiocy

The Daily Telegraph
18 Jan 2014
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The Greens’ campaign to scrap the Lord’s Prayer from parliament is so exquisitely

boutique, bourgeois and anally introspective that it is hard not to believe it was deliberately conceived in an effort to make the party even more repellent to middle Australia than it already is.

Indeed, it is almost as though the Greens’ Marketing Sub-Collective had stumbled across a hitherto undiscovered rock-dwelling hermit who didn’t already regard them as a pack of inner city wankers and thus determined that they would have to ratchet up their brand messaging.

The most telling aspect of Acting Leader Richard Di Natale’s call this week to dump the Lord’s Prayer from the opening of each parliamentary session is that, prior to him making it, 99 per cent of Australians didn’t even know it was there and, of the tiny remainder who did, 99 per cent didn’t particularly care.

This is perhaps because the process of the Speaker reciting the “Our Father” and half the gathered MPs mumbling along has precisely zero negative impact on the rest of the country.
The question, therefore, is not really whether the Lord’s Prayer should be there or not but rather why would anyone with half a brain care?

The reason, as Senator Di Natale outlined to The Sydney Morning Herald, is that: “(When the prayers are read) there are a lot of people who are silent or who are thinking of other things.”

More expansive thinkers might be tempted to respond: “Well, yes. So what’s the problem?” Even a Fairfax poll had two-thirds of respondents saying it should be kept.
And even if the good senator’s fears are taken at face value, one might be tempted to respond with an expression he might also take exception to: Heaven forbid!
Just imagine the sinister threat of politicians having a moment of contemplation, or — an even more unthinkable precedent — being silent for a few seconds.

And for those who do recite the words, however half-heartedly, there is also the risk that they might subconsciously absorb such sinister exhortations as to be grateful for what we have and to forgive others’ transgressions. If these messages were taken to heart it would be the end of party politics as we know it — not to mention the Coalition’s border protection policy.

Fortunately for those who fear such a terrifying prospect, the prayer in parliament is not taken with the literal zeal it has in other times and places.
Rather, it is for most a quaint and salient reminder of Australia’s origins as one of the world’s most successful, tolerant and prosperous liberal democracies and its place in the canon of western civilisation in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

There is also the rather tiresome complaint that the reading of the prayer is somehow oppressive of or excludes the many Australians of other faiths or no faith at all.

Notwithstanding the almost imperceptible level of protest from citizens of other religions, this has clearly not registered as a concern for the thousands of desperate people who risk their lives to come to this country by boat, nor the millions more refugees everywhere from Syria to Sudan who would give their eye teeth for a home here.
It thus lies somewhere between perplexing and staggering that someone would want to purge such a benign part of Australia’s scarred but still incredibly blessed history, particularly someone called Richard Di Natale, whose name ultimately translates as “Richard of Christmas”.
Would he also want to expunge his own surname for visiting implicit oppression upon people of other cultures and faiths? Of course not.

Green Loon says Geert Wilders not welcome in Australia

Controversial Dutch MP's visa bid stalls

7.30 ABC
By Hayden Cooper
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Supporters of controversial anti-Islam campaigner Geert Wilders fear he may be refused entry to Australia ahead of his planned speaking tour next month.

The right-wing Dutch MP has applied for a visa to come and give speeches in Sydney and Melbourne, but the application has stalled.

In a climate of tension after the weekend's Muslim protest in Sydney, the issue presents a tricky dilemma for the Federal Government.

Mr Wilders has a reputation the world over as a fierce opponent of Islam.

He has compared the Koran to Hitler's Mein Kampf, called Islam an ideology not a religion, and called the Prophet Mohammed a paedophile among other insults.

"Mohammed was a warlord, he was a terrorist and maybe a terrorist worse than Bin Laden ever was at the time, look at what he did in his time in the past, in his Medina time - this is not the example to follow," he told Foreign Correspondent last year.

His speaking tour of Australia has been organised by an obscure anti-Islamic group called the Q Society, which takes a similar hard line.

Spokesman Andrew Horwood says the group are "ordinary Australians who are concerned about the march of Islam into this country".

"We are non-political, we are a secular organisation, and we've seen what's happened in Europe and we're concerned about that," he said.

"Our charter is to educate the Australian population about what Australia will be like in 20 or 30 years' time with Islam if we choose not to understand it."

Visa delayed
Mr Wilders applied for a visa three weeks ago.

His staff and security were approved within days, but he is still waiting and his sponsors want to know why.

"We find it very strange that a visa is taking so long to come from a politician of a respected democracy," Mr Horwood said.

He's coming here to give the advantage of his knowledge, the advantage of what's happening in Europe, and I cannot see why it's not an automatic thing: 'yes, you're welcome here.'

Q Society spokesman Andrew Horwood
"It should be an automatic thing. He's coming here to give the advantage of his knowledge, the advantage of what's happening in Europe, and I cannot see why it's not an automatic thing: 'yes, you're welcome here'.

"I cannot understand why everything has just ground to a halt."

The reason is that the Dutch politician is on the Movement Alert List, a database of people of concern to Australia. 

It means his application is held up at the Department of Immigration headquarters in Canberra while more thorough checks are done.

He is on the list because of his previous brushes with authorities abroad.

In 2009 he was refused entry to the UK but later appealed and won.

He was also tried and acquitted in the Netherlands on hate charges over his controversial public comments.

It is not clear if he will be granted a visa.

Tricky call
Greens Senator Richard Di Natale says Mr Wilders is not welcome in Australia.

"We don't want to see Geert Wilders in this country. His views are not welcome here," he said.

"My dear brothers and sisters in Islam, as the world gathers against the believers in Syria ... seeking to hijack our sincere and blessed uprisings, children in Sydney would like to send their message of hope and support to the Muslims of (Syria), especially to the children and mothers," Ruqaya said in her speech.

"These uprisings have demonstrated that this umma (global Muslim community) is alive and well, her love is for jihad, she is unshackled herself from the fear which she held, and she yearns to once again live under the banner of (the Islamic state).

"Children as young as myself can be seen on the streets joining the uprisings, risking their lives to bring food, water and medicine to their wounded family members, some of them never returning to their mothers ... Nobody is too young," she said.

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 "This country's got a great story when it comes to multiculturalism, it's part of my own personal story, it's something we should all be proud of and here we've got a man who is the antithesis of multiculturalism."

Greens Senator Richard Di Natale 

The final tricky call could ultimately fall to Immigration Minister Chris Bowen.

Mr Bowen says no decision has been made and he has received no advice yet from the department.

Opponents of Mr Wilders do not want him here, but they fear rejecting the visa application is a bad idea.

"We don't think that he should come. The question of whether he should be granted a visa is a separate one," Senator Di Natale said.

We don't think that he should come, the question of whether he should be granted a visa is a separate one.

Greens Senator Richard di Natale
"I think that by denying Geert Wilders a visa, there is the potential to give his cause more oxygen.

"We don't want to do that."

After the weekend's Muslim protest in Sydney, the planned visit to Australia may well add to the tension.

The decision for the minister comes after he approved a visa for Taji Mustafa, the British head of Islamist group Hizb Ut-Tahrir.

Mr Mustafa, though, is not on the Movement Alert List.

"I inquired as to whether Mr Mustafa had any relevant criminal convictions, he did not," Mr Bowen told Parliament this week.

"I inquired as to whether he is a member of a proscribed organisation, he is not. I took all the relevant steps required methodically."

When the Wilders trip was first flagged a year ago, the MP mentioned the help of South Australian Liberal senator Cory Bernardi.

But Senator Bernardi has told 7.30 he has had no involvement in organising the visit.