Poor Mike Carlton

Further to the Sydney Islamoriots, Mike Carlton writes in the Syrian Moaning Halibut:

The nutters on the fringes went berserk, of course. There were a few snarling blogs calling for ''them'' to be sent back home, and text messages demanding reprisals. Although I deliberately did not listen to talkback radio, I imagine the usual shock jocks were doing their best to whip up fear and loathing as they did with the Cronulla riots.

It only seems fair. People deliberately didn't listen to Mike Carlton on radio, so why should he listen to others? Especially when he can simply "imagine" what they said and then attack them for saying it. I am imagining a giant man made of straw.

But everyone else stayed cool. Most impressive of all was the gathering of 25 Muslim organisations, coming together as never before to hose things down.

As never before? Here's a summary of the hosing:

a) Not all Muslims want to kill Australians. Yes, yes...
b) It's only a fringe minority. Yes, yes...
c) Quick... Look over there: It's really about Palestine.
d) Ho hum, can we please talk about Israel.

The one coming together as never before, would be a few thousand Muslims marching in the streets, denonuncing Jihad and doing so without trying to appear as victims.

Will we ever see Muslims marching in the streets this way? I doubt it. And yet, we know they can get a crowd together when it suits them...

Carlton continues:

And the woman who photographed her child with that placard calling for the beheading of those who insult the prophet apparently had no idea what ''behead'' meant. The police found she had been in the country just two years and spoke little English.
Silliest of all was the assertion by a handful of the loopy right-wing commentariat that multiculturalism is in crisis or has failed.

A woman has been in the country for two years and barely speaks English. How's that for success in multiculturalism. Fortunately the posters at Centrelink are translated into in Arabic.