Anyone with a conscience would oppose the exploitation, slavery and sexual abuse of children. So it goes without saying that decent people WHO KNOW ABOUT Emirates would have nothing to do with this abusive regime.
Sadly, Olympic rower James Tomkins seemed blissfully unaware of what he was endorsing, as he became ”king of the kids” at the Emirates Stakes Fashions on the Field competition for children.
“With a focus on "fun and fashionable racewear", the contest is for boys and girls aged six to 17.
And while it's all good fun, this year's competition has a record prize pool worth $120,000, including a family trip to Dubai with Emirates.
"The main thing is getting kids involved in the racing industry and in fashion and enjoying dressing up and having a good time," Tomkins said. (source)
Al Age, ever supportive of Islamist endeavours, enthused “Creativity makes big statement at Flemington.”
Shockingly, people who should have more integrity grovel before the Emirates billions - but they are adults and have to answer to their own consciences. However, it is inexcusable to use children to promote Emirates in what amounts to child exploitation. Surely Tomkins cannot be unaware of the Emirates’ ongoing record of child slave trading, abuse of workers (quasi slave–trading) and females (especially those from third world countries)? Not to mention that it has the WORST ecological footprint in the world! Where are the Greens when you need them - or do they only rebuke those from Western democracies? Has Bob Brown, ostensibly so concerned about environmental issues and human rights, ever criticised the environmentally barbaric and human rights-denying Emirates?
For Kodi Buckley, 7, it was all about self-belief — and a very cute ensemble — when she took out the junior category in Emirates' Kids Fashions on the Field after placing second last year.
''I chose my favourite colours, pink and orange," Kodi said of the inspiration behind her winning outfit, a summery two-tone frock she picked up on holidays in Hawaii, with matching hat and white sandals.
Her parents, Sean Buckley and Gabriella Guenzi, were just as excited about Kodi's win as when, at Emirates Stakes Day last year, their horse, international superstar Miss Andretti, won The Age Classic.
Kodi and her fellow junior winner, Sam Proud, 10, were among more than 1000 boys and girls — accompanied by proud parents — who paraded in their finest race-wear before a panel of celebrity judges including Miss Universe Australia Laura Dundovic, Home and Away star Todd Lasance and American film star Rob Schneider. (source)
It is pertinent to ask why children should be enticed into racing/gambling, with its attendant drinking culture, or the frivolous, manipulative world of ‘fashion’ and made to compete (probably to satisfy egotistical parents’ vanity) to see who ‘looks the best’ according to some ‘judge’. This would be distasteful to all who think children should be allowed to be children, playing with others, dressing to suit themselves, not tizzied up and competing in an artificial world that grovels to wealth, yet cares nothing for who you are as a person or how you treat others.James Tomkins and his daughters Jess, 6, and twins Georgie and Holly, 3
Shockingly, people who should have more integrity grovel before the Emirates billions - but they are adults and have to answer to their own consciences. However, it is inexcusable to use children to promote Emirates in what amounts to child exploitation. Surely Tomkins cannot be unaware of the Emirates’ ongoing record of child slave trading, abuse of workers (quasi slave–trading) and females (especially those from third world countries)? Not to mention that it has the WORST ecological footprint in the world! Where are the Greens when you need them - or do they only rebuke those from Western democracies? Has Bob Brown, ostensibly so concerned about environmental issues and human rights, ever criticised the environmentally barbaric and human rights-denying Emirates?
UAE - Obscene wealth and kitsch
Do Al Age and Tomkins care that slave-trading (child or adult) and Arab supremacy, widespread in the Emirates and elsewhere in the Islamic world, and practiced for 1400 years, is part of Islam and Mohammad’s great example FOREVER! Women are nothing more than sex slaves and brood mares.
- Child slavery:
There are over 100, 000 listings of Emirates and slavery and tens of thousands on child slavery alone on Google- Here’s just one:-
A class action lawsuit filed in Florida portrays the United Arab Emirates as a longtime hub for the slave trading of children for camel racing. It named Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Ruler of Dubai, and Prime Minister of the UAE and his brother, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum, the UAE Minister of Finance, and deputy ruler, of being ''the most active participants'' in the slave trade for camel racing. It charges them with 30,000 counts of child slave labour, alleging that boys as young as 2 have been stolen from their families and kept in brutal camel-racing camps, and describes camel racing as a ''favored Arab pastime for centuries,'' exploding in popularity as the Arabian peninsula's royal families acquired extraordinary wealth from oil riches. (reference)
Harrowing reports note:
A class action lawsuit filed in Florida portrays the United Arab Emirates as a longtime hub for the slave trading of children for camel racing. It named Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Ruler of Dubai, and Prime Minister of the UAE and his brother, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum, the UAE Minister of Finance, and deputy ruler, of being ''the most active participants'' in the slave trade for camel racing. It charges them with 30,000 counts of child slave labour, alleging that boys as young as 2 have been stolen from their families and kept in brutal camel-racing camps, and describes camel racing as a ''favored Arab pastime for centuries,'' exploding in popularity as the Arabian peninsula's royal families acquired extraordinary wealth from oil riches. (reference)
Harrowing reports note:
a) the enslavement of young boys from around the world - Mauritania, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sudan, etc. - as camel jockeys in the desolation and heat of the Arabian Peninsula.
b) the violence of the sport, with young jockeys thrown from camel saddles at high speeds - causing major injuries and even death.
c) how the richest and most powerful Dubai sheikhs for years purchased slave boys to do the dirty work, rather than sacrifice their own offspring for this entertainment.
d) how boys as young as 4 would be tied down into the saddle and forced to ride the camels for the harrowing high-speed race.
d) how the sheikhs used small boys as jockeys so that their camels could run faster and enter into training at a younger age. “Despite the eventual enactment of legal weight and age limits, child jockeys weighing less than 20 kilograms, or 44 pounds, and usually between four years old and adolescence, became and remained the standard in races for much of the past thirty years. Boys as young as 3 were used in training to accustom juvenile camels to carry a rider, and were at the same time trained themselves to be jockeys.”
e) The boys were not paid, and lived in terrible conditions near the racetracks.
f) A US State Department report said children were deliberately starved to prevent weight gain.
g) "Those who survive the harsh conditions are disposed of once they reach their teenage years," the US State Department report said.
b) the violence of the sport, with young jockeys thrown from camel saddles at high speeds - causing major injuries and even death.
c) how the richest and most powerful Dubai sheikhs for years purchased slave boys to do the dirty work, rather than sacrifice their own offspring for this entertainment.
d) how boys as young as 4 would be tied down into the saddle and forced to ride the camels for the harrowing high-speed race.
d) how the sheikhs used small boys as jockeys so that their camels could run faster and enter into training at a younger age. “Despite the eventual enactment of legal weight and age limits, child jockeys weighing less than 20 kilograms, or 44 pounds, and usually between four years old and adolescence, became and remained the standard in races for much of the past thirty years. Boys as young as 3 were used in training to accustom juvenile camels to carry a rider, and were at the same time trained themselves to be jockeys.”
e) The boys were not paid, and lived in terrible conditions near the racetracks.
f) A US State Department report said children were deliberately starved to prevent weight gain.
g) "Those who survive the harsh conditions are disposed of once they reach their teenage years," the US State Department report said.
Reference Links: LINK1, LINK2 - for the actual complaint issued against UAE’s “Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum also reade Read A Fate Worse Than Death by Sujit Das, 14 June 2008 this site –video references).
The enslavement of young boys from around the world - Mauritania, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sudan, etc. - as camel jockeys in the desolation and heat of the Arabian Peninsula.
Don’t think that because they’ve introduced a law against trafficking, or claim to now use robots to appease Western sensibilities, that anything has changed - slavery and Arab supremacy are an ongoing part of Islam to this day.
Incredibly, Al Age saw fit to run a glowing article on the Sheik in its Good Weekend magazine 1/11/08, entitled “The Great Sheik”, by Jane Cadzow, featuring his picture on the front page.
Sheik Mohammad’s statement “Sometimes if you read the Arab story, they will feed the horse before the children.” (p39) has a certain irony, considering how the child jockeys are starved. To read about this man’s indulgent treatment of his horses, then compare it with how ‘slave’ children, workers and women fare is so monumentally disgusting, it’s almost beyond belief. But where’s the protest at his cruelty? Where’s Al Age’s Special Report on Child Slavery in Dubai? Instead, the media offers obeisance to this tyrant and bows at the altar of his ostentatious wealth!
Incredibly, Al Age saw fit to run a glowing article on the Sheik in its Good Weekend magazine 1/11/08, entitled “The Great Sheik”, by Jane Cadzow, featuring his picture on the front page.
Sheik Mohammad’s statement “Sometimes if you read the Arab story, they will feed the horse before the children.” (p39) has a certain irony, considering how the child jockeys are starved. To read about this man’s indulgent treatment of his horses, then compare it with how ‘slave’ children, workers and women fare is so monumentally disgusting, it’s almost beyond belief. But where’s the protest at his cruelty? Where’s Al Age’s Special Report on Child Slavery in Dubai? Instead, the media offers obeisance to this tyrant and bows at the altar of his ostentatious wealth!
- Abuse of workers particularly contrasted to the Sheik’s horses:
So much is written on the abuse of the over 10 million Asians who work in the Emirates under slave-like conditions. Their pay is minimal and even this is often withheld, they surrender their passports, trade unions are banned, as are independent human rights groups. Half the men’s salary goes on meagre survival needs, while they sleep 6-10-12 to a dirty room without air-conditioning in stifling heat! They are banned from fancy stores, golf courses and restaurants, living in squalid camps on the city outskirts. Trouble makers (i.e. any attempting to raise awareness of their appalling conditions) are quickly deported! Many workers are injured due to unsafe work conditions. Human Rights Watch has complained of the quasi-slave conditions.
(Heaven for money, hell for Asian workers in the United Arab Emirates, World in the Shadows of Splendour ; or see Cassandra’s article ‘Emirates Melbourne cup, Slavery and Racism” 1/11/08 this site.)
Only a tiny paragraph was allocated to the Sheik’s/Emirates appalling treatment of workers and immediately ‘moderated’ by tales of his philanthropy and donations to ‘educate’ (Islamize) children in poor countries plus his wife’s claim that he’s committed to the good of others!(p 39) The majority of the lengthy ‘Good Weekend’ article gushed about the mega millions spent on horse studs and horse purchases the world over, including Australia and his private polluting Boeing 747! The reporter, Jane Cadzow, who stayed in Dubai for a few days before travelling to Kentucky to interview her hero (could she perchance have received some of his fabled hospitality and been treated as well as his horses?), marvelled at the tall towers, opulent hotels, man-made ports, giant shopping malls, indoor ski slope, artificial islands and Dubai’s copy of Disneyland.
And let’s not forget his horses! Each horse has a uniformed groom, a large air-conditioned stable with springy floors, and oats from Canada and hay from Washington State! They receive daily massages, spa baths and a swim in a 100m pool or a turn on the treadmill! To avoid the summer heat the horses are flown to England in a specially fitted Boeing 747! Meanwhile the slave-like workers struggle on..
It would seem churlish, after all this luxurious living, to mention his dictatorship - Dubai is owned and controlled by him and his family.
Things have changed little from the days of his forebears who “extorted protection money from the merchant caravans”, just like today, when non-Muslim businesses also pay extortion money.The uncritical reporting of Cadzow and her inability to apply any reality or balance to the life story this man, who plays a pivotal role in world affairs due to his immense wealth, is truly stunning, rendering the article of no more validity than one of Emirates own advertisements.
Development is all very well, but ignoring the environmental and human cost, coupled with the concomitant unbridled greed and control by this despot, whose own opulence and indulgent lifestyle contrasts sharply with the monstrous abuse of the workers who built Dubai, should alarm any who cared about human rights.
The Age was vocal in defending the human rights of Hicks, Habib and Haneef, who were in fact treated very fairly, despite what some in the MSM would have you believe. Why are they silent when real human rights abuses occur? Or is it only the US, Israel and the Western world that can be criticised?
- Enslavement of women:
Desperate people go there as they are promised good wages, but often end up enslaved. Women who complain of rape can be charged with fornication or adultery and jailed, while males who are raped face charges of homosexuality. Remember, the UAE is Islamic, whose draconian Islamic laws discriminate against infidels and women!
- Ecological disaster:
Pollution in Dubai
It almost never rains in this sand heap and temperatures reach 50C, so how is all this construction viable, with its immense use of resources? The article, in its rush to praise the wonders of Dubai, ignores the environmental cost of all this excess - the buildings, fake islands, air-conditioning, pools, waterfalls, ski slopes, underwater restaurants, lighting, and planes.
On 30/10/08 the Age published ‘Australian’s ranked among the world’s worst eco offenders’ p5, but neglected to mention the EMIRATES is the WORST offender and getting much worse, as it completely disregards environmental issues! Kuwait is 3rd and we’re 5th but while we self-flagellate, none dare mention those Arab lands or demand they stop their rapidly increasing environmental destruction! Don’t be fooled by the removal of flight magazines to save fuel, as this is trifling compared to building, running air-conditioners, generating water for pools, spas, or artificial ski runs and hotels etc for selected humans only and of course don’t forget those pampered horses! Imagine the destruction and pollution of the seabed with dredging, fake islands and 'run-off.'
- Polygamy
Besides breeding horses, the Sheik has a personal breeding herd, with multiple wives and 19 children. He’s currently touring with his new wife, 25 years his ‘junior’ and mother of his latest offspring! He initially married his cousin, who bore him 12 children and he has 6 other offspring listed as ‘children of unknown wives.’
A fine example for our children, is it not Mr Tomkins! As you say:
A fine example for our children, is it not Mr Tomkins! As you say:
"The main thing is getting kids involved in the racing industry and in fashion and enjoying dressing up and having a good time."
And our Sheik is certainly having a good time. I’m not sure if his wives/concubines back home are having quite so much fun though—still the money’s good, right!
But let’s not be too critical: our Sheik has a sensitive side, as he writes poetry-“I love you and your lovely cheeks/you are my lifetime! Yes you are!” (p34)- that is, until the next female comes along, or was Sheik Mohammad talking about a horse??
Oh, and from space, a ring of luxury houses built over Dubai’s water will spell out some of the sheik’s profound poetry (p39)—“Not everyone who rides a horse is a jockey”
And guess what, a poem was turned into a 30-part TV series that screened in Dubai every night during this year’s holy month of Ramadan (p38)!
Struggle on the Sand, a tale of love and war in the time of the Bedouin, was produced for $US6 million by Dubai Media. Which like almost everything in Dubai is controlled by the Al Maktoums. Princess Haya is happy to report that the series was warmly received by Sheik Mohammed’s subjects. “Everyone loves it”, she says.
Allah would not be pleased, as he said those straying in evil followed poets (Koran 26.224), while Mohammad opined :
But let’s not be too critical: our Sheik has a sensitive side, as he writes poetry-“I love you and your lovely cheeks/you are my lifetime! Yes you are!” (p34)- that is, until the next female comes along, or was Sheik Mohammad talking about a horse??
Oh, and from space, a ring of luxury houses built over Dubai’s water will spell out some of the sheik’s profound poetry (p39)—“Not everyone who rides a horse is a jockey”
And guess what, a poem was turned into a 30-part TV series that screened in Dubai every night during this year’s holy month of Ramadan (p38)!
Struggle on the Sand, a tale of love and war in the time of the Bedouin, was produced for $US6 million by Dubai Media. Which like almost everything in Dubai is controlled by the Al Maktoums. Princess Haya is happy to report that the series was warmly received by Sheik Mohammed’s subjects. “Everyone loves it”, she says.
Allah would not be pleased, as he said those straying in evil followed poets (Koran 26.224), while Mohammad opined :
"It is better for a man to fill the inside of his body with pus than to fill it with poetry” (Bukhari vol 8, No. 175)Just as well they did love the Sheik’s poetry though, as Mohammad had killed those who made up poems he didn’t like! This contradiction between a Muslim Sheik and his ‘romantic’ poetry which he inflicts on his underlings and true Islam also escaped our reporter!
Ladies man .... Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, pictured with Australian celebrity Tara Moss in Dubai.
This is only a sample of the cruel tyranny of the Emirates and its Sheiks, but no-one dares to criticise. Meanwhile, Australia is being subsumed by Islam: The Melbourne cup doesn’t exist anymore - like lots of other things here it’s owned by the Emirates and used to promote them, as is Etihad stadium, footy teams, sporting events etc. No doubt when Sheik Mohammad buys all the racehorses in the world he will eventually win Melbourne’s ‘Emirates’ cup! Imagine all the adulation that will be heaped upon him then, with nary a mention of the slavery and oppression that goes on under his watch.
To see an Olympic rower, whom many children would view as a role model, supporting the Emirates and the gross abuses of women, children, workers, the appalling environmental degradation, the gross materialism and totalitarianism they indulge in is truly disgusting. The aim is to make the Emirates ‘mainstream’, while we gloss over their vile Islamic attitudes, practices and laws and their fake ‘tolerance.’ Shame James Tomkins!
Shame also on the many Westerners who invest in Emirates buildings, the product of slave labour, who travel Emirates and holiday in Dubai.
If they know the truth about Emirates, how can they sleep at night?
Slavery has long been abolished in the West – let’s not re-introduce it by stealth.
It’s time to boycott Emirates and all the sporting events it is involved in.
For the sake of freedom and human dignity for all, say NO TO SHARIA!
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Would "anyone with a conscience" oppose islam's worst excesses? Inside the "religion of peace" we see, almost daily, a rigid myopia so mind-numbingly perveres the only conclussion is that the adherents are cultists, with no real cognitive ability due to brainwashing.
How could we expect concern for the oppressed of islam, when the most oppressed champion the oppressors?
This report hit the headlines today. It is from The National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies conference, held in Melbourne this week.
The theme was "Challenges to Social Inclusion in Australia: The Muslim Experience"
Held at the same time was a "Islamic Banking and Finance Symposium: Ethics and Financial Practice in Global Perspective".
What's this? Muslim women "coming out from under the veil", as one 'journalist' put it?
For the uninformed who stumble across it, is may appear so but, like all things, closer examination is required.... and illuminating.
Muslim spokeswoman Silma Ihram addressed the Conference the day before.
In her paper, she defends Sheikh Hilali, who sparked outrage two years ago when he compared scantily clad women with uncovered meat, saying he is considered one of the most outspoken supporters of women's rights.
She says he was the main supporter for setting up the Muslim Women's Association despite objections from his own male-only mosque board, and is reputed to support women's choice in marriage, divorce and ethnic intermarriage.
She said that.... "the sheikh changed his message depending on the audience."
"He has a conservative patriarchal community (at Sydney's Lakemba Mosque), and he's going to address them in a way they feel comfortable with.
"At the same time he has to deal with younger Australian women, whose rights he is championing.
So he has this contradiction: he says one thing to one group and another to another. A lot of imams have this problem."
Yes, Silma, a lot of Imams DO have this problem. Sadly, and something you cannot see becasue of your indoctrination, THIS IS ONE OF THE MAIN CONCERNS ABOUT ISLAM IN AUSTRALIA
Every bloody word has to be taken with a grain of salt.
The faux expressions of concern about Womens Rights too.
Wake up, James Tompkins et al; Islam is a primitive, barbaric, anti-human, anti-life cult that knows only how to exert control - by whatever means it takes - including "saying one thing to one group and another to another."
All hail the lying, fabricating new power-wielders of Australia! The born liars from the Middle East.
Camel jockeys? Who gives a... used entry ticket on the Emirates tent at the Melbourne Cup?
How could we expect concern for the oppressed of islam, when the most oppressed champion the oppressors?
SOME Muslim religious leaders are condoning rape within marriage, domestic violence, polygamy, welfare fraud and the exploitation of women, a report on imam training has found.
The report, by the Islamic Women's Welfare Council of Victoria, says some imams perform polygamous marriages knowing that the second wife, a de facto under Australian law, can claim Centrelink payments.
It found that some apply sharia when it benefits men but not when it benefits women, and that they hinder police from pursuing domestic violence charges.
Keysar Trad, a spokesman for the Islamic Friendship Association of Australia, said last night that there might be "isolated incidents" of such cases "but in a community as large as ours there will always be some people who do the wrong thing".
This report hit the headlines today. It is from The National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies conference, held in Melbourne this week.
The theme was "Challenges to Social Inclusion in Australia: The Muslim Experience"
Held at the same time was a "Islamic Banking and Finance Symposium: Ethics and Financial Practice in Global Perspective".
What's this? Muslim women "coming out from under the veil", as one 'journalist' put it?
For the uninformed who stumble across it, is may appear so but, like all things, closer examination is required.... and illuminating.
Muslim spokeswoman Silma Ihram addressed the Conference the day before.
In her paper, she defends Sheikh Hilali, who sparked outrage two years ago when he compared scantily clad women with uncovered meat, saying he is considered one of the most outspoken supporters of women's rights.
She says he was the main supporter for setting up the Muslim Women's Association despite objections from his own male-only mosque board, and is reputed to support women's choice in marriage, divorce and ethnic intermarriage.
She said that.... "the sheikh changed his message depending on the audience."
"He has a conservative patriarchal community (at Sydney's Lakemba Mosque), and he's going to address them in a way they feel comfortable with.
"At the same time he has to deal with younger Australian women, whose rights he is championing.
So he has this contradiction: he says one thing to one group and another to another. A lot of imams have this problem."
Yes, Silma, a lot of Imams DO have this problem. Sadly, and something you cannot see becasue of your indoctrination, THIS IS ONE OF THE MAIN CONCERNS ABOUT ISLAM IN AUSTRALIA
Every bloody word has to be taken with a grain of salt.
The faux expressions of concern about Womens Rights too.
Wake up, James Tompkins et al; Islam is a primitive, barbaric, anti-human, anti-life cult that knows only how to exert control - by whatever means it takes - including "saying one thing to one group and another to another."
All hail the lying, fabricating new power-wielders of Australia! The born liars from the Middle East.
Camel jockeys? Who gives a... used entry ticket on the Emirates tent at the Melbourne Cup?
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November 21, 2008
Thanks Circe and Cassandra for this disturbing article. Are you planning a demo for next year's Emirates cup? How about placards "End Child Slavery"
or even "Emirates abuses workers" or get the Greens involved with environmental slogans (that'll be the day when they criticise Emirates!)
And by the way, with his poem "Not everyone who rides a horse is a jockey”
Does that have a sexual connotation, or is it just my dirty mind?
or even "Emirates abuses workers" or get the Greens involved with environmental slogans (that'll be the day when they criticise Emirates!)
And by the way, with his poem "Not everyone who rides a horse is a jockey”
Does that have a sexual connotation, or is it just my dirty mind?
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November 21, 2008
Blue Heeler,
Yes, it seems however much Islam is exposed, there is a rigid myopia - brainwashing is very effective, especially when it takes place from birth.
It always surprises me that Muslim women are often the staunchest supporters of Islam, despite the appalling treatment they receive under the ideology.
I guess the Islamic Women's Welfare Council would thoroughly approve of the welfare fraud, having been brought up on a diet of Islamic supremacy and the teaching that kufars are there to provide endless largesse.
Keysar Trad - "in a community as large as ours there will always be some people who do the wrong thing". But he knows full well that welfare fraud, polygamy is not the wrong thing according to sharia, which is the only law which counts.
As for Islamist par excellence Silma Ihramhe, what can one say! If Hilaly is a supporter of women's rights, just shows how much more barbaric Islam is than we can possibly imagine.
"the sheikh changed his message depending on the audience... A lot of imams have this problem."
Well, what more can I say. All over the world, Muslims say one thing, but mean another. e.g. all the peace efforts in the Middle East are fruitless, as Palestinians practice duplicity, but Israelis get blamed.
"Islam is a primitive, barbaric, anti-human, anti-life cult that knows only how to exert control - by whatever means it takes - including "saying one thing to one group and another to another."
You and I know that, Blue Heeler, but tragically there are many in the West who have made a faustian pact with Islam - selling their souls for money - and we are all suffering because of it.
Time they were named and shamed!!
Yes, it seems however much Islam is exposed, there is a rigid myopia - brainwashing is very effective, especially when it takes place from birth.
It always surprises me that Muslim women are often the staunchest supporters of Islam, despite the appalling treatment they receive under the ideology.
I guess the Islamic Women's Welfare Council would thoroughly approve of the welfare fraud, having been brought up on a diet of Islamic supremacy and the teaching that kufars are there to provide endless largesse.
Keysar Trad - "in a community as large as ours there will always be some people who do the wrong thing". But he knows full well that welfare fraud, polygamy is not the wrong thing according to sharia, which is the only law which counts.
As for Islamist par excellence Silma Ihramhe, what can one say! If Hilaly is a supporter of women's rights, just shows how much more barbaric Islam is than we can possibly imagine.
"the sheikh changed his message depending on the audience... A lot of imams have this problem."
Well, what more can I say. All over the world, Muslims say one thing, but mean another. e.g. all the peace efforts in the Middle East are fruitless, as Palestinians practice duplicity, but Israelis get blamed.
"Islam is a primitive, barbaric, anti-human, anti-life cult that knows only how to exert control - by whatever means it takes - including "saying one thing to one group and another to another."
You and I know that, Blue Heeler, but tragically there are many in the West who have made a faustian pact with Islam - selling their souls for money - and we are all suffering because of it.
Time they were named and shamed!!
3
November 21, 2008
Perhaps an e-mail or two to Rowing Victoria officials would make them pass our message to Mr Tomkins?
Contacts
Contacts
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November 21, 2008
It is heart-rending to read of the abuse of children under the glitzy surface of Emirate propaganda. The workers from developing countries can be forgiven for for going there and trying to better their circumstances - and of course, many are unaware of the abysmal conditions awaiting them. However, the western workers who go there should be utterly ashamed of themselves - they have access to the internet and to other sources of information.
You know, no long ago Albert Speer, Hitler's architect claimed 'not to know' about many of the Nazi camps- he just 'worked' for the regime, earned his money and that was that. However, at Nuremberg, he was confronted with the evil of the regime he supported when films were shown of the victims of the Holocaust. Speer then said that he was responsible - for Hitler's regime because he had a duty to find out more about the 'camps' he vaguely knew about, and he had not done so. He felt lifelong remorse and wrote of this during his 20 year jail sentence.
The Aussie and other western workers in Dubai are duty bound to find out about the system of abuse and slavery on which it is built. Otherwise, they are just like Speer, when he heard about some 'unpleasant' facts regarding the camps and just turned his head. As the words of a sixties song goes:
'How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend he just doesn't see?.'
Thank you Circe and Cassandra for voicing so clearly the inconvenient truths under the glamour and sheen of Dubai. T]One day, there will be a Nuremberg style reckoning for those who dirtied their hands by propping up the Dubai Islamic Disneyland, built on the blood and sweat of slave labour.
You know, no long ago Albert Speer, Hitler's architect claimed 'not to know' about many of the Nazi camps- he just 'worked' for the regime, earned his money and that was that. However, at Nuremberg, he was confronted with the evil of the regime he supported when films were shown of the victims of the Holocaust. Speer then said that he was responsible - for Hitler's regime because he had a duty to find out more about the 'camps' he vaguely knew about, and he had not done so. He felt lifelong remorse and wrote of this during his 20 year jail sentence.
The Aussie and other western workers in Dubai are duty bound to find out about the system of abuse and slavery on which it is built. Otherwise, they are just like Speer, when he heard about some 'unpleasant' facts regarding the camps and just turned his head. As the words of a sixties song goes:
'How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend he just doesn't see?.'
Thank you Circe and Cassandra for voicing so clearly the inconvenient truths under the glamour and sheen of Dubai. T]One day, there will be a Nuremberg style reckoning for those who dirtied their hands by propping up the Dubai Islamic Disneyland, built on the blood and sweat of slave labour.
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November 21, 2008
Unfortunately, James Tonkins is like so many Australians who don't look behind the surface gloss. I know so many people who just drool over Dubai and think I am strange for not wanting to go there.
Blue Heeler,
As usual your passionate words say it all - well said!
With the UNHRC stifled from discussing Islam, it is highly unlikely that any condemnation will be made against UAE.
Blue Heeler,
As usual your passionate words say it all - well said!
With the UNHRC stifled from discussing Islam, it is highly unlikely that any condemnation will be made against UAE.
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November 21, 2008
Geoff, I'm with you. The idea of going to Dubai is about as appealing as amputation. That ghastly kitch 'island' says it all, for me. Just look at who the 'next doors' would be; David Beckham and ScrewMe Spice, Michael Jackson..... well, there goes the neighborhood!
Cass - it's mindblowing, isn't it.
"If Hilaly is a supporter of women's rights, just shows how much more barbaric Islam is than we can possibly imagine."
I find myself actually gaining some feeling for these poor deluded women. What must have happened to them, that they can champion these brutalising men. How can they fail to draw the obvious connections between Mohamed and the behavior of his 'imams', how can they not question the religion itself, that authorises their misery??
It's a measure of how suppressed they are, how thwarted in development and that has to be cause for sympathy.....within bounds!
Cass - it's mindblowing, isn't it.
"If Hilaly is a supporter of women's rights, just shows how much more barbaric Islam is than we can possibly imagine."
I find myself actually gaining some feeling for these poor deluded women. What must have happened to them, that they can champion these brutalising men. How can they fail to draw the obvious connections between Mohamed and the behavior of his 'imams', how can they not question the religion itself, that authorises their misery??
It's a measure of how suppressed they are, how thwarted in development and that has to be cause for sympathy.....within bounds!
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November 21, 2008
how can they not question the religion itself, that authorises their miseryStockholm Syndrome?
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November 22, 2008
Cassandra -your comment above-
"Yes, it seems however much Islam is exposed, there is a rigid myopia - brainwashing is very effective, especially when it takes place from birth.
It always surprises me that Muslim women are often the staunchest supporters of Islam, despite the appalling treatment they receive under the ideology."
You know it "surprises" me too. This came to me via a Jewish American friemd, which sums up what we face.
Note the lady is a Syrian. People may not recall that a recent Victorian election saw a seat won by an Islamist who hails from Syria. His first action, upon election, was to write the Syrian dictatorship assuring them of the support of "Australians". Not in my name, sport!!
"Yes, it seems however much Islam is exposed, there is a rigid myopia - brainwashing is very effective, especially when it takes place from birth.
It always surprises me that Muslim women are often the staunchest supporters of Islam, despite the appalling treatment they receive under the ideology."
You know it "surprises" me too. This came to me via a Jewish American friemd, which sums up what we face.
Note the lady is a Syrian. People may not recall that a recent Victorian election saw a seat won by an Islamist who hails from Syria. His first action, upon election, was to write the Syrian dictatorship assuring them of the support of "Australians". Not in my name, sport!!
Syrian Actress Amal 'Arafa: Hatred of Israel is In Our Genes - No Peace Treaty Can Change That
Following is an interview with Syrian actress Amal 'Arafa, which aired on Al-Hiwar TV on October 4, 2008:
To view this clip, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1918.htm
Interviewer: If political circumstances change, what will happen?
Amal 'Arafa: Policies may change, but there is something that is already in my genes. We've been brought up to hate Israel. It's in our genes. If Arab countries make political decisions, and there is peace, and so on and so forth... First of all, who would be against peace? I am not against peace.
Interviewer: Of course not.
Amal 'Arafa: But as far as I am concerned, Israel will continue to be a black, dark, and murky spot in my memory, in my genes, and in my blood. Even though I am Syrian and not Palestinian, the Syrian upbringing we received and by which we lived – we've sucked it with the milk of our mothers. There is no playing around with this, it's in our genes, and we will pass this down for many more generations.
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November 22, 2008
Blue Heeler,
At least this syrian lady is honest when she says
Amal 'Israel will continue to be a black, dark, and murky spot in my memory, in my genes, and in my blood... the Syrian upbringing we received and by which we lived.'
Sadly, brainwashing is very very effective, as the Nazis well knew. Until the hate education, prevalent throughout the Islamic world and now finding its way into the West, ends, we will never be able to co-exist with Islam.
But does Islam want to end the hatred?
Not according to the Koran.
It's what keeps the religion going. Without hatred, there would be nothing.
At least this syrian lady is honest when she says
Amal 'Israel will continue to be a black, dark, and murky spot in my memory, in my genes, and in my blood... the Syrian upbringing we received and by which we lived.'
Sadly, brainwashing is very very effective, as the Nazis well knew. Until the hate education, prevalent throughout the Islamic world and now finding its way into the West, ends, we will never be able to co-exist with Islam.
But does Islam want to end the hatred?
Not according to the Koran.
It's what keeps the religion going. Without hatred, there would be nothing.
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November 22, 2008
Thanks for the comments and further information. Hilali and women's rights-give me a bucket--the good Muslim woman is a slave!
Muslim women have only half a brain at most that's why allah said you must have two to sign a trivial document in place of a male if no male can be found (koran). In many cases her 'word' is not accepted alone without 4 males supporting it eg in rape!
Do you think that over 1400 years there has been a 'selection' of weak minded, readily controlled, self-loathing females in the Islamic world (and western converts)? Those with sound minds and a strong sense of equality and self-respect who demand the same rights as men and object to the brutality and control allowed under Islam's text and law are no doubt 'culled' so neither their genes, nor their views reach the next generation!
How many times do we read of the duplicit speech of Muslims. In Britian many times Muslim leaders have been filmed saying one thing to the kaffirs and another to Muslims ie hatred and violence towards kaffirs! Likewise in Australia.
Money makes people blind--Pat Condell said their values wouldn't be tolerated for a second without their money!! Where are the greens, animals rights groups or human rights groups---holidaying in Dubai!
Dubai is built on sand-may the sand shift, may the earth move, may it crack right across the Islamic world. May we discover masses of oil -possibly under the now melting northern ice or elsewhere! I live in hope!
Can I hope that people in our society will stop supporting the perverted, sadistic, racist, totalitarian ideology of Islam or will we keep looking the other way until it takes our children?
Muslim women have only half a brain at most that's why allah said you must have two to sign a trivial document in place of a male if no male can be found (koran). In many cases her 'word' is not accepted alone without 4 males supporting it eg in rape!
Do you think that over 1400 years there has been a 'selection' of weak minded, readily controlled, self-loathing females in the Islamic world (and western converts)? Those with sound minds and a strong sense of equality and self-respect who demand the same rights as men and object to the brutality and control allowed under Islam's text and law are no doubt 'culled' so neither their genes, nor their views reach the next generation!
How many times do we read of the duplicit speech of Muslims. In Britian many times Muslim leaders have been filmed saying one thing to the kaffirs and another to Muslims ie hatred and violence towards kaffirs! Likewise in Australia.
Money makes people blind--Pat Condell said their values wouldn't be tolerated for a second without their money!! Where are the greens, animals rights groups or human rights groups---holidaying in Dubai!
Dubai is built on sand-may the sand shift, may the earth move, may it crack right across the Islamic world. May we discover masses of oil -possibly under the now melting northern ice or elsewhere! I live in hope!
Can I hope that people in our society will stop supporting the perverted, sadistic, racist, totalitarian ideology of Islam or will we keep looking the other way until it takes our children?
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November 23, 2008
I have heard it said that proffessional golfer,s are the dumbest of all dumb sportmen but now I am no longer sure .
And how the fleeting glimpse of a bunch of racing horses having the crap flogged out of them is somehow amusing is beyond me .Call me boring if you will .
I too enjoy dressups ,but more in the line of an intimate evening with the nice bottle of red kind .
The conflict now raging throughout the world between those of us who wish to defend freedom and those who obey the mad ravings of a manic depressive bedouin bandit is truelly a clash of cultures . On first impression it appears mad Moh has gained the upper hand .But now I am not so sure . They say the stronger culture will always triumph over the weaker and it appears the western culture with all its strenghts and weaknesses is winning . Why does this muslim Sheik Moh Bin Rashid admire so much western culture and mimmick it both here and in the Arabian peninsula ?Why these obnoxious monstrocieties built in the heart of islam despicting perfectly western decadence ? I thought the arabs are the bestest of people and islam is the true religion ?Shouldn,t it be us adopting islamic culture ?
It would be nice if just once these celebrity types such as James Tomkins who have seared their conscience for a little muslim oil money questioned the ugliness and gross violation of human rights endemic throughout the islamic world . And for our own Kylie at the opening of the new super hotel in Dubai instead of impressing us all with her profound words of wisdom perhaps to question the merits of polygamy or the benifits of FGM .
And how the fleeting glimpse of a bunch of racing horses having the crap flogged out of them is somehow amusing is beyond me .Call me boring if you will .
I too enjoy dressups ,but more in the line of an intimate evening with the nice bottle of red kind .
The conflict now raging throughout the world between those of us who wish to defend freedom and those who obey the mad ravings of a manic depressive bedouin bandit is truelly a clash of cultures . On first impression it appears mad Moh has gained the upper hand .But now I am not so sure . They say the stronger culture will always triumph over the weaker and it appears the western culture with all its strenghts and weaknesses is winning . Why does this muslim Sheik Moh Bin Rashid admire so much western culture and mimmick it both here and in the Arabian peninsula ?Why these obnoxious monstrocieties built in the heart of islam despicting perfectly western decadence ? I thought the arabs are the bestest of people and islam is the true religion ?Shouldn,t it be us adopting islamic culture ?
It would be nice if just once these celebrity types such as James Tomkins who have seared their conscience for a little muslim oil money questioned the ugliness and gross violation of human rights endemic throughout the islamic world . And for our own Kylie at the opening of the new super hotel in Dubai instead of impressing us all with her profound words of wisdom perhaps to question the merits of polygamy or the benifits of FGM .
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November 23, 2008
Circe
Interesting theory about selective breeding, breeding out the intelligent or killing them, and being left with weak minded, docile creatures.
"Money makes people blind" Too right!
"Where are the greens, animals rights groups or human rights groups?" that's what I want to know. I think they only come out when a terrorist is arrested and needs his human rights protected.
Mateus
I think our James should be awarded Dummy Sportsman of the Year.
I too can't understand the thrill of horse racing.
Yes, it is a clash of cultures, or between civilisation and barbarity. You wouldn't think there'd be any contest would you?
I used to like Kylie, as I saw her as a sassy and independent girl (plus she has a nice bum!), but no longer. Shame Kylie, to betray Australia in this way.
Interesting theory about selective breeding, breeding out the intelligent or killing them, and being left with weak minded, docile creatures.
"Money makes people blind" Too right!
"Where are the greens, animals rights groups or human rights groups?" that's what I want to know. I think they only come out when a terrorist is arrested and needs his human rights protected.
Mateus
I think our James should be awarded Dummy Sportsman of the Year.
I too can't understand the thrill of horse racing.
Yes, it is a clash of cultures, or between civilisation and barbarity. You wouldn't think there'd be any contest would you?
I used to like Kylie, as I saw her as a sassy and independent girl (plus she has a nice bum!), but no longer. Shame Kylie, to betray Australia in this way.
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November 23, 2008
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