-Caveat Lector- Australian Muslim Public Affairs Committee (AMPAC) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.muslimaffairs.com.au 28/05/01 DON CHIPP NOMINATION AS MAYOR IS A CAUSE FOR CONCERN (Melbourne, Australia) The decision of Mr Don Chipp, founder of the the Australian Democrats Party, to run for Lord Mayor of Melbourne (see http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/2001/05/28/FFXT95G49NC.html ) should be met with concern and opposition by all people who favour a tolerant multi-cultural society in Melbourne. Mr Chipp announced he would come out of retirement to stand for election in order to heal some of the "divisions within the council". During the Gulf War, Mr Chipp helped fan the fear and contempt that many Australians held for Islam and Muslims, exhibiting some of the most extreme Islamaphobia seen during the period. In a 27 January 1991 article (included below) in the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Chipp launched a highly inflammatory tirade against Islam and Arabs - speaking of a "a mysterious religious factor of hate" and suggesting that the US and the West needed to attack "the Islamic enemy on Middle Eastern territory". He also fantasised about being an Israeli strategist - calling for "a retaliatory attack on Saddam of such ferocity and effectiveness that the Arab members of the Coalition would be forced to leave it". At a time when Muslim women were being attacked in the streets of Australia and the Human Rights Commission reported that anti-Muslim attacks had "rocketed" (Telegraph Mirror, 14 February 1991), Mr Chipp attempted to incite the Australian public with the warning that the "millions of followers of Islam" were "prepared to die for Allah" under Saddam's leadership. As history has shown, despite all of Chipps' anti-Muslim rhetoric, none of his claims came to any fruition. As far as we are aware, Mr Chipp has never apologized nor retracted his bigoted and baseless statements. The election of a person who holds such views as these would be a disaster for a city that presents itself as a model of multiculturalism and diversity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday Telegraph - 27 January 1991 ISRAEL SHOULD STRIKE Don Chipp I once served, in an honorary capacity, on the World Board of the International Union against Cancer. Eighty-three nations made up the organisation which helped establish educative programs in under-developed countries and in the mid-'60s I visited Iraq to assist local doctors set up such a program. I am still friendly with the Iraqi surgeon who acted as my host. As we drove through the city square from the airport, the gruesome sight of three bodies hanging there prompted the brief comment from my friend: "Israeli spies". During the next few days I was to hear the phrase "Islamic renaissance" many times. He showed me the education system of Iraq, which I was to discover from visits to other Arab countries, featured a similar theme. It was passionate, manic, illogical and all-consuming hatred, not only of Israel but all Jews and everyone who supported the Jewish state. For example, in primary schools, simple addition and subtraction was not doing using objects such as lemons, apples or bottles on a wall. The counters used were Israelis: "There are five Jews, you kill four ... how many remain?" After the early classes, the inculcation of hatred became more sophisticated to the extent that it was absorbed by otherwise well-educated minds. In assessing the Gulf War, the Western mind has difficulty allowing for this mysterious religious factor of hate. It makes the list of imponderables longer than the total of facts we know or can deduce, using our non-Arab means of perception and our non-Islamic processes of logic. I give some examples. It is not difficult to classify Saddam Hussein as a creature of consummate evil. No further vile acts of human degradation coming from him should surprise us; and yet millions of followers of Islam in Pakistan, Libya, Jordan, Algeria, Egypt and Malaysia are prepared to die for Allah under his leadership. There is a similar wave of hysterical allegiance from the non-Arab nation of Iran: 700,000 of whose young citizens died at Saddam's hands during the Eight Year War. We know the awesome firepower of the US and its allies has mercilessly blasted Iraq for more than a week but we have doubts about the real damage done to his massive and highly sophisticated war machine. For example, despite the horrific raids on Bagdad, its television station is still apparently functioning normally. We know he gets pleasure at the sight of human blood and of human death but is terrified of his own safety. We know the tyranny of his rule makes popular discontent among his people irrelevant but we do not know of internal machinations which could lead to a revolution in the palace. The list of "do not knows" assumes agonising proportions when we add the inner thoughts of the Iranian Rafsanjani, the Syrian Assad, the Palestinian Arafat and the Libyan Gaddafi. While these questions are taunting the Coalition nations, they are a constant nightmare to the Israelis. Assume, for a moment, the position of an Israeli strategist. You would know that a Saddam defeat would leave a gigantic power vacuum in the Arab world. President Assad of Syria, an individual no less grotesque in his cruelty than his Iraqi rival, would be an immediate candidate to lead the Arabs - all Muslims - in their zeal to drive the despised Israelis into the Mediterranean Sea. The fanatical ayatollahs and mullahs of Iran would find a mass Jewish slaughter an attractive proposition. If I was an Israeli strategist I would, at the most strategic time, launch a retaliatory attack on Saddam of such ferocity and effectiveness that the Arab members of the Coalition would be forced to leave it and, in the cases of Syria and Libya, to join Iraq. It would be the only scenario for the next five years where Israel could have the air, ground and naval forces of the US and its western allies fighting the Islamic enemy on Middle Eastern territory. For Israel, it would be the scenario of a lifetime. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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