MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 06: Police start their investigations outside service apartments on June 6, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. Police are treating an incident where an armed man shot and killed a man and held a woman hostage as an act of terror. The alleged offender Yacqub Khayre was shot and killed following a lengthy stand off with police on Monday in the southern Melbourne suburb of Brighton. Khayre was known by counter-terrorism police and had been on parole. Terror group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the siege. (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images)

Australia: The Madness Continues

  • “While terrorism’s origins have many factors, Islamic terrorists, as heinous as their acts are, they are often merely doing what the scriptures are telling them.” — Tanveer Ahmed, Muslim psychiatrist.
  • In Australia, according to judges, women and children must accept sexual assaults because it is part of the “Islamic culture” of their attackers. It would seem that in parts of Australia, this “Islamic culture” has replaced the rule of law. None of the above, however, seems to be enough to appease Muslim sentiments. In March, Anne Aly, Australia’s first female Muslim MP, said that racial-discrimination laws should be expanded to cover insults based on religion as well.
  • In March, a teacher at Punchbowl Primary School quit her job after she and her family received death threats from the children in the school, with some of them saying they would behead her. The teacher’s complaints to the New South Wales Department of Education were dismissed.

Read this article by columnist, lawyer and political analyst Judith Bergman on the Gatestone Institute website.