Threat From Enemy Within Makes Anti-Terrorism Laws Indispensable
7th February 2012
In his address to the Sydney Institute on January 24, the director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, David Irvine, pointed out that ”of the 38 people prosecuted for terrorism-related offences in Australia, 37 were Australian citizens and 34 were either born here or lived here since childhood”. Clearly home-grown terrorism is a threat in Australia.
Well, unfortunately, ‘home-grown terrorism’ is a concept only valid if one accepts the silly utopian modern notion that if, for example, one is born and raised in Australia, one is necessarily ‘an Australian’ in every sense of the term. This is ludicrous with respect to anyone brought up outside the mainstream culture of the country, and especially ludicrous in the case of Muslims, whose first allegiance is to the Umma of all Believers, and maybe (or maybe not) to whatever country they happen to be living it for the time being — a fact that Britain and the Scandinavian countries are having their noses rubbed in at this very moment.