Posted on 01/11/2002 12:38:48 AM PST by Byron_the_Aussie
Scimitar Society
(reader's letter to the Australian conservative magazine Quadrant, December 2001)
Sir: I am writing to add my voice to yours in respect of the editorial "Compassion, Illegal immigration and Hypocrisy" (October 2001). But I would also like to say that I take umbrage with the terms elite and intellectual that recur so frequently throughout the editorial.
Journalists and schoolteachers, together with a few academics in disciplines like sociology, education, anthropology and political science, do not constitute an intellectual elite, so much as a coterie of reciprocating collaborators of narrow dogma, used to repress the thoughts of those who have a deeper and longer view. Such persons who have managed to corner the market on presentable opinion include Mike Carlton, Michelle Grattan, Jennifer Hewitt, Mark Riley and even, disappointingly, Tony Jones and Maxine McKew,(these are all Australian media leftists and liberals ) who have half-baked views on historiography and contextualisation. At the same time, those who do present a longer view, like Geoffrey Blainey or Roger Sandall (Australian conservative historians) , are predictably dismissed as narrow or bigoted or constructivist, given to an abuse of discourse.
These so-called intellectual elites are particularly selective themselves in denouncing categorically a word like crusade, while demanding a sensitive interpretation of jihad. It is apparently forgotten that the crusades of the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries were attempts to regain holy places taken by marauding Saracens under the banners of their early jihads. It is rarely remembered that the supposedly gracious and gentle Saladin had 330 knights slaughtered after the Battle of Hattin in 1187 because they would not submit to the faith of Allah.
It was because of pirating Muslims that southern Europe was trapped in the dark ages, and that Spain was overrun and the Spanish Catholics oppressed until the Reconquista gradually drove out the intruders. This campaign was not complete until the year Columbus embarked on his voyage to open up the New World to the advances and benign influences of the West. It is unlikely you would find many native Americans who would appreciate the loss of the extra twenty or thirty years of life that westernisation brought them, or the loss of the televisions or beer or tenpin bowling so they could return to the tepee and the buffalo hunt.
The intellectual elite dogmatists may forget the Muslim depredations that have continued through from the time of the hegira, while calling on their publics to acknowledge the wonderful work of Averroes or Avicenna, yet again forgetting that most of what they published stemmed from the minds of Western thinkers like Aristotle, Archimedes and Hypatia.
I also feel it is important to support the stance taken by (Australian minister for immigration) Mr Ruddock and the Liberal-National (current, conservative )government on illegal immigrants and refugees. It is unreasonable that those who recognise the imposition of such groups and seek to resist it suffer the criticism that dogs them, either because of biased politicking, or uncritical concern for human rights issues. Terms like racist, parochial, redneck, simplistic, xenophobic and Hansonite have recently come to dominate the press electronically and in print. All such terms seem to be code for saying it is wrong to disagree with the self-appointed politically correct.
The disregard shown by boat people from the Middle East for Australian laws and protocols does not seem to be an aberration, buy typical of 1400 years of interaction between these people who have raped and pillaged and taxed and even stolen Christian youth to form the nucleus of their armies as janissaries.
I have had dealings with many Middle Eastern people in the school system, I have noted their behaviour in public places, and read reports and statistics that substantiate views concerning an endemic lack of respect for the Australian community. At the same time, the high levels of intolerance apparent in Middle Eastern countries for Kurds, Buddhists and Christian evangelists, the willingness to submit to autocratic patriarchy, and their age-old conflicts between Shiites and Sunnis, among other entrenched societal intolerance, justifies an open culture like Australia being reluctant to accept immigrants from these cultures. It seems only reasonable to me that a community should be entitled to retain its integrity and its traditions, and so safeguard the well-being of its citizens, from invaders who do not respect its borders.
It is unfortunate that the United Nations has become a tribunal for channeling charges against the OCED, and for ignoring the atrocities, corruption, racism, bigotry and obstructive inequities in the majority of developing countries, except to lay responsibility for them at the door of "neo-colonialism".
In view of the many instances throughout history of the propensity of different groups to behave aggressively towards others, or in ways that are unacceptable to others, I am stunned at the presumption and temerity whereby writers like (notorious Aussie liberal) Mike Carlton feel they can so easily lump any people who are opposed to the invasion of Australia and other civilised countries by boat people. By "civilised" I mean those nations where rule of law prevails in a spirit of tolerance for difference. But this same characteristic does not necessitate self-destruction through permitting socially incompatible groups into a community.
To be aware of the ramifications of a lax policy towards these sea nomads is not to link oneself with (conservative Buchanan-style Aussie politician) Pauline Hanson, but to be aware of what has happened and what conditions will be exacerbated if the insipid views of Carltonites prevail. Further, to use a term like Hansonite as pejorative is to sweep away the thought-out views of a large segment of the population. That no other spokesperson than the semi-literate Hanson has stepped forth is a reflection on the censorship and social strictures imposed on free thought and expression by the Carltonites who are presently in power.
Despite claims to the contrary which have appeared in the press, there is nothing farcical about denying entry to members of a lunatic culture that originated in a holy war. From the time of Mohammed’s pilgrimage, Muslims have been dominating Middle Eastern and Central Asian regions with the scimitar, imposing a closed society, and an oppression of different viewpoints to rival only newspapers like the Australian. The closed Islamic society was born in jihad; the Christian, Western societies were born in a spirit of charity. It is suicidal to allow entry of members of an intolerant culture that will threaten us when they are able and oppress us as they are used to being oppressed.
Take note: nearly every Islamic culture is impoverished. Even Turkey at the height of its power only accrued wealth through invasion and levying of high taxes on its subject peoples. Their closed societies and closed minds prevent invention and reflection. The Afghani boat people are a small part of the problem that is already evident in the anti-social activities of other Islamic groups in Australia. Their children of Islamic families do not apply themselves, whether because of culture or some inherent malfunction. Any survey honestly conducted would reflect a lack of success among Muslims academically and in other areas of human endeavour, except terrorism.
So let them sail back to their deserts and their mosques and their camels and their tents-and terrify each other. And let the intellectual elite in the media and the education and sociology faculties form communities of tolerance and openness in accordance with their values; perhaps they may still be in existence as such in six or seven months.
Greg Deane
Ryde, New South Wales
Australia
JJ's already posted on another thread that he personally administers FIVE Yahoo sites.
If things are so cruel for you guys here on FR, why don't you stay on Yahoo?
Easy, shaggs.
And please be careful about whom you associate me with?
My Mum [About the time she snatched my candy at the airport -- you will recall?] warned me about watching the company I keep.
And I have, my Good FRiend, since put together a lifetime's experience of being extremely careful about that!
You're welcome! That coworker of yours would be well aware that we've only just fought an election here; a key point of which was whether Australia has the right decide who comes to this country. The liberals, Greens, and socialist left of course demanded that Australia, with its 'racist' history of 'genocide', had no right to determine its own immigration policy; that should be left to (their friends on) UN committees. The Australian people gave them a resounding one-finger salute; but you know the Left. They'll be back.
Here's the quintessential PC leftist lesbian bitching in the Sydney Morning Herald about how horrible it all is.
Save it for the Yahoo sites, JJ. Your spiritual home.
The thought of you hosting a 'Commonwealth Forum' on FR's server is too grotesque for words. Besides, the well-respected Freeper MadIvan already hosts a Commonwealth forum.
regards
Or that other American creation known as Free Republic. Which you obviously intend to model your forum after.
Precisely.
Just dilute, dilute, dilute until the logical conclusion.
Then, when all we have is this colorless silly putty - oh, the possibilities!
The thought of you hosting a 'commonwealth forum' on FR's server is too grotesque for words. Besides ..... "MadIvan" already hosts a Commonwealth forum.
But that's in once great Britain -- and this typically dead and decadent eurotrash push wants, like the other 300 million of them, to FReeload on America's back!
Really, you spoil me!! Im overcome with emotion....
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The thought of you hosting a 'commonwealth forum' on FR's server is too grotesque for words. Besides ..... "MadIvan" already hosts a Commonwealth forum.
But that's in once great Britain -- and this typically dead and decadent eurotrash push wants, like the other 300 million of them, to FReeload on America's back!
Not that any of the endemically-alcoholic, low-browed, no-neck, unbathed, soccer-hooligan-gang mentality swill that, like so many snot-drooling hyenas and other masters of the personal attack, hunts here, would ever acknowledge the fact of their squalid little misty-islands' utter dependence upon Our Beloved FRaternal Republic for its very existence [And that every time an aeroplane lands in once great Britain from either New Zealand or Australia -- or from almost any other of its former colonies -- the average IQ of once great Britain and of the fortunate country of departure doubles!] -- -- or any other fact -- nor address one of them.
Way too much fun to be had cackling maniacly among themselves in the thrall of the dutch courage apparently acquired from the combined effect of swilling returned-to-the-keg-and-watered "beer" and collectively scavenging in the company of such other masses of brainless loosely connected protein as comprise your typical "visiting" soccer hooligan pack!
<];^)~<
You're welcome! That coworker of yours would be well aware that we've only just fought an election here; a key point of which was whether Australia has the right decide who comes to this country. The liberals, Greens, and socialist left of course demanded that Australia, with its 'racist' history of 'genocide', had no right to determine its own immigration policy; that should be left to (their friends on) UN committees. The Australian people gave them a resounding one-finger salute; but you know the Left. They'll be back.
Here's the quintessential PC leftist lesbian bitching in the Sydney Morning Herald about how horrible it all is.
Multiculturalism is eschewed in name and in images. Reconciliation, the republic, a place in Asia, a clever country, a creative country - all gone missing. Yesterday's issues. As Paul Kelly wrote in the Australian yesterday, a win for Howard is victory in the culture war, that grinding battle over who we are and what we want to become that was joined on Howard's election and continues to this day. Howard looked the winner yesterday.
Congratulations, Byron -- and thank you -- for posting this important link. I missed it the first time around.
May you and others like you keep Australia's somewhat belatedly raised guard -- especially that against the Eurotrash-like self-loathing leftist enemy within -- high! And, in New Zealand, you too, shaggs!
Maybe one day there will be a new ANSUS Empire, this one founded in the Principle upon which My Beloved America is Founded and forever Stands: the Principle of the God-Given and therefore Inalienable Individual Liberty made sacrasanct in Our Beloved FRaternal Republic's Founding Law!
May Almighty God continue to bless My America -- and the ANSUS Alliance that has served our nations so well -- and serves it still!
As promised...
Poor Dear "jj"
How entirely fitting that one of your ilk would attempt to effect a personal attack upon an American Patriot [Although never, of course, upon his argument nor upon the content of either his mind or of his character!] by presenting him with a stolen American Image.
You epitomise that which you champion.
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