Doorstop 17 September
I did a doorstop interview this morning covering a range of current events leading into another Parliamentary sitting week. Among other things, I pointed out that the weekend violence does not represent the mainstream of peaceful Muslims in Australia, and argued that horserace polls are the fairy floss of modern politics – they’re rotting the teeth of the body politic.
Every group wants publicity. And every time there is a riot/massacre/civil war/kidnapping, politicians get up going on about how this isn’t representative of Islam. So how long before other groups decide that being violent is the way to get supportive publicity from politicians?