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Having rebuilt Mr Meat’s reputation – more on that from Brendan Shanahan – the Sydney Morning Herald continues its Islam outreach program:
For Sydney’s Muslims, there have been six years of relentless bad press that started even before the seminal events of September 11, 2001.
Six years of bad press, eh? And why might that be?
The saturation coverage of the gang rapes by Sydney men of Middle Eastern heritage followed shortly afterwards by the waves of mostly Muslim asylum seekers “jumping the queue” preceded the terrorist attacks on September 11. The prosecution of the “war on terrorism”, the Cronulla riots and subsequent reprisals and the antics of Sheik Taj el-Din al Hilaly have all garnered acres of coverage.
While many of the issues merit reporting …
No, stop right there; let’s not turn this into a redneck hate fest. Besides, the SMH has further happy news:
Conversion among indigenous Australians is growing, driven by the higher visibility of Islam, a rejection of Christianity as a post-colonial religion, identification with Islamic principles, and conversions in prisons where Aborigines dominate the population.
I doubt that. So, it turns out, does the writer:
Their first contact with Islam sometimes, but not always, comes in jail, where as many as 22 per cent of inmates are indigenous Australians.
Twenty-two per cent is a dominant amount? Lancet must’ve done the math here.
Rocky Davis, known as Shaheed Malik, converted while serving 14 years for armed robberies and other offences. It was the story of Malcolm X, the gangster and black American nationalist leader who became a convert to Islam, that first inspired Davis.
How touching.
“What does Islam stand for? Islam offers a faith untainted by colonialism and racism. It is a liberating religion,” says Davis. “Though the Bible said you shalt not kill, they killed, thou shall not rape, they raped our women, thou shalt not steal, they stole our land. Islam at its essence is pure. My forefathers had no army and no guns and lived in Aboriginal townships and camps. That’s the difference between the Muslim and Christian faiths: one is for the oppressed and one’s for the oppressor, one’s for the coloniser and one for the colonised.”
And one’s for armed robbers serving 14 years.
Peta Stephenson, a doctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute, says Islam doesn’t share the baggage of missionary Christianity, and has become one path by which Aborigines can affirm their pre-colonial identity.
“Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X are role models,” she says. “A lot of people see Islam as an answer to the ills of Western society. For communities suffering chronic levels of unemployment or underemployment and substance abuse it might have special appeal for those wanting to break away from the statistics.”
Andrew Bolt: “So to reject British colonialism and affirm a ‘pre-colonial identity’, Aborigines adopt a Middle Eastern faith with American role models. Er, OK. And to revolt against the statistics of unemployment, they take on the faith of that part of the world that suffers worst from poverty.”
Islam, says Stephenson, has proved a positive experience for males. “I’ve consistently found men who say they were once angry but having identified with Islam they come away with a sense of peace and a real need to do good in the community. Islam teaches you to be the best person you can.”
It’s sure working out for these guys.
(Via ann j)
- These reporters are nuts…
“Dominant” was the wrong word to employ with regard to the proportion of prisoners that are indigenous. However, indigenous people make up around 2 or 3% of the population and – if the 22% figure is right – then I think what he was aiming for (and missing) was either “significant” or “disproportionate”.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 05 04 at 12:03 PM • permalink
- A fat Aboriginal fuck whose family dominated the ALP in Port Hedland many years ago said to me once that the best strategy for his indigenous brothers and sisters was to convert to Islam, align themselves with Indonesia, and then assist a military offensive so that Australia would become an Islamic country. He went on to be mollycoddled through a pre-law program with marks so bad that if he weren’t black (and Muslim) he would have been turfed out in the first week. Unsurprisingly, googling his name now shows him representing various groups’ claims for native title whilst working at a university and/or in a government department. A good mate of Clarrie Issacs (aka Yaluritja Clarrie Isaacs Haj), who himself was a mate of Ali Kazak, a vicious little PLO prick who headed up the Palestinian Delegation in Australia years ago, this obese wanker is no doubt recommending conversion to Islam as a strategy in native title claims.
- We’re experiencing the same phenomenon in the U.S., where Muslims are targeting African-American prisoners for conversion to Islam. They’re ready-made disaffected soldiers and cannon fodder for if and when the worldwide caliphate finds itself in a position to make its move for domination. It’s the same reasoning behind brainwashing their women to have litters of babies. They hope to overwhelm us by sheer numbers.
- Living in the NT I often get the ‘you white c*nts stole our land and our culture.’ I could take this from a man (or woman) armed with a nulla-nulla in one hand, a freshly caught turtle in the other and feathers protruding from the freshly sliced wounds across the chest and arms and the white face paint. But I will not take it from a dickhead in a t-shirt promoting the latest black rapper, holding a bag of KFC in one hand and a sprite bottle filled with grog in the other. The abuse naturally stemming from the fact that I have refused to hand over money or smokes. NOW I have to put up with these idiots converting to islam? But I ask, what about your culture? What about the dreamtime and the rainbow serpent and the spirits of Uluru? I’m sure that the stories handed down over the generations from when you first arrived here didn’t speak of allah. How does islam (approximately 1300 years old) build on your culture (approximately 40,000 years old)?
- Islam gives the violent divine sanction for their violence. While most of the world’s societies have religious doctrine and secular laws intended to constrain man’s aggressive instincts, Islam endorses and exploits them. Mohammed was nothing more than a Jim Jones / Charles Manson / David Koresh who succeeded… primarily because society at large was too weak to restrain or resist him. More vigorous state authority would have crushed him and his personality cult would be little more than a historical footnote, if that.
The World of Islam may have appeared peaceful for some time, but that’s because the majority of Muslims had strayed from its original meaning; the Wahabbist/Salafist movement is intent on correcting these modern “errors”.
Pardon my bile, but this news item has left me grumpy and cynical this morning.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 04 at 12:25 PM • permalink
- #6 Spiny, Andrew Bolt also covered that story.
Islamists are always trying to tell us that their religion is based on peace. If that’s true, why are they always trying to hurt each other?
- “So to reject British colonialism and affirm a ‘pre-colonial identity’, Aborigines adopt a Middle Eastern faith with American role models. Er, OK. And to revolt against the statistics of unemployment, they take on the faith of that part of the world that suffers worst from poverty.”
Otherwise known as a firm grasp of the obvious. There’s a reason Islam isn’t producing rocket scientists.
- I would exhort all prospective recruits to Islam to first read Bernard Lewis’s Race and Slavery in the Middle East, a valuable corrective to the myth of racial equality under the “Religion of Peace.” And of course, Mr. Davis’s assertion that Islam is not tainted by colonialism is a statement that is absurd through and through. It is not at all surprising that a religion which creates a prison of the mind would fare so well among inmates of actual prisons.
Islam, says Stephenson, has proved a positive experience for males. “I’ve consistently found men who say they were once angry but having identified with Islam they come away with a sense of peace and a real need to do good in the community. Islam teaches you to be the best person you can.”
Once angry but now with a sense of peace. Islam teaches you to be the best person you can. Such a positive experience for males.
“What does Islam stand for? Islam offers a faith untainted by colonialism and racism. It is a liberating religion,” says Davis. “Though the Bible said you shalt not kill, they killed,
Right, tell that to all the Jews……oh ya, with a straight face……
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 04 at 01:53 PM • permalink
- #12 Clubbeaux
True, if you go around killing, stealing and raping I guess you’re not violating any specific Islamic code of conduct.
Not really, no: as long as the object of such attention is the infidel, it is “the will of Allah.”
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 04 at 02:18 PM • permalink
- “Islam offers a faith untainted by colonialism and racism.”
What? Islam colonised Spain for EIGHT HUNDRED FUCKING YEARS. It’s still colonising the Holy Land (Syria used to be one of the most Christian countries in the world).
Posted by David Gillies on 2007 05 04 at 02:33 PM • permalink
One of the things that really does need to be addressed is, are the headlines now creating the opportunity or the motivation for other people to embrace these [terrorist] ideas?” Mr Keelty said.
Answer: no.
Next question, please.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 05 04 at 04:52 PM • permalink
- Any Indigines expecting the ROP to deliver them from “chronic levels of unemployment or underemployment and substance abuse”,before joining up ,might first like to have a look around suburbs of the South-Western Sydney ghetto such as Punchbowl,Lakemba or Greenacre or even check Census statistics for that region.In that outpost of Islam unemloyment levels would make them feel right at home and substances for the purpose of abuse are abundant although petrol theft is more prevalent than petrol sniffing.
- What does Islam stand for? Islam offers a faith untainted by colonialism and racism. It is a liberating religion,” says Davis.
Then who in the 19th century was rounding up the inhabitants of those remote African villages and handing them over to the local slave traders who then onsold them as slaves?
Whitey sure weren’t out there. And the trade continues today though it beats me why not much is ever said about it.
- Davis says: What does Islam stand for? Islam offers a faith untainted by colonialism and racism
Untainted by racism!!? Islamist Arabs are killing black people in Darfur becasue they’re black, Arabs have enslaved and are enslaving black people in the Sudan because of their colour.
Davis might wish to look at this link here [/url][url=http://warriorsfortruth.com/slavery-sudan-islamic-fundamentalists.html]
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 05 04 at 08:36 PM • permalink
- Though the Bible said you shalt not kill, they killed, thou shall not rape, they raped our women, thou shalt not steal, they stole our land. Islam at its essence is pure.
Whereas the Koran and hadiths green-light all three against the infidel and the faithful are more than happy to oblige.
What utter twaddle.
Posted by Jeffersonian on 2007 05 04 at 08:46 PM • permalink
- And another interesting linkhere
As I recall, Muslim numbers are estimated at 1.2. billion, not million, but the rest of this article is very interesting.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 05 04 at 08:49 PM • permalink
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That’s because it appeals to our basest instincts. Sociopaths are naturally drawn to it, which is why it has made such “impressive” inroads in prisons.