Our hats are off to you Australia, once again:

AN Australian Navy boarding crew in the Gulf of Persia repelled an Iranian gunboat that threatened them a matter of weeks before 15 British sailors were captured in a similar incident, it was reported today....

But BBC reporter Frank Gardner, a security specialist, reported the Australians had pointed their guns at the Iranians and used "colourful language" before the gunboat withdrew.

Do we even need to draw the obvious comparisons....??

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The Grand Mufti of Australia admits to funding terror group. Lest we forget, next to al Qaeda, Hezbollah is responsible for more American deaths than any other terrorist organization.

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This is an Australian article, so I'm guessing that the Bible-rading Muslim woman was just 'uncovered meat' to Sheik Taj el-Dene Elhilaly. You know, she was just asking for it by reading the Bible.

Daily Telegraph:

Campbelltown District Court was told Abdul Reda Al Shawany twice sexually assaulted the woman, a practising Muslim who wears a hijab, after they met at a railway station....

He said when the woman came to Australia from the Middle East she began listening to Christian teachers and reading the Bible.

He said the woman had received threats from members of her faith for reading the Bible but had not converted to Christianity....

Al Shawany allegedly raped the woman and later allegedly said: "Let your Jesus help you."

Hat tip: Warner

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Notice that he only praises "the mujahidin" in Arabic, never in English. Since Mohammed Swaiti is Australian, and he is praying for his own troops to lose to the mujahidin in Afghanistan, where they are fighting, isn't this treason? Or, at the very least, sedition?

The Australian:

THE most senior Muslim cleric in Canberra regularly praises Islamic jihadists in Iraq and Afghanistan in his Friday afternoon sermons.....

"God grant victory to the mujaheddin in his name in all places," [Mohammed Swaiti called out twice in Arabic over a microphone at Abu Bakr mosque in Yarralumla in front of about 500 worshippers.

"God grant victory to mujaheddin in Palestine, and Chechnya and Kashmir and Afghanistan and Iraq."

Although Sheik Swaiti translated his sermon into English for non-Arabic-speaking audience members, the imam of Canberra's only mosque omitted the praise for Islamic jihadists in the English version.

Islamic Society of ACT president Sabrija Poskovic - a longtime critic of Sheik Swaiti - rejected the cleric's suggestion he was not referring to fighters in his sermons. He said the cleric was too radical and preached the wrong Islamic messages.

"We don't like it when he's talking about jihad," said Mr Poskovic, whose organisation runs Abu Bakr mosque. "He asks God to help fighters fighting against non-Muslims."

PS--Looks like comments are still down, but at least we're back up. Something funky is going on around here. Sorry. Don't know what it is.

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Australia to double its force in Afghanistan.

The article says that the "Taleban insurgency shows no sign of weakening."

Question: With a resurgent Taliban and the long-term prospects of a unified, stable, and democratic Afghanistan looking just about as likely as in Iraq, how come Nanci Pelosi and company aren't demanding a timetable for withdrawal there?

Thanks to Fred Fry for the e-mail.

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We reported on the plea deal earlier this week, but now it's official. 7 years, to be served in Australia, much of his time in custody will offset the 7 years. Expect the Australian al Qaeda to be back on the street and working the Leftwing talk circuit within 2 years.

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David Hicks, the Australian Talilban, has pleaded guilty to charges of providing material support to terrorists. Hicks was captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan. The Australian convert to Islam has become a poster-boy of the Left, who cry foul at, well, everything.

His plea deal was expected. In return, it is thought that he'll get something less than a life sentence and will serve the remainder of his time in an Australian jail.

Pity, in my mind a life sentence would have been a good compromise for a plea. He deserved the death penalty.

The Australian Johnny Walker Lindh was the first detainee to be tried under the new military commission rules. Looks like the rules are going to work. Two of his lawyers were ejected from the proceedings today after they refused to follow the procedures and submit to the authority of the court. Pure. Political. Theater. All that was missing was "The truth? You can't handle the truth!" This is Gitmo, after all.

News.com.au:

TERROR suspect David Hicks has pleaded guilty at a hearing at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

The Associated Press reported that Hicks, 31, entered a guilty plea to a charge of providing material support to terrorism.

Hicks's military attorney Major Michael Mori entered the plea on behalf of his client, who stood alongside with a sombre expression.

The guilty plea came about an hour after the judge, Colonel Ralph Kohlmann, ordered prosecutors, Hicks and his legal team to return to court after the day's 3-½-hour hearing had already wrapped up.

Hicks announced his plea during the rapidly reconvened hearing at Guantanamo Bay.

Hicks answered "yes, sir," when the judge asked if that was in fact his plea.

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The Australian traitor who fought with the Taliban and al Qaeda, David Hicks, will face justice at a military commission set to reopen today at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Justice, that is, unless he cops a plea. Which it looks like he will do.

Apparently, he wants to go back to Australia to face charges there. And since Australia is part of the Coalition in Afghanistan, wouldn't fighting with the Taliban or al Qaeda be an act of treason? I love Michael Howard, but I don't think even he has the balls to charge Hicks with treason.

The media accounts, as if on cue, only quote Hick's lawyers and family [pictured right: Hick's father went on a pilgrimage to Pakistan in order to better "understand" his sons involvement with the Taliban. "He was just trying to be helpful," the elder Hicks said]. The Australian convert to Islam who voluntarily went to Afghanistan to support the barbaric regime, is portrayed as the victim. Apparently none of the reporters bothered to call up a 9/11 family to see how they felt about Hick's incarceration.

BBC:

Australian David Hicks is set to become the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to attend a hearing under revised US military tribunal rules.

His lawyers said they may plea bargain to avoid a full trial and try to have him handed into Australian custody...

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(Sydney, Australia) Australia is banning incandescent light bulbs because they are, apparently, significant contributors to global warming.

Australia announced plans on Tuesday to ban traditional light bulbs in a move Prime Minister John Howard called a practical step toward slowing climate change.

Claiming a world first for a national government, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said incandescent lightbulbs would be phased out by 2010 in favour of the more fuel-efficent compact fluorescent bulbs.

He said replacing the traditional coiled filament bulbs invented by Thomas Edison in the 19th century would cut Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by four million tonnes a year by 2015.

Additionally, many applications using incandescent bulbs will have to be addressed in legislation separately. Examples include unique purpose lighting in refrigerators, stoves and other appliances, and ornamental lighting such as holiday lights and chandeliers.

Furthermore, since compact fluorescent bulbs cost considerably more than incandescent bulbs, last considerably longer, and burn cool, theft is virtually guaranteed. Watch Australia give birth to a new class of criminal, light bulb thieves, with all the associated headaches of law enforcement and legal proceedings.

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Jihadis from al Qaeda? Against Saddam Hussein's death sentence? I thought al Qaeda hated Saddam? It's an odd convergence of Arab nationalist fascists (as represented by the old Baath party) and Islamofascists.

And for you 'tards who think it's Muslims we are fighting: notice that the target is a Muslim.

In related news, Australia has decided to do away with multiculturalism. I. Kid. You. Not. Me? I'm thinking of emmigrating. Have you seen those Australian chicks? more...

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LGF has the very bizarre story of Iktimal Hage-Ali, a prominent young Australian Muslim woman who's been catching hell from fellow Muslims for having a drink of champagne and refusing to wear the hijab:

“It’s true, I was celebrating. Bloody hell, I had a glass of champagne in my hand – so what?” Ms Hage-Ali told The Daily Telegraph yesterday.

Stay tuned...

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1 It's the same reason we rarely hear from Leprechauns and dragons too...
mythical creatures don't get out much.     

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 12, 2006 06:46 PM (v3I+x)

2 Comrades,
 
   Notice how she was released without being charged, and that, although she was detained, her place wasn't searched?
 
   Sounds like someone's trying to send a message to the young lady.
 
   Respects,

Posted by: Gwedd at December 12, 2006 06:49 PM (pDOVp)

3 Sounds like she really knows how to party! 

Posted by: CanForce 101 at December 12, 2006 07:20 PM (xfvyZ)

4 I didn't even know possession of cocaine was illegal in Australia.


Making unflattering statements about islam is illegal, no matter how factual those statements are. Provided you're an infidel, of course. The islamopithecines boast of the depravity of Muhammad's cult every chance they get. If an "infidel" makes an identical statement, he's brought up on religious defamation charges.


Now sharia is being enforced. What's next? A  ban on beer? Surfing outlawed? Membership in the Eurabian Union? Guy Pierce converting to islam and doing terrorist infomercials for Al Qaeda?


What happened to Australian balls?

Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 12, 2006 08:56 PM (bLPT+)

5 Jeff, please see this post on SDA regarding the Aussies:

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/005141.html#c122247

Posted by: CanForce 101 at December 12, 2006 09:13 PM (xfvyZ)

6 Or she was out drunk and was busted with coke on her body. Here in America if you are busted with dope that doesn't automatically authorize a search of your property with drugs. Is it different in Australia?

Posted by: SeeMonk at December 12, 2006 09:40 PM (n4VvM)

7 CanForce:


Awesome post. Gotta love John Howard, and the Australian election rules that allow him to stay in office while American Presidents come and go.


I'm glad the average Australian is not a P.C. nitwit, which is why I wrote what I did.


If Guy Pierce gives up acting for islamic camel molesting, we'll all be poorer for it. Cheers.

Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 13, 2006 01:37 AM (bLPT+)

8 Pig-minded KKK Morons. So Autralia is a Muslim Fundamentalist country? If Islam is so bad, why is it the fastest growing religion in the whole world, including Europe and America? I read the Koran and was guided. Many westerners like myself are entering Islam; it is more acceptable to westerners than facist KKKism! Ciao.

Posted by: Giusseppe at December 13, 2006 04:23 AM (xAgcV)

9 Ciao, giuseppe!  Don't let the door hit ya.

For the rest of you, islam is the "fastest growing religion" because the Third worlders are reproducing like rabbits, and not because of actual conversions (while in the West we are committing civilizational suicide, all thanks to Leftism).  Nonetheless, christian converts outnumber muslim ones by almost 3 to 1. 

http://www.bible.ca/global-religion-statistics-world-christian-encyclopedia.htm

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at December 13, 2006 11:51 AM (8e/V4)

10 I read the Koran and was guided.

Yes, that's what we're worried about.

Posted by: dcb at December 13, 2006 12:19 PM (8e/V4)

11 So islam is better than fascism, which must be why muslims are buying Mein Kampf
and giving each other Hitler salutes? God, lefturds are stupid. I
really look forward to killing a lot of them. I hope I don't have to
wait much longer for civilization to collapse.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 13, 2006 06:01 PM (v3I+x)

12 Giussepptic:


Islame is purportedly the fastest growng religion because Christainity is already so huge--more than twice the size of faggoty islame.


If I were to start the religion of Jeff tomorrow, and I recruited one member, that would mean my religion grew by 100% in one day. Jeff Akbar! It would be the world's fastest growing religion! If I recruited 10 members, it would grow by 100%. It would again be the fastest growing religion in the world, but with only 10 converts, that would be nothing to brag about.


The fact is, far more people convert to Christianity each day than they do to islame, but because Christianity is so huge, the growth rate is purportedly smaller.


Of course, we only have the word of islamopithecines and leftistas that islame is the worlds fastest growing death cult, and we all know what their word is worth: a pile of steaming camel dung.


It's easy to cook the books on islame. Maybe you can tell me why most muslim converts are forced converts? Why do koranimals have tiny, non-functioning penises?


Maybe you can tell me what the KKK has to do with opposing genocide, slavery, daughter killing, homosexual killing, gang rape, plunder, baby killing, stupidity, ignorance and offensive body odor? Am I a KKK Grand Dragon because I oppose those things? Are you a subhuman simian because you espouse them?

OH, YES.


Your debased demon cult is a joke. Only self loathing losers join it voluntarilly. You have to be a needle dicked little shit-stain to embrace it. I'm glad you did, though. I'm sure one of my friends in Iraq will get the chance to blow you away soon. Start praying to the moon, little turd.


Fuck off and cry, you little pussy. Muhommo (piece of shit be upon him,) fellated pigs and took it up the ass by monkeys. Tell all your butt-buddies what I said. There's nothing any of you poofters can do about it.

Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 13, 2006 11:17 PM (bLPT+)

13 Oops! Ten converts would equal 1000%!


One Guissepttic equals 1000 tons of shit.

Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 13, 2006 11:18 PM (bLPT+)

14 the religion of tolerance.. at it again.

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Via Stan the Infidel comes this news of an Australian Archbishop who says what we're all thinking.

News.com.au:

"The violent reactions in many parts of the Islamic world justified one of Pope Benedict's main fears," Cardinal Pell said in a statement.

"They showed the link for many Islamists between religion and violence, their refusal to respond to criticism with rational arguments, but only with demonstrations, threats and actual violence.

"Our major priority must be to maintain peace and harmony within the Australian community, but no lasting achievements can be grounded in fantasies and evasions."...

"It is always someone else's fault and issues touching on the nature of Islam are ignored.

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Malaysian Investigative journalist, Ganesh Sahathevan, writes an open letter to SBS television demanding to know why they showed the photos of Abu Ghraib but not the cartoons.

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Remember those Australian race riots last month? Well it seems that it was the official policy of certain provincial governments to crack down on all of the white kids, but to let Muslim youths engaged in the same activities go free.

Ghost of a Flea sends me this story from The Australian:

UNTIL just over a week ago, not one alleged revenge attacker [Muslims] in the wake of last month's race riot in southern Sydney had been charged, despite the charging of up to 30 white men over the initial affray.

He claimed the state Labor Government of Premier Morris Iemma had encouraged police to go soft on revenge attackers, most thought to be Middle Eastern, because of what he called Labor's political correctness....

Iemma and Moroney still say the police have not been soft on Middle Eastern crime. But the evidence suggests otherwise. A notorious police document outlines how, the night after the Sunday riots, "numerous vehicles were sighted congregated in the vicinity of Punchbowl Park [in Sydney's inner southwest]".

"These vehicles and the crowd that had been gathered were suspected to be Middle Eastern criminals who have been involved in malicious damage and civil disobedience offences throughout the Sutherland Shire and St George areas," the document says. "A direction was given to police around midnight not to enter the area and antagonise these persons."

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1 This is just the typical reaction from Leftists that does nothing but encourage these people to be more and more radical. Soon the citizens in the West will have to take matters into their own hands since the authorities will apparently do nothing. And the authorities will have no one to blame but themselves and their Leftist supporters.

Posted by: jesusland joe at January 27, 2006 10:03 AM (rUyw4)

2 This article is dripping in bias. Take for instance the opening line, "not one alleged revenge attacker [Muslims]. . ."

P-U-H-L-E-E-E-Z-E! Give me a break! The Aussie rally was in direct response to raging physical violence perpetrated (by muslim gangs) on Aussie lifeguards the prior week (specifically) as well as having become utterly FED UP with the police looking the other (going soft on muslim cultural understandings of social balance) while the muslim hyenas would size up the female bikini clad beachgoers - picking and choosing which pretty infidel was worth raping and going to gaol for.

Muslim Revenge attacker??? Revenge for what, pray tell? For not accepting muslim cultural norms? . . .or For taking the Australian flag, wearing it and waving it to symbolicly remind the local government that they are in office to protect their citizens and uphold AUSTRALIAN law?

SPIT!

Posted by: heroyalwhyness at January 27, 2006 12:32 PM (XU9K/)

3 The leftards are going to keep demonstrating, by acts exactly like this, who's side they're on, and when the day of reckoning comes, they will be dealt with along with the enemies of civilization.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at January 27, 2006 01:05 PM (0yYS2)

4 The next thing the muslim barbarians will demand will be a ban on selling alcohol in areas where they live or work.
Then they will demand polygamy be made legal,according to the islamic shariah law.

Posted by: adeladob at January 27, 2006 11:49 PM (0nfbY)

5 We cannot stand by and let a Muslim rape and then arrest the white guy for doing the same. The officials and the citizens who allow the officials who allow these known persons (I would like to use another word) to continue without being corrected, they are more wrong than the (Muslims) are.

They come to our countries and expect us to adhere to their customs and amend, change, and twist our laws to accommodate them. Wrong answer!

You can have my weapon when I die. But you may still have a problem there. I’m sure another law-abiding citizen will retrieve it from me and continue on.

Why don't we just convert to Islam and then there won't be any problems anymore.
Don’t think so………… Hooah!

It is time we wake up and stand up for our RIGHTS as free people to not TOLERATE this type of behavior. If we do not, we will surely lose our Freedoms that our children so rightly deserve.

I love you Aussies.......

IceRatt
SSG, USA
Velox Mortis!

Posted by: IceRatt at January 28, 2006 02:08 AM (AniHM)

6 What does Velox Mortis mean? I tried to look it up and found a lot of sites but couldn't find a meaning. I also found "Tardus Mortis".

Posted by: Oyster at January 28, 2006 05:58 AM (YudAC)

7 I've spoken with some Aussies on this matter, they're all steamed under the collar the ones i've spoken with. They can't stand the bullcrap any longer so I think the problems downunder will sort themselves out very soon. Just so you know, this crap has been going on for atleast 20 years. The past 8 years have become unbearable to most Australians as the cases of gangrape have even been against girls as young as 13 years old by these Islamic savages.

Posted by: Andre at January 28, 2006 07:42 AM (bQ3vG)

8 The main thing is unity in Muslim and so called Muslim Brotherhood..,Goverments see it as they will be condemed by a handfull of Islamic countries and there supporters(that is western world) and will try not to take any hard step against islam, now Islam is a threat for all other religion and till the time we will do not support each other religions, we will not gain anything....
In case of black september, muslim extremist in 1972 kills a lot of athletes from israel, who cares...., not even a proper respect is given to them by olympic foundation.... what else left, when olympic flag was planned to flew at half staff, with all paricipant nations flags, all arabic nations havn't accepted that,
In case of Post Godhra roits,Gujrat.. everyone condems Hindu radicals to burn Muslims alive, but never condems why muslim burns a train 1st in godhra full of Hindus,
same is seen here in australia too, somewhere these policies always support radical islamic activities and support them for there terror attack, they never want to see at 1st the roits were started due to muslims, and when they get a payback these double standards are offered from goverments
Its just a time when western world has to payback, for what they have invested in(Islam). they never condemed any attack in past form islam, or if then only a few after 9-11..
somewhere i have to say ISLAM RULES!

and in short
Muslim life is Most valueable life in new world
then comes christians life
then comes jews life
then comes Hindus life
and then comes buddhist life
Forget the chance of other religions

no body cares for u alone, either u r one of the jems on earth(olympic athletes are like jems). the most aggresive and most radical reilgion rules, and with politeness of a religion, the value of life of its followers also decreases...
life is no more invalueable... only muslim life matters

so in this way australia's double standards can be understood,

as we all are dancing on radical signs and i am ashamed to be part of such bad formatted world, which says we love peace but is ruled by biggest criminal group of world(islam)
we all are sofharted for islamic radical, but we dont see pain of others when islamic radical hurt others..., human right groups can bark on goverments but not on radical groups!
so form a united radical group against islam, or forget your religion.... as it cost nothing in mordern world, and our goverments never will be able to protect us.

Posted by: perfektm at January 28, 2006 08:08 AM (g9GMS)

9 Oyster-

Velox Mortis means Swift Death!
It is the Motto used by a small group of professional military members.

Posted by: IceRatt at January 28, 2006 08:33 AM (9Liqt)

10 Aussies, like Americans and Canadians, had better get cracking on de-libbing their government or pretty soon white people won't be able to go out of their homes without a big yellow arabic "D" on their clothes identifying them as a dhimmi. Make no mistake, islam is the nazism of our century, and they intend to do to us what the nazis did to the Jews. Either we kill them or they kill or enslave us.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at January 28, 2006 09:56 AM (0yYS2)

11 Hit the nail on the head Maximus.

Posted by: IceRatt at January 28, 2006 12:37 PM (XouHH)

12 Whoa.....
What's with all the hate on
http://hot-business.com/reverse_directory.htm....

Either I had a bad link or couldn't find the right one to post a post.....I think I may have fallen in the "Yer Dum" category.......

My personal opinion, There is no need to reply to someone who seems to only want to challenge you.

Just because someone says, " I know black, white, puerto rican and just a freakin'" doesn't mean they love everyone. I know and I have met a lot of people who came in different shapes and forms and it doesn't mean I like them.

Everyone has a right to say what is on their mind, just as long as they don't try to shove it down your throat.

My favorite Motto is- Live free and kill everyone!
Just joking.....Pls, no hate posts......

Hate/Revenge is a very bad feeling, but sometimes it is a necessary feeling. It keeps us alive.

Maximus- I think you have a cool identifier....

IceRatt

Posted by: IceRatt at January 28, 2006 01:11 PM (9uM+C)

13 You Australians have to get your guns back first.
That means voting out the liberals and voting in conservatives.--in ALL LEVELS of government.
I actually think your present government is afraid of muslims. May be that the government thinks it will be bombed, or shot and stabbed (like Theo Van Gogh). A lot of cowards have been spawned in the last 2 generations you know.
Anyway, get involved in changing your government now.

Posted by: Greg Halvorson at January 28, 2006 05:17 PM (u6Xgd)

14 At present, all the state governments in Australia are Labour = left = red.

The federal government is Liberal = conservative = blue. Very confusing for our American allies, as it is at first for Aussies watching American politics, particularly the last presidential election with all those red states popping up and nearly causing apoplexy until we remember that the red/blue thing is in the reverse here.

It is the NSW state Labor government that is referred to in this item and subsequent comments. The current Premier of NSW is beholden to his Lebonese Muslim electorate for his seat in parliament.

Posted by: SandiM at January 29, 2006 12:50 AM (lizb+)

15 Thanks Ratt.

Sandi, red for Repubicans and blue for Democraps was devised by one of the news organizations as a subtle propaganda trick, but we're not that easily fooled.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at January 29, 2006 10:12 AM (0yYS2)

16 FOXNEWS.COM : POLITICS
Rice to Nations: Withhold Assistance
Monday, January 30, 2006

WASHINGTON — The United States wants other nations to cut off aid to a Hamas-led Palestinian government, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said ahead of an international strategy session on Mideast peace prospects.

Rice ruled out any U.S. financial assistance to a Hamas government.

BUT-
Humanitarian help to the Palestinians, many of whom are poor and unemployed, is likely on a "case-by-case basis," Rice said Sunday. She indicated that the administration would follow through on aid promised to the current, U.S.-backed Palestinian government led by President Mahmoud Abbas.

I guess we shall see when and how our money is spent.

Posted by: IceRatt at January 30, 2006 02:11 PM (iqmfP)

17 The sad thing is, this isn't an isolated incident. The exact same thing is happening worldwide.

How is violence erased for political correctness? People are only going to stand for this, for so long..and then things are really going to get ugly.

Posted by: CC at February 02, 2006 06:42 PM (vdxmV)

18 You must remember the so called race riots on the beach happened at the near end of the school holidays. The people in the riots were in fact mostly school children. The whole thing was blown out of proportion by the media.
There are many muslims in Australia and a lot are good friends of mine. Australian children like to identify with their ancestors to show to everyone else who they are and where they came from. Eg, The country, the city or overseas. They are proud of their heritage no matter where their parents came from.
All this terrorist crap has nothing to do with religion. We are looking at political groups trying to get the most for themselves. Muslims do not want to destroy Westeners. They ARE Westeners. Well I dont know about Westeners but they are Aussies.
Are Christens any different? Remember Waco, Texas? Remember Jonestown? Same thing all over the world.

P.S "Hot Australian Sheilas" I would prefer if you would treat Australian women with a bit more repect.

Posted by: Geoffrey at February 07, 2006 03:18 PM (hzba4)

19 You can't be 37672 serious?!?

Posted by: Mary Box at June 14, 2006 11:59 AM (eod8G)

20 not a single bit of truth in the entire article...congratulations, the far-right is living up to expectations.

Posted by: albino at July 21, 2006 05:46 PM (Z9m0N)

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I love Australia. From their hot-hot sheilas to their blokes' commitment to kill the bad guys, wherever they may be and however tough the fight. Herald Sun:

AUSTRALIA will send helicopters and more troops to Afghanistan as part of the fight against a resurgent Taliban and al-Qaida.

efence Minister Robert Hill confirmed yesterday Australia would send two Chinook helicopters and 110 support personnel to Afghanistan, bringing the total number of Australian military in the country to 300.

Australia is also expected to send a 200-strong team of soldiers and engineers as part of a NATO force this year.

The troop boost comes as Labor steps up calls for Australian soldiers to pull out of Iraq.

But while Labor is hardening its troop pull-out line, the Government instead looks likely to add to the 1350 Australian military personnel in and around Iraq.

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(Brisbane, Queensland) In a previous report, eight flight attendants sued Virgin Blue Air Lines on the basis that they were discriminated against because of their ages and the air line only hired younger and more-shapely women. The older attendants contended that they didn't have a fair chance for a job during the application process. They filed a formal complaint with the Anti-Discrimination Tribunal in Brisbane.

The ruling of the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal favored the flight attendants, finding today that they were discriminated against on the basis of age. The tribunal awarded $5,000 to the initial claimant, Alma Frank. Claims for monetary remuneration have been filed by the other seven oldsters.

My take is that there are circumstances where an employer wants youth, vigor, and attractiveness. In particular, regarding job qualifications for positions dealing with the public, those attributes shouldn't be considered unreasonable. Taken to the extreme, anti-discrimination rules concerning employees' ages would mandate that Hooters Restaurant hire 50-year-old waitresses. If so, the business would end up sagging, figuratively and literally.

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As I argued in a recent post, while moral decline does not mean an impending end to a nation, cultural decline might. A key cultural attribute of America is the English language. We could learn something from the Aussies.

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American Scott Parkin, a 36 year old history teacher and peace activist, is about to be deported from Australia because he has been deemed a 'security risk'. Isn't the real question, though, why we should take him back? What if Israel had done the right thing and deported Rachel Corrie? A lot fewer headaches, I'm sure. I was just thinking maybe we ought to start a few deportation hearings of our own........

BBC:

A US peace activist branded a threat to national security by Australia will not fight deportation, his lawyer has said. Scott Parkin will take legal action against officials to find out why they decided he was a security risk, his lawyer Julian Burnside added.

Mr Parkin was arrested following a Sydney protest against US military contractor Halliburton, a firm with close ties to the Bush administration...

Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock told national television that the decision "was based upon a security assessment and security assessments are not matters about which I can comment in any detail".

While they ostensibly are a corporate watchdog group, Halliburton being their main cause, they are actually a radical Leftist organization. Their goals?

1. Halliburton out of Iraq-not the real target. The real target is the war in Iraq. Halliburton's absence, they believe, would force the U.S. out.

2. End the US wars for empire--they include Afghanistan in this definition as well as ALL wars.

3. De-Centralized community-based mobilization: Here's how they explain it. I swear, this could be an episode of South Park

We will help catalyze racially just, non-patriarchal, mass movements to challenge corporate and government power and create socially just, directly democratic, ecological, equitable, and peaceful alternatives

4. Normalize the use of Direct Action and Popular Education-No idea. Maybe they can teach each other the fourth and fifth stanzas of kumbaya. Just watch out. If you let a hippie drum circle get to big, pretty soon you'll have a full-blown music festival, and after that, well, chaos. more...

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Cajones: Tony Blair and John Howard have them, George W. Bush does not.

Josh sends along this The Age article (subscription):

EDUCATION Minister Brendan Nelson has bluntly told Islamists who do not want to accept and teach Australian values that they should "clear off".

And John Howard has warned that mosques, prayer halls and Muslim schools will be watched "to the extent necessary" to ensure they do not give comfort to terrorism.

A day after the Prime Minister's summit with Muslim leaders, the Government stepped up its push to get "Australian values" — epitomised, it says, by the Anzac story of Simpson and his donkey — taught comprehensively to Muslim children.

On Tuesday Treasurer Peter Costello said people thinking of coming to Australia who did not like Australian values and preferred a society that practised sharia law should go elsewhere...

We want them to understand our history and our culture, the extent to which we believe in mateship and giving another person a hand up and a fair go. And basically, if people don't want to be Australians and they don't want to live by Australian values and understand them, well basically they can clear off."

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Australia may follow the Brits example and ban all groups advocating jihad and the establishment of the Caliphate. CNS:

Australia may follow Britain's lead in banning an Islamist organization that claims to repudiate violence while openly campaigning for the re-establishment of a single Muslim state or caliphate.

If the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) finds Hizb ut-Tahrir to be a terrorist threat, the group will be outlawed in the country, Prime Minister John Howard said on Monday....

Hizb ut-Tahrir is already restricted in Germany, Russia and in parts of the Middle East and Central Asia. It is not, however, on the U.S. State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations....

Australian Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Wassim Doureihi told the country's Nine Network television station his party supported the anti-coalition violence in Iraq.

"If we talk about occupied land then we have to expect the people to resist the occupation," he said....

Hat tip: Drew from the Paul Revere Society.

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