Is Mise: " many Australians have fought since 1945 to defend the freedoms that we enjoy."

Where, against whom and for whom? Strike out wars for British or Yank colonialism. Strike out wars to topple secular, anti-theocratic regimes and open the way to Islamic State or the Taliban.

The war that fully fits Is Mise's definition is the 1939-1945 war against the Huns. The war against the Japs was direct defence of Australia. The war of 1914-1918 was a mixed bag, and the failed invasion of Gallipoli was a war to protect British geostrategic aims in the region, not to defend freedoms that we enjoy and not to defeat the Huns who started the war by invading Belgium.

Does anyone here know if the Sheila that made those offensive comments turned up for work last Saturday? Or is she still in hiding?

She should not be too fearful of much criticism at the ABC. I see only a few have came out in support of her and none of them get any respect. Should start a book on when she will stick her head up again. Might remain buried in poo, that would be justice.

Just to get back to what Ms Abdul-Magied wrote, why did she have a go at Australia for involvement in Syria ? What have Australian governments done that might have got up her nose about Syria ?

Any pseudo-left rat-bag might have a go at Australia for something to do with Nauru, Manus or Palestine, but why Syria ? As far as I can tell, the only Australian military involvement in Syria is in support of the efforts of democratic forces, Syrian government forces and the Kurdish SPB/SPJ against ISIS in north-eastern Syria, mainly in the encirclement of Raqqa, its de facto capital.

Is that it ? Is that what she has been ordered by Hizb-ut-Tarir to complain about ?

Joe

Foxy, "Her opinions are her own. And she did make them on her own Facebook - not on the ABC. There is a difference"

For much needed balance after reading that, a reminder that Yassmin Abdel-Magied's apologists neglect to mention this and any bearing it might have on her various roles,

"Yassmin Abdel-Magied asked a hardline Islamist group for advice after Q&A
She spoke with Hizb ut-Tahrir's spokesman Wassim Doureihi on Facebook"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4240714/Q-Muslim-Yassmin-Abdel-Magied-Islamic-Hizb-ut-tahrir.html

Noting too that such is the fierceness of the politically correct censorship in Australia that one has to go to the UK media for a report that pulls the threads together and poses the obvious questions.

Some here might be reminded of the obnoxious standover man, Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Wassim Doureihi, is the very same lout who dodged every question asked by Emma Alberichi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvjudQmPSWg

On OLO there is always plenty of dodging where Islamic accountability is concerned and the same tactics and rationalisations employed by Wassim Doureihi too.

One should heed what leoj has written - it's incontrovertible and leaves no wiggle room for appeasers.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a shill for Islam, she lied on Q&A that Sharia was "feminist" and blindsided Jacqui Lambie who I hope has done the necessary homework since.

Loudmouth:

"they do have a very strong sense of 'honour' and 'shame'. I'm intrigued to know if this applied to the war-time Japanese."

Surprisingly, although the Japs were a mob of mongrels that deserved both nukes, I recall two incidents that showed rare honour among them.

1. Heard in radio talk between Jap pilots north of WA where Dutch refugees were fleeing from NEI in life boats, the pilots were ordered to machine-gun them and they refused, declaring "we're warriors, not executioners".

2. There was much ado about the Japs sinking a hospital ship in Darwin, but not about the Jap broadcasts for many days calling on the Allies to get their warships away from the hospital ship.

How do I know? I was a teenager with links to journos and heard a lot of the scuttlebutt.