How our politicians have shamefully swept the revolting truth about Islam under the prayer mat

THERE was a time, earlier this century, when Malcolm Turnbull was the full bottle on the Muslim religion.

Like most intelligent and literate individuals, he was moved to explore Islam in the wake of the attack by Islamist terrorists on the World Trade Centre Towers and impressed me with his wide reading about the faith.

Like most intelligent and literate individuals, he was moved to explore Islam in the wake of the attack by Islamist terrorists on the World Trade Centre Towers and impressed me with his wide reading about the faith.

 But something has happened to that passionate scholar since.

 He seems to have forgotten ­almost everything he knew about Islam and the Koran.

 His utterances since he gave his big multicultural Ramadan hug to a host of leaders of the Muslim community, including the Grand Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohamed, the president of the Australian National Imams Council, Sheik Shady Alsuleiman, and TV presenter Waleed Aly, possibly the only television personality outside the ABC able to present a segment on last weekend’s Orlando nightclub massacre without mentioning the words “Islam” or “Muslim”, have done him no favours.

 He is as guilty of moral posturing, halo-polishing and airbrushing of reality as Labor’s Tony Burke and Jason Clare, who also hastened to have their photos taken with the shady sheik and evasive mufti during the Muslims’ holy month.

 The problem with all of these politicians is that they have bought the multicultural argument and it is palpably nonsense.

 All cultures are not equal.

 The Koran, which is the foundation of the Muslim culture, is in parts a most vile hate-filled document.

 Christians, Jews, Hindus and, yes, homosexuals, are all non-people.

 Their cultures are haram — forbidden.

 Homosexuals deserve death and the proper penalty for adulterous women is stoning while their male partners might escape with a decent lashing — this is the message of the Koran — and don’t tell me that Turnbull, Burke, Clare and for that matter, Liberal MP Craig Laundy, whose Sydney seat of Reid also has a large Muslim population, are not embarrassingly aware of those stated Koranic views.

 Or that they are, to Muslims, as are all nonbelievers, dhimmis, second-raters, lesser people obliged to pay a special tax if they are permitted to remain alive under ­Islamic rule.

 This is why the Koran should be at the heart of the conversation that has not been had in Australia or other Western nations, which have been bullied into accepting Islamic conventions by a rapidly growing Muslim minority.

 A handful of former Muslims and Muslims who wish to reform their religion just as Christianity met the challenges of the Reformation have called for this but have been forced to live under permanent protection.

 Non-Muslims who point out the obvious are called­ ­racists and Islamophobes, even by some members of the homosexual community who, in their muddled mindset, can’t bring themselves to confront the awful truth that the Muslim religion they believe they are protecting from their enemies on the religious Right teaches that death is the only proper penalty for homosexual acts.

 Last week, a day before Turnbull’s celebratory iftar dinner (no alcohol by special demand) was held, he promised to examine why Islamic cleric Farrokh Sekaleshfar, who has strenuously defended the death penalty for homosexuals, was not on a visa “watch list”.

 The British sheik fled Australia as Immigration Minister Peter Dutton moved to expel him for his noxious views after it was widely revealed that he had preached of homosexuality that “death is the sentence” and “there’s nothing to be embarrassed about this”.

 The Supreme Islamic Shia Council of Australia head Kamal Mousselmani, another invitee to the Kirribilli soiree, defended Sekaleshfar’s comments saying they were “his opinion”.

 “He (Sekaleshfar) said, in some places, in some governments they might be punished to death … it does not mean we agree with this,” Mousselmani said.

 “If my son for example would become gay I would not talk to him.

 This is my opinion, this is my right.” True, he can deal with his children how he chooses, as anyone may, but his views on God and sin come straight out of the Koran and he knows his book.

 There’s no mystery, it isn’t ­Islamophobic to report fact.

 The president of the Lebanese Muslim Association, Samier Dandan, told Melbourne broadcaster Neil Mitchell the same thing: ­Sekaleshfar’s comments represent the teachings of Islam.

 But when Mitchell quizzed Turnbull on whether he was aware that adulterers should be stoned to death, he had to play a recording of Sheik Shady saying “the punishment of zina (adultery), the punishment of those who commit zina, if they’ve never been married before they’ll be lashed 100 lashes and if they are married while they committed the zina or previously been married and divorced and they committed zina, then their punishment is stoning to death.

 So it’s not a small thing.

” It was apparently a revelation to our Prime Minister, despite his former study of the religion, and he rightly condemned the remarks as “completely and ­utterly unacceptable”.

 Turnbull is not alone in Australian politics in his reluctance to call out what most people see as Islam’s flaw — its core intolerance.