Andrew Bolt's Blog, page 37

The media Left must stop defending the violent Islamist Right

How much longer will the media Left keep up this lethally stupid denialism? From the Guardian, reporting on the Nice massacre:

An awful truth dawns: this is not some soldier in an Islamic army, just a man with a 19-ton truck who drank and had no interest in religion...

Completely false, of course.

Bernard Cazeneuve, the French interior minister, said the attacker “appears to have become radicalised very quickly”, as one neighbour of his estranged wife...

Column - Close our border against this danger

WHY have jihadist terrorists made France Europe’s bloodiest battlefield?

Simple answer: Because France let in the most Muslims.

This link between immigration policies and terrorism largely explains why the French are the greatest victims of Europe’s jihadists.

It also explains why we are fools not to change our own immigration policies to protect ourselves.

No European Union country has a higher proportion of Muslims than France — up to 10 per cent...

Home invasions matter

Yes, black lives matter - and so do these crimes. Who let in these refugee families?

POLICE are on the hunt for a gang of armed burglars terrorising families in their homes in Hillside and Burnside.

Melton Police Criminal Investigation Unit Detective Senior Sergeant Barry Jenks said the group of up to seven men, of African appearance, were responsible for at least two home invasions early Saturday morning.

Operating in a similar way to the notorious Apex...

Giving the media’s pet activists the microphone

Chris Mitchell, former editor-in-chief of The Australian, says the media should be tougher in asking the question: “Why is this a story?”:

The rise of single issue lobby groups and their increasing influence on politics and the media makes this question more important now than ever…

Are we publishing these views because we personally support them and think they might improve the lives of our readers and listeners? Or are we just too lazy to generate our...

Sharper than a terrorist’s knife is a little teasing of Jonathan Green

As I said yesterday:

How curious. Islamists can massacre people at a concert, fly passenger jets into tall buildings, blow up drinkers at a Bali bar and mow down sightseers watching the fireworks by a beach, yet ABC presenter Jonathan Green can still maintain his faith in our “cultured reason. Our tolerance. Our audacious confidence in the fundamental goodness of others.”

Only one thing can make Green flinch in his audacious confidence. Being teased as a...

Three more dead in war on police

We don’t know the motive yet, but the demonisation of police must surely now end:

A gunman killed three police officers and wounded three others in Louisiana’s capital on Sunday, just days after the fatal shooting of a black man there sparked nationwide protests, one of which led to the massacre of five Dallas policemen.

The officers in Baton Rouge were responding to a call of a man carrying a gun when shots were fired at around 9 a.m. local time (10.00...

Turkey: Islamists may now rule

The failure of the putsch could encourage something worse:

With a roar, hundreds of men shouting “Allahu Akbar!” poured into the centre of [Istanbul’s] Taksim Square…

It was 2am Saturday and the military coup against Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was already falling apart....

The mob, like others in cities across Turkey, had responded to a call by the President to take to the streets to defeat a faction in the armed forces that had announced...

How could Julie Bishop consider Rudd for even a second?

Will Julie Bishop choose self-interest about national interest?

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has asked the government to nominate him for the position of United Nations secretary-general…

Ms Bishop told Sky News she will put the matter to cabinet.

‘Kevin Rudd has requested that the Australian government nominate him, and as the prime minister has indicated on a number of occasions that will be a matter for the cabinet,’ she said.

Rudd should have...

Did Turnbull buy this election with $2 million of his own cash?

It seems Turnbull dug in deep to save himself when Liberal donors went on strike against him. Pamela Williams:

The Australian revealed last week that he had made a massive $1m donation. But, even this underestimated Turnbull’s largesse, which ran, by the end, to well over $2m…

At Labor headquarters, direct­or George Wright’s war machine was astonished towards the later part of the campaign to see a sudden spray of expensive Coalition advertising.

Labor...

Isn’t my hashtag enough?

Melbourne’s Black Live Matter hashtag warriors are all thumbs and no legs.

The promises:

Holding placards, waving flags and chanting “black lives matter”, the rally made its way down Swanston Street to Flinders Street Station after speeches outside the State Library of Victoria.  More than 14,000 expressed interest on the Facebook page for the rally...

The reality:

ONLY 1200 protesters have turned out for the Black Lives Matter rally today

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