Saudi Arabia: Australia is “racist,” Muslims there face “horrific violations of human rights”
“Saudi Arabia has launched an extraordinary attack on Australia, deeming our government ‘racist’ for ‘sympathising’ with the Christchurch mosque killer. Abdulaziz Alwasil, Riyadh’s ambassador to the United Nations, accused the Government of supporting anti-Islamic terrorists.”
The attack came after Australia’s Ambassador to the UN, Sally Mansfield, delivered a joint statement on behalf of 25 countries, decrying the Kingdom’s human rights record at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.” The statement was met with hostility. In response, Alwasil singled out Australia “as a nation where xenophobia and racism against Muslims had garnered government support.”
Alwasail continued on to accuse “some” Western countries of “radicalism against Muslims,” and cited the “Australian background of the suspect beyond the Christchurch terror attacks on two mosques earlier this year.”
But Abdulaziz Alwasil did not tell the rest of the story. A New Zealand News Hub report — Christchurch mosque linked to al-Qaida suspect — revealed in 2014 that the al Noor mosque had al-Qaeda connections. The reported stated:
A Christchurch mosque has been linked to the drone killing of New Zealand al-Qaida suspect Daryl Jones. The parents of an Australian killed alongside Jones say their son was taught radical Islam in Christchurch, where he also met Mr Jones. Christopher Havard was killed alongside Mr Jones by a US drone in Yemen” in 2013. His parents, Neill and Bronwyn Dowrick, say their son told them he was first taught radical Islam at the Al Noor mosque in Addington.
This is no justification for the Christchurch attack, but it does show that Alwasil’s picture of innocent Muslims victimized by “Islamophobes” is simplistic and inaccurate. While the Saudi Ambassador accuses Australia and other Western governments of violating Muslims’ human rights, another News Hub article reported:
A list of Designated Terrorist Entities, published by New Zealand police a week after the Christchurch terror attacks, is almost exclusively populated by Al Qaeda and Islamic State-linked individuals and organisations. Not one right-wing extremist or white supremacist is included on the list….The United Nations’ register of terrorists includes 1962 people and 455 groups, and means if anyone on the list enters the country, they would be arrested under the Terrorism Suppression Act.
Jihad terror is a global threat, but violent jihadists are sheltered by stealth jihadists, who scream “racism” when their acts are called out. Also, Sharia-adherent countries have been conditioning Western countries to view as abhorrent any comments about Islam that they consider offensive. Due to this persistent pressure from Islamic States (and individuals) upon Western states to conform to their Islamic supremacist mores, it has become taboo to even mention the 2014 News Hub report about Al Noor mosque. Most of the mainstream media would rather avoid being called “xenophobic,” “racist,” and “Islamophobic,” which is the primary psychological weapon employed by Islamic supremacists to beat down Western critics of Islam.
Meanwhile, infidels are routinely being slaughtered by jihadists in the name of Islam, while gross human rights abuses continue in Saudi Arabia and in other Sharia-adherent states. Sally Manfield’s statement in effect cornered Saudi Ambassador Alwasil, who managed to deflect the embarrassment of being in the spotlight by resorting to the Islamic supremacist default button of victimology. Rather than address Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses, he escaped the spotlight by the tired old tactic that Westerners continuously fall for: he screamed “racism,” “xenophobia,” and the absurd accusation of “radicalism against Muslims.”
“Saudi Arabia’s extraordinary attack on Australia,” by Gavin Fernando, News.com.au, September 27, 2019:
Saudi Arabia has launched an extraordinary attack on Australia, deeming our government “racist” for “sympathising” with the Christchurch mosque killer.Abdulaziz Alwasil, Riyadh’s ambassador to the United Nations, accused the Government of supporting anti-Islamic terrorists.He said minorities, migrants and Muslims faced “horrific violations of human rights” and “racist and extremist policies”.“Unfortunately, these have become popular and even accepted by some Western parliaments, they are even sponsored by certain governments,” Mr Alwasil said.The United Nations’ register of terrorists includes 1962 people and 455 groups, and means if anyone on the list enters the country, they would be arrested under the Terrorism Suppression Act.He condemned a speech by Australia’s ambassador to the UN, Sally Mansfield, decrying the kingdom’s human rights record as ill-informed.“We have listened with great surprise to the statement of Australia on behalf of a group of states. In it, there are many mistakes and misleading information against my country. The kingdom continues its reform policies in accordance with its values and Islamic teachings, especially with regards to the rights of women.”Australia led a coalition of countries condemning the Saudis over a series of human rights abuses, including arbitrary detention, torture and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.Ms Mansfield, delivered a statement on behalf of 24 nations expressing her “deep concern” at the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia….
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