Wednesday, April 14, 2010



Must not call a Muslim a terrorist

But you can call Christians "Taleban", of course. The following is from Australia, where Muslims coming out of law-courts routinely abuse film crews observing them. They hate being filmed.
"Footage of a Channel Nine cameraman calling the father of an Oakleigh riot suspect a "f---ing terrorist" was deeply disturbing, the station's Melbourne news director said today.

Michael Venus said cameraman Simon Fuller had been stood down while an investigation was carried out into the heated exchange outside Melbourne Magistrates Court, and his future would be determined in the next two days.

Fuller was filming 19-year-old Omar Amr and his father after the teenager was bailed on April 1. Fuller, along with other camera crews, followed the pair from the court and filmed them.

A dispute began when Fuller said what sounded like "f--- off" to the pair. Amr's father Gad in turn called him a "bloody idiot". Fuller then called Mr Amr a terrorist.

The slur infuriated the pair, who headed back to court to find police, according to a report on the ABC's Media Watch....

Venus said tempers were frayed outside the court, and people reacted in a volatile way....

Omar Amr is facing charges of incitement to riot, riot, affray, burglary, theft and criminal damage following the riot that damaged a Bob Jane T-Mart store in Oakleigh. [Officialdom is silent on the matter, in their usual way, but it would appear that the riot was an organized one, organized primarily by Lebanese Muslims]

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5 comments:

Bobby said...

I don't mind him calling the Muslim a terrorist, but I'm surprised because I don't think TV cameramen are supposed to speak. They are either filming the crowd or the reporter.

Anonymous said...

Having watched the footage on Media Watch the camera crew acted appallingly and the comments made by the cameraman seemed to be deliberately aimed at provoking a reaction.
The fact that only the reaction was broadcast, without the provocation, tends to support the worst view of mainstream media news coverage.
This was a distressed father who had accompanied his child to court, who had repeated asked the camera crew to stop filming him and his child, who had done everything possible to avoid them, and then even after the camera crew got footage of him and his child continued to harrass them down the footpath. Why?

RAF said...

I'm confused...

Was the man a terrorist? Why is he not in jail? Who did say the Christian slur and to whom?

Anonymous said...

Yet he seems to get a complete pass on using the word "fuck"?

Anonymous said...

So, should we call these people Sweeds?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/04/17/2010-04-17_two_burqaclad_suicide_bombers_kill_41_in_pakistan_blast.html