[ May 3, 2024 ]
Can you imagine Officeworks refusing to print posters criticizing Christianity or Judaism or any other religion? Of course not. They wouldn’t have hesitated. But when it comes to Islam, they fear they might get blown up, and so start to talk about having to show “respect.” This is not respect, it’s bowing to intimidation. And cowardice has taken over as the dominant response to Islamic intimidation, all over the world.
“‘Absolutely I’ve been discriminated against’: Man claims Officeworks refused to let him print posters criticising Islam because it’s ‘the holy month of Ramadan,'” by Gavin Butler, Daily Mail Australia, June 15, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
An activist who was refused service at Officeworks for attempting to print out anti-Islamic posters has hit out at the chain store, claiming his right to freedom of speech has been violated.
Story continues below advertisementAvi Yemini and Ralf Schumann of the Australian Liberty Alliance are both regular customers at the Officeworks branch in South Melbourne: printing and laminating any materials there that are too large to print in their own office.
Like, for example, an armful of flyers for an upcoming rally they’ve organised in support of free speech and defense of Sonia Kruger.
The store manager allegedly told Mr Schumann that Officeworks ‘will not print anything that is offensive to Muslims and especially not in the holy month of Ramadan’
‘We went there this afternoon like we have for 3 or 4 years,’ Mr Schumann told Daily Mail Australia.
‘The chap on the counter puts the USB stick in like he always does, gets the first screen up like he always does – and calls his young manager over.
‘[The manager] then gives me a lecture on their shop policy and tells me that they will not print anything that is offensive to Muslims and especially not in the holy month of Ramadan.’
One of the posters declares that: ‘Criticising perverse ideologies is not racial discrimination. Islam does not equal race’.
The second features the face of Sonia Kruger – who is due to face the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal over blasphemy and vilification charges – alongside the text: ‘Mass blasphemy! Half of Australia agrees with Sonia #LetsTalkAboutIslam.’
Mr Schumann went on to explain how the store manager told him ‘we [Officeworks] can’t print these racist things.’
‘So I wrote a brief email to the manager to tell him that his store policy does not override federal or state anti-discrimination laws,’ said Mr Schumann.
‘These laws happen both ways: you can’t discriminate on religious grounds OR political grounds.’
Mr Schumann insists that, in this case, he’s the one who is the victim of discrimination.
‘Absolutely I’ve been discriminated against,’ he declared….
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47 Comments
5 years ago
I would say the refusal to print is an act of self preservation. He wants to keep his head on his shoulders.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mohammed_Goldberg
Agree. Australians like EU nutcases are supporting jihadis . Islam = Idealogy NOT Race.
Left/Libs welcome jihadis and run around like cowards after they start committing gang rapes, assaults
http://bit.ly/2uHm0YC
which religion supports crimes ? Only Islam.
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Hard to agree. Christianity has harboured paedophiles for centuries. Every “religion”
has its warts.
5 years ago
Reply to
purplej
Is pedophilia allowed in bible ? Its allowed as per koran , hadiths.
That is the difference that most morons like you don’t get.
For christians pedophilia is a crime. For muslims its religiously sanctioned “tradition” which their propat himself indulged in.
Did Jesus do it ? …or approve it ?
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
So, you keep proving that you’re prone to assumptions and wild generalisations? Kind of negates your opinion and insults. But, since you expressed it, is Christianity less guilty of protecting criminals – and enabling their re-offending – because it’s not in the Bible? Did those crimes not happen – repeatedly, with countless other innocents targetted, abused and traumatised – because it’s not sanctioned in the Bible?
In any belief system there are rules and there are practises with effects. Doesn’t matter whether it’s written, or just practised – a crime is a crime and I don’t see the Catholic church in particular doing much (and certainly not enough!) to facilitate the resolution of the effects of systemic, long practised and protected paedophilia.
One could also argue that the confessional supports criminals because they can potentially be absolved of their sins and walk away without the justice the victim deserves and that society rightly demands, again enabling them to re-offend and create more victims again and again.
Your point that only Islam supports crimes is not supported by facts.
5 years ago
Reply to
purplej
Go read the koran then come and talk to someone who has read it. There are English versions authenticated by muslim universities.
There are 105 verses that justify , support , instigate muslims to crimes against non-muslims as it “pleases Allah the merciful”
Just bcoz there are criminals in those who practice other religions does not mean the religion justifies it.
Only islam does that.
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
I have a copy of the koran and i abhor islam.
I like to keep the debate honest and realistic, otherwise it will never progress.
5 years ago
Reply to
purplej
Keep the copy and pray to it. you do not have the intellect to differentiate bad, evil idealogy and crimes in general .
5 years ago
Reply to
purplej
Dear dumb dipstick, pederasty is very legal in the muslum states of Afghanistain, Pakistain and Iran, but it’s not in any Christian state I know of, so bugger off…
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
I am not dumb nor a dipstick. I abhor islam. You miss my point. Like Suresh, you need to be careful who you attack. Otherwise, you risk appearing shallow and arrogant.
5 years ago
Reply to
purplej
Marrying pre-pubescent girls against their will is also very legal in the muslum states of Iran (see Annie Cyrus’ sad tale), Afghanistain and Pakistain, among others.
As for your attempt at an argument of false equivalence between islum and Christianity? FAIL.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mohammed_Goldberg
But they live to surrender another day and another and another….
5 years ago
Reply to
Mohammed_Goldberg
It is easy to call coward, but if it was your business that was possible targeted by extremists, for damage, arson or even assassination, how would you behave?
5 years ago
Reply to
leonore35
There is always a risk nowadays in criticizing most anything, but we must never succumb to fear, it is what the Muslims want.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mohammed_Goldberg
Yep….that’s why the Germans surrendered their weapons to Hitler…and then most of Europe….
…and while you are completely right about your point…..it’s just two steps away from being taken over completely by the invaders….give up this….then that…then you’re done.
5 years ago
yah, moHAMhead is diabolical pedophile #1
5 years ago
gee, are you delusional….
5 years ago
Reply to
mackykam
Um, ‘Sonia Kruger – who is due to face the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal over blasphemy and vilification charges’ in AUS. That hardly defines a free country.
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Perhaps “mackykam” was making reference to the US being “the last free country …”. If that was the point, I have to hit the “AGREE” button.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
After the systematic persecution of Christians in Dearbornistan, Michigan I see your point.
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
When someone receives a thirty year sentence (15 hard time, followed by 15 strictly supervised parole) for leaving a pound of bacon, at a musk in Florida … when the same weekend, a negro breaks into a Chicago synagogue, sprays swastikas, breaks cameras, light fixtures, windows, and religious objects …. receives a two day sentence .. TIME SERVED …. You don’t have to go to Michigan …. the US is sharia compliant …from our cowardly cops, to our prosecutors, to our judges and politicians. (USA) United Sharia of America … Halal compliant.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Myanmar just keeps looking better and better. Maybe even Angola!
5 years ago
So, it shows these rats are COWARDS and WAYCIST. They fear Negroes and Moslems and if you ask them why, they’ll never tell you.
But you know the reason. They look down on them as WILD PEOPLE with low IQs and being non-white makes them even more scary as heathen like.
They are NOT like us! Yeah, yeah, yeah,….. so the truth comes out, you WAYCIST!
5 years ago
As the Nazis smashed the windows of Jewish shops now the Muslims hold over the threat of retaliation for ANYTHING they do not like, which is just about everything NON ISLAMIC. Muslims believe that they are above the law as the only laws they obey are those of ‘allah’
5 years ago
Reply to
leonore35
You just made the case for blocking all Muslims coming into our country…..and deporting the ones already here breeding like rabbits…..
Two very important points:
Voltaire: To learn who RULES you, find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
“Those who don’t learn HISTORY….are doomed to repeat it.”
5 years ago
Good on Sonia Kruger speaking out against taking more Muslims.
But as Mr Schumann says he is a victim, and Office Works is cowards. All of us who speak out, defend our values are all threatened by Islam, atleast we are not cowards as Office Works. Office Works needs to replace store manager with one who has guts.
5 years ago
Reply to
knightsstrength
…the average person in freedom loving countries is more threatened by the DHIMMIS for Islam in their government and society than directly by Islam…..for now…but not much longer.
5 years ago
We must not allow ourselves to succumb to fear. Freedom of speech and expression MUST be upheld at all costs, regardless of what vicious threats the enemy makes against us.
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
free speech is a hollow ideology …
it’s promoted by people who lost moral orientation of good and bad …
5 years ago
Reply to
SemurJengkolMaknyus
“Free speech is a hollow ideology…” That’s why it doesn’t exist anywhere in the muslum world eh, Indonesian muslum chumpanzee?
5 years ago
I remember 4 years ago when waves of radical Muslims were pouring in across the borders of many countries…..I remember the Australian talking heads bragging and braying about how clever and strong they had been about keeping Muslims out of their country……
….now….not so much.
5 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
Problem is that previous government policies already enabled many muslims to relocate here, legally or otherwise. It was a pivotal election issue and once the liberals were back in power, they “shut the borders”, to quote the catchphrase. So, the influx of muslims has been significantly curtailed – and Australia has been widely condemned internationally for it.
It is the influence of those muslims already here that is problematic, along with the influence of the corrupted UN, which will only worsen as Australia’s politicians chase their ambitions at the UN.
5 years ago
“The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish
Sharia law over the entire world.”
~ Source: CIA World Factbook, 2007
5 years ago
Reply to
Gunter
I can’t imagine the CIA World Factbook saying that anymore. I can only imagine what kind of islamic propaganda they spew now.
5 years ago
Reply to
Gunter
It’s probably been revised under Obama and John Brennan, the worst CIA chief who underestimated Russia and ISIS.
5 years ago
Good — people should not spread hatred.
5 years ago
I’d expect this kind of pantywaist muslum pandering from Canada (cough, Trudeau, cough) or New Zealand, but AUS?
