Shocking pictures from Gaza, Censored video of Terrorists attacking Israeli Seals

 

 

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Boatloads of bloody-minded pacifists

By Andrew Bolt
The Daily Telegraph
June 02, 2010

NOTHING more to be said. Israeli soldiers kill at least nine peace activists trying to ship aid to a starving people. Or, as the front page of The Age screamed yesterday: "Israel kills boat protesters."

End of story. There are riots and protests in London, Paris, New York, Istanbul, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and throughout the Middle East.

The UN whacks Israel and calls for an emergency meeting of the Security Council. From Moscow to Washington, Israel stands utterly friendless. Dangerously alone.

What a coup for those pledged to destroy that tiny Jewish country. How discredited and defenceless Israel seems. Someone couldn't have scripted this any better.

Well, almost no better, because even the journalists most sympathetic to the activists on the ships intercepted by Israel couldn't help but refer, albeit grudgingly, to a couple of untidy details too obvious to ignore.

ABC host Jon Faine, for instance, described these victims of Zionist aggression as "humanitarian activists with a few knives". Er, with knives? Humanitarians? And a strident report in The Age, Australia's most left-wing daily, conceded that video of the Israeli soldiers being lowered on to the ships from helicopters did shows some of the "hundreds of politicians and protesters" on board had offered "signs of resistance".

Via Atlas Shrugs For more as it happens info on this issue.

Here are some of those "signs of the resistance" that report failed to detail.

You see the Israelis, at first brandishing just paint-ball guns, being grabbed as they landed, dragged to the ground, and beaten brutally with pipes and clubs.

On another clip, apparently shot by protesters, a soldier is stabbed in the back, and then in the front. Another soldier is beaten and thrown over the side.

Photographs show two Israeli soldiers, one of them shot, being carried off with serious wounds. This isn't what you'd normally expect from "peace protesters" or "humanitarian activists", even those armed merely "with a few knives".

These clues suggest the media - and many foolish politicians - have fallen for a brilliant propaganda coup.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd also fell for it, saying he was "deeply concerned" and condemning "any use of violence under the sorts of circumstances we have seen".

His Foreign Affairs Minister, Steven Smith, likewise attacked Israel for a "terrible and shocking event" and demanded it hold an inquiry.

Not once did Rudd or Smith suggest an inquiry into who organised this trap in which Israel had fallen - or into those who now stand most to gain.

So who are we talking about? Here's another clue. The Israelis took over an "aid" flotilla trying to pierce the blockade which both Israel and Egypt have imposed on Gaza, controlled by the Islamist Hamas.

Only on one of six ships did the Israelis meet a resistance that clearly - and fatally - caught them by surprise. This was not on one of the ships manned by Western politicians, aid workers and other useful idiots brought along for camouflage.

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It broke out instead on the Mavi Marmara, a ship supplied by a Turkish "humanitarian relief fund" known as IHH.

IHH may boast about its good works, but intelligence agencies warn that it is in fact tied to Islamist terrorists.

In 2001, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, the prominent French counter-terrorism magistrate, testified in the trial of the "Millennium bomber" that IHH had played "an important role" in the plot to blow up Los Angeles airport.

He said the charity was "a type of cover-up" to infiltrate mujahidin into combat, get forged documents and smuggle weapons.

In 2006, the Danish Institute for International Studies reported that Turkish security forces had raided the IHH's Istanbul bureau and found firearms, explosives and bomb-making instructions.

The Turkish investigators concluded this "charity" was sending jihadists to Bosnia, Chechnya and Afghanistan.

IHH is a supporter of Hamas, listed in many countries as a terrorist group. This time it planned something more effective than an explosion. It decided to destroy Israel's moral standing among its more fickle friends.

Its Mavi Marmara would now head a flotilla to break through the Israeli blockade of Gaza - or, rather, to provoke Israel into stopping it by force. IHH head Bulent Yildirim gloated that this would be seen as "a declaration of war" against all the countries which supplied the flotilla's passengers, which is why so many foreigners, and particularly sympathetic journalists such as the Sydney Morning Herald's Paul McGeough, were on board, having been recruited from Australia, Britain, the US and many other countries that IHH and its allies hoped could be turned into enemies of Israel.

It was obvious Israel would act. It had to. To relax the blockade once would be to open a corridor to yet more ships, giving Gaza another conduit for the smuggling of jihadists and militarily useful supplies.

Oh, and ignore soothing claims now that Hamas, which runs Gaza, should actually be negotiated with, rather than blockaded. Hamas fires rockets at Israel and has a charter which calls for the destruction of Israel, declaring "there is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad."

Indeed, jihad was also the spirit on the Mavi Marmara as it sailed for Gaza.

Those on board refused offers by Israel that they dock at an Israeli port so their aid could be checked and forwarded to Gaza. They rejected warnings to turn back. They prepared instead for confrontation. Arab television showed a woman exulting: "We await one of two good things - to achieve martyrdom or reach the shore of Gaza."

She said: "These are people who wish to be martyred for the sake of Allah. As much as they want to reach Gaza, the other option is more desirable to them."

They got just what they wanted, then, as did Hamas and its chief backer, Iran.

Iran, needing a distraction from its nuclear program, pumped out instant YouTube footage of this Israeli "atrocity".

Meanwhile Hamas spokesman Samil Abu Zuhri called for a global "intifada": "We call on all Arabs and Muslims to rise up in front of Zionist embassies across the world."

And in capital cities around Australia we yesterday saw the new front open as angry demonstrators took the streets.

So what, you may scoff. A few of the usual hotheads. But see this time how many of our politicians, journalists and "thinkers" are on the wrong side of this front.

See how willingly they've surrendered to a clever Islamist plot more effective than any Bali bomb.

Leftist PR, puts Knuckle Dragging Neanderthal in a suit .

 

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Gaza Peace Flotilla exposed

 

The MSM will no doubt run the usual line against Israel and for their pals in Islamic Sociopaths Inc.,telling anyone who will listen of the noble (savage) Islamic cause to simply offer supplies to their and the MSM’s Islamic brothers (in arms) in Gaza.

Full report at Atlas Shrugs

I Stand with Israel: I Stand with the Jews

SodaHead

By: Oriana Fallaci
A French court on Nov. 20, 2002, dismissed a request to ban "The Rage and the Pride," the best-selling book by [leftist] Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci that critics say incites hatred of Muslims. Oriana Fallaci, 73, is a former Resistance fighter and war correspondent best-known for her uncompromising interviews with world leaders.
I find it shameful that in Italy there should be a procession of individuals dressed as suicide bombers who spew vile abuse at Israel, hold up photographs of Israeli leaders on whose foreheads they have drawn the swastika, incite people to hate the Jews. And who, in order to see Jews once again in the extermination camps, in the gas chambers, in the ovens of Dachau and Mauthausen and Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen et cetera, would sell their own mother to a harem.

I find it shameful that the Catholic Church should permit a bishop, one with lodgings in the Vatican no less, a saintly man who was found in Jerusalem with an arsenal of arms and explosives hidden in the secret compartments of his sacred Mercedes, to participate in that procession and plant himself in front of a microphone to thank in the name of God the suicide bombers who massacre the Jews in pizzerias and supermarkets. To call them "martyrs who go to their deaths as to a party."
I find it shameful that in France, the France of Liberty-Equality-Fraternity, they burn synagogues, terrorize Jews, profane their cemeteries. I find it shameful that the youth of Holland and Germany and Denmark flaunt the kaffiah just as Mussolini's avant garde used to flaunt the club and the fascist badge.

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism. That in Sweden they asked that the Nobel Peace Prize given to Shimon Peres in 1994 be taken back and conferred on the dove with the olive branch in his mouth, that is onArafat.
I find it shameful that the distinguished members of the Committee, a Committee that (it would appear) rewards political color rather than merit, should take this request into consideration and even respond to it. In hell the Nobel Prize honors he who does not receive it.
I find it shameful (we're back in Italy) that state-run television stations contribute to the resurgent anti-Semitism, crying only over Palestinian deaths while playing down Israeli deaths, glossing over them in unwilling tones. I find it shameful that in their debates they host with much deference the scoundrels with turban or kaffiah who yesterday sang hymns to the slaughter at New York and today sing hymns to the slaughters at Jerusalem, at Haifa, at Netanya,
at Tel Aviv.

I find it shameful that the press does the same, that it is indignant because Israeli tanks surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, that it is not indignant because inside that same church two hundred Palestinian terrorists well armed with machine guns and munitions and explosives (among them are various leaders of Hamas and Al-Aqsa) are not unwelcome guests of the monks (who then accept bottles of mineral water and jars of honey from the soldiers of those tanks).
I find it shameful that, in giving the number of Israelis killed since the beginning of the Second Intifada (four hundred twelve), a noted daily newspaper found it appropriate to underline in capital letters that more people are killed in their traffic accidents. (Six hundred a year).
I find it shameful that the Roman Observer, the newspaper of the Pope - a Pope who not long ago left in the Wailing Wall a letter of apology for the Jews - accuses of extermination a people who were exterminated in the millions by Christians. By Europeans. I find it shameful that this newspaper denies to the survivors of that people (survivors who still have numbers tattooed on their arms) the right to react, to defend themselves, to not be exterminated again.

I find it shameful that in the name of Jesus Christ (a Jew without whom they would all be unemployed), the priests of our parishes or Social Centers or whatever they are flirt with the assassins of those in Jerusalem who cannot go to eat a pizza or buy some eggs without being blown up.
I find it shameful that they are on the side of the very ones who inaugurated terrorism, killing us on airplanes, in airports, at the Olympics, and who today entertain themselves by killing western journalists. By shooting them, abducting them, cutting their throats, decapitating them. (There's someone in Italy who, since the appearance of Anger and Pride, would like to do the same to me. Citing verses of the Koran he exorts his "brothers" in the mosques and the Islamic Community to chastise me in the name of Allah. To kill me. Or rather to die with me. Since he's someone who speaks English well, I'll respond to him in English:
"f**k you."

I find it shameful that almost all of the left, the left that twenty years ago permitted one of its union processionals to deposit a coffin (as a mafioso warning) in front of the synagogue of Rome, forgets the contribution made by the Jews to the fight against fascism. Made by Carlo and Nello Rossini, for example, by Leone Ginzburg, by Umberto Terracini, by Leo Valiani, by Emilio Sereni, by women like my friend Anna Maria Enriques Agnoletti who was shot at Florence on June 12, 1944, by seventy-five of the three-hundred-thirty-five people killed at the Fosse Ardeatine, by the infinite others killed under torture or in combat or before firing squads. (The companions, the teachers, of my infancy and my youth.)

I find it shameful that in part through the fault of the left--or rather, primarily through the fault of the left (think of the left that inaugurates its congresses applauding the representative of the PLO, leader in Italy of the Palestinians who want the destruction of Israel)--Jews in Italian cities are once again afraid. And in French cities and Dutch cities and Danish cities and German cities, it is the same. I find it shameful that Jews tremble at the passage of the scoundrels dressed like suicide bombers just as they trembled during Krystallnacht, the night in which Hitler gave free rein to the Hunt of the Jews.

I find it shameful that in obedience to the , vile, dishonest, and for them extremely advantageous fashion of Political Correctness the usual opportunists - or better the usual parasites - exploit the word Peace. That in the name of the word Peace, by now more debauched than the words Love and Humanity, they absolve one side alone of its hate and bestiality. That in the name of a pacifism (read conformism) delegated to the singing crickets and buffoons who used to lick Pol Pot's feet they incite people who are confused or ingenuous or intimidated. Trick them, corrupt them, carry them back a half century to the time of the yellow star on the coat. These charlatans who care about the Palestinians as much as I care about the charlatans. That is not at all.

I find it shameful that many Italians and many Europeans have chosen as their standard-bearer the gentleman (or so it is polite to say) Arafat. This nonentity who thanks to the money of the Saudi Royal Family plays the Mussolini ad perpetuum and in his megalomania believes he will pass into History as the George Washington of Palestine. This ungrammatical wretch who when I interviewed him was unable even to put together a complete sentence, to make articulate conversation. So that to put it all together, write it, publish it, cost me a tremendous effort and I concluded that compared to him even Ghaddafi sounds like Leonardo da Vinci. This false warrior who always goes around in uniform like Pinochet, never putting on civilian garb, and yet despite this has never participated in a battle. War is something he sends, has always sent, others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent who playing the part of Head of State caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. No-no-I-want-Jerusalem-all-to-myself.
This eternal liar who has a flash of sincerity only when (in private) he denies Israel's right to exist, and who as I say in my book contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is, so that you can never trust him. Never! With him you will always wind up systematically betrayed. This eternal terrorist who knows only how to be a terrorist (while keeping himself safe) and who during the Seventies, that is when I interviewed him, even trained the terrorists of Baader-Meinhof. With them, children ten years of age. Poor children. (Now he trains them to become suicide bombers. A hundred baby suicide bombers are in the works: a hundred!). This weather*** who keeps his wife at Paris, served and revered like a queen, and keeps his people down in the squalor. He takes them out of the squalor only to send them to die, to kill and to die, like the eighteen year old girls who in order to earn equality with the fate of their victims. And yet many Italians love him, yes. Just like they loved Mussolini. And many other Europeans do the same.

I find it shameful and see in all this the rise of a new fascism, a new n-a-z-i-s-m.
A fascism, a n-a-z-i-s-m, that much more grim and revolting because it is conducted and nourished by those who hypocritically pose as do-gooders, progressives, communists, pacifists, Catholics or rather Christians, and who have the gall to label a warmonger anyone like me who screams the truth. I see it, yes, and I say the following. I have never been tender with the tragic and Shakespearean figure Sharon. ("I know you've come to add another scalp to your necklace," he murmured almost with sadness when I went to interview him in 1982.) I have often had disagreements with the Israelis, ugly ones, and in the past I have defended the Palestinians a great deal. Maybe more than they deserved.

But I stand with Israel, I stand with the Jews. I stand just as I stood as a young girl during the time when I fought with them, and when the Anna Marias were shot. I defend their right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time. And disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans, I am ashamed of this shame that dishonors my Country and Europe. At best, it is not a community of States, but a pit of Pontius Pilates. And even if all the inhabitants of this planet were to think otherwise, I would continue to think so.

The Religion of Peace 

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Keep this Islamic THUG out of Australia,Useless Islam aka Cat Stevens.

 

Yusuf Islam, not Cat Stevens, defined a generation

ABC  Michael Gordon-Smith

Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, plans to perform concerts around Australia in June. I have liked his music, but I won't attend.
I cannot forget watching an artist saying another deserved to die because of his art.
Peter Kavanagh, a Victorian state MP goes further and suggests we deny him a visa unless he publicly recants from that view. Whatever the Immigration authorities decide, it's worth being clear on what he stood for.

The publicity for his Australian tour trumpets: "As Cat Stevens he defined a generation". It's a big claim, even as marketing puff. Yusuf may indeed have done so, but not the way his promotion suggests. If one moment defines the cultural history of Yusuf's generation, it's Valentine's Day 1989. In Christopher Hitchens words: 'this was not just a warning of what was to come. It was the warning…For our time and generation, the great conflict between the ironic mind and the literal mind, the experimental and the dogmatic, the tolerant and the fanatical, is the argument that was kindled by The Satanic Verses.' Every time I hear a Cat Stevens song, or see a mention of Yusuf, my first thought is to remember his part in that argument.

He was famous. As Cat Stevens he'd been a very popular singer songwriter. He wrote and sang lyrical songs full of concern for personal freedom and kindness and peace. By 1989, after a decade as Yusuf Islam, he'd been described as Britain's most famous Muslim convert.
It was natural that he would be asked his opinion about Ayatollah Khomeini's call and promise of reward for Salman Rushdie's death. Yusuf agreed to join the panel of Geoffrey Robertson's Hypothetical to discuss the issues on television.

I watched the program when it was shown in Australia in October that year. I'm still dismayed by the memory:

More on this story at Winds of Jihad

Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die? Yusuf Islam: Who? Salman Rushdie? Geoffrey Robertson: Yes. Yusuf Islam: Yes, yes.
Yusuf's website includes a variety of clarifications and justifications for his comments about Mr Rushdie on that program and elsewhere:
- he never called for Rushdie's death or supported the fatwa;
- his remarks in the Hypothetical were an attempt to lighten the moment and raise a smile, British dry humour; and
- he's been tricked, misquoted and misinterpreted by the media.

He uses a Nina Simone song he covered as a headline, '…please don't let me be misunderstood", and complains that no matter how many times he tries to explain, journalists bring it up 'as if it was the only memorable thing I was reported to have done in my almost sixty years living on this planet (yawn).' Recent articles say he now refuses to talk about the issue. Some postings of Hypothetical on YouTube say 'This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Yusuf Islam.'
You may for the moment be able to judge for yourself here whether his comments were dead pan or in deadly earnest.

Those who heard him at the time were in no doubt. Writer Fay Weldon, not unfamiliar with British dry humor, took him so seriously she wished the police superintendent on the panel would "come over and arrest this man here for inciting on television, people to violence implicitly and otherwise".
Mr Rushdie certainly didn't get the joke. He later wrote to the Sunday Telegraph saying that however much Yusuf may wish to rewrite his past, he was neither misunderstood nor misquoted and recalled that asked what he'd do if Mr Rushdie turned up at his doorstep looking for help, he'd said 'I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like. I'd try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is'.

Yusuf was quizzed repeatedly about his views, and he issued a statement on 2 March 1989 to clarify. [The statement is quoted in full as a footnote here.]
He says that when asked questions he couldn't tell a lie and was just trying to describe Islamic law, and points out that there are 'similar harsh laws' in the Bible, and that 'Muslims are bound to keep within the limits of the law of the country in which they live'. This is disingenuous.
Whether ancient legal codes prescribe violent physical punishment was never at issue. The question repeatedly asked of him was what place he thought such laws should have in a contemporary heterogenous world. It's clear he thinks English law deficient, and regretted that there was little chance of Islamic Law being applied in Britain in the near future.

When he gave an extended interview to the US cable TV news program World Monitor, he reaffirmed his support for Mr Rushdie's death. His statements leave no doubt. He supported capital punishment for blasphemy and the killing of Salman Rushdie.
We all make mistakes. There are constant reminders of the problems a few ill-chosen words in public can cause, including recent examples from Gordon Brown, then Prime Minister of the UK, to Nick Sowden, now expelled from the Queensland Liberal National Party.

It's possible to interpret Yusuf's comments simply in terms of his own life, even to make light of them or to feel sorry for him, like his former fiancee Lucy Johnson, a stripper known as Princess Cheyenne, who was reported in the Boston Globe as saying at the time: "He's really a sweetheart; he just lost it. Obviously, he's gone through a lot of changes. He used to be an extremely fragile person. When he embraced Islam, it was like do or die. It was an all-encompassing thing for him. He goes by the protocol. If it's protocol, he's all for it. He's a very serious man. You've got to feel sorry for someone like that. Of all people to be for censorship, a writer. He wrote 'Peace Train' about an orgasm."

Ultimately, however, it's not something to be made light of. It's not a yawn. It mattered then and it matters now. Yusuf supported killing a man because someone took offence at what he had written.
Beyond the deaths and threats of violence that still continue, a generation whose legacy of cultural freedom allowed the young Cat Stevens to pursue his spiritual journey and to choose for himself was infected by self censorship and hate. Opportunities for mutual tolerance and accommodation have been diminished in favour of a readiness to take offence and contagious gangland demands for respect.

The marketing puff for Yusuf's tour says when he was last here he was given books on Rumi and numerology - all part of his "Road to Findout" and promises he will his return will deliver "the result of an extraordinary spiritual journey." In his own life he has changed his name and changed his mind, and he makes much of his quest. Last year he unveiled a musical that he describes as 'a metaphorical mirror of my own journey.'
One might hope that a man with such a life might be tolerant of the quests and questioning of others, however confident he was with his present position. But Yusuf had no sympathy for Mr Rushdie's artistic quest. He would look for juridical uncertainty when his son brought home a guitar, but not for Mr Rushdie's questioning.
You don't think this man deserves to die? Yes, yes.

In many cases, as then Prime Minister Brown desperately hoped, a ready apology and an acknowledgement of harm can lessen a mistake. But 20 years on Yusuf seems to think all the wrongs were done by others. Journalists asked him loaded questions. His replies were misinterpreted. It was the book, not the call for violence that "destroyed the harmony between peoples and created an unnecessary international crisis". At worst, his remarks were silly but they were dry English humour.
He defined a generation but not as the young Cat Stevens enjoying and celebrating the fruits of freedom and searching for answers. He did it in a few words on television as a rigid man convinced he now had the answers, denying that freedom to others.

He will probably sing Peace Train at his concerts:
Now I've been crying lately,
thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating,
why can't we live in bliss?

It's time he stopped singing the question and answered it. He had an opportunity to stand for peace and tolerance when the need for such a voice was critical. Instead, when Geoffrey Robertson asked the question, he found no room for tolerance or doubt, but with dogmatic certainty took the side of violence and tyranny.
For me, it remains the most important thing he ever did. Unless he revisits the issue and finds room for difference, in my mind he's forever defined by the choice he made in those weeks in 1989. The only message I hear from him is the echo of Khomeini's threat not just to Salman Rushdie but to every free thinker in the world: If you speak your mind we may kill you.
Michael Gordon-Smith is a Sydney-based management consultant. He used to be a public servant.

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Brutal story ends as kneecapper freed Australia: Pious Muslim Jailed for attack on Sydney Occupied Territory Police Station.

Brutal story ends as kneecapper freed

Paul Bibby
SMH
March 15, 2013

Some time on Friday Saleh Jamal will walk out of the South Coast Correctional Centre at Nowra as a free man.
Few on the street will recognise his bearded face or his name.
But the police who worked at Lakemba police station in November 1998 will remember, and the news of his release is likely to raise more than a few hackles.

Drive-by: Lakemba Police Station. Photo: Steven Siewart
In 1998 the notorious ''DK's Boys'' gang carried out a drive-by shooting on the Lakemba police station that left the building a mess of shattered glass, and much of Sydney in a state of uproar.

The shooting had five officers ducking for cover as 16 bullets from semi-automatic pistols passed through the station's foyer windows. Then police commissioner Peter Ryan pledged to track down those responsible and to make the streets of Sydney safe.
In May 2009 Jamal became the only person found guilty over the shooting as charges against the other men were dropped or not proven beyond reasonable doubt. He was later sentenced to a maximum of 12 years' jail for a range of charges including shooting with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

Burnt out: Police inspect the vehicle. Photo: Steven Siewart
Last Friday Jamal was quietly acquitted in the Downing Centre District Court after a 12-day retrial.
''Thank you, your honour, may God bless you and your family,'' a jubilant Jamal said.
The acquittal by Judge Steven Norrish coincided with the end of a nine-year jail sentence Jamal was serving for kneecapping a rival drug dealer at Greenacre in October 1998, a month before the Lakemba shooting.
''God willing I will be released next Friday,'' he told the court.
Jamal's release is a remarkable twist in what has been a dramatic and at times brutal and bloody story. For more than a decade the 37-year-old was one of the key members of DK's Boys, named after their leader Danny Karam, who ultimately perished in a hail of bullets from his own gang mates.
During the 1990s DK's Boys challenged Sydney's major players for a slice of the city's illegal drug market and, briefly, for a piece of the Kings Cross nightclub scene, with a brutal strategy that involved kneecappings and multiple murders.
In 2004, after being arrested and charged over the Lakemba shoot-out, Jamal fled to Lebanon with a false passport while on bail.
There he was subsequently arrested and jailed by the Lebanese government on charges of possessing weapons and explosives, planning acts that endangered state security, and possessing a false passport.
His five-year sentence for these crimes was later cut to two years after a Lebanese court ruled that only the passport conviction could be upheld.
In October 2006 he was extradited to Sydney where, in 2008, he was sentenced to nine years' jail for the 1998 kneecapping of a rival drug dealer at Greenacre.
The gang combusted in a fight with police on a White City tennis court in December 2008.
Last year, Jamal's conviction was quashed on appeal and a re-trial ordered.
Among the main reasons for the decision by the three-judge panel of the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal was that Jamal had not been permitted to accompany the jury when, as part of the trial, it visited the scene of the alleged crime.
In the Downing District Court this month Jamal faced the lesser charge of discharging a firearm in a public place.
He was found not guilty by Judge Norrish, hearing the matter without a jury.
He will hand down his reasons for the decision later this month.




Man jailed over cop shop shooting attack
By Janet Fife-Yeomans
The Daily Telegraph
May 28, 2010

A FORMER gang member has been jailed twelve years after a shooting attack on a Sydney police station.
Saleh Jamal will be behind bars at least until 2016 for his role in the attack on Lakemba police station in 1998.
Officers dived for their lives as a volley of bullets smashed into the station glass doors.

One hit a computer screen at head height.Judge Helen Morgan in the District Court today said it was a direct attack on one of the state’s law enforcement agencies.
“This attack was committed as an act of revenge against the police out of a misguided belief that they were unfairly targeting Lebanese,” she said.
The judge said they aimed to intimidate police and deter them from carrying out heir lawful duties.
Jamal, 35, was convicted by jury of discharging a firearm with intend to cause grievous bodily harm
He was a member of “DK’s Boys” an organised crime outfit headed by Danny Karam and was the get away driver when they targeted Lakemba police station in the night-time attack.
Judge Morgan rejected Jamal’s please for mercy on the grounds that it has taken so long for the case to come to trial.
She said that he was the architect of his own downfall.
His earlier trail in 2004, was aborted after he said he was ill.
He then fled to Lebanon on a false passport where he was jailed in Beirut after being convicted of terrorism offences.
The terrorism convictions was overturned on appeal and he was extradited in 2006 and in 2007 jailed in NSW for up to nine years for kidnapping arrival during a shootout at Greenacre in 1998.
His brother Mohammed Omar Jamal was convicted last year over a terrorist plot targeting Sydney Lucas Heights’ nuclear reactor.
Judge Morgan sentenced Jamal to a total of 12 years with a minimum of six and a half.
She said although he was the getaway driver he was as culpable as the gun who fired the shots into the police station.

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What do Muslims do after Friday Prayers ? Beat a Hindu Kafir to death of course

Religious ritual in a Bangladeshi mosque

A Hindu being beaten by Muslims in a mosque in Bangladesh. He was captured outside the mosque while going home. After Friday prayers were over, the Muslims came out and grabbed the first Hindu they could. Mr. Vimal Patak a Bangladeshi born Hindu was beaten to death with sticks as the Muslim mullahs (priests) chanted "kill the Kafir!" (non-Muslim). With folded hands he begged for his life and died a brutal death.

What sort of religion inspires its followers to murder after prayer? This kind:

"the Messenger of Allah . . . would say: 'Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war. . . . When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. . . . Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them. . . . If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them . . .'" (Muslim Book 19, Number 4294).
"fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war) . . . " (Qur’an 9:5).

The Koran inspired Neanderthal savagery knows no bounds.These Islamic Dogs are what the governments of the UK ,USA and Australia import into their respective countries on a daily basis, WHY?

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Australian Labor Party’s best friend turns out the lights in Venezuela “Dear President Chávez, We, the undersigned citizens of Australia, would like to extend a warm invitation for you to visit our country…………”

Red Oil… “Redistributive” Government

 

Is this like Barack Hugo Chavez Hussein Obama’s million strong civilian civil service “army” “There are so many different military forces at Chavez’s disposal – the parade seems endless.  And although they’re not marching here today - Chavez has recently armed a 30,000-strong civilian militia.  Venezuela! Venezuela! He told them there were plots to kill him, and if it happened - they would know what to do. The message here today is crystal clear - both to his enemies abroad and his opponents at home. In the stands, Cuba's President Raul Castro would certainly approve. Chavez, Socialist, Motherland or death! It leaves the President's political opponents like Dr Douglas Leon very worried. “

Comrade Hugo Mr 30% inflation Chavez,the role model for the Australian Labor Party.

Australian Labor Party, Communisms Fifth Column, led by Kevin“I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist” Rudd

Will someone please explain to me how you can be elected to the leadership of the largest Socialist / Communist Party in Australia, Lu Kewen aka Kevin Rudd,and claim to not believe in its ideology and manifesto ? or is this yet another example of the Labor Party’s most adhered to commandment of “whatever it takes” Chk – chk- BOOM The Australian Labor Party,ALP,is funded by the Australian Council of Trade Unions,ACTU,these bankers and financiers of the ALP are without question radical left in ideology and actions, are we to believe that they are unaware they have a man leading the political party they finance and SCAM for does not believe in or subscribe to their social and political objectives ? An invitation to President Chavez by the undersigned cabal of Labor Party officials, Parliamentarians,Union officials and leftist beard strokers and “Religious” leaders. For the latest developments in the Socialist Utopia of Venezuela,see SheikYerMami’s Winds of Jihad http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org/?q=node/160 Dear President Chávez, We, the undersigned citizens of Australia, would like to extend a warm invitation for you to visit our country. We have watched developments in Venezuela with great interest. We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. We have also noted with keen attention the moves that your government has begun to make to create a society based on popular participation in all spheres of society—from the workplace up to the national government. Although we are on the opposite side of the globe we feel that our shared ideals of social justice and democracy bring us close together. Every country has its own traditions and culture and has to find its own solutions, but what Venezuela has been able to achieve in so little time will be a source of inspiration and ideas for many in Australia.

“that our shared ideals of social justice and democracy bring us close together”

“…..source of inspiration and ideas for many in Australia.”

Venezuelan President for life wannabe, “Mad Dog” Hugo Chavez, seen here with one of his advisors,Senorita Parrot.

“I’m not sick,but I’m not well.”

In this light we believe that a visit to our country by yourself would not only help to improve the awareness of the Australian people of developments in Venezuela, but also be an unparalleled opportunity to strengthen the ties of friendship and solidarity between our two peoples. All signatures will be posted to Nelson Davila, Venezuela’s charge d’affaires in Australia, Canberra.(Todas las firmas de invitación serán enviadas a Nelson Dávila, Encargado de Negocios de Venezuela en Australia, Canberra) If you would like to confirm the signature of yourself or you organisation for identification and for promotion of President Chavez' visit please contact us: Jody Betzien 0425 887 078 or email info@venezuelasolidarity.org Signatories include Andrew Ferguson NSW Secretary, CFMEU Construction and General Division, John Pilger - Independent Journalist, Warren Mundine - National President of the ALP in 2006, Sylvia Hale - Member of the Legislative Council NSW (Greens), Steve Dargavel - Acting State Secretary, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Victoria, Meredith Burgmann - President of the Legislative Council of NSW, Wayne Berry - MLA (ALP) Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly, Tim Gooden - Geelong Trades Hall Secretary, Van Thanh Rudd - Visual Artist  Nephew of Australian PM Lu Kewen aka.Kevin 07 Rudd Labor’s, Rudd’s coveted economic,social plan for Australia. Australian Council of Trade Unions President Comrade Darling! Sharan Burrow, in the centre with ASU National Chairperson Alison Peters front right, Fran Teirney of the ASU-NSW & ACT (Services) Branch front left and others.

“Organisers as Educators”

"The only way you'll fly is with the ASU!" Airlines organisers showing the way.”

Signatories to invite Chavez to Australia Ali Kazak - Former Ambassador of Palestine Andrew Ferguson NSW Secretary, CFMEU Construction and General Division Angela Briant - Secretary Independent Education Union (Tasmania) Antony Loewenstein - Independent Journalist Barry Carr - Director of la Trobe University, Institute of Latin American Studies Belinda Selke - NTEU, Wollongong Blake Stephens - Organier, CPSU NSW Brendan Hewson - President, Community & Public Sector Union /CSA Buranjali David Allie - Council of Elders, Indigenious Land Council Cameron Durnsford - LMHU, Qld Caroline Risely - Monash University Welfare Officer Carolyn Smith - Childcare Union Assistant Secretary, WA Liqor Hospitality Miscellaneous workers Union Casper Cumming - Swinborne Student Union President 2006 Charlotte Boss-Walker -Peace Activist (Tas) Cheryl Dillon - NTEU, Wollongong Chris Game - Secretary, NTEU NSW, Clare Ozich - Industrial Officer, Unions WA Craig Bulley - Worker's Radio Craig Johnson - Cultural Studies, Macquarie University. Darren Mathewson - director of Organising CPSU Dave Robinson - Secretary, Unions WA David O’Byrne - Sectretary LHMU Deb Foskey - Greens Member of the Legislative Assembly (ACT) Dick Nichols - National Co-ordinator, Socialist Alliance Doreen Shenman - Peace Activist (Tas) Dr Alastair Grieg Senior Lecturer, Australian National University: Faculty of Arts Dr Coral Wynter - biochemist, Brisbane Dr Rhonda Forrest - Lecturer, Charles Sturt University Dr. Anthony Ashbolt - NTEU, Wollongong Dr. Henk Eijkman - Empowered Learning International Dr. Peter Ross - Spanish & Latin American Studies, UNSW Erick Maldonado - NTEU, Wollongong Federico Fuentes - National Co-ordinator, Resistance socialist youth organisation Fay Hannah - Cuba Friendship Society Geoff Hull - LMHU (NT) Gil Anderson - Secretary ACT Branch LHMU Graciela Nogues - ASU workplace delegate & L.A Solidarity Committe Graham Pallot - organiser, CFMEU WA Grahame McCulloch - General Secretaty, NTEU Glenda Mejía - Spanish Co-ordinator at RMIT Humphrey McQueen - Historian Ian Bray - WA assistant branch secretary, Maritime Union of Australia WA Ian Cohen - MLC NSW, Greens Ian Newman - Peace Activist (Tas) J Keith Atkinson - Associate Professor emeritus, UQ; Healer Jack Mundey - Environmentalist Jade Mason - LMHU (Qld) Janine Aitkens -President, Cairns Campus, James Cook University Student Assoc. Jakalene X - Indigenous community activist Jake Wishart - Student Activist Alliance Jenni Bond - Peace Activist (Tas) Jenny Forward - Organiser CPSU (Tasmania) Jim McIlroy - journalist, Brisbane Jim Mellor - Communications/Projects, CFMEU WA Jim Reid - organiser, CFMEU WA Jo Maree Coghlan - Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong Joan Doyle - Victorian Branch Secretary of the CEPU Communications Division Joe Cambria - The Australian Global Warming and Fair Pay Institute Joe McDonald - Assistant Secretary, CFMEU WA Joel Asphar - AMWU WA Organiser John Pilger - Independent Journalist John Sutton - National Secretary, CFMEU, Construction & Gernaral Division Jose Munoz - Organiser ACT Branch LHMU Judith Pabian - President ACT Branch NTEU Keith Peckham - Industrial development officer, UnionsWA Kerry Nettle - Australian Greens Senator for NSW Kerryn Williams - Editor, Green Left Weekly Kevin Ennor - organiser, CFMEU WA Keysar Trad - Islamic Friendship Association Kim Sattler - Secretary UnionsACT Kiraz Janicke - National Co-ordinating Committee Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network Lee Rhiannon - Member of the Legislative Council NSW (Greens)Len Palmer - Lecturer, Charles Sturt University Lisa Darmanin, ASU Assistant Branch Secretary, Lisa Darmanin Linda Briskman - Professor, Curtin Centre for Human Rights Education Linda Seaborn - Welfare worker, and HACSU delegate Lisa MacDonald - National Co-ordinating Committee Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network Mark Taylor - Australian Services Union (Qld) Marree O'Halloran - President, NSW Teachers Federation Michele McKenzie - Greens Councillor, Leichhardt Council Michelle O'Neil - TCFUA State secretary Megan Clement - Newcastle University Students Association, Education Officer 2006 Meredith Burgmann - President of the Legislative Council of NSW Mick Baker - MUA WA organiser Mick Buchan - Organiser, CFMEU WA Mick Campion - President, NTEU Murdoch Univeristy Branch Mike Donaldson - NTEU, Wollongong Naomi Arrowsmith - Australian Services Union, Assistant State Secretary (NSW) Narendra Mohan Kommalapati - Journalist Natasha Stott-Despoja - SA Australian Democrats Senator Neil Mudford - Secretary ACT Branch NTEU Nicholas Kafer - Education Campaigns Coordinator - Wollonongong Undergraduate Students' Association (WUSA) Noah Bassil - Associate of the Centre for Middle East & North African Studies Paul Halfpenny - WA Organiser, NTEU Paul Lynch - State member for Liverpool Paul Gonzalez - Pablo Neruda Cultural Centre (Melb) Paul Obohoov - Trade Union Voices Choir, ACTU Phillip Adams - Journalist, Republican of the Year 2005 Peter Boyle - National Secretary, Democratic Socialist Perspective Raul Bassi - Transport Workers Union delegate, Sydney Ray Jackson - Indigenous Social Justice Association Reverend Alex Gator Robert Austin - Honorary Fellow Department of History, University of Melbourne Robyn Francis -Permaculture Education, Erda Institute Inc Ryan Ardill - Your Rights at Work, Kingston Division Saeb Ali - Peace For Lebanon (Wollongong) Sam Watson - Indigenous Murri Activist Scott Poynting - Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Education, UW Shelley Watson-Harris - Executive Officer, Unions WA Simon Cocker - Secretary, Unions Tasmania Stephen Weber - ASU (Alice Springs) Steve Dargavel - Acting State Secretary, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Victoria. Steve McCartney - State President, AMWU WA Steven Arditto - Organiser CPSU (Tasmania) Susan Engel - NTEU Wollongong Susan Hopgood - Federal Secretary, AEU Susan Price - UNSW National Tertiary Education Union, Branch President Sylvia Hale - Member of the Legislative Council NSW (Greens) Tania Jorquera - Youth Worker Thirza White - Campaign Coordinator Unions WA Tim Anderson - Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney Tim Gooden - Geelong Trades Hall Secretary Van Thanh Rudd - Visual Artist Vinnie Molina Organiser, CFMEU WA Viviana Ramírez - Senior Teacher of Spanish, Beerwah State High School Warren Mundine - National President of the ALP in 2006 Warren Smith - Assistant Sydney Branch Secretary, Maritime Union of Australia Wayne Berry - MLA (ALP) Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly Wendy Jopson - Lecturer, University of Technology Sydne Yvette Berry - Organiser ACT Branch LHMU Rudd backtracks on socialist label Samantha Maiden and Verity Edwards The Australian December 15, 2006 KEVIN Rudd has junked a pledge to remove the word socialism from the Labor Party's constitution just a day after denouncing it as an "arcane, 19th-century" doctrine. Three years ago he declared himself "an old-fashioned Christian socialist", but yesterday he was busily denouncing socialism and also backflipping on a 2001 push to remove it from the ALP's constitution. Mr Rudd has previously declared the ALP's socialist dogma of controlling "production, distribution and exchange" had nostalgia value only and was "entirely unmemorable". When asked yesterday whether he would now take action, the Labor leader changed tack and said he had no plans to pursue the reforms at next year's ALP national conference. "I have no plans of doing so," he said in Adelaide yesterday. "I've already indicated where I stand philosophically in terms of the questions of my own beliefs, my own values and the priorities and objectives which I believe for a modern, progressive, democratic party. "These are core social democratic values and I'm proud to be a committed social democrat as I have been all my life." Mr Rudd's emphatic rejection of socialism was frontpage news in Melbourne's The Age yesterday. The newspaper's website also included video images of the Labor leader denouncing socialism but admitting he did not want workers being left to the "dung heap of the market". "I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist," Mr Rudd said. However, his bold statement of values was immediately undermined by the emergence of another declaration in 2003, when he was quoted in another Fairfax newspaper as saying: "I am an old-fashioned Christian socialist." Mr Rudd also cites Keir Hardie, founder of the 19th century British Christian socialist movement, as one of his heroes. In a homage to another of his political heroes, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who fought to expunge socialism from the British Labour Party's constitution in 1994, Mr Rudd has repeatedly said the ALP should follow suit. "The socialist objective ... should be abolished," he said in 2002. "While we may not have taken the socialist objective seriously ... there are others outside the party who have - and have been fundamentally alienated by it." Socialism has clearly been on the Labor leader's mind for a while. In his maiden speech to parliament, Mr Rudd said: "Nambour, for those of you who are unfamiliar with it, was not a major centre of revolutionary socialism in the 1970s - the cane growers hall even less so." Former Labor Party president Barry Jones said yesterday the ALP's constitution had already been updated during a special national conference in 1981. "(But) if there's going to be a broad debate about what we stand for that's terrific because, in a way, for some decades we just haven't talked about it," he said. Mr Jones pointed to a discussion in his autobiography, A Thinking Reed, which refers to comments by Polish philosopher Leszek Kilakowski, who said: "The trouble with the social democratic idea is that it does not stock and does not sell any of the existing ideological commodities which various totalitarian movements offer dream-hungry youth."

Lu Kewen.

Australia: Comrade Lu Kewen’s aka. Kevin Rudd’s Internet censorship almost complete

Oliver Stone, Hugo Chavez, Hussein Obama and “European Hollywood Idiots” celebrate Communism at Venice Film Festival

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Australia :Burqa ban, Muslim woman dressed like an idiot Arse Clown declares “……I'm an Australian more than anyone else here.”

 

“ ANJEM CHOUDARY: A Muslim will always be superior to a non-Muslim, absolutely.”

“NOOR ALI: They're playing a game. They don't realise how dangerous it is.
LIZ HAYES: And how dangerous is it?
NOOR ALI: It's dangerous because we know that Europe has a very sad history with what they did to the Jewish people
when they started to discriminate against them. They're repeating history. They don't see what they're going to do.”

So banning the Burqa is the same as slaughtering 6 million Jews? 

So much could be said but , where do you start ? these Muslim colonialists have an answer for everything no matter how illogical or absurd.

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Lu Kwewen’s Australia, where everybody is equal and some are far more equal than others

 

 Beijings highest ranking official in Australia,

Australian PM Lu Kewen aka, Kevin Rudd and his peoples government members Comrade Garrett, Comrade Swan and Madame Gillard.

“Another equal opportunity employer”

Andrew Bolt Blog

Andrew Bolt

Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 10:27am

The Australian Public Service tells Aborigines it will give them extra help to get a government job, and introduces you to the Aborigines it’s hired already:

I’ve already introduced you to some of the ABC’s Aborigines:

If you have any questions about whether people should receive extra government help for insisting on a racial identity almost undetectable to the naked eye, put them to the Aboriginal heads of the Rudd Government’s new National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples:

(Thanks to reader Steve.) “

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Australia: Alan Jones on Muslim Immigration

 

Alan Jones

I support "the right of return" for all Muslims to what ever country it was they or the parents / grand parents ran away from, where all the Religious and social structures that they demand be imposed on Australian society are already in place... it's a win win as we say.

Australia: Kevin Rudd “QUIETLY” asking Christian Churches to take in Illegal immigrants….

Australian Education: accommodating Ignoble Islam again.

MORE AT Australia Invaded
by Sheikyermami on May 20, 2010

 

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Labor Party Transport Minister resigns after Homosexual Club revelations.

 

Progressives up to their old tricks again

 

“The club has a $22 entry fee and assures clients discretion as they offer services for men who prefer men.”

Daily Telegraph. “TimeOut Sydney described Ken's as "today's most popular gay sauna ... The iconic sauna has been servicing queer Sydney's sexual appetites for more than 25 years. Between the dimly lit steam room, sizzling sauna, glory hole maze, dark room and porn theatre, Kens caters for every taste ... Butt Naked nights are towel-free so patrons get to size up their prey before they commit to getting a room, while weekday Lunchtime Specials pull in a crowd who take the concept of Happy Meal to a whole new level."

Kens

Biography

Political Party Activity - Member Corrimal Branch of the A.L.P. since 1976 holding numerous branch and electorate Council executive positions.

Community Activity - Chair, Illawarra Regional Development Board; and Wollongong City Gallery Board. Deputy Chair, Tourism Wollongong; the Local Government Superannuation Scheme; and the Wollongong Sportsground Trust. Former Director Port Kembla Port Corporation. Patron of numerous sporting clubs and cultural organisations.

Local Government Activity - Lord Mayor of Wollongong, Sept. 1991 to 1999; and Alderman 1987-91. Member of the Executive of the NSW Local Government Association.

Personal - Married to Edna with two sons.

Qualifications, Occupations and Interests - Appointed a Fellow of the University of Wollongong 1995. Worked in Local Government for over 10 years, previously staff member to a Federal Member. Interests include: regional economic development, urban planning, community access, indigenous and community service issues.

 

The Hon. David Campbell MP

Minister for Transport and Roads

The Honourable David Andrew Campbell MP

David Campbell was born in Bulli and grew up in Corrimal in the heart of the seat he now represents in the NSW Parliament. He is married to Edna and they have two adult sons.

After four years as councillor on Wollongong City Council, and eight years as the Lord Mayor of Wollongong, he was elected as the Member for Keira in March 1999.

He was re-elected in March 2003, and became the Minister for Regional Development, Small Business and the Illawarra. The portfolio of Water Utilities was added in February 2006 and the following October he was appointed Leader of the House.

He has chaired the trustee board of the Parliamentary Superannuation Fund since 2003.

David was re-elected in March 2007 and on 2 April was sworn in as Minister for Police and Minister for the Illawarra. On 8 September 2008, David was sworn in as the Minister for Transport.

David recognises that passengers, customer service and accountability are key focus areas for the Transport Portfolio. He is working to deliver improved services to commuters and better public transport outcomes for all NSW.

In the Illawarra David has worked tirelessly to secure the evolution of the port of Port Kembla into Australia’s leading car import centre. He remains dedicated to ensuring his region receives a fair share of Government resources.

David was appointed a Fellow of the University of Wollongong in 1995. He has been a member of the University of Wollongong Council since 2003.

Prior to entering parliament David had experience as:

• a member of the executive of the NSW Local Government Association
• deputy chair of the Local Government Superannuation Scheme
• director, Port Kembla Port Corporation
• chair, Illawarra Regional Development Board
• chair, Wollongong City Gallery Board
• deputy chair, Wollongong Sportsground Trust
• deputy chair, Tourism Wollongong.

He is the patron of numerous sporting clubs and cultural organisations and is an avid sports fan, and a recreational swimmer.

 

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Australian Education: accommodating Ignoble Islam again.

 

Bridging the gaps

Blanche Clark, Herald Sun
May 19, 2010

A new resource aims to help teachers develop better relationships with their Muslim students, writes Blanche Clark.

Research shows teachers are uncomfortable dealing with many issues that involve Muslim students.

It might be debates over the hijab, exclusion from swimming lessons or concern about young students fasting during Ramadan.

Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh, of the University of Melbourne, realised teachers needed guidance and applied to the Myer Foundation for a grant to run professional learning workshops.

Educator Jennet Cole-Adams and Muslim education expert Dr Eeqbal Hassim, who delivered the workshops in Melbourne and Sydney last year, soon discovered that teachers were encountering a wide range of dilemmas.

Their new resource, Learning From One Another, uses this information to educate teachers about Muslim beliefs and culture and provide ideas for lessons.

The director of curriculum services at the Australian Curriculum Studies Association (ACSA), Cole-Adams says the lesson plans are designed to benefit all students.

"Our suggestions for how you can incorporate this are aimed to benefit all students and to nurture relationships between Muslim and non-Muslim students by making non-Muslim students more aware of the history and contemporary situations," she says.

"The resource covers things such as learning about the tessellating tiles of Alhambra in Spain and the Afghan cameleers, and the contribution of Muslim scholars to science."

Hassim says: "We emphasise in the workshop that we think appreciating different perspectives and managing diverse opinions is a skill that kids need to develop at school."

Hassim says teachers need to find common ground, rather than give Muslims special treatment.

"We don't want schools to compromise on their stance and what they believe in," he says.

"If schools are trying to bend backwards to please Muslims and their students, then this might be a situation of compromise and that may be counterproductive, because it might emphasise that Muslims are very different . . . which may not necessarily be true for the vast majority of Muslims."

He says the book doesn't present Islam as if it is one opinion or one interpretation.

"Rather we try to provide as many different examples of various opinions, so teachers can pick and choose what applies to their situation," he says.

Cole-Adams says there are no ready answers.

"In some ways it will be a bit frustrating for teachers because they will think, 'How am I going to deal with the fact that one student won't go on school camp?' and we offer some reasons, but there are no answers or solutions that can be guaranteed."

Hassim says during the fasting month of Ramadan, many Muslim students don't take part in physical education. But rather than sending students to the library, Hassim suggests teachers get the students involved in the planning or running of the lesson.

In regards to sex education, he says teachers need to explain why it's important to the parents.

"Often parents say, 'We don't want this because we are Muslims and we don't like how it's taught', and that's where it stops. It's about going one step further and talking to them about it," Hassim says.

Victorian teachers are invited to register for a free workshop on June 2, 9am-2.30pm, Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Level 1, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne. For details about the workshop or the resource, Learning From One Another, contact ACSA, ph: (02) 6260 5660 or email acsa@acsa.edu.au

What a shame all that time and money, was not used to educate Muslims on how to behave in a Western Democracy and what their obligations to Australia are and what is expected of them by their host country.
How many more examples of the total incompatibility the Islamic mindset has with western democracy and civilization are Muslims and their leftist cheer squads going to present to the Australian people?

I support "the right of return" for all Muslims to what ever country it was they or the parents / grand parents ran away from, where all the Religious and social structures that they demand be imposed on Australian society are already in place... it's a win win as we say.

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