Beaten. Bitten. Chained.

What’s the world coming to?

Can’t a parent discipline their kid in this country without being whisked before a judge?

I mean, what Aussie mum hasn’t beaten her 21-year-old daughter with a garden hose, bit her, bashed her head into a concrete wall repeatedly, and then had her chained up for refusing to marry her cousin?

Wait a minute…

• A young woman was brutally assaulted and chained by her parents in NSW for refusing an arranged marriage to her cousin.
• Her mother allegedly inflicted shocking violence, while her father padlocked a steel chain around her neck as punishment.
• This act of cruelty occurred under the banner of a multicultural system that’s failing to uphold core Australian values.
• Courts appear to side with perpetrators over victims, with the mother’s bail conditions eased while the daughter flees home.
• Mass migration without assimilation is enabling imported ideologies that reject women’s rights and basic human decency.

The scenario I outlined above isn’t satire. It isn’t a joke. It actually happened, right here in Australia.

Enam Hmeed and Mohamed Al-Fadhli were arrested after their daughter, Rhonda, was found chained by the neck in their convenience store in western NSW. Why? Because she dared to keep in touch with her boyfriend. Because she refused to marry her cousin, as ordered by her father.

Her mother allegedly smashed her head into a concrete wall, bit her like an animal, and flogged her with a garden hose. Her father then padlocked a steel chain around her neck, yes, an actual chain, before thrashing her again, this time for the crime of using a phone to call her boyfriend.

Let me repeat that for those at the back: A young Aussie woman was physically assaulted, bitten, beaten, and imprisoned like a dog for refusing to comply with an arranged marriage to her first cousin, and it happened right in the heart of suburban Australia, under the very system our leaders keep calling a “multicultural success story.”

Still think multiculturalism is working?

Because this isn’t diversity. This is radical Islam, this is imported tribalism, this is backward cultural baggage being dragged into a country that’s already got enough of its own problems. We are told to accept everything in the name of tolerance, but here’s the truth: tolerance of the intolerable is cowardice.

When did we decide that this kind of medieval madness was acceptable in suburban Australia? When did our leaders sign us up to a system where a girl can be brutalised for refusing to marry her cousin, and the courts respond by… easing the mother’s bail conditions?

That’s right. The same mother who allegedly beat her daughter, bit her, bashed her head into concrete, and helped chain her up like livestock… she’s now allowed back home. Meanwhile, the daughter has vowed never to set foot there again. So who’s the system really protecting?

You and I both know the answer.

This is the cost of mass migration without assimilation. This is what happens when you import communities that refuse to adopt Australian values. When you build enclaves, not integration. When you let imported ideologies fester, untouched, because to question them is to be called racist, xenophobic, or worse.

And we’re sick of it.

We are sick of watching young women suffer because our politicians are too spineless to say what needs to be said. We are sick of the lies such as “all cultures are equal,” “Islam is a religion of peace,” and “diversity is our strength.” No. Not when diversity means chaining your daughter for dating the wrong man.

You want to come to Australia? Fine. But you live by Australian laws. You respect our women. You ditch the forced cousin-marriage crap. You assimilate. You don’t bring your tribal bloodlines, your honour codes, and your stone-age attitudes here and expect the courts, the police, or the people to look the other way.

But for decades, that’s exactly what we’ve done. We’ve looked the other way. We’ve bent over backwards. We’ve sacrificed our values on the altar of multiculturalism. And now the chickens are coming home to roost, chained, bruised, and terrified, like Rhonda in that corner store.

George Christensen was a Member of Parliament from 2010 - 2022 who popularly represented the federal electorate of Dawson in north Queensland for the LNP, part of the Government coalition. He explores both the big philosophical questions of our time and current events from a conservative worldview. He comes from a farming family and his background is in journalism and business.