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The Australian Prime Minister is more upset about video footage of a Christian minister being stabbed than about the Christian minister being stabbed.

And now NSW Islamic leaders are more upset about not being consulted over terror raids than about the fact teenage Muslims are allegedly planning attacks on the public.

What a country we have become!

Lebanese Muslim Association secretary Gamel Kheir complained last week that “we were not told” police would arrest five teenagers on terrorism charges.

The Muslim community now expect police to run operational matters by them?

Should police have a cup of tea with the Catholic Archbishop before making a move on a pedophile priest?

Ought police share a plate of butter chicken with the Indian Students Association before arresting a Hindu?

Will Jehovah’s Witnesses now expect an audience with the AFP before police investigate knock and runs?

Who do these Muslim leaders think they are? A shadow government?

Upset

Mr Kheir told The Australian:

“I’m not delusional, I don’t expect (police) to give us sensitive intelligence.”

That would be delusional.

But he said that Muslim leaders wanted to be informed ahead of terror raids “to help ease community angst”.

Well, that is also delusional.

You tell me which is the greater “community angst”:

The angst felt by a few Muslim leaders when members of their community are arrested for plotting to slaughter Australians?

Or that angst felt by Australians for whom Islamic extremism has become a common — though most unwelcome — part of life?

The job of the Australian Federal Police is to safeguard the well-being of the Australian community, not to safeguard the sensitivities of glass-jawed Lebanese Muslims.

Australian National Imams Council legal adviser Bilal Rauf said the AFP raids risked “further alienating” the Muslim community.

Weird. I thought the weekly anti-Israel marches were doing that.

But I digress.

Now I’m just spitballing here, but a mass slaughter of Australians by an Islamic jihadi would have alienated the Muslim community more than the raid.

Just saying.

Rauf continued:

“The sudden nature of the arrests came as a shock given that community organisations were not told of any issues nor were asked for any information.”

Ah yes, the “sudden nature of the arrests”.

We can’t have police suddenly arresting people, or else offenders will have no chance to get rid of evidence.

(Insert massive eye-roll here)

Mr Rauf criticised what he called a “heavy-handed approach” towards the arrested teens.

Rauf raises a good point. Police should have taken the tender touch with teenagers allegedly planning to stab and/or blow up members of the public.

You can’t be too gentle with alleged jihadis.

Root Cause

He went on to warn that the raids:

“Risk entrenching and promoting violence among disillusioned youth, alienating communities and creating distress.”

No.

The hate preaching coming from Sydney mosques risks entrenching and promoting violence.

The hateful slogans being chanted every weekend at pro-Palestinian rallies around the country risks entrenching and promoting violence.

And Muslim leaders playing the victim card and screaming ‘Islamophobia’ every time they don’t get what they want risks alienating their community.

The Australian National Imams Council adviser worried about one more thing worth mentioning.

He said the terror raids risked conflating religion and (violent) ideology.

Hmm.

Sorry, but’s not the job of the AFP to convince the public that Islam is a religion of peace.

If Muslim leaders want to break that nexus, may I offer some suggestions:

• Denounce absolutely the imams preaching hate.
• Denounce absolutely the anti-semitism being displayed at pro-Palestinian marches around the country.
• Denounce those parts of the Koran and the Hadiths that promote violence.
• Denounce those parts of the Koran and the Hadiths that describe Jews and Christians as second-class citizens.

Then we’ll believe there is no conflating Islam and violence.

Oh, and here’s one more idea:

If it turns out that Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was the victim of a religiously motivated attack, how about Sydney’s Islamic organisations making a sizeable monetary donation to Christ the Good Shepherd Church?

Just to bless them.

After all, that’s the sort of thing Jesus would do.

Ah yes, that’s right…

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report.

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