Interview with Alan Jones on 2GB
on 5 July on Islamic Extremism
Transcript of 2GB Radio Broadcast, 5 July 2010
Alan Jones - Des Moore
Full broadcast transcript as downloadable PDF
ALAN JONES: Julia Gillard at the weekend made great play of the fact that she wasn't politically correct and people weren't racist simply because they took strong views on boat people. Mind you, it's getting difficult to know which of these views is Julia Gillard's real view because only last week she had a different view on the mining tax and that's now gone 180 degrees. Now we're told she's got a different view entirely on boat people from the view that she rubber stamped when Kevin Rudd was leader ‑ I'll have a look at that after 7.30. She's calling it Labour's “Heartened Policy”.
But back to this politically correct business. If Julia Gillard is not politically correct, and she is the national leader, what would she say, and what should she say, about the hundreds of Islamic activists assembled in Sydney last weekend for a convention being held by the controversial Islamist group, Hizb ut‑Tahrir? Now their members flew from Britain for the conference here in Sydney and we're told it was part of a series of events being held around the world as the group steps up its campaign for the formation of a transnational Islamic state. The theme of the conference was: “The Struggle for Islam in the West”. And it was aimed at countering rising hostility to "all things Islamic in the Western world". An Australian spokesman for this mob said that in Australia and America and Britain "we see constant attacks on Islam, its values, practices and symbols." Well, I wonder why.
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Des Moore, a life member of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and Director of the Australian Institute for Private Enterprise, wrote recently about this Islamist threat to Australian security, highlighting the 77 page judgement on February 15 in the New South Wales Supreme Court where Mr Justice Anthony Whealy sentenced five men to maximum prison terms of between 17 and 28 years for conspiring to prepare for a terrorist attack.
What do we make of all of this, given that people are frightened to speak out? Des Moore's on the line. Des Moore, good morning.
DES MOORE: Good morning, Alan.
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