Racist White Australia & Iran

Ben Heine / MWC NEWS

The dimensions of this threat are horrendous. Iran is a remote and peaceful democracy (albeit a democracy with a major theocratic input just as Western democracy is flawed by massive military-industrial complex, oil, gas, coal, construction, media, and other corporate input). The US and US Alliance invasions and occupations of Iraq (population 27 million) and Afghanistan (population 26 million) have so far been associated with 1.0 million and 2.4 million post-invasion excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen).  Iran has a population of 70 million – the consequences of a US invasion of Iran are unthinkably horrible. 

The extent of the threat posed by US-Israeli State Terrorism  (USIST) can be assessed by  the number of “hits” (URLs) elicited by Google Searches in English for the EVIL and OBSCENE phrases “attack Iran” (851,000), “invade Iran” (336,000), “bomb Iran” (325,000), and “nuke Iran” (138,000).

The Racist Zionist and Racist Bush-ite campaign of Islamophobic and xenophobic hatred against Iran has been very successful as judged from reactions in Bush Amerika’s key ally, Racist White Australia (RWA). Racist White Australia is a country with entrenched anti-Arab anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and xenophobia that have been firmly embraced by both the major political parties, albeit with a big dose of “political correctness” i.e. they assert their opposition to “racism” and their love for “moderate” Muslims – yet all the while materially supporting US and Israeli violence against Muslims and IGNORING the horrendous consequences: the post-invasion excess deaths in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories now total 0.3, 1.0 and 2.4 million, respectively (mostly Women and Children) (see MWC News ).

The extreme right-wing, Bush-ite ruling Liberal Party-National Party Coalition (headed by “Honest John” Howard) and the Opposition Australian Labor Party (ALP; headed by Religious Right Rudd (R3), pro-US Kevin Rudd having recently displaced the even more slavishly pro-US Kim Beazley) are loyal supporters of US democratic imperialism (Rudd only differs over Iraq which he regards as an unfortunate mistake by Australia’s  great and noble ally).  Indeed the Bush-ite Coalition and the Bush-ite ALP AGREE not only on “politically correct xenophobia” and the continued occupation of Afghanistan (now producing over 90% of the world’s opium due to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed opium industry) but also on Australia’s continued coal exports that threaten the world with Climate Genocide and especially countries with low-lying coastal regions such as China, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Egypt (Australia is the world’s biggest coal exporter,  Australia is the world’s big country with the biggest annual per capita greenhouse pollution and – like the US, the world’s biggest greenhouse gas polluter - refuses to sign Kyoto or reduce emissions) (see MWC News ).

A touchstone for the vote-winning xenophobia and Islamophobia of the major parties of Racist White Australia is a leading Muslim clergyman Sheik Hilaly, for many years the Mufti of Australia but recently sacked due to bi-partisan public outcry over his public objection to the acute US threat to Iran. According to Australian media,  Sheik Hilaly called on Iranians to “stand in the trenches with Iran” . I have found all kinds of reports of what Australian politicians and media THINK the Sheik Hilaly said but no direct quotes or alternative translations. The closest to a primary report is quoted by the Sydney Morning Herald  and translated from the web-site Arabic,