This is a disgrace…

The discrimination police are so short of business that they’ll take up the complaint of the very hate-merchants they’re meant to police.

In January last year, 4BC Queensland radio broadcaster Michael Smith said he thought it dangerous to allow the burka in certain public places because it had been used as a disguise by criminals. He also said he thought the burka impedes vision in a car. Days later, a listener, Omar Hassan, wrote to 4BC and complained to the Australian Communications and Media Authority that Smith had breached the code by vilifying, inciting hatred and discriminating against Muslims.

Last year, ACMA tossed out the complaint. No matter. Hassan also lodged a complaint with Queensland’s Anti-Discrimination Commission. And the ADC accepted the complaint.

Never mind that countries such as France and Denmark are having robust debates about banning the burka for all sorts of reasons… The purveyors of acceptable thoughts at the ADC now require Smith to attend a three-hour “mediation” session with Hassan.

Call it a hunch, but I’m guessing mediation won’t satisfy Hassan. In his 15-page letter to 4BC, he described Australia as…

“a racist country . . . No. 1 on the world list for the violation of human rights”. He said Fairfax radio is a “human zoo owned by  pigs and monkeys”.

He said of Smith - a former policeman - that,

“being a cop would write you off as a decent human being for life as you can never recover from that disease of being a cop, as once a cop, the dirt and filth stick to you forever and could never be removed”.

And he had plenty to say about women in short skirts. He expressed his disgust at being…

“forced to look at the backside of a woman who bends over in front of me in supermarket to pick an item off a bottom shelf”.

It is a health hazard, he says,

“Non-Muslim women do not use water to clean themselves when they go to the toilet.”

Thus, bending over in a supermarket could cause serious health risks, Hassan wrote, especially for little children who, because of their height, may have such a scene right in their face.

Instead of dismissing this barrage of invective from Hassan, the ADC has decided that Smith has a case to answer.

We’re mad, of course. We’re actually funding an Anti-Discrimination Commission that cannot recognise the real bigot even when it shoves its manifesto in its face. Result: free speech becomes that much less free.

Sourced from Andrew Bolt’s blog here.

My view:
What the hell is going on here? Does discrimination only run one way? Why do we need to treat Muslims with kid gloves when we are on the receiving end of bullshit like this? While I’m on this subject, why hasn’t that rabid Muslim cleric who incited hatred a while ago been sent back to where he crawled out from?