Here we go again. Camden makes the news for all the wrong reasons. This time it’s not about the Islamic school proposal that got knocked back, but about a cemetery. Yeah, a cemetery.

AN ISLAMIC cemetery will be built in the grounds of a historic Anglican graveyard near Camden where plans for an Islamic school were rejected this year following fierce community opposition.

The Lebanese Muslim Association paid $1.5 million for the St Thomas Anglican Cemetery at Narellan in July. The site has space for almost 4000 bodies and will help overcome an acute shortage of gravesites in Sydney.
(source)

Fair enough. I can’t see why anyone would object to Muslims paying a substantial amount of money for a bit of land in which to bury their dead, just like the Anglicans do. Shows that even Muslims honour their dearly parted ones. *gasp!*

Except for this moron, going by the name of Len English, who claims to have 33 relatives buried at the cemetery. He gives a history of who the relatives are and how they came to be buried in Camden but I’m not going to repeat that here, because frankly, I don’t give a rat’s arse about his dead rellos.

He does say this dopey statement: “The Friends of St Thomas did all they could to save the cemetery and even approached council to see if they could help in the purchase of the site from the Anglican church. The church had no right to sell the cemetery land in the first place.”

They had no right? Says who, Len? The Anglican Church owned that land, they can sell it if they want. End of story. Stop quibbling over something that doesn’t belong to you and your “Friends of St Thomas” mates.

Then he goes on to say this, pretending to be OK with “migrants” but effectively exposing himself for the racist bigot at the same time: “I’ve got nothing against migrants but when they want to take over your cemetery…”

Boo fucking hoo!

Oooh yeah, the migrants, the big, bad scary migrants who are taking over a bit of land! Besides, they haven’t taken over the cemetery, you fucking tool; they’ve BOUGHT a VACANT tract of land, LEGALLY! But wait! What if they were, say, Pommy or Kiwi migrants? Or is it because these “migrants” that Len refers to are Muslim? And besides, how does he know they’re “migrants”? Could there be a possibility that many Muslims are actually Australian born and bred, Lenny? I am in awe of his ability to know these things by drawing upon his own intolerant assumptions.

Seriously, what is it with Camden lately? I know not all Camden-ites are bigoted but this is just unbelievable. When will turds like Len English, Emil Sremchevich and Kate McCulloch realise that notions such as “heritage” is ever-changing, ever-evolving and always malleable? And what are the bets that Mr English and his mates would object to, say, a Catholic, Jewish or Wampanoag Indian burial plots next to the Anglican plots?