Andrew Bolt: Programs can’t fix hatred of Australia

Another Islamic State fan-boy, this one charged with planning attacks in Sydney, has emerged as a student of “deradicalisation”. But which children would give their heart to a country they’re told is so evil by Left-wing radicals, asks Andrew Bolt.

Fighters from ISIS. Picture: AP Photo/Militant Website, File

Ishaq Ul Matari, a 20-year-old Islamic State fan-boy, was sent to a deradicalisation course to stop him from hating us.

Hmm, yet another fail.

Ishaq Ul Matari was charged this week. Picture: Facebook

Matari still wound up being charged in Sydney this week with planning to attack some of our churches, courts and police stations.

And I wonder: are we really putting the right people through these courses?

See, two years ago, a 16-year-old from a Sydney Lebanese family pleaded guilty to planning an attack on one of Sydney’s Anzac Day ceremonies.

He, too, had gone through a deradicalisation program run by police who’d tried everything — psychologists, religious leaders, mentors and work placements.

But now the Morrison Government is bringing home the first eight of some 70 children of Islamic State fighters now stuck in refugee camps in Syria.

Should we really blame these programs for not turning around children who were carefully taught (by whom?) not to love Australia but hate everything it stands for?

“(Islamic State) brainwashed and brutalised children by schooling them to perceive Western values as evil ...,”a telling passage in a New York Times article said.

Wait. Is that one of the dangers? People of authority brainwashing children into thinking Western values are evil? Australia is evil?

In that case, load up the buses for the deradicalisation camps for all the alienated academics, journalists, activists and politicians who have for years preached just that.

Listen to them even now.

Hear a history professor on our ABC falsely claim, like so many of his kind, that Australia is a country of “genocide”, “killing fields” and “white Australians [who] envisaged a black-free population only a few generations ago”.

Hear our politicians apologise for a grotesque national crime — the “stealing” of Aboriginal children by racist officials — even though not one court or person can identify even 10 children stolen just for racist reasons.

Hear a novelist cheered on our ABC as she insists “the White Australia policy is embedded in our institutions, practices, the material and historical conditions upon which this country has been founded”.

Hear an Australian Human Rights Commission “Anti-Racism Champion”, a Muslim activist, claim that even our security agencies are rotten with “structural racism”.

Hear staff and students at two of our top universities — Sydney and the ANU — denounce the teaching of Western civilisation as “racist”, as the National Tertiary Education Union sneers at “the alleged superiority of Western culture and civilisation”.

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See local councils refuse to celebrate Australia Day, and see government buildings now fly three flags — not just the Australian one, but those of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders — to signify this country is torn by race, and white settlement is illegitimate.

Now ask yourselves: which children of a proudly tribal immigrant enclave, heeding such institutional radicals, would give their heart to a country they’re told is so evil?

Wouldn’t they think Australia contemptible? Even deserving destruction?

And what must such children think of violence, when they see its use increasingly legitimised by the Left?

Again, look around. See the violent protests against so many conservatives, libertarians and Right-wingers — Cory Bernardi, Milo Yiannopoulos, Lauren Southern, the Australian Christian Lobby, Geert Wilders, Bettina Arndt, Tony Abbott, Sophie Mirabella and Christian students at Sydney University.

And notice what Victoria Police did? It proved such violence works, by charging two of the victims — Yiannopoulos and Southern — protection money to keep them safe.

So load them all up! Off to the deradicalisation course for them all! (Note to the woke: irony
alert!)

If those courses are good enough for children, they’re also good enough for the adults whispering such dangerous hatred in their sensitive ears.