Populate and perish? At last Australia stands up to those migrants we just don’t need

The Australian citizenship pledge is unequivocal:

From this time forward, I pledge my loyalty to Australia and its people, whose democratic beliefs I share, whose rights and liberties I respect, and whose laws I will uphold and obey.

The Algerian Abdul Nacer Benbrika uttered those words on becoming an Australian citizen. He lied, of course. SBS, Wednesday:

Australia’s first convicted terrorist leader was jailed for a maximum of 15 years in 2009. The self-proclaimed Islamic cleric has been behind bars since his 2005 arrest over plots to attack Melbourne landmarks, including one to blow up the MCG on AFL grand final day that year. He also said his group of followers needed to kill at least 1000 non-believers to make the Australian government withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Victorian Supreme Court justice Bernard Bongiorno sentencing Benbrika and his gang on February 3, 2009:

The term jihad is used, particularly by Benbrika, in many of the intercepted conversations. Although it is an Arabic word which translates literally as struggle, it has acquired many different meanings in Islam, as Samir Mohtadi explained in his evidence. Many of those meanings are benign.

And some are not so benign. Bongiorno continues:

However, it also means a violent struggle against the enemies of Islam: the kuffar. This was the meaning which Benbrika attributed to it, and he claimed that it was the only meaning of jihad authorised by the Koran.

Benbrika during his trial explained his position. Supreme Court of Victoria transcript, 2009:

I don’t believe in this country. I don’t believe in this law. Which all this believe, no Allah but Allah, no Allah no other law of.

Out to kill. Melbourne newspaper the Herald Sun, November 21, 2011:

(Benbrika’s) team was settled on just one thing: as many Australians, men, women, children — it didn’t matter — should die for the greatness of their god as they could muster. It was quantity of murder they sought, not quality. If some Muslims were inadvertently caught up in their firestorm, well, they might have to divvy up the post-mortem virgins between them.

Herald Sun, November 11, 2011:

For too long we’ve been kind to criminal migrants. It’s time to revoke their citizenship and return them to their miserable lands, starting with Abdul Benbrika … Should we worry about Benbrika’s seven children? No. Should we worry about his naturalised Australian wife? No. Let’s just worry about us.

Peter Dutton was listening. ABC, Wednesday:

The federal government has cancelled the citizenship of Abdul Nacer Benbrika, one of Australia’s most notorious terrorists, ahead of his expected release from a Victorian prison. Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton confirmed the government had now revoked Benbrika’s Australian citizenship. “I cancelled the Australian citizenship of convicted terrorist Benbrika, (making him) the first individual to have lost citizenship onshore,” he said.

And he received special treatment. The Australian, Wednesday:

The government amended the citizenship cessation bill on September 3 to apply to Australian citizens convicted of terrorism acts from May 2003. The act previously applied to acts committed after December 2015.