Islamic Supremacists Shut Down in Sydney
Charles Johnson
Tue Jan 9, 2007 at 7:22 pm PST • Views: 322
Good news from Sydney, Australia, where that hatefest sponsored by Islamic supremacist group Hizb ut-Tahrir has been shut down by the Bankstown City Council. The following link goes to the Australian Hizb ut-Tahrir web site, where the Seethe-O-Meter is pegged: www.risala.org. (Hat tip: Meryl Yourish.)
Sydney, Australia - The decision taken today by Bankstown City Council to cancel the venue for the up-coming Khilafah Conference displays the hollowness of the ‘free speech’ rhetoric.
Without proper explanation or consultation, the council has unilaterally withdrawn the availability of the Bankstown Town Hall as the venue for the Khilafah Conference to be held on the 27th January 2007.
Wassim Doureihi, spokesperson for Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia, says: “The decision taken today by Bankstown City Council speaks volumes of the empty rhetoric surrounding the supposed noble epitomes of western liberal democracy.”
“Bankstown City Council will have to explain to the Muslim community and the wider Australian audience why it deems it unacceptable for the Muslim community to advocate for peaceful political change in the Muslim world, to campaign for representative government in the Muslim world and to see the end of tyranny and dictatorship in the Muslim world.”
“Through its decision today, Bankstown City Council has set a dangerous precedent by transforming itself into the public thought police. The council has publicly declared that constructive political discourse is only acceptable when Islam is removed from the national conversation.”
Frank says: