Andrew Bolt: Smear on Senator Jim Molan surely a new low
THIS smearing of former Major General Jim Molan shows a sickness in Labor, the media Left and especially the Greens, writes Andrew Bolt.
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THIS smearing of former Major General Jim Molan shows a sickness in Labor, the media Left and especially the Greens.
Molan is being vilified as a “racist” and even war criminal in one of the worst examples of how we now conduct political debate — not with reason but abuse.\
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Molan on Monday was sworn in as our newest Senator, replacing former Coalition minister Fiona Nash. He’s been a great servant of Australia. As a soldier, he was so admired by US commanders that he was made chief of operations of all allied forces in Iraq, where he helped to crush the al-Qaeda-backed Sunni uprising, saving the lives of Muslim civilians.
Back home, Molan helped to design Operation Sovereign Borders for the Abbott government — the boat-turnbacks that finally stopped thousands of illegal immigrants from coming by sea and hundreds from drowning. But that made Molan the enemy of the Left. The instant he became a Senator, they struck.
Greens Senator Nick McKim called Molan “a blatant racist who … revels in trampling rights and freedoms” and Labor Senator Doug Cameron accused him of pushing “a racist, bigoted, divisive approach”.
So what was their excuse? Well, last year Molan — then a private citizen — posted two videos on his Facebook page allegedly showing violence by Muslims in France and Holland. In one, two teenagers punch a Dutch girl in the face and kick her when she falls. In another, a mob in Paris attacks police.
Molan’s critics protest that both videos were promoted by Britain First, but what counts most should be what these videos show, not who then shows it, because the truth is the truth even if a liar repeats it.
Aha! says the ABC. These videos don’t show the truth at all! ABC presenter Fran Kelly said they’d been “discredited” — a claim repeated by the Sydney Morning Herald, which added they were perhaps “not real”.
The Guardian said they’d been “debunked” and Labor MP Stephen Jones said they told “fake stories”.
False. Molan’s two videos show real events that illustrate a real problem — the dangerous failure of Muslim immigrant communities in Europe to integrate well. The attack on the Dutch girl did happen — in September 2014. Her attackers were sentenced to community service.
Some of Molan’s critics say there’s no evidence that Islam had anything to do with this attack, but the thugs are identifiably from an immigrant community, almost certainly Muslim and probably Moroccan. Moreover, the crime rate among young Dutchmen of Moroccan background is worryingly high — more than four times the average, according to University of Osnabruk researchers.
Molan’s other video is just as real. It shows men — many clearly of Middle Eastern or African descent — attacking police during a riot in Sarcelles, a district with a big Muslim community. Twice you hear the cry “Allahu Akbar” — Allah is the greatest. This riot started as a pro-Palestinian rally and ended with attacks on a synagogue and kosher deli, leading the French Prime Minister to condemn it as “anti-Semitic”.
So, Molan’s real sin is not that his videos are “discredited”, “fake”, “debunked” and “not real”. It’s the opposite: he showed a truth the Left wants hidden.
Yet Molan had one more disgusting insult to endure.
Greens leader Richard di Natale on Tuesday suggested he was also a war criminal, having been chief of operation of all allied forces in Iraq when Fallujah was recaptured from Sunni insurgents backed by al-Qaeda.
“At the time of the assault on Fallujah, under the command of now Senator Molan, a UN special rapporteur said that coalition forces used hunger and deprivation of water as a weapon against a civilian population, a flagrant violation of international law,” claimed Di Natale.
How low can the Greens go? And what hypocrites. Di Natale’s source is even worse than Britain First. That “UN special rapporteur” is Swiss academic Jean Ziegler, a radical who once claimed genocidal Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe had “history and morality with him”.
Ziegler not only helped launch the “Moammar Gaddafi Prize on Human Rights” in honour of the Libyan dictator, but won it along with Castro, French Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy and the “Stone Throwing Children of Occupied Palestine”.
He also proclaimed “total support for the Cuban revolution” and defended the Hezbollah terrorist organisation as a “national resistance movement”, while calling the US an “imperialist dictatorship”.
Small wonder his accusations of coalition war crimes were denied by the US.
Yet the Greens take the word of this apologist for dictators to trash Jim Molan. Isn’t politics today vile?
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