Susan Carland has drawn comparisons between the witch trials of the Middle Ages and the recent treatment of activist and author Yassmin Abdel-Magied.
In an opinion piece for The Saturday Paper, Carland described the “Salem-esque furore” that descended upon Australia and surrounded Abdel-Magied over the past two weeks since her heated debate with Senator Jacqui Lambie on ABC-TV’s Q&A.
Carland wrote: “In The Australian alone, there have been 26 editorials and opinion pieces, and four front pages and exclusives.”
“Every major news site in the country, and some internationally, has run at least one piece on the unfolding drama – 184 at last count.”
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Attacking a journalist who makes wildly false and ignorant statements and appears to make the facts up as she goes along to suit her position is a good thing. No one is beyond reproach. No one should be beyond reproach. This has nothing to do with medieval witch trials (the analogy is weak and tenuous). Nor is it an attack on Muslims. I saw the show and Abdel-Magied behaved appallingly for a person holding themselves out to be a journalist.
Look, when it came to her assertion that Islam was a feminist religion, I laughed. It isn't. Neither is Christianity. Both seek to put women beneath men and to put a woman's place in the home with children.