In Australia "Quadrant" Publishes an Article About Muslim Intimidation of the Press
Tony Thomas writes about “The Real Backlash”.
http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2015/10/real-backlash/
‘Gathered to honour the memory of a crusading editor, some of the biggest names in the news business were told by one of their own that journalists covering the Parramatta murder of Curtis Cheng (sic: or, rather, “the Muslim murder of Curtis Cheng in Parramatta” – CM) are being targeted with death threats.
So far, his remarks have gone unreported.
How curious. – CM
‘Journalists covering the murder (sic: rather, “Muslim murder” – CM) of police accountant Curtis Cheng in Parramatta on October 2 are working in a climate of fear becasue of death threats.
‘Chris Reason, senior reporter for Seven News, Sydney, said this last night in a speech to about 100 media people and friends at a Melbourne Press Club function at the RACV.
‘Reason and his cameraman, Greg Parker, provided live coverage throughout the Man Monis siege at the Lindt Cafe in Martin Place last December.
“Some media outlets are receiving direct physical violence, death threats, specific threats not to go near Parramatta Mosque, where the 15 year old went to pray.
Sounds like ASIO and the AFP need to pay the mosque – and the imam’s house – another visit. Or two, or three. – CM
“At one point a senior member of the Daily Telegraph turned up there with two flak jackets”, Reason said.
So, journalists are told to not go near the Parramatta Mosque, or else? Righto: if the damn place is behaving like the HQ of an organised crime gang then it should be treated as such. Raid it again, take it to pieces, shut it down. It’s a menace to everybody in the neighbourhood. – CM
“The situation is deadly serious among jouranlists covering the story in Western Sydney. People have been seen videoing journos in their cars. Journos and cameramen are doing their jobs more cautiously, but they continue covering this critical story well.”
I would encourage all our journalists to read the three classic books by investigative journalist par excellence, John Roy Carlson – “Under Cover”, “Cairo to Damascus”, and “The Plotters”. With particular attention to “Cairo To Damascus” (1951) because in that one Carlson is among Muslims. A heaping helping of Martha Gellhorn – and Oriana Fallaci – who bearded the Ayatollah Khomeini in his den – might also serve to instruct, galvanise and inspire. – CM
‘The Press Club function was held to honour legendary ‘Age’ editor Graham Perkin, killed by a heart attack 40 years ago at the age of just 45. Reason last March was named 2014’s Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year.
‘He told the audience last night, “This is the sort of story Graham Perkin would have chased down hard and fearlessly.”
‘The ‘Age’ had no coverage of Reason’s talk this morning, nor did the ‘Herald Sun’, “The Australian”, or the ABC, at least according to online searchng. Last night’s audience was a galaxy of past and present editors, investigative journalists, star columnists and commentators, and household-word media personalities.
‘Interviewed by Quadrant after the function, Reason said that Sydney reporters, as far as he knew, were continuing to “keep going with their work”, and their tone was not affected.
I’m not so sure of that…CM
“The Telegraph received direct threats to their journalists, and the word spread from there.
“There had been an explicit threat to a young female Tele journo that she would have her arms ripped off and she would be murdered. It was very violent language, she told us.
Given that she was a woman, I’m surprised she was not threatened with rape. – CM
“Counter-terrorist operators in Sydney intercepted messages between certain groups (‘certain groups’, ah, yes, The Religion That Must Not Be Named – CM), threatening and targeting journos and media. The Telegraph was one of them, AAP another. Executives organised precautions. Most media organisations like (channels) 7 and 10 ended up hiring private security guards (one sincerely hopes, given the extent to which private security companies have been infiltrated en masse by Muslims, that they selected guards with resoundingly non-Muslim names and checked the backgrounds to make doubly sure – CM) while covering the story (that is, the story of the Muslim murder of Curtis Cheng – CM) in the first week.
“It’s an atmosphere of intimidation and fear. I have never seen anything like it in Sydney in 20 years.”
That’s because there are many more Muslims and mosques in Sydney in 2015 than there were in 1995, though in 1995 there were already rather too many, the influx of Muslims into Australia having begun in earnest in the late 1970s. Mr Reason: you need to read up some more on Salman Rushdie and Theo Van Gogh and Charlie Hebdo and then get hold of Mr Robert Spencer’s “The Truth About Muhammad”, chapter 9, “Victorious Through Terror”, and read his useful and clear summary – under the caption ‘The Murder of the Poets’ – of the Muslim canonical account of Mohammed’s silencing of non-Muslim poets, Jewish and pagan, Abu Afak and Asma Bint Marwan, who had criticised and mocked him. Chapter 7, ‘War is Deceit’, includes discussion of the implications of the Muslim murder of a critic of Islam, Kab Bin Ashraf. These assassinations – gloatingly recorded and celebrated by those who created the Muslim canonical texts – establish the precedent for all subsequent violent suppression of critics and ‘blasphemers’, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, by those Muslims who follow the example fo Mohammed. – CM
“In my organization there’s been some serioius conversation on how to cover it, how to approach the story, how to protect ourselves. Some cameramen are worried, some journos worried. I don’t know what’s being done about security at people’s homes.”
And there’s the rub. It’s one thing to fear for yourself. It’s another thing if obscenely violent threats are aimed – as they probably are – at people’s spouses and children and parents and other kin, or the school or kindergarten their kids attend. – CM
“We have not talked about it publicly. No reporter has talked or written about it in Sydney.”
And that is a mistake. The moment those threats were uttered, they should have been publicised far and wide, and the source of the threats identified, and all particulars given to ASIO, to the AFP, to the Police Commissioner and metropolitan police, demanding action. And if the relevant Authorities refused to act, then that too should have been publicised, loud and clear. Silence was entirely the wrong response. – CM
‘Quadrant Online understands that Telegraph crime reporter Mark Morri received a number of the threatening calls.
One hopes that they were recorded, and communicated to ASIO and the AFP. – CM
‘A sample of the death threats being received by journalists was provided, by coincidence, yesterday, by Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt.
‘An email he received and reproduced on his blog, reads:
“hi there again you arrogant piece of shit!!! You f-ing Jewish dog (nota bene: when a Muslim is wracking his brains for the very worst insult he can possibly think of to hurl at someone he hates, he falls back on the expedient of calling someone a “Yahood”; William Lane, author of a classic dictionary of the Arabic language, noticed just this very thing in the Arab Muslim street in Egypt in the early 19th century. – CM), stop hiding behind your f-d up articles and office and say your shit in Lakemba (and why Lakemba, precisely? – because Lakemba, along with Auburn, is one of the most heavily Islamised suburbs in Sydney, and for that matter, in Australia – CM) if you had any balls, which you don’t. You’re a piece of shit that gets your frills by bragging about Islam every time. May Allah the Almighty God bless someone to burn you and have your head on display without your body intact and feed you to dogs. Burn in HELL.”
And all of that spewed forth like lava from a volcano because Bolt has dared to make some fairly sensible critiques of the content of Islamic texts, and of the bad behaviour of those who engage in the Imitatio Mohammedi. – CM
‘The death threats to journalists in Sydney and Melbourne come against the backdrop of the murders of 11 Charlie Hebdo staffers in Paris in January.
And the fact that must be faced is that Infidel journalists in Sydney and in Paris would be free to say whatever they liked about Islam, Mohammed and Muslims, if there were NO Muslims resident in Australia, or in France. Because the assassins sally forth from the bosom of the Muslim Ummah. No Ummah, no sharia hit-men. – CM
‘The media anxiety in Sydney contrasts with the insouciance with which the media deal with organized crime and bikie gangs. “Underbelly”-style reports are often treated as low-life comedy.
‘Crime groups (or, at least, non-Muslim crime groups? we have all too many Muslim organised crime gangs in Australia, these days, and someone from one of them seems to have provided the Parramatta ghazi terror raider with his weapon – CM) are aware that killing a journalist would be stunningly bad for business…
‘By contrast, the murder of a journalist would be “good for business” in the eyes of hard-line Islamists (or for that matter, any Muslim who takes Islam fully to heart – CM), even more so than a random slaying.
Murdering critics is Sunnah. See the tales of what was done to Asma bint Marwan, Kab bin Ashraf, and Abu Afak, aforementioned, above. – CM
‘When ISIL beheaded journalists Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff in Syria a year ago, ISIL posted triumphant videos of the acts as a warning to America.
‘At last night’s Press Club function, a former Age editor told Quadrant Online that tensions with the Muslim community were fiercer in Sydney than in Melbourne.
The Muslim colony in Sydney is bigger and therefore obviously nastier than the one in Melbourne. Once the Melbourne Muslims get numerous enough, and start really throwing their weight around, Melburnian infidels will also start getting cranky – CM
‘In Sydney, he said, it was easy to find marked anti-Muslim sentiments, especially in the western suburbs where he divined a sense of displacement because of refugees taking up scarce housing and government services, including health.
It isn’t just that; indeed, that’s probably the least of it. I would hazard a guess that the real reason the remaining infidels are growing ever more fearful, and angry also, is because the Muslim presence in western Sydney is very large and growing and therefore Muslims are – and have been for some time – aggressive toward those remaining Infidels. And are getting more pushy, more aggressive, more unpleasant and scary to be around, day by day. Paul Sheehan described some of the tactics used by Muslims to Islamise these western Sydney suburbs, in a classic article from 2006 that is always worth re-posting.
Excerpt, from that 2006 article – “One of the edges of the global clash between Muslims and the rest is a bottle shop in a small and ratty shopping mall in Western Sydney. The owner of the bottle shop is suffering low-level but steady harassment from his neighbours, who want him gone. He’s a Christian (and, later in the article, Sheehan adds that this man whom the Muslims were steadily bullying, in order to drive him out of business and out of the area, was himself of Middle-Eastern origin – CM) who has been told repeatedly, “This is a Muslim area”, and he is selling alcohol, which is proscribed by Islam.
“The one-hour parking zone outside the bottle shop is always occupied because local Muslims leave their cars there all day. The owner has written to the local council to complain, and nothing has been done. He does not want to be identified, because he fears retribution. His reaction is sensible.
‘A friend of mine, Jenny D, used to live in Lakemba. She began receiving insults from people in the street, usually Muslim women wearing headscarves (yes, those same holier-than-thou hijabettes who are always complaining about the mean old Aussies looking at them funny – CM), and sometimes Muslim men. If she wore a short skirt, she could expect abuse or comment. She left Lakemba.
‘Soon after, I moved to America, stayed away for 10 years, and thought nothing more of her story. But, after I came back to Sydney, I found Jenny’s experience had been part of a larger pattern.
‘One particularly strong witness to this pattern was Judith, who managed an agency helping war widows, because she encountered “dozens” of cases where people were harassed by Muslim neighbours who wanted them gone. “It was common”, she told me. “A lot of these ladies couldn’t take it, and moved out. It happened in Campsie, Belmore, Lakemba, Bankstown, Punchbowl..
“It was everything…throwing rubbish over the fence, screaming abuse, blocking the driveway, knocking fences down. One guy would throw coffee grains on the windows and bottles on the roof late at night…I confronted some of them, and the men would call me a lot of names, mostly in Arabic.”…END QUOTE.
The account appearing in Sheehan’s article is confirmed, anecdotally, by a comment that appeared in the online responses to the following article:
“My Aunt and Uncle lived in Lakemba for 30 years before the mosque was approved.
“Since then the public primary school has shut down, the Muslims tried to get the Anglican church at the top of the road closed.
“They hassled all the oldies in the street near the mosque. I know, because I was visiting them when this crap happened. A more disgusting display of rudeness and gutlessness from these so-called religion of peace as i have ever seen. I’m glad my Aunt and Uncle moved away..”.
I have come across other, similar “reports from the coal-face”, in other comments streams to do with Islam in Australia; but i think that should suffice, for now. And so, back to Quadrant. – CM
‘It was much the same syndrome exploited by nationalist Pauline Hanson, he opined. “You don’t get those sentiments in Northern and Eastern Sydney”, he said.
That’s because the people there aren’t copping the full brunt of Muslim aggression and unpleasantness…yet. – CM
‘Quadrant was slightly taken aback by this analysis, not least because Reason in his speech described Islamist threats, but said nothing about any anti-Islamism.’
That is, he mentioned Muslim threats directed at uppity Infidels, but did not mention the fact that some Australian infidels – quite unsurprisingly, really – were starting to get leery of – and distinctly cross with – Muslims.
Thus far Mr Thomas. Click on the link provided and read the article in situ at Quadrant online. They opened it up for Comments, and some of those are interesting. Australia has its appeasers and Islamophiles, some of them in very high places…such as the new PM, Malcolm Turnbull, alas – but at grassroots level a significant number of people are waking up. – CM