Friday, April 08, 2011

Australian conservative politician under fire for telling the truth about Islam

We read:
"Victorian MP Bernie Finn has landed the Liberal Party into a race row after comments about the Muslim community. But Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu has refused to condemn the Liberal MPs who denounced the Islamic religion in comments on Facebook.

The Facebook comments followed a Herald Sun story earlier this week reporting that many Muslims live in ghettoes because of racist fears. Mr Finn wrote on the social media site that he failed to understand "how concerns about a religion that seems to sanction decapitation can be construed as racism".

In a rowdy question time, Labor attacked Mr Finn's comments as racist "dog whistle" politics.

But Mr Finn defended the comments as having nothing to do with racism. "No religion is specific to a skin tone or colour. Some people need to get a hobby as they have too much time on their hands if they were concerned with those comments," he said.

Mr Baillieu yesterday told Parliament multiculturalism is vital for Victoria but refused to respond to his Upper House colleague's comments as he had not seen or heard them. And the Speaker Ken Smith refused to allow Labor to table a copy of the Facebook comments.

"I would encourage all Victorians to demonstrate tolerance and their commitment to multiculturalism," Mr Baillieu said.

Earlier this year Federal Liberal leader Tony Abbott disassociated himself from outspoken South Australian Senator Cory Bernardi's attack on Islam on as a "totalitarian, political and religious" ideology.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Racist" is just used as weapon as everyone fears being called it, just as in the past "communist" was thrown around to intimidate people. "N*g**r", "Q*e*r" and "F*g*ot" are now usually avoided as they just rebound on the user like a boomerang.

stinky said...

Boomerangs are racist too and now so are you for using the term. Er, and me too for mentioning it, I guess.

In fact, are there any terms left that aren't?

But you're right that the accusations are just character assassination intended to intimidate others who might dare speak inconveniently.

Anonymous said...

Anyone want to explain why multiculturalism is vital?

It seems to me that 'forced' multiculturalism is a big problem.

Malcolm said...

Anyone who doesn't know the difference between a race and a religion cannot be taken seriously in a discussion on either topic.

Anonymous said...

The UN is under pressure to introduce a blasphemy law binding on all member states that outlaws any negative criticism of religion. Naive Christians and liberal PC'ers think "well that's okay as it's against intolerance", and so doing let the wolf through the door (the wolf being Islam in sheep's clothing).

Spurwing Plover said...

Dont you just enjoy the hypocracy of the left