Islamopuffery Item 1001, Or, Dozy (and Dangerous) Bint of the Month: Susan Carland, Convert to Islam, Solemnly Interviewed by Australian Womens Weekly
It occurs to one to wonder whether the Australian Womens Weekly, unwittingly doing Dawa (and then some!) with this soft-focus puff-piece on an Aussie convert to Islam, would have the courage to do a nice in-depth interview with, inter alia, a recent (within the past four years) Coptic Christian or Assyrian Christian or Pakistani (or Bangladesh8) Christian or Hindu immigrant, or one of the many ethnically Indian (Hindu or Christian) or ethnically Chinese (Buddhist or Christian) immigrants from Malaysia who have been making their way into Australia here of late, in increasing numbers, as Malaysia grows steadily and ever more aggressively Muslim. Would they dare to ask these people why they left their homelands, what it is like to live as a child, a girl, a woman who is a member of an – indigenous – minority community within a society dominated and ruled by Muslims and suffused with Islam? Would they be game to ask such fugitives from the dar al Islam why it is that they chose to come to Australia? And beyond that, would they run a similar soft-focus human-interest interview with an apostate from Islam? Not, say, a high-profile defector from the Ummah, such as Wafa Sultan or Taslima Nasreen, but just an ordinary woman from among the steady trickle of ethnically-Persian converts from Islam to Christianity who are undergoing catechesis, baptism and confirmation within Australian churches?
As reported by news.com.au on June 10 this year, prior to the appearance of the full-length interview in the July issue of Australian Womens Weekly. Prepare to feel ill if you click on the link to read the article in its original setting, as it is provided with many photos of this insufferably smug propagandist for the Religion of Blood and War (who also happens to be married to every Aussie Islamophile’s favourite poster boy, the sly and slippery Waleed Aly), made up to the nines and proudly flaunting her Slave Rag which is also her Gang Colours.
‘Waleed’s Wife Susan Carland Opens Up About Converting to Islam’.
‘Susan Carland has opened up in a new interview about her conversion to Islam, admitting it was the last religion she thought she’d take up when she started exploring her spirituality.
‘Speaking in the July issue of The Australian Womens Weekly, the media personality and wife of this year’s Gold Logie winner Waleed Aly detailed her decision to become a Muslim.
Which is, to put it bluntly, her decision to join a cult that sees nothing at all wrong with – and indeed teaches and sacralises – forced/ child ‘marriage’, polygyny, wife-beating, and slavery. – CM
‘Raised a Christian, she switched to the Baptist Church as a teenager, but found that didn’t satisfy her quest for spiritual exploration’.
But one doesn’t ‘switch’ from being ‘a Christian’ to being ‘a Baptist’. The Baptist Church is Christian; it is a subset of Protestant Christianity, which is itself simply a subset of Christianity in general. The reporter has not done due diligence: what should have been sought is specific information on which particular flavour of Christianity (e.g. Anglican, Catholic, Uniting Church, Presbyterian…) Ms Carland’s parents professed; and I’d also like to know whether and how often the family darkened the doors of a church. If Catholic or Anglican, was she confirmed? Was she ever instructed in the content of, for example, the Apostolic Creed? The Ten Commandments? Did she attend Sunday School? Has she read the Bible, or any part thereof? So many questions not asked. – CM
‘At 17 she started to question her religious beliefs.
It is worth noting that, according to Waleed Aly’s biography, he and she are the same age; and since his birthdate is given as 1978, this means that she began her so-called ‘spiritual quest’ around 1995. – CM
“Was it because I genuinely believed it to be true, or was it because it was what I was raised to believe?” she recalled.
Let us reflect that should a 17 year old Muslimah start asking these sorts of questions – let alone be caught showing an active interest in any belief system (including atheism) other than her own – she would, even within the West, be in real danger of getting killed, by her own family. That is a matter that should have been brought to Ms Carland’s attention by the interviewer. It’s a question that someone needs to ask her, in public. Just to see how she reacts. – CM
‘As she explored different religions, Carland was at first adamant (that) Islam was not of interest.
“I thought, why would anyone want to be part of a barbaric, outdated, sexist religion?”
Why indeed? Because that is what it still is, in spades, you dozy bint, no matter what flowery nonsense you’ve been fed by the dawa artists and cult programmers into whose clutches you wandered. And against whose wiles, I fear, nobody made any real effort to warn you. – CM
‘Two years later (i.e. around 1997 – CM) at the age of 19, she became a Muslim. In those two years, she’d immersed herself in books (which books? did the interviewer even think to ask exactly which books this foolish young woman read, that managed to fool her into thinking that Islam was just wonderful and that all the negative publicity must be lies, lies, lies? Was she suckered by glossy literature presenting “soft-focus Sufism for spiritual seekers”? – CM), and joined a Muslim women’s group at university to make sure the religion was right for her.
Oh, dear. Campus dawa. And again, the interviewer misses a catch. It might have been worth asking which Muslim women’s group, at what university, led by whom, and affiliated with what mosque or mosques, and how it was she found out about them (or did they approach her). And the names of any ‘guest speakers’ they invited to the campus. – CM
“I found the emphasis on social justice appealing; I noticed there was a real concern for the vulnerable in society”, she said.
Is this woman for real?? How many sugary lies, fed to her by the dawa spin-doctors, did she unquestioningly gobble up? What subjects was she studying at university, and who were her lecturers? Surely she must know Surah 48.29, the one that states that Muslims are ‘harsh’ to the unbelievers and compassionate only to one another? Surely she must know that Islamic ‘charity’ is very selective in its choice of objects.. and that any charity given to infidels always comes with sticky dawa strings attached… a point in which it differs drastically from Christian charity, despite the claims of those who like to accuse Christians of ‘buying’ or bribing converts. – CM
‘Converting did pose its own set of challenges – Carland said her mother had “hesitations” – but things are “great” between the pair now.
Did or does the mother know about the apostasy law of Islam? And did Carland know about that same apostasy law – if you leave Islam, you should be killed – before she converted? If she has found out about it since her conversion, what then? Again, a well-informed reporter would have made this one of the first questions he or she asked. – CM
‘Carland converted to Islam pre-9/11, and has now watched her religion become closely linked to global terrorism in many people’s perceptions.
Oh, so it’s all about perceptions, is it? Not about the clear and repeated proclamations loudly made by the many, many Muslims inciting and/ or carrying out and /or approving loudly of the many mass-murderous acts of aggressions against Infidels, and against other Muslims who, being other-sect or insufficiently sharia-compliant, have been reclassified as Infidels and, therefore, as Prey? – CM
“Ninety-nine percent of what people see about Muslims in the media is negative” she says, “As consumers, we need to be switched on”.
Really? Me, I see an awful lot of Islamopuffery in the media, here and elsewhere, this interview with you, Ms Carland, being a prime example. And the negative publicity is because, well, when a pair of Allahu-akbaring Muslims slit a priest’s throat at the altar, in a church, in France, do you really expect the fact that they stated plainly they were doing it in accordance with Islam – mere Islam – not to be noticed, and reported? Or when a Muslim drives a lorry through a crowd in Nice, France? Also, my dear little jihad tart and Allah Gang camp follower, a lot of us have done our research. We are not relying on the ‘media’ for our negative perception of Islam. Our negative perception arises from having read, for ourselves, the founding texts of Islam, and having contemplated at some length, in those texts, the deplorable character of its putative founder, that ‘perfect man’, Mohammed the rapist, robber, liar and mass-murderer, who sent out assassins to sneak into people’s houses and murder them because they had dared to make fun of his violent and bizarre cult group and its nefarious activities. And then, too, some of us have read up a bit on the history of Islam – for example, its 1200 year bloody history of slavery and mass murder in black Africa, and the ruin that it wrought in India, and the gross and calculated cruelty of the Dhimma system – and we are contemplating the many human rights abuses in every OIC country today – abuses that can be connected directly with the attitudes and actions taught and encouraged by the Islamic texts , and we find it completely revolting. – CM
‘Carland has her own way of fighting religious prejudice (oh, so not liking Islam must be due to ‘prejudice’, it can’t possibly arise from, say, bitter experience – if one is, for example, a Yazidi girl escaped from an Islamic State harem, or a Copt escaped from oppression in Islamic Egypt – or from knowledge of the teachings and history of Islam? – CM): In October alst year she tweeted that she would donate one dollar to charity for “each hate-filled tweet I get from trolls”. There were plenty.
Could we have some examples, please? What if someone tweeted, ‘Are you aware of the apostasy law that decrees death for anyone who leaves Islam?” Would that, in her eyes, qualify as “hate”? – CM
‘So far, she’s donated about four thousand dollars to UNICEF, along with the message, “The needy children thank you, haters!’…
Hm. That’s interesting. UNICEF, originally created as a secular charity by Western infidels. Not one of the many Mohammedan ‘charities’ registered as charities in Australia, nor any Islamic ‘charity’ founded or operating outside of Australia. How curious, given her claim that she was attracted to Islam by its ’emphasis on social justice’.
One may note, by the by, that although she married Waleed Aly after her conversion, they were, apparently, neighbours in their teen years. As one may discover from the following little piece in the ‘Australian’.
Carland swears black and blue that “it was not until after she converted to Islam at the age of 19 that she started to think of Aly as “the one for me”.
Suuuure. But (says this article) – “Waleed Aly was 16 and living with his parents when Susan Carland, also 16 at the time, knocked on his door. The teenagers had talked on the phone but never met, when Carland took a chance…”.
Makes one wonder just how much hormones – despite protestations to the contrary – had to do with Carland’s sudden interest in Islam and willingness to be told that her initial perception of the belief system as ‘sexist, barbaric, outdated’ was just totally wrong… – CM