The First Test for Our PM’s New-Found Determination on Anti-Semitism
Are our authorities serious about cracking down on anti-Semitism in the wake of Friday morning’s terror attack? There’s an easy way to find out.
Arrest those idiots chanting for violence against Jews in Sydney on Sunday.
And if any of those involved are here on visas — deport them before Friday prayers.
Not 48 hours after a Melbourne synagogue had been firebombed, a mob of men spilled out onto the streets of Canterbury Bankstown, chanting incitement against Jews.
The Army of Muhammad
Weirdly, the reason they were on the streets in the first place was to celebrate the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Bashar al-Assad was a brutal dictator, and Middle Eastern men here are pleased to see the back of him.
Whether the Islamists who fill the vacuum will be the lesser of two evils remains to be seen.
I’m not holding out much hope that Syria’s new strongman, Abu Mohammed al-Golani — a terrorist formerly associated with ISIS and Al Qaeda — will be an improvement.
The Middle East only ever poses horrible questions with terrifying answers.
But back to our chant-happy friends in Sydney. To celebrate the fall of Assad, they took to the streets, chanting slogans against Jews.
What the replacement of Assad with an Islamist has to do with Jews, I’ve no idea.
(Spoiler alert: I have a bit of an idea. More on that in a moment)
The Sydney mob were on the streets — some on horseback, believe it or not — chanting …
‘Khaybar, Khaybar, Oh Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!’
They chanted it in Arabic. But that’s the translation.
Were they happy that a brutal dictator was gone so that Syrians could live in peace and prosperity?
Or were they ecstatic that Islamists were now in charge of yet another country bordering Israel from which to launch an attack on Jews?
The message seemed fairly clear, did it not?
Centuries of Hate
The chant refers to a battle Muhammad waged against a Jewish community in Saudi Arabia back in 623 — long before the modern State of Israel ever existed.
If you haven’t yet realised that the Arab complaint against the Jews is not that the Jews exist in the land but that the Jews exist at all, you’ve not been listening.
The chant was first invoked by Ahmad Yasin in the ’80s. Yasin is the founder of Hamas.
Bali Bomber Ali Amrozi, the Islamist responsible for the slaughter of 88 Australians, shouted, “Khaybar, Khaybar, Oh Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!” when he was sentenced to death in 2003.
Yep, even as he was sentenced to death for killing Australians, he was threatening… Jews.
Hatred of Jews is not a bug in Islam; it’s a feature.
The phrase chanted on the streets of Sydney on Sunday evening, was even the title of a 2009 book published by the ideological founder of Al Qaeda.
Yelling, “Khaybar, Khaybar, Oh Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!” is illegal in Europe because it is clearly incitement to violence.
The army of Muhammad is not returning for cups of tea, obviously.
Death Threats
So what will Australian authorities do now?
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb says the matter is being investigated.
I investigated the matter. It took me ten minutes.
Not speaking Arabic, I wandered over to my local barber, who is Iraqi, and got him to listen to audio of the mob.
“Do you recognise this language? Can you tell me what they’re saying?” I asked.
He and three customers listened. They immediately told me:
“They are terrorists. They should be arrested. That is a chant for killing Jews.”
Karen Webb can thank me later.
The mob were caught on camera chanting their satanic ditty. It’s all over social media. NSW police should be down at Canterbury Bankstown tomorrow picking up thugs and driving them to the intentional airport.
If they’re serious about actually, finally, belatedly doing something about anti-Semitism.
We’ll see.
Of course, I’m way too smart to be holding my breath. Our authorities might make arrests. Or they might be too busy playing tennis. It’s hard to know.
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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report.
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Hi James,
so greatly appreciate your highly intelligent aggressive, but respectful pursuit of, and expression of truth .
James , I am 69 and have been in and out of and at times, lived in, Muslim dominated parts of the earth. I have also studied the Quran in depth, as well as Islamic history and know exactly what the ‘religion of peace’ is about.
Albanese is an obvious target for compromise for obvious reasons. But why is Minns being painted as almost the opposite to Albanese, when he AND THE POLICE did nothing WITH THE MASS JIHADIST ANTI-SEMITIC MARCH ON THE OPERA HOUSE, OF ABOUT OCTOBER 8 LAST YEAR? Also, nothing, as far as I know, has been done about the jihadists commanding people in mosques in South Western Sydney late last year, to go out and literally kill Jews. Do you know of one single arrest? One Islamist, recorded on video) even dared the Government to deport him. And then we have the continuous pretext of anti Israel/Jewish hate marches, supposedly in the name of supporting Palestinians.
So no. I don’t congratulate Minns. On the contrary his unwillingness to address Islamic hate speech
has only absolutely emboldened Muslims to continue with violent attack after attack. I realize Melbourne is worse.
I could write a respectful letter to his office, but it would most likely just be binned by staffer. Due to no replies to me, I’m reasonably assuming that is the standard procedure of Labor politicians in Sydney who don’t like being intelligently confronted with the truth.
Can you and other Sky News staff, please get on to this issue REGARDING PREMPTIVE GOVERNMENT AND POLICE ACTION REGARDING ANTI JEWISH AGGRESSION?
Why are these hate marches allowed to continue? It’s no more free speech than when Sydney Uni’ locking in visiting Israeli university staff (and that’s false imprisonment in my book) in a room for > 45 minutes whilst pro Palestinian/Hamas ratbag students ranted their hateful propaganda at them. The Left’s definition of free speech is terrorism, in my book.
Until these hate marches (Suella Braverman’s definition that got her sacked from the cabinet for stating the bleeding obvious) ARE SHUT DOWN, the Islamic hatred will be ENCOURAGED to continue to build, despite all of Minns noises and tut tut media releases. And sure, the police are reacting after the ongoing terrorist events. What about being a little more intelligent and using premptive tactics so that Jews can fell a little less terrified. Some Australian Jews are are actually emigrating to Israel because they know at least the Government has got their back there. With a foreign minister like Wong who needs (terrorist ) enemies.
Never again…. is now.
Peter Magee (Seven Hills.)