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“THIS WILL BE PUBLICISED”
Deny a Palestinian writer an immediate visa, and you can expect trouble:
A Palestinian journalist has warned of a Muslim backlash over the failure of Australian authorities to grant him a visa in time to speak at today’s Brisbane Writers Festival.
Abdel Bari-Atwan, a best-selling author and among the last Western journalists to interview Osama bin Laden, was cancelled as a speaker at the festival yesterday as he waited for his visa application to be processed …
He said his visa problems would air throughout the Muslim world. “This could, in fact, incite trouble for Australia because there are a billion-and-a-half Muslims over the world and this will be publicised among those people,” he said. “They are not serving the Australian peoples’ interests, they are not serving Australian security, they are actually doing the opposite.”
Can’t imagine why our immigration officials might be studying this chap with greater than usual interest.
(Via KK)
These guys prove themselves to be idiots day in, day out. He’s already said that he isn’t serving Australian security, so he must be a moron to think that we’d let him in. I personally like the guys who will serve my interests, and those of the people protecting me.
I find that I treat those who don’t want to kill me the best…
Maybe it has something to do with his affinity towards the atomic street dance?
This guy was interviewed several weeks ago by Phillip Adams on LNL
LNLPosted by carpefraise on 2007 09 13 at 04:27 AM • permalinkOT but I do wonder what all the Americans who read this blog make of Australian politics as discussed here.
Anyone? Bueller?
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 09 13 at 04:29 AM • permalinkThis guy calls himself a journalist but is really a terrorist supporter. He has said the following things (as obtained from Wikipedia):
In an interview with ANB TV, a Lebanese Television station, aired on June 27, 2007, Abd al-Bari Atwan stated (according to a translation provided by the MEMRI): “If the Iranian missiles strike Israel – by Allah, I will go to Trafalgar Square, and dance with delight if the Iranian missiles strike Israel.”
On the fifth anniversary of the New York 9/11 attack Atwan opined: “The events of 11 September will be remembered as the end of the US empire. This is because all empires collapse when they pursue the arrogance of power.”
Please do not allow this man in the country. We already have enough of them and could do without another.
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2007 09 13 at 04:32 AM • permalink“This could, in fact, incite trouble for Australia because there are a billion-and-a-half Muslims over the world”
Typical arab, get’s in a stoush and calls for back up from his ‘cousins’.
I can see the scene at Immigration:
Hut Allah, I swear to god, the fully sik pig wont let me in. Call Khalid and the boys. Better call Indonesia and Malaysia as well, I’m gonna pop a subwoofa in his ass. The racists, they think I’m violent, I’ll kill your ,mother you $##@#.
#7 What I make from it is that Australia suffers like the US from an over-abundance of self-serving candy-assed politicians that wouldn’t care if their own children died as a direct result of their actions, as long as they’re reelected. It is flood of sad, reprehensible behavior and you have my sympathies as well as my appreciation (misery loves company).
I’ve just finished cleaning my 12 Gauge and I’m waiting.
Posted by deadparrot on 2007 09 13 at 04:36 AM • permalinkReading between the lines, I’d say the poor bastard has prepaid for his theme park Megapass.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 09 13 at 04:40 AM • permalinkAbdel Bari Atwan is quite a regular on the BBC’s ‘Dateline’ programme (or was before I finally gave up on the BBC.) He is a consistent ranter and obviously sympathetic to all the worst elements in the Middle East. I don’t know whether he’s actually dangerous - he may just be a standard-issue Arab blowhard - but why take chances?
Let him in. How else is he going to SUCK MY NUTS?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 13 at 04:57 AM • permalinkWay to go, numb nuts.
Request an invitation to visit someone’s country and then threaten them when they hesitate to invite you in because you have a long history of shitting on the carpet and stealing the silver.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 09 13 at 05:04 AM • permalink“John Smeaton, please report to Brisbane Airport. A package awaits you.”
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 13 at 05:04 AM • permalinkIt gets worse. On the Brisbane Writers Festival website:
Adbel Bari Atwan and invited guest for the 2007 Brisbane Writers Festival has been refused entry into Australia. Read the media release.
The media release is written by a person with a similar command of English grammar and style. In it Atwan says this:
“I am seeking legal advice and I am talking to a top international human rights lawyer. If there are legal grounds I will sue the Australian government. I consider this as racial discrimination against me as a Muslim, as an Arab. The use of this delaying tactic is tarnishing my image. It is the worse type of censorship and intimidation and it has never happened to me before.”
Bollocks. He’s loving every minute of it.
For a famous writer though, and one with an “image”, that’s a pretty piss poor paragraph.
I heard this ******* on the ABC Drive Time on Wednesday afternoon. He was being given a dream run by the presenter explaining how hard done by he was and how he was against all terrorism and was a peacelover and on and on. He was just about due for canonisation, he was laying it on so thickly.
He then launched into an anti-American rant which made it pretty clear where is sympathies actually lay. The presenter quickly terminated the interview as it was rapidly contradicting all that went on before. I chuckled in the traffic jam lol.
#7, carpefraise:
Well, y’all do name your political parties in all sorts of weird and foreign devily strangeness ways, but that’s ok.
As to the actual doings and goings-ons? Pretty much samey same as our own.
Most politicos are nothing more than popularity contest winners, most are so crooked they have to be contortionists. Those who don’t actively offend are equally guilty by sitting down for the offenders.
Even for the best and most honorable of politicos, the fact that they are politicos is a huge strike against them in the “decent human” rankings.
Of course, that’s just my take on the subject. No clue how everyone else feels about it.
#8: BTW, the quote that he’ll dance in Trafalgar Square when Iran nukes Israel is from Memri. It was in an interview on TV. What he said was this:
At 1.10 minutes: “...and Allah willing, it [Iran] will attack Israel as well. If the Iranian missiles strike Israel - by Allah, I will go to Trafalgar Square, and dance with delight if the Iranian missiles strike Israel.”
Please watch the clip (here). Watch his face as he says he will dance. Watch it.
Why must Muslims always pull the “1 billion Muslims” vague mafioso-style threat when they get their feelings hurt?
Do Catholics, Indians or Chinese ever pull the same shit?
Posted by Quentin George on 2007 09 13 at 05:50 AM • permalinkGive me a visa or you’ll regret it.
And there you have it in a nutshell. A Muslim demanding something special because they’re muslim.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 09 13 at 06:18 AM • permalinkYou have to watch who you use the old “billions” argument against. The Chinese don’t take shit, they deal it when muslim separatists get tetchy.
Muslim religious activities are controlled. Students at state schools and universities are not allowed to pray, fast during Ramadan or carry out other open religious activity. Earlier this year, officials ordered increased surveillance of Muslim weddings, funerals and circumcisions. Some have been arrested for translating the Koran into local languages.
Hey, since they wouldn’t let him in would it make him happy if they expelled everyone who was going to hear him speak? That way they would all get together in some other really nice spot.
Like, say, Lagos.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 09 13 at 07:10 AM • permalink#7 I find Aussie politics refreshing rough and tumble. You haven’t yet had your system thoroughly enervated by poll-worshiping panty wipes like the US system has been, though there are some worrying signs.
But after all my years on this site an impenetrable fog beclouds still my feeble mind the instant Tim writes something about cricket.
Perhaps I need more gin.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 09 13 at 07:16 AM • permalinkSomething Else To Publicise
Over at Gates of Vienna there is coverage of a demo in Brussels marking 9/11 and drawing attention to the EU’s immigration/multi-culti dilemma. The anti-muslim immigration groups were banned, but marched anyway, and were arrested. It’s the last straw for some.Just think before the internet i might have believed the ABC,BBC claim he was “just a reporter”
MEMRITV: Al-Quds Al-Arabi Editor: Arafat Told Me Oslo Would be Israel’s CurseSorry I cant link this one directly.
“Al-Quds Al-Arabi: A Pro-Saddam PositionA different opinion was expressed by the pro-Saddam editor of the London daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Abd Al-Bari Atwan. The morning after the attack, he wrote in an article titled “Shoes of Early Warning:” “The shoes that were pelted like rain on the head of Ahmad Maher… are a lesson to all Arab leaders and their representatives who scorned the Arab street, its demands, and its sentiments, and who listen today only to the American administration and its humiliating demands to normalize relations with the Hebrew state, serve its interests, and conceal its terrorist policy.
“Mr. Maher humiliated the Egyptian people and its living national forces when, against their will and out of disdain for its sentiments, he went to Tel Aviv to meet with the Israeli prime minister, whose hands are drenched with the blood of Palestinian fighters and of the Egyptian soldiers who martyred themselves in defense of the honor of their nation and their country.
“When the Egyptian foreign minister becomes neutral in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the Egyptian government becomes ‘an honest broker’ between the parties, we should not be surprised that Foreign Minister Maher is hit by shoes…”
Another I cant link directly to
“‘Abd-al-Bari ‘Atwan, editor in chief of the London-based Al-Quds al-‘Arabi newspaper: I found him to be a man who is very modest in nature. He believes in every word he says. He does not lie. He does not exaggerate. He does not complement anyone. He does not even try to hide anything. He expresses everything he feels. He is very enigmatic. His voice is calm and well-mannered. I spent a whole day with him and I truly sensed his charm, his refined manners, and true modesty, not exaggerated or with fake modesty. He is a man who seeks the after-life and who truly feels that he has lived more than enough. You feel that there is a sadness inside him—which he did not express—that he was not martyred when he was fighting the Soviet or the communists or the heathens. You feel like he is saying: Why am I alive?”
This piece of shite is ON THE OTHER SIDE
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 09 13 at 07:32 AM • permalinkOne last one
“What happened in Denmark and Norway is part of the attack against Islam and the Prophet Mohammed, and the wave of hostility against Islam, which started in the West on 9/11,” alleged columnist Abd al-Bari Atwan in the London based daily al-Quds al-Arabi. “Anti-Semitism in the West is regarded as a crime while attacks on Islam are commonplace, and are described as a part of free expression.”
Deport him.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 09 13 at 07:36 AM • permalink...there are a billion-and-a-half Muslims over the world and this will be publicised among those people
Good idea - this message needs a good airing in Muslim-land: “If you’re a Muslim you’re not welcome in Australia”. Sounds good to me.
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 09 13 at 07:47 AM • permalinkA billion-and-a-half muslims? It’s a start, but I’ll be happier when there are two-billion-and-one half muslims.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 09 13 at 08:17 AM • permalink#49
An expedition is currently looking to raise the Oz submarine AE2 near Turkey, the first Allied submarine to penetrate the Dardanelles.Can’t figure THIS out. Is a Che` cigar, or a piece of shit?
Snippets…
“The US and its allies have failed to deal a death blow to al-Qaida; the organisation’s ideology appears to have taken root to such a degree that it will require decades to eradicate”
the US suffered a loss of authority as a result of the failure to impose order in Iraq. “The strategic hole the US found itself in [in 2007] did not have any obvious escape”
A number of “regional jihadist groups”, notably in Iraq and the Maghreb (north Africa) had not only sworn formal allegiance to al-Qaida, but, more importantly, had begun to demonstrate ambitions beyond their parochial concerns in support of its global objectives, the IISS warned. It said that disrupted plots had pointed to a “continuing and worsening problem of radicalisation within Europe’s Islamic diasporas - and the degree to which terrorists were still being directed by al-Qaida”.
THEN, this….
that if climate change is allowed to continue unchecked, its affects will be catastrophic “on the level of nuclear war”.
Several more points on the list…
But you see, this is all the West’s fault, in particular, the U.S. of A…NOT the missing link people with a foul belief.
Moral of is…Deny a Palestinian writer an immediate visa, and you can expect trouble:
Let him IN, OR ELSE. These missing link people are in charge now…How dare OZ to deny…:).
“Muslim backlash”
i.e. riots, bombs, burning of flags & embassies, the usual stuff.
“They are not serving the Australian peoples’ interests, they are not serving Australian security, they are actually doing the opposite.”
Basically with these idiots, whatever they say, you say and do the opposite. Reverse whatever they say. So if this guy says we are not serving Australian security, then we really are.
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2007 09 13 at 08:44 AM • permalink16.79 gazillion trillion million muslims, all with severe backlash. Is he threatening they’d all come & speak at the writer’s festival in a jiffy, if only their backs weren’t all done up?
Posted by stahlblume on 2007 09 13 at 08:50 AM • permalinkMuslim backlash
That’s prolly what our growing camel population (world’s 4th largest?) no longer suffers around their genital region ...
Just a reminder…
neutron bombs do much less damage to real estate, but still manage to eradicate the infestation.
When applied to “dense pack” pop centers, huge population counts mean less than nothing in the realm of appreciable threat measures.
And…
I know, I know…heard it before… we haven’t yet so we never will because we’ve all gone squishy soft and stupid spineless with no hope of ever getting properly nasty, mean and vengeancey.
We’ll see.
Texas Bob, I agree with you about the nails and wood chipper for this murderous bastard, but you forgot to wave at Media Watch, or their Muslim Village compatriots. Here, like this:
<waves at Media Watch>
or
<gives Muslim Village “half a peace sign”>
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 13 at 09:55 AM • permalinkI think this is a good time for a joke:
A Muslim was seated next to an Australian on a flight from London to Melbourne.
After the plane was airborne, drink orders were taken.
Aussie asked for a rum and coke, which was brought and placed before him.
The flight attendant then asked the Muslim if he would like a drink.
He replied in disgust, “I’d rather be savagely raped by a dozen whores than let liquor touch my lips.”
The Aussie then handed his drink back to the attendant and said, ” Me too. I didn’t know we had a choice.”A 26-year-old Dearborn resident, Houssein Zorkot, was arraigned in 19th District Court Tuesday on several felony charges, including carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent.
Zorkot, a third-year medical student at Wayne State University, was allegedly armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and dressed in black clothing with camouflage paint covering his face when he was arrested Saturday in Hemlock Park.
Nothing at all, just move along.
ARREST: COMFORTING. Events underlying the arrest not so comforting:
“I believe this is a deliberate delay because I am an Arab and a Muslim,” Atwan said. “It is ridiculous. I am not a terrorist, I am not a drug dealer, I am dealing in words and thoughts.”
Dealing in words and thoughts. In other words, he encourages young jihadis to murder and mayhem while he sits back in his nice safe, comfy office, feeling superior to the infidel trash, and making threats when he doesn’t get special treatment. Typical.
Arrogance with a capital “A”. Reminds me (in a small way) of an Arab character who came into the tax preparation office where my wife works. The tax preparer asked him if he was a U.S. citizen (absolutely routine question), and the guy became outraged and called the police. The police got there, told him it wasn’t a police matter, and escorted him out.
Pushing the envelope, folks, constantly pushing the envelope. . .
Sandi M wrote:
Publicised? PUBLICISED? P-U-B-L-I-C-I-S-E-D?
Sounds like a Dalek.
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2007 09 13 at 12:13 PM • permalink80 paco
Pushing the envelope, folks, constantly pushing the envelope. . .
Why not, it has worked for them, the past 25-30 years.
The sane(?) world allows the envelope being pushed. We call it “being civilized”, unfortunately the missing link people are NOT, civilized.
‘They” laugh their asses off. ‘We’ suffer.
Easy deal…for ‘them’.
#83: One can almost hear the sound of the envelope rending.
(Much good stuff at Blue Crab Boulevard, today)
And let’s not forget the NYT’s treason discount.
#80, I saw a Muslim woman, all bundled up in her hijab and long coat, do the same thing in Meijer. She got angry with the checkout clerk over the price of an item, and ranted and raved. Finally, the man behind her asked her to go to customer services so the people in line could get through. She started screaming at him, and then pulled out her cell and called the police. Naturally, when they arrived they were dumbfounded (and I suspect a little irritated) at having to explain that a disagreement with the store over prices isn’t a police matter.
They have no concept of how our society works. No wonder it makes them crazy.
#86: That’s what burns me up the most.
I think the following should be painted on the wall of every store/school/bus:
“We don’t care how you did it in Sh**holistan. This is OUR country, this is the way WE do it, DEAL WITH IT OR GET OUT.”
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 09 13 at 01:21 PM • permalink84/5 Paco.
Good stuff mate. Every time I learn outrageous facts such as those I always spare a little thought for the freedom of the internet.
The way that this Bari-Atwan can be protrayed in a particular light by MSM outlets and interest groups and yet be exposed so rapidly on the internet for the enemy that he is gives me such heart.
Western science seems to have a history of innovation in the nick of time. Maybe the rumours of the decline of our civilisation are exaggerated.
O/T probably.
UNICEF announced today that “fewer” than 10 million children are dying each year from this that and the other thing.
How high could that “fewer” go if UNICEF would actually put all their effort into ameliorating these conditions instead of being so concerned about their own power structure and personal perks?
I guess the actual mission is not to important when you can start every caring-based sentence with “imagine”.
Waiting for the NYT to cover this defacto genocide in 4-3-2-2-2-3-4-5-6.
Good friends in OZ…here ya go…
Pentagon Releases Audio of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Testimony
‘I was responsible for the bombing of a night club in Bali, Indonesia, which was frequented by British and Australian nationals,’ the statement said. “I was responsible for the assassination attempt on President Clinton during his visit to the Philippines in 1994 or 1995.”
Want any pieces of this feces, after we are through…Of course, he’s open game, once the ACLU, gets his sentence reduced to time served.
OH, the President of the ACLU…Nadine Strossman…married to Eli Noam an Israeli who fought in the Six Day War…and the 1973 War against….JUST this kind of feces.
”...there are a billion-and-a-half Muslims over the world…”
Would they all happen to look like Farfour or Nahoul the Bee?
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2007 09 13 at 06:54 PM • permalinkThey’ve given him a visa.
Wouldn’t it be funny if he went through the door that led people off a cliff?
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2007 09 13 at 08:33 PM • permalink49 _egg
While the Brit generals (including Churchill!) who devised Gallipoli deserve condemnation, the British soldiers died their in more numbers than Aust ones - a frequently overlooked fact. Certainly not as a proportion to the total army, just in pure number terms though. And yeah, we owe them one!
Sigh - good on the Brisbane Terrorist Understanding Network for inviting one of them in.
And of course the winner on sunday of the literary prize will be that aboriginal apology book.
“He sits at that juncture between the West and the Arab world. What he can give is understanding, and through understanding we can work towards some sort of reconcilliation.”
So, all this Jihad,world wide caliphate and death to infidels stuff can be solved by way of understanding and reconciliation.
Let’s walk over the harbour bridge then. Worked a treat last time.
We are not worthy and should be privileged to have such a sage among us.
They gave that mongrel a visa?
What a descipable and cowardly decision.
Does anybody actually work in ASIO or do they all just sit around and sip tea and compare stock portfolios?Nobody gives a rat’s arse about the Brisbane writer’s festival. like all these “festivals” it is just another inner urban trendy wankfest, but giving this propagandist open slather to spout his poison creates a precedent, and once again the Muslims are laughing their faces off because they have to do is threaten a “backlash” and they are in like Flynn.
Push, push, push, the infidels are weak as water.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 09 13 at 10:14 PM • permalinkJust like a parent giving in to their childs tantrum.
Posted by SouthernCrusader on 2007 09 13 at 10:55 PM • permalink#113, I usually tend to label the place “Crapistan”.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 09 14 at 07:15 AM • permalinkHmmmm.
Personally I predict that there is a coming backlash from somebody since Wendy’s has seen fit to deny me that extra BBQ sauce packets.
Down with the anti-extra BBQ sauce packet infidels!!
Posted by memomachine on 2007 09 14 at 03:26 PM • permalink#68 mojo.*LOL* i think you’ve summarised our situation beautifully!
Thanks to all who answered my OT question.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 09 15 at 07:20 AM • permalink
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My only regret for pounding 15 ten-penny nails into this puke-sack’s noggin would be the loss of 15 perfectly good nails.