The Gentle Right like to preach that global warming is “Leftist alarmism” despite the fact it’s based on sound scientific evidence (and why will no-one debate me? Oh, that’s right! I keep winning).

Alarmism obviously isn’t this:

When I grow up I want to be a principal or a caterpillar!

Nothing alarmist about that.

“KG” writes a balanced, rational and measured post in response to a planned protest by Islamic students.

go shag a camel, you creeps!
Yes, it’s a deliberately offensive header. As it should be, when talking about the camelshagging raghead followers of the paedophile prophet.

Tell us what you really think, KG.

But apparently there’s a simple solution to the problems posed by these “camelshagging ragheads”: speak up.

Grow some balls, Westerners. Speak up. Speak up at least for your children’s sakes if not for yourselves… Consider this–those of us alive right now may be the only ones who can save the West.
Do it, or measure your daughter for her first burqa…..

And how is “KG” speaking up? By posting this filth behind the safety of a pseudonym on an obscure blog read only by other brave pseudonymous bloggers. Oh, and by calling for the assassination of President Barack Obama and the murder of lazy welfare recipients.

Then again, maybe poor KG’s just got his cranky pants on at the moment and he’ll be thinking a lot more rationally in a few months.

please excuse me while I go and strangle something…
I’ve stopped smoking….

Anyone who believes Wikipedia has a liberal bias is an idiot. In 2006, one such idiot — lawyer, home-schooling enthusiast and conservative Christian Andrew Schlafly — decided the world needed an alternative to the pernicious, Leftist Wikipedia … a place where other idiots could gather to read about a variety of topics without the terrible inconvenience of truth getting in the way of their backward-arsed ideology.

And so Conservapedia was born.

Nothing — and I mean nothing — demonstrates the rank imbecility of this website more than its entry on Barack Hussein (!!1!) Obama. The whole article is worth reading, just to marvel at how desperate and deranged its authors are — but for your convenience, here are a few highlights:

Obama used his Muslim middle name when sworn in as President,^[7][8] and chose not to use the Bible for his real, private oath. Elected by claiming he’s a Christian, Obama has since avoided attending church on Christmas and Sundays.^[9]

Obama refers to America in the third person, as a foreigner would.

To announce his trip to Berlin in July 2008, Obama used posters which show a marked similarity to posters of Lenin.^[14]

Obama uses the Muslim Pakistani pronunciation for “Pakistan” rather than the common American one.^[36]

Obama has consistently shown himself to be an elitist who looks down on “ordinary” Americans.

Obama’s smears usually fall into two categories: race-baiting and distortions.

Seriously, go and have a look — there’s plenty more gold where the above nuggets came from. And if you have time while you’re there, do yourself a favour and check out the references for the entry’s most outlandish claims (the Lenin poster one is particularly laughable). They make Leon Bertrand QC’s spectacularly inept fumbling for evidence to support his claims seem like the work of a perfectly persuasive genius.

But the last word goes to Wikipedia itself, whose Conservapedia entry lays bare the kind of attitudes that led to its creation:

Conservapedia is an English-language wiki-based web encyclopedia project written from a young Earth creationist, Americentric, right-wing^[2] and Conservative Christian point of view.

[...]

Several articles on the site have had reputations for bias and inaccuracy.^[9][10][11] Conservapedia has also been seen as part of a trend of conservative and Christian-themed Web sites imitating the format of mainstream sites to provide a right-wing antidote or Christian alternative.^[3][12]

Fair dinkum — even if I’d been stupid enough to hitch my wagon to the ideology of the Right all those years ago, I would still be mortally embarrassed by the abortion (pun intended) that is Conservapedia. I wonder how many “conservatives” are.

What’s the worst bit of this video produced by Australia’s equivalent of the British National Party, the Australian Protectionist Party?

• The Fred and Sharon-esque production values;
• The Prodos-esque midi music; or
• The hideous messages of hate and intolerance?

I’ll tell you what’s the funniest bit, though — it’s when the APP muppet in the Q&A audience tells Bob Brown that Islam is not a race so being anti-Islam is not racist, but then in the same breath tells Brown that “in Islam” he’d be hung. (I’ve looked on Google Earth and I can’t find “Islam”.) Even funnier is that the rabidly anti-homosexual APP call themselves a “credible alternative” to “rainbow extremists”, so Brown being hung in the country of Islam would probably be celebrated at APP headquarters with a round of watermelon Bacardi Breezers.

Breaking news… according to the entirely credible and not at all tit-fixated UK Sun, ’Wacko Jacko’ is now one of them evil Jihadists:

Jackson, who was raised a Jehovah’s Witness, has become a Muslim and changed his name to Mikaeel, according to UK reports. The singer wore traditional Islamic dress as he pledged his allegiance to the Koran at a friend’s home in Los Angeles, The Sun reports. Jackson… reportedly decided to convert after discussing religion with a music producer and songwriter on his new album – both of whom were converts to Islam.

Let’s all get in touch with Karl Marx in the spirit world and ask him to predict the tempered and well-reasoned responses that’ll eminate from the AWH ‘famous five’ (Touchstone, KG, Eugene, TingTong and MK the dog):

“Well he’s already a paedo, the two go together hand in hand… what about Mohammed and…”

“Radical Islam now has three allies in the West: The Left, political correctness and Blame it on the Boogie…”

“I onced wrote several academic journal articles about the pathology of black men who opt for plastic surgery. Why, here’s a link. And I’ve also got a nudie pic of Michael Jackson’s mother that I, erm, ‘found’…”

“This is not surprising. Jackson’s brother is named Tito, after the socialist dictator of Yugoslavia – conclusive proof that he is a leftist and insane…”

I hate to be all elitist and shit, but are the writing skillz on display here indicative of the intelligence required to believe the message being (badly) conveyed?

Muslins rape yer wimin, eat yer childrin, and steal yer soul

(From here)

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?

I’ve just finished reading Ned Curthoys’ thought-provoking article “Against the New Atheism” in the latest edition of the excellent Australian quarterly Overland. In it, he takes aim at several proponents of the “new atheism” — among them, bestselling authors Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) and Christopher Hitchens (God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything).

I won’t go into Curthoys’ piece in any significant detail*, but I would like to share a withering passage from it, on the increasingly laughable Hitchens — a prime target of whose fiery rhetoric (like that of many of the “new atheists”) Curthoys rightly identifies as “Islam and the Middle Eastern Semitic cultures of early monotheism”:

Hitchens, these days, is all about lurid performance for quick returns. Straining for a culminating flourish in the war on religion, he reaches for a classic trope of anti-Semitism: the Semite as mimic and hostile infiltrator of a superior culture. The technologically adept [September 11] hijackers, he fumes, are ‘continuing [Islam's] long history of plagiarism’ for the purposes of negation and destruction. By the end of his diatribe, Hitchens becomes a ludicrous Crusader wannabe, searching for light and right amongst atavistic barbarians. What is at stake is nothing less than the struggle ‘to transcend our prehistory’, to fight the ultimate battle against that ‘enemy’ who, with their ‘gnarled hands’, would ‘drag us back to the catacombs and the reeking altars’. Sounds like a case for pre-emptive war.

Hitchens is the thinking man’s KG!

* First, because the piece in question isn’t available online and I can’t be hammered typing out any more of it; and second, because someone of my limited intellect and lack of patience is unlikely to do it much justice.

Back in October last year I hit the streets of ex-immigration minister Kevin Andrews’ electorate to see what punters thought about his controversial African immigration remarks. Here’s the video what I made.

And here’s a comment what appeared on that video this evening.

The following is fact,not opinion. Islam is evil. Mohammed was a paedophile and raped women, he cut the heads of 600-800 people. He was a weasly tyrant who used trickery and lies. He maintained that getting your way by any means possible was acceptable. He made up islam as he went along and broke his own earlier rules when it suited him. Muslims see him as the perfect man and look to emulate his example. Islam is not a religion, it is a cult of oppression & bullying. look up islam-watch. Org

Discuss.

The other day, The Editor lamented racism and bigotry implicitly and explicity rearing their ugly heads again after Camden Council voted unanimously to oppose a proposal to build an Islamic school on the outskirts of the town, south-west of Sydney, “on planning grounds alone”.

Local resident and bigot, Kate McCulloch, caught media attention with her garish green and yellow dress and an abominable Akubra adorned with Australian flags, as well as her openly prejudiced remarks, such as:

We don’t want [Muslims] not only here, we don’t want them in Australia. They’re an oppressive society, they’re a dictatorship… The ones that come here oppress our society, they take our welfare and they don’t want to accept our way of life.

Days later, she’s back in the news. The Sydney Morning Herald has interviewed her (why?), and her comments reveal a cretinous dimwit who is now talking about following the footsteps of Pauline Hanson and entering politics. Says she:

“Look, scores of people are coming up to me and saying, ‘Good on you, Kate … you’re saying what we’re too scared to ‘cos of racial vilification laws, but we all think it.’ I would like to keep our place like it is and I guess [joining the] Liberals would be natural,”

She conveniently forgets — or doesn’t know — that Pauline Hanson was kicked out of the Liberal Party for her extremist racist views.

Having said that, however, the Liberal Party is still nevertheless home to many other bigots. The most recent notable being fomer Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews. The Age today writes that a confidential Immigration Department report (obtained under Freedom of Information laws) found that racial harassment of Africans increased following Andrews’ claims in 2007 that they were engaged in crime and failing to integrate.

Desperate political point-scoring at its most detestable. And Kate McCulloch might find a home within the Liberal Party after all.

Anyway, back to Mad Kate. She makes another bizarre comment about the “victory vote” by Camden Council:

She said the victory vote was in keeping with the spirit of Camden’s status as the birthplace of the nation’s wool industry. “The Macarthurs will be proud of us,” she said.

Huh? What’s the wool industry got to do with any of this?

What else did she say?

“I want Muslims in Australia to attend our schools so their children can grow up with our values, and more importantly, so that their mothers can meet Australian mums and see how they don’t have to put up with the sort of treatment they sometimes endure.”

Meanwhile, across all geographic areas of Australia and in all socioeconomic and cultural groups, a conservatively estimated 36% of women experience domestic violence and a conservatively estimated 19% of women experience sexual assault (2005). And they’re just the women who report the assaults, with God knows how many more going unreported.

Oh, but Mad Kate conveniently ignores that. Only Moozlim women are under some kind of terrible “treatment”.

And what does Pauline Hanson think of this new myopic ignoramus upstart?

The Herald called Mrs Hanson about her would-be successor. She hung up without offering a word.

O come, all ye bigots, I shall be your racist mouthpiece.

Note: a bigger article about Mad Kate and the Camden outrage, plus the lead-up to the vote and the involvement of racist groups such as Australia First and the Anglo-Australian National Community Council and their cowardly midnight actions can be found here.

I was going to say that the uproar over a rejected Islamic school in Sydney was unAustralian, but I’m beginning to think that — sadly — it is Australian.

The Camden Council has voted unanimously to oppose a proposal to build an Islamic school on the outskirts of the town, south-west of Sydney.

[...]

In a unanimous decision the council voted in favour of a recommendation of council staff who overwhelmingly rejected the proposal on planning and development grounds.

I will make no comment about the council’s decision to overturn the application on planning grounds because I have no knowledge about the proposed development, the area in question, or any other contextual circumstances, but I think the residents’ campaign and reaction to the decision based on religious intolerance, fear, xenophobia and insularity is shameful.

Let me just say, however, that I understand and accept that some people are uncomfortable with Islam and feel threatened by its growing presence in areas that have long been very white and very Christian. And who can blame them with Islam’s name being sullied by a tiny majority of Muslims around the world plus an over-zealous media who treat the religion and its followers with suspicion? But there is still no excuse for the kind of shit we saw in Camden last night.

It’s religious intolerance, pure and simple. And it has no place in the Australia that those same people claim to represent and protect.

“Our grandfathers fought and died for this suburb“

In covering last night’s council meeting the media has focussed mainly on residents who didn’t even try to conceal their hatred and fear of Islam, like Kate McCulloch (above).

We don’t want them not only here, we don’t want them in Australia. They’re an oppressive society, they’re a dictatorship… The ones that come here oppress our society, they take our welfare and they don’t want to accept our way of life.

But other residents attempted to sound reasonable by making token referrals to planning concepts, only to fail a little more miserably at reasonable as each new clunking sentence came out of their mouths.

CAMDEN RESIDENT 4: We don’t need the traffic, environmental damage and everything else that goes with it.

REPORTER: To what extent was it because it was an Islamic school that was being….

CAMDEN RESIDENT 4: It’s got nothing to do with Islamic, if it was a Catholic school, Buddhist, whatever, it’s not an appropriate area for a 1200 student school.

There’s a school East, North, West all around here, don’t need anther 1200 kids school and the opinion that my kids can go there? My kids can’t read Islamic, how are they going to go to that school?

“My kids can’t read Islamic”? If this issue wasn’t so serious that would easily be GrodsCorp’s quote of the week. Oh, and by the way, Camden Resident 4, would you oppose a Jewish school if your kids couldn’t read Jewish?

At least we now have two place names to use when we want to discuss ugly Australian intolerance, and bigotry seems to be fond of alliteration: Cronulla and Camden. A shameful day for Australia.

In 2006 Catch The Fire Ministry’s Pastor Danny Nalliah was awarded the “Annual International Capitalism Award for Melbourne” by Prodos‘ Celebrate Capitalism project for supposedly standing up for free speech in the face of a religious vilification charge (that was later dropped). How slagging off Islam is standing up for capitalism I’ll never work out. But Prodos was so enamoured with Nalliah that he immortalised him in his alarming anti-Islam tune Under Sharia Law.

Today The Age revealed that Pastor Nalliah addressed a meeting of the extreme right-wing and proudly anti-Jewish League Of Rights in 2005, despite being warned about their racist views. Prodos, proudly pro-Israel (just this morning he posted a piece on his blog that ended with the line “May Israel Prevail”), must be spitting chips that he has publicly supported somebody who has been dumping on the wrong religion. Will Prodos now retract the Capitalism Award? We wait with our collective breath held.

Since Peter Costello is so keen to tell Muslims what governmental model they should aspire to, perhaps he should urge Australian government to follow that same advice. And since Pete thinks that Turkey is the perfect example of Islamic government, with its complete separation of church and State, I look forward to Mr Costello lobbying for the abolition of daily Christian prayers in parliament and the end of government ministers continually pandering to the Christian lobby.

I know Costello’s trying desperately to broaden his policy scope beyond his portfolio but all he’s managing to do is broaden the view that he’s a bumbling, ignorant and divisive fool.

On September 11 the slippery argument of whether Australia is safer or not after five years of “war on terror” was always going to pop up. John Howard says yes, we are safer and has called on Muslims to learn English, integrate, and denounce terrorism. Kim Beazley says no, we’re not safer and has called for tourists and immigrants to sign up to Australian values (”respect for each other, mateship, fairness, freedom and respect for our laws”), along with the teaching of Australian values to immigrant children in schools.

You see, if only all of them Muslims would become more like Steve Irwin everything would be okay and you could throw your fridge magnet out. Steve Irwin was so Australian he even died like an Australian. Does anybody else find this populist and xenophobic attitude offensive that “if only they were more like us, instead of more like them” our Way Of Life™ wouldn’t be threatened?

And what is this Way Of Life™ anyway?

But back to the point, and the superiority of Australians and Australian values. All Muslims should became Australian (because, you know, Muslim is a nationality, not a religion) because no Australian’s ever done anything contrary to our Way Of Life™ before.