bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Racist White Australia Targets Pacifists & Muslims
By Gideon Polya
Al-Jazeerah, September 17, 2005
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2005%20Opinion%20Editorials/September/17%20o/Racist%20White%20Australia%20Targets%20Pacifists%20&%20Muslims%20By%20Gideon%20Polya.htm
Racist White Australia has had a violent history involving invasion, genocide, dispossession, slavery, the anti-Asian White Australia policy and continuing participation in Anglo-American imperialist wars. Australia, the UK and the US are among the World's oldest democracies but in the post-1950 era have variously had an appalling record of violent occupation of non-European countries. While their supporters justify current Australia-backed UK-US violence as "democratic imperialism", others use terminology such as "democratic Nazism", "democratic tyranny" and "state terrorism" (as distinct from "non-state terrorism"). Anglo-American imperialism has played a substantial part in the post-1950 avoidable mortality (excess mortality) that totals 1.3 billion for the World, 1.2 billion for the non-European World and 0.6 billion for the Muslim World - a Muslim Holocaust 100 times greater than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (6 million victims) or the "forgotten" WW2 man-made Bengal Famine !
in British-ruled India (4 million Hindu and Muslim victims).
Politician and media hysteria over jihadist "non-state terrorism" has enabled the extreme right-wing Australian Government (with substantial support from the cowardly and demoralized Opposition Labor Party) to enact draconian security and "border protection" laws. Immigration laws in recent years have permitted thousands of (largely Muslim) refugees (men, women and children) to be imprisoned without charge in concentration camps - indeed some children have lived the first 3 years of their lives behind razor wire.
The anti-terror laws allow for detention of anyone over 16 without charge for 7 days followed by possible re-arrest on warrant. The victim faces long-term imprisonment if he/she fails to answer questions satisfactorily. While allowed a security-vetted lawyer, the prisoner cannot contact anyone else and any reportage of detention circumstances (e.g. by the prisoner, his lawyer or by journalists) is punishable by imprisonment for 5 years. The right-wing Australian Government now wants to EXTEND these powers - and is effectively unopposed because it now controls both the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Australian Federal Parliament.
Civil liberties lawyers are deeply troubled by the draconian security laws now in place in Australia. Notwithstanding the smokescreen of "political correctness", it is quite clear that anti-war activists and Muslims are being targeted both by the extreme right-wing government and mainstream media. Thus the government threatens to remove citizenship from and deport Muslims who have "extremist views" e.g. Muslims who publicly criticize the worldview of war-mongers such as George W. Bush.
On Saturday 10 September 2005 US teacher, environmentalist and anti-war activist Scott Parkin was publicly seized by 6 Australian Government security officials in a popular restaurant area of Melbourne. He was subsequently imprisoned for 6 days without charge in a prison for dangerous criminals awaiting trial. He was attacked as a "security threat" by Federal Government Ministers acting on "secret advice" from un-named secret police and was denied access to media, although not to legal representation. Scott Parkin was subsequently deported under guard to the US (evidently with the collaboration of US authorities) under threat of long-term detention in solitary confinement. On arrival in Los Angeles, Scott Parkin was finally given a bill for nearly $12,000 to cover the cost of his imprisonment and deportation.
Scott Parkin practises and teaches non-violent, peaceful protest against war and those companies profiting from war such as Halliburton. In contrast, the Australian Government made Australians participate in the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and is complicit in horrendous war crimes in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories. Thus while jihadist terrorists have killed 5,000 Western civilians over 20 years, the latest UN figures indicate that post-invasion avoidable mortality and under-5 infant mortality in US-occupied Iraq and Afghanistan now total 2.0 million and 1.6 million, respectively, due to non-provision of life-sustaining requisites in gross violation of the Geneva Conventions. Indeed the post-1950 under-5 infant mortality in Asian and Pacific countries in which Australia has been involved militarily in this era now totals about 35 million.
If Australian politicians, media and government comprehensively refused to acknowledge the reality of the WW2 Jewish Holocaust we would be quite reasonable in concluding that Australia was profoundly racist and specifically anti-semitic - yet they comprehensively refuse to acknowledge the WW2 Bengal Famine and the publicly-available UN data indicating the horrendous post-invasion avoidable mortality and under-5 infant mortality in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories that now total 2.0 million and 1.6 million, respectively. We would be quite reasonable in concluding that - for all the public "political correctness" - White Australia remains profoundly racist in relation to Asians and other non-Europeans.
The fundamental racism of White Australia is clearly illustrated by the ZERO public response to the following letter that was recently sent to ALL members of Federal Parliament and to a wide range of State politicians and mainstream media in the public interest:
Australian democracy is facing an acute threat arising from dishonestly-fomented hysteria over the recent terrorist atrocities in London. A scientist for 4 decades, I would urge you to consider the following scientific analysis of the threat to Australia from non-state and state terrorism.
Rational, World's Best Practice approaches to risk management (critically employed in high risk areas such as the nuclear industry, defence and aviation) successively involve (a) untrammeled reportage, (b) rational, scientific analysis of the data and (c) systemic change for a safer environment (James Reason, Human error: models and management, British Medical Journal vol. 320, pp768-770, 2000).
Unfortunately typical risk management approaches successively involve (a) secrecy, lying, spin, censorship, self-censorship, intimidation and threats to whistleblowers, (b) political and self-serving analysis and (c) blaming, shaming and "shooting the messenger" with no systemic change.
The Coalition Government and politicized and intimidated public servants are comprehensively following World's Worst Practice in addressing Australia's security as well illustrated by the "children overboard" affair: (a) secrecy, lying, spin, unsubstantiated assertions and public servant intimidation; (b) dishonest, politics-driven, irrational analysis e.g. the scientific absurdity from leading officials that "there is no evidence that children were not thrown overboard"; and (c) no sensible systemic change but "race and fear" politics and concentration camps for indefinite detention of uncharged adult and child refugees.
Subsequent hysteria over 9/11 (3,000 innocent civilians murdered, assertedly by non-state terrorists from a jihadist organization previously supported and funded for a dozen years by US state terrorists) led to Australian participation in the US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq (post-invasion avoidable mortality and under-5 infant mortality now totalling 2 million and 1.6 million, respectively, in gross violation of the Geneva Conventions).
The Federal Government is charged with preserving Australia's security but is dangerously complicit with US state terrorism - this involvement representing a major threat to Australia's security (as evidenced by the Madrid, Bali, Djakarta and London bombings, the findings of international terrorism experts and indeed the statements of the non-state terrorists themselves).
The Coalition Government (with dishonest and improper support from politicized public servants) has succeeded in emplacing draconian laws permitting detention and silencing of Australians without charge and now demands further repugnant and counterproductive violations of our long-held democratic, habeus corpus, due process, freedom of speech and freedom of association rights - and even the power to terminate the very citizenship of Australians.
Media non-reportage and poll-driven Opposition timidity have substantially contributed to the appalling rise of "democratic tyranny" in Australia. We are indeed approaching an Orwellian "1984" nightmare in which "2 plus 2 does not equal 4", "war is peace", "freedom is slavery" and "ignorance is strength" as well illustrated by mass hysteria over 5,000 Western civilian deaths from non-state terrorism over 20 years versus comprehensive Australian ignoring of 2 million avoidable deaths in post-invasion Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan due to US state terrorism in gross violation of the Geneva Conventions.
Australians concerned with the "terrorist threat" to ourselves and to other human beings should at least get to the first stage of considering the actual data on "avoidable mortality". Thus consider the following "risk estimates" expressed as "annual percentage mortality": 0.00003 (Western civilians from jihadist terrorists over the last 20 years); 0.00003 (from shark attack), 0.0001 (Western civilians from jihadist terrorists over the last 4 years), 0.008 (car accidents), 0.1 (smoking-related causes; 19,000 Australian deaths annually due to bipartisan lethargy), 2.6 (under-5 infants in Occupied Iraq), 5.8 (under-5 infants in Occupied Afghanistan) and 10.4 (Australian POWs under the Japanese in WW2 - 8,000 deaths out of 22,000 POWs over 3.5 years).
The US alliance is the cornerstone of Australian security policy but Australian craven complicity in the crimes of the Bush Administration has done both America and Australia a profound disservice. Australia's Gadarene slide into entrenched human rights abuse, war criminality and "democratic tyranny" can be halted by resolute, bipartisan insistence on rational risk assessment and the uncompromised retention of our civil rights. This has been written in the public interest.
Dr Gideon Polya Melbourne, Australia e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gpolya/links.html Credentials: Dr Gideon Polya published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003), and is currently writing a book on global mortality (numerous articles on this matter can be found by a simple Google search for "Gideon Polya" and on his website: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gpolya/links.html ; for a recent ABC broadcast see: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s1445960.htm )
===
-muslim voice-
___________________________________
BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
All views expressed herein belong to the individuals concerned and do not in any way reflect the official views of Hidayahnet unless sanctioned or approved otherwise.
If your mailbox clogged with mails from Hidayahnet, you may wish to get a daily digest of emails by logging-on to http://www.yahoogroups.com to change your mail delivery settings or email the moderators at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the title "change to daily digest".
SPONSORED LINKS
| Islam video | Islam book | Islam matrimonial |
| Islam and the west | Islam koran | Islam |
YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS
- Visit your group "hidayahnet" on the web.
- To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.1/104 - Release Date: 16/09/2005
