Camden Australia: A Vote for Bigotry

   
           
 By Ghali Hassan:        
Can you imagine the outcry if an Australian city council rejected a proposal to build a Jewish school?You don't need to imagine. Anyone who dares to utter a single word against it will be labelled "anti-Semitic".

Australian politicians from the Prime
Minister and his herd to the herd of the Opposition would be outraged by
such an "Un-Australian" decision. However, when an application for an
Islamic school was rejected, the support for bigotry was unanimous.

On May 27, 2008 the Camden Council, in South-west of Sydney, voted 
unanimously against a plan to build an Islamic school for 1,200 Muslim and
non-Muslim students on "planning grounds". Of course, it is a falsehood. 
The Council decision was politically motivated anti-Muslims bigotry. The
councillors were coerced and forced to vote against the proposed Islamic
school.

      Local city councils in Australia are bought and sold. They are Mafia-like
syndicates for wheeling and dealing at the expense of the Australian
      people. One only needs to take a look at the Wollongong Council, before
      opening a can of worms. Former Sydney lord Mayor Jeremy Bingham who is
      acting as a consultant for the Quranic Society (the developer of the
      Islamic school) rightly accused the Camden Council of playing divisive
      form of politics and using small group of ill-informed ignorant
      Anglo-Australians in a bid to get re-elected.

      It is evident that the small group of Australians opposing the school on 
grounds different from those propagated by the Camden council. They are
opposing the school because they see Muslims as different. "The ones
Muslims that come here oppress our society, they take our welfare and they 
don't want to accept our way of life", said one of the 200 "locals" who
attended the meeting. "There is no Christmas in Islamic schools", said 
another. "My kids don't speak Muslim", shouted another ignorant.

Whenasked why the Camden Council rejected the school, one demonstrator said: 
"Not one councillor could say the reason why. They the residents don't 
like what their Muslim culture is about ... it is about oppression and it's
just not democratic". The "locals" do not seem to know about the Council's 
alleged "planning grounds", because it was simply a falsehood.

It is naïve to assume that the few demonstrators against the school were
acting alone. The campaign against the school is part of a wider and
well-orchestrated anti-Muslims Zionist campaign out of the U.S., Israel 
and Europe. The demonstrators were just tools used by this racist campaign 
of Islamophobia to demonise Muslims. The campaign against the Islamic
school was organized by members of the Reverend Fred Nile's Christian
      Democratic Party, the anti-Muslims Christo-fascist alliance which has
growing markedly in Australia in recent time. The 200 opponents of the 
school were riffraff collected from around Sydney. They were allegedly 
received $60 (the threshold before losing the dole) each for their 
efforts.

 Just before the Camden vote, the Sydney Morning Herald, one of the three 
main Australian newspapers, sponsored a visit to Australia by Daniel 
Pipes, the Zion-fascist Islamophobe. The aim of the visit according to the 
Herald is to educate Australians about the place of Western "democracy" in 
 Islam, and I might add, to build walls between Muslims and all non-Muslims 
 Australians.

Because of his propaganda to incite racial hatred against 
Muslims and Islam, Pipes has become a household name among Australia's 
racist elites and the inherently racist media.

As Pipes ranted about Muslims and Islam, the Leichhardt Council, in 
Inner-west Sydney, decided to close a photographic exhibition about the
plight of Palestinian refugees at the council public library. It is no
secret why a well-known American Zion-fascist (with very little education
in Islam) is often brought to Australia to incite prejudice and propagate
an anti-Muslims fascist ideology.

There are some 300,000 Muslims in Australia, or 1.5 per cent of
Australia's population. They have come from diverse backgrounds. They are 
Australia's most alienated and underprivileged in economic, social and
political arenas. Like many small communities, Muslim Australians remain 
attached to their cultural origin and some of them (not all) show 
resistance to the West's hostile Darwinian modernism and consumerism.

 Since the election of John Howard as Prime Minister, racism against
Muslims has increased steadily, and most Muslims feel they are under siege 
due to Australia's full participation in the criminal U.S. "war on 
terrorism". However, despite the demise of the divisive Howard's 
government, the situation hasn't changed. Muslims continues to face 
discrimination in employment, in the workplace, transport, housing and 
education. In addition, ongoing police harassment have alienated and 
repressed Muslim Australians.

 Not long ago, a report Respect and Racism in Australia, prepared in June 
2004 by Racism Monitor Group of the University of Technology in Sydney 
(UTS) reveals that; Australian Arabs Muslims community "has been and 
continues to be unfairly targeted" specifically, and that racism is so 
frequent that "it has become almost accepted" and Muslims do not feel
'entitled' to make complaints. Muslims have no effective counter-measure 
to silence their oppressors.

 Racism against Muslims is systemic, openly promoted and continues to 
contribute to decrease in the process of integration. It is propagated by
opportunist politicians as a tool to instil fear in the Australian 
community, justify draconian policies against Muslims and win elections.
Kevin Rudd's parliamentary secretary for multicultural affairs, Laurie
Ferguson, mouthed recently that refugees should be spread across many
 suburbs to avoid ‘white flight' from public schools.

 The Camden Council's decision brought back bitter memories. In 2003, the 
Baulkham Hills Shire Council rejected an application for a Muslim prayer 
hall in Annangrove, in North-west Sydney, on "community characteristics"
grounds. The fraudulent decision was later overturned by the Land of
Environment Court. It is reported recently that residents of Annangrove
agree the prayer hall has no impact on their lives and has become part of 
the quite close knit community.

 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's failure to strongly condemn a politically 
motivated decision based on bigotry shows that he is another John Howard
in sheep's clothing. All Australians are entitled and expect to be treated
with equal rights, irrespective of religion and ethnicity.

 Ghali Hassan is an independent writer living in Australia.

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