Waleed Aly
Amanda Divine
Amanda Divine, journalist for the Daily Telegraph writes:
KUDOS to Waleed Aly. Not only did the
most famous Muslim in Australia win the Gold Logie, he also ridiculed
Australia’s entertainment establishment so subtly in his acceptance speech that
they gave him a standing ovation. Wonderful Waleed. Hit me again!
“Do not adjust your sets … there’s
nothing wrong with the picture,” he told the assembled luvvies at the Logies
awards in Melbourne on Sunday night. “I’m sure there’s an Instagram filter you
can use to return things to normal.”
Yuck Yuk. Get it? Because Waleed’s skin
is a shade or two darker than his The Project co-hosts’, racists should look
through a filter that turns him white. Inspired! The audience laughed and
clapped in appreciation at his joke.
Wonderful Waleed, political activist,
human rights lawyer, academic, newspaper columnist, TV host, GQ cover star,
darling of the Left, poster boy of Muslim victimhood, now crowned the king of
Australian television, up there with Ray Martin and Bert Newton.
And Waleed did not disappoint. He
dedicated his Logie to “Mustafa” and anyone else who can’t get a job in TV with
an “unpronounceable” name like Waleed.
“It matters to them for a particular
reason. That reason was brought home shudderingly not so long ago when someone
who is in this room … came up to me and said: ‘I really hope you win. My name
is Mustafa. But I can’t use that name because I won’t get a job’.” At this
point, the camera cut to actress Noni Hazlehurst, crying tears of joy, or
perhaps sadness. It was hard to tell.
“To Dimitri and Mustafa and everyone
else with unpronounceable names like, I don’t know, Waleed, I want to say one
thing: that I am incredibly humbled ... But I’m also incredibly saddened
because the truth is you deserve more numerous and more worthy avatars than
that.
“And I don’t know if and when that’s
going to happen but if tonight means anything … it’s that the Australian
public, our audience, as far as they’re concerned there is absolutely no reason
why that can’t change.”
The audience loved his speech. There
were whistles and cheers. What a guy.
But it wasn’t long before the Mustafa
sob story unravelled. Poor Mustafa, who couldn’t get a job in racist Australian
TV unless he changed his name, turned out to be Tyler De Nawi, star of Here
Come The Habibs. In other words, he got the job precisely because he was a
Mus-tafa. Who else could credibly act in a sitcom about a Lebanese Australian
family who win the lottery and move from Lakemba to Vaucluse?
The irony is that leftists tried to
close down the show because it alienated “non-white Australians by using cheap
racist jokes,” as the Change.org petition put it.
Despite their efforts, the show went on
and Mustafa, aka Tyler, kept his job.
So why did Waleed have to concoct a
tale of Muslim victimhood on Logies night?
Why couldn’t he just say thanks? Why
couldn’t he graciously acknowledge that the audience, or whoever votes for the
Logies, anointed him Australia’s best TV personality and doesn’t that show all
the fearmongering about racism and Islamophobia is wrong. Instead he gave a
sermon about how the TV industry needs to “change”.
A Muslim just won the Gold Logie. The
system he rails against gave a plum, prime-time hosting gig to a bloke named
Waleed. What has to change?
Perhaps he wants a diversity quota on
TV. Muslims make up 2.2 per cent of Australia’s population. Waleed is the first
Muslim in 56 years to win a Gold Logie, which means Muslims are now slightly
under-represented at 1.8 per cent.
If he does a Ray Martin and wins again
next year, the quota will be exceeded, at 3.5 per cent. We should expect Waleed
to apologise to the Lee Lins and Luigis and Imeldas for hogging the category,
and that’s not even taking into account the other ethnic and gender fluid
identities that make up this great nation.
He could always wait a few years. To
reach the diversity target of 2.2 per cent, a Gold Logie would need to be
delivered to Waleed or another Muslim entertainer by 2060, assuming the Muslim
population remains constant. It could get complicated.
But that’s OK, because diversity isn’t
really Waleed’s goal. He was just playing to type.
His extraordinary success is in large
part due to the self-loathing of the Left and their relentless need to elevate
themselves above the mob, those suburban rednecks who lack their multiculti
sophistication.
This virtue-signalling reached its
zenith during the Lindt siege when social justice warriors were busy tweeting
“I’ll ride with you” hashtags to combat imaginary Islamophobia while the poor
hostages were being menaced at gunpoint by an Islamist ordering up ISIS flags
for decorations.
Waleed taps into this leftist status
anxiety so skilfully. So when the most famous Muslim in Australia is feted
non-stop in every media outlet and crowned king of Australian TV, that is
evidence of Islamophobia. Just another opportunity for leftist
self-flagellation.
Waleed couldn’t just
say “ thanks”, because that would erode his product.
Waleed Aly and his Australian wife Susan Carland
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