Piers Akerman: Using the law to make war on our peaceful way of life

Police in NSW and Victoria have let vile anti-Semites run their own agenda, writes Piers Akerman.

More than 240 hostages are still being held by Hamas in unimaginable conditions within the labyrinth of tunnels under what remains of Gaza.

Their merciless captors couldn’t care less whether they live or die, any more than they care whether civilians remaining in the Hamas-controlled territory survive. Hamas, the leaders of which are living the high life in Qatar, Lebanon, and other capitals in the region, welcomes images of dead and wounded knowing they garner support from gormless Westerners and help turn opinion against Israel.

Israel is fighting to free the hostages and for an end to Hamas, which barbarously murdered 1200 people. To any rational person the end of this terrorist gang and the safe return of the kidnapped would be legitimate goals but apparently not to some demented radical clerics in the western suburbs of Sydney, who are exhorting their deranged followers to embrace jihad and martyrdom.

Not all Muslims are followers of this death cult but all members of the death cult are Muslim. It certainly wasn’t multiculturalism that attracted millions from Europe and now and ever-increasingly Asia to settle here. It was the hope that Australia would provide security and liberty for them and their children that lured them.

Italians and Greeks, who endured racial slurs for a generation, and the Vietnamese, who despite the open hostility from Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam and elements of the Labor Party, survived and thrived to become valuable citizens. But there are those – almost exclusively from theMiddle East – who have rejected values all other migrants have embraced, whilst using our laws to successfully fight against our way of life.

In June 2022, the High Court restored the Australian citizenship of Turkish citizen Delil Alexander, who was assessed as having joined Islamic State. The court found powers to strip citizenship gave the minister a role in adjudging and punishing criminal guiltthat should be reserved for courts.

On Wednesday, the High Court overturned a previous ruling that would have kept in jail an illegal Rohingya refugee, who can be known only as NZYQ, convicted of raping a 10-year-old boy. NZYQ must be released on the grounds his indefinite immigration detention was unlawful but no other nation wants him.

Civil rights lawyers said the ruling would force the release of 92 other non-citizens being held in detention who cannot be deported to their home countries. The previous week, the High Court ruled against the stripping of convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika’s Australian citizenship, which means he could be released in the next eight weeks.

We are now stuck with a pedophile and a terrorist – and we don’t know what views are held by the others now to be released because of these precedents. No mention of the civil rights of Australians who want to live lives free of terror or children free from the threat of pedophiles.

Even the most sheltered Australians may be aware that a mob of pro-Palestinian protesters, after the October 7 atrocity, chanted “Gas the Jews” and that a group of men in Melbourne were reported saying they were “on the hunt to kill Jews”, and perhaps realise that a peaceable community within our society is under attack. Despite this, there are those who tear down of posters showing pictures of the missing, giving their tacit support to the most evil people on the planet.

They must have forgotten we had our own terrorist tragedy almost exactly nine years ago, when Iranian-born Man Haron Monis took hostages at the Lindt Café in Martin Place, sparking a 17-hour siege that resulted in the death of Monis and two of his captives. Police in NSW and Victoria have let vile anti-Semites run their own agenda. Recent decisions by federal, state governments and High Court, would suggest they have fatally short memories.