A rally against diversity planned by National Front members to counter the pro-tolerance rally organised by the Council of Christians & Muslims, in the aftermath of the Auckland mosque attacks, has been cancelled.
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Macquarie condemns racism (again)
The latest from Macquarie.
Acting Vice-Chancellor John Loxton just issued this statement.
Club Mac cautions Fraser
From The Australian:
‘Racist’ professor cautioned, but launches new attack
Greg Roberts
July 21, 2005
SYDNEY’S Macquarie University has warned a senior academic he faces disciplinary action if he continues making public statements that refugees have labelled racist and inflammatory.
But a defiant Andrew Fraser, associate professor in public law, launched a fresh attack on Africans in Australia, claiming they had low IQs and “significantly more testosterone”, making them a crime risk.
The Australian reported yesterday that the university was investigating allegations Professor Fraser had ties with the neo-Nazi Patriotic Youth League. The PYL website records him as a member, and a spokesman said he acted as the group’s legal adviser.
Yesterday, the university’s acting vice-chancellor John Loxton said he had spoken to Professor Fraser. “I have made it very clear to him that we have policies about this and ways of calling our staff to account for what they do,” Professor Loxton said. He said university policy restricted academics to speaking publicly about their area of expertise.
“If he continues to give those views when he says he is associate professor, we will have to consider if that is in his area of expertise.”
But Professor Fraser insisted he had the university’s support. “They say I can’t speak on behalf of the university and I don’t,” he said.
He invoked the abolition of slavery in the US as proof of the link between high crime rates and people of African origin. “When blacks were segregated in the south, the problem of crime wasn’t that great. When they moved north to Chicago and Detroit and so on, all those social controls went away and things spiralled out of control.”
Professor Fraser said refugees from sub-Saharan Africa posed a crime risk. “Their IQ is 70 to 75 so there are differences between the cognitive ability of blacks and whites. Blacks also have significantly more testosterone floating around their system than whites.”
Professor Fraser said he had registered his contact details with the PYL, which is associated with prominent neo-Nazi Jim Saleam, but did not act as their legal adviser. “If a bunch of young people are engaged in some activity which I approve of, I am not going to tell them to keep away from me,” he said.
Queensland Sudanese community leader Angelo Geng described Professor Fraser’s comments about crime as hurtful and unfair. “It is not right to be stereotyping all people from Africa as criminals when you have good and bad in any society,” Mr Geng said.
“It is a big concern that he uses his position as university professor to say racist things.”
Anti-racism campaigner Mathew Henderson-Hau said Professor Fraser was using his university position to promote “white supremacist” views.
“He’s entitled to his opinion but the public should be aware of his neo-Nazi connection before they weigh up his arguments,” he said.
Greens Senator calls for urgent review of Drew Fraser’s teaching and assessment history
Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today wrote to the vice chancellor of
Macquarie University Di Yerbury requesting an urgent review of the teaching and assessment history of Associate Professor Andrew Fraser who has made public his deeply racist views regarding Asians and Africans in Australia.
Mr Fraser’s racist views featured both on national television and in
metropolitan newspapers this week.
“The views of Professor Fraser are as abhorrent as they are ridiculous. The university has an obligation to ensure that these views are not affecting his teaching or assessment of students,” Senator Nettle said.
Busted, homes.
From The Australian:
Top academic accused of neo-Nazi links.
20 July 2005
SYDNEY’S Macquarie University is investigating allegations one of its senior academics has ties with a neo-Nazi group that wants to ban non-white immigrants.
Andrew Fraser, associate professor in public law at Macquarie, denied last night any association with the extremist Patriotic Youth League.
“I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the PYL,” Professor Fraser said. “Nor have I played any other role, officially or unofficially, in that organisation.”
But the internet website of the PYL, an extremist right-wing group with well-established neo-Nazi links, records Professor Fraser being registered as a “new member” last September. The email address given for him was his Macquarie University work address at the time.
In an email to documentary producer Iain Lygo last March, PYL executive Luke Connors said Professor Fraser was the league’s legal adviser.
In the same email, Mr Connors said he had conducted an online poll asking PYL members to identify the most troublesome minority in their area - “abbos, curry munchers, wogs or chinks?”.
Contacted yesterday, Mr Connors initially insisted Professor Fraser had no association with the league. But told of evidence seen by The Australian, Mr Connors said the Canadian-born academic was the group’s legal adviser. “Yes, it’s true he has been giving us advice but he’s not a member officially.”
Mr Connors denied the league was extremist. “Anyone disagreeing with the left-wingers is labelled a Nazi. We have taken in people who are neo-Nazis but we are not neo-Nazis.”
Mr Connors admitted the league was influenced by prominent neo-Nazi Jim Saleam, who was jailed for three years in 1991 for organising the shotgun attack on the home of the African National Congress’s Australia representative Eddie Funde.
“Jim is giving us useful contacts and advice in a number of areas,” Mr Connors said.
Professor Fraser, 61, said although he was not associated with the PYL, he believed the league’s aims were legitimate.
“It seems ironic that leftists, who have made a meal out of (US) Senator (Joe) McCarthy and his tactics for over 50 years, now seem to be aping those political techniques,” Professor Fraser said.
Macquarie University deputy vice-chancellor Elizabeth More has asked for details about the allegations on Professor Fraser in an email to Mathew Henderson-Hau, who tracks extreme right-wingers for the group Fight Dem Back.
In a letter to the Parramatta Sun last week, Professor Fraser criticised Sudanese migration, saying: “Anglo-Australians are again expected to acquiesce in the steady erosion of their distinctive national identity.”
Ray Martin: This is Adolf Hitler stuff!
Canadian born Macquarie University public law professor Drew Fraser put in another grandiose media appearance last night on Channel Nine’s A Current Affair program with Ray Martin. Fraser, who is due to retire in June of next year, waxed lyrical on subjects like the genetic inferiority of sub-Saharan Africans and claimed that he sees “virtually no white Australians” whenever he visits Westfields Parramatta.
Full interview transcript below.
Multicultural lawn bowls
After well and truly putting the scourge of neo-Nazism and race-hate back in its hole, the residents of Toowoomba got down to the serious business of lawn bowls.
We tip our flat caps to you Toowoomba; what an ingenious way to build bridges.
Auckland mosque vandal appears in court
From Stuff:
Teenager accused of damaging mosques appears in court
16 July 2005
A teenager accused of vandalising mosques in seven attacks around Auckland may also be charged with inciting racial tension.
The 18-year-old from Flat Bush appeared in Manukau District Court yesterday facing seven charges of intentional damage to places of Muslim worship.
He was granted interim name suppression until a pre-depositions hearing in August.
Slightly built and of European origin, the short-haired teenager was dressed in a black jacket and loose-fitting jeans.
Academic stirs fight over race
(from SMH)
By Tim Dick
July 16, 2005
Macquarie University is standing by a senior academic who opposes non-white immigration, arguing that academics must be free to say what they wish, while also distancing itself from his views and declaring racism abhorrent.
An associate professor in the Department of Public Law, Andrew Fraser, claims that African migration increases crime, says HSC results point to a rising ruling class of Asians and wants Australia to withdraw from refugee conventions to avoid becoming “a colony of the Third World”.
Arrests made over Auckland mosque attacks
From Stuff.
Student arrested over damage to mosques
15 July 2005
An 18-year-old student has been arrested in connection with damage to mosques in Auckland last weekend, police said today.
He was due to appear in Manukau District Court this afternoon on seven charges of intentional damage.
The New Zealand Muslim Association mosque in Ponsonby had several windows damaged in one attack, Inspector Scott Webb of Auckland police northern communications centre said.
Windows were smashed at the Al Faroq Cultural Centre in Otahuhu, south Auckland.
Vandalisation at the Mt Roskill Mosque in Sandringham and the South Auckland Mosque and Otahuhu had also been reported.
The attacks happened two days after four bombs exploded in London, killing more than 50 people.
Whilst no-one at FDB questions the wanton barbarity and twisted motives of the extremists who carried out the London attacks, we being the tolerant and level-headed folk that we are understand that a miniscule (yet dangerous) fringe group of terrorists do not represent the majority of law abiding Muslims.
Responding to the London atrocity by carrying out acts of violence against a group of people who have openly condemned those responsible is not only an irrational act, it is a downright detrimental one to the community as a whole.
New Zealand does not thank this person(s) for giving their country the notoriety of being the first to suffer major a backlash against their Islamic community in the wake of the London attacks.
Though a suppression order is currently active on the name of the person arrested we urge you all to watch this space.
Seriously
Watch this space.
