The Southbank Quisling

DOWN here in Melbourne, Jon Faine has just taken to the air on Their ABC, starting his programme with reference to the "inexplicably horrible" murder of a London soldier.

No mention of attackers' religion so far.....

....Now he has a Pommy accented reporterette, Barbara Miller, filling him in on the latest details....

Still nothing on the animals' creed....

...Faine wants to know what these ambulatory arguments for capital punishment  meant by "our country"....

....reporterette is puzzled, alluding to "much speculation" about their nation of origin... Golly gosh, they're both stumped, absolutely baffled. Two media geniuses, and neither will announce the obvious: the killers were referring to, you know, Muslim lands....

Miller has toddled off after the conversation's first reference to the Prophet's disciples. It wasn't the London murderers, however, but an utterance freighted with foreboding of what prejudice and devilry the English Defence League might perpetrate in London's "Islamic areas". 

"Whether or not it falls within the definition of terrorism is beside the point," Faine opines of the soldier's slaying ...

... Now it is a tame Melbourne Muslim who is ushered to the microphone. Much concern about what the attack will do to spoil the public image of Islam. There will be much beard-wagging in the mosques tonight as the faithful contemplate how best to endure the unenlightened view that Muslims are more likely to kill without reason than adherents of other faiths.....

First caller, Fred from Williamstown, wonders why anyone should be surprised... "We've been bombing the crap out of them for years" ... goes on to mention that Americans dropped "2000-pound bombs" on "crowded restaurants" in an attempt to kill Saddam's sons.

Next caller, from Altona, explains that English-accented Muslims killing English soldiers on London Streets is entirely predictable because "we" inflict  terrorism on them and no lists of those killed by the West's bombers are ever published.....

.... finally, a female caller urges listeners to read the Koran and absorb the obvious truth that Islam is a violent creed....

Faine keeps interrupting, observing that "the Bible is full of violent passages too" and that there is something unsettling about all religions' texts.

By later today, Faine et al will have settled on their narrative: Once again, as always, the real perpetrators will be the victims.

UPDATE: Faine once again quoting Fred from Williamstown, "If we continue dropping bombs we can expect some blowback," he says, before moving on to the next topic.