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"Weak West welcomes Islam"
Sydney Morning Herald ^ | March 4, 2007 | Miranda Devine

Posted on 03/03/2007 1:46:11 PM PST by NCjim

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "If you find it difficult to understand how a home-grown al-Qaeda-trained terrorist such as David Hicks has acquired sacred cow status in Australia, or why community concern about Muslim gang-rapists targeting non-Muslim teenage girls in western Sydney was dismissed by academics as "moral panic", it helps to read the book Londonistan by Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips.

Phillips, who was in Sydney last week, contends in the 2006 bestseller that Britain and much of the West is in denial about the threat of radical Islamism, is engaged in "galloping cultural surrender" and has become so weak and decadent it seeks "not only to appease but [to] believe and absorb the ideas and assumptions of the enemy that intends to destroy them".

After interviewing Peter Costello, Alexander Downer and Philip Ruddock for her Daily Mail column, Phillips spoke last week at a Quadrant magazine dinner in Sydney.

Londonistan, she said, was a "term of abuse coined by the French for a Britain that had allowed itself to become the European hub of al-Qaeda".

"I wrote Londonistan as a warning, as I believed Britain was deeply in denial over the threat of radical Islamism," she said.

She identified a "lethal confusion, not just in Britain but throughout the West, in which people who claimed to be progressive and liberal were actually promoting the very opposite. As we could see in Britain when so-called progressives, committed to causes like gay rights and anti-racism, marched shoulder to shoulder alongside Islamists who believed in death to gays and the subjugation of Jews and Christians."

Phillips worked happily for 20 years at the left-wing Guardian newspaper, but in 1987 when she wrote a column about the difficulty of finding decent education in London for her two young children, she suddenly found herself branded a right-winger.

After a column about family breakdown, her critics moved her into the "ultra right" category, she said, and when she continued with her apostasy, labelled her a fascist and then, because she was Jewish, a Zionist. Finally now, she says, her critics dismiss her as "mad".

But her analysis of Western kowtowing to Islamic demands is persuasive and her arguments always buttressed by facts."

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MP lashes out over Hicks (Terrorist bagging ALERT!!!)
Herald Sun ^ | 2 March 2007

Posted on 03/02/2007 1:42:34 AM PST by Aussie Dasher

UPPER House MP Bernie Finn has launched an attack on accused Australian terror suspect David Hicks, saying people were trying to turn him into a national living treasure.

"I must offer a word of caution to those seeking to elevate Hicks to national hero status," Mr Finn told State Parliament.

"David Hicks was not in Afghanistan to judge the Kabul beach babe contest.

"He was there fighting for one of the most oppressive regimes on earth, which is and was a supporter and promoter of terrorism both locally and internationally.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au