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
Libs have lost my vote.
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Wow from Turnbull in a skirt to Albo in heels & no coalition,where to from here?
David, in 2011 Sussan was a political babe-in-arms, probably driven more by compassion than sophisticated politics.
And October 7 had not yet happened.
But if you feel that you are doing anyone a favour by being up to your old tricks of knocking Liberal leaders as soon as they raise their profile or stand for higher office, then you are sadly mistaken.
You criticise others for their “left wing” views – and yet you are doing more to promote the left by weakening our leaders than anyone I have read.
And if you note that only 30% of the population voted for us at the recent election, and people generally hate the way that our old “broad church” of tolerance has descended into Labor-like “factions”, then you’ll get my drift.
There is nothing wrong with people differing in their views of goings-on overseas – that were once bipartisan anyway – as long as they are in general agreeance of the core values of the Liberal party.
And one of these is tolerance.
The last part of my lesson is the well-known adage: “if you don’t lean to the left when young then you’ve got no heart, and if not to the right as you mature then you’ve got no brains.
I might add if you keep wounding your colleagues to grab column space then you’ve got no principle.
Remember, Andrew Bolt, Paul Murray, Peter Costello and even Kel Richards (I believe) once proudly leaned to the left as youths. And of such importance were issues to be fought over than generalities, that even Tony Abbott linked with Bob Santamaria’s DLP student movement in order to win the battle of economic pragmatism over collectivism.
So to turn someone’s historic, youthful “take” on the middle East into a criticism of her ability as a mature adult to lead a political movement that believe in freedom of the individual, an egalitarian society, a hand up for the needy and helpless, reward for effort, and practising initiative within a framework of the rule of law, then the Liberal movement really is in a sad state.
Because they are all the things that I passionately believe, and I support them all as Liberal values.
And by the way, the ABC journo was wrong. Muslim religion is one of peace.
It’s the extremists who are bloodthirsty mongrels.
But hey – that happens in any religion.
So why not stick to commenting on what’s really important – a free society with a “fair go for all” philosophy and mateship at its core, where people can prosper by their own efforts and sniffing the air of freedom is the sweetest of experiences.
And Liberals do believe in the sort of welfare that allows the needy to receive it in dignity.
And by the way Albo, it was not until Menzies intervened when in opposition to make sense out of Labor’s chaotic take on socialised medicine was their 1944 PBS referendum for what ultimately became Medicare ultimately voted in, in 1946.
Even then, Albo’s mob disparagingly sniffed at it – when in opposition – as “Menzies Socialism”.
He’s not too proud to attempt to claim it now, though, eh?
And socialist collectivism is the core of all that’s drab, grey and abhorrent.
So David, they are the issues I would like to see you champion – and not just keep putting good people down in such a demeaning way – who are growing, adapting and developing with their journeys through life – and doing their best.
And when nobody else showed the raw courage to put up that hand in the face of overwhelming odds.
So Let’s have three cheers for Sussan.
And keep the sneers for the other mob who really do peddle deceit and lies – as we are about to REALLY discover now that the Labor Left controls both houses.
Go Sussan and go Ted!
“[…] knocking Liberal leaders […]”
Ley is neither a “Liberal” nor a leader.
“Muslim religion is one of peace.”
LOL; you’re just as stupid as she is.
Sadly, we just continue on with Turnbull moderates/Labor-lites, so nothing has changed after the election debacle.
Another Islamic apologist.
Albo is better looking.
If Sussan (note the double S; which stands for loon) and her deputy get in Australia is doomed.
O’Brien may be one of a few parliamentary Liberals of consequence. Too many were exposed as empty suits during the non-campaign. School debaters would have done better.