Push for an Islamic state
The front page of The Age reported today that there has been a Local push for an Islamic state.
The ultra-radical Muslim group Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is banned across most of Europe, will be holding a conference in Australia soon which will “promote support for an Islamic superstate.”
It strikes me that the only problem here is that The Age is presenting this as front page news. Moreover, the only reason that it is considered new worthy is because the perpetrators are Muslims. I’ve little doubt that similar calls are made quite regularly by socialists or white supremacists and so on – both of who probably have comparable membership levels (in in the 100s at best).
So now a particularly obscure group of nutters which a nominal membership base has front page coverage and the war on terror is given more fuel and we continue to be alert and alarmed and the Muslim community continues to be branded as a terrorist one.
