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Your letters: Turnbull's approach to hardliners
Will âitâs a two-way streetâ be said by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (of the same tough British stock as Tony âWorrying Warriorâ Abbott) over the latest heinous terrorist outrage at the New South Wales Police headquarters where an Australian family man was murdered? Or will it be wishy-washy Marshmallow Malcolm forever and a day? Because Turnbull has intimated he will âreach outâ to Australiaâs Muslims, and yet the very latest Islamic Grand Mufti (replacing the infamous Sheik Taj al Hillali) does not even speak Aussiesâ lingo
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ill 'it's a two-way street' be said by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (of the same tough British stock as Tony 'Worrying Warrior' Abbott) over the latest heinous terrorist outrage at the New South Wales Police headquarters where an Australian family man was murdered?
Or will it be wishy-washy Marshmallow Malcolm forever and a day? Because Turnbull has intimated he will 'reach out' to Australia's Muslims, and yet the very latest Islamic Grand Mufti (replacing the infamous Sheik Taj al Hillali) does not even speak Aussies' lingo.
And just wait for this: The non-English speaking latest Grand Mufti was elected by other senior Australian Islamic muftis on the basis of 'bringing all Australians together' and 'breaking down barriers'.
What a dirty big bloody great insult! Why do all these senior Islamic leaders want to treat other Aussies as mugs?
Perhaps Turnbull can prove he is not Marshmallow Malcolm by most forcefully reminding Muslim communities that it's a two-way street.
And energetically pushing the Islamic community to sack the existing Grand Mufti and democratically elect a fluent English-speaking new Grand Mufti approved by all Aussies of our English-speaking, democratic, Western 'Aussie Eden' fought for by generations of Aussies of all faiths, colors, origins and classes? Will we now see the 'real' Turnbull?
Howard Hutchins
Australia
