Hon Bill Shorten, MP and the Leader of Labor Federal Opposition
We noticed that your colleague and Labor Opposition Whip, the Hon. Shaoquett Moslemane is organising a forum tomorrow in the NSW parliament and invited a panel including an academic that claims to support Dr Bashar Al Assad's government.
We are very happy that the Labor party had finally made U-Turn on its Syria policy and has begun to support the Syrian government led by President Bashar Al Assad.
Given that, we want to express our deep disappointment that your colleague Hon. Moslemane has chosen to invite the wrong person to speak in support of the Syrian government at tomorrow's forum.
Dr Tim Anderson is a sham on any cause and on humanity indeed. With a deeply murky past, as National spokesperson of one of the most dangerous violent organisations in Australian contemporary history, Ananda Marga conducted a series of terrorist attacks in the heart of Sydney, including bombing the Hilton Hotel.
He also has very murky present, leading a group of thugs to spread dirt and violent attacks on respected members of the community. He recently endorsed a very shameful attack on Australian Jews calling God to curse them, for no clear reason.
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We unreservedly believe that your colleague's decision to invite this beast to speak at this forum tomorrow will constitute a dark episode in your Party's history. Such a dark episode will indefinitely have a serious, negative impact on your Party's image and chances to win any future election.
We, in the pro-Syria movement, happy that your party had finally made this U-Turn, advise you that Tim Anderson does not represent or speak on behalf of our movement.
I remember when I invited your colleague Shaoquett Moslemane to visit Syria on a fact-finding mission in early 2014, he declined and expressed his disgust at how the Syrian government treats its citizens. If your colleague had changed his mind, my invitation to organise a special tour for him and a few of his Labor colleagues still stands. For Mr Moslemane to seek commentary from a failed academic who declared to the whole world that until end of 2012 he did not know where Syria is located on the map, is something beyond our comprehension.
In this open letter, we seek clarification of your new position on Syria. Do you still think that the crisis was caused by the Syrian government's killing of peaceful protesters or are you convinced now that there was a Western conspiracy against the legitimate government of that country? And, is your Party willing to deal with the Syrian government now? Definitely we can help with this.
Thanks,
Jamal Daoud
