Deliberate anti-Muslim and anti-Arab Propaganda including Denial of Right of Reply by Radio 2GB

Deliberate anti-Muslim and anti-Arab Propaganda including Denial of Right of Reply by Radio 2GB

Faruque Ahmed P O Box – 349 Alexandria, NSW – 2015 Mobile: 041 091 4118 Email: union_faruque@yahoo.com.au The Chief Executive Officer Radio 2GB Level 1, Building C, 33-35 Saunders St Pyrmont NSW 2009, Australia Phone: (02) 8570 0000 Fax: (02) 8570 0219 Re: Deliberate anti-Muslim and anti-Arab Propaganda including Denial of Right of Reply by Radio 2GB Dear Sir/Madam Further to Taxi Mafia Inspired Blockade (Radio 2GB) below, your radio station has been inciting sustained prolonged hatred against Aboriginals, ethnic minorities, Muslims and Arabs for a long time. Most of these incitements mentioned above are based on false and fabricated assumptions and scattered cases. Most importantly, almost all of your shock jocks do not provide any right of reply to targeted groups mentioned above. In good old days, we used to hear one or two faint opposing voices at 2GB. These days, we hear none! Monday, 8/2/2010, at about 1.50 a.m., David Oldfield went on an anti-Muslim orgy based on supposedly an email from someone about a Turkish father and grandfather allegedly buried their daughter alive for some reason. This type of obscure and trumped up stories has been used many times before to insult and abuse Muslims and Arabs!, Where as Stories like an Anglo-Saxon Caucasian raped his mother, etc. has never been an issue to put all Anglo-Saxon majority Australians down Salman Rushdie, Ershad Manji, Ayaan Hirshi Ali, and Norma Khouri and far too many notorious identities were suitably chosen to defame and oppress Muslim communities. Most of these pied pipers’ allegations were never proven correct to be wrong and ill-motivated. Even we were told that some of them were haunted by the FBI like Osama bin Laden! Yet, many bad media outlets made millions of stories and documentaries against Muslims and Arabs based on nitrogenous wastes. Since then, these junk media empires are using those baseless anti-Muslim and anti-Arab propaganda materials like the Gospel truth without any remorse whatsoever! Anyway, these days, your station's reception staff has orders not to pick up the phone if I ring from my mobile phone. So I used a different technique to ring your station last night! I got in like Flynn. I said to the switch person, “I got in straight away, that means you are not busy?” She replied, “no, five people ahead of you”. I then said, “no problem, this is Faruque Ahmed and may I ask you a few questions: 1. Does your station have a policy to incite against Muslims and Arabs? 2. Does your station have a policy to not to provide a right of reply to Muslims and Arabs? 3. Does your station have a policy to ban me personally?” She then became very angry, agitated and defensive. She also told me that she does not make any editorial or management policies. At one stage she cut me off for no reason and she did not bother to take my phone number too. Since then your station aired many anti-Muslim and anti-Arab propaganda materials. In frustration I rang your station again at about 3.10 a.m., to set the record straight. In light of ongoing prejudice and bigotry emanating from your station for a long time, I wanted to say, 1. “Many non-Arab and non-Muslim people have raped their own daughters including fathered children from their own daughters beside many other despicable crimes! Have you or your station ever condemned them or exposed them like the Muslims and Arabs?” Alas! I have not had a chance to pass the message as the switch person left the answering machine on. Nonetheless, I left similar message to the answering machine. In light of ongoing and deliberate hate-a-thon continuously evaporating from your radio station into the clean air of NSW, it becomes a must for the victim to react in defense and to stop these cruel and barbaric incitements against the Arabs, Muslims, migrants and Aboriginals immediately. Failure to do so may attract legal action by your victims in due course of time. Sincerely Yours Faruque Ahmed Tuesday, February 09, 2010 Faruque Ahmed P O Box – 349 Alexandria, NSW – 2015 Mobile: 041 091 4118 Email: union_faruque@yahoo.com.au The Chief Executive Officer Radio 2GB Level 1, Building C, 33-35 Saunders St Pyrmont NSW 2009, Australia Phone: (02) 8570 0000 Fax: (02) 8570 0219 Re: Taxi Mafia Inspired Blockade (Radio 2GB) Dear Sir/Madam I am a taxi industry activist and I have been exposing taxi industry corruption for a long time. Recently, the Sydney Morning Herald made a wonderful contribution to expose the long overdue exposure of taxi mafia and beyond. As a result a few legal proceedings, investigation and inquiries including the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry with pragmatic “terms of references” are going to take place soon. Beside my taxi industry activism, I am a prolific contributor of talk back shows including your radio station. Sadly, over the last few weeks I have been silenced from the talk back radio without any reason whatsoever! However, it is noticeable that many advertisements by the NSW Taxi Council Limited and taxi companies are appearing in your station lately! One may think, maybe the commercial inducement of the taxi industry or some other factors are instrumental behind my blockade in the talk back shows. I hope you will be kind enough to clear the air in this regard at your earliest opportunity. Sincerely Yours Faruque Ahmed Friday, November 20, 2009