Auspundits

Analysing 2007 NSW Election Result

On Saturday, 24 March 2007, the largest state of Australia, New South Wales (NSW), had a general election. The two main parties both showed very poor public support in polls conducted prior to election day. Amongst the minor parties, the result was mixed. The Australian Democrats were decimated and are all but finished politically; the Greens gained an extra 0.5% of the primary vote (to 8.7%); the Christian Democrats (CDP) gained and extra 0.7% of the primary vote (to 2.4%). Of these results, the increase in the primary vote of the CDP was most startling: it is a party (as its name suggests) that advocates policies in line with traditional Christian values.

Solzhenitsyn on War

Following on from my post yesterday into Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s criticism of Western media, I follow up with a post on his pronouncements on the West’s ability to survive:

The next war (which does not have to be an atomic one and I do not believe it will) may well bury Western civilisation forever.

Solzhenitsyn on the Media

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a famous Russian author and Nobel Laureate. He along with several others (Malcolm Muggeridge for example) exposed the sufferings that Russian peasants were facing due to the collectivisation of Russian industry. He along with his companions struggled to beat down the lies of traitors such as Walter Duranty (New York Times journalist) and the misguided George Bernard Shaw (another writer).

Liberal Muslims in the West

Following up a recent post, Gateway Pundit has put together a succinct summary of the proceedings at a conference titled “Rediscovering Secular Traditions”.  Attendees included Wafa Sultan (see my previous post for tidbits of her work). Also, live-blogging of conference at The Jawa Report. Exciting times. More power and voice to the supporters of this venture. People that include: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wafa Sultan, Nonie Darwish,Irshad Manji, Ibn Warraq, Dr. Walid Phares, Amir Taheri. For their efforts and bravery, they light up hope for Muslims around the world. [Hat tip: LittleGreenFootballs.com]

Tags: Counter+Terrorism, History, Islamofascism

Effects of Orwellian Brain Washing

The Sydney Morning Herald, the Guardian and New York Times’ Australian cousin, as published an article online that reports that:

Australians feel less threatened by Muslims once they have had the chance to talk about issues of potential conflict, a new survey shows.

Churchhillian Lessons

Sir Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for most of World War II. He is widely understood to have been the greatest statesman and wartime leader in modern history; his leadership credited for winning for the Allies the Second World War.

We are now in opening chapters of a different war, but against a similar enemy. Churchill's description of the threat posed by Fascism could easily be mistaken for a description the threat of Islamism:

This is not a question of fighting for Danzig or fighting for Poland. We are fighting to save the whole world from the pestilence of Nazi tyranny and in defense of all that is most sacred to man.

What was it that he considered sacred to man?

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope.

The intention of this post is to explore, albeit superficially, Churchill's statements, his posture as a wartime leader and the relevance of these for us today as we face down an enemy as ruthless as the Fascists of Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.