Controversial political commentator: “Waleed Aly is a total coward”
<p>He’s been dubbed a “Nazi sympathiser” and “paedophile apologist”, and now, controversial political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has touched down in Australia, and he’s arrived packed with punches aimed at some of our biggest names.</p>
<p>“I think Australia might need saving from itself sometime soon, so I’m here as a sort of warning from America,” the alt-right speaker told <a href="http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/controversial-rightwing-speaker-milo-yiannopoulos-lands-in-sydney-with-a-bang/news-story/4e1e861c30954eed558445a84542bdd4" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">news.com.au</span></strong></a>.</p>
<p>Among British-born Yiannopoulos’ targets are Studio 10’s Jessica Rowe, Today’s Karl Stefanovic, Greens leader Richard Di Natale and Senator Sarah Hanson-Young. But the 33-year-old’s biggest enemy appears to be The Project’s Waleed Aly, who he called “an intellectual lightweight”, a “total coward” and “insubstantial".</p>
<p>“What I really want from them is a serious substantive debate on the issues. I want to talk to Jessica Rowe about why she thinks there is rape culture on campus when there isn’t, why she thinks there is a wage gap when there isn’t.”</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Image credit: Milo Yiannopoulos/Facebook.</em></p>
<p>Yiannopoulos claims that, outside of the US, Australia is his biggest audience, saying his tour here has already sold more than 10,000 tickets – despite major news programs like The Project, Studio 10 and the Today show all cancelling their scheduled interviews with the “one-man wrecking crew”.</p>
<p>He says Stefanovic, Aly and others “have assumed that I’m dumber than I am, assumed that I was some kind of idiotic reactionary Trump-voting lunatic or something, then they realised this person’s quite complex and complicated and interesting and obviously very popular.”</p>
<p>The conservative “cultural libertarian”, who has long been a critic of feminism, Islam, social justice and political correctness, also took aim at Australia’s marriage equality debate. Yiannopoulos, who has in fact been in a same-sex marriage since September, criticised politicians for yesterday passing a same-sex marriage bill that he feels doesn’t offer protection for freedom of religious expression.</p>
