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The pink brigades, civil libertarians and assorted nutroots team up with Muhammedan government funded agit-props to attack anti-terrorism laws, designed to protect Australians from Islamic terror:

Piers Akerman tries to reason with the unhinged Howard/Ruddock/Andrews haters:

What is not surprising is the struggling Nine network chose 60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown for its sympathetic cash-for-comment Haneef interview or that she found him “a shy man . . . gentle for a suspected terrorist”. It has an eerie echo in a phrase by John Hooper, in The Observer, who described Mohamed Atta – the terrorist who piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Centre – as “a shy, considerate man who endeared himself to Western acquaintances”.

Terror doctors Al Zawahiri, 9/11 hijackers, doctor Haneef, doctor Mengele

‘Soft spoken, shy and gentle..’

* Tara Brown would have melted for the irresistible charm of doctor Mengele 

Readers may remember Brown as the reporter who let Mamdouh Habib sail through another 60 Minutes interview without answering pertinent questions such as whether he visited Afghanistan when he supposedly looking for quality schools in Pakistan? Or how he managed to finance his trips while on an invalid pension?*

A WEEK before the undesirable Dr Mohamed Haneef bolted from Brisbane, the self-proclaimed great and the good gathered at Griffith University to demonstrate their willingness to be used as political pawns in his support.

They were welcomed by the ABC’s Sandy McCutcheon, Radio National Australia Talks Back host, and addressed by Haneef lawyer Peter Russo and barrister Stephen Keim before a torrent of the usual civil libertarians, lawyers, preachers and Democrats spoke.

A featured speaker was Dr Mohamad Abdalla, director of the Griffith Islamic Research Unit which receives funds as a participant in the Federal Government’s National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies – which operates under the proviso it “does not promote any organisations or teachings supportive of violence and terror”.

* Hmm, did any of these participants ever take a look at the Koran, sira and hadith?

The ABC has in the past found McCutcheon’s involvement in an anti-Iraq war symposium could have given rise to a perceived conflict of interest and “and reminded (him) of his responsibilities”.

Naturally, at the end, a nun read a prepared statement protesting Haneef’s innocence.

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Immigration minister Andrews: “I genuinely believe this bloke has got real suspicions about him and his activities and his associations,” he said yesterday. “I’m going to protect Australia and Australians first. So far as I’m concerned, his visa is cancelled and that’s that.”

Under the Act, the Minister has that discretion and in this matter he has acted both legally and correctly.

It’s called leadership. It’s in short supply in the ALP and obviously an alien concept to Haneef’s supporters who gathered at Griffith University.

* Griffith University has just funded a Dr Abdalla, B Science (Hons), PhD (Islamic Science) Centre Director, to establish a Griffith Islamic Research Unit with 8 million dollars

* While Dr Abdalla specialises in the history of Islamic science, his research interest focuses on
Islam in Australia
Islamic ethics
history of Islamic civilisation
contextualisation of Islamic thought
Currently, he has ten PhD students working with him, including the former deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia Dato Sari Anwar Ibrahim.

Comment from the Akerman blog:

Irfan sez:

“Further, are you suggesting that the Griffith IRU (and the Law School to which it is attached) is somehow breaching its funding conditions?”

Given that Griffith IRU is founded on LAW derived from Judeo-Christian principles one would suggest that Griffith most certainly breaches its funding conditions. By engaging Muhammedan propagandists like Dr Abdalla to proselytize and to promote sharia, an alien and barbarian construct, to use public funding to further the perversion of free inquiry and the free discourse of thought, most certainly violates every principle our society and Griffith university was built on. Yes, it would certainly suggest that Griffith’s funding was breached.

Stop this nonsense before its too late!

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Some interesting exchanges in the comments, too:

We have enemies, the Islamo-fascist infil-traitors and their useful idiots on the left, who are aiding and abetting the Islamization of Australia. They seem to believe that fanatical Muslim-hordes can be used to bring us some kind of socialist multiculti-diversity paradise, which they so grave, but they’re in for a rude awakening.

Here, Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the noted difficulties involved in integrating Muslim populations in Western countries:

Islam, is an alien creed. To be sure, plenty of Believers in exotic creeds alien or new to the West have managed to fit in perfectly well, and be friendly neighbors and loyal citizens, even if they came from Vietnam or India or China. Only one group, only one belief-system, distinguishes itself by appearing incapable of fitting in. And that is Muslims, and Islam…

But if one really knew what Islam contained, as not all Muslims born or raised in the West may quite realize, then how could any decent person remain a Muslim? Hard to explain the hold of this belief-system on so many who cannot, out of some kind of diseased loyalty, insist on standing up for it…

The solution is to stop all Muslim migration to the Lands of the Infidels, and wherever possible, to reverse it…
And along with it, in ways little and big, the country can be Islam-proofed the way a house is child-proofed…it should not be hard to find ways to limit the spread or practice of Islam. And if in addition to whatever local, state and federal government officials do, private parties simply conduct their own boycott of goods and services offered by Muslims, in the same way that they would have refused to buy, in 1938, a German Voigtlander camera..

Europe already needs to reverse the folly of the mass Muslim migration that has helped make life so unpleasant, expensive and physically insecure for Infidels everywhere in Europe, and will continue to do so unless Muslim migration is halted, and these countries made, not Muslim-friendly, but Muslim-hostile, so that demographic conquest can end and inroads be reversed. It may come to something like the Benes Decree in Czechoslovakia. Surely whatever threat the tolerant Benes-Masaryk government sensed from the Sudeten Germans in 1946, which prompted their large-scale expulsion, was as nothing compared to the threat that a large Muslim population would pose to non-Muslims.
[Link: ]http://www.jihadwatch.org…]

People of good will should second that, wholeheartedly. Sharia and freedom cannot co-exist.

* The Western news media, so it was revealed in a recent survey, is totally infiltrated by by a lunatic fringe of far left, agenda driven journo’s and talk-show hosts.

In most countries in Europe the percentage is over 90%. In Australia it is no different: Australians are constantly disabused by clueless socialist agit-props on how the world should be, not how it is.

Dr. Haneef became a darling of the far left media circus virtually over night, just like Hicks (aka Muhammad Dawoud) and Mamduh Habib before him.

Taking the side of Dr. Haneef, a rather obvious terrorist sympathizer affiliated with the failed Glasgow bombers, Mike Carlton has a go at one of the few remaining conservative radio jock’s and has a meltdown:

‘The Law is not Justice”

Confused broadcaster Mike Carlton, on Sydney radio 2UE yesterday, loses his cool with a leading legal expert

PETER Faris: The question (in the context of Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews’s decision to revoke Mohamed Haneef’s visa) is this: is there an association? And there’s a number of points (in commonwealth solicitor-general David Bennett’s opinion) which go to indicate there is an association. Being related is one of them.

Carlton: But I have a distant cousin who was done for drugs. But it doesn’t mean I’m a drug dealer. You’re drawing a very thin bow here to the point of snapping.

Faris: Let me say it one more time. The purpose of this exercise is to answer the question: Was there an association between Haneef and these bombers, or alleged bombers in the UK? That’s the question.

Carlton: Well, the answer is no. There happened to be a family connection, but it’s not as if they were partying together.

Faris: You say a family connection is not an association?

Carlton: Well, it doesn’t matter …

Faris: That would be part of the basis for revoking a visa. So if another cousin of the bombers in the UK wanted to come to Australia, one of the things that could be considered to establish an association is their family relationship. That’s one of the things.

Carlton: So there is no natural justice here at all. The minister can, with a stroke of a pen, and no answers back, say, “No, you’re not coming in. Or if you’re here, get out.” Right?

Faris: Well, it’s just not right. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

Carlton: And nor do you, frankly. You’re a pompous arsehole sometimes, aren’t you? I mean, you really are.

Faris: Well, I think that’s offensive.

Carlton: It is. Don’t accuse me of not knowing what I’m talking about.

Faris: No, you’re saying there’s no natural justice, which is a legal concept.

Carlton: There is no natural justice in this business.

Faris: I don’t think it’s really a very good thing to do to ring up people at seven o’clock in the morning and abuse them. You just admitted you’re being offensive.

Carlton: You started it by accusing me of not knowing what I’m talking about.

Faris: That’s not offensive. That’s a fact. But to call me a pompous arsehole on the air, I think, is extremely offensive.

Carlton: All right. I apologise for that remark, but you have a way of goading people with this attitude that you take that somehow you are vastly superior.

Faris: I don’t accept any apology from you, but I’ll try to explain it to you again. It was a question of proving association. Bennett has listed a number of points: one, two, three, four, five, six points of association. In Bennett’s view, that is sufficient for the minister to decide or to have a suspicion of association. That satisfies the law.

Carlton: That’s the point, isn’t it? The minister can decide with a stroke of a pen.

Faris: But that’s the law. The minister has followed the law.

Carlton: I know. We agree entirely on that.

Faris: Well, it’s not a fiasco, then, if the minister follows the law. For you, it may be wrong. You may not like the law.

Carlton: But there is no justice in that for DrHaneef, is there?

Faris: Well, that’s the law … The question is, has the minister followed the law?

Carlton: All right. I apologise again for doing my block at you, but you are a very provocative person.

Faris: Well, I’m just standing my ground.

Piers Akerman has more on his blog

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Update:

Downunder the nutroots and the far left media manipulators are all up in arms over the Haneef case. You see, nothing ‘really’ happened, so Haneef is ‘innocent and his rights have been violated’- .

In the twisted logic of the left, nothing can be proven until after the fact, but then they blame the government for failing in its duty to protect us from Islamic terror.

If that fails, they blame the Jooozzz…

Pathetic!

GOLD Coast terror suspect Mohamed Haneef has been linked to the al-Qaeda global terrorist network in an Indian police dossier.

The four-page document was revealed last night by the SBS Dateline program.

When it comes to racism, the 5th column in our Western MSM never tire to accuse us of being ‘Islamophobic’- while deliberately ignoring the fact that Islam is not a race, but an ideology, a very unpleasant one for infidels and Jooozzz….

In case you’re wondering why a major terrorist attack in Mumbay that killed 257 people goes unreported in our media, it might have something to do that the hypocrites behind their TV camera’s are themselves racist cowards who are afraid of reporting on Islamic terror activities for fear of reprisals.

Or did you really believe our politically correct MSM-wankers care about brown Indians?

Main plotter in Mumbai bomb attacks gets death

Published: Saturday, 28 July, 2007, 02:36 AM Doha Time

Sister-in-law of the 1993 Mumbai bombings mastermind Tiger Memon, Rubina Memon, is escorted by police as she arrives at the TADA court in Mumbai yesterday
MUMBAI: An anti-terror court in India yesterday sentenced to death one of the main conspirators behind serial bomb blasts in Mumbai in 1993 that killed 257 people, prosecutors said.
Yaqub Memon, the brother of the alleged main plotter and fugitive Tiger Memon, faces the gallows for his role in the devastating “Black Friday” attacks which also injured more than 800 people.
His brothers Essa and Yusuf and sister-in-law Rubina were each sentenced to life in prison.
The attacks were believed to have been staged by Mumbai’s Muslim-dominated underworld in retaliation for deadly Hindu-Muslim clashes a few months earlier.

* Sure. Its always in ‘retaliation’ for some perceived injustice when our Muhammedan terrorists strike, or is it?
“The court gave (the) death sentence to Yaqub for distributing funds and assisting acts of terror,” chief prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said.
“This is the message to main conspirator Tiger Memon that terrorist acts will always get what they deserve.”
Tiger Memon and Dawood Ibrahim, the alleged masterminds of the blasts, have been on the run since 1993. Indian investigators say they were helped by Pakistan’s intelligence service, a charge denied by Islamabad.
The prosecutor said Yaqub, an accountant by profession, is also facing new charges of contempt of court after he insulted the judge, Pramod Kode, by saying: “Lord, forgive this man for he knows not what he does.”
Sister-in-law Rubina is the first woman to be sentenced to life in the case.
“She allowed her car to be used to carry explosives,” the prosecutor said.
So far, 96 of the 100 people convicted in the case have been sentenced, with 12 receiving the death penalty and 20 getting life sentences in jail.
They can appeal their punishments and India’s Supreme Court stipulates that the death penalty be used only in the “rarest of rare cases”.
Death sentences are regularly delayed indefinitely or commuted by the president.
The most high-profile figure caught up in the case, Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, appeared in court yesterday, but his sentencing is likely next Tuesday.
Dutt, who is on bail, was found guilty of possessing weapons last year but was cleared of the more serious charge of conspiracy in connection with the attacks. The hugely popular Dutt faces up to five years in prison.
Illegal bookies have taken an estimated Rs1.1bn ($27mn) in bets on what Dutt’s sentence will be, the Times of India reported.
The newspaper quoted a source as saying that most were gambling on the probability his plea for probation will be rejected, and that he will receive at least three years in jail.
“For every rupee, a bettor stands to make Rs1.4,” the source told the newspaper. Most of the bets have come from in and around his hometown Mumbai.–AFP

Ahmed Tibi    

Arab Member of Knesset Rewriting History:

“Palestine belongs to its Arab residents, not to the Jewish occupiers.”

(IsraelNN.com) Israeli Arab Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi (United Arab List/Ram Ta’al) attacked the State of Israel in a fiery editorial published in the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Quds on Sunday.

Hebrew: http://news.walla.co.il/?w=//1144762

Mr. Tibi,

Political rights to self-determination as a polity for Arabs were guaranteed by the League of Nations in four Mandates – in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and later, Trans-Jordan. Palestine has been recognized as the Jewish national home by all 51 member countries – the entire League of Nations – which unanimously declared on July 24, 1922:
“Recognition Has Been Given to the Historical Connection of the Jewish People with Palestine and to the Grounds for Reconstituting their National Home in that Country.”

Article 6 of the “Mandate for Palestine” clearly states:
“The Administration of Palestine, while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced [as in your case Mr. Tibi, since your civil and religious rights are protected as an Israeli Arab inhabitant in the land of Israel], shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency referred to in Article 4, close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.”

The “Mandate for Palestine,” a historical League of Nations document laid down the Jewish legal right to settle anywhere in western Palestine, a 10,000-square-mile area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, an entitlement unaltered in international law and valid to this day.

And since you, Mr. Tibi, cite Martin Luther King, Jr., and explicitly attack Zionism, it would be worthwhile to cite Reverend King in a 1968 appearance at Harvard University, where he said: “When people criticize Zionists they mean Jews. You are talking antisemitism.”

Mr. Tibi, you have 21 Arab countries to choose from. The Jews have one homeland – Israel – and they do not plan on giving it up.
Myths and Facts
Eli E. Hertz | July 17, 2007

‘There is NO Islamophobia”- alert:

Hooper (without the coffee filter this time) smears Robert Spencer from Jihad Watch for statements he never made.Watch the video with Dennis Prager, Christopher Hitchens conducted by Paula Zahn, on CNN of all places!

Hooper, spokesman for unindicted co-conspirator in terror group funding case defames Spencer on CNN

Prager and Hitchens shredded Hooper, and it is all worth seeing, but Hooper went out of his way to defame me about 4:30 into this segment, and so I felt it incumbent upon me to answer. He quoted a genocidal comment that was made on this website yesterday, and made it appear as if I had written it. (Prager would have none of it, and spoke highly of Jihad Watch, for which I thank him, although at the end of the segment, when Hooper attributed something else to me that I have never said, Prager disavowed it and responded, “I will” to Hooper’s “Then tell Mr. Spencer that.” In fact, I do not hold and have never stated anything of what Hooper attributes to me on this show.) In reality, someone kindly alerted me to the existence of the comment shortly after it was posted, and I removed it and banned the poster. The comment itself seemed to me and to others who posted on the same thread to have been written by a provocateur — someone who wanted to discredit Jihad Watch and me by planting a comment here. Such people come through here fairly often. And now, after Hooper’s use of this comment despite its being deleted, I suspect even more strongly that it was written by a provocateur.

* More likely than not. That’s what they do, people who kill and lie for their ideology will defame their adversaries, no doubt.

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I allow comments here because I believe in free speech and free inquiry. But in reality, I don’t endorse any of them. Some I agree with, some I don’t, some are brilliant, some are not, some apologize for jihad and defend jihadists, and some are extremely angry with jihadists — but no one can legitimately assume that I endorse any of them unless I say so. And certainly if I remove a comment, it is a clear message. Every comments field bears this heading: “Note: Comments on articles are unmoderated, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Jihad Watch or Robert Spencer. Comments that are off-topic, offensive, slanderous, or otherwise annoying may be summarily deleted. However, the fact that particular comments remain on the site IN NO WAY constitutes an endorsement by Robert Spencer of the views expressed therein.”

Were Hooper interested in honest dealing, he would have noted that, as well as the fact that the comment he quoted was deleted, and not attributed it to me. Had he actually done his homework, he might have noted the many times I have stated here that genocidal comments are not welcome — and they certainly don’t reflect my views, or he could have quoted something I actually said.

Four or five years ago I called Hooper, ready with questions. He is, after all, a media spokesman, and I was ready, even eager, to give him a chance to clear up all the questions and suspicions people quite rightly have about CAIR. He called me “Islamophobic” and hung up on me. I saw what he was then, and I see it even more clearly tonight. I think you will be able to see it too.

Charles at LGF has both parts of this long segment with Hitchens, Hooper, and Prager.

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* Mostly unnoticed by many bloggers is that Hooper actually calls for ‘making all desecration of religious books a hate-crime’-, a dangerous proposition. Once implemented, it will doubtlessly be used by harebrained judges to enforce censorship like judge Higgins did in Melbourne with the 2 pastors who read from the Koran in front of their congregation.

CAIR’s Vision for America

One picture tells all:

Currently posted at the web site of the Saudi-funded radical Islamic front group calling itself the Council on American Islamic Relations, a little 8K JPEG image that reveals a very large agenda: the US Capitol building re-imagined as a mosque, complete with gold dome and minaret:

Just how perverted does it get before we pull the plug on the vicious, insane distortion in the MSM? Here is some awful stuff from Libya, whose dictator Gaddafi is now being rewarded for terrorism blackmail and extortion:

From Spiegel Online:

Medic Recalls Eight Years in Libyan Jail

Palestinian-born Bulgarian doctor Ashraf al-Hazouz, 37, recalls his eight-year imprisonment in Libyan jails, describing his torture at the hands of Gadhafi’s thugs and the ordeals of the five nurses imprisoned with him.

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Doctors blast Guantanamo treatment as unethical

How demented are these people?

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — Military doctors violate medical ethics when they approve the force-feeding of hunger strikers at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, according to a commentary in a prestigious medical journal.

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Sarko Rewards Libyan Extortionist With Nuclear Reactor

Is Girac a whore and Sarkosy the prostitute or vice versa?

The French are bankrupt, morally and otherwise. Who would give a terrorist madman like Gaddafi the benefit of the doubt let alone nuclear technology?

Sarkozy: Trust Arab states with nuclear technology

TRIPOLI, Libya (Reuters) — After agreeing to nuclear cooperation with Libya, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the West should trust Arab states to develop such technology for peaceful purposes or risk a war of civilizations.

France agreed on Wednesday to help Libya develop a nuclear reactor to supply drinking water from desalinated sea water. The reactor might be supplied by French atomic energy firm Areva.

Sarkozy told reporters in Libya that to consider the Arab world “is not sensible enough to use civilian nuclear power” would, in the long run, risk a “war of civilizations.”

“Nuclear power is the energy of the future,” he said. “If we don’t give the energy of the future to the countries of the southern Mediterranean, how will they develop themselves? And if they don’t develop, how will we fight terrorism and fanaticism?”

*How do you fight fanatical lunatics like Gaddafi after you provide them with nuclear weapons?

Many Middle Eastern countries, including some worried about Iran’s nuclear program, are interested in developing atomic energy resources.

* You bet they are.

Claude Gueant, Sarkozy’s chief of staff, noted the nuclear cooperation deal means “a country that respects international rules can obtain civilian nuclear energy.”

* Any evidence that Libya is a country ‘that respects international rules?’ 

Shoe bomber waiting for Allah to spring him

Shoe bomber Richard Reid sits and waits in his cell at the Suprmax prison in Colorado. The British terrorist says he has dreamed he will be spared from the life sentence he serves.
Failed shoe bomber Richard Reid fantasizes that Allah will free him from the Supermax prison cell where he lives in isolation – and in his socks.

“I had a couple of good dreams about my situation changing for the better in the not-so-distant future, so this is a blessing from Allah,” Reid wrote in letters obtained by a British newspaper.

“I place my trust in Allah that he will bring that into fruition and ask him to give me patience until the time when that occurs.”

Richard, put a bomb in your shoe…

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Meanwhile, another genocidal lunatic whines about mistreatment:

Why’s Everybody Always Picking on Me?

Half-blind, hook-handed Abu Hamza, the infamous jihad-spewing cleric of the Finsbury Park Mosque in Britain, is apparently having a difficult time in prison: Jailed Hamza moans: Stop picking on me.

HATE preacher Abu Hamza has complained of the tough conditions behind bars, it was revealed yesterday.

An Islamic group has taken up the hook-handed preacher’s cause and is demanding human rights organisations help him.

Hamza’s “plight” at top security Belmarsh Prison in south-east London was revealed in a letter from his wife, Nagat Mostafa, to the al-Maqreze Centre for Historical Studies. In her letter written in May, shortly after her husband had surgery to remove an inch of bone from his infected left arm stump, she asked them to do all they could.

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Just wondering: When are we going to treat the jihad freaks like they (would) treat us?

* Whatever it was, the Tuscan sun or the Chianti wine (or both) it seems to have affected the judgment of Australia’s ‘right wing’ columnist and blogger Andrew Bolt, who shows great sympathy for the Muslim doctor Haneef, who was trying to flee Australia after some of his close associates and relatives tried to blow up Glasgow airport and a London disco. Haneef, who couldn’t be tried (for lack of evidence) on a sim card he left behind with his co-religionists, took off with some 150 K from Australia’s 60 minute TV show, where he was interviewed by a dumb blonde who asked all the wrong questions. Haneef was sent off after being grilled for nearly 4 weeks and immigration minister Andrews revoked his visa, which the nutroots consider the ‘real’ crime. Haneef sports the Islamic beard and his wife wears the hijab, but political correctness would prevent us from looking at that at all.

* Which brings us back to Bolt’s strange affliction with Islamic terror sympathizers:

“The 60 Minutes interview with Haneef last night makes Haneef seem not just an innocent guy, but a lovely man”

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Then, in an about face he attacks the nutroots over an interview with Alexander Downer, sort of:

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Then comes the naked gun:

How to make 1 billion enemies

Has Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews really played safe or just made us more friendless by stripping Dr Mohamed Haneef of his visa?

Just see how India has welcomed Haneef back as a martyr following the collapse of the bungled terrorism case against him:

* A martyr? Perhaps our government prevented him from becoming one. You have a problem with that?

In Bangalore, a rapidly expanding city of more than five million inhabitants, and India’s boom IT town (not dissimilar in its robustness to the city of Brisbane he had been forced to leave behind), Dr Haneef needed the help of police to gain safe passage through a throng of waiting media and well-wishers at the airport. He became in that instant a new type of celebrity – one born of the war on terror.

* Hmm, wonder why that is? Could it be they have something in common?
Like the London suicide-bombers funeral in Pakistan that attracted more than 20.000? What does that tell you?

Heaven knows what Muslims in Australia think about it all

* Okay, lets ask the catmeat sheik Hilali. Or sheik Omran or Feiz Mohammed, they’ll tell you in unison: ‘ Its because of the Jooozzz…’

* Why should we care? Shouldn’t we show them that we are vigilant?

* So by interrogating and finally evicting a terrorist sympathizer we are making ‘a billion enemies?’ A strange view indeed. Islam has declared war on us. Since 1400 years Islam is waging war on the World, the global jihad rages in more than 30 theaters of war from Israel to Thailand and from Sulawesi to India and we are now ‘making enemies of a billion muslims’ because our government ships ONE out?

The Australian has a slightly different take:

Andrews documents Haneef suspicions

CHAT room conversations suggested to authorities that Mohamed Haneef may have had prior knowledge of the UK bombings, Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said tonight.

Mohamed Haneef, right, at a media conference at Bangalore before tonight’s bombshelll revelations by Kevin Andrews. Pic AP

Mr Andrews this evening detailed what he said was intelligence information gleaned from chat room conversations that Dr Haneef had with his brother in India to back his decision to cancel the doctor’s working visa.

He released advice from the solicitor-general which found information provided to him from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) was sufficient grounds to revoke Dr Haneef’s visa.

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Christopher Hitchens: Why Are We So Scared of Offending Muslims?

* Hmm, why could that be? Because Muslims have a habit of throwing hissy fits, start beheadings and bomb embassies, buses and trains when they don’t fly jets into buildings?

This has to stop, and it has to stop right now. There can be no concession to sharia in the United States. When will we see someone detained, or even cautioned, for advocating the burning of books in the name of God? If the police are honestly interested in this sort of “hate crime,” I can help them identify those who spent much of last year uttering physical threats against the republication in this country of some Danish cartoons. In default of impartial prosecution, we have to insist that Muslims take their chance of being upset, just as we who do not subscribe to their arrogant certainties are revolted every day by the hideous behavior of the parties of God.

It is often said that resistance to jihadism only increases the recruitment to it. For all I know, this commonplace observation could be true. But, if so, it must cut both ways. How about reminding the Islamists that, by their mad policy in Kashmir and elsewhere, they have made deadly enemies of a billion Indian Hindus? Is there no danger that the massacre of Iraqi and Lebanese Christians, or the threatened murder of all Jews, will cause an equal and opposite response?

Read it all

Update:

Evidence Haneef knew of bomb plot

By staff writers and AAP
05:45pm
MOHAMED Haneef was told “nothing has been found out about you yet” and advised to leave the country on a seemingly false pretence by his brother in an internet conversation on the weekend of the foiled terrorist attacks in Glasgow and London.

The internet chatroom conversation between the Gold Coast doctor and his brother in India showed he had an awareness of the terrorist plot, Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said today.

Mr Andrews released advice from the federal solicitor-general which said information provided to him by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) was sufficient grounds to revoke Dr Haneef’s visa.

Mr Andrews said the solicitor-general’s advice covered matters such as contact between Dr Haneef and his cousins in the UK, who are accused of involvement in the failed plot to bomb central London and Glasgow airport.

“Importantly, there was a computer room conversation, a chat room conversation, with Dr Haneef’s brother in India on the afternoon before his attempted hasty departure from Australia,” Mr Andrews said.

“In it, the brother of Haneef says `nothing has been found out about you’ and asked when Dr Haneef would be getting out, to which Haneef replied `today’.

“The brother asked whether he had permission to take leave and what he told the hospital.

“Dr Haneef said he told them his baby was born in an emergency caesarean. The brother told him to `tell them that you have to as you have a daughter born, do not tell them anything else’.

“The brother then said not to delay his departure and not to let anyone else use his number in Australia, nor to give it to anyone.”

Mr Andrews said the AFP had told him before he made his visa decision that police suspected the internet conversation may be evidence Dr Haneef had prior knowledge of the UK bomb plot.

“And secondly, the AFP consider Dr Haneef’s attempted urgent departure from Australia on a one-way ticket for a purpose which appears to be a false pretext to be highly suspicious and may reflect Haneef’s awareness of the conspiracy to plan and prepare the acts of terrorism in London and Glasgow.

Mr Andrews said Dr Haneef had not applied for leave from the Gold Coast hospital where he worked until after he had received two phone calls, including one from India, in which he was told there was an issue with his SIM card.

“The whole circumstances surrounding Haneef’s attempted hasty departure from Australia, including chat room conversations, when viewed against his clear prior association with the Ahmed brothers, led me to form a reasonable suspicion as required by the migration legislation,” Mr Andrews said.

He said he would not release the full, protected material because it prejudice or jeopardise further investigations.

* Guilty as sin. Don’t say I told you so.

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And then there are the shysters:

Lawyers sap our will to combat terrorism

We lack the toughness of our European neighbours
Michael Burleigh/Times Online

While we agonise about 28 or 56 days custody, it is not uncommon for terrorist suspects in France to be held in preventive detention for four or five years before their case goes to court. The use of intelligence intercept evidence in courts is being debated here, but the Italian security services have long made transcripts of this material available, so revealing the lying cynicism with which, for example, Milan-based Arab jihadis regard European asylum laws. And then there is the internet, one of the key means of radicalising Muslims. Wolfgang Schäuble, the German Interior Minister, wheelchair-bound since a 1990 assassination attempt, has argued recently in favour of hacking into the computers of Islamist radicals.

* Scheuble has also called for the targeted assassination of known terrorists, which caused the nutroots to throw hissy fits…

Bomb suspect loaned Haneef cash

Evidence mounts that Haneef is dirty:

During questioning, Dr Haneef, a devout Muslim, allegedly told police he was travelling to India to see his wife, who experienced a complicated childbirth on June 26, but gave no particular reason for purchasing the one-way ticket.

He denied it was related to the Glasgow or London attacks and has so far refused to discuss his political views with police.

* What does that tell you?

He has admitted to maintaining contact with the Ahmeds via internet chat sites and said he had left his mobile phone and SIM card behind in the UK to “minimise excess baggage” and to allow Sabeel Ahmed to take advantage of the phone company’s “extra minute deal”.

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Comment:

In case you were wondering whether a ‘fifth column’ was operating in Australia, I provide this as exhibit A:-

The Australian
Andrews dishes dirt on Haneef

The Sydney Morning Herald
‘He’s protecting his hide’
Peter Beattie says he’s unconvinced by information revealed by Kevin Andrews to justify cancelling Mohamed Haneef’s visa.

The Age
Minister ‘destroying’ Haneef
Andrews accused of inflaming suspicions against Indian doctor with selective details from ‘secret’ dossier.

*Fifth Column from Wikipedia:-
The term originated with a 1936 radio address by Emilio Mola, a nationalist general during the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War. As four of his army columns moved on Madrid, the general referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his “fifth column,” intent on undermining the Republican government from within.

Sounds like sections of the Australian media to me…….

Alan of Sydney

You couldn’t make this s#*t up, its just too bizarre:

Free Pork for all! 

A group of Muslims have opposed plans for a pet food factory to be built as possible pork emissions will violate their religious rights.

Butchers Pet Care could shelve plans for a factory in Coton Park, near Rugby, because angry Asian families have complained to their residents’ association about pork smells drifting into their garden.

Muslim residents in the area also claim the pork will effectively “rain down” on their homes and gardens after the factory’s 100ft chimney has pumped the meat extracts into the atmosphere.

The Coton Park Residential Association said they have received complaints from Muslims – who are directed to not eat pork by the Qur’an – and are taking the matter very seriously.
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Muslim families are worried that the pet food factory will infect the air with pork emissions and violate their religious beliefs

One family who live less than 100 yards from the proposed factory, but who did not wish to be identified, said: “A significant proportion of meats used in the pet foods processes are pig meat.

“Our religion expressly forbids us to consume pig meat in any form.

“Because of the way in which this meat material will leave the factory and give that the area can be ‘rained upon’ we will be consuming pork via inhalation of this ‘rain’.

“Not only that but our clothes will be contaminated by pork.”

Another family from the Coton Park housing estate said: “The owners of the proposed factory do not dispute the claim that meat extracts of pork will be pumped into the atmosphere via a 100ft chimney.

“They have said there will not be any chemical treatment proposed to treat the meat extracts before they leave the factory.”

Association spokesperson Grant Scott said: “Several families have complained because of the smell of the pork, and also if the factory is cooking with it, pork particles and odour could rain down on them from the chimney at some point.

“It was something we hadn’t taken on board before but it’s definitely important and is a very delicate issue.

“If Muslims are unhappy about it, then Jews may complain for the same reason, and Hindus may complain because of their beliefs about cows being sacred animals.

“There is a significant Muslim element in our area, so there is a potential problem.”

Another Muslim family added: “A Muslim is obliged to be clean spiritually, mentally and physically.

“Abstention from eating flesh of swine is one of the obligations a Muslim must observe to attain purity of the soul and of the human nature.

“Therefore, we believe that not only will we be contaminated but also our faith by the owners of this proposed pet food plant.

“In this country we are allowed the right to follow our religion and religious beliefs. By allowing this plan to go ahead our religious rights are being swept to one side for what appears to be economic greed.

“We feel sure that there are other areas where this factory could be built that would not impact on us or others like us.”

The Environmental Health Agency are investigating the potential affects, with a decision about the factory’s future due in September.

The pet food company said there is an ‘almost 99% guarantee’ the smell of pork would not reach the Coton Meadows residential area.

A statement from Butchers Pet Care said: “The majority of our natural products are beef and poultry.

“Pork ingredients account for less than 10% of our range.

“At Coton Park we plan to introduce state-of-the-art odour extraction through the chimney stack.

“An environmental impact report has already concluded that emissions at the proposed Coton Park site should not have an adverse impact on air quality and odour levels.

“We would like to reiterate that we do not burn any animal materials.”

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There is a way to solve this problem….. 

Ridicule might be a better defence against the global jihad than the ‘WoT’

A snappy little number you’re sure to enjoy—“I Wanna Be Like Osama,” from the production of Jihad The Musical, appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland next month.

Watch out for the dancing burqas.

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Now we’re getting somewhere: 

Damir Niksic: “If I wasn’t muslim” 

Keep it coming, guys; poking fun at the global jihad will restore  our sanity and keep us safe from the lunatic fringe…