Craig Laundy,Turnbull's member for Muslims............has vowed to combat ”wrong’’ public perceptions about Australia’s Muslims.

Craig Laundy wants to combat opinions about Muslims in Australia

Jared Owens

Reporter

Canberra

February 16 2016

Malcolm Turnbull’s new assistant minister for multiculturalism, Craig Laundy, has vowed to combat ”wrong’’ public perceptions about Australia’s Muslims.

Ethnic and religious leaders have reported increased tension in recent months amid the rise of Islamic State and calls from political leaders such as Tony Abbott for a “reformation” of Islam.

Mr Laundy, a former publican from Sydney’s culturally diverse inner-west, said the vast majority of inflammatory opinions about Islam and Muslims came from people who were “not well informed” and their views were “wrong”.

Although he acknowledged greater “tension” in the community following recent terrorist attacks, Mr Laundy said Australians should “come together in times of challenge, not fall apart”.

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“People that dive into this debate and say controversial things, I would argue, the vast majority are speaking from a position that is not well informed,” Mr Laundy told ABC Radio.

“My job … is to enter the debate, knowing the background and the community, engaging and explaining to Australia the challenges that these communities actually face.

Mr Laundy said Australian Muslims were “not scared” about debating how their religious practices integrated with the Australian way of life, but the discussion should be “respectful” and “informed”.

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He said the story of Australian multiculturalism was new arrivals “rolling up their sleeves and having a go”.

“That has never changed be it the Snowy Mountains workers (from Europe) after World War Two or be it the Hazara Afghanis that are working in local abattoirs around the country as we speak – very good boners, for example – they are here to give their families more opportunities than they had,” he said.

“The humanitarian intake visa category is one of the most entrepreneurial classes of visa category we have. I see new arrivals start working for someone else and within six or 12 months they’ve started their own business.”

Where’s the Left when there really are people making Islam look bad? UPDATE: Craig Laundy fails

Andrew Bolt – Tuesday, February 16, 2016 (11:33am)

Muslim leaders are quick to demand the banning of those who make Australians fear Islam. Take this, from last year: 

Muslim leaders have pressed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to cancel the visa of Dutch anti-Islamic MP Geert Wilders during a meeting with seven Islamic community leaders on curbing violent extremism.

Lebanese Muslim Association president Samier Dandan told Fairfax Media that he had warned the Prime Minister, during a high-level meeting on Friday, that Mr Wilders’ visit would fan the flames of anti-Islamic sentiment...

And Leftist radicals are even quicker to scare venues into denying bookings from people who would make Australia fear Islam:

The anti-racism group United Against Bigotry and Racism has vowed to protest against Wilders’ presence in Australia.

Several venues pulled out of hosting events featuring Wilders when he visited in 2013.

Politicians are very quick to stop people they claim will make Australians fear Muslims from speaking in any area they control:

[West Australian] Opposition Leader Mark McGowan said it was a deliberately defiant act [by Wilders] to hold the press conference next to the WA parliament given Premier Colin Barnett had repeatedly said Mr Wilders was not welcome at state government venues… 

“His presence is disruptive, it’s offensive to many people… “This is the sort of stuff that went on in Germany in the 1930s and I don’t want to see it happen in Australia,” he said.

So it is bizarre that these same people say nothing, prevent nothing and allow everything when - not for the first time- we get a conference of people who truly will make Australians fear Islam:

An Islamic anti-west fest is scheduled to be held at Sydney’s Olympic Park in May… Let’s check out some of the “12 great speakers from 4 continents” who’ll appear:

Brother Hamza Tzortzis

...Former Hizbie Hamza believes beheading is painless, apostates deserve to die and freedom of speech is wrong:

If someone’s going to fight against the community [Muslims] they should be killed … the punishment is beheading … you don’t feel any pain with it.

We as Muslims reject the idea of freedom of speech, and even the idea of freedom.

Those who claim that making homosexuality a criminal act is wrong are totally inconsistent. 

Hamza later recanted his opinion on the painlessness of beheading, claiming that his statement was made “while under pressure on an on-line video blog show.” ...

Next up:

Sheikh Zahir Mahmood

The Sheikh thinks Hamas child-killers are the good guys:

Hamas are not terrorists. They’re freedom fighters, they’re defending their country …

Also on the list...: 

Dr Zachariah Matthews

He wants some changes to Australia’s legal system:

Elements of Islamic law – the sharia – should be legally recognised in Australia so that Muslims can live according their faith, a prominent Muslim leader says …

‘’I wasn’t talking about sharia law in its entirety – we are not calling for the introduction of the penal system which calls for cutting off hands,’’ he said…

Of course, every conference needs a comedian, which brings us to:

Sheikh Alaa Elsayed

Sheikh Elsayed’s comedic stylings include: 

If you have one wife, she fights with you! If you have two wives, they will fight for you!

HA HA HA! He’s hilarious. The Project will book this guy for a whole week. 

Here is another speaker booked to appear at this Sydney conference:

Abu Hamza from Melbourne-based IISNA ...  has offered Muslims advice on “how to beat your wife” to make them “shape up”:

In a lecture titled “The Keys to a Successful Marriage”, ... Mr Hamza said men could beat their wives, “to shape them up"…

He also said women “must respond” if their husbands wanted to have sex, and ridiculed laws that prohibit rape within marriage…

In the sermon Mr Hamza initially tells his listeners “don’t hit your wife”. But he goes on to detail how men should hit their wives, according to his interpretation of Islamic teachings.

He says it is permissible to hit women as a “last resort” but that “the beating the Mohammed showed is like the toothbrush that you use to brush your teeth”.

“You are not allowed to bruise them, you are not allowed to make them bleed...”

Also speaking is Sheikh Shady Alsuleiman, whose Sydney organisation hosted a speech by an Al Qaeda recruiterlater killed in a drone attack in Yemen alongside three other suspected Al Qaeda operatives:

AN AL-QAEDA recruiter, described as the No. 1 terrorist threat to America, was engaged by a Sydney youth group to address hundreds of young people…

At the same time as Anwar al-Awlaki was advising the extremist later charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas, he was in talks with a group, Sydney Muslim Youth, about delivering a sermon to young Australians. He was already well known to security agencies as the spiritual guide to three of the hijackers on September 11, 2001… 

According to a director of the mosque, Ziad Ghamraoui, Shady Alsuleiman was in charge of organising evening youth events at the time of the sermon. Sheikh Shady refused to comment… IslamicMedia.com.au, an initiative of the Shady-affiliated United Muslims of Australia, streamed but did not record the speech and has 15 other audio sermons from the imam.

Much more at Tim’s blog, including links. 

Question: where are the Left now? Where are the feminists? Where those militant Catholic-hating atheists? Where the civil libertarians? Where Labor?

And where is the Lebanese Muslim Association when we are visited by extremists who really will make Australians fear Islam, and not just visited by a politician who simply points out that such extremists exist?

UPDATE

But here we go again.  Here comes another “Liberal” Minister to lecture not the extremists but those who fear them:

Malcolm Turnbull’s new assistant minister for multiculturalism, Craig Laundy, has vowed to combat “wrong’’ public perceptions about Australia’s Muslims.

Wouldn’t he do better reading lectures to these radicals instead? Oh, and shouldn’t he always issue this disclaimer: Craig Laundy holds the Liberal seat with the biggest Muslim minority (10.4 per cent) and is battling to hold it.

Maurice Newman:

In Islam, religion and politics are interchangeable. Wherever in the world Muslims settle, they form colonies. They expand the interests of Islam and, rather than dissolving over time, multiply and consolidate. Yet our leaders behave like fifth columnists and, despite the evidence, play down the growing Islamic threat. Critics are portrayed as bigots, racists and ­Islamophobes and the Muslim majority as victims.

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Australian Military demands all food bear the "Mark of the Beast"

Halal certification: Army mandates Muslim-certified food for our Diggers

EXCLUSIVE Matthew Benns
The Daily Telegraph
February 17 2016

ONE third of combat rations ­offered to all Aussie troops now has to be halal-certified, despite the Australian Defence Force having fewer than 100 Muslims.

The orders that four of the 12 battle meal menu options offered to soldiers in the field need to be halal were approved by the Deputy Chief of Army Major General Rick Burr.

Under the new changes, ration packs should also contain kosher and vegetarian meals to help combat “menu fatigue”.

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But the decision to include halal food has outraged many of the ADF’s almost 60,000 fulltime members and veterans who question how many millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money will now be handed over to unregulated halal certifiers — who are already the subject of a federal government inquiry.

Senator Cory Bernardi, who was a member of the senate inquiry that looked into halal certification, said the order “demonstrates just how our military has been captured by minority interests and appears to have suspended the application of common sense”.

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“Our military should be defending our way of life, on and off the battlefield. Decisions like this suggest it has become more an instrument of supporting minority interests rather than being focused on the national interest,” he said.

Documents obtained under Freedom of Information show that ADF combat ration packs should contain a variety of menus including vegetarian, halal and kosher “to meet ADF’s commitment to providing an inclusive working ­environment.”

Former Army intelligence officer Bernie Gaynor, the Australian Liberty Alliance Senate candidate for Queensland, said: “Australia is not an Islamic country and our soldiers, sailors and airmen and women deserve better from the government and the politically-correct top brass.”

It follows the controversial decision last year by the Army to remove the motto “In this sign conquer” from the 102-year-old hat badges of army chaplains because the phrase is associated with the Crusades — and that could be deemed offensive to Muslims.

Mustapha Dib: Stabbing victim Edward Lee’s parents devastated over his release from prison

Mustapha Dib: Stabbing victim Edward Lee’s parents devastated over his release from prison

SARAH CRAWFORD
The Daily Telegraph
February 16, 2016

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FOR years the parents of 14-year-old stabbing victim Edward Lee would hold vigil by his grave all night because they feared he would be “cold and lonely in the grave by himself”.

Edward's father Doojin Lee said he was devastated after seeing photos of his son’s killer Mustapha Dib smiling as he was released from jail following his acquittal by the Court of Criminal Appeal for the murder of a woman two years after his only son's death.

“I just want to see my son's killer back in jail,” the 64-year-old tiler said from his Campsie unit today.

The Canterbury Boy's High School student was fatally stabbed in 1998 on Telopea St, Punchbowl after mistakenly going to the wrong house for a 15th birthday party.

Mustapha Dib pleaded guilty to Edward's manslaughter and was sentenced to a minimum of five years.

He was released on parole in 2009 but taken back into custody in 2011 accused of the shooting murder of 20-year-old Anita Vzrina and the wounding of former schoolmate Ahmed Banat.

The prosecution alleged that Dib shot Vzrina and Banat on November 23, 2000, while they were in a car because he believed his school friend had turned police informant and would give evidence against him at his upcoming trial for Edward's stabbing.

A jury found him guilty of Ms Vzrina's murder in June 2012 and he was sentenced to 40 years jail.

On Monday the Court of Criminal Appeal acquitted him of Ms Vzrina's murder saying the jury could not have found him guilty beyond reasonable doubt because Banat's evidence at the trial contradicted his statement to police when he was in hospital.

Mr Lee has kept numerous newspaper articles on his son's death and Dib's sentencing for manslaughter.

He recounted how at his son's funeral the students of Punchbowl Primary School lined the street, where Edward had been dux, to see his coffin driven by in a hearse.

Mr Lee said the CCA decision had left him feeling disappointed and helpless.

“There is no justice for poor people like us,” he said.

A family friend, who did not wish to be named, said Mr Lee and his wife Soo Bin Lee, who are Korean immigrants, were “devastated” felt let down by the Australian justice system.

The friend said that for years the couple had visited their son's grave every day at Castlebrook Memorial Park at Rouse Hill in Sydney's north west.

“They would stay there all night because they told me their son felt cold and lonely in his grave by himself...and in the morning they would go to work,” the friend said.

“They can't understand that he has been allowed to go free.”

Lieutenant General Morrison,Un Australian of the Year, An officer’s plea for justice.

An officer’s plea for justice to David Morrison

Miranda Devine
The Daily Telegraph
February 17 2016

AUSTRALIAN of the Year David Morrison said this week that he refuses to be “defined by his critics”. Unfortunately, that is not his decision.

He also said he would make no effort to reach out to the troubled former Lieutenant Colonel he unjustly sacked over the so-called Jedi Council affair.

The most senior officer caught up in Morrison’s purge, known simply as “Ken”, knew nothing about the Jedi Council sex ring and never opened the emails.

He has twice attempted suicide since the scandal broke.

Today he writes an open letter asking Morrison to set the record straight. It’s the least he should do.

Dear Lieutenant General Morrison,
Congratulations on winning Australian of the Year, but I write to inform of the humiliation, injustice and betrayal you showed me by publicly stripping me of army unit command on August 21, 2013.

That was when you acknowledged I was not a part of the Jedi Council but that you were removing me from command because I “failed to remain aware of issues and events affecting me, my unit and the army”.

You determined that I was accountable for inappropriate and unsolicited emails from a civilian that I had not read.

You were a late starter on this matter, claiming you were unaware of the Jedi Council, even though I informed my chain of command on March 28, 2013 that NSW Police had contacted me to ask what I knew of the Jedi Council. My answer was “nothing”.

In June 2013 you told the Australian public that a group of 17 personnel were “in production and distribution of highly inappropriate material demeaning women”. You told the media “there is one Lieutenant Colonel that is part of this group”.

Perhaps my anonymity could have been preserved if I was a private but there were not many Lieutenant Colonels in Townsville subjected to an Australian Defence Force Investigative Service (ADFIS) office raid and interview on June 5, 2013. Within hours I was fielding calls from friends asking why I was locked in my office.

Then on July 11, 2013 my name and image were released in the media. Despite knowing I had done nothing wrong, you made no effort to protect my name. Indeed, ADFIS told me two days before that I would be named nationally.

As Chief of Army, you failed one of your commanding officers.

On July 4, 2013 I attended a meeting in Townsville to look you in the eye and tell you I had nothing to do with the Jedi Council. You looked at my nametag and fobbed me off. I was then amazed when you stood and spoke about the Jedi Council, saying: “These alleged individuals, and I use the term alleged because I have to, I will have them removed from the army.” I knew then that, despite the evidence, you would let me down. And you did.

So now you are the Australian of the Year and I am unemployed. I won a bravery commendation and have three masters degrees, a loving wife and two beautiful children.

But none of this matters because my Chief of Army has not told the public that “the Lieutenant Colonel was not a part of the Jedi Council”.

I have a letter that states that fact but it will only count to my family, friends, and colleagues if you say it publicly. Please tell Australia what you told me on August 21, 2013, so that I can be at peace.

Mosque operates illegally for 13 years now demanding council approval.

Artarmon mosque operated ‘without consent’ for 13 years now being considered for approval

Ian Paterson
North Shore Times
February 16, 2016 

WILLOUGHBY Council is considering a development application to approve the operation of a mosque which has been holding services “without consent” for the past 13 years.

The Australian Islamic Cultural Centre purchased the two storey double-brick building at Hampden Rd in July 2001 for use as a house of prayer and community centre with the organisation wrongly assuming the site had previous approval.

Council first became aware the AICC were holding prayer services and using the site as a community centre in November 2003 without development consent.

Their records reveal only one complaint was made by a neighbouring resident in the last 24 months, which related to unauthorised works carried out on the site.

The new DA was lodged on December 1, 2015 for use of the existing building as a place of public worship and community facility after council had earlier issued the AICC with a notice of intention to serve an order for the organisation to cease operation.

The current DA seeks approval to use the ground floor and the lower ground floor of the property for prayer rooms and use as an office.

It would operate every day, except Sunday, with general prayer sessions held at different times throughout the day from 5.30am until 8pm.

The statement of environmental effects (SEE) prepared by Planning Ingenuity consultants for AICC reveals an expected attendance of up to 15 people at each of the nine general prayer sessions, Monday to Saturday, with a maximum of 100 people attending the sole congressional prayer session on Fridays, 12-2pm.

The property was originally built and used by the NSW Scouts in 1957 and was later sold to the Salvation Army with council granting them development consent to occupy and operate the building as a community facility in December 2000 but this was never enacted.

Repeated attempts by the North Shore Times to contact the applicants, Australian Islamic Cultural Centre, were not successful.

Multicultural Australia: Pious Muslim speaker who condones child rape one of 12 men booked for United Muslims Of Australia Quest For Success conference

Radical Islamic speaker who condones child rape one of 12 men booked for United Muslims Of Australia Quest For Success conference

EXCLUSIVE Matthew Benns
The Daily Telegraph
February 17 2016

A RADICAL Islamic speaker from the UK who condoned child rape on a previous visit to Australia is returning to spout more of his foul bile at a Muslim youth and community conference at Sydney Olympic Park.

Hamza Tzortzis, who has said publicly that anyone who fights against Muslims should be beheaded, is one of 12 international and local speakers — all of them men — booked for the ominously named United Muslims of Australia Quest for Success conference.

The event will be held in May in Homebush, which falls into the electorate of federal MP Craig Laundy, who will be sworn in as Assistant Minister for Multicultural ­Affairs tomorrow.

When The Daily Telegraph called Mr Laundy yesterday to inform him of the conference line-up, he said: “Hate speech has no place in our society and I utterly condemn in the strongest terms the views of anyone preaching hate and intolerance.”

Other speakers include a Hamas-supporting British preacher called Sheikh Zahir Mahmood and a Canadian called Sheikh Alaa Elsayed, who believes having two wives is good because, he says, they will fight for your attention.

Among the Australian speakers are Zachariah ­Matthews, who has called for elements of sharia law to be introduced into Australia’s legal system, and Sheikh Abu Hamza, who has argued that it is OK to hit your wife — just not too hard.

Also on the list of Aussie speakers is Sheikh Shady ­Alsuleiman, whose Sydney ­organisation hosted a speech by an al-Qaeda recruiter who was later killed in a drone ­attack in Yemen.

Ironically, Mr Tzortzis, who is known for his strong moral views, appeared on hacked data from the Ashley Madison dating website, ­although he has said repeatedly he was hacked.

John Perkins, the president of the Secular Party, ­debated Mr Tzortzis when he was in Australia in 2013.

“I put it to him that the Koran condones child marriage, (and) he defended it.

“He was defending child rape. I was absolutely ­appalled,” Mr Perkins said.

Despite Mr Tzortzis’s ­offensive views, Mr Perkins believes the conference should be permitted.

“It is better that views are exposed to the public because their own words condemn them more than any attack ever could,” he said.

The event has also angered women because of the lack of female speakers. Activist Eva Cox said: “It is impossible to imagine a conference about success that excludes women.”

A spokesman from the ­Department of Immigration said Mr Tzortzis had not yet ­applied for a visa.

“There are strong provisions under the Migration Act to refuse or cancel a visa if a person is found not to be of good character,” he said.

United Muslims of Australia did not provide a comment.

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Jo Haylen : Labor Green Loon Village Idiot and Affirmative Action beneficiary lets the Cat out of the bag.

Labor MP Jo Haylen wants sniffer dogs retired from music festivals, and pills tested for ‘safety’

EXCLUSIVE Andrew Clennell
State Political Editor
The Daily Telegraph
February 15 2016

LABOR’S rookie inner west MP has called for sniffer dogs to be banned and illegal party drugs to actually be tested at music festivals to ensure they were safe for young people to take.

“Kids smoking pot or taking pills at music festivals won’t go away,” Summer Hill MP Jo Haylen said in her speech to colleagues at Labor’s state conference.

“Rather than ruining lives with a criminal record or, worse still, leaving people to take risks on their own, let’s be brave.

“Let’s introduce amnesty bins and pill testing at festivals so we’re not putting people at risk.

“Let’s retire sniffer dogs so we’re not unnecessarily targeting vulnerable people on our streets.

“Let’s decriminalise the possession and use of drugs and get the debate back on track — let’s get drug users out of cop cars and into the health system.”

Ms Haylen gave the speech late on Saturday, hijacking a health committee debate which colleagues felt should have been focused on the gap in health funding Premier Mike Baird wants funded through an increase in the GST. Ms Haylen said it was time to “put Labor at the vanguard again”, just as when former Premier Bob Carr introduced a medically supervised injecting room at Kings Cross.

She also criticised the Baird government’s increase in roadside drug testing.

“Labor understands that you don’t fix a flood with a hammer,” Ms Haylen said.

“The Baird government’s heavy handed approach doesn’t fix the problem. “Sniffer dogs are ineffective — they’re wrong three quarters of the time, causing unnecessary interactions between police and young people. “Likewise the intensified pressure of police at music festivals and events doesn’t stop young people taking drugs — it just encourages them to take all their drugs to avoid arrest.

“Roadside drug testing hurls people into the legal system for having the most minute traces if drugs in their system, but operates without a shred of evidence to prove it reduces the number of accidents.”

Ms Haylen said in her speech Premier Mike Baird and his deputy Troy Grant should “stop targeting kids, and poor people, LBTIQ people and the vulnerable.

“They (should) use their resources to target drug dealers and manufacturers to stop the flow of illicit drugs on our streets.”

The motion put by Ms Haylen, a member of the Left, to review the sniffer dog drug detection program, introduce pill testing at festivals and hold a parliamentary inquiry into drugs was defeated by the Right at conference and was not permitted to go to a vote.

Ms Haylen said yesterday that she did not intend to take her proposals to caucus, they were her personal views and reflected the views of her electorate.

Labor’s health spokesman Walt Secord said: “Her speech diverged sharply from ALP policy.

“I would have preferred to have debated the more than $20.1 billion in health cuts by the Turnbull and Baird governments.”

Julie Bishop Abbott ASSASSIN spending Taxpayers money like a good Labor politician.

Julie Bishop took 70 foreign diplomats on a two-day tour of WA, costing taxpayers $150,000

EXCLUSIVE Simon Benson
National Political Editor
The Daily Telegraph
February 15 2016

TAXPAYERS were charged $2000 an hour for “Celebrity Minister” Julie Bishop to take 70 foreign diplomats on a two-day sightseeing tour of her home state of Western Australia.

Ms Bishop, who is also Foreign Minister, took an entourage of 12 staff with her on the 2014 trip, which cost taxpayers almost $150,000.

The opposition has labelled the trip an “appalling waste of money”, claiming it was an ­indulgence that included a $10,000 dinner, a tour of the Sandalford Estate winery in the Swan Valley and a breakfast by the beach for the Canberra diplomatic corps, which included representatives of some of the wealthiest countries in the world.

There was also a charter flight for almost 100 people to the Pilbara at a cost of $57,000. There they toured the iron ore operations of BHP and Rio Tinto — the two richest mining companies in the world.

The bill would have been significantly higher had the diplomats not paid for their own airfares to Perth and their accommodation while there.

Ms Bishop, who is becoming increasingly known for her red carpet appearances and glamorous lifestyle, compared the cost of the trip to one Kevin Rudd made in 2011 to Queensland.

“Diplomatic corps visits are a longstanding practice supported by both sides of government dating back to 2000,” Ms Bishop told a Senate estimates hearing last week.

“The total cost incurred by the Australian government for the diplomatic corps visit to Western Australia was $145,200, or $2016.67 including GST per head of mission.

“This is comparable to the 2011 diplomatic corps visit to Queensland hosted by former foreign minister Kevin Rudd which cost $1978.77 including GST per head of mission when adjusted for inflation.”

The opposition has described Ms Bishop’s response as offensive because Mr Rudd’s trip — on which he took 100 foreign ambassadors and high commissioners — was part of the crisis recovery expedition in the wake of Cyclone Yasi.

“It is incredibly offensive for Ms Bishop to compare her sightseeing tour of WA to Mr Rudd escorting diplomats to Queensland in 2011 to demonstrate the state’s recovery after Cyclone Yasi,” Labor’s Wastewatch committee spokesman Pat Conroy said.

“This is a pathetic attempt to excuse the waste and misuse of taxpayers’ money. Last year Julie Bishop spent $125,000 on a tour of South Australia, and on that occasion she took nine staff and a few state Liberal MPs along with her.


“We also caught her taking three staffers along to a $350-a-head dinner, clearly more than are necessary.

“When the taxpayer is footing the bill for these functions, you’ve got to consider whether every expense is necessary.”