Mediaboss Marketing

More than 11,000 people have signed a counter-petition demanding ABC "publicly condemn and fire" Muslim youth activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied, following her appearance on last Monday's episode of Q&A.

The Change.org petition, launched by right-wing news site Altcon News, is a retort to another petition launched by Muslim leaders earlier this week in support of Abdel-Magied, which received just under 2,500 signatures.

Play Video Don't Play

Play Video Don't Play

Previous slide Next slide

Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie took on seemingly every other panellist during a heated discussion that ranged from childcare to sharia law. Vision: ABC TV

Play Video Don't Play

A decomposed body is found near Mount Macedon, north of Melbourne. Vision courtesy Seven News Melbourne.

Play Video Don't Play

Detectives are yet to interview a West Australian driver over a deadly weekend road rampage after he was filmed driving erratically and swerving into other cars moments before he crashed.

Play Video Don't Play

A bushwalker makes a grim find north-west of Melbourne, stumbling on a badly decomposed human body.

Play Video Don't Play

The Health Services Union are calling for ambulance services to be free nationwide, like they are for firefighters and police.

Play Video Don't Play

As Melbourne family is left scared after a group of armed bandits invade their home, a new poll reveals more than half of the state voters feel Premier Daniel Andrews is losing the fight against crime.

Play Video Don't Play

The federal government has pledged to reduce the nation's feral cat population by a third between now and 2020.

Play Video Don't Play

Malcolm Turnbull says clean coal technology is a way to deliver clean energy but Bill Shorten says the proposal is 'absolutely crazy'. Courtesy ABC News 24.

Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie took on seemingly every other panellist during a heated discussion that ranged from childcare to sharia law. Vision: ABC TV

In the petition, Altcon'sauthors accuseAbdel-Magied of "blatantly lying to the public about the merits of Sharia Law", of which she is a follower.

They cite Sharia's"oppressive impact it has on non-Muslim groups, homosexuals and women", and call on the public broadcaster to "reassure the tax-paying public that they condemn her rhetoric and that Australians obey one set of laws".

Altcon News, who "pride [themselves] on being politically incorrect" on their website, have previously launched a Change.org petition demandingthe Quranbe removed from sale in Australia.

Abdel-Magied, a host on ABC 24's weekend show Australia Wide, was forced to defend her faith in a much-publicised exchange on last week's episode, after Tasmanian senator Jacquie Lambie yet again fumbling over the religious framework she's long railed against suggested Australia should take a leaf out of Donald Trump's pages and "deport all Muslims who support Sharia law".

"People talk about Islam without knowing anything about it, and they're willing to negate any of my rights as a human being, as a woman, as a person with agency, simply because they have an 'idea' of what my faith is about," Abdel-Magied told Lambie, before criticising the senator's focus on its "oppressive" tenets.

"Islam to me is the most feminist religion: we got equal rights well before the Europeans. We don't take our husbands' last names because we aren't their property. We were given the right to own land... The fact is, in Sharia it says you follow the law of the land you are on," she said.

The exchange drew comment from across the political divide, with our old Minister for Women Tony Abbott criticising Abdel-Magied's feminist defence of Sharia, while even musicianSolange Knowles Beyonce's sister tweeted in support of the activist from across the globe.

In a video produced for Junkee that's been viewed almost five million times, Abdel-Magied sought to further dispel the myths associated with Sharia following her Q&A appearance.

"Sharia is not a system of laws like Australia's legal system... Sharia is about a Muslim's personal relationship with their God... In fact, I'm religiously obligated to follow Australian law," she said.

She also acknowledged the fundamentalist interpretations of Sharia overseas, that have seenthe religion labelled "oppressive" by anti-Muslim crusaders such as Altcon and their petition supporters.

"Saudi Arabia doesn't allow women to drive. No other Muslim country has that law. It's cultural, and reflects the conservative and patriarchal nature of that society not what Sharia stands for," she said.

Follow this link:
Alt-right group launches petition demanding ABC sack Yassmin Abdel-Magied - The Sydney Morning Herald

Twitter Polls are best used for things like figuring out what the best side is at Thanksgiving Dinner (stuffing) or how sick it would be if Dave Navaro were your father (hella sick). Twitter Polls are NOT best used for things relating to politics. Because the last election. Apparently everyones favorite USS Enterprise helmsman George Takei didnt get that memo.

Saturday saw the outspoken liberal taking to the microblogging platform with a question for his followers: Trump says the media is the true enemy of the American people. So lets take a poll. Who do you think does MORE HARM to the American people? He provided two possible responses: The un-fair news media or President Donald Trump.

After a few hours and upwards of 70,000 votes, the results were (pretty surprisingly) neck-and-neck.

Displeased with those results (and what liberal wouldnt be?), Takei promptly deleted the post altogether. His followers took notice, and, jeez, they werent happy.

And just like Vanessa L. Williams, we went and saved the best for last:

Dont worry, this doesnt end there.

Takei would then try to put more of his foot in his mouth by tweeting the following:

Sour grapes, sour grapes! In perhaps the smartest move in this odd social media chess game, Takei would delete this gem of Internet wisdom not long after it was posted.

Live long and prosper, Mr. Sulu; those alt-right, virgin trolls are coming for blood.

Have a tip we should know? tips@mediaite.com

Go here to read the rest:
George Takei Claims His Trump Poll was 'Hijacked by Alt-Right ... - Mediaite

Email a copy of "Gay Jew With Black Boyfriend Milo Yiannopoulos Mocks Media for Calling Alt-Right Movement He Purportedly Heads Antisemitic, White Supremacist, Homophobic" to a friend

Milo Yiannopoulos. Photo: Youtube/Screenshot.

One of the enduring mysteries of the American media is their inability to see whats wrong with referring to theantisemitic, white supremacist, hateful, bigoted, racist, homophobic alt-right movement, whose so-called poster boy is a vocal gay Jew [with] a black boyfriend, British journalist and senior editor for Breitbart News Milo Yiannopoulos said Friday night.

Yiannopoulos, the flamboyant and provocative author of Dangerous wearing eyeliner and an elaborate pearl necklace was sparringwith his liberal host and co-panelists on the YouTube Overtime segment of HBOs Real Time With Bill Maher, who flew into a rage at his suggestionthat transgender people suffer from a disorder and that homosexuals do, too, since they cannot procreate naturally.

Yiannopoulos, a catholic with a Greek father, British mother and Jewish maternal grandmother, made his comment about the media after being asked by terrorism expert Malcolm Nance, Are you the real, true face of the alt-right? Because I thought the Nazis were in there. How do they take you on board?

February 19, 2017 4:13 pm

Watch the segment below (the exchange in question begins at 3:00 minutes):

Read more here:
'Gay Jew With Black Boyfriend' Milo Yiannopoulos Mocks Media for Calling Alt-Right Movement He Purportedly Heads ... - Algemeiner

| Published 5 hours ago

TO THE EDITOR:

On Feb. 13, Chris Watson wrote to the DTH that there is a small, but growing minority on campus. This supposed minority lurks everywhere, under many names, and in all departments. We exist, Mr. Watson assures his readers, as if the banal question of their existence was ever in doubt.

We are told that the specter of social justice haunts our classrooms, making it impossible for students to address content because we are too busy paying attention to the trivial matters of race or ethnicity.

Furthermore, radical leftists, Marxists, and anarchists are to blame for this. Please, Mr. Watson, if you see any of these so-called radicals on campus, do let me know. I cant seem to find them anywhere. More important, however, are the tired platitudes deployed. We hear about leftist violence, censorship of free speech and Americas courageous past. These claims are unsubstantiated.

So here is the push back. The violence on the working class is a result of capital and corporations run amok. The alt-right president is the most powerfully heard voice in the world hardly a lack of free speech. Americas history is the history of slavery, abuse, dispossession and state violence against the most vulnerable.

Id like to remind the alt-right minority how hard it is to focus on content when youre worried about your visa status, or routine traffic stops resulting in abuse or death or the threat of deportation from ICE patrols in your neighborhood.

Heres to an America without fear.

Micah Hughes

Graduate student

Religious studies

Read more in Letters, Opinion,

Share on social media?

Read the original here:
Letter: Alt-right 'minority' isn't under threat - The Daily Tar Heel

NEW YORK While conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos insulted comics Lena Dunham, Leslie Jones, Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman, his appearance on HBOs Real Time with Bill Maher was relatively tame at least until the television cameras were turned off.

It was later, during an online-only Overtime segment of Mahers Friday night show, that two of Mahers three panelists hurled expletives at the Breitbart News senior editor.

Mahers booking of Yiannopoulos, author of the upcoming book Dangerous, drew attention earlier this week when journalist Jeremy Scahill backed out of the show because of his hateful diatribes. The conservative gadfly has become a lightning rod; his planned speech at the University of California, Berkeley, was canceled earlier this month when protests erupted.

Maher, a free speech advocate, told Yiannopoulos that he thought he was colossally wrong on most issues, but if I barred everyone from the show who I thought was colossally wrong, I would be talking to myself.

Yiannopoulos called Maher his favorite liberal.

The interview segment featured few harsh exchanges with Maher, and Yiannopoulos was not included in a panel discussion that featured comedian Larry Wilmore, author and counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance and former U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican. But online, Yiannopoulos joined the other three to answer questions from viewers.

The starting-off point was when Yiannopoulos defended his criticism of a transgender person and saying, without offering evidence, that transgender people were involved in a disproportionate number of sex crimes. Wilborn objected, saying that for a long time, homosexuality was considered a disorder.

Maybe it is, said Yiannopoulos, who is gay.

Maybe you are, Wilborn said, But most homosexuals are not.

Nance observed that Yiannopoulos seemed confused about who and what he was. When Maher tried to referee, Yiannopoulos said that he always seemed to have awful people on the show, who are so stupid.

Thats when Wilmore exploded, telling Yiannopoulos to go (bleep) yourself.

When the oddity of an openly gay man being seen as a leader of the alt-right movement was pointed out, Yiannopoulos said that the worst people on the far left and far right all hate me.

Retorted Wilmore: I think youre leaving out a lot of people.

Nance added an expletive when the Breitbart editor said he had no problems with the issue of President Donald Trump and ties to Russian, profanely dismissing him because he was not an American. Yiannopoulos is British.

It stopped there. Kingston declined a chance to be the third panelist to swear at Yiannopoulos.

See the rest here:
Sparks fly over alt-right agitator on Maher's show - Leader-Telegram