NEWS.com.au takes you inside the secretive online world of Islamic extremists with a special report on how they are using the latest technology to drive propaganda campaigns, cheering Australian troop deaths and mocking our political leaders.

Just wondering: what took the MSM so long to finally get onto this… ?

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As always, the mosques play a major part in the jihad against Australia:

Natalie O’Brien | The Australian

Mosque group ‘in a line to jihad’

THE Islamic group accused of trying to seize control of Sydney’s Sefton mosque is part of a movement described as a recruiting ground for al-Qa’ida in a new terrorism intelligence report.

The group attempting the takeover has members who follow the Tablighi Jamaat stream of Islam, described this week bythe private US intelligence group Stratfor as an “indirect line to terrorism”.

Members of the Tablighi movement have recently been linked to a terrorist cell in Spain that was planning a bomb attack in Barcelona.

During a series of raids last week, Spanish police seized bomb-making materials and arrested 14 men who were said to be members of the Tablighi.

The Tablighi are influenced by a fundamentalist branch of Saudi Arabian-based Islam known as Wahabism. The sect has been linked to two July 7 London bombers, and failed shoe bomber Richard Reid is also known to have attended Tablighi meetings.

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Australian police chief calls for terror case blackout 

Better late than never: but with Australia’s judiciary in lofty ivory towers, obsessed with making political statements, Keelty will need the full support of the newly elected KRudd government, which is equally lofty when it comes to holy cows like ‘human rights’ for suspected terrorists: 

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia’s top police officer was under fire on Wednesday over calls for a blackout on media cover of terrorism investigations and trials following the controversial arrest and release last year of an Indian doctor. 

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty late on Tuesday said the public right to be informed about terrorism investigations should come second to the ability of security forces to operate against suspects in secret.

“Not subjugated, not quashed, not silenced, just delayed until the full gamut of the judicial process has been exhausted,” Keelty said.

* Go for it mate! You deserve a ‘fair go!’ 

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Eyes on “secular” Turkey:”

“We are all defenders of the secular state,” says Turkish PM as he moves against headscarf ban

From the ‘War is Deceit’ Department:

TURKISH Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he wants a ban on the Islamic headscarf in universities abolished “as soon as possible” despite harsh objections from secularists, Anatolia news agency reported.

“Wearing headscarves is a human rights issue” and “Turkey will be much mure secular if only our women are whacked under a burka”

Turkey’s elusive democracy is vanishing fast under the Islamic onslaught. But the NYT would have you believe its all cool….

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Turkish military quiet on head scarves 

PM wants university headscarf ban lifted asap
Article from: Agence France-Presse

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TURKEY - Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan has warned the European Union against becoming a “club of Christians” as he pushes for Ankara’s membership in the grouping.

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Alarm in Turkey over violence against Christians

A spate of recent attacks has highlighted the threat religious minorities face, mostly from marginal ultranationalist groups.
By Ayhan Simsek for Southeast European Times

* This is -of course- absolute bullshit. These groups are not ‘ultranationalist’- they are simply good, believing Muhammedans who kill unbelievers because they are UNBELIEVERS… That’s what Muslims do…

The EU has faulted Turkey for not providing adequate protection to Christians and other minorities.

* Did they really? We haven’t heard much about their indignation, have we?

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Adriano Franchini, a 65-year old Catholic priest, had just celebrated Sunday Mass at Izmir’s St. Anthony Church when a teenager scumbag approached him, expressing faked an interest in converting to Christianity. As the priest spoke with him, the young man — actually a fervent nationalist --brainwashed soldier of Allah,- flew into a rage and stabbed him in the stomach.

Franchini survived. But three Protestant missionaries targeted in an attack earlier in the year were less fortunate. They were tortured for hours before being killed by a group of young men jihad apes, in the eastern city of Malatya. In 2006, another Catholic priest — Andrea Santoro — was shot to death by a 16-year-old while kneeling in prayer.

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“JIHAD, JIHAD, JIHAD”- Cleric warns of more Beirut unrest

By SAM F. GHATTAS, Associated Press Writer

BEIRUT, Lebanon - A top Shiite cleric warned Monday that violence in Beirut could spin out of control, a day after seven protesters died in rioting and clashes in the city’s southern suburbs that were reminiscent of Lebanon’s 15-year civil war.

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Another honor killing in Jordan

Jordan quashes ‘honour crimes’ law

* This is the second honor killing in a month

Jordan’s Parliament has rejected the senate’s recommendation to uphold a law providing stiffer penalties for men who kill women in so-called “honour killings”.

“Sixty of the 85 deputies present in parliament voted to reject this temporarily because the amendments (made by the senate) were superficial and did not deal with the root of the issue,” Islamist deputy Adab Saoud told AFP.

Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.

Gotta uphold that honor, boys…

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UK: “Corruption is okay when Arabs are involved”

UK intelligence agency urged dropping of investigation into Saudi arms deal

LONDONISTAN - Britain’s head of overseas intelligence warned that Saudi Arabia likely would stop sharing vital information on terrorism if prosecutors pursued an investigation into alleged corruption in an arms deal, lawmakers disclosed Tuesday.

* Because the Saudis are such valuable friends and allies, you see. Surely that’s worth their skimming off a bit, innit?

From the ‘Gimme more’ department

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GRAVEYARD SHIFT FOR ISLAMIC JIHAD

A Visit to a Gaza Rocket Factory

By Ulrike Putz in the Gaza Strip

No matter what Israel does, the rockets from the Gaza Strip just keep coming. Young men like Abdul are the reason why. He studies by day, but at night he builds bombs for the Islamic Jihad. He and his fellow militants can produce up to 100 per night.

Spiegel Online

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Qaradwi gets his hemorrhoids treated in the UK, after all…

Just a few questions for al-Qaradawi: First, having previously traveled to France for medical care, why is it that you find yourself dependent on the West for advanced care? Why not Riyadh? Or Cairo, Dubai, or Islamabad? Second, having defended the execution of homosexuals, suppose while you’re getting medical care in the West, a gay doctor saves your life. Would you rather he didn’t? Should he still have to die?

“Row over Islamist cleric’s visa,” by Jamie Doward for The Observer:

* Now back to Global Warming…

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Red Ratbag Watch:

‘Anti-Mosque Initiatives Tap into a Fear of Islam’

SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERVIEW WITH EXPERT ON RIGHT-WING POPULISM

Oliver Geden

What in the f*kc makes this wanker an “expert on right-wing populism at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs?”

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* It gets confusing when Nazi’s call the resistance ‘Right Wing’ 

Across Europe, right-wing populist parties are gaining support by focusing on issues such as the construction of mosques. SPIEGEL ONLINE talks to right-wing populism expert far left ratbag Oliver Geden about the strategies used by the right and the pressure they put on the mainstream.

* Stay tuned. Who and what is ‘mainstream?’

It seems like mosques have never been more controversial in Europe. A right-wing populist party has just announced an attempt to get the construction of mosques banned (more…) in an Austrian state. Meanwhile a right-wing group in Cologne is trying to stop a mosque from being built there (more…).

But why have right-wing populist parties suddenly seized on the issue of mosques? SPIEGEL ONLINE talked to Oliver Geden, an expert on right-wing populism at the Berlin-based German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), about why mosques provide the perfect topic for right-wing parties and how they are forcing mainstream parties to shift to the right.

* Keep counting the ‘right wing’ smears!

SPIEGEL ONLINE: The right-wing populist party Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) is trying to get the construction of mosques and minarets banned in the state of Carinthia. Will they succeed?

Oliver Geden: I’m not sure if they will be successful. Their draft law is more an act of political communication. Jörg Haider’s BZÖ, the strongest party in Carinthia, needs a majority in the state parliament to get the law passed, and I’m not sure they will get one. Even if they do, with the support of the Christian Democrats, Austria’s high court may intervene, arguing that it is a case of protecting human rights and freedom of religion.

* Don’t forget there is no ‘freedom from religion’ under the sharia, you far left wankers!

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Is there popular support for such a ban among the general public in Austria?
Geden: I haven’t seen any poll numbers, so it’s hard to say for sure, but clearly it is an issue which is supported by that part of the population which supports right-wing populist parties like the BZÖ and the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Such issues also appeal to a broader section of the population beyond the right-wing parties’ usual constituency, but it is difficult to estimate how big that section is. One thing is sure, however: Within conservative and center-right parties there is a certain segment of the party base which feels disappointed that mainstream parties don’t address such issues. These disappointed voters might then be attracted to right-wing populist parties because they feel alienated from mainstream parties.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: What strategy are right-wing populist parties following regarding the issue of mosques?

Geden: These parties are very clever. They usually focus on the question of minarets, so they can say: “We’re not calling for a ban on Islam, but Muslims don’t need minarets to pray.” If they claim that mosques or even small prayer halls should be banned, then many people would say that was going too far. These right-wing populist parties like to provoke and present themselves as taking on issues which the establishment doesn’t want to discuss. That way they can appeal to a broader base. But they have to tread a fine line: On the one hand, they want to attract criticism, so as to raise their profile, but on the other hand they don’t want to be seen as too radical.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Is the issue of the construction of mosques a big issue in other European countries?

Geden: The BZÖ basically copied an initiative in Switzerland, where the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) is trying to collect 100,000 signatures so it can force a referendum on getting a ban on minarets written into the constitution. The whole process could take several years, but that’s not a problem for the SVP – if it takes a long time, then it means the issue is in the public eye and being discussed for longer.

We also have a similar case in Cologne, where a right-wing populist group is trying to block the construction of a symbolic large new mosque. There, the mayor, Fritz Schramma, is in favor of the Muslim community having the right to build such a mosque and supports a compromise based on the height of the minarets.

However, the issue is not being discussed in mainstream politics in Belgium or France. The mainstream parties there feel they can ignore the issue — at least for now. Sometimes these parties suddenly realize after a couple of years that the issue has entered the mainstream of public opinion.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: What effect do these right-wing populist parties have on the policies of mainstream parties?

Geden: At least on some issues, we are seeing a shift to the right. For example, in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, a Muslim community asked a local authority if they thought it would be possible to build a mosque with a minaret. Within a matter of days, there was a legal discussion as to a possible law to regulate minarets. Ten years ago, no one would have thought about the question of regulation.

Or take the issue of a ban on wearing headscarves in the public sector, for example. Ten years ago, that was an issue for right-wing populist parties. Now many conservative parties in Europe are in favor of a headscarf ban.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Why has that changed in recent years?

Geden: Obviously the crucial event was the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and the rise in Islamist terrorism. Many people now tend to fear Muslims and feel anxious about so-called “parallel” societies. That’s the demand side, if you will. On the supply side, political parties are taking the initiative and thinking about what kinds of laws they could pass, and they come up with ideas such as regulating minarets. The man in the street has probably never thought about minarets before, but it taps into his fear of Islam and he can easily relate to the issue. The right-wing populist parties have an underlying narrative which is against Muslims, but in public they only say that they are against minarets, which they see as symbols of Islamic superiority. Then, if they are accused of being racist, they can counter by saying: “Well, we’re only against minarets — what’s your problem?”

* Islam is not a race, you far left wankers. Being against Islamic superiority is not being ‘racist’- you are, because you hate your own race, culture & civilization!

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SPIEGEL ONLINE: Are we seeing more pan-European cooperation between right-wing populist parties on issues such as mosque building? Politicians from Austria’s Freedom Party have supported the anti-mosque initiative in Cologne, for example.

Geden: Fotr nationalist parties, it is not easy to find common ground. Attempts at Europe-wide co-operation have often failed because these parties weren’t able to find an enemy they could all agree on. An alliance of nationalist parties in the European Parliament failed last November (more…), because of growing tensions between Italian and Romanian nationalists. Some of these parties, namely the Freedom Party of Austria, the French National Front, the Belgian Vlaams Belang and the Bulgarian Ataka have recently anounced to try it again. By the end of 2008, they want to bring together at least 10 far-right European parties. The “struggle against Islam” will doubtlessly be one of the project’s favored subjects.

* Left is where the thumb is on the right

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SPIEGEL ONLINE: What can the Muslim community do to counter the trend?

* Pack up. Buy train tickets…

Geden: The key word is communication. On the one hand, the Muslim community has to communicate well with the general public. In the Cologne case, there have been certain shortcomings in terms of communication on the Muslim side, although of course one can’t only blame them for the way the public debate has developed.

* This far left jackass would be the first to blame the Muslims for anything…

On the other hand, sometimes the best thing is for the Muslim community simply not to react or only to do so very calmly. These right-wing populist parties want, above all, to provoke — they want to claim that they are discussing issues which the establishment wants to avoid at any cost. So, sometimes the best thing is simply to ignore them or, even better, to respond in a very calm way. After a couple of days, the issue will have disappeared from the public eye.

* Hardly. Just watch!
But then, if a right-wing party is getting, say, 30 percent of the vote, as in Switzerland or in parts of Austria, then the media can no longer ignore the issues that they bring up. Otherwise the right-wing parties can claim that the media and the establishment are building a bloc against them and claim that they fear discussion. It’s a fine line.

Interview conducted by David Gordon Smith

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“Islamophobia” Alert: Europeans think Islam is dangerous!

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Rowan Williams wants to revive the inquisition:

Archbishop of Canterbury calls for new law to punish ‘thoughtless or cruel’ words

Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has called for new laws to protect religious sensibilities that would punish “thoughtless and cruel” styles of speaking.

Dr Williams, who has seen his own Anglican Communion riven by fierce invective over homosexuality, said the current blasphemy law was “unworkable” and he had no objection to its repeal.

But whatever replaces it should “send a signal” about what was acceptable.

This should be done by “stigmatising and punishing extreme behaviours” that have the effect of silencing argument.

The Archbishop, delivering the James Callaghan Memorial Lecture in London this afternoon, said it should not just be a few forms of extreme behaviour that were deemed unacceptable, leaving everything else as fair game.

“The legal provision should keep before our eyes the general risks of debasing public controversy by thoughtless and, even if unintentionally, cruel styles of speaking and acting,” he said.

The last conviction under Britain’s blasphemy law was in 1979. The Government recently indicated it is willing to amend the Criminal Justice Bill to abolish the offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel.

The High Court last month refused to allow a prosecution of the director general of the BBC for blasphemy over the screening of the controversial musical, Jerry Springer - The Opera.

In 2006, Parliament passed the Racial and Religious Hatred Act, which creates an offence of inciting or “stirring up” hatred against a person on the grounds of their religion. But the act was so watered down during its passage through Parliament that its critics fear it will be almost useless.

A dangerous lunatic, this doctor evil:

The Archbishop appeared in his speech to be making excuses for those who rioted about the Salman Rushdie case and threatened the author with death. He also seems to think that those who created lethal street protests over the Danish cartoons had a point. “The Archbishop’s speech is, at base, self-serving and dangerously illiberal,” Mr Sanderson said. “We certainly hope that the Government is not now going to bring forward something even more extreme as a quid pro quo for abolishing blasphemy.”

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With thanks to the 1389 Blog

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“Bill Clinton Lied - No One Died?” Bzzzzzt! WRONG!

From the Willie Clitman Files:

Al Salibiyyah:

The Savage Nation On Bill Clinton & The Kosovo War

Bill Clinton is responsible for the murder of countless civilians. His administration, the biased media, and the liberal left have hidden this fact from the American people. The shameful attack on Kosovo is one of the most important - yet least understood - events in modern Jihad. It is imperative that the truth is exposed.

In the video below talks about the Clinton lies in regard to the Kosovo War. The first 2 minutes and 25 seconds are about Jesse Jackson receiving the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award, and second only to the Medal of Honor. After that, Savage disputes all the lies the Clinton Administration told about the Kosovo War:

More on the Kosovo War and Clinton Lies: Link

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Bosnians & Arab Fighters against the Christian Serbs 

Plotters wanted to kill British soldier ‘like a pig’

From the “Sensitive Police-Raids” Department

An Islamist fanatic has admitted to hatching a plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier “like a pig” in a lock-up garage, a court has heard.

Parviz Khan, 38, an unemployed charity worker, planned to film the beheading and post the footage on the internet, Leicester Crown Court was told.

Khan, the ringleader, and three others admitted to a series of charges surrounding the plot earlier this month, but it could not be reported until a jury trying two other men on similar charges was sworn in today.

Nigel Rumfitt QC, prosecuting, told the jury Khan intended to use drug dealers to kidnap the unnamed soldier while he was enjoying a night out in Birmingham’s Broad Street entertainment quarter.

Khan, of Alum Rock, Birmingham, was “a man who has the most violent and extreme Islamist views”, Mr Rumfitt said. “He was enraged by the idea that there are Muslim soldiers in the British army.”

Once the soldier was bundled into a car, he would have been taken to a lock-up garage, Mr Rumfitt added. “There he would be murdered by having his head cut off like a pig.

“Not Guilty”

“This atrocity would be filmed… and the film released to cause panic and fear within the British armed forces and the wider public.”

Amjad Mahmood, 33, and Zahoor Iqbal, 31, who went on trial today, have pleaded not guilty to involvement in the plot.

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UK: PC Police Must Consult With Muslims Before Terror Raids*

Police found ‘disturbingly violent’ Islamist material in terror raids 

Police in the case of a plot to kidnap and kill a British soldier and the shipping of equipment to terrorists in Pakistan found “disturbingly violent” Islamist material during searches of homes in Birmingham.
Zahoor Iqbal, 30, is standing trial at Leicester Crown Court charged along with kidnap plotter Parviz Khan with helping to send the cargoes and being in possession of material that would help terrorists.

Jurors were told how a search of Iqbal’s home in Perry Barr found a bag of CDs and DVDs, including a computer disc entitled Encyclopaedia Jihad.

The material included electronic “books” on everything from booby traps and grenades to United States Army field manuals and a “Mujahideen poison book”.

Prosecuting, Nigel Rumfitt QC said: “This man was in possession of material that goes way beyond a healthy interest in world affairs from a Muslim viewpoint and indicates an unhealthy interest if not obsession with extremism.”

Iqbal denies possessing a document or record likely to be useful to a terrorist, namely the “Encyclopaedia Jihad” disc.

* He’s a Muslim: what do you expect? 

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 Here’s his speech from August 2007, when he started this initiative, translated by Beila Rabinowitz of Militant Islam Monitor:

 Enough is Enough: Ban the Koran

Geert Wilders opinion piece in the Volkskrant 8/8/07

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The Koran is a facist book which incites violence, writes Geert Wilders. That is why this book, just like Mein Kampf, must be banned.

I have been proclaiming this for years:

A moderate Islam does not exist.

For those who don’t want to believe me: read the speech which the Italian writer Oriana Fallaci who alas, died last year held in New York on November 28th 2007 when she received a prize for her heroic resistance to Islamo facism and her struggle for freedom:

“A moderate Islam does not exist.

It does not exist because there is no difference between Good Islam and Bad Islam. There is Islam and that it the end of it. Islam is the Koran, and nothing other than the Koran. And the Koran is the Mein Kampf of a religion that desires to eliminate others- non -Muslims-who are called infidel dogs, and inferior creatures. Read the Koran, that Mein Kampf, yet again. In whatever version and you will see that the evil which the sons of Allah against us and themselves has perpetrated comes from that book”.

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The ‘Sensitive Types’ are not much help: 

* Wilders forthcoming film gives the right & the left the shakes. And while they run for cover, the Muhammedan’s are seething:

From a Muhammedan agit-prop site:

 Geert Wilders Inc. Inaugerating more energy efficient ovens for Muslims.

Older Nazi models not environmentally friendly! New models have a separate compartment for burning books. Interview with Herr Reltih Dutch

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*  We have shown the world how good Holland was in WW2 and in Indonesia.”
*  “Holland is a industrial power, and has been since before the Wars”.
*   “Geerts is It’s not just about the Quran…it is about business…and ovens” Herr Rilteh Dutch
*   Mr. Geert Wilders and his defenders in the Netherlands (that is all of the Netherlands) have brought out the dusty manuals on oven construction and ordered new models.

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Strange: the Arabs have no problem admitting that Islam causes terror:

Saudi Prince Al Faisal admits: Our curriculum produces terrorists 

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From the “Who Are the Brain-Police” Department:

No problem with Barbie…

But this is not the face of Australia…

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A TAXPAYER funded program suggests Barbie may be Italian and asks whether she likes Spider-Man in a bizarre bid to tackle racism in childcare centres.

The ‘Exploring Multiculturalism, Anti-Bias and Social Justice in Children’s Services’ project is funded by the Federal Government and put out by Children’s Services Central, a network of children service bodies in NSW.

Designed to assist early childcare workers in NSW, the document gives advice on dealing with racism.

It comes after The Daily Telegraph revealed the State Government has funded an anti-racism program in a NSW pre-school for the first time.

The pilot scheme at the Auburn Long Day Care Centre involves teaching children the national anthems of different countries and celebrating ethnic festivals such as Chinese New Year and Muslim holidays.

In contrast, the wacky teaching resource uses the Cronulla riots as a case study in an anti-racism lesson entitled “All the Lebs Are Bad Guys”.

Excerpts from another lesson relays a conversation about Barbie’s ethnic origins between a group of young children from different cultural backgrounds.

* Check out the title they gave this Far Left pop-tart:

A spokeswoman for

“federal Early Childhood Parliamentary Secretary”

Maxine McKew did not comment on whether the Government would consider withdrawing the resource.

* Maxine could not be contacted to confirm that her multiculti-diversity policies were also implemented in Muslim schools….

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Muslims ‘lay siege to Australian hospital’

Dhimmi Watch

After the death of a young Muslim man in a car crash in Sydney last month, an Islamic crowd invaded a hospital in order to stop medical tests being carried out on the body in contravention of Sharia law, according to the Dhimmi Watch website.

If the report is true, then this is another example of a global campaign by fundamentalist Muslims to replace civil law by Sharia - a process that has already taken root in British cities.

The Australian story is quite extraordinary – though, as Dhimmi Watch points out, it is based on an anonymous report. I’d be interested if anyone can stand it up. Here are some extracts from the story. Bear in mind that, according to Islamic custom, a body must be buried within 24 hours of death.

The antecedent to the Muslim incursion on the Hospital came about on Monday the 17 December last, when a young Muslim male was airlifted to the Liverpool Hospital’s emergency ward by helicopter. The 19-year-old had been in a serious car accident, his car left the road and crashed into a tree … he died of his injuries, and it seems he and his hijab-wearing girl friend had been celebrating the end of Ramadan.

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New crop of Jihadis is ’set to step up’

A NEW crop of home-grown jihadis, groomed to step up and replace the leaders of Australian terror cells who have been arrested or jailed, is almost “mature” enough to launch an operation, an international terror expert has warned.

The warning came after the release of figures showing the Australian Federal Police had 76 new counter-terrorism cases to investigate in the past financial year. At June 30 last year, the AFP had 83 cases being examined by its counter-terrorism team.

The latest so-called network of militant extremists has been steadily evolving and its members are almost ready to take over from their predecessors, according to Rohan Gunaratna, international terrorism expert and the author of Inside al-Qa’ida.

Dr Gunaratna said the home-grown terror suspects had been under investigation by Australian law enforcement agencies for some time. The new networks were very similar in “character and composition” to those that had been disrupted by law enforcement agencies.

“Law enforcement has only peeled back one layer of jihadis,” he said. “The second rung is maturing and ripe for another operation, possibly in the coming months.”

Intelligence sources say they are aware of the new threats, but deny there is any evidence that the groups may be close to planning an attack in Australia.

The AFP yesterday declined to comment on Dr Gunaratna’s warnings.

AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty and NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione have revealed that they are investigating new terrorist threats, particularly in NSW.

Statistics in the latest AFP annual report show that in 2006-07, they had 76 new counter-terrorism cases, they finalised another 83 cases and at June 2006 they had a total of 83 open cases.

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