The literal translation of Taliban is “student”. During their origin in Afghanistan these students were obsessed with cleansing their society through brutal enforcement of sharia law. Its leadership also provided a sanctuary to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, who planned the September 11 attacks from his Kandahar compound.

In Australia today, we are witnessing the emergence of a new form of Taliban on our streets, at political conferences, universities and at places where Jews may gather. While their claims appear to be about the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza, this is a moral cover. Their real aim is to extend the Islamist global insurgency’s power and influence. Their narrative is based on conspiracy, humiliation, justice, oppression, survival and duty. All cosy intellectual affiliates of the modern left-wing, victim-based movements overrunning Western institutions.

Anyone who participated in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force there will tell you the Taliban maintained and extended control of towns and villages by co-opting or killing the three nodes of leadership – political, security and religious. This is the classic insurgency framework. The application of this insurgency framework is the same not only in Australia - look at this year’s local government elections in the United Kingdom where Islamist candidates shouting “Allahu Akbar” won several seats.

In Australia we have growing numbers of Islamist sympathisers and Jihadist supporters changing the minds of Federal and State politicians, universities and senior leaders across civil society, business and the media. Our foreign policy is changing because of this influence.

What we missed in the War on Terror, but what the Taliban, al-Qaeda and Hamas understand, is the most transformative components of conflict are moral and mental. Being a member of the Taliban is a state-of-mind. The weak can be lured by fantasies. This is the jihad we are witnessing in Australia and other Western countries since October 7. Governments assumed our national security and our freedoms could be protected by a strong defence force, borders, and police. As if like a gas, without front or back this movement bypassed all of that. It didn’t even need to sneak in.

One of the least known, yet most strategically influential al Qaeda figures was Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, also known as Abu Musab al Suri, arrested during a 2005 counter terrorism raid in Pakistan. No other individual did more to transform al-Qaeda’s strategy into a globalised umbrella. Now jihad is becoming mainstreamed into many aspects of Western society, involving not just physical acts of terrorism, but also the kind of struggle we see around Western cities.

Abu Musab al Suri recognised there would need to be a great mobilisation to achieve mass participation in a jihadist movement. He saw the Palestinian Intifada as the “prototype” but on a broader basis reaching the home of the American invaders and their infidel allies from every race and place.

The phenomenon has been successful because it is coinciding with the denigration of everything that made the West great since the Enlightenment. This includes the slow removal of borders through the creation of anti-sovereignty constructs such as the “Global South” and mass migration. These debase the value of our citizenship. Even Afghans know not to, as they say, let snakes live in your sleeve.

Our own democracy is being cultivated, coerced, and co-opted to support one of the most anti-democratic, anti-Western, anti-Christian movements in the world. We have every right to question this Intifada movement in Australia. Because none of this came via Chinese, or Russian or Iranian cruise missiles, battleships, or drones. It is by our own ruling class of elites who are even making us question freedom of speech. Some people realise videos of priests being stabbed in our suburbs awakens the busy mums and dads and grandparents to the fact that something is not quite right.

The gut-wrenching irony of it all is we sent some of our best this country produces to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. We convinced ourselves the fight was over there. If only we knew a sanctuary for Islamist extremism was being built right here. A sanctuary to undermine all that is good, and decent and generous about Australia.

Dr Jason Thomas teaches business strategy at Swinburne University of Technology and is director of Frontier Assessments.

Frank wrote on May 28^th, 2024 at 8:47am:



It certainly is, that's evident by what's being allowed to happen on our streets and in our Universities.

Awash with brainless supporters of terrorists and a rapid rise in anti-Jewish/Semitism across the country and the world.

It needs to be stamped out instead of down played by the countries leaders and our University Chancellors and board executives.

The idiots here should watch Josh Freydenbergs documentary "Never Again" ... The Fight Against Anti-Semitism.

Prominent Australians speaking out against the rise of anti-Semitism in Australia since Oct 7th ..
and the lack of action by our leaders in Govt and in our Universities.

Cancel the residency of those students who are supporting terror, throw them out of uni and let them experience diaspora themselves - and see how they feel then.

Tossed out without any chance of getting their degree - that'll shut 'em up.  I watch these clowns 'demonstrating' about things they clearly have no connection with or understanding of, and wonder WTF is wrong with their minds...  clearly they are not suited to be future 'professionals' of any kind.

There have to be some standards of common sense and even sanity, along with the balls from their 'leaders' to throw them out for doing evil and stupidity.

Shape up or ship out.....

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/moment-riot-police-run-into-palestine-suppo...


To destroy Country Joe and The Fish:-

"And it's one, two, three
Palestine will be free.
From the river to the sea
When no Hamas do we see....
And it's five, six, seven
Open up Allah's Gates
They won't have time to wonder why
They all gonna die!!"

Laugh till you cry wrote on May 29^th, 2024 at 7:06pm:


Exposed?  You're a little behind the times, aren't you?

One million 'palestinians' have taken advantage of Israel offering a road out of the fighting... meanwhile your buddies are still using civilians as shields.. at gunpoint in many cases.

If that's hate, bigotry - fine - go for it.... Islamistophobia?  I'm not afraid of them - I just want to be rid of them.  Decent Muslims are welcome, same as decent Blecks and everyone else... you just can't tell the difference, In-sh'Allah.

So on October 9 last year, as protesters made clear they would mass around the Sydney Opera House because it was to be illuminated in the colours of the Israeli flag – following the attacks by Hamas savages in which 1200 people were raped, burned alive, blown up, shot and decapitated – Sydney authorities knew what to expect. Violence was almost guaranteed.

Police must have considered some residents of Australia’s biggest city to be in mortal danger from this mob and urged Jews not to attend. In doing so, the NSW police were conceding they could not guarantee the safety of all taxpayers who funded them.

That is extraordinary, as was the decision to approve the protest – particularly after a rally in Lakemba the night before at which Sydney religious leader Sheik Ibrahim Dadoun, in a celebratory mood, declared: “I’m smiling and I’m happy. I’m elated, it’s a day of courage, it’s a day of pride, it’s a day of victory. This is the day we’ve been waiting for.”

The mob had been primed. The Opera House riot was inevitable. And what happened there – or, rather, what did not – was a green light for pro-Palestinian protesters across the country and has led directly to the firebombing and vandalising of MPs’ offices, attacks on Jews, and the illegal occupation at the University of Melbourne – perhaps the national headquarters of Jew-hating in Australia – and also the University of Sydney.

The Kristallnacht-like scenes along the streets of Woollahra in Sydney’s eastern suburbs last week, in which a car was torched and three buildings and nine other cars were spray-painted with the words “F..k Israel”, was in clear response to the feeble actions of federal and state governments and their police forces in applying the law to curb this anti-Semitic insurrection.

The march in solidarity with Hamas started at the Sydney Town Hall and proceeded to the Opera House, where illegal flares were let off, Palestinian flags were flown, illegal fireworks were discharged, Israeli flags were burned and illegal hate-speech chants of “F..k the Jews” and “Gas the Jews” were heard. It was OK to bring an Israeli flag – if you planned to set fire to it. A Jewish man who brought one along was arrested.

Australia’s internal enemies spotted our weakness immediately. A bewildered Albanese still cannot see that we are being subjected to a co-ordinated attack on the democracy we value and for which more than 100,000 Australians sacrificed their lives in the 20th century.

At one point, the Prime Minister said attacks on the offices of MPs do “nothing to advance” the course of democracy. That’s one way of seeing it. Others would view the attacks on MPs’ offices – Jewish Labor MP Josh Burns’s St Kilda office was firebombed – as more serious than that.

Also under fire were the electorate offices of Chris Bowen, Peter Khalil, Bill Shorten, the Jewish Mark Dreyfus, Lisa Chesters, Ged Kearney, Andrew Giles and Daniel Mulino. The Prime Minister’s Marrickville office was blockaded for months, but the activists gave it away soon after Australia agreed to reward Hamas by voting in favour of a UN resolution enabling more Palestinian participation there.

The attacks on the offices of those who maintain our democracy should have been seen for what they were – a national terror campaign to sway our nation’s thinking. A joint ASIO-Australian Federal Police squad should have been formed to pursue the criminals behind them.

Mark Le Grand, a Brisbane barrister and former federal deputy director of public prosecutions who was a member of the former National Crime Authority, agrees that the rot started at the Opera House when what should have been a moment of sacred reflection for the slain and kidnapped was turned into a jeering, hate-filled protest by barbarians shamefully shepherded to the venue by police.

“In the 13 months since, we have witnessed virtual carte blanche being given to the protesters to blockade our university campuses, our city streets (escorted by police), to attack Jewish businesses, to abuse Jewish citizens and to deface our public spaces including our war memorials,” he says.

He says

“Muslim preachers in western Sydney repeatedly call for the killing of the Jews on video recorded addresses and nothing is done. Our so-called racial vilification bodies sit idly by, refusing to discharge their statutory functions, monuments to hypocrisy and cowardice (if not blatant bigotry).”

Frank wrote on Dec 1^st, 2024 at 8:03am:





Shameful.        [i.e. without honour]


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Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.


"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman


The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from "Rediscovering Lost Values")
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- Martin Luther King Jr.



A LACK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS......IN A NATION......

Psalms 9:17
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

This seems more and more, like Australia [and many others].



Many people alive today, are 'atheists'.

Pity them.


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Love God.

Love God's righteousness.

Be at peace.