
Oh dear, this blog seems to be turning into a right-wing beardo-arab-hating corner of Western imperial decadence... One
could be accused of being a tad racist/xenophobic/beardophobic - but if the first person accusing me of racism can prove that
they have never been racist, I'll take it on board. Let me tell you a story...
Back in the 70's when a young Captain was growing up in suburban Kogarah, a new family moved in across the road. They seemed a bit strange at first, but before too long my brother and I were good friends with Samir, his two sisters and their mum and dad. We'd spend many years back and forth at each other's houses, riding bikes and trying to clock Donkey Kong on the C64. As we got to know their parents better they told us about the civil war in Lebanon and how they ended up being refugees, how the Australian government had allowed them citizenship in this great country, sponsored their housing, sending their children to school and had even helped the father get a job at a car parts factory in the area (he had worked for Mercedes back home).
Neither me, my brother or my family gave a fuck if they were of the Muslim faith. Not that we really would have understood what that meant anyway. They were just like any other family, doing their best with what they had. Sure, they seemed to have lots of loud arguments which at the time were due to the parents' strictness over the daughter's activities - but to us reserved Anglo types this just appeared to be some level of drama queenedness which at the time seemed kind of endearing. They carried on like a pork chop sometimes, but we would laugh at it like it was some sort of pantomime for the benefit of our entertainment. They were silly, harmless.
This has stayed with me and remained my default setting in opinion for Lebanese people I have known directly.
So yesterday, call me cynical, but just in time for Australia Day, the meedja
releases some 2003 footage of another 'self styled' cleric preaching to a clearly enlightened audience of fashionably attired fuckwits that
it's ok to hit your wife, and that demanding sex from her is not rape, even if she wants nothing to do with your smelly beard.
Let's face it, rape is committed by people of all races. It's just that when it comes to pack rape in Australia it seems that the Lebanese community has the market cornered. Why is this so? If it's a case of the easily led being led by stoneage thinking fuckwits like this cleric, it's time they were removed from this country and the generous welfare that it provides to him, his Islamic Centre, and his family. Why should law abiding taxpayers foot the bill for so many of these ungrateful assholes who openly criticize our way of life? You know, the way of life which provides for you while you sit on your arse and coerse others to come to hate the people who gave you refuge from your shitty homeland. Western eyes look upon you and see you for the insecure unenlightened and scared children that you really are.
My thoughts go out to the repressed and abused Muslim women who suffer these assholes every day and have no chance to express themselves.

Tankard rating: One atomic tankard
Pull your heads in or fuck off home. They probably didn't like you there either. Gaaaaaarn.