Sometimes a political cartoonist can summarise the situation much better than reams of print.
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So it was with Bill Leak’s cartoon in The Australian, which showed Andrew Wilkie and Christine Milne staring at a computer screen, with Andrew Wilkie saying, “It’s like a scene from an Indonesian abbattoir!”, and Christine Milne, hands on hips, indignantly saying, “He didn’t even stun him first.”
The cartoon was titled, “No animals were harmed in the making of this video.”
It of course referred to the Islamic State (IS) beheading video, and the manner in which The Greens and their fellow travellers choose to completely ignore the acceleration of violence in the Middle East, and its ramifications for Australia.
For The Greens to urge Australians to stop labelling Islamic State militants as “terrorists” beggars belief.
Greens’ Senator Peter Whish-Wilson urged Australians to stop “dehumanising and demonising our enemies”.
Greens’ leader Christine Milne supported his comments, saying that using terms like terrorists “implies a very one-sided view of the world”.
Which words would The Greens use to describe a barbarian beheading a prisoner?
The Greens’ Senator Sarah Hanson-Young was nowhere to be seen during the beheading reports, but was quickly back on the scene to inflame reports about the unfortunate death of a Manus Island detainee.
The Greens simply don’t get it: Rigorous scrutiny of asylum seekers who seek to enter Australia illegally is necessary to protect Australia’s security.
We have since had the auction of an IS flag at a Liverpool mosque, which despite all the weak excuses clearly illustrates IS supporters fund-raising in Australia.
Then last week we had the ABC’s 7.30 report about Mohammad Ali Baryalei, Australia's most senior member of the Islamic State who is alleged to have recruited at least 60 of the “Australians” fighting in Syria and Iraq.
The Greens have their head in the sand.
The flood of “asylum seekers” like Mohammad Ali Baryalei and those at the Liverpool mosque had to be stopped.
We cannot keep on pretending that everyone who asks for asylum is genuinely fleeing persecution in their own country.
Genuine refugees should be made welcome in Australia, but those wishing to make Australia a base for continuing jihad are not welcome here.
Australia’s humanitarian aid drops to threatened minorities like the Iraqi Yazidis, Christians and Kurds have been opposed by The Greens.
They don’t seem to be able to understand that genocide is underway in the Middle East.
Scenes of people being lined up and shot are apparently OK by The Greens.
The Greens would say people being forced to flee their homelands with just their clothes and basic belongings are none of our business.
I can’t help wondering how Christine Milne would react if it were her dressed in an orange uniform, with a jihadist posing with his knife.