Disrespecting Anzac Day becoming a national sport

ABC presenter and DFAT darling Yassmin Abdel-Magied has deleted an idiotic Anzac Day post that caused a minor social media storm. 

Yassmin Abdel-Magied (pictured with Waleed Aly, Susan Carland and Malcolm Turnbull at an Iftar dinner at Kirribilli House) has deleted a controversial Anzac Day post.

ABC presenter and DFAT darling Yassmin Abdel-Magied has deleted an idiotic Anzac Day post that caused a minor social media storm. 

Abdel-Magied who has proclaimed that Islam is "the most feminist religion" and then sought advice from the spokesman for anti-gay and anti-women group Hizb ut-Tahrir was spouting more nonsense today:

ABC presenter Yassmin Abdel-Magied has been forced to delete a social media post in which she suggested Australians should be thinking about Manus Island, Nauru, Syria and Palestine today instead of the Anzacs.

The 26-year-old took to Facebook this morning to write “Lest We Forget (Manus. Nauru. Syria. Palestine)", but deleted the post after being slammed by her followers.

She wasn't alone in seeking to politicise Anzac Day:

The Anzac Day dawn service at Adelaide’s War Memorial has been hijacked by an Aboriginal activist who was endorsed by the RSL to conduct a politicised version of Welcome to Country and recital of the 23rd Psalm.

Kaurna woman Katrina Ngaityalya Power changed the wording of the Welcome to Country to “stolen Kaurna land” and during the reading of the 23rd Psalm to include “Yea though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Invasion”.

Duncan Symons, who along with thousands of others attended the dawn service at the city’s war memorial for the traditional start to the annual commemorations, was outraged, saying the event was deliberately “misused for political messaging”.

“First, Australian citizens who were present had to submit to being ‘welcomed’ (in their own country) to ‘stolen Kaurna land’. Second, we had to listen to a culturally misappropriated, bastardised version of the 23rd Psalm,” Mr Symons said.

“Yet later the MC, without a trace of irony, made the point that Anzac Day should not be hijacked by those seeking to make a political point.

Note: the Anzac Day Committee knew and approved of Ms Power's actions. South Australia is fast becoming a lost cause. 

Meanwhile, in Sydney:

A self-styled “revolutionary warrior number one” who believes cannabis cures cancer was arrested after trying to disrupt the Anzac dawn service at the Cenotaph in Sydney’s Martin Place.

During a minute’s silence following the last post, those gathered at the service heard a man shout a number of anti-war slogan from the George Street end of Martin Place, chanting “stop the war, stop the war” during the commemorative silence.

Finally, can we please stop with the asinine comparisons between war and sport?  

I love football as much as the next Melburnian but comparing a game, no matter how hotly contested, to a battlefield where lives are lost is utterly absurd.