'Jihad Sheilas' speak out - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
I watched Jihad Sheilas last night.
If ever there was a show that could make you feel like reaching through the TV screen and slapping the interviewees, this was it.
I found the younger one the most irritating. Eight children to 5 husbands, and now many of them left in Australia while she lives in Africa with her latest husband and their 2 kids. (It was never explained who they live with, and she is only in her 30's.)
If Muslim husbands are generally as erratic as her life would indicate, it is hardly a good advertisement for the faith. It would have been good to hear specific questions about who she blamed for the failure of so many marriages.
The older one (Rabiah Hutchison) came across as capable of great evil, and I expect most viewers would have mixed feelings about the government refusing to give her a passport. (She would happily leave the country permanently if she could.) Still, I suppose it is best to keep watch on her here rather than let her try to hook up with her former Taliban mates.
That said, the show was done in a more tabloid style than your usual ABC fare. There were many points at which answers by the interviewees were cut off before they had finished, and indeed the reason as to why they found Islam attractive in the first place was skated over completely. (The women complain that they thought that was to be the focus of the show, but it must have become clear during the interview that it was about their lives generally.)
It was good television nonetheless, but I would have preferred more of a "Four Corners" style rather than "A Current Affair".
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I felt a cold, sinking sensation in my stomach as I was reading this story. Then I felt very, very angry. I thought "How dare they? Those...those...those...traitors...betrayers of their own countrymen!!!!! You know, in quite a few countries at different times throughout history and indeed to this day, Treason would be punishable by death.
What do we do about it in the bleeding-heart-left-politically-correct Land of Oz do? Why...we write an news article about it of course...a news article encouraging the airing of views of Traitors to their own Country!!!!! Wonderful, just wonderful.
Isn't it so very *nice* that everyone can have their own beliefs? Even if that does include saying that a bunch of innocent, everyday average Aussies deserved to lose their lives because some of them must have surely been viewing pornography and taking drugs???!!!!! Isn't that nice? Oh how very bloody rosy. It's time fo r Australia's rose coloured glasses to come off..these people are Traitors!!
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