These days it is trendy to denigrate your own culture. Or should I say it has become trendy in successful prosperous democratic western countries. These “trendy” types seem to fall into two categories. The first group consists of self hating lefty’s. The second are people who don’t have an interest in politics and don’t think much about world events and history so they are easily manipulated by consistent messages condemning our free and wonderful societies as something to be ashamed of. These sometimes subtle, sometimes belligerent messages are everywhere, in the media, at school, comments expressed by vacuous celebrities determined to get their names in the headlines and sound “intellectual” and even spewing from the mouths of some of our politicians. We need to change this attitude. We should be proud of our culture. Our children deserve to proud of Western culture in general and Australian culture in particular.

Everyday I read articles like the following. I usually don’t do a blog post about them because it always seems that to do so would give the impression that this is an isolated incident when in fact these events occur every single day. These types of stories rarely make it into the mainstream media, so unless you’re a news junkie, you will never hear about them and you will not be aware of how common these events are.
Here is a small snapshot of the news today (the news you won’t read or hear about in the Australian media). There is nothing unusual about these stories. These events are happening every day!

In Pakistan:
A 12 year old Christian girl is raped and murdered by a Muslim and no lawyer is willing to prosecute the alleged murderer because of death threats.

Islamabad (AsiaNews) - Because of the threats posed by the powerful Lahore Bar Association – an umbrella organization of city lawyers - no Christian or Muslim lawyer is ready to take on the defence in the murder of 12 year-old Shazia Bashir, it was reported yesterday by The Pakistani Christian association that deals with legal assistance.

The girl, of Christian faith, died on Jan. 23 as a result of violence - even sexual – at the hands of her employer, a wealthy and powerful Muslim lawyer in Lahore. The alleged murderess, Chaudhry Mohammad Naeem, is a former president of the Lahore High Court Bar Association. The girl, just 12 years old, had worked as a maid in the home of Naeem in the last six months.

In Sweden:
A Muslim man has been paid compensation after he was fired for discriminating against a woman and refusing to shake her hand (because she is a woman) I gather some forms of discrimination are acceptable).

STOCKHOLM – Sweden’s unemployment agency has been found guilty of discrimination for expelling a Muslim man from a job training program because he refused to shake hands with a woman.

A Stockholm court Monday ordered the Public Employment Service to pay 50,000 kronor ($6,700) in damages to an immigrant from Bosnia who lost his jobless benefits when he was kicked out of the program.

Citing his faith, the man had refused to shake hands with a woman when he was interviewing for an internship. The agency said his behavior was part of the reason he didn’t get the position, and decided to exclude him from the program.

In Ireland:

A muslim is taking a landmark High Court case demanding that the Irish state recognise his polygamous marriage.

Liam Egan, a member of the Muslim Public Affairs Congress, accused Ireland of discriminating against Muslims in polygamous families. “It is draconian to treat this family differently,” said Egan.

I would have thought polygamous marriages were draconian but who am I to have an opinion? I”m just a white woman.

In London:

A Christian teacher told today how he lost his job after complaining that Muslim pupils as young as eight hailed the September 11 hijackers as ‘heroes’.

Nicholas Kafouris said he was forced from his £30,000-a-year post because he would not tolerate the ‘racist’ and ‘anti-Semitic’ behaviour of children.

He said the predominantly Muslim youngsters openly praised Islamic extremists in class, and hailed the terrorists of the 2001 atrocities as ‘martyrs’.

Mr Kafouris, 40, told how one pupil said to him, ‘Don’t touch me, you’re a Christian’, when the teacher accidentally brushed against him with his arm.

Others said, ‘We want to be Islamic bombers when we grow up’, and ‘the Christians and Jews are our enemies, you too because you’re a Christian’, he added.

Again in Britain:

Young MUSLIM children in Britain are being indoctrinated to hate non-Muslims and champion a holy war, a documentary says.

“No child is ever too young to be started off on Jihad training,” states one document recovered by police from the North West’s Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) during raids.

In Dubai:

DUBAI, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The Yemen-based wing of al Qaeda called on Muslims in the Arabian Peninsula to wage jihad, or holy war, against Christians and Jews in the region.

“The Christians, the Jews, and the treacherous apostate rulers have pounced on you…you have no other way out from this plight other than to wage jihad,” the wing’s deputy leader, Saeed al-Shehri, a former Saudi inmate at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, said in an audio tape posted on a website often used by Islamist groups.

Pakistan again:

London:

Muslim-bus-driver-locks-passengers-aboard-as-he-stops-to-pray.html”>Muslim bus driver locks passengers aboard as he stops to pray

The driver pulled over without warning and rolled out a high-visibility jacket as a makeshift prayer mat before removing his shoes, turning to face Mecca and starting to chant in Arabic.

Passengers said they looked on in stunned silence, fearing the driver may be preparing for a terrorist attack on the bus. No one was able to get on or off the vehicle during the five-minute prayer session.

In Pakistan:

A court in Faisalabad, Pakistan, sentenced to life imprisonment Imran Masih, a young Christian, for having insulted and desecrated the Koran, according to the Minorities Concern newsletter.

These are just the articles I have come across today. Do you notice the insidious creeping Islamisation of the West and the hatred generating from the Muslim world? The Islamists are being aided and abetted by the Left and political correctness.

At the moment I am reading the book “A God who hates” by Wafa Sultan. It is totally engrossing and I highly recommend it. Wafa was a Muslim woman who has experienced the culture of Islam firsthand. She offers deep insight into the Muslim world and the Islamic belief system.

UPDATE:
This is exactly what I am talking about. Lefty’s cannot condemn a barbarian practice even if it means little girls are being tortured.
From Tim Blair’s blog

Some 180 words into an ABC piece on female genital mutilation in Australia, this paragraph appears:

Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital says it is seeing between 600 and 700 women each year who have experienced it in some form.

And that’s just in Melbourne. What about Sydney? Adelaide? Perth? What the hell is going on here? The hospital’s Zeinab Mohamud tries to explain:

“Some people when they hear they say, ‘how can that happen?’ It’s when something is cultural and the people have been doing it for so long, it’s not easy to either eliminate it or to say, ‘you have got a bad culture’,” she said.

You have got a bad culture. It’s not that difficult to say. Dr Ted Weaver, of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, is similarly delicate:

Dr Ted Weaver agrees and he says ordering people against the practice would be inappropriate.

No. Weaver’s response is inappropriate. Recall the words of Kevin Rudd from last September:

“Silence is tantamount to tacit approval,” he said …

“We cannot afford to be silent … We have a responsibility to speak up and say ‘I swear never to commit violence against a woman’.

“I swear never to excuse violence against women and I swear never to remain silent about violence against women, and this is my solemn oath as a man, that is the oath to which all men of Australia should adhere to and swear.”

Further from Weaver:

“If we try and dictate and pontificate about this and not provide culturally appropriate care, we’ll further disenfranchise those women,” he said.

Forget disenfranchised. They’re disfigured.

Why can’t they condemn it? Because it’s not Western culture and Western culture is the only culture they will attack. The callous, heartless, racist, Left never fail to disgust me.

Evan Sayet explains the Leftist mindset here.

When, oh, when are the Liberal party in Victoria going to wake up and get rid of this tosser?

RACIST thugs have been put on notice with Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu saying Victoria has serious problems with racist behaviour and racial violence.

Mr Baillieu has declared war on racism, putting the Liberal Party on a collision course with Premier John Brumby, who denies Victoria is a racist state.

In a hard-hitting speech to the Australia India Business Council, Mr Baillieu said racist Victorians are creating a climate of fear and terror on the streets of Melbourne.

“We have a law and order problem with record levels of violence. And we have a problem with racist behaviour and racial violence,” he said.

This follows a virulent anti-Australian campaign in the Indian media after a rise in the number of reported assaults on Indian students and cab drivers.

- Baillieu is feeding the paranoid hysteria of the Indians and Indian media.

- What is he actually going to do? Is he going to put more police on the streets? Is he going to force judges to hand down tougher sentences? Is he going to introduce mandatory sentencing? Is he going to build more jails? Is he going to deport anyone who is not a citizen and is found guilty of a criminal offence? I bet the answers are no, no, no, no and no.

- When I hear Red Ted trying to talk tough I have this funny bubbling dual urge, an urge to laugh hysterically and punch him in the face. Funnily enough I have the same reaction to Kevin Rudd only definitely not in the mouth because imagine my fist touching his slimy lips. EWWWWWW. Anyway I’m getting off track, back to Ted, so just say if I did follow through on that violent urge. (Which I won’t. I thought I better add that in case there are any idiots reading this that actually believe I’m serious.) Would it be considered a lesser crime because there was no racism involved?

- If he’d pointed out that many of these attacks have been carried out by ethnic gangs, I would be cheering, but statements such as that require courage and a backbone. It’s much easier to generalize and claim Victorians in general are racist.

- If I am walking down the street with an Indian and we both get bashed by an ethnic gang is the Indian person’s bashing worse than my bashing? Is it considered a racist attack if I am bashed and the perpetrators are ethnic? Is it considered a racist attack if the victim is Indian and the perpetrators are Indian?

I would have thought assault was an unacceptable crime no matter what the motivation.
Even if the victim is Red Ted.

I couldn’t care less if police members want to attend gay pride days but let them do it on their own time.
Perhaps if Victoria’s Chief Commissioner Simon Overland stopped concentrating on fluffy crap like gay pride marches and put more of his work time into arresting violent gangs this state would be a safer place to live.

According to Simon Overland:

“It’s a message to the broader community about tolerance and inclusivity,” he said. “It’s really important that we come to events like this to engage directly with this fabulous, vibrant part of our diverse community in Victoria.”

Yes Mr Overland, being photographed with men dressed up as nuns shows great tolerance towards the Catholic community. I dare you to show the same level of tolerance towards the Islamic community by being photographed with gay men wearing hijabs or burqas. C’mon I dare you! I double dare you! You must for surely if you refuse it will be seen as a sign of police intolerance and exclusion?

Oh and if you were wondering if there were any gay Indians at the gay pride day, they would have been the ones dressed as homeless people.

Indians slam Overland’s advice to ‘look poor’ to avoid being bashed

AN INDIAN student spokesman has slammed as ridiculous Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland’s advice that Indian students should not work as taxi drivers and should ”look as poor as you can” to avoid being assaulted.

”Don’t display your iPods, don’t display your valuable watch, don’t display your valuable jewellery. Try to look as poor as you can,” Mr Overland said before adding that foreign students should, however, try to avoid living in Melbourne’s poorer suburbs where crime rates are higher.

He also urged them not to work in late-night convenience stores where there was greater risk of attack.

After reading the following article i have realised something. Kevin Rudd hates Australians. That’s the only conclusion I can draw.
Have a look at his latest stupid plan. Add this one to all the other Rudd ideas that have or will cost Australians a shitload of money and give nothing in return.

* $1,500 energy assessment
* Applies to all types of properties
* ‘A positive move for the industry’

ALL Australian homes will soon have to undergo a mandatory energy-efficiency assessment costing up to $1500 per property.

The assessment has to be done before any property can be sold or rented under new laws to tackle carbon emissions.

The mandatory assessment - being drafted into law by the federal and state governments - will rate homes by an energy efficiency star system, similar to the ratings given to fridges and washing machines.

It will apply to all commercial properties from later this year and to all residential properties from May 2011

Home ownership in Australia has already become nothing more than an impossible dream for many young Australians. Thanks mostly to Rudd’s huge levels of immigration and his first home buyers grant that did nothing but inflate house prices even further. Now he appears determined to make home ownership even harder to achieve. Not only that but rents will have to increase as a result of this ridiculous plan too.

And one has to wonder what happens when your house doesn’t meet a 5 star rating? Is the owner then required to spend tens of thousands of dollars before being allowed to sell their own property? Surely that is the next step. Otherwise what’s the point?

What is it with the freak running this country?
_ He tried and is still trying to introduce a huge new tax under the guise of saving the planet. A tax that would do nothing, I repeat nothing to lower temperatures.
_ He was gung ho to sign us up at Copenhagen at an estimated cost of 7 billion dollars per year, every year. That’s not to mention the fines we would have incurred for not meeting our emissions target which when you factor in our population growth would be impossible to meet. All that money would have gone to an unelected body and again would have resulted in absolutely no drop in temperatures.
_ He’s wasted so much money on useless failed “watch” schemes. Moronic ideas, which in every case have been nothing more than watch Mr Rudd flush your money down the toilet schemes. In other words complete and utter FAILURES.
_ He softened our border control policy and as a direct result we have boat after boat load of illegal immigrants arriving where upon our navy is sent out to act as a welcoming party. Once here Rudd uses our money to meet their every material need.
_ Now this latest scheme. So much for Rudd’s promise, in October 2008, that it would cost us $1 a day to save the planet.

THE Rudd Government has moved to ease fears about the impact of its emissions trading scheme, releasing Treasury modelling showing the scheme is affordable, with households paying up to $7 a week more for electricity and gas, and no industries forced offshore.

He must really hate “working families”.

I just love waking up on a Sunday morning and having a chuckle at Kevin Rudd’s expense. It really makes for a good start to the day.
So what’s our esteemed Prime Minister going to do?
Old prissy lips demanded Belinda Neal attend anger management classes but Neal has not done so.

TROUBLE-PRONE Labor backbencher Belinda Neal has apparently defied Kevin Rudd, revealing that she never undertook an anger management course after all.

Despite the Prime Minister insisting the angry Central Coast MP had displayed a “pattern of unacceptable behaviour” and needed help, Ms Neal said last week it was rubbish - she had never needed treatment for anger issues, and never got it.

Ms Neal, who is under siege from internal party challengers who want her seat, admitted seeking “counselling”, but not for her fiery temper.

She says there was no such request from Kevin Rudd after the nightclub scandal and yet Rudd, at the time, held a press conference claiming he had ordered her to undergo counselling for what he described as an unacceptable pattern of behaviour.

Australians were told Ms Neal was “ordered” to undergo anger management treatment after a blow-up at a nightclub revealed by The Sunday Telegraph in June, 2008 and following revelations that she had been suspended from her local soccer competition for kicking an opponent.

A spokesman for the Prime Minister confirmed yesterday that Mr Rudd had “required” Ms Neal to undergo counselling.

The Federal Opposition said yesterday the fact that Ms Neal had never attended anger-management classes was another example of the Prime Minister talking big at the time but in the end not delivering.

“There is an unacceptable pattern of behaviour with the Prime Minister that when confronted with a problem, he holds a press conference and announces that he has dealt with it, when clearly he has not,” Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop told The Sunday Telegraph.

“He believes that just talking about doing something solves the problem, rather than following it through.

Squirm Rudd squirm!

The trial of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands is one that the entire free world should be watching very closely.
Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician, is charged with hate crimes for his criticism of Islam and his short movie “Fitna”.
It seems he hurt the feelings of some poor widdle Muslims and we all know we have to be extra sensitive when it comes to the feelings of the members of the “religion of peace”, because when they get upset terrible unpeaceful things can happen!
Originally his comments were found to be lawful. However Amsterdam’s appeals court ordered Geert Wliders be put on trial.
A win for Wilders will be an enormous victory for free speech. A loss will invigorate Muslim activists and lawyers and will have devastating far reaching consequences.

Checkout this video. I love this guy!

Pat Condell: The Crooked Judges Of Amsterdam

Douglas Murray, from the UK Telegraph writes:

[...] When the trial opened a fortnight ago, Wilders asked for a rather sparky list of 18 expert witnesses. They included some noted experts on Islam and social cohesion. And also a few, ahem, practitioners of the same. They were to include Mohammed Bouyeri, who shot, stabbed and partly beheaded the film-maker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam in 2004. And also Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the jihadist cleric who was given the red-carpet treatment in London by former mayor Ken Livingstone a few years back.

Sadly the Dutch court haven’t allowed these witnesses or most of the others, leaving the defence with only three witnesses. They are expert Simon Admiraal and leading Dutch scholar Hans Jansen (author of numerous scholarly books and the hilariously titled recent Islam for Pigs, Donkeys, Monkeys and Other Beasts). Most interestingly the court has allowed Wilders to call as an expert witness the brave and eloquent Wafa Sultan.

Sultan made her name - and garnered her first fatwas - for a blinding hit-the-ball-out-of-the-stadium interview on Al Jazeera a few years ago viewable here. It caused terrible convulsions across the Muslim world, and also apparently in Sheikh al-Qaradawi who described her home-truths session as consisting of “unbearable, ghastly things that made my hair stand on end.”

I much look forward to seeing Wafa Sultan take the stand. Though I slightly pity the prosecution for having to attempt to cross-examine her.

But I can’t help feeling disappointed that Qaradawi won’t be appearing. Although he believes talking about the contents of the Koran is “unbearable, ghastly and makes his hair stand on end”, I have always thought it interesting that he doesn’t find at all hair-raising - in fact he has even been quoted on his own website as defending - certain forms of female circumcision….

There is nothing to suggest that Australia is not on the same path to self inflicted misery. Out of control immigration. Soft border control. Rampaging political correctness.

UPDATE:

Geert Wilders has done nothing but tell the truth about Islam and for that he faces the possibility of jail if found guilty.
I gather from the following report that this film, financed by Dutch tax payers money, is acceptable.
Dutch Establishment Finances “Kill Geert Wilders” Flick

Black history month - I think Morgan Freeman’s assessment of it is spot on. The spluttering idiot interviewer is amusingly flabberghasted.

On Monday night I went and saw Lord Monckton give a fascinating and entertaining talk on Manmade Global Warming.
Anyone who could sit through that lecture and still believe that the science is settled has got to be a believer for reasons that have nothing to do with science or facts or logic.

Lord Monckton in Melbourne.

When I got home Lateline was on and Greg Bourne from WWF was being asked questions about Lord Monckton. Instead of showing proof as to why Lord Monckton is wrong and the believers are right he attacked the man claiming he is “eccentric”

So that’s how they’ll play this. Don’t even try to argue the science instead imply Lord Monckton is … well a little bit crazy.
Lord Monckton seemed very rational and knowledgeable to me.

In a world where racism has become a crime worse than murder, it’s interesting to see that sexism is alive and well in the mainstream media.

james Packer finally gets his male heir

Oh FINALLY after the birth of a pesky girl James gets a BOY!!! Thank goodness. Halle frigging lujah!!!

AUSTRALIA’s richest baby has come into the world, with the male heir to James Packer’s $4.5 billion family fortune born early on Monday evening.

Stupid mainstream media!

The Rudd Government proves again and again that they have no strategy when it comes to governing Australia, rather they react to each situation as it arises without any thought to the consequences of their decisions.

Reading the news this morning I found, with horror, these examples of the stupidity and short sightedness of the morons running this country.
Example number one:

AUSTRALIA last night announced $100 million in new civilian funding for Afghanistan, including $25m for a new fund to reward Taliban fighters who lay down their arms.

Example number two:

ASYLUM seekers have gathered at the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre (CIIDC) to protest against lengthy visa processing times, refugee advocates say.

For the simple minded Rudd government, and virtually anyone on the left side of politics, here is an analogy that even you might be able to understand.

Imagine you are a young parent standing in the queue at the local supermarket. Your two year old spies the Freddo frogs near the counter. You say no. The two year old cries. You say no. The two year old screams. You say no. The two year old throws himself/herself on the floor screaming, crying, kicking his legs in a full on tanty. You give him the Freddo. The two year old is happy. Phewww.
The next time you are in the supermarket how do you think your child will behave when he/she sees the Freddo’s.
Ooooh and chips and all those yummy lollies and the icecreams and the ……

In example number two the protesters have been emboldened by the weak, pathetic, spineless actions of Kevin Rudd over the Oceanic Viking. In other words they are children returning to the supermarket knowing that a tanty will achieve the results they want. Of course if Rudd holds out a bit longer the illegal immigrants will ramp up their protest. They know the Australian government are weak and will cave in eventually. They just have to work out how much pressure to apply.

The problem is these are not little kids and Kevin Rudd’s knee jerk reactions are dangerous.