Raven wrote on Oct 10^th, 2014 at 1:51pm:



Have you stopped beating your wife yet ?

A YES, or NO, will be sufficient.

Further to Raven's point about media sensationalism we can look at the case of the man shot dead in Melbourne after the brutal, angry stabbing of two police officers. Did the media report the simple and sufficiently horrifying facts? Well no, it reported the most sensational peak in the sea of supposition surrounding them: "Gunned down after PM terror threat: POLICE KILL ABBOTT JIHADI."

There was of course no plot against the Prime Minister as  Australian Federal Police’s acting commissioner Andrew Colvin confirmed.

And remember the sword carried so ominously from the police raids of mid September, the one featured in page after page of reporting of raids that had apparently prevented demonstration killings and was thus by implication a weapon that might be used to sever innocent necks from heads, turns out to be a piece of plastic souvenir shop junk.

The old adage is fear sells but what effect does this kind of scare reporting have?

• A woman in a hijab is physically attacked and her car subsequently vandalised with profanities spray-painted across it (Western Sydney)

• A mother and her baby are verbally abused and spat on, and the pram is kicked (Sydney)

• A woman in hijab has a cup of coffee hurled through the window of her car (Brisbane)

• A mother and her baby are approached by three men, has her hijab ripped off, is spat on and pushed to the floor (Brisbane)

• A woman is approached by a man and told to take her hijab off so he can burn it (Brisbane)

• A woman in a hijab is approached by men in a shopping centre who try to rip her hijab from her head (Perth)

• A mother and her child are verbally abused and the woman is told to take her child away from the other children at a playground (Melbourne)

• A woman is verbally abused by three men who threaten to burn her hijab as she walks past a pub

• A woman is verbally abused by man who threatens to burn her house down (Queensland)

• A woman sitting on a bus with her son is filmed by a man who verbally abused her and said that he would use the video footage as means to identify her

• A heavily pregnant woman is verbally abused and intimated (Sydney)

• A mother and daughter are verbally assaulted and a passer-by who intervened is physically assaulted (Newcastle)

Sensationalist reporting to sell newspapers has consequences and in the examples above innocent women and children are seeing the results of these consequences first hand.

Not only is it lazy journalism it is dangerous journalism. And as has been shown is inaccurate journalism.

Yes we as a nation have the right to protect our citizens from threats but we need to do it responsibly otherwise we are going to see more and more innocent women and children harassed and assaulted by "dinky-di Aussies."

Baronvonrort wrote on Oct 10^th, 2014 at 5:00pm:



That's a fair point. It is quite possible that a lot of what was reported against the women did not happen the way it was reported. But even if half of what has been reported is accurate it should still be concerning.

Unfortunately there are some idiots out there who read these stories sink some p!ss get all puffed up with "patriotic pride" and decide they are going to show those "Muso S!uts what's what!"

Baronvonrort wrote on Oct 10^th, 2014 at 6:12pm:


Raven believes most men were raised knowing that it is wrong to hit a woman, but as you know it still occurs.

The last one on the list did happen and it is quite possible a few of the others did.

Unfortunately these woman are easily targeted because they are so identifiably Muslim, it is not outside the realm of possibility that cowards would strike out against them.