IF / THEN
IF …
A Sydney Mayor has backed Muslims holding memorial services for the ‘martyred’ Ayatollah because ‘it’s a free country’ …
THEN …
The irony is thick with this one.
Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun wants to leverage our freedoms to celebrate a radical Islamist whose entire life was spent denying people their freedom.
And he takes advantage of our country that gave people refuge from the Ayatollah, to celebrate the Ayatollah.
Ned Mannoun – who is a Liberal Mayor – told journalists …
“I don’t think it’s anyone’s job to say who can mourn, (the Ayatollah) was a religious leader for tens of millions of people all around the world. If they have broken a law please tell me which one.”
Support for a terrorist leader comes to mind. That’s just off the top of my head.
And Mannoun is right that politicians can’t tell people who they can and can’t mourn. But that doesn’t mean they have to provide ratepayer owned facilities for the mourning … as the Liverpool Council is doing.
Mannoun then played the victim card …
“Chris Minns has a fetish with attacking the Islamic community. He did not apologise for one of his police officers grabbing and throwing people praying on the ground at the Town Hall protest, and that is what I think is atrocious.”
What that has to do with Mannoun’s decision to help facilitate people in Liverpool who want to lionise the leader of a nation that staged terror attacks in this country is beyond me.
But he continued …
“There are millions of Iranian Australians who are in severe shock and who are mourning … there are also millions of Iranian Australians celebrating, that’s the nature of free societies.”
Small point – how many millions of Iranians does Mayor Mannoun believe are in Australia?
IF …
the Iranian regime has fired missiles and drones into 10 different Arab nations …
THEN …
they have attacked more Muslim countries in the past three days than Israel has in its entire existence.
IF …
you’re lucky enough to be promoted into a leadership position within the Iranian regime right now …
THEN …
you should try to make your mark within the first 3 hours of taking on the new role, because that’s about all the time you have.
I loved this exchange earlier today …
Reporter: “Who takes over now that the supreme leader is dead?”
President Trump: “I don’t know… I guess the position’s open. I’m creating jobs in Iran too.
IF …
you want to know whether the Albanese Government will withdraw government funding from Islamic organisations that hold memorial services for the Ayatollah …
THEN …
don’t ask them, because you’ll be none the wiser.
In the past 24 hours the PM, the Foreign Minister and the Treasurer have all avoided answering the question.
Example … Penny Wong’s response, when asked point blank on Sky News today was …
“I would be disappointed that people would want to do that.”
Right.
IF …
you want to understand just how far removed from reality the Left really are …
THEN …
listen to the way that all of them - from the ABC to Greens Senators (which pretty much encapsulates the Left) - bang on about Trump’s “illegal war”.
Illegal according to whom? António Guterres?
To which international cop are Lefties appealing?
The so-called rules based order that Lefties accuse Trump of trashing was never anything more than a mirage.
And when people talk about the international community it reminds me of those who talk about the LGBTQIA2S+ community … it’s a fiction. No such ‘community’ exists.
IF …
diversity is our strength …
THEN …
I suppose warnings that Iran have sleeper agents positioned in Western countries ready to assassinate public officials and activists in retaliation for the Ayatollah’s killing are something we should … celebrate?
IF …
Donald Trump has told The Sun newspaper that the US relationship with England is “not like it used to be” …
THEN …
would he not say exactly the same about the relationship with Australia? Our government received no warning that the US was about to strike Iran … despite the fact we are members of the Five Eyes.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is a weak leader. First he denied the US access to British bases from which they could launch an attack on Iran. But he has since changed his mind after Iran bombed a British airbase in Cyprus.
Starmer moans about whether or not Trump’s actions are ‘legal’ while enthusing that the Iranian regime has been weakened while assuring the British public that he had nothing to do with it.
He’s all over the place and typifies all that Trump despises in current Western leadership.
As for Albo …
Nannoun can mourn for that nasty old prick but he prefers to live in Australia, rather than in Iran. He can admire from a distance in safety.
Great call-outs James. I’m so over these Muslim mayors setting different benchmarks for Islamists: as if their support for warmongering, despotic, radical theocrats is acceptable in our society!
Khomeini may be no longer but his caliphate continues in western democratic societies like our own.
We need be vigilant; we owe it to our future generations.