by FRED PAWLE – THE Austrian Government and the Opposition Party have finally identified Islam as the biggest threat to civil society – and are committed to respond accordingly.
Despite near identical names, Austria and Australia could hardly be more different. In the face of an encroaching caliphate, these differences have become dangerous.
- Labor’s mysterious connections with Muslim terrorists exist at the State level too.
- The ALP facilitates, if not downright encourages, these attacks.
- For Albanese, Muslims are a solid bloc of votes worth courting.
The Austrian Opposition this year proposed to shut down all mosques where imams preach the supremacy of sharia law, confiscate their assets and send their congregations back – my German translation might not be entirely accurate here – to the shithole they came from.
That particular proposal failed to pass the Austrian parliament, but it has given kudos to the Government’s alternate proposal: to permanently assert the primacy of Austrian law over sharia law.
CONSTITUTION
The Austrian Government intends this to be written into the nation’s constitution.
Fifty years ago, before Crocodile Dundee made large parts of the world finally aware of our existence, Australians used to joke that their nation was not the birthplace of Hitler, Mozart and the Habsburgs – although it did produce the world’s finest lagers.
Since then, as Australians became increasingly confident about their novel – but unique – contribution to the world’s post-war culture, any confusion between “Austria” and “Australia” has become dramatically diminished.
One has lederhosen, coffee and Gemütlichkeit [social accceptance]; the other has boardshorts, shouting and Vegemite. Or to put it another way, one is urbane and humourless, the other thinks vomiting up several hours’ worth of beer and chips is hilarious.
Regardless of where you stand on the relative sophistication of these near-namesakes, however, in the past few months it has become clear which of the two takes its heritage and future more seriously.
Australia might be a resource-rich island nation conveniently located in peaceful and increasingly prosperous East Asia, but it’s the Austrians – despite being on a continent on the verge of social collapse and potential war – who are more resolute about the nation they want to bequeath to their children.
Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker explicitly wants to assert the primacy of Austria’s laws over sharia (or any religious) laws in Austria’s constitution while also clamping down on Muslims who fail to understand that peace and prosperity are incompatible with religious cultism.
Most people who are interested in Europe’s response to the continent’s encroaching caliphate usually focus on Hungary and Poland, two countries where the consequences of Islamic invasion are fresh in their memory.
They are doing their best to prevent it happening again by, above all, taking border security seriously.
But the plucky Austrians don’t get nearly the attention they deserve.
Ten years ago, they radically reduced their number of permitted asylum applications, increased the number of illegal invaders they expelled, tightened borders and lobbied the European Commission to take greater control of the problem.
This wasn’t enough to prevent ethnic gang warfare, among other examples of vibrant diversity, in Vienna in 2024, which is why both sides of politics are now resorting to more serious measures to eradicate the problem more effectively.
Should these latest measures also fail, there’s always the military option, which Austria used with devastating effect under Prince Eugene against the Ottoman Empire a mere 300 years ago.
The contrast between Austria and Australia, which was already stark, is now surreal.
Australia’s response to the same 21st century threat could not look more pathetic.
TERROR
The Albanese Government’s royal commission into the Bondi terror attack in December, which has just finished hearing evidence and will deliver its report in December, has already lowered the bar for whitewashing government inquiries.
Normally, the public needs to wait until an inquiry’s report is published before realising the fix was in from the start.
But, as News24’s Peta Credlin explains in this succinct piece, this inquiry couldn’t even wait that long.
The predetermined outcome was obvious by the people the inquiry failed to call as witnesses: relevant federal ministers (especially PM Anthony Albanese and Immigration Minister Tony Burke, who are ultimately responsible for the debacle); the head of the Australian Federal Police, Krissy Barrett; and an anonymous 30-year veteran of the AFP who desperately wanted to explain the AFP’s serious shortcomings when it comes to terrorism, among others.
Nor did it give any credence to a memo from four senior AFP officers from May 2024 warning that radical Islam was on the rise.
Credlin concludes: “We owe the dead the truth, and unless this Royal Commission urgently reopens hearings and takes evidence from politicians and senior leaders such as the AFP chief that have not given it, and whistle-blowers desperate to do the right thing, we will have failed them.
In failing the dead, we fail ourselves as a nation to do our best to ensure it never happens again.”
I’d go a step further, and say Albanese and Burke were so blasè about the imminent threat of terrorism, and so determined to conceal their complicity in it, they may as well have been the ones standing on the footbridge at Bondi that day pulling the triggers.
Labor’s mysterious connections with Muslim terrorists exist at the State level too.
There is now serious concern about how one of the two men allegedly involved in the Bondi masscare, Sajid Akram, was issued a gun licence after initially having his application denied because of possible terrorism connections.
ATTACKS
When Liberal MLC Susan Carter raised this with Police & Counter-Terrorism Minister Yasmin Catley, one couldn’t help but conclude that Labor is the Party that facilitates, if not downright encourages, these attacks.
Just as Austrian politicians are drawing on traditions of courage to tackle this problem, Australian Labor politicians are drawing on traditions of cowardice to facilitate it.
The ALP was borne of the “unity is strength” union movement of the early 20th century.
Then, as unionism declined, it pivoted to instead embrace the intellectual conformists in the burgeoning anti-American and feminist movements in the 1960s.
In both instances, it wasn’t individual voters it was seeking but blocs of voters who define themselves by their allegiance to a cause, which Labor surreptitiously adopted.
So, it is hardly surprising that the Party has applied the same strategy to a religion that doesn’t so much encourage conformity as kill anyone who dares leave or question it.
To a Labor strategist, that’s a solid bloc of votes worth courting, the odd shooting, gang rape and honour killing notwithstanding.
Australian aircrews were shot down while fighting Nazis over Austria at the end of WWII, and 30 of them are buried on Austrian soil.
After the Nazis were defeated, Australia established a military mission in Austria to help with its post-war transformation back to the civilised society it is today.
The way things are going, those stout Austrians might be in a position to return the favour soon enough.PC
– Fred Pawle
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