Posted on 09/13/2007 3:48:03 AM PDT by Dundee
A PALESTINIAN journalist has warned of a Muslim backlash over the failure of Australian authorities to grant him a visa in time to speak at today's Brisbane Writers Festival.
Abdel Bari-Atwan, a best-selling author and among the last Western journalists to interview Osama bin Laden, was cancelled as a speaker at the festival yesterday as he waited for his visa application to be processed.
Atwan, author of The Secret History of al-Qa'ida, accused the Howard Government of discrimination in delaying approval for his visa application, submitted on August 16, after giving notice to authorities of his intention to visit Australia.
"I believe this is a deliberate delay because I am an Arab and a Muslim," Atwan said. "It is ridiculous. I am not a terrorist, I am not a drug dealer, I am dealing in words and thoughts."
Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews denied any delay. "His application is currently being assessed and is subject to normal visa processing requirements," he said in a statement. Mr Andrews' spokeswoman later conceded that Atwan's 1996 interview with bin Laden in Afghanistan would be "a matter for security agencies" in processing his application.
"This is not an unusual amount of time for the processing of a visa. He is in queue just like everyone else," she said...
He said his visa problems would air throughout the Muslim world. "This could, in fact, incite trouble for Australia because there are a billion-and-a-half Muslims over the world and this will be publicised among those people," he said. "They are not serving the Australian peoples' interests, they are not serving Australian security, they are actually doing the opposite."...
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"This could, in fact, incite trouble for Australia because there are a billion-and-a-half Muslims over the world"
And this guy is a 'moderate'.
> Journalist warns of Muslim backlash over ‘delayed’ visa
> (Australia)
What are they gonna do?
Blow up restaurants and shopping malls, fly airplanes into buildings, and saw people’s heads off?
That’s what the pie-eyed, brainwashed adherents to Mahomet’s death cult do WITHOUT provocation.
What more can they do when they are provoked?
>>A PALESTINIAN journalist has warned of a Muslim backlash over the failure of Australian authorities to grant him a visa in time to speak at today’s Brisbane Writers Festival.
Abdel Bari-Atwan, a best-selling author and among the last Western journalists to interview Osama bin Laden, was cancelled as a speaker at the festival yesterday as he waited for his visa application to be processed. <<
Are Palestinians “western?”
What? So now even a passant muslim journalist feels he can threaten muslim holy war because he’s not given a visa anytime to anywhere he wants? Up yours! You arrogant little nazi rat.
LLS
Yes, he knows he can threaten Jihad and get away with it, with the full support of liberals.
Of course, no mention about how hard it would be for a non-muslim to get a visa to Saudi Arabia.
This guy is full of himself.
I guess they are if they live in the "west." Apparently this guy lives in the UK (well east of me anyway).
I went to Amazon expecting to find something to belittle about this guy but instead wound up adding his book to my shopping list.
ML/NJ
In an interview with ANB TV, a Lebanese Television station, aired on June 27, 2007, Abd al-Bari Atwan stated (according to a translation provided by the MEMRI): "If the Iranian missiles strike Israel – by Allah, I will go to Trafalgar Square, and dance with delight if the Iranian missiles strike Israel."
On the fifth anniversary of the New York 9/11 attack Atwan opined: "The events of 11 September will be remembered as the end of the US empire. This is because all empires collapse when they pursue the arrogance of power."
“I believe this is a deliberate delay because I am an Arab and a Muslim,”
as it should be
Good for our friends in Australia.
Get in line like everyone else, Atwan. Or better yet, step off.
I guess Bari-Atwan never learned as a child, when you try to cut in line, it’s the back of the line for you.
These little maggots are always full of threats and intimidation. Only the delusional worship a false prophet. How dumb is that?
Sure George. And that “religion” has been hijacked by radicals, too.
I believe Muslims must have a stupid gene.
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