Headlines Saturday 22nd November

Imams condoning domestic violence and rape
Piers Akerman
A new study conducted by a Victorian Islamic group has found that some imams selectively condone breaches of Australian laws specifically designed to protect women. - Unlike Christianity, Islam does not rely on training its clergy through university or college. There is no heirarchical structure to denounce rogue clerics from stating the ridiculous.

I rely on religious leaders to denounce Ministers or Priests who do not believe in God or God’s Word. Even so, there are many so called Christian leaders who still make ridiculous comments .. take as a mild example the Sydney Archbishop Jensen’s support for ALP policy on IR relations in 2007.

Islam’s chief problem, as I see it, is that extremists are not being moderated by their sensible leaders. Worse, moderates are being killed when they are identified so that there is a circle of silence when it comes to decent Islamic living.

The US President George W Bush has made tremendous strides in his presidency in supporting legitimate moderates for Islam in the world and has been derided for it by the oppositional media. Yet the unheralded success in Iraq means just that. - ed
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Only the Left deserves privacy
Andrew Bolt
When is an invasion of privacy - even of the privacy of children - so permissable that The Age will promote the websites responsible and name names of the outed?

Easy. When the privacy being invaded is of members of a Right-wing party:

The far-right British National Party (BNP) has complained to the police after its membership list was stolen and posted on the Internet...
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Damless Mitchell to flood yet again
Andrew Bolt
Melbourne is on water restrictions, and the Bureau of Meteorology issues a flood alert:

Flood Watch for East Gippsland Catchments (Mitchell, Tambo, Snowy, Cann and Genoa)
Flood Watch for West and South Gippsland (Latrobe, Thomson, Macalister and Avon Catchments and South Gippsland Basin)

The Mitchell? Say, isn’t the river that flooded twice last year already, sending more water down to the sea in one lot than Melbourne uses in a year?
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A culture on welfare
Andrew Bolt
This appeared on the front page of The Age, so can we discuss the facts without this time smearing the messenger? OK, Mr Green?

SOME Muslim religious leaders in Victoria are condoning rape within marriage, domestic violence, polygamy, welfare fraud and exploitation of women, according to an explosive report on the training of imams.
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Race of “no consequence” to police
Andrew Bolt
Victoria Police emails its clearly unhappy members to explain why charges against four Sudanese youths involved in a tussle with police were dropped:

You will be aware of some recent media coverage on the decision to withdraw charges against four youths in Flemington. These charges related to an incident in November 2007 in which two members experienced minor injuries.

Firstly I want to acknowledge that the members involved were not consulted before these charges were withdrawn. They should have been and have now been contacted and the reasoning behind the decision explained to them.

They have my assurance this will not happen again. Any situation in which members are injured in the course of duty is unacceptable, and the safety of all our members is of the highest priority.

This incident was a clear sign to us that our relationship with the local young people wasn’t as healthy as it should be. Over the past 12 months the team at Flemington have focussed on building a strong relationship with the local community, in particular young people. For example, in July a number of Flemington members travelled to Kokoda with a group of local youths.

I believe the relationship our members at Flemington have with the local community is far stronger than it was 12 months ago and we’ve experienced no similar incidents.

The race of the people involved is of no consequence.
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Joke poll
Andrew Bolt
I don’t think the Daily Telegraph poll gives readers the most likely option:

What do you think really happened in the Kevin Rudd, George Bush phone call about the G20?

- George Bush asked Kevin Rudd what the G20 was.
- Kevin Rudd jokingly told guests Bush didn’t know what the G20 was after he had spoken to him that night.
- The conversation between the two leaders was misrepresented in media reports.
- I don’t know and don’t care.
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Crikey, quality hypocrites
Andrew Bolt
A few days ago, Jonathan Green, editor of the far-Left gossip site Crikey, used trumped up statistics to smear me as a racist. Two days later, this moralist sneers like this at a conservative’s Down Syndrome child (above):

Which of the below should the Obama’s use to name their new puppy?…

A mongrel called Trig
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Living next door to menace
Andrew Bolt
Guess which one of the two has since had to move home?

A SYDNEY teenager is living in fear after a neighbour who was jailed for sexually abusing her moved into the house next door.

Two weeks ago, the Macquarie Fields man finished serving a five year sentence for an attack on his young neighbour - since the announcement Rees has 'explained' that it was an oversight caused by the fact that the victim wasn't on a register. It simply never occurred to authorities that they had done something wrong. - ed
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Harvey asks for charity
Andrew Bolt
Gerry Harvey now discounts his own quotes:

I’m furious. I haven’t suggested that homeless people shouldn’t get anything. What I said was that I believed in helping people reach their potential… I’ve done plenty of giving in my time. I’ve given heaps of money to bloody charity. This caused me a lot of pain. It’s bullshit.”
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Fluffy wuffy warming victim
Andrew Bolt
How to push the warming scare. First, pick a loved icon and hold a gun to its head. The Great Barrier Reef, say, or ...

KOALAS, already listed as vulnerable, are likely to die in greater numbers as they adapt to climate change, which will bring more intense bushfires, rising temperatures, increased drought and a drop in the nutrition levels of their food, a senior NSW Government scientist warns.

Fact: the world’s temperatures rose over the century to 1998 by .7 degrees and koalas actually thrived in areas not affected by landclearing, especially in colonies set aside for them in Victoria and South Australia, where overpopulation is now the problem. Indeed, if we really are worried about declining numbers of koalas, all we need do is stop population-control programs to sterilise them.
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Naughty, but punished enough
Andrew Bolt
I’ve had a tangle with Harry Nicolaides, when he so fatuously damned Australia and urged us to learn tolerance from the autocratic East, yet I find it not just ironic but disturbing that he’s been locked up for three months so far in Thailand awaiting trial for this:

On August 31 this year, Nicolaides was at Bangkok airport waiting to board a flight to Melbourne when he was detained by Thai police on charges of lese majeste, the crime of insulting the monarchy. The arrest warrant alleged Nicolaides had insulted the Thai royal family in his second book, Verisimilitude, a novel Nicolaides self-published in Thailand in 2005.
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Freedom in retreat
Andrew Bolt
A world that doesn’t share our respect for freedom and democracy actually threatens both. So those among us who so foolishly demonised the US now face the curse of getting just what they wished for:

The US’s National Intelligence Council (NIC) declares “We can no longer call the shots alone,” in a global trends report which sees China, India and Russia as rising power and predicts that the European Union will be a “hobbled giant” by 2025. The four-yearly report pools the analysis of all US intelligence agencies…
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One year on Rudd's verdict is in
It's a year since the Rudd Government were swept to power, and voters are mixed on whether he's doing a good job.

In research conducted by the Telegraph, people are happy about the changes made to work choices and the child care rebate.

However, Mr Rudd has been accused of being all talk and no action in regards to public services. - Rudd will not bail out NSW. He will put money into projects NSW should have but failed to do in their desire to pork barrel funds for the ALP.
I note the milestone coincides with a re introduction of a new White Australia Policy with the citizenship test. The previous test, introduced by Howard ensured new citizens had a working knowledge of culture. Rudd's new test ensures that people know the ALP creation myths to a much higher standard. - ed.
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Daily Telegraph's endorsement of ALP after 1 year.