I was one of the people who thought that the recent change in rhetoric by authorities and media on the Syrian crisis, would bring a whole new breakthrough with the dealing of this crisis.
From the beginning of 2011 until late 2014, the authorities and media insisted that what was happening in Syria was a revolution. They also insisted the revolution was a peaceful one. The high death toll, which reached more than 200,000 was due to the Syrian army killing the peaceful protestors.
In mid 2014, we started to hear a bit about “terrorism” in Syria. We also started to hear about Australian terrorists taking part in the conflict. We also suddenly discovered that the Australians who died there were in fact terrorists, and not aid workers. But the coverage of such episodes are still today shallow and naive.
The media until now did not go deep to investigate the reality of what happened in Syria. Though admitting that we have the highest radicalisation in modern Australian history, they still did not bother to investigate how this high radicalisation happened. The media acknowledged the extensive brainwashing and recruiting drive among our youths, however has never pointed the fingers on who was or still is responsible.
Not only the media has never investigated the origins of radicalisation in Australia, they went even further. They have and continue to portray the very same individuals who recruited and radicalised young Australians, as pillars of the community who are contributing to peace and harmony.
In this series of articles I will shed light on some cases where individuals or organisations who were active in brainwashing and recruiting, suddenly became the champions of de-radicalisation.
Let us take Jamal Rifi as first example.
From the beginning of the Syrian crisis, Jamal Rifi was very active in supporting the “revolutionists”. He participated in organising forums, rallies, fundraising dinners and visits to politicians and security agencies’ officials encouraging them to support the revolution. He gave fiery speeches about the need to support the armed rebellion against the Syrian government and its president. We can provide countless links to Jamal Rifi’s speeches and activities. He has never kept this a secret until now, that he supported armed rebellion.
I know that Jamal Rifi will reply to my comments here that he supported “moderate rebels” of the Free Syrian Army. The very same rebels that cut heads, ate hearts, threw civilians from the top of high-rise buildings, executed people in cold blood, burned people alive and used kids to behead captured Syrian soldiers. He is only right when he declares that the Free Syrian army is not proscribed terrorist organisation.
His arrogance went even further when he approached security agencies to protest how they were dealing with terrorism in May 2014 during the crack-down on Australian terrorists joining the fight in Syria. He was so naive to the point that he issued a media release demanding Anti-terrorism agencies to stop implementing Foreign Incursion Act namely in stopping Australian terrorists-to-be in our airport and confiscating their passports. In his media release (written in Arabic and published by Arabic newspapers) he openly considered that authorities crack-down on Australian joining terrorist organisations in Syria will mean one thing “ending the Syrian revolution”. He repeated these claims in an ABC article published 14 May 2014 (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-14/muslim-leaders-hold-closed-meetings-with-police/5451094) and demanded that ASIO and Anti-terrorism agencies to “back away from enforcing "draconian" laws that make it a crime to support the civil war in Syria”.
In the above ABC article, Jamal Rifi admitted that he was questioned by ASIO and AFP on several occasions for his suspicious activities in support of extreme groups in Syria.
The story of Jamal Rifi had a serious twist when our authorities and other Western authorities including US government changed their rhetoric on the Syrian crisis. The coin suddenly flipped over immediately after the media started reporting extensively on ISIS horrendous crimes and after the federal government started talking tough on the need for new strong anti-terrorism laws. When the government started conducting extensive consultations with Muslim “leaders” and organisations, Jamal Rifi suddenly and with no prior warning made the biggest u-turn.
After earlier meeting Anti-terrorism officials to urge them to stop preventing Australian Muslims from joining terrorist organisations, Jamal Rifi voiced his opposition to one of these terrorist organisations, ISIS.
Then something extraordinary happened, something which happens only in Bollywood movies. A close family friend of Jamal Rifi sent him a tweet. The tweet was asking for Jamal Rifi’s address. An address which would be known to a very large number of Australians since his name and address have always been listed in the white pages. The Bollywood segment did not stop there. The subtly threatening tweet from this close family friend was deleted after 30 minutes. But surprisingly, these 30 minutes were enough for Jamal Rifi to intercept and read the tweet. The 30 minutes were enough for Jamal Rifi to take a snapshot. The 30 minutes were enough to pass the tweet to the media. 30 minutes were enough for many journalists to take the snapshot. And 30 minutes were enough for Jamal Rifi to hold a press conference.
Our media, which was described by many Australian philosophers and experts as the most naive and superficial media on earth, did not ask vital questions before they started to air this Bollywood segment as truth:
- Why would a terrorist, in this case Mohamed Elomer, delete his own tweet after 30 minutes of posting it? It’s not that terrorist Mohamed Elomar was going to ever return to Australia.
- Why would this high-profile terrorist target Jamal Rifi specifically, and not other Muslims who are more active on criticising ISIS and other terrorist organisations?
- Why would this high profile terrorist tweet a shy threats asking for the address of a high-profile GP (an address that is listed on Yellow pages and Google)? Why not threaten to kill him or kidnap his family (similar to threats I received from the begging of 2011 until now)?
- Why were there no subsequent threats sent to Mr Rifi following to the deleted tweet?
The media has fooled all of us and suddenly, Jamal Rifi has become a paladin of de-radicalisation efforts.
Not one media outlet has shed any light on Jamal Rifi’s contribution to radicalisation of our youth since the beginning of the Syrian crisis. Suddenly, Jamal Rifi got rid of his radical skin and has became the messiah that will bring stability and harmony to this nation.
Not only this. The Murdoch press granted him many awards for his efforts on de-radicalisation. In conclusion, it is thanks to the media that this individual who supported radicals, is now presented to us as the only hope Australians have to stop radicalisation and terrorism.
I talked once with an ABC journalist about Jamal Rifi and his Bollywood segment which transformed him into a paladin of de-radicalisation efforts. He is one of the very active ABC journalists who reported extensively on terrorism and radicalisation. I consider him to be clever and knowledgeable on this issue. When I questioned him with the points mentioned above, regarding Jamal Rifi’s Bollywood segment, the only answer he could give me was “but he (Rifi) condemns ISIS”. My reply was: “He did, but at the end of 2014. While ISIS is fully functioning in Syria from mid 2012”. I also reminded the ABC journalist about Rifi’s meeting with Nick Kaldas mid May 2014 when he was demanding authorities to stop the crack down on Australian extremists from joining ISIS and other terrorist organisation.
To date, I did not receive any answer from any journalist about why Jamal Rifi suddenly became the paladin hero of de-radicalisation efforts after been an icon for the extremist radicals.
The reason for this is complex. It is more about the nature of our naive superficial media. It also has a lot to do with our media serving the US imperialist agenda. And of course, it has a lot to do with political parties’ agenda in keeping communities under control by enforcing Jamal Rifi and similar figures as their leaders. Leaders that have very little respect from the community they live in.
It is our task to break all these agendas.
Monday, September 07, 2015
Saturday, September 05, 2015
The reality behind sudden Syrian refugees crisis to Europe
After more than 4.5 years of Syrian crisis, sudden sharp surge of Syrian asylum seekers to Europe should raise many questions that need urgent answers.
During the years of the crisis, which at many point witnessed very intense fighting, threats to Damascus which was totally surrounded by terrorists, critical shortage of basic vital materials and repeated attacks on gas supplies that plunged major cities in total darkness for weeks, the asylum seeking to Europe was minimal. Millions of refugees sought temporary asylum in neighbouring countries (mainly Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan). But never went further into Europe.
So why did the numbers of those who are seeking asylum in Europe witness skyrocketing increase in the last few days?
The other question that needs urgent answer is: what is the reason behind the sudden change of heart by conservative (and racist) leaders like Merkel, who vow to accept millions of Syrian refugees in the next few months?
We all remember the chaotic scenes of hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese people in the lead to the fall of Saigon. The S. Vietnamese collaborators with US occupiers knew very well that they will be prosecuted for treason if they stay.
The same happened to South Lebanese residents who collaborated with Israeli occupiers against their own people. They rushed just before the Israel defeat in 2000 to seek asylum in Israel, and then to other Western countries in fear of retribution, revenge or prosecution for treason.
This is the normal scenes you would see after every failed conspiracy of US against any unfriendly regime/nation.
After years of Syrian bloody crisis, the sticking point for reconciliation is the fate of hardcore terrorists who killed, raped, kidnapped and stole in their areas of control. These terrorists needed to be given a way-out from the corner they will be squeezed to in the next few months.
In the next few months, we expect (according to all indications) that US and its allies (including Australia) will mobilise big military might to start serious campaign against terrorists in Syria (and Iraq) as a first step to wind down the Arab Spring conspiracy/project.
The intensifying of Syrian refugee crisis is needed to achieve many goals:
- It will enable many terrorists to escape Syria, hence reduce the needed efforts to end terrorism there.
- It will give Western powers (US and its allies) the needed face-saving pretext to withdraw their unlimited support for terrorists and big promises to help them to destroy the Syrian government/regime.
- Then it will help to open new chapter with Syrian government, and hence requests to be involved in the massive and lucrative re-building projects.
So what will happen next?
1- The change of rhetoric in ALL Western nations and the beginning of Western countries talk about terrorism in Syria. And the restriction on terrorists’ entry to Syria from Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. All this sent a strong message to terrorists: game is over. Or nearly. So many of them chose to lay down their arms and run away to Turkey (before this also be closed).
2- The agreement with Russia to normalise situation and return to pre 2011 situation will see US and its allies participate in massive bombings of terrorists in Syria (and Iraq) and some targeted assassination operations. This will lead to collapse of terrorist organisations (including ISIS and Jabhat Al Nusra) similar to what happened in Afghanistan in 2001. The major difference from Afghanistan 2001 is that there will be no foreign boots on the ground. The Syrian army will be quick to fill any vacuum.
3- Using issues of refugees and fight against terrorism, US and Western allies will re-establish diplomatic and political relations with Syria.
4- The Syrian extremists/terrorists/rebels will be hosted temporarily (this temporary nature could extend to few decades, as it happened in early 1980s) in different countries. The rest of Syrians who had no blood on their hands will be quick to return to participate in rebuilding their homeland.
5- I expect that the only reason the intensive bombing of terrorists in Syria (and Iraq) did not start yet is the instability of Turkish government. Turkish government is vital for this plan. Turkish government played major role in supporting, arming, training and allowing terrorists to enter Syria. And the Turkish government (even a future Erdogan’s government) will participate enthusiastically in the campaign.
6- Some of the Australian known terrorists fighting currently in Syria will travel to Turkey, get Syrian forged passport and seek asylum in Germany. We should expect that even some of the terrorists who were declared to be dead (like El Omer and Sharrouf) will be living in one of EU countries under Syrian name. But do we really care?
7- We should wait for the plan to be ready to start by mid November.
8- Our hardcore pro-extremists media and politicians should be ready to accept the changes. Bob Carr, Labor party, Greens party and SBS should start exploring way of u-turn on the issue of attacking Syrian government and president. These need to forget about terminologies like “dictator”, “Assad should go”, “barrel bombs”, “Assad forces” ...etc.
My two cents on this debate.
During the years of the crisis, which at many point witnessed very intense fighting, threats to Damascus which was totally surrounded by terrorists, critical shortage of basic vital materials and repeated attacks on gas supplies that plunged major cities in total darkness for weeks, the asylum seeking to Europe was minimal. Millions of refugees sought temporary asylum in neighbouring countries (mainly Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan). But never went further into Europe.
So why did the numbers of those who are seeking asylum in Europe witness skyrocketing increase in the last few days?
The other question that needs urgent answer is: what is the reason behind the sudden change of heart by conservative (and racist) leaders like Merkel, who vow to accept millions of Syrian refugees in the next few months?
We all remember the chaotic scenes of hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese people in the lead to the fall of Saigon. The S. Vietnamese collaborators with US occupiers knew very well that they will be prosecuted for treason if they stay.
The same happened to South Lebanese residents who collaborated with Israeli occupiers against their own people. They rushed just before the Israel defeat in 2000 to seek asylum in Israel, and then to other Western countries in fear of retribution, revenge or prosecution for treason.
This is the normal scenes you would see after every failed conspiracy of US against any unfriendly regime/nation.
After years of Syrian bloody crisis, the sticking point for reconciliation is the fate of hardcore terrorists who killed, raped, kidnapped and stole in their areas of control. These terrorists needed to be given a way-out from the corner they will be squeezed to in the next few months.
In the next few months, we expect (according to all indications) that US and its allies (including Australia) will mobilise big military might to start serious campaign against terrorists in Syria (and Iraq) as a first step to wind down the Arab Spring conspiracy/project.
The intensifying of Syrian refugee crisis is needed to achieve many goals:
- It will enable many terrorists to escape Syria, hence reduce the needed efforts to end terrorism there.
- It will give Western powers (US and its allies) the needed face-saving pretext to withdraw their unlimited support for terrorists and big promises to help them to destroy the Syrian government/regime.
- Then it will help to open new chapter with Syrian government, and hence requests to be involved in the massive and lucrative re-building projects.
So what will happen next?
1- The change of rhetoric in ALL Western nations and the beginning of Western countries talk about terrorism in Syria. And the restriction on terrorists’ entry to Syria from Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. All this sent a strong message to terrorists: game is over. Or nearly. So many of them chose to lay down their arms and run away to Turkey (before this also be closed).
2- The agreement with Russia to normalise situation and return to pre 2011 situation will see US and its allies participate in massive bombings of terrorists in Syria (and Iraq) and some targeted assassination operations. This will lead to collapse of terrorist organisations (including ISIS and Jabhat Al Nusra) similar to what happened in Afghanistan in 2001. The major difference from Afghanistan 2001 is that there will be no foreign boots on the ground. The Syrian army will be quick to fill any vacuum.
3- Using issues of refugees and fight against terrorism, US and Western allies will re-establish diplomatic and political relations with Syria.
4- The Syrian extremists/terrorists/rebels will be hosted temporarily (this temporary nature could extend to few decades, as it happened in early 1980s) in different countries. The rest of Syrians who had no blood on their hands will be quick to return to participate in rebuilding their homeland.
5- I expect that the only reason the intensive bombing of terrorists in Syria (and Iraq) did not start yet is the instability of Turkish government. Turkish government is vital for this plan. Turkish government played major role in supporting, arming, training and allowing terrorists to enter Syria. And the Turkish government (even a future Erdogan’s government) will participate enthusiastically in the campaign.
6- Some of the Australian known terrorists fighting currently in Syria will travel to Turkey, get Syrian forged passport and seek asylum in Germany. We should expect that even some of the terrorists who were declared to be dead (like El Omer and Sharrouf) will be living in one of EU countries under Syrian name. But do we really care?
7- We should wait for the plan to be ready to start by mid November.
8- Our hardcore pro-extremists media and politicians should be ready to accept the changes. Bob Carr, Labor party, Greens party and SBS should start exploring way of u-turn on the issue of attacking Syrian government and president. These need to forget about terminologies like “dictator”, “Assad should go”, “barrel bombs”, “Assad forces” ...etc.
My two cents on this debate.
Monday, August 10, 2015
Pick-and-choose in fighting violence: the hidden agenda?
We should be very proud of our security agencies: they successfully traced twitter account holder who threatened community activist and charged the accuser (http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/03/11/ipswich-woman-faces-court-over-online-hate-attacks-0). But this quick and effective action may face some questioning: why our authorities were slow and ineffective in tracing thousands of extremists’ threats and subsequently ineffective in arresting any perpetrator for the last 5 years.
I, as an example, was receiving since mid 2012 steady flow of hate messages, including abuses, threat to kill me and hurt my kids. To date, no one message was successfully traced and no one was subsequently arrested. Even when I was physically attacked at least 3 times, I provided pictures, videos, car plate-numbers and phone numbers of perpetrators, no one was arrested. Of course except the high-profile attack I coped in front of Chanel 7 cameras May 2013. But even though the whole incident was filmed and broadcasted widely on many media outlets here and abroad, the perpetrator was found to be “community builder” and escaped any charge.
This should lead us to ask thousands of questions: why security agencies are very quick and effective in solving some crimes, but slow and terribly ineffective in solving others? Does this depend on the profile of the victim in the society? Or maybe it is related more to the perpetrator’s profile?
Let us discuss some of the threats I received for the last 5 years and try to answer some of these questions.
The first public attacks I received were during the NSW election campaign 2011. During January 2011, ALL my posters were ripped off, my campaign workers were threatened and I was personally threatened in front of tens of people outside Al Bukhari bookstore. The perpetrators were volunteers inside the bookstore. I even passed names to Auburn police station. The police officer told me that he cannot do anything, even though I was threatened inside the Auburn police station in front of that police officer.
While my complaint was ignored by police, it received extensive media interest. I was contacted by journalists from ALL major media outlets in Australia. I was even contacted by The Times magazine. At that time, I did not know why the media gave me all this attention, but I refused to broadcast my complaint. Now I understand why single complaint received all media attention in Australia and around the world, but all my subsequent complaint in 2012 received little media (and authorities) attention.
In January 2011, the Syrian crisis did not start yet. The complaint was against notorious Wahhabi extremist “sheikh” and his followers. It was a good media opportunity to stir some Islamophobia and get coverage, readers and business. While all serious threats I, and many in the community, received after the beginning of Syrian revolution were ignored only for one reason: because we were on the wrong side of the crisis.
From mid 2012, Wahhabi extremists intensified their violence against any opponent (or possible opponent) to Syrian “revolution”. As the Syrian “revolution” enjoyed the support of ALL our Parliamentary politicians, ALL media outlets and support of our security agencies, this violence campaigns by Wahhabi extremists were largely ignored. Not only this. The politicians were denying them. Surprisingly, security agencies were not only in denial. They were suggesting that it is not about extremism but rather about drug-dealing. I was personally asked (under threat of prosecution) to stop talking about these violence campaigns.
The media that was eager in the past to pick any story about “Muslim” wrongdoings, this time was largely silent. They did not take advantage of this golden opportunity to try and spread more Islamophobia….!!!
The reasons were very clear: they all sacrificed all these opportunities to continue the support for the “Syrian revolution”. All this despite the fact that this support and turning blind eyes on these violent campaigns meant allowing extremists to brainwash, recruit, fundraise and send terrorists to fight in Syria. And all this was the reasons why we have the highest radicalization level in Australian contemporary history now.
So the quick and soft actions to arrest of violence perpetrators depend on the profile of the victims: if the victims are friendly with current media and political agendas, the action will be swift and perpetrators will be arrested immediately and convicted.
This is why Wahhabi extremists who shot Ali Ibrahim, burned Al Hariri shop, attacked many community members (before mid 2014) where never brought to justice. At that time, the agenda was to help Syrian “revolution” at any expense.
We should be happy that the agendas are changed. But this leaves the victims of Wahhabi extremists deeply disappointed. We were let down and left alone to fight extremists for years. All this with no recognition of our sacrifice and courage. On the contrary. We were described with all stupid description. All this because we were swimming against the tide, despite being ahead of the whole nation in predicting the ugly outcome.
What is more disappointing in the fact that agendas were changed means that the same people who were behind extremism for the last years, became now the face of fighting against the same extremism they promoted between 2011 – 2014.
I will write about this in details… later on…
I, as an example, was receiving since mid 2012 steady flow of hate messages, including abuses, threat to kill me and hurt my kids. To date, no one message was successfully traced and no one was subsequently arrested. Even when I was physically attacked at least 3 times, I provided pictures, videos, car plate-numbers and phone numbers of perpetrators, no one was arrested. Of course except the high-profile attack I coped in front of Chanel 7 cameras May 2013. But even though the whole incident was filmed and broadcasted widely on many media outlets here and abroad, the perpetrator was found to be “community builder” and escaped any charge.
This should lead us to ask thousands of questions: why security agencies are very quick and effective in solving some crimes, but slow and terribly ineffective in solving others? Does this depend on the profile of the victim in the society? Or maybe it is related more to the perpetrator’s profile?
Let us discuss some of the threats I received for the last 5 years and try to answer some of these questions.
The first public attacks I received were during the NSW election campaign 2011. During January 2011, ALL my posters were ripped off, my campaign workers were threatened and I was personally threatened in front of tens of people outside Al Bukhari bookstore. The perpetrators were volunteers inside the bookstore. I even passed names to Auburn police station. The police officer told me that he cannot do anything, even though I was threatened inside the Auburn police station in front of that police officer.
While my complaint was ignored by police, it received extensive media interest. I was contacted by journalists from ALL major media outlets in Australia. I was even contacted by The Times magazine. At that time, I did not know why the media gave me all this attention, but I refused to broadcast my complaint. Now I understand why single complaint received all media attention in Australia and around the world, but all my subsequent complaint in 2012 received little media (and authorities) attention.
In January 2011, the Syrian crisis did not start yet. The complaint was against notorious Wahhabi extremist “sheikh” and his followers. It was a good media opportunity to stir some Islamophobia and get coverage, readers and business. While all serious threats I, and many in the community, received after the beginning of Syrian revolution were ignored only for one reason: because we were on the wrong side of the crisis.
From mid 2012, Wahhabi extremists intensified their violence against any opponent (or possible opponent) to Syrian “revolution”. As the Syrian “revolution” enjoyed the support of ALL our Parliamentary politicians, ALL media outlets and support of our security agencies, this violence campaigns by Wahhabi extremists were largely ignored. Not only this. The politicians were denying them. Surprisingly, security agencies were not only in denial. They were suggesting that it is not about extremism but rather about drug-dealing. I was personally asked (under threat of prosecution) to stop talking about these violence campaigns.
The media that was eager in the past to pick any story about “Muslim” wrongdoings, this time was largely silent. They did not take advantage of this golden opportunity to try and spread more Islamophobia….!!!
The reasons were very clear: they all sacrificed all these opportunities to continue the support for the “Syrian revolution”. All this despite the fact that this support and turning blind eyes on these violent campaigns meant allowing extremists to brainwash, recruit, fundraise and send terrorists to fight in Syria. And all this was the reasons why we have the highest radicalization level in Australian contemporary history now.
So the quick and soft actions to arrest of violence perpetrators depend on the profile of the victims: if the victims are friendly with current media and political agendas, the action will be swift and perpetrators will be arrested immediately and convicted.
This is why Wahhabi extremists who shot Ali Ibrahim, burned Al Hariri shop, attacked many community members (before mid 2014) where never brought to justice. At that time, the agenda was to help Syrian “revolution” at any expense.
We should be happy that the agendas are changed. But this leaves the victims of Wahhabi extremists deeply disappointed. We were let down and left alone to fight extremists for years. All this with no recognition of our sacrifice and courage. On the contrary. We were described with all stupid description. All this because we were swimming against the tide, despite being ahead of the whole nation in predicting the ugly outcome.
What is more disappointing in the fact that agendas were changed means that the same people who were behind extremism for the last years, became now the face of fighting against the same extremism they promoted between 2011 – 2014.
I will write about this in details… later on…
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
the significance of the deal between Iran and 5+1...
Some people (especially those supporting Axis of Resistance) wrongly understand the significance of the deal between Iran and 5+1...
The deal does not make Iran nuclear power.... Iran has nuclear power for peaceful use for the last few decades. So the deal will not make any change...
The significance of the deal:
- It lifts sanctions on Iran, hence strengthening the Iranian economy and its influence on international economy.
- US admits of its foreign policy failure and hence its hegemony as only super power comes to and end.
- The deal was not able without the efforts and sacrifices of Iranians and their allies in Syria and Russia. The allies efforts that aborted the New Middle East plan, should expect that US and its allies will help seriously and genuinely to restore global stability by ending the terrorism launched by US policy.
The significance of the deal as described by both Putin of Russian and Assad of Syria is that US has agreed that new world order has emerged. an order that has many super powers, and not only one...
The first and immediate result of this deal should be global genuine efforts to end terrorism in Syria and Iraq. Then Libya and other countries destroyed by US destructive policy.
I would not be surprised if US army will participate in destroying terrorist forces in Syria and Iraq soon....
AFP Eid Iftar embarrassment: why authorities insist to deal with extremists..!!!
We have no other choice but to continue laughing at authorities insisting to embarrass themselves when it comes to dealing with Muslim communities. The authorities are insisting to extend the hands of cooperation with the wrong people in Muslim communities, for the last decade. These wrong decisions that resulted in the current high level of radicalisation, resulted in reaching high level of terror alert.
Authorities insisted for the last decade in dealing with Muslim communities to consult and cooperate with loud extremists claiming to represent our diverse communities. The latest round of consultation about anti-terrorism measures last year which saw major boycott by self-appointed leaders (mainly extreme elements) was not enough for our authorities to understand the real situation in the communities.
Today’s announcement of AFP cancelling its Eid Iftar because some invited “leaders” vowed to boycott the Iftar is latest funny embarrassment for our authorities.
When authorities started to consult, invite for events and invite for funding rounds for programs to fight against radicalisation, I discovered that authorities had miserably failed to choose the right people. In these rounds of invitations, the authorities failed to invite: representatives from Shia community, no representative form Alawis and secular Muslims considered by authorities to be infidels and not Muslims. Surprisingly, anti-terrorism campaigners in Muslim communities were largely ignored.
It seems to many of us (myself and many active members in the community) that to be qualified by authorities to be “Muslim leader”, we should be:
- Extremists with large beards, short pants and no moustache.
- Extremists that advocated participating in terrorist activities in Syria.
- Extremists advocating to fight against authorities moves to stop radicalisation in the society..
The authorities’ insistence to adopt extremists’ definition of the “good Muslim” is detrimental at all levels. By doing this, authorities are causing deep disappointment among many anti-extremism Muslims. The voice of these moderate and anti-extremism activists and leaders will be weakened further each time authorities embarrass themselves with extremists.
In recent meeting with Liberal MP, he admitted that the decision of PM to invite extremists for consultation (and the subsequent refusal of them to attend these consultations) was wrong decision based on wrong advice. But it seems that authorities are not ready to learn from mistakes until major terrorist activity happens.
We, as active anti-extremists Muslims, are not waiting for authorities to cooperate with us to continue our work. In fact, in the last 5 years we conducted our anti-extremism campaigns without any help from authorities. At many stages, our campaigns were weakened by authorities’ lack of cooperation and at some stage request for us to be silent and let extremists do whatever they want.
For 5 years, authorities were on the wrong side of the campaign. They dealt with the wrong side of Muslim communities. And it seems they enjoying being on the wrong side.
If our warnings were taken seriously for the last 5 years, we would not have this high level of radicalisation in our society. We start to question whether authorities have some gains to make in keeping blind-eyes on radical elements in the community!!!
Otherwise, why authorities are refusing to cooperate with elements that are keen to act on anti-extremism steps???
Questions need urgent answers....
I will circulate soon more detailed assessments with concrete facts.
Authorities insisted for the last decade in dealing with Muslim communities to consult and cooperate with loud extremists claiming to represent our diverse communities. The latest round of consultation about anti-terrorism measures last year which saw major boycott by self-appointed leaders (mainly extreme elements) was not enough for our authorities to understand the real situation in the communities.
Today’s announcement of AFP cancelling its Eid Iftar because some invited “leaders” vowed to boycott the Iftar is latest funny embarrassment for our authorities.
When authorities started to consult, invite for events and invite for funding rounds for programs to fight against radicalisation, I discovered that authorities had miserably failed to choose the right people. In these rounds of invitations, the authorities failed to invite: representatives from Shia community, no representative form Alawis and secular Muslims considered by authorities to be infidels and not Muslims. Surprisingly, anti-terrorism campaigners in Muslim communities were largely ignored.
It seems to many of us (myself and many active members in the community) that to be qualified by authorities to be “Muslim leader”, we should be:
- Extremists with large beards, short pants and no moustache.
- Extremists that advocated participating in terrorist activities in Syria.
- Extremists advocating to fight against authorities moves to stop radicalisation in the society..
The authorities’ insistence to adopt extremists’ definition of the “good Muslim” is detrimental at all levels. By doing this, authorities are causing deep disappointment among many anti-extremism Muslims. The voice of these moderate and anti-extremism activists and leaders will be weakened further each time authorities embarrass themselves with extremists.
In recent meeting with Liberal MP, he admitted that the decision of PM to invite extremists for consultation (and the subsequent refusal of them to attend these consultations) was wrong decision based on wrong advice. But it seems that authorities are not ready to learn from mistakes until major terrorist activity happens.
We, as active anti-extremists Muslims, are not waiting for authorities to cooperate with us to continue our work. In fact, in the last 5 years we conducted our anti-extremism campaigns without any help from authorities. At many stages, our campaigns were weakened by authorities’ lack of cooperation and at some stage request for us to be silent and let extremists do whatever they want.
For 5 years, authorities were on the wrong side of the campaign. They dealt with the wrong side of Muslim communities. And it seems they enjoying being on the wrong side.
If our warnings were taken seriously for the last 5 years, we would not have this high level of radicalisation in our society. We start to question whether authorities have some gains to make in keeping blind-eyes on radical elements in the community!!!
Otherwise, why authorities are refusing to cooperate with elements that are keen to act on anti-extremism steps???
Questions need urgent answers....
I will circulate soon more detailed assessments with concrete facts.
Monday, July 06, 2015
Open letter to Luke Foley: Do not be fooled by Muslim extremists...!!!
Dear Hon Luke Foley, leader of NSW Labor party and member for Auburn
I decided to write you this letter because I thought that enough is enough of your party influenced by organisations that falsely claim to have monopoly on Muslim votes in this area and in the state in general. This lie that had lead both your party and other parties to give this organisations undeserved weight and consideration. But what is important for us is the deadly impact of such consideration for organisations that have no significant base and no fans among Muslims of this state.
I will be very detailed in my arguments, and will match all this with facts and numbers.
The Lebanese Moslem Association (LMA) and its allies of mainly extremist organisations played very dirty game in 2011 election to convince you and your opponents that it is very influential organisation and it controls the votes of more than 200,000 voters in the state.
In 2011 election it was very clear that voters of NSW had enough from Labor party and that the party will suffer devastating defeat. For the whole 2010, all opinion polls suggested that Labor will lose any seat with margin of less than 20%. Consequently, all opinion polls were suggesting that Labor party will be reduced in parliament by half.
The LMA played very deceptive and dirty game. They decided to go public and declare that they will support Liberal party to win 2011 election. The Liberal party was going to win the election regardless of LMA position or declaration.
As expected, the Liberal party won every seat where Labor was governing with less than 20% margin. In some seats, Labor lost very safe seats with margin of more than 25%. None of these seats have any significant numbers of Muslim voters.
LMA exercised what should be recorded in Australian politics as “big mouth campaign”. Its president was the biggest mouth of all community and ethnic campaigners and activists. He made the biggest lies and deceptive claims ever.
He, for example, declared without any evidence that his organisation and its allies had cost the Labor party the seat of Granville.
Labor won Granville in 2007 election with less than 8% margin. It was very clear to all political analysts that Labor needs divine intervention to keep Granville. The Muslim voters constitute less than 12% of the seat. There is no shred of evidence that the Shia Afghani and Iraqi voters were influenced by deeply sectarian and tribal Lebanese Moslem Association in that seat. So it should be highly naive from your party or the opposition Liberals to believe that LMA had influenced the change of hands of Granville seat in 2011 election.
If LMA and its allies of extremists were truly influential, they should have enforced change of hands in Lakemba, Auburn, Bankstown, Canterbury or Liverpool. These seats have the highest numbers of Muslims in the state (between 25 – 35% of voters).
Despite the “big-mouth” campaign by LMA and its allies in these seats against your party, your party’s candidates kept all above mentioned seats, some with minimal loss and lower than state trend of swing against your party.
After the 2011 election and the big lies by LMA and its allies, your party has fallen hostage to these lies and deceptions. Your party thought that to win back power will definitely come through winning back the heart of LMA and its allies. When in fact the results of the 2011 election should have given your party clear indication that LMA and its allies are no more than “big-mouth liars” who have no support and no base.
This assumption by your party is the biggest mistake you could have committed in the last few decades. I will talk in details about this later.
This assumption that promoted your predecessor, John Robertson, to parachute candidate nominated and enforced upon your party by LMA in Lakemba. And without divine intervention which enforced John Robertson’s resignation, such mistake could have been repeated in Auburn and Bankstown.
Well, Mr Foley, after the end of 2015 election, I would have thought that your party had conducted thorough evaluation of the whole campaign and its results.
In Lakemba, where your party was succumbed to LMA extortion and ran candidate nominated by this organisation against the decision of rank-and-file who preselected Mr Kal Asfour, did this deal help Labor to regain much of its lost popularity?
The Labor has regained more than 8.5% of its popularity across the state. In Lakemba, where Muslim votes constitutes more than 30% of the population, the new Muslim candidate supported and enforced on Labor by LMA (and its allies of mainly extreme organisations), had won the seat with swing of +11%, ie similar to state trend. Compare this result with the result of your candidate in Bankstown who was subjected to constant attack by LMA and allies. Despite these attacks and the fact that she is not Muslim, she won the seat with swing of more than +10%. So your alliance with LMA in Lakemba did not result in any dramatic increase of vote to your candidate for Lakemba!!!
In fact, the Labor alliance with LMA did not help Labor in winning any seat. On the contrary. The alliance with LMA and its unethical practices resulted in Labor losing many of its traditional voters and members.
I would assume that Labor internal evaluation of deeply disappointed election results should have pointed fingers of the negative impact of Labor alliance with extreme organisations on its disappointing results.
The LMA who get away with their dirty tactics of “big-mouth” campaigns based on lies and deceptions and successfully imposed their candidate on Labor, did not honour its commitment and insisted to unethically betray your party by campaigning against Labor candidates in many seats, including your own seat and neighbouring Bankstown seat. But again. These unethical practices in fact exposed the lies of LMA and its allies. Their campaign against Labor in Auburn and Bankstown saw big backlash against LMA and its allies. The Labor increased its popularity in Bankstown. In Auburn, the slight loss of popularity was insignificant and was due to unrelated reasons. In Auburn, a popular independent candidate got a lot of Labor votes. The re-distribution of the seat boundaries played some role.
Would all the above mentioned factors enough for your party to stop believing the lies and deceptions of LMA? Would all these facts be enough to ignore this extreme organisation that has no support among Muslim voters at all?
We hope that your party will wake up before it is too late. The worrying trend of LMA infiltrating your party had already deep negative impact on your party.
We witnessed the worrying shift of your party’s membership and votes. We can assure you that your party’s alliance with this extreme, sectarian and tribal organisation has costed your party a lot of voters and members. We are well aware that many Shia, Alawi and secular Muslims had deserted your party and voted consistently for your opponents. Our deep worries about the infiltration of highly opportunistic and extreme elements convinced us for the first time in decades to declare that there is no difference between voting for you or for your opponents and deeply conservative Liberal party.
Your party’s superficial evaluation overlooked that the major problem of your party is the loss of direction, loss of brand and loss of commitment to issues and principles. This is why your party strategists think that the solution is by bribing this organisation or winning the heart of this lobby group. While in fact your party could win back much of its lost popularity by shaping up its policies and return to its origin of presenting progressive alternative to deeply regressive conservative opponents.
In regard to your party’s continued alliance with LMA, can you ask yourself the crucial question: what did you achieve by entering alliance with LMA and its allies?
I guarantee you that your party would have won Lakemba seat regardless of the name, background or the colour of skin of the candidate. They tried their best to unseat your candidate in 2011, and they failed. And they failed even though your party was at its lowest popularity ever.
I, and many inside your party, think that your party’s alliance with LMA (and its allies of mainly extremist organisations) will have devastating negative effect on the party. It already caused a lot of division, tension and disloyalty. We think that this organisation’s influence inside your party through the elected MP will increase the division and disharmony.
It seems to many of us that your party is allowing another Eddie Obied’s opportunist faction. I am afraid that this time the damage will be worse. At least Eddie Obied and his Terrigal faction was only about power and money. In the case of LMA faction, it will be mixture of move to accumulate power by spreading extremism, sectarian hate and tribalism. Did you notice that LMA (who claims to represent all Muslims in the state) lobbied for your party to run only Muslims from North Lebanese (Sunni) background?
You need to read some of latest Wikileaks documents to discover that your party is influenced by extremist policy of Saudi Arabia, through LMA members and supporters influence inside your party.
We hope that your party will wake up, before another disappointing defeat. This time on Federal level.
I decided to write you this letter because I thought that enough is enough of your party influenced by organisations that falsely claim to have monopoly on Muslim votes in this area and in the state in general. This lie that had lead both your party and other parties to give this organisations undeserved weight and consideration. But what is important for us is the deadly impact of such consideration for organisations that have no significant base and no fans among Muslims of this state.
I will be very detailed in my arguments, and will match all this with facts and numbers.
The Lebanese Moslem Association (LMA) and its allies of mainly extremist organisations played very dirty game in 2011 election to convince you and your opponents that it is very influential organisation and it controls the votes of more than 200,000 voters in the state.
In 2011 election it was very clear that voters of NSW had enough from Labor party and that the party will suffer devastating defeat. For the whole 2010, all opinion polls suggested that Labor will lose any seat with margin of less than 20%. Consequently, all opinion polls were suggesting that Labor party will be reduced in parliament by half.
The LMA played very deceptive and dirty game. They decided to go public and declare that they will support Liberal party to win 2011 election. The Liberal party was going to win the election regardless of LMA position or declaration.
As expected, the Liberal party won every seat where Labor was governing with less than 20% margin. In some seats, Labor lost very safe seats with margin of more than 25%. None of these seats have any significant numbers of Muslim voters.
LMA exercised what should be recorded in Australian politics as “big mouth campaign”. Its president was the biggest mouth of all community and ethnic campaigners and activists. He made the biggest lies and deceptive claims ever.
He, for example, declared without any evidence that his organisation and its allies had cost the Labor party the seat of Granville.
Labor won Granville in 2007 election with less than 8% margin. It was very clear to all political analysts that Labor needs divine intervention to keep Granville. The Muslim voters constitute less than 12% of the seat. There is no shred of evidence that the Shia Afghani and Iraqi voters were influenced by deeply sectarian and tribal Lebanese Moslem Association in that seat. So it should be highly naive from your party or the opposition Liberals to believe that LMA had influenced the change of hands of Granville seat in 2011 election.
If LMA and its allies of extremists were truly influential, they should have enforced change of hands in Lakemba, Auburn, Bankstown, Canterbury or Liverpool. These seats have the highest numbers of Muslims in the state (between 25 – 35% of voters).
Despite the “big-mouth” campaign by LMA and its allies in these seats against your party, your party’s candidates kept all above mentioned seats, some with minimal loss and lower than state trend of swing against your party.
After the 2011 election and the big lies by LMA and its allies, your party has fallen hostage to these lies and deceptions. Your party thought that to win back power will definitely come through winning back the heart of LMA and its allies. When in fact the results of the 2011 election should have given your party clear indication that LMA and its allies are no more than “big-mouth liars” who have no support and no base.
This assumption by your party is the biggest mistake you could have committed in the last few decades. I will talk in details about this later.
This assumption that promoted your predecessor, John Robertson, to parachute candidate nominated and enforced upon your party by LMA in Lakemba. And without divine intervention which enforced John Robertson’s resignation, such mistake could have been repeated in Auburn and Bankstown.
Well, Mr Foley, after the end of 2015 election, I would have thought that your party had conducted thorough evaluation of the whole campaign and its results.
In Lakemba, where your party was succumbed to LMA extortion and ran candidate nominated by this organisation against the decision of rank-and-file who preselected Mr Kal Asfour, did this deal help Labor to regain much of its lost popularity?
The Labor has regained more than 8.5% of its popularity across the state. In Lakemba, where Muslim votes constitutes more than 30% of the population, the new Muslim candidate supported and enforced on Labor by LMA (and its allies of mainly extreme organisations), had won the seat with swing of +11%, ie similar to state trend. Compare this result with the result of your candidate in Bankstown who was subjected to constant attack by LMA and allies. Despite these attacks and the fact that she is not Muslim, she won the seat with swing of more than +10%. So your alliance with LMA in Lakemba did not result in any dramatic increase of vote to your candidate for Lakemba!!!
In fact, the Labor alliance with LMA did not help Labor in winning any seat. On the contrary. The alliance with LMA and its unethical practices resulted in Labor losing many of its traditional voters and members.
I would assume that Labor internal evaluation of deeply disappointed election results should have pointed fingers of the negative impact of Labor alliance with extreme organisations on its disappointing results.
The LMA who get away with their dirty tactics of “big-mouth” campaigns based on lies and deceptions and successfully imposed their candidate on Labor, did not honour its commitment and insisted to unethically betray your party by campaigning against Labor candidates in many seats, including your own seat and neighbouring Bankstown seat. But again. These unethical practices in fact exposed the lies of LMA and its allies. Their campaign against Labor in Auburn and Bankstown saw big backlash against LMA and its allies. The Labor increased its popularity in Bankstown. In Auburn, the slight loss of popularity was insignificant and was due to unrelated reasons. In Auburn, a popular independent candidate got a lot of Labor votes. The re-distribution of the seat boundaries played some role.
Would all the above mentioned factors enough for your party to stop believing the lies and deceptions of LMA? Would all these facts be enough to ignore this extreme organisation that has no support among Muslim voters at all?
We hope that your party will wake up before it is too late. The worrying trend of LMA infiltrating your party had already deep negative impact on your party.
We witnessed the worrying shift of your party’s membership and votes. We can assure you that your party’s alliance with this extreme, sectarian and tribal organisation has costed your party a lot of voters and members. We are well aware that many Shia, Alawi and secular Muslims had deserted your party and voted consistently for your opponents. Our deep worries about the infiltration of highly opportunistic and extreme elements convinced us for the first time in decades to declare that there is no difference between voting for you or for your opponents and deeply conservative Liberal party.
Your party’s superficial evaluation overlooked that the major problem of your party is the loss of direction, loss of brand and loss of commitment to issues and principles. This is why your party strategists think that the solution is by bribing this organisation or winning the heart of this lobby group. While in fact your party could win back much of its lost popularity by shaping up its policies and return to its origin of presenting progressive alternative to deeply regressive conservative opponents.
In regard to your party’s continued alliance with LMA, can you ask yourself the crucial question: what did you achieve by entering alliance with LMA and its allies?
I guarantee you that your party would have won Lakemba seat regardless of the name, background or the colour of skin of the candidate. They tried their best to unseat your candidate in 2011, and they failed. And they failed even though your party was at its lowest popularity ever.
I, and many inside your party, think that your party’s alliance with LMA (and its allies of mainly extremist organisations) will have devastating negative effect on the party. It already caused a lot of division, tension and disloyalty. We think that this organisation’s influence inside your party through the elected MP will increase the division and disharmony.
It seems to many of us that your party is allowing another Eddie Obied’s opportunist faction. I am afraid that this time the damage will be worse. At least Eddie Obied and his Terrigal faction was only about power and money. In the case of LMA faction, it will be mixture of move to accumulate power by spreading extremism, sectarian hate and tribalism. Did you notice that LMA (who claims to represent all Muslims in the state) lobbied for your party to run only Muslims from North Lebanese (Sunni) background?
You need to read some of latest Wikileaks documents to discover that your party is influenced by extremist policy of Saudi Arabia, through LMA members and supporters influence inside your party.
We hope that your party will wake up, before another disappointing defeat. This time on Federal level.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
ISIS in our suburbs: This is why I am so concerned...!!!
Despite the fact that the police choppers are hovering over our heads in Western Sydney suburbs on daily basis for the last few months. And despite the “big mouth” politics exercised by our government and authorities about the “new approach and new actions” to curb radicalisation in the society. And despite the billions of dollars spent on or allocated to measures to fight against extremism and potential terrorist activities.
Despite all these, I had information during the last week about three community members in our neighbourhood disappeared from community, most likely travelled to fight in Syria (or Iraq). And I have information about more people disappeared from other suburbs, most likely we will hear about them killed in Syria, soon.
Not only this.
I have information that extremists had successfully infiltrated some of our security agencies, including police force.
And in previous article I explained how extremists had infiltrated our political system, which developed closed relations with our major (and minor) political parties.
So, it is clear that things are not moving in the right direction.
There are many reasons for this. Till now, no action was taken to limit extremists’ influence. Some of the millions of dollars allocated to be spent to counter radicalisation program were allocated to extreme groups who are the source of radicalisation. And terrorists are still called “freedom fighters” when they cut heads of Syrian soldiers or policemen.
It is very clear that our authorities have no plan. But we are deeply concerned because our lives are on line here.
When someone is disappeared from my neighbourhood. I contacted anti-terrorism agencies and passed the information. I expressed to them that I and my family are very concerned, taking into account that I was physically attacked several times, attacked verbally several times and received thousands of death threats, authorities should have understood my concerns. But no action was taken.
We were not contacted by any official. We were not given any assurance that the families of these disappeared extremists are not security threat to our neighbourhood. And when we asked about confirmation of the fate of these disappeared persons. No answer was received.
The continued flow of extremists to fight in Syria has one interpretation: ISIS has established itself in our suburbs. We know that extremists existed in our suburbs for the last few decades. But the new issue here is that the militant savage medieval terrorists have sleeping cells in our suburbs. Maybe your neighbour or maybe mine. Maybe your teacher at local TAFE. I suspect the owner of local convenience store. Who knows?
The authorities who suppose to know, either do not know or do not give a damn. They are busy talking tough to win votes. While local groups of extremists managed to build tens of mosques, musallas and “bookstores” to brainwash, recruit and collect funds. Millions of $s were either locally collected or brought from countries sponsoring terrorism (on the top of them is Saudi Arabia). All this happened under the eyes and noses of our authorities.
But our authorities are still confused: where did all this radicalisation come from?
To be fair, I saw our PM got angry, at some stage, because of this high radicalisation. He asked tough questions. He promised to take action. And he took important actions.
He invited all extremist leaders and held consultations of “how to deal with high radicalisation”. And after few rounds of intense consultations, the invited “leaders” reached an important conclusion: we do not have radicalisation in this country. All is government conspiracy to win election next year. And the vowed to boycott any future consultations. Government retaliated by bribing them with couple of millions of dollars to help fighting against the same radicalisation they helped to create.
So if radicalisation does not exist, who shot Ali Ibrahim? Who physically attacked me? Who sent threatening messages to all Shia local businesses? Who burned down Naji and Hariri chicken shops? Who stormed Lindt Cafe? Who is Jake Bilardi, Khaled Sharrouf, Mohamed Elomer? And why police choppers hovering over our heads day and night in the suburbs?
I was never highly concerned about radicalisation as I am now. When local doctor gone missing, most likely to fight with ISIS. When your next-door neighbour went missing for weeks, most likely to fight in Syria. And when your son is not safe at local school. When the only constant news item on all our channels is the news about Australians who escaped security measures to join medieval terrorist organisation. You should be highly concerned.
Most importantly, when your authorities are not taking the matter seriously. When these authorities ignore your safety, ignore your feeling; ignore to tell you what is really happening in your neighbourhood. When you feel that you are on your own fighting against local extremists/potential terrorists. All of us should be highly concerned.
After recent developments, we all should be both alert and alarmed.
Authorities need to take actions. The actions should not be limited to appointing terrorism minister or counter-terrorism coordinator. It should not be limited to distributing millions of dollars to extremist organisations to convince them to depart their radical preaching.
Actions should include iron-fist approach: close down centres and mosques that preach hate. Arrest local “imams of hate”. Close down websites and Facebook pages promoting hate. Clean up our “Islamic” schools from extremists. Shut down radio stations, TV channels and newspapers. And suffocate funding of extreme organisations. In addition to education campaign to restore harmony and peace.
Simply: stop talking and put your money where your mouth is and let us reclaim our suburbs from ISIS and other terrorists.
Despite all these, I had information during the last week about three community members in our neighbourhood disappeared from community, most likely travelled to fight in Syria (or Iraq). And I have information about more people disappeared from other suburbs, most likely we will hear about them killed in Syria, soon.
Not only this.
I have information that extremists had successfully infiltrated some of our security agencies, including police force.
And in previous article I explained how extremists had infiltrated our political system, which developed closed relations with our major (and minor) political parties.
So, it is clear that things are not moving in the right direction.
There are many reasons for this. Till now, no action was taken to limit extremists’ influence. Some of the millions of dollars allocated to be spent to counter radicalisation program were allocated to extreme groups who are the source of radicalisation. And terrorists are still called “freedom fighters” when they cut heads of Syrian soldiers or policemen.
It is very clear that our authorities have no plan. But we are deeply concerned because our lives are on line here.
When someone is disappeared from my neighbourhood. I contacted anti-terrorism agencies and passed the information. I expressed to them that I and my family are very concerned, taking into account that I was physically attacked several times, attacked verbally several times and received thousands of death threats, authorities should have understood my concerns. But no action was taken.
We were not contacted by any official. We were not given any assurance that the families of these disappeared extremists are not security threat to our neighbourhood. And when we asked about confirmation of the fate of these disappeared persons. No answer was received.
The continued flow of extremists to fight in Syria has one interpretation: ISIS has established itself in our suburbs. We know that extremists existed in our suburbs for the last few decades. But the new issue here is that the militant savage medieval terrorists have sleeping cells in our suburbs. Maybe your neighbour or maybe mine. Maybe your teacher at local TAFE. I suspect the owner of local convenience store. Who knows?
The authorities who suppose to know, either do not know or do not give a damn. They are busy talking tough to win votes. While local groups of extremists managed to build tens of mosques, musallas and “bookstores” to brainwash, recruit and collect funds. Millions of $s were either locally collected or brought from countries sponsoring terrorism (on the top of them is Saudi Arabia). All this happened under the eyes and noses of our authorities.
But our authorities are still confused: where did all this radicalisation come from?
To be fair, I saw our PM got angry, at some stage, because of this high radicalisation. He asked tough questions. He promised to take action. And he took important actions.
He invited all extremist leaders and held consultations of “how to deal with high radicalisation”. And after few rounds of intense consultations, the invited “leaders” reached an important conclusion: we do not have radicalisation in this country. All is government conspiracy to win election next year. And the vowed to boycott any future consultations. Government retaliated by bribing them with couple of millions of dollars to help fighting against the same radicalisation they helped to create.
So if radicalisation does not exist, who shot Ali Ibrahim? Who physically attacked me? Who sent threatening messages to all Shia local businesses? Who burned down Naji and Hariri chicken shops? Who stormed Lindt Cafe? Who is Jake Bilardi, Khaled Sharrouf, Mohamed Elomer? And why police choppers hovering over our heads day and night in the suburbs?
I was never highly concerned about radicalisation as I am now. When local doctor gone missing, most likely to fight with ISIS. When your next-door neighbour went missing for weeks, most likely to fight in Syria. And when your son is not safe at local school. When the only constant news item on all our channels is the news about Australians who escaped security measures to join medieval terrorist organisation. You should be highly concerned.
Most importantly, when your authorities are not taking the matter seriously. When these authorities ignore your safety, ignore your feeling; ignore to tell you what is really happening in your neighbourhood. When you feel that you are on your own fighting against local extremists/potential terrorists. All of us should be highly concerned.
After recent developments, we all should be both alert and alarmed.
Authorities need to take actions. The actions should not be limited to appointing terrorism minister or counter-terrorism coordinator. It should not be limited to distributing millions of dollars to extremist organisations to convince them to depart their radical preaching.
Actions should include iron-fist approach: close down centres and mosques that preach hate. Arrest local “imams of hate”. Close down websites and Facebook pages promoting hate. Clean up our “Islamic” schools from extremists. Shut down radio stations, TV channels and newspapers. And suffocate funding of extreme organisations. In addition to education campaign to restore harmony and peace.
Simply: stop talking and put your money where your mouth is and let us reclaim our suburbs from ISIS and other terrorists.
Thursday, May 14, 2015
The risks of “Big mouths” democracy
Politicians and political analysts in Australia like to call Australian democracy (and Western democracy in general) as “participatory democracy”. The term wants to say that “if you participate in the processes, your voice will be heard. If you do not participate, you will be ignored”.
I will not try to discuss how deceptive this term is, as the democracy in real term should mean to listen and represent every citizen not only the ones who have certain capabilities and expertise. The term “participatory democracy” would indeed refute any claim of politicians to represent constituents, if they listen only to “active members” of the society.
So in reality, our democracy is democracy for “big mouths”. So if you keep whinging and making big lies loudly and publicly, they will listen to you. Even if you represent no one. And to silence you and win you to their side, they will give you some bribes in form of “grants and community funding”.
All this comes with big risks. Mostly opportunists will exercise this kind of democracy. This will mean that media and authorities will listen to the wrong people, reward wrong people and try to consult wrong people. This will result in resources being wasted and stories will be reported wrongly.
Let me give some examples.
Among Muslim communities, few extremists and few opportunists came forward for the last few decades and started to shout foul about Islamophobia and about “ignoring of Muslims’ interests and needs”. Consequently, government, opposition parties, security agencies, media and other authorities actively tried to appease these “big mouths” by engaging them and give them prominence they do not deserve and do not have in the communities.
For the last decades, the Lebanese Moslem Association was claiming day and night that they represent ALL Muslims. They were on the frontline demanding engaging its officials, as sign of engaging Muslims. And they were given a lot of prominence they do not deserve and have no right to claim.
From its name, Lebanese Moslem Association should not claim to represent Non-Lebanese Moslems (who are the overwhelming majority of Muslims). It also cannot represent Non-Sunni Lebanese (many indications point to the fact that LMA does not recognise non-Sunnis to be Muslims at all). So, if we exclude Non-Lebanese Sunnis, and Non-Sunni Lebanese, who does the LMA really represent?
So what are the risks with this “big-mouth” democracy?
Lebanese Moslem Association was representing extreme version of Islam in the last 2 or 3 decades. By claiming to represent ALL Muslims, it is very easy for the racists and Islamophobes to step up their Anti-Muslim campaigns by saying “Listen to the Muslims’ representatives what they say about this and that”.
Also, by authorities accepting that LMA represents Muslims in this country, they will consult only them and engage with them and so claim later that “everything is ok, we listened to Muslims and we have acted”.
This is what was happening in this country for the last few decades. Few fake organisations who are mainly follow and adopt extreme version of Islam were on the frontline trying to represent the Muslims. And this was one of the main reasons we have currently high radicalisation and high Islamophobia.
Some can argue that “we understand the argument about LMA and “big mouth democracy” causing high Islamophobia, but how they caused high radicalisation?”
The answer is very simple. Imagine that ordinary Muslim is hearing day after day from media and authorities that LMA and other extreme organisation represent Islam and Muslims. And at the same time, he/she is listening during Friday ceremonies and media speeches by LMA (and other extreme groups) representatives vending all kinds of extreme preaching and messages? Of course they will start to believe that this is the real Islam. So the brainwashing and recruitment will be easier.
When an ordinary Muslim hears from our authorities and media that LMA represents ALL Muslims. And LMA confirmed this lies. Then listens to the LMA religious spokesperson’s fatwa against saying “Merry Christmas” to Christians. Would not he start to believe that this is the real Islam?
And what did the government do to discipline these extremist groups?
After all extreme activities by LMA, government granted the organisation more than $2,750,000.00 to spread “harmony in the society” and to “empower marginalised religious and ethnic groups”.
Some of the tax-payers money was spent on broadcasting lectures of extremists and terrorists which lead to brainwash more Muslims and urge them to join terrorist groups like Al Qaeda.
Then our authorities did not stop on this. As LMA could have successfully deceived ALL political parties and authorities that they represent ALL Muslims in this country, governments started to compete who will grant LMA with more money (public bribes in the name of public funding for community projects) to win the Muslims votes that LMA supposedly controls.
Since mid 2011 until mid 2014, LMA was active in brainwashing Muslim youths under the banner of “supporting Syrian revolution”. Every Friday prayer ceremony will be focussed on Syrian “revolution” and the needs for community members to do all they can to support the “mujahedeen” (we discovered later that these mujahedeen are in fact AL Qaeda and ISIS terrorists). LMA was very active in supporting activities and fundraising to Syrian “revolution”. LMA was active in organising “tributes for fallen mujahideen (including killed terrorist Mustapha AL Majzoub)”.
With this track history of participating in brainwashing our youth, recently we learnt that the government has granted LMA money to “Share Humanity” as part of government’s “de-radicalisation plan”. What kind of humanity they can share by issuing fatwa against Christmas, paying respect and tribute to killed terrorists and in broadcasting lectures of extremists and terrorists?
I am shocked. And I am sure many of you are shocked too. But others are not only shocked. They used this to prove that ALL Muslims support terrorism.
What makes things worse is that our authorities actually support some part of “big mouth” democracy, but they do not support other parts.
When many of community members exercised their right to participate in “big mouth” democracy, the authorities were quick to ask them to keep silent. When early in 2012 some Muslims tried to say “not in our name” in their opposition to the so-called Syrian revolution, authorities and media either ignored the attacks on them or directly asked them to be silent for their “safety”.
So, it seems that the best description of our democracy is “friendly big mouths democracy”.
By the way, I need to mention here that after the death of prophet Mohamed, Muslims were never united but by sword with rivers of blood. How could anyone believe that Samier Danden and his LMA have more convincing power to unite ALL Muslims, than all Muslim leaders had in the last 15 centuries?
Not in my name. Not as Muslim. And not as Australian.
It is our job to recover our hijacked democracy.
I will not try to discuss how deceptive this term is, as the democracy in real term should mean to listen and represent every citizen not only the ones who have certain capabilities and expertise. The term “participatory democracy” would indeed refute any claim of politicians to represent constituents, if they listen only to “active members” of the society.
So in reality, our democracy is democracy for “big mouths”. So if you keep whinging and making big lies loudly and publicly, they will listen to you. Even if you represent no one. And to silence you and win you to their side, they will give you some bribes in form of “grants and community funding”.
All this comes with big risks. Mostly opportunists will exercise this kind of democracy. This will mean that media and authorities will listen to the wrong people, reward wrong people and try to consult wrong people. This will result in resources being wasted and stories will be reported wrongly.
Let me give some examples.
Among Muslim communities, few extremists and few opportunists came forward for the last few decades and started to shout foul about Islamophobia and about “ignoring of Muslims’ interests and needs”. Consequently, government, opposition parties, security agencies, media and other authorities actively tried to appease these “big mouths” by engaging them and give them prominence they do not deserve and do not have in the communities.
For the last decades, the Lebanese Moslem Association was claiming day and night that they represent ALL Muslims. They were on the frontline demanding engaging its officials, as sign of engaging Muslims. And they were given a lot of prominence they do not deserve and have no right to claim.
From its name, Lebanese Moslem Association should not claim to represent Non-Lebanese Moslems (who are the overwhelming majority of Muslims). It also cannot represent Non-Sunni Lebanese (many indications point to the fact that LMA does not recognise non-Sunnis to be Muslims at all). So, if we exclude Non-Lebanese Sunnis, and Non-Sunni Lebanese, who does the LMA really represent?
So what are the risks with this “big-mouth” democracy?
Lebanese Moslem Association was representing extreme version of Islam in the last 2 or 3 decades. By claiming to represent ALL Muslims, it is very easy for the racists and Islamophobes to step up their Anti-Muslim campaigns by saying “Listen to the Muslims’ representatives what they say about this and that”.
Also, by authorities accepting that LMA represents Muslims in this country, they will consult only them and engage with them and so claim later that “everything is ok, we listened to Muslims and we have acted”.
This is what was happening in this country for the last few decades. Few fake organisations who are mainly follow and adopt extreme version of Islam were on the frontline trying to represent the Muslims. And this was one of the main reasons we have currently high radicalisation and high Islamophobia.
Some can argue that “we understand the argument about LMA and “big mouth democracy” causing high Islamophobia, but how they caused high radicalisation?”
The answer is very simple. Imagine that ordinary Muslim is hearing day after day from media and authorities that LMA and other extreme organisation represent Islam and Muslims. And at the same time, he/she is listening during Friday ceremonies and media speeches by LMA (and other extreme groups) representatives vending all kinds of extreme preaching and messages? Of course they will start to believe that this is the real Islam. So the brainwashing and recruitment will be easier.
When an ordinary Muslim hears from our authorities and media that LMA represents ALL Muslims. And LMA confirmed this lies. Then listens to the LMA religious spokesperson’s fatwa against saying “Merry Christmas” to Christians. Would not he start to believe that this is the real Islam?
And what did the government do to discipline these extremist groups?
After all extreme activities by LMA, government granted the organisation more than $2,750,000.00 to spread “harmony in the society” and to “empower marginalised religious and ethnic groups”.
Some of the tax-payers money was spent on broadcasting lectures of extremists and terrorists which lead to brainwash more Muslims and urge them to join terrorist groups like Al Qaeda.
Then our authorities did not stop on this. As LMA could have successfully deceived ALL political parties and authorities that they represent ALL Muslims in this country, governments started to compete who will grant LMA with more money (public bribes in the name of public funding for community projects) to win the Muslims votes that LMA supposedly controls.
Since mid 2011 until mid 2014, LMA was active in brainwashing Muslim youths under the banner of “supporting Syrian revolution”. Every Friday prayer ceremony will be focussed on Syrian “revolution” and the needs for community members to do all they can to support the “mujahedeen” (we discovered later that these mujahedeen are in fact AL Qaeda and ISIS terrorists). LMA was very active in supporting activities and fundraising to Syrian “revolution”. LMA was active in organising “tributes for fallen mujahideen (including killed terrorist Mustapha AL Majzoub)”.
With this track history of participating in brainwashing our youth, recently we learnt that the government has granted LMA money to “Share Humanity” as part of government’s “de-radicalisation plan”. What kind of humanity they can share by issuing fatwa against Christmas, paying respect and tribute to killed terrorists and in broadcasting lectures of extremists and terrorists?
I am shocked. And I am sure many of you are shocked too. But others are not only shocked. They used this to prove that ALL Muslims support terrorism.
What makes things worse is that our authorities actually support some part of “big mouth” democracy, but they do not support other parts.
When many of community members exercised their right to participate in “big mouth” democracy, the authorities were quick to ask them to keep silent. When early in 2012 some Muslims tried to say “not in our name” in their opposition to the so-called Syrian revolution, authorities and media either ignored the attacks on them or directly asked them to be silent for their “safety”.
So, it seems that the best description of our democracy is “friendly big mouths democracy”.
By the way, I need to mention here that after the death of prophet Mohamed, Muslims were never united but by sword with rivers of blood. How could anyone believe that Samier Danden and his LMA have more convincing power to unite ALL Muslims, than all Muslim leaders had in the last 15 centuries?
Not in my name. Not as Muslim. And not as Australian.
It is our job to recover our hijacked democracy.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
The deadly consequenes of leniency with child accused of terrorism
We are deeply worried about the signs of leniency shown by our legal system in dealing with dangerous terrorist only because he is less than 18 years old. This leniency could have dangerous consequences:
1- It will undermine the efforts of our security agencies in foiling dangerous attempts to conduct terrorist activities.
2- It could soften public opinion about the seriousness of his crimes.
3- It will overlook the needed action on investigation and taking actions against the responsible organizations for brainwashing and recruiting children to carry on such horrendous crimes.
4- It overlooks the responsibility of the child family on his radicalisation to the point of allegedly planning to conduct terrorist activity using bombs.
5- The most important deadly consequence is the fact that any leniency in dealing with this alleged terrorist because of his age could lead to wave of imminent terrorist activities carried on by children, even younger than 17.
It is well documented that the international pressure on Syrian and Iraqi governments and accusing them of targeting civilians and kids had resulted in Syrian and Iraqi authorities lenient dealing with children. This had resulted in the terrorist organizations recruiting and sending children to conduct most dangerous terrorist activities because they knew that they will escape security surveillance.
In Syria and Iraq, almost all snipers and spies for terrorist organizations are "children"... mainly under 15.... And the terrorist organizations could exploit a lot of public opinion to condemn the Syrian and Iraqi army for targeting and killing “children”, when in fact they were terrorists.
It is also deeply concerning that until now no debate about who brainwashed, trained and recruited these kids. This lack of debate and authorities’ proper actions had allowed the extremist organizations (including Islamic schools, centres and mosques) to escape any accountability and actions to stop them.
One eyewitness to the well reported event of auctioning the ISIS flag by Markaz Imam Ahmad told us that the majority of audience was children under 16. The eyewitness and his brothers who were present on the event were 16, 14 and 10. Until now, no actions were taken against this centre of extremism. Many of the “graduates” of this centre were killed recently in Syria fighting with terrorists. One of them was Mahmoud Abdul Salam.
Any leniency in dealing with children-terrorists will have deadly consequences. We strongly encourage Australian authorities to consult on this issue with Syrian and Iraqi authorities.
1- It will undermine the efforts of our security agencies in foiling dangerous attempts to conduct terrorist activities.
2- It could soften public opinion about the seriousness of his crimes.
3- It will overlook the needed action on investigation and taking actions against the responsible organizations for brainwashing and recruiting children to carry on such horrendous crimes.
4- It overlooks the responsibility of the child family on his radicalisation to the point of allegedly planning to conduct terrorist activity using bombs.
5- The most important deadly consequence is the fact that any leniency in dealing with this alleged terrorist because of his age could lead to wave of imminent terrorist activities carried on by children, even younger than 17.
It is well documented that the international pressure on Syrian and Iraqi governments and accusing them of targeting civilians and kids had resulted in Syrian and Iraqi authorities lenient dealing with children. This had resulted in the terrorist organizations recruiting and sending children to conduct most dangerous terrorist activities because they knew that they will escape security surveillance.
In Syria and Iraq, almost all snipers and spies for terrorist organizations are "children"... mainly under 15.... And the terrorist organizations could exploit a lot of public opinion to condemn the Syrian and Iraqi army for targeting and killing “children”, when in fact they were terrorists.
It is also deeply concerning that until now no debate about who brainwashed, trained and recruited these kids. This lack of debate and authorities’ proper actions had allowed the extremist organizations (including Islamic schools, centres and mosques) to escape any accountability and actions to stop them.
One eyewitness to the well reported event of auctioning the ISIS flag by Markaz Imam Ahmad told us that the majority of audience was children under 16. The eyewitness and his brothers who were present on the event were 16, 14 and 10. Until now, no actions were taken against this centre of extremism. Many of the “graduates” of this centre were killed recently in Syria fighting with terrorists. One of them was Mahmoud Abdul Salam.
Any leniency in dealing with children-terrorists will have deadly consequences. We strongly encourage Australian authorities to consult on this issue with Syrian and Iraqi authorities.
Thursday, May 07, 2015
On local extremism: I was right form the beggining
The news about Australian doctor joining terrorist organisations in Syria is another evidence of our authorities’ failure to stop radicalisation in our society. While we do not know the time this doctor left Australia, the fact that he was brainwashed from womaniser and alcohol drinker to hardline terrorist should raise many questions.
Where were our authorities from the intense brainwashing and recruitment efforts of organisations and individuals? Why authorities had ignored many warnings from different community leaders and organisations, including myself, for long time about the intense campaigns to radicalise and recruit our youths?
The major question here is: what is the holistic plan that our authorities had adopted to stop further radicalisation of our youth?
We are sorry to come to realisation that authorities are busy dealing with symptoms, rather than dealing with the source of these symptoms. The authorities proved to be either lucky or successful in stopping and foiling many terrorist activities. But they are far behind in starting real comprehensive de-radicalisation plan.
As experts on this issue, the authorities’ refusal to discuss with us our de-radicalisation plan, refusal to fund some of our proposed projects to deal with this radicalisation and refusal to consult us of the plan they suggest is deeply worrying.
The news about authorities’ continuous interception of extremists in our airports bound to Syria, news about more Australians participation in the fight in Syria and the news of relations between terrorists fighting in Syria and centres based in Australia are clear evidence of the failure of our authorities approach to the issue.
All these news, in addition to news of closing down of centres of extremism (the latest was AL Furqan) is a moral boost for our anti-extremism campaign. The campaign that started February 2012. The campaign that is getting momentum every day.
While we still receive many threatening messages form extremists, we are receiving a lot of supporting and encouraging messages. Both kind of messages are clear evidence of the effectiveness of our campaign.
We were right from the beginning.
Where were our authorities from the intense brainwashing and recruitment efforts of organisations and individuals? Why authorities had ignored many warnings from different community leaders and organisations, including myself, for long time about the intense campaigns to radicalise and recruit our youths?
The major question here is: what is the holistic plan that our authorities had adopted to stop further radicalisation of our youth?
We are sorry to come to realisation that authorities are busy dealing with symptoms, rather than dealing with the source of these symptoms. The authorities proved to be either lucky or successful in stopping and foiling many terrorist activities. But they are far behind in starting real comprehensive de-radicalisation plan.
As experts on this issue, the authorities’ refusal to discuss with us our de-radicalisation plan, refusal to fund some of our proposed projects to deal with this radicalisation and refusal to consult us of the plan they suggest is deeply worrying.
The news about authorities’ continuous interception of extremists in our airports bound to Syria, news about more Australians participation in the fight in Syria and the news of relations between terrorists fighting in Syria and centres based in Australia are clear evidence of the failure of our authorities approach to the issue.
All these news, in addition to news of closing down of centres of extremism (the latest was AL Furqan) is a moral boost for our anti-extremism campaign. The campaign that started February 2012. The campaign that is getting momentum every day.
While we still receive many threatening messages form extremists, we are receiving a lot of supporting and encouraging messages. Both kind of messages are clear evidence of the effectiveness of our campaign.
We were right from the beginning.
Wednesday, May 06, 2015
The faction war that cost Christine Milne her job
Without any warning, Bob Brown announced at the begging of April 2012 his resignation as Greens leader. In very similar way and without any warning, Christine Milne tendered her resignation as Greens leader. In addition to the total secrecy and lack of any warning, both leaders resigned months before Federal election.
Then the Greens officials want you to think that this is normal procedure within normal mainstream political party.
What the Greens officials are keen to hide from everyone, including the party ordinary members, is the factional war that was brewing for the last 2 decades inside the party.
Before exploring the reality of what happened today, I need to dissect the reality of power balance inside the Greens party.
The Greens party was established more than 40 years ago by socially conservative environmentalists who cared principally about the attack on our ecological system. The first generation of Greens activists and later on politicians were pure environmentalists who did not care for one second about any of the social-justice issues.
These environmentalists could not achieve much in term of convincing voters to vote for them. Until 2000, the support for the Greens party was less than 2.5% nationally. Without the high support in Tasmania and WA, this popularity indeed was less than 1.5%.
The Greens membership changed slightly after 2 major national and international events:
1- The collapse of the Soviet Union, which saw large numbers of Australian communists lost their platform and direction. They thought that the Greens party is the best for them to prolong their political activities and ambitions for political careers. This is where Lee Rhiannon, Sylvia Hale and others came from.
2- The start of collapse of the Australian Democrats after their hold of “balance of power” during Howard conservative government. Again, the Greens party was the only established party during this period, so it attracted the majority of members and supporters of the Democrats.
3- In addition to the above, the Labor continued in very aggressive way to creep towards the right which convinced many progressive people to join and vote for the Greens, after they lost any hope from Labor.
So the Greens membership comprised mesh-mash of all kind of people feeling hopelessness: hopelessness after the collapse of Soviet Union, hopelessness of the Democrats, hopelessness from Labor and new migrants who arrived to this country and faced by hopeless political system.
It is very safe to claim that the Greens party flourished on hopelessness. Apart from environmentalists, no Greens party member joined or voted for the Greens because they genuinely believe in the Greens platform or genuinity.
Such atmosphere of total hopelessness of political system resulted in the Greens party to rise on the hands of pure opportunists and political careerists, who has no ideology of principles.
This is why you can see all the contradictions and extreme inside the Greens party: Islamophobes and anti-religions atheists defending ISIS and Muslims, white racists defending multiculturalism, Masonic rich defending and representing the poor, Zionists claim to support Palestinian rights and racists who never met Non-English speaking migrant call for refugees rights.
This cocktail of paradoxes resulted in extreme factions fighting each other silently behind closed doors. And this is why resignation of leaders came with no warnings. Election of new leaders happens suddenly. Criticism is not allowed. No public understanding of what is happening inside the party. The party in fact is living behind “iron curtain” of total secrecy.
This is why the few comments by Chris Harris recently was found to be even shocking, by public and by ordinary members of the Greens. And this is why Chris Harris used my earlier description of what is happening inside the Greens to be similar to Animal Farm.
The Greens factions are:
1- Environmental faction: losing grip of power inside the Greens and this is why we saw Bob and Christine enforced to resign.
2- Ex-Stalinist opportunists: and these are fading too. Sylvia Hale gone, and soon Lee Rhiannon will follow.
3- Pure opportunist political careerists: and this is the majority inside the Greens now. They have no principles and no ethics. Most important for them is to win votes and continue their career. These are the majority of Greens politicians and officials.
The fight between factions started by Lee Rhiannon ex-Stalinists faction. They conducted vicious attacks on environmentalists to destabilise their historical grip on power inside the party. For Lee Rhiannon faction this was the only way to pave the road for change of leadership to their benefit. In doing this, they recruited and counted on pure opportunist careerists. These in turn, used the fight between the two factions to climb to top jobs, as a compromise between the two powerful established factions.
This is why Chris Harris and other “old guards” who joined the Greens for some kind of principles or agenda wrote very pessimistic posts about the result of the factions’ war.
Chris Harris admits (and agreed with my writings on the issue for the last ten years) that the Greens party is in fact a “Party about Nothing”.
The sacking of Christine Milne is the last straw of environmentalists reign on power inside the Greens....
Welcome to total opportunist Greens party.... No principles and no ethics... No agendas and no defined platforms.
Final note here: the Greens party is extremely lucky (for the hundred time in the last two decades). Despite the total chaos inside the Greens party and the exposure of its opportunism and lack of principles, there is no alternative party to inherit the votes of disgruntled progressive people of Australia. This is why it seems that the Greens will continue to get around %8 of the votes, until new progressive alternative political party formed.
Then the Greens officials want you to think that this is normal procedure within normal mainstream political party.
What the Greens officials are keen to hide from everyone, including the party ordinary members, is the factional war that was brewing for the last 2 decades inside the party.
Before exploring the reality of what happened today, I need to dissect the reality of power balance inside the Greens party.
The Greens party was established more than 40 years ago by socially conservative environmentalists who cared principally about the attack on our ecological system. The first generation of Greens activists and later on politicians were pure environmentalists who did not care for one second about any of the social-justice issues.
These environmentalists could not achieve much in term of convincing voters to vote for them. Until 2000, the support for the Greens party was less than 2.5% nationally. Without the high support in Tasmania and WA, this popularity indeed was less than 1.5%.
The Greens membership changed slightly after 2 major national and international events:
1- The collapse of the Soviet Union, which saw large numbers of Australian communists lost their platform and direction. They thought that the Greens party is the best for them to prolong their political activities and ambitions for political careers. This is where Lee Rhiannon, Sylvia Hale and others came from.
2- The start of collapse of the Australian Democrats after their hold of “balance of power” during Howard conservative government. Again, the Greens party was the only established party during this period, so it attracted the majority of members and supporters of the Democrats.
3- In addition to the above, the Labor continued in very aggressive way to creep towards the right which convinced many progressive people to join and vote for the Greens, after they lost any hope from Labor.
So the Greens membership comprised mesh-mash of all kind of people feeling hopelessness: hopelessness after the collapse of Soviet Union, hopelessness of the Democrats, hopelessness from Labor and new migrants who arrived to this country and faced by hopeless political system.
It is very safe to claim that the Greens party flourished on hopelessness. Apart from environmentalists, no Greens party member joined or voted for the Greens because they genuinely believe in the Greens platform or genuinity.
Such atmosphere of total hopelessness of political system resulted in the Greens party to rise on the hands of pure opportunists and political careerists, who has no ideology of principles.
This is why you can see all the contradictions and extreme inside the Greens party: Islamophobes and anti-religions atheists defending ISIS and Muslims, white racists defending multiculturalism, Masonic rich defending and representing the poor, Zionists claim to support Palestinian rights and racists who never met Non-English speaking migrant call for refugees rights.
This cocktail of paradoxes resulted in extreme factions fighting each other silently behind closed doors. And this is why resignation of leaders came with no warnings. Election of new leaders happens suddenly. Criticism is not allowed. No public understanding of what is happening inside the party. The party in fact is living behind “iron curtain” of total secrecy.
This is why the few comments by Chris Harris recently was found to be even shocking, by public and by ordinary members of the Greens. And this is why Chris Harris used my earlier description of what is happening inside the Greens to be similar to Animal Farm.
The Greens factions are:
1- Environmental faction: losing grip of power inside the Greens and this is why we saw Bob and Christine enforced to resign.
2- Ex-Stalinist opportunists: and these are fading too. Sylvia Hale gone, and soon Lee Rhiannon will follow.
3- Pure opportunist political careerists: and this is the majority inside the Greens now. They have no principles and no ethics. Most important for them is to win votes and continue their career. These are the majority of Greens politicians and officials.
The fight between factions started by Lee Rhiannon ex-Stalinists faction. They conducted vicious attacks on environmentalists to destabilise their historical grip on power inside the party. For Lee Rhiannon faction this was the only way to pave the road for change of leadership to their benefit. In doing this, they recruited and counted on pure opportunist careerists. These in turn, used the fight between the two factions to climb to top jobs, as a compromise between the two powerful established factions.
This is why Chris Harris and other “old guards” who joined the Greens for some kind of principles or agenda wrote very pessimistic posts about the result of the factions’ war.
Chris Harris admits (and agreed with my writings on the issue for the last ten years) that the Greens party is in fact a “Party about Nothing”.
The sacking of Christine Milne is the last straw of environmentalists reign on power inside the Greens....
Welcome to total opportunist Greens party.... No principles and no ethics... No agendas and no defined platforms.
Final note here: the Greens party is extremely lucky (for the hundred time in the last two decades). Despite the total chaos inside the Greens party and the exposure of its opportunism and lack of principles, there is no alternative party to inherit the votes of disgruntled progressive people of Australia. This is why it seems that the Greens will continue to get around %8 of the votes, until new progressive alternative political party formed.
Tuesday, December 09, 2014
The devastating consequence of Labor alliance with extremists...
It is well known that Australian (and Western) democracy is described as “participatory democracy”. This means that the loudest will be more represented in decision making than the more shy ones.
Recently, I was told by Labor party insider that John Robertson and other officials and faction leaders were made to believe that the key to Labor success in the next NSW election will be in the party’s alliance with Lebanese Moslem Association (LMA). Such believe that lead John Robertson to allow parachuting of a Lebanese-background Muslim into the seat of Lakemba. The same belief could see another Lebanese-background Muslim run in another seat, despite the many indications that he run illegal preselection campaign based on branch-stacking and behind-doors lobbying about the need to allow him to run in that seat because of his endorsement by Lebanese Moslem Association.
If this is true (and most likely it is), John Robertson is either fool or very desperate.
Let us talk facts and numbers on the claim by LMA for the last decade that they control the votes of Muslims in the state.
As according to Wikipedia, the official numbers of Muslims in the state indicates that we constitute 3.4% of the NSW population. Less than 15% are Lebanese-background. Some of these Muslims are Shia, Alawi and Sufi. This leaves Lebanese-background Sunni Muslims counts less than 10% of NSW population. Among these, large section does not recognise Lebanese Moslem Association to represent them. Large section of Lebanese-background Muslims are Ahbash, secular, Sufis and Wahhabis.
In addition to all above, the Lebanese-background Muslims formed many organisations based on the village they came from originally. There are tens of organisations that do not recognise Lebanese Moslem Association to represent their members: Al Minia, Al Mina, Bhanin, Muryatah, Al Arqoub associations among some of these dozen organisations.
Apart from these numbers and facts, we can mention dozens of other facts to prove that Lebanese Moslem Association cannot affect more than handful of voters to vote the way it wishes.
In 2011 NSW election, the Lebanese Moslem Association declared that it will back Liberal candidates in all areas it claimed of having influence. This includes seats of Canterbury, Lakemba, Bankstown, Auburn and Granville.
Yes, Labor suffered big swing in these seats, but it was not because of Lebanese Moslem Association’s campaign. The Labor suffered swing against it in Lakemba and Auburn of about -20%. In Bankstown, Canterbury and Granville it suffered swing against its candidates of around -10%.
The Lebanese Moslem Association immediately jumped to conclude that it was behind this swing.
Well, looking at results in that election gives clear indication that LMA was lying.
Labor suffered in the seat of Bathurst of swing against it of more than
-36%. And this seat has minimal Muslim votes. Even in seats like Camden, Charlestown, Drummoyne, Heathcote, Miranda, Menai, Mulgoa, Parramatta, Riverstone and Smithfield, Labor suffered big swing against its candidates of more than -22 - -30%. And all these seats have minimal Muslim votes and Lebanese Moslem Association claimed no responsibility for the Labor electoral bloodbath.
The Indian-background (and most of them are not Muslims) did not send John Robertson a letter claiming that they cost his party victory in 2011 election, despite having numbers to unseat at least 2 Labor MPs at that election.
The Lebanese Moslem Association convinced the so-called Mufti of Australia to participate with them in the biggest deception campaign in the state history. He also sent a letter to Labor leadership claiming that he was behind the survival of Labor candidates in seats of Blaxland, Watson and other seats with large Muslim votes by directing Muslim voters to stick with Labor in 2013 Federal election. All this despite the fact that more than 90% of Australian Muslims do not know the name of this mysterious Mufti. And this Mufti could not tell Labor why they lost seats of Reid and Banks for the first time since federation, despite Mufti’s claim of intervention.
The politics in Australia became more of a joke.
Instead of Labor starting serious self-search for the real reasons why voters had decided to desert the party in masses, they are resorting to follow a mirage of lies and deceptions. Such mirage will lead them to a catastrophic result similar to the result lead them by Obied-Arbib.
But this time, they are totally blinded by organisations with strong relations to extremists.
Labor should worry now of losing support of large sections of moderate Muslims, Shia Muslims, Sufis, Ahbash and Non-Muslim decent voters. In addition, the alliance with Lebanese Moslem Association and other Lebanese-tribal organisations could see their votes collapse in many areas where Muslim votes are minimal as a protest of such alliance. And there is no guarantee that their popularity will not suffer even in Auburn, Lakemba and Bankstown.
The LMA is falsely claiming for the last 3 years that their campaign is making breakthrough in NSW politics. Their lies of enforcing Labor (and other political parties) to change its attitude towards Muslims were surprisingly (for a hidden agendas) heard in our media (mostly Murdoch’s controlled media). The LMA deceptive claims ignore the fact that the campaign of thousands of activists to see some representation of marginalised (including religious minorities) was resulted in electing many Muslims to parliaments in Australia long before LMA started its notorious cheap campaign in 2011. The campaign of thousands of progressive Australians (including our campaigns) saw: 3 Muslims elected to Victorian parliament (2006), 1 Muslim elected to Federal parliament (2010) and 2 Muslims elected to NSW parliament (2009 &2013).
As my Labor party insider points, the Labor party swallowing the lies of LMA could have devastating impact on Labor party. The successful campaign of lies by LMA could have devastating impact on the quality of local party membership, quality of politics and campaigns and quality of politicians they will produce in the future. It will be seen that all you need to win a spot in the Labor party is to lead a major campaign of lies and deceptions.
I agree with him.
Recently, I was told by Labor party insider that John Robertson and other officials and faction leaders were made to believe that the key to Labor success in the next NSW election will be in the party’s alliance with Lebanese Moslem Association (LMA). Such believe that lead John Robertson to allow parachuting of a Lebanese-background Muslim into the seat of Lakemba. The same belief could see another Lebanese-background Muslim run in another seat, despite the many indications that he run illegal preselection campaign based on branch-stacking and behind-doors lobbying about the need to allow him to run in that seat because of his endorsement by Lebanese Moslem Association.
If this is true (and most likely it is), John Robertson is either fool or very desperate.
Let us talk facts and numbers on the claim by LMA for the last decade that they control the votes of Muslims in the state.
As according to Wikipedia, the official numbers of Muslims in the state indicates that we constitute 3.4% of the NSW population. Less than 15% are Lebanese-background. Some of these Muslims are Shia, Alawi and Sufi. This leaves Lebanese-background Sunni Muslims counts less than 10% of NSW population. Among these, large section does not recognise Lebanese Moslem Association to represent them. Large section of Lebanese-background Muslims are Ahbash, secular, Sufis and Wahhabis.
In addition to all above, the Lebanese-background Muslims formed many organisations based on the village they came from originally. There are tens of organisations that do not recognise Lebanese Moslem Association to represent their members: Al Minia, Al Mina, Bhanin, Muryatah, Al Arqoub associations among some of these dozen organisations.
Apart from these numbers and facts, we can mention dozens of other facts to prove that Lebanese Moslem Association cannot affect more than handful of voters to vote the way it wishes.
In 2011 NSW election, the Lebanese Moslem Association declared that it will back Liberal candidates in all areas it claimed of having influence. This includes seats of Canterbury, Lakemba, Bankstown, Auburn and Granville.
Yes, Labor suffered big swing in these seats, but it was not because of Lebanese Moslem Association’s campaign. The Labor suffered swing against it in Lakemba and Auburn of about -20%. In Bankstown, Canterbury and Granville it suffered swing against its candidates of around -10%.
The Lebanese Moslem Association immediately jumped to conclude that it was behind this swing.
Well, looking at results in that election gives clear indication that LMA was lying.
Labor suffered in the seat of Bathurst of swing against it of more than
-36%. And this seat has minimal Muslim votes. Even in seats like Camden, Charlestown, Drummoyne, Heathcote, Miranda, Menai, Mulgoa, Parramatta, Riverstone and Smithfield, Labor suffered big swing against its candidates of more than -22 - -30%. And all these seats have minimal Muslim votes and Lebanese Moslem Association claimed no responsibility for the Labor electoral bloodbath.
The Indian-background (and most of them are not Muslims) did not send John Robertson a letter claiming that they cost his party victory in 2011 election, despite having numbers to unseat at least 2 Labor MPs at that election.
The Lebanese Moslem Association convinced the so-called Mufti of Australia to participate with them in the biggest deception campaign in the state history. He also sent a letter to Labor leadership claiming that he was behind the survival of Labor candidates in seats of Blaxland, Watson and other seats with large Muslim votes by directing Muslim voters to stick with Labor in 2013 Federal election. All this despite the fact that more than 90% of Australian Muslims do not know the name of this mysterious Mufti. And this Mufti could not tell Labor why they lost seats of Reid and Banks for the first time since federation, despite Mufti’s claim of intervention.
The politics in Australia became more of a joke.
Instead of Labor starting serious self-search for the real reasons why voters had decided to desert the party in masses, they are resorting to follow a mirage of lies and deceptions. Such mirage will lead them to a catastrophic result similar to the result lead them by Obied-Arbib.
But this time, they are totally blinded by organisations with strong relations to extremists.
Labor should worry now of losing support of large sections of moderate Muslims, Shia Muslims, Sufis, Ahbash and Non-Muslim decent voters. In addition, the alliance with Lebanese Moslem Association and other Lebanese-tribal organisations could see their votes collapse in many areas where Muslim votes are minimal as a protest of such alliance. And there is no guarantee that their popularity will not suffer even in Auburn, Lakemba and Bankstown.
The LMA is falsely claiming for the last 3 years that their campaign is making breakthrough in NSW politics. Their lies of enforcing Labor (and other political parties) to change its attitude towards Muslims were surprisingly (for a hidden agendas) heard in our media (mostly Murdoch’s controlled media). The LMA deceptive claims ignore the fact that the campaign of thousands of activists to see some representation of marginalised (including religious minorities) was resulted in electing many Muslims to parliaments in Australia long before LMA started its notorious cheap campaign in 2011. The campaign of thousands of progressive Australians (including our campaigns) saw: 3 Muslims elected to Victorian parliament (2006), 1 Muslim elected to Federal parliament (2010) and 2 Muslims elected to NSW parliament (2009 &2013).
As my Labor party insider points, the Labor party swallowing the lies of LMA could have devastating impact on Labor party. The successful campaign of lies by LMA could have devastating impact on the quality of local party membership, quality of politics and campaigns and quality of politicians they will produce in the future. It will be seen that all you need to win a spot in the Labor party is to lead a major campaign of lies and deceptions.
I agree with him.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
After years of systematic radicalisation: extremists infiltrate our political system...!!
I thought that the 4 Corners program broadcasted 5 November 2014 will spark intense debate and prompt all authorities to search for answers and take quick decisive actions (you can watch the program here http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2014/11/03/4118289.htm). Despite the fact that the program producers seem not to understand fully the implications of what they revealed, but I thought that other authorities would have taken notice and acted quickly.
The program revealed beyond any doubt the deep relations between the convicted terrorist Khalid Sharrouf and officials of CFMEU, the largest union in Australia and the largest donor and supporter of Labor party (and to lesser extent of Greens party too). The program did not go further in answering questions that would become natural response to these revelations. Questions like:
- Did Khalid Sharrouf’s dealing with CFMEU was individual initiative or part of larger project of close relations with extremist groups in Australia?
- Who introduced Khalid Sharrouf (and most likely his well-organised network of extremist groups) to the CFMEU?
- What promises did convince the CFMEU to deal with convicted terrorist (and his network of extremists)? And what was the full deal between 2 sides?
I will try to answer some of these questions later, after giving some background to the beginning of the relationship.
At the beginning of Syrian “revolution”, extremist groups and their supporters formed working group to approach ALL parliamentary political parties to urge them to support the “revolution”. I know that this is normal practice for “lobby groups” to visit politicians and try to convince them to support their “causes”. But this group was different.
Extremists could gain meetings with representatives of ALL parliamentary political parties at that time. Their main argument was that supporting this popular “revolution” will gain these political parties votes of the majority of Australian Muslims, who strongly support Syrian “revolution”. I assume that there were other promises too. This includes promises of financial support for their parties. I am aware of offer to donate to many election campaigns of different parties from these extremists groups.
Surprisingly, the strategy worked perfectly. It was the first issue that ALL parliamentary political parties agreed to support.
The subsequent attacks by extremists on their rivals (including shootings, burning businesses and homes, death threats, verbal and physical assaults...) went for the last 4years with no condemnation from any of these political parties. On the contrary. When I sought meeting with my local Federal MP (Labor), appropriate state ministers (Liberals) and representatives of security agencies, my requests were declined.
I can safely assume that behind closed doors, more dangerous dealings were happening. Such dealing that could see at least 2 Muslims of Lebanese background become members of NSW parliament next March. Both are originally form the same village of terrorist Khalid Sharrouf, Mohamed El Omer and Abdallah Elmir.
Is this mere coincidence?
It is very clear that these extremist groups decided or received some advice to infiltrate our political system. For the last few decades, these groups declared that democracy is Haram/forbidden (according to their Islam), and so they boycotted it totally. It seems that they were convinced recently that influencing political system would get them a lot of benefits, including authorities turning blind eyes on their violent extremist practices against rivals. And it would not be seen as participating in the forbidden and cursed democracy.
The 4 Corners program could have played major role as eye-opener to the fact that some political parties had decided to enter alliance with these extremist groups. Unless they want to convince us that CFMEU was dealing only with single gangster: Khalid Sharouf. And why would CFMEU want to deal with convicted terrorist to threaten and blackmail opponents? They could have employed ordinary drug dealers or bikie gangs. And by the way, do not buy the claims of CFMEU that these accusations are witch-hunt against union by anti-union Liberal party.
If we take into account the recent developments, we could build on what the 4 corners revealed and reach some conclusions.
The NSW Labor party wants to promote to NSW parliament next year 2 candidates with some connections with extremists.
In Lakemba seat, the NSW Labor party headquarter parachuted Jihad Dip to run as candidate in that seat, despite local members’ opposition to this appointment. Jihad Dip is very close to notorious Jamal Rifi, who was until recently on the front-line supporting rebels in Syria including seeking meeting recently with top NSW Police officials to protest against Foreign Incursions Act and the NSW Police announcement to crack down on fighters’ travel to Syria (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-14/muslim-leaders-hold-closed-meetings-with-police/5451094 ). Mr Dip also has connections to Lebanese Moslem Association, who at occasions broadcasted lectures of terrorist Anwar Al Awlaki, who was killed later by US drones (http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/alqaeda-at-city-mosque-20100414-se8g.html ). The LMA also put a fatwa against Muslims engaging in wishing “Merry Christmas” for Christian neighbours and friends (http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/lakemba-mosque-removes-christmas-fatwa-post-20121223-2btaj.html ).
In Auburn, Labor party is doing even further damage to its image (http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/exalp-boss-john-della-bosca-demands-investigation-of-auburn-branch-stacking-claims-20141119-11pl26.html ). The NSW Labor party is involved in discrediting popular shadow minister (and former minister) Barbara Perry. The Labor party is siding with her opponent, despite reports of wide-spread irregularities including branch-stacking (http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/full-houses-for-hicham-zraika-as-auburn-candidates-invited-to-play-their-hand-20141107-11hndu.html ). The NSW Labor for some reasons is risking split within ranks and even risking possible loss of seat.
Reports in Sydney Morning Herald cited that Barbara’s challenger had developed strong relations with Laurie Ferguson, Federal Labor MP, despite the fact that the challenger belongs to the Labor Right, while Laurie is from the Left (http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/eddie-obeid-the-weapon-of-choice-in-auburn-preselection-stoush-20141116-11mvrs.html ).
By the way, Fergusons have strong connections with CFMEU...!!!
A decade ago, Labor party allowed Eddie Obied to develop tribal Christian-Lebanese background faction (The Tirregals) within the Labor party and become very influential powerbroker. He then became the king of NSW Labor, where no premiere can be appointed without his approval.
Well, it seems that the history repeats itself, but with more dangerous flavour. Now, NSW Labor party is allowing Muslims of Lebanese background with clear connections to extremists to develop a new powerful faction.
We believe that NSW Labor committing this mistake will have wide-spread negative (or even destructive) implications. The NSW Labor needs to understand the changing mood (even among Australian Muslims) about what is happening in Syria (and in Iraq) in the last few months. The majority of Muslims want to save Australia from any possible terrorist activities, after discovering that what was happening in Syria was not a revolution, but rather terrorist activities. Many of them changed their view of what is happening in Syria and Iraq.
We believe that we should stop Labor from committing the biggest mistake in their history, even if this means that Lakemba and Auburn change hands to conservative Liberals....
The last point to mention here is that the extremist groups are very wealthy groups. In the last few years they were successful in sending millions of dollars to Syrian opposition. They also received millions of dollars from unspecified sources, where they used this money in building tens of big centres and buying lucrative businesses. For the last few decades, the money flow to these groups came from Saudis (http://www.nationalobserver.net/pdf/2007_secret_saudi_funding_of_radical_islamic_groups_in_australia.pdf ). But more recently, Saudis decided to reduce the support for these groups after it realised that the extremism/terrorism could hit in the heart of Saudi Arabia. The more logical explanation of continued flow of money to Australian extremist groups is that a lot of the money is received recently from wealthy terrorist organisations operating in Syria and Iraq who generate millions of dollars daily out of illegal oil trade, selling of women and kids and kidnapping of civilians to collect ransoms.
It seems that these extremist groups had decided to play politics to gain some political influence. I hope I am wrong, but all indications are not promising.
We hope that authorities and officials of political parties (especially the NSW Labor party) will realise the extreme dangerous game they want to enter.
The program revealed beyond any doubt the deep relations between the convicted terrorist Khalid Sharrouf and officials of CFMEU, the largest union in Australia and the largest donor and supporter of Labor party (and to lesser extent of Greens party too). The program did not go further in answering questions that would become natural response to these revelations. Questions like:
- Did Khalid Sharrouf’s dealing with CFMEU was individual initiative or part of larger project of close relations with extremist groups in Australia?
- Who introduced Khalid Sharrouf (and most likely his well-organised network of extremist groups) to the CFMEU?
- What promises did convince the CFMEU to deal with convicted terrorist (and his network of extremists)? And what was the full deal between 2 sides?
I will try to answer some of these questions later, after giving some background to the beginning of the relationship.
At the beginning of Syrian “revolution”, extremist groups and their supporters formed working group to approach ALL parliamentary political parties to urge them to support the “revolution”. I know that this is normal practice for “lobby groups” to visit politicians and try to convince them to support their “causes”. But this group was different.
Extremists could gain meetings with representatives of ALL parliamentary political parties at that time. Their main argument was that supporting this popular “revolution” will gain these political parties votes of the majority of Australian Muslims, who strongly support Syrian “revolution”. I assume that there were other promises too. This includes promises of financial support for their parties. I am aware of offer to donate to many election campaigns of different parties from these extremists groups.
Surprisingly, the strategy worked perfectly. It was the first issue that ALL parliamentary political parties agreed to support.
The subsequent attacks by extremists on their rivals (including shootings, burning businesses and homes, death threats, verbal and physical assaults...) went for the last 4years with no condemnation from any of these political parties. On the contrary. When I sought meeting with my local Federal MP (Labor), appropriate state ministers (Liberals) and representatives of security agencies, my requests were declined.
I can safely assume that behind closed doors, more dangerous dealings were happening. Such dealing that could see at least 2 Muslims of Lebanese background become members of NSW parliament next March. Both are originally form the same village of terrorist Khalid Sharrouf, Mohamed El Omer and Abdallah Elmir.
Is this mere coincidence?
It is very clear that these extremist groups decided or received some advice to infiltrate our political system. For the last few decades, these groups declared that democracy is Haram/forbidden (according to their Islam), and so they boycotted it totally. It seems that they were convinced recently that influencing political system would get them a lot of benefits, including authorities turning blind eyes on their violent extremist practices against rivals. And it would not be seen as participating in the forbidden and cursed democracy.
The 4 Corners program could have played major role as eye-opener to the fact that some political parties had decided to enter alliance with these extremist groups. Unless they want to convince us that CFMEU was dealing only with single gangster: Khalid Sharouf. And why would CFMEU want to deal with convicted terrorist to threaten and blackmail opponents? They could have employed ordinary drug dealers or bikie gangs. And by the way, do not buy the claims of CFMEU that these accusations are witch-hunt against union by anti-union Liberal party.
If we take into account the recent developments, we could build on what the 4 corners revealed and reach some conclusions.
The NSW Labor party wants to promote to NSW parliament next year 2 candidates with some connections with extremists.
In Lakemba seat, the NSW Labor party headquarter parachuted Jihad Dip to run as candidate in that seat, despite local members’ opposition to this appointment. Jihad Dip is very close to notorious Jamal Rifi, who was until recently on the front-line supporting rebels in Syria including seeking meeting recently with top NSW Police officials to protest against Foreign Incursions Act and the NSW Police announcement to crack down on fighters’ travel to Syria (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-14/muslim-leaders-hold-closed-meetings-with-police/5451094 ). Mr Dip also has connections to Lebanese Moslem Association, who at occasions broadcasted lectures of terrorist Anwar Al Awlaki, who was killed later by US drones (http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/alqaeda-at-city-mosque-20100414-se8g.html ). The LMA also put a fatwa against Muslims engaging in wishing “Merry Christmas” for Christian neighbours and friends (http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/lakemba-mosque-removes-christmas-fatwa-post-20121223-2btaj.html ).
In Auburn, Labor party is doing even further damage to its image (http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/exalp-boss-john-della-bosca-demands-investigation-of-auburn-branch-stacking-claims-20141119-11pl26.html ). The NSW Labor party is involved in discrediting popular shadow minister (and former minister) Barbara Perry. The Labor party is siding with her opponent, despite reports of wide-spread irregularities including branch-stacking (http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/full-houses-for-hicham-zraika-as-auburn-candidates-invited-to-play-their-hand-20141107-11hndu.html ). The NSW Labor for some reasons is risking split within ranks and even risking possible loss of seat.
Reports in Sydney Morning Herald cited that Barbara’s challenger had developed strong relations with Laurie Ferguson, Federal Labor MP, despite the fact that the challenger belongs to the Labor Right, while Laurie is from the Left (http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/eddie-obeid-the-weapon-of-choice-in-auburn-preselection-stoush-20141116-11mvrs.html ).
By the way, Fergusons have strong connections with CFMEU...!!!
A decade ago, Labor party allowed Eddie Obied to develop tribal Christian-Lebanese background faction (The Tirregals) within the Labor party and become very influential powerbroker. He then became the king of NSW Labor, where no premiere can be appointed without his approval.
Well, it seems that the history repeats itself, but with more dangerous flavour. Now, NSW Labor party is allowing Muslims of Lebanese background with clear connections to extremists to develop a new powerful faction.
We believe that NSW Labor committing this mistake will have wide-spread negative (or even destructive) implications. The NSW Labor needs to understand the changing mood (even among Australian Muslims) about what is happening in Syria (and in Iraq) in the last few months. The majority of Muslims want to save Australia from any possible terrorist activities, after discovering that what was happening in Syria was not a revolution, but rather terrorist activities. Many of them changed their view of what is happening in Syria and Iraq.
We believe that we should stop Labor from committing the biggest mistake in their history, even if this means that Lakemba and Auburn change hands to conservative Liberals....
The last point to mention here is that the extremist groups are very wealthy groups. In the last few years they were successful in sending millions of dollars to Syrian opposition. They also received millions of dollars from unspecified sources, where they used this money in building tens of big centres and buying lucrative businesses. For the last few decades, the money flow to these groups came from Saudis (http://www.nationalobserver.net/pdf/2007_secret_saudi_funding_of_radical_islamic_groups_in_australia.pdf ). But more recently, Saudis decided to reduce the support for these groups after it realised that the extremism/terrorism could hit in the heart of Saudi Arabia. The more logical explanation of continued flow of money to Australian extremist groups is that a lot of the money is received recently from wealthy terrorist organisations operating in Syria and Iraq who generate millions of dollars daily out of illegal oil trade, selling of women and kids and kidnapping of civilians to collect ransoms.
It seems that these extremist groups had decided to play politics to gain some political influence. I hope I am wrong, but all indications are not promising.
We hope that authorities and officials of political parties (especially the NSW Labor party) will realise the extreme dangerous game they want to enter.
Monday, November 17, 2014
Media should start to ask important questions...
Media should start to ask why Jamal Rifi knows almost every Australian died or went to fight in Syria... Media should start to ask why the majority of Australians fighting in Syria (including those died fighting in Syria)... Does this have anything to do with the proactive role Jamal Rifi and other community “leaders” and active community members form Lebanese background in early brainwashing our youth from the beginning of the Syrian crisis and encouraging them to “help the revolution” ... such revolution that we discovered now to be the “mother of global terrorism”...???
http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/sydney-islamic-state-brothers-sent-haunting-text-message-to-their-mother/story-fnii5s3x-1227125022421
Here one of Jamal Rifi’s creative speeches encouraging youth to “help” Syrian “revolution” to overthrow President Assad...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzQWaNL2kA8
http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/sydney-islamic-state-brothers-sent-haunting-text-message-to-their-mother/story-fnii5s3x-1227125022421
Here one of Jamal Rifi’s creative speeches encouraging youth to “help” Syrian “revolution” to overthrow President Assad...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzQWaNL2kA8
Friday, November 07, 2014
نتائج الانتخابات الامريكية النصفية وانعكاساتها على الازمة في الشرق الاوسط
بالرغم من السياسات المتشددة التي انتهجها الرئيس الامريكي باراك اوباما وحزبه الديمقراطي خلال العام لمنع صعود اليمين الجمهوري ومنع سيطرته على مجلسي النواب والشيوخ, فان الهزيمة الساحقة التي مني بها الرئيس وحزبه قد يكون لها انعكاسات ايجابية على الازمة في الشرق الاوسط.
ادارة الرئيس اوباما والتي نجحت بوقف الانهيار الاقتصادي وبدء التعافي الاقتصادي يجب ان تكون قد ادركت ان الاقتصاد وحده لا يحقق شعبية او نجاحا سياسيا. كما ان هذه الادارة نجحت على اكثر من صعيد, ومنها سحب القوات الامريكية من العراق والوعد بانهاء المشاركة الامريكية المسلحة في المستنقع الافغاني.
الرئيس الامريكي وحزبه الديمقراطي لا بد انهم في وارد مراجعة الاسباب التي ادت الى هذه الكارثة الانتخابية/السياسية وعلى راسها تزايد قلق الامريكيين من خطورة الارهاب الدولي بقيادة تنظيم داعش الارهابي واحتمال تمدده الى امريكا.
في مقالات سابقة كنت قد توقعت ان الولايات المتحدة وحلفائها قد بداوا بالفعل تغيير سياساتهم اتجاه ما يحدث في الشرق الاوسط, نتيجة الفشل في تدمير وهزيمة الدولة السورية. كما كنت قد توقعت ان هذا التغيير يجب ان يشمل محاولة منع عودة الارهابيين الغربيين الى بلدانهم وبشتى الطرق. احدى هذه الطرق هي تاجيج الصراع في المنطقة وتوسيعه ليشمل دول مجاورة لسوريا ودخول قوات غربية على خط محاربة التنظيمات الارهابية. كل ذلك من اجل تشكيل تحد ايدولوجي لمقاتلي التنظيمات الارهابية التكفيرية لمنع انهيارهم السريع وبالتالي عودة الارهابيين الغربيين الى دولهم باعداد كبيرة ستهدد الامن القومي لهذه الدول.
الا ان الكثير من المحللين والمراقبين المؤيدين للدولة السورية كانوا وما زالوا يشككون بنوايا الامريكي وحلفائه اتجاه سوريا والمنطقة. وكانوا يستشهدون على ذلك بان امريكا وحلفائها قرروا التدخل في سوريا مباشرة للانقضاض قريبا على الجيش السوري وقلب نظام الحكم هناك. كما استشهدوا ايضا بعدم فعالية الضربات الجوية في القضاء على الجماعات الارهابية بل والقاء الطائرات الامريكية عدة مرات لاسلحة ومعدات لداعش في اكثر من منطقة.
اعتقد جازما ان هذا التراخي العسكري الامريكي في توجيه ضربات قاتلة للتنظيمات الارهابية بل ومساعدة هذه التنظيمات بالقاء سلاح لها سببه الرئيس كان قرب الانتخابات النصفية لمجلس الشيوخ الامريكي.
فالرئيس اوباما وحزبه الديمقراطي لم يودوا الانقضاض بقوة على التنظيمات الارهابية التي شاركوا بانشاءها وتدريبها وتسليحها وبالتالي اعلان فشل مخططهم بقلب نظام الحكم في سوريا قبل هذه الانتخابات. فادارة الرئيس الامريكي اشبعت مواطنيها ومواطني دول العالم وخصوصا الغربية منها بكل الفبركات والاكاذيب عن "همجية النظام السوري والجيش السوري" وان الولايات المتحدة لن تعترف بالنظام الا بعد تنحي الرئيس الاسد. والرئيس الامريكي ووزرائه اكدوا لمواطنيهم خلال ال4 سنوات الماضية ان "ايام الاسد معدودة", وما يزال الامريكي يعد الايام. ولذلك فان تراجع الرئيس الامريكي وادارته عن سياسة معاداة الدولة السورية بل والانتقال الى مساعدة الدولة في ضرب التنظيمات الارهابية والعمل على انهاء وجودهم في سوريا كان سيؤدي الى نتائج كارثية على شعبية الرئيس وادارته.
الان وبعد انتهاء الانتخابات النصفية بهزيمة لحزب الرئيس الديمقراطي, فان الرئيس اوباما لن يكون تحت ضغط انتخابي وخوف على شعبية منهارة. بل ان الرئيس وادارته يعرفون ان الكثير من الشعبية المفقودة تعود للسياسة الخارجية المترددة لهذه الادارة وما نتج عنها من تفشي للارهاب والذي اصبح يهدد امريكا وحلفائها. هذا التهديد الارهابي الذي ضرب قبل ايام داخل البرلمان الكندي وما زال يهدد وبشدة مدن غربية اخرى على راسها مدن الولايات المتحدة نفسها.
كما ان الرئيس الامريكي وادارته يدركون ان سياساتهم الخارجية الفاشلة ستنعكس عاجلا ام اجلا الى كارثة انسانية على دولتهم والدول الغربية الحليفة. وبدون خطة واضحة للقضاء على الارهاب في دول الشرق الاوسط , فان هذا الفشل سيؤدي الى انتشار الارهاب الى الدول الغربية وعلى راسها امريكا.
وقد تكون الخطة البديلة عن الخطة الاصيلة (المتمثلة بمشروع الشرق الاوسط) تتلخص بالعمل على قتل اكبر عدد من الارهابيين في سوريا والعراق. هذا القتل الذي سيعمل على تحقيق اكثر من هدف.
الهدف الاول يتمثل بالتخلص من اعداد كبيرة من الارهابيين التكفيريين (تصل الان الى 25 الف تكفيري اجنبي وحوالي 100 الف تكفيري سوري وعراقي) قبل مغادرتهم الى دول اخرى حليفة لامريكا. كما ستعمل هذه الاستراتيجية على تشكيل حافز لمن تبقى من التكفيريين لمغادرة المنطقة (سوريا وجوارها) الى دول تنعدم فيها الحكومة المركزية ويكون تحقيق حلم الخلافة فيها اسهل.
والواضح ان الولايات المتحدة تعمل على نقل نشاط التكفيريين الى شمال افريقيا (خصوصا ليبيا التي تنعدم فيها حكومة مركزية وتتوفر فيها كل ظروف اقامة الخلافة الموعودة) لاشغالهم ولمدة طويلة بحروب مع القبائل تلهيهم عن العودة الى دولهم الغربية ونشر الرعب فيها.
هذه الاستراتيجية ليست بالجديدة وقد استخدمتها امريكا من قبل. فبعد انسحاب الروس من افغانستان وبدا عودة المقاتلين التكفيريين الاجانب الى بلدانهم وبداهم بالعمل لمحاولة نشر التجربة الافغانية في اقامة نظام ظلامي فيها, قامت الولايات المتحدة بتطبيق استراتيجية الاشغال في دول غير صديقة او دول تتوفر فيها خيرات يجب نهبها.
وهذا ما حصل في الجزائر حيث توجه الكثير من الافغان العرب لاشعال حرب اهلية طاحنة استنزفت الدولة الغنية بالغاز والنفط والمعادن الاخرى. وما ان انتهت الحرب الاهلية الجزائرية, قامت الولايات المتحدة بتوجيه الافغان العرب الى البلقان وكوسوفو. وهكذا دواليك.
بالرغم من ان ادارة الرئيس الامريكي ستواجه الكثير من الصعوبات والعراقيل بسبب سيطرة الجمهوريين على ميزان القوة في الكونغرس بمجلسيه, الا ان الرئيس لا يحتاج الى موافقة الكونغرس للبدء بتنفيذ سياسته الخارجية. ويدرك الرئيس ان لديه عام واحد قبل بدا انطلاق الحملات الانتخابية لتحسين صورة امريكا بتعزيز امنها القومي ضد الارهاب والجماعات الارهابية, تمنع كارثة انتخابية اخرى لحزبه الديمقلراطي.
اؤمن ان اللعبة القذرة لتدمير سوريا ورسم نظام شرق اوسط جديد هي في ربع ساعتها الاخيرة. ولن يكون امام ادارة اوباما الا اللجوء الى الخطة ب لاشغال الارهابيين بحلم جديد لاقامة خلافة ظلامية ستلهيهم لعقود عن الانقضاض على امريكا والدول المتحالفة معها. والشواهد كبيرة عن بدا انسحاب الالاف من سوريا والعراق وتوجههم نحو ليبيا لاقامة خلافتهم هناك. وما اعلان امارة درنة الا مقدمة لنقل الخلافة من الرقة الى درنة وبدا التمدد في هذا البلد الشاسع المترامي الاطراف.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Reality of Channel 7 revelations: radicalisation under smokescreen of Syrian “revolution”
I enjoyed watching the Channel 7 news today. The news mentioned that the most dangerous Australian terrorist was killed in Syrian city of Raqqah. This means that Syrian army is inflicting heavy causalities among these terrorists, even in their stronghold city.
Then the news showed a detailed report about home-grown radicalisation of kids, where they were taught the benefits of beheading enemies and the poison of democracy.
The best part of the news was that Channel 7 did not seek opinion of extremists who were made by politicians and media as peace-doves and great fighters against terrorism. I was happy not to see the face of Samir Danden (President of Lebanese Moslem Association) and Jamal Rifi.
In fact the 2 news items were great evidence that what Australians were hearing from these two were no more than cheap lies and deceptions.
Samir Danden lead an organisation that ran lectures of Anwar AL Awlaki (number 1 on list of most dangerous terrorists in the world) on several occasions in the past. The senior clerk there had issued last year a fatwa that Muslims should not say “Merry Christmas” to their Christian neighbours or friends. But surprisingly, Mr Danden had the courage early this month to claim that radicalisation evident among some sections of the community are the work of anonymous people he called them “sheikh Google and Imam YouTube”.
He (Samer Danden) wanted to convince us that the 400 Australian terrorists fighting currently in Syria and Iraq were recruited by Facebook and Twitter of unknown and unqualified “sheikh Google”.
On the other hand, Jamal Rifi was on denial that there is any danger on Australia by radical groups and brainwashed individuals. Such lies that were quickly exposed and refuted by the recent developments.
The biggest lie of both Jamal Rifi and Samir Danden is their claim that they are “moderates” who will do all in their capacity to fight against radicalisation. As if we (as Muslims and as Australians) forgot that both were on the frontline advocating violence in Syria and fundraised large amounts of money for the Syrian “revolution”, the mother of global terrorism.
The Channel 7’s revelation of brainwashing sessions of kids happened in our suburbs and by known extremists. The revelation few weeks ago of the fundraising event where ISIS flag was auctioned for more than $2500. And the revelation of the fact that man y ISIS leaders in Syria and Iraq are Australians. All these revelations proved beyond any doubt that Samir Danden and Jamal Rifi were lying on all Australians for the last few months (in fact years).
The most important (and most disappointing) issue here is that the media and politicians are presenting these radicals (and few others) as the peace-doves and messiahs that will save Australia from any terrorist activity. Not only this. Media was trying to deceive all of us by promoting Jamal Rifi as “community leader that will run in the next state election to save our youth form radicalisation”. All these despite the fact that we provided these media with video clips showing Jamal Rifi advocating Australians to support Syrian “revolution”, the mother of global terrorism. And media knows very well about Lebanese Moslem Association and their promoting of radical Islam.
We hope that media and politicians will wake up soon. Such wake-up that will not start before media tells the truth about who really led the radicalisation of our youth, who facilitated their travel to fight in Syria and those who fundraised millions of dollars to fund terrorism in Syria.
Recently I asked one of my friends ABC journalist “are you too late for reporting on radicalisation in Australia?” He answered, with very embarrassed low tone “Yes, but it is always good to be late than never”
Then the news showed a detailed report about home-grown radicalisation of kids, where they were taught the benefits of beheading enemies and the poison of democracy.
The best part of the news was that Channel 7 did not seek opinion of extremists who were made by politicians and media as peace-doves and great fighters against terrorism. I was happy not to see the face of Samir Danden (President of Lebanese Moslem Association) and Jamal Rifi.
In fact the 2 news items were great evidence that what Australians were hearing from these two were no more than cheap lies and deceptions.
Samir Danden lead an organisation that ran lectures of Anwar AL Awlaki (number 1 on list of most dangerous terrorists in the world) on several occasions in the past. The senior clerk there had issued last year a fatwa that Muslims should not say “Merry Christmas” to their Christian neighbours or friends. But surprisingly, Mr Danden had the courage early this month to claim that radicalisation evident among some sections of the community are the work of anonymous people he called them “sheikh Google and Imam YouTube”.
He (Samer Danden) wanted to convince us that the 400 Australian terrorists fighting currently in Syria and Iraq were recruited by Facebook and Twitter of unknown and unqualified “sheikh Google”.
On the other hand, Jamal Rifi was on denial that there is any danger on Australia by radical groups and brainwashed individuals. Such lies that were quickly exposed and refuted by the recent developments.
The biggest lie of both Jamal Rifi and Samir Danden is their claim that they are “moderates” who will do all in their capacity to fight against radicalisation. As if we (as Muslims and as Australians) forgot that both were on the frontline advocating violence in Syria and fundraised large amounts of money for the Syrian “revolution”, the mother of global terrorism.
The Channel 7’s revelation of brainwashing sessions of kids happened in our suburbs and by known extremists. The revelation few weeks ago of the fundraising event where ISIS flag was auctioned for more than $2500. And the revelation of the fact that man y ISIS leaders in Syria and Iraq are Australians. All these revelations proved beyond any doubt that Samir Danden and Jamal Rifi were lying on all Australians for the last few months (in fact years).
The most important (and most disappointing) issue here is that the media and politicians are presenting these radicals (and few others) as the peace-doves and messiahs that will save Australia from any terrorist activity. Not only this. Media was trying to deceive all of us by promoting Jamal Rifi as “community leader that will run in the next state election to save our youth form radicalisation”. All these despite the fact that we provided these media with video clips showing Jamal Rifi advocating Australians to support Syrian “revolution”, the mother of global terrorism. And media knows very well about Lebanese Moslem Association and their promoting of radical Islam.
We hope that media and politicians will wake up soon. Such wake-up that will not start before media tells the truth about who really led the radicalisation of our youth, who facilitated their travel to fight in Syria and those who fundraised millions of dollars to fund terrorism in Syria.
Recently I asked one of my friends ABC journalist “are you too late for reporting on radicalisation in Australia?” He answered, with very embarrassed low tone “Yes, but it is always good to be late than never”
Saturday, October 25, 2014
ارهاب واستنفار امني في كندا والغرب: على نفسها (وعلينا) جنت براقش
في غضون يومين, تعرضت كندا لعمليتين ارهابيتين قام بهما متطرفين تكفيريين معروفين للسلطات الامنية هناك. احدى هذه العمليات تحمل رمزية خطيرة, حيث هاجم ارهابي تكفيري مدجج بالسلاح البرلمان الفيديرالي واشتبك مع حراس البرلمان داخله لمدة ساعات.
ما يثير سخطي, واشمئزازي ايضا, ان السلطات الكندية (والغربية عموما ومن ضمنها السلطات الاسترالية) ما زالت تتسائل: لماذا؟ وكيف؟
السلطات الاسترالية (والكندية) تود ان تقنعنا ان التطرف والارهاب ولدا بالامس وتدربا بالامس وتسلحا بالامس. هذه السلطات تتحدث في معرض حديثها عن التطرف والارهاب عن داعش فقط. فلا قاعدة مارست ارهابا. ولا جبهة نصرة ذبحت وسلخت وحرقت الناس احياءا. ولا جيش سوري حر قطع اعناق ونبش قبور وفتح صدور واكل اكباد.
في شهر فبراير 2012 اطلق ملتحون متطرفون النار على السيد علي ابراهيم امام باب منزله في مدينة سيدني الاسترالية. جريمة علي الوحيدة انه وضع صورة الرئيس السوري بشار الاسد كصورة لحسابه على الفيسبوك. السلطات الامنية الاسترالية لم تحاكم احدا على هذه الجريمة التي كادت ان تودي بحياة احد مواطنيها الشرفاء او ان تقعده للابد.
لم تكتف السلطات الامنية الاسترالية بالتقاعس في التحقيق بالجريمة, بل عملت على التستر عليها. فعندما قمت بالاتصال بالصحافة الاسترالية لفضح هؤلاء المتطرفين, تلقيت اتصالا غاضبا من مركز الشرطة المحلي. الضابط المناوب هددني ان لم اوقف الحملة الصحافية, سيتم اعتقالي بتهم نشر اكاذيب قد تؤدي الى اعمال عنف مجتمعية. بالرغم من عدم رضوخي للضغوط. وبالرغم من التغطية الاعلامية الواسعة للجريمة. الا ان المجرمين لم يحاكموا حتى يومنا هذا.
قبل يومين من هذه الجريمة, سافر 30 متطرفا من مدينة سيدني الى العاصمة الفيديرالية كانبيرا. قاد هؤلاء المتطرفون مظاهرة همجية سارت في شوارع العاصمة وانتهت بالهجوم على السفارة السورية وتدمير بعض محتوياتها. ولقد اخبرني القائم باعمال السفير السوري فيما بعد ان السفير العراقي كان قد لاحظ هؤلاء الهمج يزحفون على السفارة فابلغ الشرطة الفيديرالية المولجة حماية السفارة, كما ابلغ القائم باعمال السفير السوري. ولم تتحرك الشرطة الفيديرالية بسرعة لاعتراض المسيرة وتاخرت الى ان قام المتظاهرون بالهجوم على السفارة ونهب بعض محتوياتها والهروب. وبالرغم من كل ذلك ومن حقيقة ان السفارة سلمت السلطات الامنية اشرطة الفيديو, الا ان السلطات لم تعتقل احدا ولم تحاكم احدا, حتى هذه اللحظة.
منذ ذلك الوقت, شنت المجموعات المتطرفة الهجوم تلو الهجوم على كل من اعتبرتهم "كفرة... مرتدين... شيعة... علويين... ومعارضين للثورة في سوريا". فاحرقت محال وهوجمت مراكز دينية شيعية وعلوية وهددت شخصيات واعتدي على ناشطين. وفي كل هذه الهمروجة كانت السلطات تصر ان "كل شيء على ما يرام" وانه لا يوجد تطرف ولا خطر ارهابي. ولم يعتقل احد.
السلطات كانت تعلم ان المجموعات المتطرفة كانت تمارس غسيل دماغ وتستقطب متطرفين وتجمع تبرعات ترسلها مع مقاتلين الى سوريا. وان كانت السلطات لا تعلم, فقد عملنا على تجميع كل ما وقع تحت ايدينا من معلومات وسلمناها للسلطات ووسائل الاعلام. وبالرغم من ذلك, احجمت السلطات عن اتخاذ اي اجراء لمنع انفلاش التطرف والارهاب.
حتى عندما تعرضت شخصيا لاعتداء من متطرفين امام شاشات التلفاز في منتصف عام 2013 (بعد حملة تهديدات واسعة تعرضت لها منذ منتصف عام 2012 الى منتصف عام 2013 تضمنت تهديدات بالقتل), كانت السلطات ما تزال تصر ان "كل شيء على ما يرام" وتنفي ان هناك مراكز تدير التطرف وتنشره. والمتطرف الذي ارتكب جريمته امام كل استراليا, دبرت له محاكمة هزلية انتهت باطلاق سراحه دون ادانة.
ومن هنا ياتي سخطي وغضبي من تساؤل السلطات الغربية من اين اتى كل هذا التطرف في مجتمعاها.
فالسلطات الاسترالية (كما غيرها من السلطات الغربية كما اعرف) سمحت بنشاطات التكفيريين ودعمتهم وغضت النظر عن تجاوزاتهم وسمحت لهم بالسفر الى سوريا. كما سمحت لمراكزهم ببث الكراهية الطائفية. كما سمحت لهذه المراكز ان تنمو وتجمع تبرعات بالملايين وترسلها للمجموعات المسلحة في سوريا. كما قامت السلطات ووسائل الاعلام بتبني رواية المجموعات التكفيرية عن حقيقة ما يحدث في سوريا باعتبارها ثورة شعبية وليست عمليات ارهاب ممنهجة.
بل وانه بالرغم من عودة عشرات الاستراليين من سوريا بعد القتال هناك, فانه لم يتم اعتقال اي واحد منهم, حتى الان. حتى مع الحملة الاخيرة من المداهمات والاعتقالات, فان معظمها كان مسرحي لذر الرماد في العيون واسكات الاصوات التي تتهم الحكومة بالتقاعس وتحملها اي نتائج لهذا التقاعس. والا فلماذا يتم مداهمة منزل المواطن من اصل افغاني مصطفى الديراني ويتهم بدعم الارهاب التكفيري بالرغم من ان السيد مصطفى شيعي يرفض الفكر التكفيري جملا وتفصيلا؟ ولماذا لم يتم مداهمة منازل زعماء المجموعات التكفيرية ومن قام وبشكل علني بالدعوة للجهاد في سوريا والعراق والاعتداء على اتباع المذاهب الاخرى؟
السلطات الغربية التي دعمت المؤامرة لتفتيت سوريا بتشجيع الارهابيين وتسهيل وصولهم الى سوريا وتمويل انشطتهم يجب ان لا تتظاهر بالبراءة من نتائج ما اقترفته. فالارهاب في اوتاوا الكندية اليوم. والارهاب الذي قد يضرب اي مدينة غربية غدا. كله نتيجة حتمية للسياسات الخطرة المتهورة التي اتبعتها هذه الدول خلال السنوات الاربع الماضية في الشرق الاوسط ومشروع تفتيته باستخدام الاسلام السياسي التكفيري.
حذرت ومنذ بداية الازمة السورية بان مشروع تفتيت سوريا لن يمر. كما حذرت (وغيري من العقلاء) ان فشل المشروع سيجر الويلات على العالم بعد ان يقرر التكفيريون الذين استقدموا من اكثر من 83 دولة لتحقيق هذا الكابوس العودة لبلدانهم ومحاولة اقامة ولايات اسلامية فيها. او ان يقرر هؤلاء ان العالم تكالب عليهم لمنعهم من انشاء خلافتهم, ولا بد من الانتقام من كل العالم.
على السلطات الغربية ان لا تتهرب من المسؤوليات والبدء بتحمل نتائج السياسات الكارثية التي اتبعتها في الشرق الاوسط. يبدا ذلك بالاعتراف باخطاء هذه السلطات في سوريا والعمل على التعاون مع السلطات السورية لمكافحة الارهاب التكفيري العابر للدول والقارات.
من الواضح ان السلطات الاسترالية لم تصل الى هذه المرحلة بعد. فالسلطات ما تزال تستخدم نفس اللغة في التعامل مع الكارثة الانسانية المسماة "ثورة سورية". كما ان هذه السلطات ما تزال تصر على ان المتطرفين الذين شجعوا الارهاب بالامس, هم مفاتيح الحل لمحاربة هذا التطرف. والسلطات الاسترالية ما تزال تتراخى مع المراكز التكفيرية التي ما تزال تصر على وجوب الجهاد في سوريا.
يبدو ان ما حدث في كندا هو البداية... والقادم اعظم. وعلى الغرب ان يستعد لحرب مفتوحة مع ارهاب ساعد في انشاءه...
Thursday, October 16, 2014
The reasons why Muslims should apologize for ISIS crimes: Not in My Name
A group of Muslims started a campaign of “#NotInMyName” to not only condemn the horrendous crimes conducted by ISIS and other Takfiri terrorists, but also to apologise for these crimes. That was the right move to do.
Surprisingly, few Muslim “leaders” came out and refused to participate in this noble campaign. Not only they refused to participate in it, but they also tried to delegitimize and dishonour it. The justifications used were both morally corrupt and superficial.
One of the justifications used by these Muslim “leaders” was “we did not participate in conducting these crimes and so we should not apologise for the actions of others”.
Does this ring a bell? We all remember how former Australian PM used the same justification to refuse apologising for our indigenous people for the crimes they were subjected to in the last 2 centuries. Surprisingly, John Howard was harshly condemned by the majority of Australians, especially by the “lefties”. The same lefties that highly praised this argument by some high profile Muslims including Mahreen Faruqi, the Greens NSW MLC.
The other reason mentioned in Ms Faruqi’s article in the Guardian (I know the actions of Isis are #NotInMyName, and I won't be pressured to apologise for them, 25 September 2014) was that we should not condemn the crimes, we should instead condemn the reasons that lead some Muslims to commit these crimes. And she mentioned misleading examples to prove her argument.
Mahreen thinks that ISIS and other Takfiri terrorists were born as a result of US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. Does this ring bell again. Did you notice that ISIS and other terrorists are justifying their crimes as a result of Israeli occupation of Palestine and US invasion of Iraq?
I strongly support this campaign for many reasons that I will mention here. But let us first ask the following question to understand why it is vital to support this campaign: Did ISIS and other takfiri terrorists have any justification for their horrendous crimes?
ISIS declared, with a lot of historical evidences, that their campaign of terrorism is both religiously and morally justified. And this is precisely why Muslims, especially leaders, should come forward and condemn these actions.
ISIS based its campaign on historical incidents where Muslims cut heads of rivals, both Muslims and non-Muslims. The failure of Muslim leaders and scholars to condemn and apologise for these crimes gave ISIS and other Takfiri terrorist groups moral grounds to carry on these crimes.
For 1500 years, Muslim leaders and scholars failed to condemn the first mass beheadings conducted by Muslim leaders against other Muslim leaders. The current and previous Muslim leaders and scholars failure to condemn the mass beheadings then, constitutes the religious grounds to continue the beheadings until today.
Those Muslim leaders who refuse to participate in the campaign and their use of US invasion of Iraq to justify ISIS crimes are directly or indirectly deceiving people about the reality of the situation.
Mahreen and her supporters should try to convince us what is the relation between US invasion of Iraq (2003) and the beheadings of Algerians during the civil war there (1991-2001). And we also do not know how beheading of Iraqis and Syrians, slavery of Iraqi women and raping children there will revenge for US invasion of Iraq.
Many arguments used by terrorist-apologists like Mahreen were simply not applicable on the situation in Iraq and Syria. The quote from George Megalogenis about child abuse and Catholic Church is out of context and not related to current debate. There is no single Australian citizen (Catholic or non-Catholic) supports child abuse. But there are Millions of Muslims support beheadings of rivals (including the beheading of the grandson of Muslim prophet) for the last 15 centuries.
It is the time for Muslims to speak loud and clear: Not in Our Name. Any silence, refusal to apologise or quiet condemnation will be used by terrorists to continue their terrorism. It will also help them in recruiting our youth.
While I know that Australian government loves to use the situation to increase division in our society, but silence on these terrorist actions will not help in counteracting these efforts. The high radicalisation in our community and all possible consequences is a reality.
The injustices in the society (mentioned by Mahreen in her article) did not lead to this high radicalisation. And addressing injustices alone (eradicate poverty, strengthening public services and working for environmental sustainability) will not reduce this radicalisation. The 400 Australians, who decided to go and fight in Syria and Iraq, did not do this because of their feeling of marginalisation in Australia. Khaled Sharoouf’s support for stronger Medicare was not the reason for taking up arms and cut heads of Syrians in Raqqah.
We believe that radicalisation will not be fought by ASIO only. Raids and arrests of extremists and terrorists will not solve the problem of radicalisation. But finding excuses and encouraging extremism by blaming others do not help too.
Muslim leaders apologising for ISIS crimes does not mean that they support US invasion of Iraq. It does not mean that they support Tony Abbott’s harsh liberal agenda against poor and marginalised. It will help defusing radicalisation and fighting against Islamophobia, by isolating extremists and deny them any platform to continue their radical agenda.
Surprisingly, few Muslim “leaders” came out and refused to participate in this noble campaign. Not only they refused to participate in it, but they also tried to delegitimize and dishonour it. The justifications used were both morally corrupt and superficial.
One of the justifications used by these Muslim “leaders” was “we did not participate in conducting these crimes and so we should not apologise for the actions of others”.
Does this ring a bell? We all remember how former Australian PM used the same justification to refuse apologising for our indigenous people for the crimes they were subjected to in the last 2 centuries. Surprisingly, John Howard was harshly condemned by the majority of Australians, especially by the “lefties”. The same lefties that highly praised this argument by some high profile Muslims including Mahreen Faruqi, the Greens NSW MLC.
The other reason mentioned in Ms Faruqi’s article in the Guardian (I know the actions of Isis are #NotInMyName, and I won't be pressured to apologise for them, 25 September 2014) was that we should not condemn the crimes, we should instead condemn the reasons that lead some Muslims to commit these crimes. And she mentioned misleading examples to prove her argument.
Mahreen thinks that ISIS and other Takfiri terrorists were born as a result of US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. Does this ring bell again. Did you notice that ISIS and other terrorists are justifying their crimes as a result of Israeli occupation of Palestine and US invasion of Iraq?
I strongly support this campaign for many reasons that I will mention here. But let us first ask the following question to understand why it is vital to support this campaign: Did ISIS and other takfiri terrorists have any justification for their horrendous crimes?
ISIS declared, with a lot of historical evidences, that their campaign of terrorism is both religiously and morally justified. And this is precisely why Muslims, especially leaders, should come forward and condemn these actions.
ISIS based its campaign on historical incidents where Muslims cut heads of rivals, both Muslims and non-Muslims. The failure of Muslim leaders and scholars to condemn and apologise for these crimes gave ISIS and other Takfiri terrorist groups moral grounds to carry on these crimes.
For 1500 years, Muslim leaders and scholars failed to condemn the first mass beheadings conducted by Muslim leaders against other Muslim leaders. The current and previous Muslim leaders and scholars failure to condemn the mass beheadings then, constitutes the religious grounds to continue the beheadings until today.
Those Muslim leaders who refuse to participate in the campaign and their use of US invasion of Iraq to justify ISIS crimes are directly or indirectly deceiving people about the reality of the situation.
Mahreen and her supporters should try to convince us what is the relation between US invasion of Iraq (2003) and the beheadings of Algerians during the civil war there (1991-2001). And we also do not know how beheading of Iraqis and Syrians, slavery of Iraqi women and raping children there will revenge for US invasion of Iraq.
Many arguments used by terrorist-apologists like Mahreen were simply not applicable on the situation in Iraq and Syria. The quote from George Megalogenis about child abuse and Catholic Church is out of context and not related to current debate. There is no single Australian citizen (Catholic or non-Catholic) supports child abuse. But there are Millions of Muslims support beheadings of rivals (including the beheading of the grandson of Muslim prophet) for the last 15 centuries.
It is the time for Muslims to speak loud and clear: Not in Our Name. Any silence, refusal to apologise or quiet condemnation will be used by terrorists to continue their terrorism. It will also help them in recruiting our youth.
While I know that Australian government loves to use the situation to increase division in our society, but silence on these terrorist actions will not help in counteracting these efforts. The high radicalisation in our community and all possible consequences is a reality.
The injustices in the society (mentioned by Mahreen in her article) did not lead to this high radicalisation. And addressing injustices alone (eradicate poverty, strengthening public services and working for environmental sustainability) will not reduce this radicalisation. The 400 Australians, who decided to go and fight in Syria and Iraq, did not do this because of their feeling of marginalisation in Australia. Khaled Sharoouf’s support for stronger Medicare was not the reason for taking up arms and cut heads of Syrians in Raqqah.
We believe that radicalisation will not be fought by ASIO only. Raids and arrests of extremists and terrorists will not solve the problem of radicalisation. But finding excuses and encouraging extremism by blaming others do not help too.
Muslim leaders apologising for ISIS crimes does not mean that they support US invasion of Iraq. It does not mean that they support Tony Abbott’s harsh liberal agenda against poor and marginalised. It will help defusing radicalisation and fighting against Islamophobia, by isolating extremists and deny them any platform to continue their radical agenda.
Thursday, October 09, 2014
More indications on who promoted extremism in our society!!!
The news yesterday that Newcastle court refused to release an ignorant man on bail for yelling at Muslim women and asking her to “go back where she came from” is deeply troubling. The authorities’ harsh dealing with such minor common assault could have deep negative impact and no positive outcome. The hate of Muslims could gain more ground if seen that authorities are siding with Muslims against the majority of citizens.
Many Muslims, including myself, would also ask thousand questions in this regard. One of these questions would be about the authorities’ extreme lenience in dealing with crimes committed for the last 3 years by Muslim extremists against other fellow Muslims who were seen not to support the extreme interpretation of Islam. Why authorities did not arrest any extremist in crimes committed in relation to Syrian crisis? Why extremists who shot Ali Ibrahim (Feb 2012) were not caught until now? Why extremist who physically attacked me May 2013 in front of Channel 7 cameras was not arrested for even one hour and his sentence was not more than good behaviour bond for 12 months, despite its deep religious hate nature? Why extremists burned down shops, threatened mainly Shia and Alawi Muslims were never caught and brought to justice??
It seems that authorities have deep secret agendas, even in arresting criminals.
When I received chilling messages of threats to kill me and rape my kids (August 2012), authorities did not move to arrest perpetrator. No one was jailed. No one needed to apply for bail.
Now, authorities are flexing muscle on people who committed minor assault, when they ignored major assaults and violent activities. Ignoring such major assaults and violent activities encouraged extremists to radicalise youth, recruit extremists, send them to fight in Syria and commit violent attacks against people they disagreed with them on their extreme interpretation of Islam.
We do not think that yelling at woman is more serious crime than punching people, burning houses and businesses or shooting people in front of their kids.
Many Muslims, including myself, would also ask thousand questions in this regard. One of these questions would be about the authorities’ extreme lenience in dealing with crimes committed for the last 3 years by Muslim extremists against other fellow Muslims who were seen not to support the extreme interpretation of Islam. Why authorities did not arrest any extremist in crimes committed in relation to Syrian crisis? Why extremists who shot Ali Ibrahim (Feb 2012) were not caught until now? Why extremist who physically attacked me May 2013 in front of Channel 7 cameras was not arrested for even one hour and his sentence was not more than good behaviour bond for 12 months, despite its deep religious hate nature? Why extremists burned down shops, threatened mainly Shia and Alawi Muslims were never caught and brought to justice??
It seems that authorities have deep secret agendas, even in arresting criminals.
When I received chilling messages of threats to kill me and rape my kids (August 2012), authorities did not move to arrest perpetrator. No one was jailed. No one needed to apply for bail.
Now, authorities are flexing muscle on people who committed minor assault, when they ignored major assaults and violent activities. Ignoring such major assaults and violent activities encouraged extremists to radicalise youth, recruit extremists, send them to fight in Syria and commit violent attacks against people they disagreed with them on their extreme interpretation of Islam.
We do not think that yelling at woman is more serious crime than punching people, burning houses and businesses or shooting people in front of their kids.
Sunday, October 05, 2014
دماء الاطفال ستهزمكم
قالوا من عامين بان الله يقاتل معهم
وشاهد شيخ منهم ملائكة تحمل سيفا
يقطع راس الشبيحة الى جهنم يرسلهم
وقالوا ان القران توقع حركتهم
وان رسول الله وصحابته تباركهم
وتلعن كل معارض حارب ثورتهم
وفي الاعلام كان شيوخ الفتنة متحدين
تصدرالاف الفتاوى ملك يديهم
فلا تشد الرحال جهادا الا لدمشق
واما بيت المقدس ... فالله لهم
وتقطيع الرؤوس حلال واجب
مذكور في قران ابن تيميتهم
قالوا بان الله يقاتل معهم
وشاهد شيخ منهم ملائكة الله ترعاهم
ولكن بعد سنين
اكتشفنا من يدعمهم ... من يمولهم
فعرفنا ان عدو البشرية عالج جرحاهم
والشيطان الاكبر اسلحة فتاكة اعطاهم
والمتكرش نفطا عربيا يغذي احقاد لحاهم
شاهدناكم.... تقتلوا اطفال مدارس حمص
وتنبشوا قبر الصحابة
وتهدموا كنائس معلولا ومزارات الاولياء
فتبت يداكم
كيف نصدق ان اله الكون يقاتل معكم
ليقتل اطفال مدارس حمص؟
كيف تعتدي ملائكته على قديسي معلولا
وتهدم قبر نبي الله .... وتبايعكم
خسئتم.... وخسئتم
ارواح الاطفال من مدرسة عكرمة ستطاركم
وستلعنكم
وتعلن براءة هذه الامة منكم
وستعلن ان الانسانية تلعنكم
قالوا بان الله يقاتل معكم؟
صدقوا... فالهكم يسكن في البيت الابيض
يحتل اراضي دول...
يهدم اوطان...
ويقود جيوش العدوان
باسم الاطفال الشهداء في حمص
نقول لكم: دماء الاطفال ستهزمكم
Thursday, September 25, 2014
The media and politicians still deceive you on “terrorism”: Wake up Australia..!!
I was visited by friend who was supporting ISIS and all other Takfiris in Syria until recently. I was shocked to hear him speak differently now. He was humiliated, disappointed and confused. “Did not they tell us for the last 4 years that they (ISIS and other Takfiri jihadists) are freedom fighters who need our help?”
But are the authorities and media serious in their “change-of-heart” towards these terrorists?
I personally do not think so.
Since the change of heart, the authorities (including media) were still seeking opinions of the same community “leaders” who promoted “freedom fighters” concept and supported these terrorists by all means.
Listen to this “leader” who was elected to be leader by 10 community members only but still claims to represent the “largest Muslim organisation” saying last Monday after PR conference to shake hands and kiss each other “the problem is that the community members do not listen to the true leaders. They listen to Sheikh Google and Imam Facebook”.
His mere lies were widely broadcasted on our media, adopted by our politicians and will be taught in our universities soon. Media noted earlier that the same leader’s organisation was actively brainwashing community members for the last decade even by broadcasting on several occasions lectures of AL Qaeda terrorists, including lectures by killed terrorist Anwar AL Awlaki, who was no 1 on most dangerous terrorist on earth (http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/alqaeda-at-city-mosque-20100414-se8g.html ). Mr Dandan of Lebanese Moslem Association apparently did not attend any Friday pray in the last 4 years in any of the mosques operated by extreme local imams which will be ended in calls for sectarian hate (and attacks) on Shia and Alawis as a support for Syrian “revolution”.
Media did not question Mr Danden’s unsubstantiated claims by reminding him of the auction of Al Qaeda flag in Ahmad Bin Hanbal centre (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/hate-for-sale-as-muslim-flag-adopted-by-jihadists-goes-to-auction-at-sydney-mosque/story-fni0cx12-1227050847756 ). Not only this.
On Q&A program last Monday, a counter-terrorism expert Anne Azza Aly, adopted these lies unquestioned. The veteran ABC host, Tony Jones, agreed enthusiastically. No one asked Mr Dandan why Muslim community members will need Sheikh Google to radicalise them when there are plenty of extreme sheikhs available in every neighbourhood in our major cities!!!
This is not the only program that adopted such lies and reported them as facts.
So why our authorities are trying to continue deceiving you?
One would assume that media and other authorities would not continue to deceive you unless there is another agenda or plan.
I say (and said for the last 4 years) that plan A for authorities was to allow extremist sheikhs and centres to brainwash our youth and recruit them to go and fight in countries like Libya and then Syria to achieve US “New Middle East plan”. Otherwise, how would our authorities explain the large numbers of Australian terrorists participating in the fight in Syria and Iraq (the largest among Western nations per capita).
But when plan A failed outside the gates of Damascus, it seems that the same perpetrators (US and its CIA) came with plan B.
We discover that by plan B, the perpetrators will change some of the terminology only. By plan B, “Freedom fighters” will become “extreme terrorists” that need to be crushed and destroyed. By this way, US can achieve many goals with one shot.
Firstly, it will try and attack Syrian army posts and government’s command centres, then they can try changing the unfriendly regime. This is highly unlikely (if not impossible) to happen now after Russia and Iran strong warnings with sending whole fleet of warships and stockpiles of rockets and advanced weapons.
Secondly, US will secure new military basis to try and contain the aftermath of the collapse of plan A (protect their puppet regimes). In addition, US will be able to continue milking the region’s wealth under the banner of “protecting you from ISIS”.
Thirdly, kill as many terrorists as possible before they could return safely to their homeland where they could constitute great pain to the Western security agencies.
This is why authorities are not telling you the full story. This is why media and authorities are not talking about the main related issue: “who created these monsters and allowed them to grow and expand in our society and beyond”.
Otherwise, why all talks by politicians on our media for the last 2 months were about the threat of Australian Takfiri terrorists on our society after their return from Syria. But no one is ready to discuss who allowed them to go to fight in Syria, who recruited them and who allowed this recruitment.
I can smell new conspiracy... I am sure it will fail... but what is the price...
In addition to hundreds of thousands of innocents killed in different countries because of plan A, we started to pay the price by coping attacks on community members, spit on women faces, graffiti on mosques and schools and high discrimination at all levels.
Why would victims pay the price twice!!!
But are the authorities and media serious in their “change-of-heart” towards these terrorists?
I personally do not think so.
Since the change of heart, the authorities (including media) were still seeking opinions of the same community “leaders” who promoted “freedom fighters” concept and supported these terrorists by all means.
Listen to this “leader” who was elected to be leader by 10 community members only but still claims to represent the “largest Muslim organisation” saying last Monday after PR conference to shake hands and kiss each other “the problem is that the community members do not listen to the true leaders. They listen to Sheikh Google and Imam Facebook”.
His mere lies were widely broadcasted on our media, adopted by our politicians and will be taught in our universities soon. Media noted earlier that the same leader’s organisation was actively brainwashing community members for the last decade even by broadcasting on several occasions lectures of AL Qaeda terrorists, including lectures by killed terrorist Anwar AL Awlaki, who was no 1 on most dangerous terrorist on earth (http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/alqaeda-at-city-mosque-20100414-se8g.html ). Mr Dandan of Lebanese Moslem Association apparently did not attend any Friday pray in the last 4 years in any of the mosques operated by extreme local imams which will be ended in calls for sectarian hate (and attacks) on Shia and Alawis as a support for Syrian “revolution”.
Media did not question Mr Danden’s unsubstantiated claims by reminding him of the auction of Al Qaeda flag in Ahmad Bin Hanbal centre (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/hate-for-sale-as-muslim-flag-adopted-by-jihadists-goes-to-auction-at-sydney-mosque/story-fni0cx12-1227050847756 ). Not only this.
On Q&A program last Monday, a counter-terrorism expert Anne Azza Aly, adopted these lies unquestioned. The veteran ABC host, Tony Jones, agreed enthusiastically. No one asked Mr Dandan why Muslim community members will need Sheikh Google to radicalise them when there are plenty of extreme sheikhs available in every neighbourhood in our major cities!!!
This is not the only program that adopted such lies and reported them as facts.
So why our authorities are trying to continue deceiving you?
One would assume that media and other authorities would not continue to deceive you unless there is another agenda or plan.
I say (and said for the last 4 years) that plan A for authorities was to allow extremist sheikhs and centres to brainwash our youth and recruit them to go and fight in countries like Libya and then Syria to achieve US “New Middle East plan”. Otherwise, how would our authorities explain the large numbers of Australian terrorists participating in the fight in Syria and Iraq (the largest among Western nations per capita).
But when plan A failed outside the gates of Damascus, it seems that the same perpetrators (US and its CIA) came with plan B.
We discover that by plan B, the perpetrators will change some of the terminology only. By plan B, “Freedom fighters” will become “extreme terrorists” that need to be crushed and destroyed. By this way, US can achieve many goals with one shot.
Firstly, it will try and attack Syrian army posts and government’s command centres, then they can try changing the unfriendly regime. This is highly unlikely (if not impossible) to happen now after Russia and Iran strong warnings with sending whole fleet of warships and stockpiles of rockets and advanced weapons.
Secondly, US will secure new military basis to try and contain the aftermath of the collapse of plan A (protect their puppet regimes). In addition, US will be able to continue milking the region’s wealth under the banner of “protecting you from ISIS”.
Thirdly, kill as many terrorists as possible before they could return safely to their homeland where they could constitute great pain to the Western security agencies.
This is why authorities are not telling you the full story. This is why media and authorities are not talking about the main related issue: “who created these monsters and allowed them to grow and expand in our society and beyond”.
Otherwise, why all talks by politicians on our media for the last 2 months were about the threat of Australian Takfiri terrorists on our society after their return from Syria. But no one is ready to discuss who allowed them to go to fight in Syria, who recruited them and who allowed this recruitment.
I can smell new conspiracy... I am sure it will fail... but what is the price...
In addition to hundreds of thousands of innocents killed in different countries because of plan A, we started to pay the price by coping attacks on community members, spit on women faces, graffiti on mosques and schools and high discrimination at all levels.
Why would victims pay the price twice!!!
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