Category Archives: Right wing

Australian Defence Force takes action against bigot

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Bernard GaynorControversial former Katter’s Australian Party member Bernard Gaynor has been charged by the Australian Defence Force over comments he made about Islam and the ADF’s participation in the 2013 Mardi Gras.

Mr Gaynor, an Army Reservist intelligence officer, said he was called to appear before his unit this morning where he was charged with seven offences including three counts of failure to comply with an order, three counts of prejudicial conduct and one count of disobeying a lawful command.

“Basically what I have been charged for is failing to comply with orders and for bringing the ADF into disrepute because I have suggested that the ADF understand Islam and why it leads some people to conduct violent activities and also because I criticised the ADF’s decision to march in the Mardi Gras,” he said. “I was requested to come into my unit this morning.”

Mr Gaynor said he would fight the charges, which are due to heard on May 3.

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Doveton mosque row heads to tribunal

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Doveton No Mosque sign

The controversial Doveton mosque is headed for a hearing at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal after its planning permit was declared invalid last week.

Casey Council issued a permit for the mosque, in Green Street, earlier this month after the VCAT advised it had received no objections.

However, at a brief hearing at the VCAT on Thursday, deputy commissioner Helen Gibson acknowledged that Catch the Fire Ministries, which plans to build its new church and headquarters next to the mosque site, had lodged an appeal within the required 21 days. She said the permit was therefore invalid and must be revoked. Ms Gibson apologised to the church group and the council for the error.

Catch the Fire’s objection will be heard at the VCAT in July on a date yet to be set.

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After Boston, we should put Muslims under surveillance, says Rep. King

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Peter King (2)President Obama cautioned the nation not to rush to judgment about the Boston Marathon bombers. But that’s not stopping Republican Rep. Peter King.

King, who chairs the House subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, is urging authorities to beef up their surveillance of Muslims in the U.S.  following Friday night’s arrest of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Police must “realize that the threat is coming from the Muslim community and increase surveillance there,” the New York lawmaker told National Review.

King – who spearheaded controversial hearings on the radicalization of Muslim-Americans in 2011 – also told CNN that “we can’t be politically correct. I think we have to see, has radicalization extended into the Chechen community?”

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s wife Katherine Russell wore the hijab after converting to Islam

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That’s the headline to a report in today’s Daily Telegraph, the consequence (and no doubt the intention) of which can only be to associate the hijab with terrorism.

This is during the same week in which it was reported that one headscarf-wearing Muslim woman in Bristol had been threatened with a knife, while another in Massachusetts was attacked by a man shouting “F*** You, F*** Muslims, You are terrorists”.

‘Anti-Shariah law’ passes Florida House

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Legislation designed to prevent any foreign legal principles from being used in state courts passed the Florida House Thursday.

HB 351, sponsored by Rep. Larry Metz, R-Yalaha, has been widely dubbed the anti-Shariah law. Supporters argued the bill is a preventive measure to ensure foreign law does not infiltrate the state’s family law courts. Opponents called it a solution in search of a problem and said there has never been a case where someone’s constitutional rights were diminished by foreign law.

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Erik Rush wasn’t joking when he said kill Muslims

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Erik RushFox News contributor Erik Rush complains in his latest column at World Net Daily that he was only joking when he said that Muslims are evil and should be killed.

But he manages to prove otherwise by closing the column with a justification for killing Muslims:

For the record, I still maintain that Islam is, by its nature, wholly incompatible with Western society. I analogize liberalism, which is promoting this dhimmitude, to Stage 3 cancer in America’s body politic. For the record: While killing people is definitely undesirable, that is what war tends to be about.

And we are at war – just study the history of Islam, or ask any Islamist.

Right Wing Watch, 18 April 2013

You can sign the petition “Tell Fox News: Keep Erik Rush Off the Air” here.

CAIR asks Fox News to drop contributor who tweeted ‘kill’ all Muslims

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on Fox News to sever ties with a contributor who tweeted “Let’s kill them [Muslims] all” in response to yesterday’s deadly Boston Marathon bombings.

CONTACT FOX: (As always, be POLITE and respectful.)

CAIR, which issued a call for prayers and blood donations for the victims, says regular Fox News contributor Erik Rush tweeted his “kill them all” comment after being asked, “Are you already blaming Muslims?” He responded, “Yes, they’re evil. Let’s kill them all.” Rush later deleted his tweet, calling it “sarcasm.” In subsequent tweets, he called critics of the “kill” comment “idiots,” “Islamic apologist worms” and “vermin.”

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