To which he responded that Abdel-Magied “is the sort of Muslim voice that deserves more support not less. I advised Epstein that moderate Muslims are not typically fans of sharia law. My Twitter tiff with Epstein started with his blind defence of a sharia advocate who he called a “moderate Muslim”. Those who push theocracy and/or sharia are poor representatives of the many Muslims in Australia who simply want to live in peace without turning their new country into a version of the dysfunctional homeland they fled.īut if you listen to the posturing fools at the ABC, anyone who questions the nonsense spouted by sharia fans is a bigoted bully. Last year, a video went viral of British Islamic reformer Maajid Nawaz - precisely the type of Muslim we should be listening to - being utterly dumbfounded by another favourite ABC hijabi.Ī bemused Nawaz was berated on the ABC program, The Drum, by Sarah Saleh, who calls herself a “human rights advocate”, for the crime of championing secularism and fighting against theocracy and Islamism. ![]() And yet our taxpayer-funded broadcaster gives a platform to those pushing sharia as some “kind” and “merciful” belief system that is just misunderstood by ignorant Westerners and Islamophobes. There is no place for it in Australia and anyone who openly advocates for it is not a moderate in any meaningful sense of the word. ![]() The reality is that around the world, sharia law is abhorrent and anti-women whether practised in its harshest forms in countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia and Qatar or in its mildest forms as seen in sharia courts in the UK. Ignore the utterly false fantasies proffered by activists like Yassmin Abdel-Magied about Islam being a feminist faith that empowers women. It’s akin to a freed slave being criticised for a fear of slavery and reluctance to support slavery advocates.Ĭan you imagine the indignation from feminists if a privileged, white, private school-educated, heterosexual, conservative male was castigating an immigrant woman of colour about how their experience and opinions “distort the debate”?Įpstein is all of the above except he is a typical ABC Leftist and so his behaviour is excused and even applauded by those who most enthusiastically embrace identity politics. I am accustomed to being hectored by Islamists, frightbats, anti-vaccination fruitcakes and an assortment of social justice warriors - aka government-funded Twitter trolls.īut last week, I had the surreal experience of being scolded by an ABC host for not being sufficiently supportive of an Islamic activist advocating for sharia law.ĪBC radio drive host Rafael Epstein had the gall to admonish me, a migrant who escaped a country under Islamic law, for not supporting an advocate of Islamic law.
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