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The Australian Human Rights Commission and religious freedom : Comments

By Laurence Maher, published 1/6/2015

The AHRC relies on the fact that s 18C is concerned with race and ethnicity, not religion. Simultaneously, it openly states that it is troubled by the fact that some people resort to a distinction between race and religion. Which is it to be?

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Freedom of speech (unless you speak Islamic hatred) is pretty well finished in Australia. We cannot expect freedom of speech from the socialists (Labor, Greens etc.) Because they do not believe such a luxury is an entitlement for anyone except themselves; they thoroughly lambast anyone who attempts to speak freely.

The real villian who has quashed freedom of speech is PM Tony Abbott, leader of a disintergrating party which used to champion freedom of speech. He promised to repeal Sec 18C, but backed down to appease people most opposed to freedom of speech - the people most threatening to us.

What a man, eh?
Posted by ttbn, Monday, 1 June 2015 9:55:05 AM
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And as good a reason as any to invoke a declaration of irrevocable human rights, which must include freedom of worship/assembly/speech, and enshrine them in an altered constitution, as a long overdue bill of rights.

And vastly more useful to our indigenous population; than merely recognizing them as the first Australians in the preamble!

Plenty of them folks living on Palm Island, eh?
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Monday, 1 June 2015 1:58:22 PM
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Why should the Islamic Fifth Column in the otherwise free world, and its message of hatred of people not stupid or evil enough to accept its calls for the physical punishment (including decapitation) of those it describes as infidels, apostates and blasphemers, be regarded more kindly than Lord Haw Haw, Tokyo Rose and local Fifth Columnists who were enemies of human liberty when their forces were at war with us? What's the difference between on the one hand Lord Haw Haw and Tokyo Rose and on the other hand and the likes of Sheikh Taj El-Din Hamid Hilaly (and those who have accepted him as their leader)? Why should those who travel to the Middle East and join ISIS to hack their betters' heads off and rape and enslave captive women be regarded any more kindly than other Fifth Columnists at any time in history?
Posted by EmperorJulian, Saturday, 6 June 2015 12:35:02 AM
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Rhrosty's post could be extended somewhat by calling for a much more important freedom than freedom of religion, namely freedom FROM it.

Section 116 of the Constitution of Australia precludes the Commonwealth of Australia (i.e., the federal parliament) from making laws for establishing any religion, imposing any religious observance, or prohibiting the free exercise of any religion.

It could be argued that the controversial clause 18C in Australian breaches Section 116 as it prohibits ridiculing of a religion that claims it is being insulted, and thereby requires the silence that legally establishes special rights for the religion to be free from expressions of hostility or contempt from which non-religious cults are not protected by law.
Posted by EmperorJulian, Saturday, 6 June 2015 1:38:49 AM
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