Australia’s not so wonderfully diverse and harmonious now, and it’s rather obvious

Australia’s not so wonderfully diverse and harmonious now, and it’s rather obvious. By Terry Barnes in The Spectator.

What has shaken Australia to the core is the murderous rampage at Bondi Beach a month ago, when two Islamist extremists, an immigrant father and his radicalised, Australian-born, son, killed 15 and wounded dozens more at a joyful Hanukkah celebration. That act of anti-Semitic terror stabbed the heart of an Australian community conditioned to believe how wonderful, harmonious and diverse Australians are. …

Uh oh:

Many for the first time are realising that Australia is not a single community, nor has it been for a long time.

Rather, it is a community of separate communities, a nation of tribes — ethnic, religious and social. Decades of mass immigration, underwritten by a policy of multiculturalism so obsessed with celebrating diversity that to even question it is to be labelled racist, has not only made Australian culture more colourful, our diets more diverse. It has allowed new arrivals to keep to their own and retain their own customs and languages, but, in many cases, never fully integrating into the wider community around them. …

 

Changing “the date” won’t stop the hate, vandalism, or ideology

 

Australians reaped the whirlwind on 14 December. ‘That two people, resident here for more than 20 years, could feel justified in slaughtering 15 innocent people in the name of Islam should shake to the core any complacency that we are “the most successful multicultural nation on earth”’, former prime minister Tony Abbott wrote today. …

This year, this national realisation that we are not the easy-going and accepting people we thought ourselves has overshadowed even the annual Aboriginal activist and progressive elite protests about 26 January being ‘Invasion Day’. Even many Aboriginal people realise the cancer of racial and religious hate that has infested Australian society needs to be called out, condemned and countered, and that is a cause greater than themselves.

It’s the Palestinian flags at Australia day marches that does it. It’s Australia day, not Palestinian day. Yet the left marches with not an Australian flag in sight, instead marching under the Palestinian flag. So divisive.

And the aboriginals must be well and truly annoyed at seeing a bunch of Palestinian flags taking over their protest parades.

UPDATE: Lozzy B.:

Australian Police have told MFA [March for Australia] to delete the story and photo of MFA Gold Coast organiser Michael after he was gang bashed by a group of Middle Eastern men the night before Australia Day.

Police said that the truth ‘incites hatred’ against the foreign attackers.

Really Mr Policeman? Who’s doing the hating here?

Hate speech has consequences:

This is a consequence of the hate preachers at the ABC peddling debunked fiction and inciting hatred — an Australian carrying an Australian flag on Australia Day is not safe to walk the streets of Melbourne without being assaulted and bashed.