What the tea lady saw…
The “Mufti of Australia” (yes, the guy who telly school kids when they can wear casual clothes to school instead of a uniform) has released a statement “clarifying” his comments.
Interestingly enough, apparently it wasn’t he who filled his words with the context of violent crime and degrading attitudes toward innocent women - no, it was:
“some devious groups which lurk in the dark watching me, and who cannot tolerate the moderate, balanced way which I adopt to advocate for women’s issues [italics mine], national harmony and co-existence, and to hold fast to the love of our Australian home, to protect it from all forms of extreme thoughts and to reject all acts of violence and any act that breaches the rule of law.”
Hmmm… well, I tend to believe him, he is an Aussie after all - I mean, he has to be - he supports the Swans and no non-Aussie would even think twice about bothering to even pretend to enjoy AFL.
And because he is an Aussie, he must have “Australian Valuesâ„¢” which would surely preclude him from saying such “Un Australianâ„¢” things as he is alleged to have… just because he doesn’t drape himself in the flag like some other wonderful bastions of tolerance doesn’t mean that he is any less Aussie than the rest of us.
[if only I could find a jpg of that wonderful photo that they had of him on the front of The Australian some months ago... tsk]
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