Danby calls on Backman to apologise

Local Al-Qaida franchisee Abu Bakar Bashir insisted Australians were murdered in Bali because

"the Crusaders took Muslim lands (he was referring to Australian's intervention in East Timor)".

It is offensive for Age writer Michael Backman to use the blood of 80 Australians for his bigoted theories. Crass stereotypes about young Israelis not paying bills in Nepal feeds into offensive & primitive prejudice about ‘penny- pinching' Jews. Backman's poisonous article in Saturdays business Age has no place in serious commentary, I call on Backman to apologise.