As Muslim: This is why I refused to sign the petition to sack Sen. Anning

I refused to sign the petition demanding the sacking of Sen. Fraser Anning, not because I support his disgraceful highly inflammatory comments.

It is disgraceful that some Australian Muslims together with media and politicians are holding Sen. Fraser Anning morally responsible for the NZ terrorist attack.

Sen. Fraser Anning is a newcomer to the political scene in Australia and is not responsible for the high racism, Islamophobia and extremism in our society. If anything, he is a by-product stemmed from the major parties policies of division and scapegoating.

I refused to sign the petition, because I believe that the petition should target the real perpetrators of Islamophobia and extremism. The real perpetrators include Scot Morrison and Peter Dutton who adopted as early as 2010 policies aimed at stirring hate against Muslims at all levels.

Even an anti-welfare coalition policy mentioning “Muslim bludgers” as a target of cracking down on needy people. The policy to detain refugees and asylum seekers was also to create hate against Muslims who constitute the largest section of boat asylum seekers.

It is not a conspiracy theory. We have clear evidence that Morrison-Dutton adopted since 2010 policies aimed, as I mentioned above, at creating hate against Muslims as the last hope for the coalition to win an election.

Morrison was speaking at a meeting for Liberal officials in Ryde Civic centre insisting on the need for such policies.

The story was reported in limited media outlets. Morrison did not deny this at that time and was even proud of it. Link here

The real cause of a disorder must be addressed. No point tackling the symptoms without healing the cause of the symptoms.

In this case Sen Anning is a mere symptom of a disorder created by Morrison and Dutton.

What makes things worse is that the hateful Morrison-Dutton have found allies among the Muslim community.

The Lebanese Muslim Association and its allies of mainly Muslim extremists were quick to call on Muslims to vote for Liberals in the 2011 election. Link here

It is this disgraceful movement who gave Morrison credibility on his anti-Muslim approach.

Since 2011 till present day, Muslim extremists are in bed with Liberal Islamophobes.

And this is the reason why Muslim extremists invited only Liberal politicians to attend their “crisis” meeting in Lakemba mosque following the NZ massacre.

I will sign the petition only if it asks for sacking of Morrison, Dutton and Fraser. Signing the petition against Fraser only, will see Muslims participate in the policy of scapegoating dumb politician to hide the real trouble of extremism we have.

The real trouble is the extreme racist Islamophobic Liberal policy allying with extreme Muslim organisations.

NZ terrorist attack: did I not warn about this too?!!

Exactly as I warned a few years ago!

Because of Muslim terrorism/extremism, we would see a rise in Islamophobia and consequently Islamophobic terrorist actions.

This is what happened in NZ today.

While we still have many unanswered questions, the expected has happened. Australian authorities who allowed both Muslim extremism and Anti-Muslim rhetoric to grow out of control since the Syrian crisis started, are to be blamed for the NZ terrorist attack. And the worse is yet to happen.

Following the Lindt siege terrorist attack, I expressed publicly on different major media outlets, my serious concerns about the fact that our authorities were not cracking down on Muslim extremists.

At some stage, the authorities were in support of Muslim extremists.

I also warned that this high extremism resulting in terrorism, will be used as an excuse by right-wing extremists to recruit and conduct anti-Muslim actions, including possible terrorist attacks.

Australian authorities, especially politicians, were silent on Muslim extremists’ activities. They also, at the same time, promoted a lot of anti-Muslim rhetoric.

A few of these politicians took advantage of this situation and stirred even more anti Muslim hate to gain political power and win seats in parliament.  

The unanswered questions are:

-       Why Australian far-right terrorist decided to commit a terrorist attack in NZ?

-       Why now? The timing just few weeks before federal election!

-       And what is next?

The NZ terrorist attack could be the beginning of tit-for-tat attacks between Muslim and non-Muslim terrorists. As I said on Russian TV today, it is very sad that Anti-Muslim terrorist killed innocent Muslims to revenge the killing of innocent non-Muslim by the hands of Muslim terrorists.

Our authorities should crack down on all extremists in the society. Without cracking down on sources of extremism, we will see more and more anti-Muslim terrorist attacks here in Australia and around the world. We want to see all extremists neutralised and isolated.

Right up until today, Australian authorities have not carried out any action to de-radicalise Muslim and non-Muslim extremists. The reason why our authorities continue to turn a blind eye on extremism from both sides is because it suits their own political agenda.

Many times, I tried to warn the authorities about the growing of extremism on all fronts, however such warnings fell on deaf ears.

Until now, the Australian authorities refuse to consult with me on this important issue. Not only they refused to meet me, they conspired against me!

Jamal Daoud