Peta Credlin: If you want a new life here then leave your old hostilities behind

We regard religious violence and political terrorism as almost unthinkable in Australia but that won’t remain the case if we keep importing hatred from overseas, writes Peta Credlin.

In the past week, according to a report in The Free Press, the new Syrian government’s security forces have killed more than 1200 civilians, mostly members of the Alawite community. Before that, it was slaughter of Christians.

Why is there endless coverage of the civilian deaths in Gaza, as part of Israel’s just war against a terrorist group; but almost nothing about the ethnic cleansing of Christian and other minorities in the Middle East?

Multiculturalism was harmless enough when it meant more ethnic restaurants, festivals and art house movies on SBS. But now that it means poorly integrated migrant communities leading endless marches demanding that Palestine be free “from the river to the sea” – in other words a new Holocaust for Jews – it’s plainly outlived its use-by date.

Smoke wafts after recent clashes between Assad loyalists and the new Syrian government in Baniyas, Syria. Hundreds of people have been killed in clashes between loyalists of the deposed Assad regime and forces of the country's new rulers. Picture: Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images

Syrian forces deployed in the coastal city of Tartus. Picture: Syrian Arab News Agency /AFP

Showering taxpayer grants on ethnic activists who never call out anti-Semitism but are always complaining about an all-but-non-existent Islamophobia just divides Australia.

Likewise, the local leaders eager to proclaim that Islam is a religion of peace but only too happy to find fault with our society’s Judaeo-Christian ethic.

Have you noticed how many MPs and local councils have recognised Ramadan but had nothing to say about Lent or Passover?

We regard religious violence and political terrorism as almost unthinkable in Australia but that won’t remain the case if we keep importing hatred from overseas.

It is time for governments to choose migrants based on their willingness to embrace our values before it is too late.

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Originally published as Peta Credlin: If you want a new life here then leave your old hostilities behind