![]() ![]() 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. Meanwhile, the man most likely to be Australia’s 30th prime minister has struck gold in facing a rudderless government hellbent on self-harm.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. It’s astonishing that the Liberal Party is destroying itself over a second-tier issue of limited importance to its base and one where its political opponents are wide open for criticism.Įxtraordinary, too, is that Turnbull’s own “moderate” faction is the one causing him the greatest damage. ![]() Labor not only failed to act on the issue when in government from 2007-13, but under Shorten it has blocked a plebiscite that would’ve delivered marriage equality. ![]() If it weren’t for Labor and the Greens blocking the plebiscite, SSM would likely be a reality today. Personally, I have no issue with gay men and women being allowed to marry under Australian law. If Turnbull wasn’t so utterly hopeless at putting forward a succinct argument he would've put pressure on Shorten and Labor to back the plebiscite or hold them accountable for standing in the way of democracy and a clear path to SSM. That the Liberals have allowed a small, unremarkable group of mediocre MPs to hijack the Coalition’s agenda says a great deal about the malaise infecting the once great party of Menzies and Howard. It’s a fixation that trumps all other concerns, including the ballooning national debt, energy policy, taxation reform and matters relating to immigration, national security and cost of living. If you’ve had the misfortune of watching Q&A or The Drum on the ABC you’d see the depths of the obsession now afflicting segments of Malcolm Turnbull’s malfunctioning government. Whether you are pro- or anti-gay marriage chances are you don’t share the political and media class’s unending obsession with the issue.
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