On the contrary, the country’s Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, reportedly granted him a visa “immediately,” explaining, as Phillip Hudson wrote in the Herald Sun on September 18, that Mustafa “was not on any alert list, not a member of a proscribed terrorist organisation and had no criminal convictions.”
By contrast, at this writing the Australian government is still sitting on a more than three-week-old visa application by another major European figure – namely, Geert Wilders, member of the Dutch parliament, head of the Dutch Freedom Party, and author of the international bestseller Marked for Death.
Wilders, who has been invited by a small Australian group, the Q Society, to give talks in Sydney and Melbourne about the threat of Islam, applied for a visa over three weeks ago but – again, as of this writing – has not yet received it, even though members of his staff and security detail were issued their visas almost at once. In reply to queries, Bowen has said that “it is not unusual for applications to take several weeks for a decision in complex cases.”
What makes Wilders a “complex case”? According to Hayden Cooper of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Wilders “is on the Movement Alert List, a database of people of concern to Australia…. his application is held up at the Department of Immigration headquarters in Canberra while more thorough checks are done.” And why is Wilders included on such a list? Cooper attributes it to “his previous brushes with authorities abroad,” namely the 2009 episode in which he was “refused entry to the UK but later appealed and won” and his 2010-11 trials in his own country on charges (of which he was ultimately acquitted) of criminal insult and inciting hatred and discrimination.
Writing on September 19, Cooper said that what he called the “final tricky call” on Wilders’s visa application might end up being made personally by Bowen, who for his part would only say that “no decision ha[d] been made” in Wilders’s case and that “he ha[d] received no advice yet from the department.” It was interesting to observed that Bowen, who went out of his way to defend the granting of a visa to Mustafa, seemed to take a hands-off approach to a visa application by a member of the parliament of a fellow Western democracy.
Scott Morrison, who, in a view consistent with standard Western-establishment thinking, considers both Mustafa and Wilders unsavory extremists, nonetheless found it disturbing that Australia’s ruling Labor Party “seems to be more concerned about some extreme views than others.” Indeed, there’s no question but that some highly placed members of the Australian government despise Wilders. The Minister of Multicultural Affairs, Kate Lundy, has described him as “an extreme-right politician promulgating views that are out of step with mainstream Australia.” And Senator Richard Di Natale has said that Wilders’s “hateful and divisive views are not welcome in Australia” (while adding that “to deny him a visa risks giving him more oxygen and publicity”).
Plainly, there’s some upside-down thinking going on down there in the southern hemisphere. They think – or some of them do, anyway – that if they let in the likes of Mustafa it’ll somehow appease the would-be rioters, and if they let in Wilders it’ll set them off. They don’t seem to understand that people obsessed with power only understand power – and that jihadists, sensitive to the slightest whiff of weakness, respond to appeasement only by pushing harder for yet more appeasement.
In any event, all this looking-glass thinking only goes to show just how desperately Australia needs to hear Wilders’s message – and to take a cue from his unshrinking, unflinching approach to the sheer evil represented by Mustafa and his ilk.
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Double standards apply in Western countries as far as visas are concerned.
Britain denied a visa to Wilders for a while, and the American Mixhael Savage remains banned, so far as i know.
But I understand not a whisper of protest was raised when Anis Matta, the fanatic Secretary General of the Muslim Brotherhood-style PKS party in Indonesia, was allowed in, despite his post-9/11 ode of adulation to Osama Bin Laden. I append a link on the 'poetry!' http://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/br…
The other day a popular liberal blogger explained in public that, for First Amendment purposes, a useful distinction can be made between Piss Christ, which he said is a beautiful (his very word) work of art with deep meaning, and the Danish or French cartoons or that 13:51 internet short about Mohamed, all of which lack beauty and deep meaning.
Hence we can distinguish between religiously offensive works with these forms of value and those without.
Once upon a time, liberal courts found porn with "redeeming social value" that "did not appeal solely to prurient interest" is actually protected by the First Amendment.
Remember?
It will not be hard to turn that hypocritical distinction to yet another hypocritical use.
fyi Bruce – Scott Morrison is not a journalist but the conservative (Liberal Party) Opposition shadow minister for immigration.
So does Morrison have any ties to islamofascist NGO's? I wouldn't be surprised if he did, because his actions speak corruption as loudly in AUS as they do for US politicians here in the US.
Thanks. Corrected!
I watched the video that Mr. Bawer linked. I don't agree with Taji Mustafa's religion, but I won't disagree with his observations. The man made astute observations, specifically, that for all their lip service to "freedom of speech" there are indeed things and people that Westerners will not tolerate to be insulted. Taji Mustafa prefers a more restrictive society and religious unity to freedom of speech. I see no reason why in his quarter of the world if a billion people feel the same way, they shouldn't enjoy their own type of semi-closed society. Also, the types of restrictions someone like Taji Mustafa would prefer are also enjoyed in places like Israel where they let Haredis run around wagging their fingers at women in pants, and preventing Palestinians from speaking about the Nakba on Israeli Independence Day. The man is free to be a Muslim and to hang out with Muslims, and to lecture Muslims, and get angry as a Muslim, and call for embassy boycotts as a Muslim. Really, he seemed like a pretty peaceful guy. He is soft on verbal threatening, but then again, so what? I can tolerate that. He even denounced the killing of the ambassador and said it was out of line with the religion. What's the big deal?
Hay Schlomotion
"there are indeed things and people that Westerners will not tolerate to be insulted" educate me, were in the international section of the New York Times does it report that Westerners are rioting and killing because of an insult. Only you would equate a Jew wagging a finger with Muslims burning and murdering.
OK. I'll educate you. The word is "where."
Don't you agree that all muslims are subhuman feral animals that should be put down like rabid dogs?
I mean, Jews are bad enough with their hypocrisies and incessant whining about antisemitism and the holocaust, but at least they down burn things down and kill innocent people if anyone mocks their book of fairy tales and gives a raspberry at their tribal storm godlet.
Good one. Simplicity is the key. Smack down – right WHERE it sucks to hurt. Did I spell WHERE right, troll?
Please continue
Come on Schlomotion is that it?
No argument about the facts just a cute little grammatical correction.
Schlomotion – do you see Westerers rioting and killing because of an insult?
Wagging fingers isn't in the same ball park w/slaughtering people in the name of your mad, psychopathic, misogynistic death god Ahmed.
Schlomotion,
For goodness sake man you’re in the negative thumbs down and falling fast. Defend yourself; let us see that Mark Twain wit, that Vulcan logic. But alas, who knows what a cricket is thinking.
Maybe if you stamp your feet and cry a little. Or you could go look up the list of riots of the 21st Century and see if any of the participants felt insulted beforehand.
Now Shlomotion lets try and be mature about this (take a deep breath).
Who but your Islamic terrorist friends riot and kill en masse because of an insult?
I didn't see Mr. Mustafa endorsing that same phenomenon that you exaggerate.
His words implied violence and anything but tolerance of those who hold a dissenting viewpoint of your child molesting, Jew hating, psychopathic, narcissitic prophet of hate.
Looking at the entire posting I have to conclude you cannot counter my origin criticism of your comments.
"there are indeed things and people that Westerners will not tolerate to be insulted" educate me, were in the international section of the New York Times does it report that Westerners are rioting and killing because of an insult. Only you would equate a Jew wagging a finger with Muslims burning and murdering.
Congratulations upon making your conclusion. This concludes my congratulations. Incidentally, it only proves that I will not counter your criticism, not that I can not.
The reason I will not counter your criticism (with your desired answer) is because you have laid out the requirement that it be in the New York Times international section, that I should not consider Muslims living in Europe and the United States "Westerners," that things do not happen unless reported upon in the New York Times, and that rioters as such are never "insulted" such as the recent Anaheim rioters who were insulted by excessive force and police brutality. Quite simply, you have demanded that I counter a facile point with counterexamples. You cannot look at the entire posting because it, like the trains that you play with, can always have a car added. At best you can look at it at a given time and make a conclusion that you know, rhetorically, is limited.
They rioted because of an "insult by excessive force" that's priceless it shows the absurdity you needed to resort to. Is this your example of 21st century riots by Westerners caused by an insult? Are cells insulted by adding alcohol to the petri dish, is the tibia broken because of insult occurring during a fall? Thanks
Muslimes are as much "Westerners" as Nazis were and they share the same pathological hate.
Pathetic drivel as usual. Pretty desperate, Flippo, are we now? In need of constant attention? A pat on the head? A slap on the back? Aaah, poor boy, my heart goes out to you.
Carry on.
I've got a question for you,Schlobrain. Since when have you EVER seen Christians or Jews riot over an insult to their faith recently? The answer is NONE! I haven't seen it. Christians and Jews may protest these insults but I haven't seen either group kill anyone because their religion was insulted. The Muslims have done all those things and more. And to be honest,I don't think I like this Taji Mustafa. I think he's a lowlife. Both you and Atlas_Collins are slugs. You bash Jews all day long and contribute nothing to this website but bigotry and hate. Why don't you get a heart and a brain while you're at it.
OK Schlo. Let him stay home and not judge our society by his local norms. OK? In other words, do what you want in your own home, but don't insult me in mine and then try to wreck the place.
In fact, according to Middle Eastern custom, if he was really in my home and said those things, I would throw him out (so he no longer has the protection of a guest) and then chase him down the street with a very big sword to see if I could kill him and in so doing restore my honor.
Muttered under my breath: Why did God make so many schlemiels ?
What I can't understand is why the lady Prime Minister of Australia, who allegedly has such a firm stance
on Muslim pretentions, wouldn't issue WILDERS the visa her Immigration Minister denies him, while
issuing immediately a visa to this Muslim agitator….
But as to their claim about banning criticism of Islam, I wonder what are western govments. affraid of
telling all of them that this is the way it is and if they disagree, the exit gates of these countries, USA
included in spite of OBAMA, are wide open and all of them are free to return to the countries they came
from.
PERIOD
'Allahu Akbar' has been screamed thousands of times before beheadings ,mass murders,suicide bombings etc.
It is a verbal religious precursor of violence ,eminent danger,murderous acts and revenge . It is equal to yelling fire in a crowded theater .
We definitely need to deem yelling 'Allahu Akbar' a hate crime.
How do you think your muslim pals will respond when we use their own ideology of restricting speech to them ?
He even denounced the killing! WHY, how utterly marvellous of him! He was lying, you low brow ass. The killing was completely in compliance with his gutter grade religion. And if you had read the bloody koran (as you have lied about doing), you would know that.
That's the exact mentality of the Dhimmis, one day your kids will curse you for not standing for freedom values and handing their countries to those savages and bow to Islam … look what they've done to the old civilizations they invaded and how they turned them into pathetic countries " those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it "
Go Wilder and don't back down and remember " Telling the truth has left me no friend "
This seems to be the pattern for the spineless westerm democracies. After all this time (Nazi Germny>) you would think they'ld learn by their mistakes. Yet they never do.
The nazis never had the kind of financial backing islamofascism has now. I think the corruption of our federal and state legislators, judiciary and law enforcement by islamofascist petrodollars is at a level unprecedented in the history of the US.
Muslims in Britain and around their world have the protection of the royals, starting with Prince Charley and on even into his otherwise apparently wise son who will be king. A definite blind spot, or is it the leftist mentality that gets in bed with a snake and then is surprised when it gives a lethal bite?
AUS has fallen far and fast. I'll bet if the Indonesian islamofascists were to begin a second genocide in E. Timor today, the apathetic, amoral, corrupt politicos of AUS would do nothing while praising the tolerance of the Indonesian islamofascists.
I am going to get myself a load of bullits, it' going to look like I will need them.
The only solution is for Christians, Conservatives and just regular folks to demonstrate loudly and violently whenever we are "insulted". Oh, maybe not such a good idea, that. We'd be in a perpetual state of demonstration! And if we were, who wouldn't be working and earning money so who would be left pay taxes that support all those darned bureaucrats? The 47%?
bureaucrats, and all the muslims on the dole at Lakemba.
Schlomotion is a troll … a dumb one I might add … go wipe your arse with your hand and pick your bride from your nieces at playing with dolls at your family reunion … stupid nonsense logic
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