Riot? What riot?

Denial doesn’t come more absolute than this, as Aaron Timms, eyes wide shut launches into a jokey, candy-colored, sugar-coated vision of how things will be here with more immigration of the recent kind. He begins:

Many of us have been struggling for years now to work out a strategy to prevent this country turning into France.

Last week Raphael Israeli, an Israeli academic, gave us the answer: keep the proportion of Muslims in Australia below 10 per cent of the national population. About 10per cent of France’s population is Muslim, and it is too late: France is now unequivocally French. Take a quick stroll through Paris, and you’ll see incontrovertible evidence of the devastating effect the Muslims have had - children can be seen skipping joyously down picturesque back streets with half-wrapped baguettes under their arms, people ride mopeds, French is widely spoken. It is a truly horrific sight.

Ha, ha, ha. Yet by the end of his she’ll-be-right argument, it seems Timms badly needs more light put on the subject.

Of course, Timms doesn’t mention the widespread Muslim riots in France, of course, or the growing attacks on Jews there, the rise of hate-preachers, the torching of buses, and the housing estates that are no-goes for non-Muslims.

Yes, I’m confident that we can work out things here, with the help of the many Muslims who are moderate. But this kind of wilful blindness serves no function other than to announce that the writer thinks himself nicer than anyone else.