Only the nicest
‘hateful slurs’, please

The Australian Council of Imams tacks some very good advice to the foot of its latest press release (emphasis added):

♦ Advocacy and protesting must be displayed with the best Islamic morals and manners, and must avoid hateful slurs or comments to any community.

That should be reassuring, coming as it does after six months of many “hateful slurs”, including the October 8 chanting on the Opera House steps of “gas the Jews” (which a NSW Police consultant preferred to hear as ‘where’s the Jews?’) and the press statement’s very own litany of “hateful slurs”, all prompted by the 76th anniversary of Arab nations’ attempt to destroy the newly UN-endorsed state of Israel. The statement’s accusations include:

♦ the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and obliteration of Palestinian communities

♦ Israeli occupying forces continue to commit genocide

♦ Israeli forces causing harm to innocent Palestinian civilians

♦ the desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque

Many might argue that Australia’s imams have forgotten nothing nor learned anything since 1948, but that wouldn’t be true. They have certainly mastered the art of chutzpah.

— roger franklin

UPDATE: This long-in-tooth “student” protesting at Monash must not have got the memo: