The Minster for Immigration, Peter Dutton has been heavily criticised for his comments that it was a mistake to admit Muslim Lebanese during the early seventies from war-torn Lebanon.
The state member for Lakemba and Shadow Minister of Education Jihad Dib commented ‘I am part of the so-called mistakes’.
Mr Dib arrived in Australia as a young child during the early 1970’s from war-torn Lebanon.
Mr Dutton’s exact words during an interview by Andrew Bolt, a right-wing columnist on Sky News were “Well clearly, Andrew, if there is a particular problem that people can point to within a certain community, if we’re talking about a significant number of people within that community who are doing the wrong thing, then clearly mistakes have been made in the past. And the reality is that Malcolm Fraser did make mistakes in bringing some people in the 1970s and we’re seeing that today. And we need to be honest in having that discussion.”
In effect he said that it was a mistake to bring in Lebanese Muslims in the 1970s, because over the course of three generations, 22 of them were charged with terrorist related offences.
Mr Jihad Dib, MP:
“I am part of the so-called mistakes”.
Mr Dib further added “I was bitterly disappointed by the Minister’s comments, but I was even more disappointed by the Prime Minister’s lack of leadership in not condemning what was said. Really it seemed he was quite supportive of what was being said.”
The Prime Minister, showing his utter weakness, although declined to endorse the comments, said that Dutton was “entitled” to reflect “on policies many years ago”.
The Lebanese Muslim Association released a statement condemning his remarks as racist and accusing him towards an immigration policy based on racial and religious profiling.
Many prominent second and third generation Lebanese Australians have condemned the blatantly racist remarks by Mr Peter Dutton.
Mr Dutton has failed to understand that there is no way to tell in advance if someone’s grandchildren will one day be charged with an offence, terrorism, drug dealing or murder.
Minister Dutton has presided over an immigrition system which sees refugees , the worlds most vulnerable and endangered humans, murdered, raped, assaulted, tortured and deliberately deprived of basic human rights. All in order to keep his unfit and undeserving party of bigots and haters in power. He and his fellow extremists on the so-called Liberal right have given oxygen to haters and bigots and are responsible for the resurgence of political parties like One Nation and its fellow travellers in the Senate. Not only should Dutton be sacked, if Malcolm Turnbull wants to retain any shred of integrity, he needs to purge his government of the other Dutton’s who sit on the benches behind him.
It is amazing how people are prepared to attack Peter for whatever he says. Whatever others say about anyone or anything is okay. If you guys can’t take it then stop giving it to others. He is only doing his job and is good at it too.
Dutton is the worst form of humanity. The abuse, of refugees under is control is well documented. He is unfit to be anywhere near government let alone a minister. I don’t call presiding over the torture, rape and murder of refugees ,(all well documented) and the criminalising of dissent against his crimes against humanity “doing his job well”. He and several members of his government belong before the courts charged with their crimes. Something that needs to be driven home to people that think this is acceptable is that these practices will not stop at refugees. The extreme right of the government will use the laws it has passed to “protect national security” to protect its hold on power and target ordinary decent Australians. What will Logessan do when Dutton’s blackshirts come for him?
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