August 18, 2008
Tortured by an evil clown? International cleaning business tycoon Mamdouh Habib has to pay the man: Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib has been fined in a Sydney court for swearing and offensive behaviour at a McDonald’s restaurant. Ryde Local Court Magistrate Jennifer Betts convicted Habib last month of behaving in an offensive manner and using offensive [...]
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August 18, 2008
Australia: judge decrees that “lesser jihad” illegal But still probably best to drop the problematic word, jihad, and just call it “violence,” to be on the safe side. “Judge tells terror trial religiously motivated violence illegal,” by Gary Hughes, for theAustralian, August 18, via JW: RELIGIOUSLY motivated violence was against the law, no matter which religious group [...]
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