In today’s Australian Peta Credlin makes these points:
“Radical Islamism is the challenge of our times.”
“…..a growing Muslim population unable to leave their hatreds behind are a challenge to the character of our society – not because Muslims are inherently bad people but because their religion is very hard to reconcile with the pluralism and individualism that have long been at the heart of the West.”
“If Muslims are to be good citizens in a country like Australia, they must face up to the evil that has been done in the name of their faith – in the same way, I suppose, that Catholics like me have had to face up to and disown the epidemic of clerical sex abuse. Because it wasn’t Jews who flew planes into the World Trade Centre and killed almost 3000 people. It wasn’t Christian suicide bombers in 2005 who blew up the London Underground, killing 52. It isn’t Buddhists who have murdered 7000 Christians in Nigeria this year alone. Or cut the throats of priests saying mass in France. Or murdered journalists over a cartoon. Or abducted schoolgirls because females getting an education so offended Boko Haram. Or burnt alive a Jordanian pilot in an Islamic State cage. Or bombed nightclubs in Bali, killing 202 including – as we know – 88 Australians.”
“We still have a small window of time to learn from their (other Western countries’) mistakes; and most critically, their denial of what was happening and their silencing of anyone speaking out.”
“Labor….is ambivalent about our history and wants to dilute our core Anglo-Celtic culture; and the Coalition… is frightened of being labelled “racist” or (is afraid of) …. losing the votes of migrants despite the fact most migrants want people to come here ‘the right way’ and to do ‘the right thing’ once here.”
Credlin goes on to say that Andrew Hastie’s move to the backbench so he can be free to speak about mass migration is more than a struggle for the soul of the Liberal Party (which it is), it is “a struggle for the soul of Australia, because if we continue on the present policy trajectory we will soon be a very different country”.