Thus spake right-wing rag the Daily Tele when reporting on ’Muslim-friendly’ loans being offered by the National Australia Bank. To date it’s been difficult for devout Muslims to buy a home unless they have the full sum, since Islam considers riba (money-lending) to be haraam (forbidden). The NAB is getting around this by trialling new homebuying schemes where the customer makes alternative payment arrangements, different to the usual structure of principle and compounding interest.

Most reasonable people would think this a fair compromise: the customer still pays for their borrowing, the bank still makes their money and everyone is happy. Not the Tele, which reports it under a headline that screams of preferential treatment and reverse-racism. Its reporter also sees fit to avoiding mentioning a pivotal fact until the tail of the article:

The loans would also be available to non-Muslims.

Cue the hysteria in comments,where the great unwashed, ordinarily riled by the thought of mortgage interest, seemed to claim it as some kind of patriotic badge of honour:

You’ve got be bloody kidding me, right? Can’t people just adopt the Aussie way. After all you do live in our country. If you don’t want to work by our rules, then piss off.
Posted by: christine of sydney 8:17am today

You tell ‘em, babe. 

If it hasn’t started already, this is the beginning of the end for this once great country.
Posted by: Ralph Malph of Avalon 10:55am today

It’s all downhill from here, Ralph. Much like after your mate Fonzie ‘jumped the shark’.

Can the bank provide Christian and Buddist loans too? Shows the illusion.
Posted by: piggybank 4:41pm today

A Buddhist loan, gee that’d be good – I could buy a house now and defer payments until my second reincarnation.

So, I’ve blogged about this before, as has Scott. The proposed Islamic school in Camden, the resulting outpouring of xenophobia and hypocrisy, and the publicity given to this stupid bint. Oh yeah, and bleatings about some fucking cemetary.

Yesterday in the SMH, there was a report about the appeal against council’s decision, with some familiar names, as well as new ones, making some bloody awful bigoted statements. Again. In fact, I was struck by how paranoid these freaks sound. There seems to be a new level of hysteria in their ridiculous statements.

Check them out. From the aforementioned stupid bint, Kate McCulloch:

…said she was “no redneck xenophobic racist like the media have put to me”.

“Let’s start making people understand that the Western way of life is the best way of life,” she said.

Yeah, well, she’s not exactly reaching out to them to make them “understand”. There are so many other things wrong with that statement as well: the “Western way of life” is undefinable, for one. Second, it’s subjectively not the “best way of life” – maybe for her it is but it’s not for everyone. Third, many Muslims live in the West. So what? I really don’t get her at all.

Moving on.

Judith Bond said the school would teach war and how to kill.

“Values of violence will be emphasised. It will be a breeding ground for terrorists … There will be a surge of gang rapes, looting and attacking infidels,” Ms Bond said.

I don’t even need to comment on this. Its utter stupidity and offensiveness speaks for itself.

Next.

The area’s Christian values were threatened by the proposal, said another resident, John Waterhouse, who warned Christmas decorations and nativity scenes would be “pulled down or withdrawn on some sort of process of religious nit-picking”.

Describing Camden as “the mouse that dared to roar”, he said he did not want prayer mats unrolled in shops or “[our] teenage daughters subjected to demeaning taunts wearing jeans, shorts or T-shirts”.

I really don’t know where to start with this one… Or maybe I’m just feeling sicker and sicker with the blatant bigotry and ignorance.

But on the opening day of the appeal to the Land and Environment Court on Tuesday, council’s barrister, Craig Leggat, SC, opened his evidence with a letter signed by a group of the region’s Christian leaders, who said Islam was an ideology with a plan for world domination.

Hang on, I thought traditionally it was the Jews who were planning world domination? Has anyone notified ZOG about this?

Come on, Camden. You can be better than this.

I spent the recent Christmas break with E and Baby Rogenous in Indonesia — a nation of some 237 million people, of whom close to 90 per cent are Muslim. We went in spite of the usual DFAT warnings about terrorism and in defiance of the Islamophobic idiocy of Francis “Quarantine or Genocide” Porretto and his ilk, because … well, frankly, because we thought we knew better.

Indeed, the government’s warnings and Teh Right’s fears seemed positively ludicrous while we were there. Everywhere we went, smiling locals wanted to chat and have their photos taken with us. Their approaches were never short of being polite, welcoming and perfectly innocent.

Or so we were led to believe…

On close inspection of our holiday snaps, it turns out we were wrong to be so carefree. Pernicious extremists were trying to kill us at every opportunity.

The photo below still sends a shiver down my spine. It was taken at a 1200-year-old Buddhist monument — which should have set off alarm bells immediately because, as we’re told, Muslims hate freedom of religion and therefore couldn’t have been visiting the site for any reason other than to destroy it. Oblivious to the danger and having proceeded to the top of the monument, we were approached by a group whose ostensible desire was to have a photo taken with the handsome Baby.

I’ve noted, for your untrained Leftist eyes, just a few of the ways our lives were put in jeopardy by these bloodthirsty lunatics:

1. Wiener kid has clearly swallowed a large quantity of explosives.
2. “We’ve got two of ’em, Osama!” Phone poised to play lethal Crazy Frog ringtone as soon as bin Laden returns the call.
3. Clove cigarette smells delicious but is killing us slowly with second-hand smoke.
4. Provocative hint of homosexualistism designed to distract me from imminent danger.
5. Anthrax residue.

Honestly, it’s a miracle that we made it back to Australia alive. Next Christmas we’re going to the United States, where no one ever gets murdered at random.

I normally avoid A Current Affair like the plague but I sometimes tune in for a jenkem-like snort of tabloid methane. Tonight’s ludicrous beat-up was on those Moooslims, those ones who come to Australia in, like, their thousands and don’t, y’know, integrate with normal people? The rationale for this ’story’ was a town meeting in the Sydney suburb of Camden – but it was a fairly thin premise, and the ‘town meeting’ ended up looking more like the carpark at a rodeo than rational democracy-in-action.

ACA then went straight to an objective source on the issue of Moooslims: Fred Nile of the Christian Democratic Party. The justification for this was that the CDP is now the voice-of-the-people because its vote has “skyrocketed” in NSW (which it has, they now register almost half the vote of the Greens). Fred claims we’re at risk of being swamped by Moooslims and besides, there are Christians being persecuted in Moooslim countries who deserve to come here first! He wants a ten-year moratorium on new Moooslims coming into the country.

Amongst the other damning evidence:

* Twenty years ago there were 30,000 Moooslims in Australia; now there are 300,000. They must be breeding like rabbits.
* Sydney now has 40-something mosques. Melbourne has, erm, a lot too. And if you look at these mosques on Google Maps, it looks even worse.
* The Moooslims want to build a Moooslim school in Camden. Absolutely appalling.
* Vox Pop Man says Moooslims aren’t like ‘us’ because they “…don’t come up, shake ya hand and say ‘g’day’, mate.” (If you could see Vox Pop Man, you’d probably understand why.)
* And Keyser Trad has… nine children!

My guess is that Nine will be screening a few anti-terror ads tonight.