by DAVID FLINT – ONE of the two contenders for the Liberal Party leadership, Sussan Ley, has long been involved in Middle Eastern affairs.
Given that the first duty of a Leader of the Opposition, a potential alternative Prime Minister, is the defence of the realm, any contender should have an understanding that the powers hostile to the West, including Australia, assembled in the Beijing-Moscow-Tehran Axis, include communists and militant Islamists.
- When she was Assistant Education Minister, she was corrected on the ABC program Q&A after asserting that “Islam is a religion of peace”.
- Anyone with a smattering of understanding of history and the teachings of Islam knows this.
- Peace can only to be achieved under Islam after all are subjugated under Sharia law.
The next Leader should obviously appreciate this and plan to remedy the fact that the present government has left the country defenceless.
No leader should be ever so naïve as to assume the US President will always act on a guarantee no US government has ever given Australia and which some in the political class pretends exists only to placate voters.
PALESTINE
Ms Ley is on record of supporting the admission of the State of Palestine (a name used by the dictatorship which controls the Palestinian Authority) to the United Nations and was a member of the Australian Parliamentary Friends of Palestine.
She joined a week-long Australian Parliamentary Friends of Palestine study tour of Palestine in April 2011.
In 2025 an internal investigation was launched into why, of the four on the study tour, she alone had failed to declare accommodation, meals and transport funded by the Palestinian Authority.
When she was Assistant Minister for Education, she was corrected on the ABC program Q&A when she asserted that “Islam is a religion of peace”.
She did this after expressing outrage at the behaviour of Australian jihadists in Syria. Another panellist on the ABC program, a renowned international expert on comparative religion, Canadian Professor John Stackhouse, waited for some minutes and, no doubt feeling he must reveal the facts, then pointed out that her assertion about Islam was “just not true”.
In fact, anyone with a smattering of an understanding of the relevant history and the teachings of Islam should know this.
Peace is only to be achieved under Islam after all (including Jews, Christians and non-believers) are subjugated under Sharia law.
RADICALISATION
Professor Stackhouse was at pains to stress that modern liberal Moslems want nothing to do with the what is called the radicalisation of their religion.
But the problem for them, and us, is that unlike Christianity as taught by Jesus, Islam’s original teachings have within them, as Prof Stackhouse says “the legitimisation of violence”.
And those teachings have become increasingly attractive to radical Islamists who are takin . g over so much of the Muslim world and who now live among us.
The point is that any contender for the position of alternative prime minister must surely be well informed on matters affecting their first duty, the defence of Australia, to say nothing of immigration.PC
