Albanese’s new Antisemitism, Hate, and Extremism omnibus bill set to be pushed through next week. By Flat White in The Spectator.
The Prime Minister’s Combatting Antisemitism, Hate, and Extremism omnibus bill, which his government is expected to ram through into law next week in a special sitting, fails to name-drop radical Islamic terror.
This is bizarre, given Islamic terror is the sole cause of the Bondi Beach terror attack and essentially the only ideology responsible for terror attacks on Australian soil in the last 20 years. …
Just enforce the laws we already have. Oh, that’s the problem — look who’s doing the enforcing:
Australians have not asked for hate-speech legislation or incitement legislation as we already have sufficient laws covering these areas.
Laws which have not been adequately used to tackle Islamic terror or Islamic hate speakers despite overwhelming evidence of their existence.
Nor has it been used against pro-Palestine protesters who shouted for a global intifada or other genocidal threats on public streets. …
A Muslim massacred Jews at Bondi massacre … so Albanese comes down on a few Nazi cosplayers (who were never going to vote for him anyway, and are too few to be electorally significant):
We can make a prediction that this new legislation’s first task will be the criminalisation of the cosplaying Victorian neo-Nazis who, whilst voicing disgusting ideas and idealising demonic historical figures, do not pose anywhere near the same level of risk as a global organised and well-funded jihadist movement.
Speaking against mass immigration will probably be found to be hate speech (only one leftist judge away from that interpretation):
From there, it is a minor inconvenience to falsely criminalise anyone who opposes mass migration. How do we know? Because government ministers and broadcasters already make this false conflation.
Block X:
We can also expect the Prime Minister’s government to seek the total censorship of Elon Musk’s platform X. …
X is the most powerful political conversation in the world and it has facilitated a Western rebellion against radical Islam which embarrasses regimes, such as the UK, EU, Canada, and Australia, who have lost control of their borders or deliberately invited foreign religious wars into previously safe countries.
X is being used by Iranians to depose the Islamic Republic as we speak. …
Reality is stubborn:
The hard and uncompromising truth is that Islamic terror inside Australia is a failure of political leadership that goes back generations.
It was invited, cultivated, excused, ignored, and even validated by the activist and intellectual class as a valid struggle against colonialism.
It is not, in any way, a reaction to free speech, criticism, patriotism, or our Colonial history. …
Government grants fund cultural projects and an arts industry which supports the views of radical groups and mimics their rhetoric against Israel and the Jewish people. We pay for this.
Over ten years ago, out-and-proud ISIS supporters marched straight through the centre of Sydney carrying signs that read, Behead the infidels!
Hyde Park, Sydney, 2012. Their hate speech will be legal under the new legislation, but questioning mass immigration may well become illegal.
Those people are still here. Living amongst us. Voting in our elections. Shopping with us. Working next to us. Hanging their flags in their bedrooms. ….
Middle Eastern nations … have no problem discussing radical Islam as a security threat and they do not dress up their laws with vague references to hate.
Shut up!
If the Prime Minister and his government are not forced to keep this legislation focused on radical Islam, it will be weaponised against criticism of Islam.
Already, we are in very grave danger of no longer being able to defend our culture with words. This is meant to be our inheritance of the Enlightenment.
We have a race discrimination commissioner already on record insinuating that criticising mass migration is racist. Their definition of hate could amount to questioning government policy.
Ibid:
Illegal migrants who committed rape and murder were let out onto the streets because apparently there was nothing the government could do, but you could spend five years in jail for questioning mass migration.
This is not what we asked for following an Islamic terror attack.
Ibid, on enshrining the hate speech in the Koran:
Albo’s hate speech laws exempt hate preachers so long as they restrict their hate to quoting a religious text.
Ibid:
This legislation gives religious speakers privilege over non-religious Australians.
Islamic hate preachers will be able to say anything they like because their particular religious texts are ‘protected’ — irrespective of whether they contain hateful rhetoric or incitement to violence. (Which they do.)
But your political speech, as an Australian citizen, is not protected in any way because it doesn’t have a recognised religious text.
Ibid:
We have reached the position where the government’s own bill effectively acknowledges that Islamic documents could be antisemitic or constitute hate speech if read aloud by preachers.
But that those preachers and what they say is protected by law.
But if you point out that Islamic teachings or the contents of its Holy Book could be dangerous, contain hateful commentary, or radicalise individuals — well — THAT will send you to jail for 5 years.
Ibid:
If the Jewish community author or champion censorship legislation which is used to silence Australians — two things will happen:
Islamic terror will continue to kill people.
Antisemitism will rise.This so so unbelievably predictable.
Ibid:
There are ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Islamic terror supporters LIVING IN OUR CAPITAL CITIES.
Catching the train with us.
Shopping with us.
Working with us.
VOTING IN OUR ELECTIONS.And Albanese and Sussan Ley are whinging about X???
Ibid:
Censorship will not keep a single person safe from radical Islam.
Why is this so hard for people to understand?
They are militants. They are radicalised by their own materials. Their hate has nothing to do with what you say. They exist in Australia because our politicians allowed them to migrate here. They thrive because politicians are too afraid of losing seats to deport them.
Obviously Alexandra will have to shut up after Albo’s legislation is passed. Likewise, Pauline Hanson won’t be able to mention her party’s policies in public, because Albo will have made it illegal to say them. It’s a brave new world. Hope it’s not retrospective.
UPDATE: Heard on the web: “Albo Akbar — The man who sold Australia“