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NSW premier calls for royal commission, pledges to ban 'globalise the intifada' chant (www.sbs.com.au)
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The NSW parliament is being recalled on Monday to address legislative changes in response to Sunday's terrorist attack at Bondi Beach, which saw 15 people killed in a shooting targeting the Jewish community.

The government will seek to outlaw the public display of "terrorist symbols" such as the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) group flag, and give police more powers to require someone suspected of committing an offence during a public assembly to remove their face covering.

The laws will carry penalties of up to two years' imprisonment or a $22,000 fine for any individual publicly displaying terrorist symbols. For organisations, the fine will be up to $110,000.

Under current laws, face coverings only have to be removed for police to confirm someone's identity post-arrest. The new restrictions would mean the threshold would be lowered to include all suspects.

Minns said the chant 'globalise the intifada' would also be banned, saying "horrific recent events" had shown that the phrase "is hate speech and it encourages violence in our community".

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[–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

Hrm, yours is a tricky one because I had read it and moved past it. I recognised you came from a place of hyperbole and didn't think much of it. I didn't remove it.

But looking at the comment again after it was removed, it does pretty much break all three of the rules I posted. So I'll not override the mod and restore it.

It's not that criticising actions of religious people is the issue, it's grouping them all members of a religion into your criticism that is the problem.

'Those two guys are bad' is fine. '115,000 Aussies are terrible people because those two guys are bad' is not fine.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    Thanks for the response.

    It was about Minns being authoritarian, which he has a history of being one. He brought Jews into the discussion so they are fair game as likely some where in his ear, as I am not aware of him being Jewish.

    Can't use predicate logic in dealing with groups of people. Using statistical measures it is pretty clear that Jews and Arabs don't like each other, I don't think that is controversial given the political rhetoric used by politicians to get those groups support. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck. Same as trying to seperate Jewish from Israel, there where Israel flags every where during the Bondi tributes.

    Good luck with the site. I will not be participating any further as I think the moderation is a bit cooked. Allowing doxxing but not my comment demonstrates a different priority of values and Cloudflare sucks big time, cannot do anything with having to constantly refresh the page.

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