Murder of Muslim relegated to page 18, next to the cheap beer ad

Adam Abu-Mahmoud passed away in Liverpool Hospital on 18 July after he was chased and repeatedly stabbed by a group of teenagers in Sydney’s south-west. The paramedics arrived to find Adam bleeding in the arms of his father, with the knife still lodged in his back.

Had this been a white teenager attacked by a group of Muslim or Arab men, the mainstream media would have burst into life to mourn the (white) life lost and to decry the barbarism of Islam, the problem of radicalised Muslim youth and the Arab gangs terrorising our streets.

Instead, this murder was treated with the callous Islamophobia that the Australian establishment has perfected: relegated to page 18 of the Daily Telegraph, squeezed alongside an advertisement for First Choice Liquor. A teenager murdered, sure, but have you heard about the sweet deal on the 12 pack of Coronas?

Such is the backward world we live in. Racists like Sonia Kruger are given a national platform to play the victim, cry “unsafe” and sob their pathetic tears having been called out for bigotry, while the real violence experienced by Arabs and Muslims hardly earns a mention, let alone any sympathy.