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| Australian DJ apologizes for anti-Lebanese remarks |
| 2012-12-20 |
| Sorry headline should read: Australian DJ apologizes for telling the truth. Controversial Australian DJ Alan Jones apologized Wednesday for comments he made in 2005 in which he called Lebanese men "vermin" and "mongrels" who "simply rape, pillage and plunder a nation that's taken them in," Australian media reported. Jones, from Sydney radio station 2GB, was ordered to make the apology by the Administrative Decisions Tribunal, after Lebanese community leader Keysar Trad filed a complaint against Jones and 2GB. "I apologize for making those comments and I recognize they were unlawful and I also apologize on behalf of Radio 2GB,'' he said, according to the national news agency, AAP. However, after the apology aired Trad told AAP that "no 40-second segment can balance years of criticism of the Muslim community." He also said that Jones comments may have contributed to the Cronulla riots of 2005, in which people of Middle Eastern appearance were attacked. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 ISTR the Cronulla Riots featured Muzzies attacking, not being attacked. And that some of them were in public with firearms that are illegal in Australia, yet none were arrested. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2012-12-20 12:26 |
| #3 Alan Jones is not a DJ, he is a conservative political commentator, an Antipodean Rush if you like. And he is accurate in describing (some) Lebanese men as animals. Look up, for example, a charmer named Bilal Skaf if you doubt it. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2012-12-20 10:48 |
| #2 ..was ordered to make the apology by the Administrative Decisions Tribunal ..coming to a neighborhood close to you soon [as quickly as the progressives can make it happen]. |
| Posted by: P2Kontheroad 2012-12-20 07:59 |
| #1 He also said that Jones comments may have contributed to the Cronulla riots of 2005, in which people of Middle Eastern appearance were attacked. Because the poor Muslims just can't control an insult to their honor, it's not their fault, of course! |
| Posted by: Hupush Phurong3053 2012-12-20 07:17 |