The noxious and naive Left

THE giant mound of flowers in Martin Place said it all. The evil of the Lindt cafe siege gently ­expunged by the love of thousands of strangers who came yesterday to pay their respects to the dead and express sorrow for the survivors.

Love wiping away hate, as tears flowed for the two dead hostages, hero cafe manager Tori Johnson, 34, and barrister Katrina Dawson, 38, and three small children whose mother will never come home.

“This is who we are,” Premier Mike Baird tweeted after he laid down his floral tribute.

Yes, this is who we are, Sydney. Muslim, Jewish, Christian, agnostic, drawn from every culture and race, united through the horror of December 15, the very model of a strong, harmonious society.

We are not a collection of bigots and Islamophobes, needing moral guidance from more enlightened leftists.

That Sydney is the gargoyle creation of the fevered leftist imagination, creating division where there is none.

Thus it was that on Monday, while real people were suffering at the hands of an Islamic State-inspired terrorist in Martin Place, hashtag activists sprang to the defence of theoretical victims of an Islamophobia that wasn’t occurring.

“I’ll ride with you” was their catchphrase, or “#illridewithyou” in social media’s ­grammatical sludge.

The idea was that Muslims could not ride safely on public transport in Sydney during the siege because bigots would attack them, so good-hearted strangers had to “ride” with them, metaphorically, anyway.

For all the screeching, there are precious few instances where Muslims have been victimised in Sydney, unless you count anonymous trolls on social media


It was a frivolous diversion from the real victims inside the Lindt cafe. The irony is the silly fad was started 1000km away, in Brisbane, by a Greens candidate who fantasised the whole thing. Rachael Jacobs was on a train in Brisbane on Monday reading about the unfolding siege on her phone when she noticed a woman fiddling with her headscarf at the other end of the carriage.

“Tears sprang to my eyes and I was struck by feelings of anger, sadness and bitterness,” she wrote in Fairfax media yesterday.

But Jacobs’ tears were for the “victims of the siege who were not in the cafe,” she wrote.

“Victims” like the woman at the other end of the carriage who had taken off her scarf — for what reason Jacobs never bothered to find out.

She was too busy turning her imagined brush with ­Islamophobia into a hashtag which soon was trending in tens of thousands of tweets around the world.

“She might not even be Muslim or she could have just been warm” Jacobs later admitted.

“Our near silent encounter was over in a moment.”

The meaningless, narcissistic, one-sided nature of this “near silent encounter” perfectly symbolises the leftist ­approach to Islamist terrorism.

Denial, deflection, projection. They see themselves as morally superior to the rest of Australia, which they imagine as a sea of ignorant rednecks. In their eyes the threat is not terrorism but Islamophobia.

“Actually, everyone is a victim,” Curtin University counterterrorism lecturer Anne Aly shouted at me on Channel 9’s Today show yesterday when I pointed out that the real victims were the 17 hostages.

Yet for all the screeching, there are precious few instances where Muslims have been victimised in Sydney, unless you count anonymous trolls on social media.

Remember when the ­Macquarie University Muslim Students ­Association went out on the streets with a video camera and actors posing as bigots harassing Muslims?

In every single case ­passers-by intervened to defend the “victim”.

But that display of Australian good character and ­common sense was ignored by leftist troublemakers.

They prefer to downplay the terrorist threat and excuse the perpetrators. In their view the self-styled Iranian-born sheik and alleged rapist Man Haron Monis was a humanitarian, motivated by concern for children dying in the Middle East. (Or, a “peace activist”, as his lawyers describe him when he was charged with sending vile letters to the families of dead Aussie soldiers).

They accuse those who are trying to keep us safe from terrorism of Islamophobic scaremongering. Thus NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione was guilty of “overreach” in the Operation Appleby raids in Western Sydney in September to foil an IS-inspired plot to kidnap and execute a hostage in Martin Place. Doesn’t look so fanciful now, does it.

On Monday the Enlightened nitpicked about whether the flag Monis forced his hostages to hold up was an IS flag or just a generic flag used by the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

They tried to pretend Monis wasn’t a terrorist, even though he was the classic lone wolf who so concerns our security forces, low-tech, high impact, near impossible to detect.

They tried to distance him from IS, though his demands, issued via hostages to media outlets, were all about the death cult — he wanted an IS flag delivered to the cafe and he wanted it known that Australia was under attack from IS.

Some even used the horror that emptied the streets of ­Sydney as a Green teaching moment with leftist journalism academic Wendy Bacon tweeting during the siege: “Clearing of cars in CBD gives you idea of how pleasant ­carless city might be (despite context).” Good grief.

You know what the context is? We are the most harmonious immigrant nation on Earth and the constant cry of Islamophobia is a despicable slander against our good nature.

QUALITY OF JUDICIAL MERCY IS STRAINING THE PUBLIC CONFIDENCE

Lawyers will talk till they’re blue in the face trying to defend the decision to allow violent Islamist nut job Man Haron Monis out on bail.

Whether it’s the new bail laws or the old bail laws, judges and magistrates can and do exercise their own discretion when it comes to the low-lifes who frequent their docks. Monis’ violent criminal history, and obsessive zealotry ought to have shown that he is exactly the sort of person who should be refused bail.

Embraced by Australia as a refugee from his native Iran in 2001, Monis repaid our kindness by harassing the families of soldiers who had died in Afghanistan.

This was his “jihad” he said, as his lawyers called him a “peace activist”.

In an insult to our dead Diggers he was sentenced to a paltry 300 hours of community service. Then he was charged with being an accessory before and after the fact to the brutal stabbing murder of his ex-wife, and released on bail last year.

And then this year he was charged with 40 counts of sexual assault — and released on bail again.

This was not a man who deserved the benefit of the doubt. Reporting at a police station once a day wasn’t going to protect society from a dangerous Islamist ideologue whose life was spiralling out of control.

How can we expect counterterrorism agencies to keep us safe from suspects who haven’t yet committed a crime when our courts won’t even deal properly with the evidence of those who have.

New tougher bail laws are due next year but former director of public prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery has told the ABC they won’t make any difference.

He’s right. The real problem is not the laws but the judicial officers who refuse to enforce them.


haiyaaa ciilaaka luuwa weelas waaa

si Bule emang bodoh waaaa!!!

monggo agan2 ape kire2 nyeee yg di lakukan Smeagol klo keluarga mereka digorok leher nyeee!!??

forgive and forget???