What kind of society have we become? What kind of cowardly, pathetic wimps rule our Main Stream Media and deliberately sell us out for stupidity and misguided political correctness?
Read this: Do you find the words ‘Muslim’ or ‘Islamic’ anywhere?
Nine men accused of stockpiling chemicals and explosive detonators to carry out a terrorist attack have been ordered to stand trial in the Supreme Court in Sydney next month.
The men were arrested in 2005 in Australia’s largest-ever counter-terrorism operation and are accused of plotting to carry out an attack on a target in Sydney.
The office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) has confirmed the group will appear for arraignment in the Supreme Court in Sydney on the June 1.
Andrew Bolt comments on his blog:
* This is not reporting but censoring – denying the public information it requires to better understand. Clearly the ABC reporters feel there are some things its ABC readers had better not know, given their warped characters.
Fortunately the Australian informs, as they should:
Nine men to stand trial over terror plot
May 01, 2007
NINE Muslim men accused of stockpiling chemicals and explosive detonators have been ordered to stand trial on charges of planning terror attacks in Sydney, court officials said today.
Magistrate Michael Price yesterday ruled that the men must stand trial after they were arrested last year in Australia’s largest-ever counter-terrorism operation, a court official said.
“The nine were committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court and will appear in that court on June 1, 2007,” the official said.
The nine appeared in March in a magistrates court in Penrith, west of Sydney, under a heavy blanket of security to allow Mr Price to establish if they had a case to answer.
They were charged with planning terrorist strikes in Sydney, reportedly including the bombing of its Lucas Heights nuclear reactor.
They were arrested in Sydney in November 2005, days after the Government passed tough new anti-terrorism legislation making it easier for police to prosecute suspects involved in the early stages of planning attacks.
Prime Minister John Howard pushed the legislation through parliament after expressing concern that Australia could face attacks similar to the deadly London transport bombings in July 2005.
The missing link:
The above article is today up on Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch, and he rightly points out that the 9 accused were disciples of Abdul Nacer Benbrika, a seriously nasty peace of work, featured here:
I must preach holy war, says teacher
By Michelle Grattan
Political editor
August 5, 2005
Abdul Nacer Benbrika, also known as Abu Bakr.
Photo: Courtesy ABC TV
A Melbourne radical Islamic teacher last night described Osama bin Laden as “a great man” and declared he would be betraying his religion if he told students not to train in terrorist camps.
Abdul Nacer Benbrika, also known as Abu Bakr, said: “My religion doesn’t tolerate other religion . . . Jihad is a part of my religion.”
ASIO revoked Mr Benbrika’s passport earlier this year, the ABC reported, and it recently raided and questioned him. But although it took papers, charges had not been laid.
Earlier this week former ASIO officer Michael Roach said Australia had about a dozen terrorist cells, with up to 60 individuals in Sydney and Melbourne. Australian Federal Police chief Mick Keelty has confirmed this.
Last night’s inflammatory statements came as Prime Minister John Howard said he had been briefed yesterday about possible changes to strengthen the law on terrorism. He said he would be saying something about the matter shortly.
It is likely to be discussed when Coalition leaders meet today for wide-ranging talks before Parliament resumes next week after the long winter break. The meeting will be attended by Mr Howard, new National Party leader Mark Vaile, Peter Costello, Warren Truss, Robert Hill and Nick Minchin.
Mr Howard said the Algerian-born Mr Benbrika, who lives in Melbourne’s northern suburbs and has been in Australia for 16 years, was “a person of interest to the relevant government agencies” and he had to be careful what he said about him.
Mr Benbrika told The 7.30 Report, which reported that some of his students had gone to overseas terrorist training: “According to my religion, here, I don’t accept all other religion except the religion of Islam.”
He said he was “not involved in anything here. I am teaching my brothers here the Koran and the Sunna and I’m trying my best to keep myself, my family, my kids and the Muslims close to this religion”.
“I am telling you that my religion doesn’t tolerate other religion. It doesn’t tolerate. The only one law which needs to spread, it can be here or anywhere else, has to be Islam.”
Pressed on why he did not tell students not to go abroad for terrorist training, he said: “If I do this, it means I am betraying my religion.”
“Jihad is a part of my religion and what you have to understand (is) that anyone who fight for this sake of Allah . . . when he dies, the first drop of blood that comes from him . . . all his sin will be forgiven.”
He described Osama bin Laden as “a great man. Osama bin Laden was a great man before 11 September, which they said he did . . . and until now nobody knows who did it”.
* He’s right. That’s because when Muslims commit atrocities, it is not them who rape, kill and murder: It is Allah himself. That’s in the scriptures, that was Muhammads excuse from the beginning.
He said the problem was that there were two laws – Australian law and Islamic law.
Mr Howard strongly rejected the notion of two laws. “Suggestions that there is an exclusivity of religious belief in this country is against the values we hold,” he said. “It’s also very unfair and damaging to those hundreds of thousands of Muslim Australians who share my view . . . that we should respect other religions and we should try and live in tolerance and harmony.”
Mr Howard said he thought Australians were more nervous because of the London bombings. “What has shaken people about the London attacks is that it was apparently carried out by native-born people. I think that shook people and made people realise, well if that can happen in a country like England . . . it could happen in Australia.”
Quick! Shut the gate, the horse has bolted…
ABC-Always Babying Criminals. The Australian ABC is a close cousin to the US ABC. Both stink.
I don’t even look or listen to major news medias anymore. Tired of being lied to and otherwise misled.
Talk radio constantly refers to them as: The Drive-By Media.
ISLAMSFORLOSERS:
And the BBC is worse than any of them.
One good thing though is that Newspeak organizations like the ABC look increasingly idiotic and puerile for omitting such vital information.
‘And now on your ABC: today’s weather. A large, spheroid object of indeterminate colour will appear in the sky some time this morning. It will stay in the sky for most of the day. However, there is a possibility that droplets of liquid of indeterminate origin and specificity will fall somewhere, sometime, also.’
Anyone reading the doctored ABC report knows precisely what information is being left out, and why.