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Friday, June 24, 2011
JP Says he could not see face behind Carnita Mathews’s burqa,Full 9 minute video of Matthews Traffic Stop.
JP Awad Chennaoui did not see face behind the burqa
Janet Fife-Yeomans and Clementine Cuneo
The Daily Telegraph
June 24, 2011 12:00AM
A 23-year-old Justice of the Peace who thought he was witnessing Muslim woman Carnita Matthews' signature on a legal document said he never asked her to remove her full black niqab but had simply "assumed" it was her.
Campbelltown property manager Awad Chennaoui's statement to police will be examined by the Attorney-General's Department as part of a review of the case.
Mr Chennaoui witnessed the signature on the statutory declaration which was at the centre of 47-year-old mother-of-seven Ms Matthews' prosecution - and successful appeal - for falsely claiming that highway patrol officer Senior Constable Paul Fogarty had tried to lift her veil, which is similar to a burqa.
Judge Clive Jeffreys overturned Ms Matthews' conviction and six-month jail sentence for deliberately making a false complaint because he said he could not be sure beyond a reasonable doubt that it was her signature on the statutory declaration handed to police.
The prosecution said the signature matched that on her driver's licence but the judge said there were a number of differences.
At the real estate agency where he works, Mr Chennaoui yesterday refused to discuss why he did not ask the woman signing the document for identification.
"I am not discussing this. I have nothing to say. I am at work, can you please never contact me again," he said.
In his police statement, which has been seen by The Daily Telegraph, he said that he first heard of Ms Matthews when he took a telephone call on June 8 last year from Wally Awad, a man he knew through Minto Mosque, who said someone needed a JP urgently.The previous day, Ms Matthews had been stopped for a random breath test and was booked by Sen-Constable Fogarty for not properly displaying the rear P-plate on her black Honda Odyssey.
Mr Chennaoui said in the statement that that night at the mosque he met Mr Awad, a man he knew as Hamdi and a woman wearing a full veil who he believed had made the statutory declaration.
"I couldn't see the lady's face except her eyes. I had never met the lady before," Mr Chennaoui said in the statement to police investigating claims made in the document that Sen-Constable Fogarty had been racist and ready to "rip" Ms Matthews' veil from her face.
"I assumed the lady was Carnita Matthews as her name appeared on the statutory declaration."
Attorney-General Greg Smith said yesterday he had received transcripts of the hearing and the judge's decision and had asked the acting Director of Public Prosecutions if there were any avenues for an appeal.
Ms Matthews could not be contacted yesterday.
Janet Fife-Yeomans and Clementine Cuneo
The Daily Telegraph
June 24, 2011 12:00AM
A 23-year-old Justice of the Peace who thought he was witnessing Muslim woman Carnita Matthews' signature on a legal document said he never asked her to remove her full black niqab but had simply "assumed" it was her. Campbelltown property manager Awad Chennaoui's statement to police will be examined by the Attorney-General's Department as part of a review of the case.
Mr Chennaoui witnessed the signature on the statutory declaration which was at the centre of 47-year-old mother-of-seven Ms Matthews' prosecution - and successful appeal - for falsely claiming that highway patrol officer Senior Constable Paul Fogarty had tried to lift her veil, which is similar to a burqa.
Judge Clive Jeffreys overturned Ms Matthews' conviction and six-month jail sentence for deliberately making a false complaint because he said he could not be sure beyond a reasonable doubt that it was her signature on the statutory declaration handed to police.
The prosecution said the signature matched that on her driver's licence but the judge said there were a number of differences.
At the real estate agency where he works, Mr Chennaoui yesterday refused to discuss why he did not ask the woman signing the document for identification.
"I am not discussing this. I have nothing to say. I am at work, can you please never contact me again," he said.
In his police statement, which has been seen by The Daily Telegraph, he said that he first heard of Ms Matthews when he took a telephone call on June 8 last year from Wally Awad, a man he knew through Minto Mosque, who said someone needed a JP urgently.The previous day, Ms Matthews had been stopped for a random breath test and was booked by Sen-Constable Fogarty for not properly displaying the rear P-plate on her black Honda Odyssey.
Mr Chennaoui said in the statement that that night at the mosque he met Mr Awad, a man he knew as Hamdi and a woman wearing a full veil who he believed had made the statutory declaration.
"I couldn't see the lady's face except her eyes. I had never met the lady before," Mr Chennaoui said in the statement to police investigating claims made in the document that Sen-Constable Fogarty had been racist and ready to "rip" Ms Matthews' veil from her face.
"I assumed the lady was Carnita Matthews as her name appeared on the statutory declaration."
Attorney-General Greg Smith said yesterday he had received transcripts of the hearing and the judge's decision and had asked the acting Director of Public Prosecutions if there were any avenues for an appeal.
Ms Matthews could not be contacted yesterday.
Full Carnita Matthews Traffic Stop Police in Car Video
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
What Carnita Matthews “Partner” / “Husband” really thinks, example: “"YA ZIONIST DOGS THERE WILL BE A DAY VERY SOON THAT YOULL FIND NO SHELTR NOR A WALL TO HIND (sic) BEHIND AND WE WILL EAT YOUR FLESH AND SPIT IT TO OUR DOGS TO CHEW OFF."
Lift the burqa on cowardly extremism
Miranda Devine
The Daily Telegraph
June 23, 2011 12:00AM
THE preposterous excuses and Pythonesque theatrics of Carnita Matthews and her thuggish supporters outside the Downing Centre Courts this week would be comic, if they weren't so threatening.
The 46-year-old mother of seven, wearing a full black niqab showing just her eyes, has successfully tied the justice system up in knots for the past year, simply to avoid paying a $197 traffic fine.
Described as being "deliberately malicious and ... ruthless" by the magistrate who convicted her last November of falsely claiming a "racist" police officer tried to tear off her veil during a random breath test, Matthews escaped her six-month jail sentence on appeal before the District Court.
Ironically, appeal Judge Clive Jeffreys could not be certain beyond reasonable doubt it was Matthews who had lodged the complaint against Senior Constable Paul Fogarty, because (drum roll) she was wearing the niqab when she arrived at Campbelltown police station last June.
"All we know is that a person with a black burqa came in with a man in a brown suit with an envelope and that's it," he said.
But somebody lied about Sen-Constable Fogarty, whose innocence and restraint in the face of Matthews' screeching provocation were evident on the 20-minute in-car police video, without which his career would have been in jeopardy.
The prosecution was unable to satisfy Judge Jeffreys that the liar was Matthews, despite the fact her friend, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib, alleged to radio 2GB's Chris Smith on Tuesday that he had accompanied her to the police station to lodge the complaint. As well, Channel 7 has footage of Matthews allegedly signing a statutory declaration and driving to the police station.
Maybe the case was too hot to handle. It grew from a simple traffic fine for a woman with a string of driving offences, to a core test of political Islam: Whether a veiled Muslim woman has the right to refuse a police officer's lawful request that she identify herself.
The answer is no.
That right does not exist under our law.
But that doesn't stop Islamist activists pushing for it, as if it is their due.
Regardless of who signed the false complaint against Sen-Constable Fogarty, it was the intimidating behaviour of Matthews' male supporters outside court this week which was most offensive.
The bearded men who chanted "Allah Akbar" (God is Great) as they marched roughshod on cameramen weren't behaving normally.
Their theatrics were a declaration of war on Australia, on the media, on police.
Linking arms and striding down the street chanting the phrase we have heard again and again - often in the wake of other appalling crimes - was a show of power by people who put the authority of their God above the law of the land.
It is a direct challenge to Australian law and order.
We increasingly see the same challenge issued whenever a hardline Islamist appears in court, as the call goes out for "brothers" to run "protection" for the accused.
A man claiming to be Matthews' husband sent out the call on his Facebook page this week and later thanked: "ALL THE HERO'S (sic) AND LIONS OF ALLAH WHOM (sic) HAD THE CHANCE TO COME TO THE COURT AND FIGHT FOR THE SAKE OF ALLAH ... ALLAH HAS GRANTED YOUR OPPRESSED SISTER VICTORY OVER HIS ENEMIES AND HE GRANTED US A JUDGE THAT FROM THE WORD GO HE WAS DEFENDING YOUR SISTER WHERE EVERYONE ELSE WAS DETERMINED TO SEE HER JAILED, BUT ALLAH HAD OTHER PLANS".
His Facebook page, with the profile picture of a bloodied fist replaced yesterday by a handcuffed figure in a burqa, has messages from supporters such as: "Allah akbar, may all the pigs burn in hell inshallah".
It features videos of Osama bin Laden, slurs against infidels and "Kufaars" (non-Muslims), "American pig savages" and "Zionist dogs". Last weekend Ibrahim wrote: "YA ZIONIST DOGS THERE WILL BE A DAY VERY SOON THAT YOULL FIND NO SHELTR NOR A WALL TO HIND (sic) BEHIND AND WE WILL EAT YOUR FLESH AND SPIT IT TO OUR DOGS TO CHEW OFF."
And this: "HOW LONG ARE WE GOING TO STAY WEAK, NO MORe MR NICE GUY, WE WILL DEFEND OUR iSLAM AND OUR SISTERS WITH OUR BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD."
A video also appears with the title "8 US soldiers killed in Iraq" accompanied by the message from Ibrahim: "Keep them Comming (sic)".
Another video, since removed, said: "WATCH THE AMERICAN PIGS THE AUSSIE PIGS THE BRITISH PIGS SOLDIERS RAPING YOUR MUSLIM SISTER".
There is also, ominously, talk on the page about disrupting a coming rally in Sydney by the Australian Defence League, an anti-Islamist group.
Police had to shut down a similar protest against sharia law in Melbourne last month after violent clashes.
On Ibrahim's website there is one lone brave voice of reason, from a woman he refers to as "Philosopha Phatoom".
"The way u men handled this is very wrong. may Allah take away this hated and anger from ur hearts," she wrote yesterday. "I'm not judging ... i can only assure u that setting an example of islam is not that way ... Remember Islam was never spread by the sword, it caught peoples Hearts."
The vast majority of moderate Muslims in Australia want no truck with Islamist ideology. It is for them, as much as for the rest of the community, that Premier Barry O'Farrell and Police Minister Mike Gallacher need to send a firm message that no one is above the law.
The burqa or niqab, as several Muslims have pointed out this week, is not a requirement of the Koran, which advises women only to dress modestly. But it has become a potent symbol of political Islam.
Gallacher has flagged a law change to allow Muslim women to use fingerprints to verify their identity as an alternative to lifting their veils, but he needs to avoid creating special laws for any particular group.
Australia is one of the most successful immigrant nations on Earth. It would therefore be a pity to follow the European path of banning Islamic face coverings, because the result would simply be more repression of women.
In order to safeguard freedoms - not least of Muslim women to wear the veil - then every challenge to this nation's authority must be countered whenever it arises.
Giving an inch to the intimidation of political Islam is a mistake.
Miranda Devine
The Daily Telegraph
June 23, 2011 12:00AM
THE preposterous excuses and Pythonesque theatrics of Carnita Matthews and her thuggish supporters outside the Downing Centre Courts this week would be comic, if they weren't so threatening.
The 46-year-old mother of seven, wearing a full black niqab showing just her eyes, has successfully tied the justice system up in knots for the past year, simply to avoid paying a $197 traffic fine.
Described as being "deliberately malicious and ... ruthless" by the magistrate who convicted her last November of falsely claiming a "racist" police officer tried to tear off her veil during a random breath test, Matthews escaped her six-month jail sentence on appeal before the District Court.
Ironically, appeal Judge Clive Jeffreys could not be certain beyond reasonable doubt it was Matthews who had lodged the complaint against Senior Constable Paul Fogarty, because (drum roll) she was wearing the niqab when she arrived at Campbelltown police station last June.
"All we know is that a person with a black burqa came in with a man in a brown suit with an envelope and that's it," he said.
New South Wales Police Demand Powers to identify drivers and others.
But somebody lied about Sen-Constable Fogarty, whose innocence and restraint in the face of Matthews' screeching provocation were evident on the 20-minute in-car police video, without which his career would have been in jeopardy.
The prosecution was unable to satisfy Judge Jeffreys that the liar was Matthews, despite the fact her friend, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib, alleged to radio 2GB's Chris Smith on Tuesday that he had accompanied her to the police station to lodge the complaint. As well, Channel 7 has footage of Matthews allegedly signing a statutory declaration and driving to the police station.
Maybe the case was too hot to handle. It grew from a simple traffic fine for a woman with a string of driving offences, to a core test of political Islam: Whether a veiled Muslim woman has the right to refuse a police officer's lawful request that she identify herself.
The answer is no.
That right does not exist under our law.
But that doesn't stop Islamist activists pushing for it, as if it is their due.
Regardless of who signed the false complaint against Sen-Constable Fogarty, it was the intimidating behaviour of Matthews' male supporters outside court this week which was most offensive.
The bearded men who chanted "Allah Akbar" (God is Great) as they marched roughshod on cameramen weren't behaving normally.
Their theatrics were a declaration of war on Australia, on the media, on police.
Linking arms and striding down the street chanting the phrase we have heard again and again - often in the wake of other appalling crimes - was a show of power by people who put the authority of their God above the law of the land.
It is a direct challenge to Australian law and order.
We increasingly see the same challenge issued whenever a hardline Islamist appears in court, as the call goes out for "brothers" to run "protection" for the accused.
A man claiming to be Matthews' husband sent out the call on his Facebook page this week and later thanked: "ALL THE HERO'S (sic) AND LIONS OF ALLAH WHOM (sic) HAD THE CHANCE TO COME TO THE COURT AND FIGHT FOR THE SAKE OF ALLAH ... ALLAH HAS GRANTED YOUR OPPRESSED SISTER VICTORY OVER HIS ENEMIES AND HE GRANTED US A JUDGE THAT FROM THE WORD GO HE WAS DEFENDING YOUR SISTER WHERE EVERYONE ELSE WAS DETERMINED TO SEE HER JAILED, BUT ALLAH HAD OTHER PLANS".
His Facebook page, with the profile picture of a bloodied fist replaced yesterday by a handcuffed figure in a burqa, has messages from supporters such as: "Allah akbar, may all the pigs burn in hell inshallah".
It features videos of Osama bin Laden, slurs against infidels and "Kufaars" (non-Muslims), "American pig savages" and "Zionist dogs". Last weekend Ibrahim wrote: "YA ZIONIST DOGS THERE WILL BE A DAY VERY SOON THAT YOULL FIND NO SHELTR NOR A WALL TO HIND (sic) BEHIND AND WE WILL EAT YOUR FLESH AND SPIT IT TO OUR DOGS TO CHEW OFF."
And this: "HOW LONG ARE WE GOING TO STAY WEAK, NO MORe MR NICE GUY, WE WILL DEFEND OUR iSLAM AND OUR SISTERS WITH OUR BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD."
A video also appears with the title "8 US soldiers killed in Iraq" accompanied by the message from Ibrahim: "Keep them Comming (sic)".
Another video, since removed, said: "WATCH THE AMERICAN PIGS THE AUSSIE PIGS THE BRITISH PIGS SOLDIERS RAPING YOUR MUSLIM SISTER".
There is also, ominously, talk on the page about disrupting a coming rally in Sydney by the Australian Defence League, an anti-Islamist group.
Police had to shut down a similar protest against sharia law in Melbourne last month after violent clashes.
On Ibrahim's website there is one lone brave voice of reason, from a woman he refers to as "Philosopha Phatoom".
"The way u men handled this is very wrong. may Allah take away this hated and anger from ur hearts," she wrote yesterday. "I'm not judging ... i can only assure u that setting an example of islam is not that way ... Remember Islam was never spread by the sword, it caught peoples Hearts."
The vast majority of moderate Muslims in Australia want no truck with Islamist ideology. It is for them, as much as for the rest of the community, that Premier Barry O'Farrell and Police Minister Mike Gallacher need to send a firm message that no one is above the law.
The burqa or niqab, as several Muslims have pointed out this week, is not a requirement of the Koran, which advises women only to dress modestly. But it has become a potent symbol of political Islam.
Gallacher has flagged a law change to allow Muslim women to use fingerprints to verify their identity as an alternative to lifting their veils, but he needs to avoid creating special laws for any particular group.
Australia is one of the most successful immigrant nations on Earth. It would therefore be a pity to follow the European path of banning Islamic face coverings, because the result would simply be more repression of women.
In order to safeguard freedoms - not least of Muslim women to wear the veil - then every challenge to this nation's authority must be countered whenever it arises.
Giving an inch to the intimidation of political Islam is a mistake.
“Stephanie” says what Australians think.
Carnita Matthews husband,Ibrahim Galiel claims “….my wife has suffered”
Australia’s Multicultural Media reports Carnita Matthews to seek costs and compensation from NSW Tax payers.
Judge Defends Decision & Carnita Matthews son Defends Lieing Mother on Sydney Radio
Lieing Muslim Carnita Matthews and former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib engage in Muslim Festival of LIES and Deceit
Lieing Muslim Hag in a Bag’s supporters aka.Muslim Savages, charge Media and pedestrians whilst invoking the Head Hunters Chant of "allah ackbar" following the appeal of Carnita Matthews been upheld in Sydney Court.
Lieing Muslim, HAG in a BAG, Carnita Matthews Sentenced to six months in Jail, for Lies and Deception,by Sydney, Campbelltown Magistrate.
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Aussie Cammandos aquitted, despite Australian Labor Governments “Star Chamber” Prosecuter attempt to destroy them.
Soldiers acquitted over child deaths
Dan Oakes, Rafael Epstein
June 23, 2011
TWO commandos accused of killing five Afghan children in a disastrous night-time raid have been exonerated, ending a
two-year battle to clear their names.
The two special forces soldiers, known only as Sergeant J and Lance Corporal D, released a statement last night saying
they would carry the burden of the civilians' deaths for the rest of their lives, and thanking their fellow soldiers for
standing by them throughout their ordeal.
The Herald can reveal that the military prosecutor who made the decision to charge them was recently reappointed for
another two years.
The Director of Military Prosecutions, Lyn McDade, was fiercely criticised for her decision to charge the two men.
She was dealt a heavy blow last month when a military judge threw out manslaughter charges against the two commandos
before the trial began.
The Herald understands there was deep resentment within the senior ranks of the Australian Defence Force over
Brigadier McDade's reappointment, because of her decision to prosecute the commandos.
A third soldier, the lieutenant-colonel in command of the raid, still faces a court martial at which the prosecutor will
allege there were serious flaws in the planning of the raid.
The two commandos were part of a small force that approached a compound in Oruzgan province on the night of February
12, 2009.
After being fired at by a man from the compound, they returned fire and threw grenades into the room the gunfire was
coming from, killing five children and an adult. The commandos were charged over the deaths last September.
The prosecution was the first time Australian soldiers had been charged for civilian casualties resulting from troops
fighting under orders.
"We need no reminding that our actions contributed to the death of five innocent children. We will carry that burden for
the rest of our lives,'' the two soldiers said. ''However, we would like people to understand two things: firstly, we did not
choose to fight the Afghan male in proximity to children. He forced his callous and reckless choice upon all of us.
Secondly, if there had been another reasonable option available to us that reduced the risk of injury to civilians, we
wouldn't have hesitated to take it.
''We think it is important to remember that throughout our court martial, the prosecution refused to say what other
option we should have taken. We don't think there was one."
This Arse Clown has NEVER SERVED as a Soldier.
Madame Julia Gillard salutes Canada’s hard left New Democrat Party
Julia Gillard's party for socialists
Andrew Bolt
The Daily Telegraph
June 23, 2011 12:00AM
THE extraordinary endorsement by Julia Gillard of a hard left socialist party in Canada is another bombshell to the government's credibility.
What was she thinking?
Dressed in red, and against the backdrop of Parliament House, the Prime Minister wishes the New Democratic Party a
happy 50th birthday "on behalf of your friends in the Australian Labor Party and indeed all Australians".
The 90-second video was played to much applause at the NDP convention last weekend.
"I look forward to building even closer ties between our two countries and our two parties. Together we seek a more just
and prosperous world," says Gillard. "For all the great days that lie behind us, even greater days lie ahead."
That should send a chill down every Australian spine.
The NDP, which became Canada's official opposition party this year for the first time in its 50-year history, is not a mere
tame social democratic party. It is avowedly socialist, so much so that its members could not agree to take the word
"socialist" out of its constitution last weekend.
Its Marxist-flavoured constitution includes the goal: "That the production and distribution of goods and services shall be
directed to meeting the social and individual needs of people within a sustainable environment and economy and not to
the making of profit."
The NDP aims to "modify and control the operations of the monopolistic productive and distributive organisations through
economic and social planning". And the party is committed to socialising all industries, including the media and primary
resources, and in 1998 advocated a policy likening Canadian soldiers to terrorists.
It is hardly the sort of political company the Australian Labor party should be keeping.
This damaging video comes at a time when Gillard's stocks couldn't be any lower. Either the PM hasn't done her due
diligence on the party she endorsed so warmly, or she hasn't really shed her own socialist past.
Andrew Bolt
The Daily Telegraph
June 23, 2011 12:00AM
THE extraordinary endorsement by Julia Gillard of a hard left socialist party in Canada is another bombshell to the government's credibility.
Just like former ALP Leader Lu Kewen aka.Kevin 07 aka. Kevin “I have never been a Socialist” Rudd they just agree with the International Socialists manifesto and are members of Australia’s largest Socialist Political Party,but hey why would anyone accuse you of been a Socialist just for that?
What was she thinking?
Dressed in red, and against the backdrop of Parliament House, the Prime Minister wishes the New Democratic Party a
happy 50th birthday "on behalf of your friends in the Australian Labor Party and indeed all Australians".
The 90-second video was played to much applause at the NDP convention last weekend.
"I look forward to building even closer ties between our two countries and our two parties. Together we seek a more just
and prosperous world," says Gillard. "For all the great days that lie behind us, even greater days lie ahead."
That should send a chill down every Australian spine.
The NDP, which became Canada's official opposition party this year for the first time in its 50-year history, is not a mere
tame social democratic party. It is avowedly socialist, so much so that its members could not agree to take the word
"socialist" out of its constitution last weekend.
Its Marxist-flavoured constitution includes the goal: "That the production and distribution of goods and services shall be
directed to meeting the social and individual needs of people within a sustainable environment and economy and not to
the making of profit."
The NDP aims to "modify and control the operations of the monopolistic productive and distributive organisations through
economic and social planning". And the party is committed to socialising all industries, including the media and primary
resources, and in 1998 advocated a policy likening Canadian soldiers to terrorists.
It is hardly the sort of political company the Australian Labor party should be keeping.
This damaging video comes at a time when Gillard's stocks couldn't be any lower. Either the PM hasn't done her due
diligence on the party she endorsed so warmly, or she hasn't really shed her own socialist past.
Carnita Matthews husband,Ibrahim Galiel claims “….my wife has suffered”
My wife has suffered for her burqa, says Carnita Matthews' husband
Clementine Cuneo and Amy Dale
June 23, 2011
THE husband of Muslim woman Carnita Matthews says she is not a liar and has suffered tremendously from her public
ordeal.
Muslim Thugs and supporters of Carnita Matthews seen here charging media and pedestrians following Carnita Matthews aquittal.
Ibrahim Galiel said the mother of seven was put in hospital a few months ago with a nervous breakdown.
"She is not in a good way, she does not even want to leave the house, she is afraid to go outside," he said.
Mr Galiel said his Australian-born wife had been unfairly portrayed since she was charged with falsely claiming a racist
police officer had tried to lift her burqa.
"The judge in the court found her to not be a liar and he wasn't Muslim ... So that should be enough for people to leave
her alone," he said.
Ms Matthews, 47, was sentenced to six months jail for making a deliberately false statement that a policeman tried to
lift her burqa.
In June last year, she was pulled over for a random breath test but went on to accuse the police officer of racism when he
booked her for failing to display her P-plates.
She was charged with making a false complaint at Campbelltown police station but Judge Clive Jeffreys this week
quashed her conviction, saying identity could not be proven.
Mr Galiel said it was a great relief for Ms Matthews to be vindicated: "She is not a dishonest woman; she is a good
mother of seven children and this has been a very distressing time for all of us."
"She even had to be treated in hospital a while back for a nervous breakdown."
As Judge Jeffreys yesterday delivered his reason for upholding Ms Matthews' appeal, her legal team indicated that they
would apply for costs.
Judge Jeffreys said that the prosecution had failed to prove two aspects of the charge "beyond a reasonable doubt".
He said there wasn't enough evidence it was Ms Matthews who handed in the written complaint to Campbelltown police
station and, even if it were, there wasn't enough evidence to prove that she "intentionally, deliberately and purposefully"
made a false complaint.
A factor that the prosecution had relied on was the fact the signature on the statutory declaration matched that on Ms
Matthew's licence, but Mr Jeffreys said he thought there were "a number of differences" between the two.
Ms Matthews' lawyer Stephen Hopper said a costs application would be filed.
"We haven't calculated all of that yet (but) our costs are fairly modest because both (Ms Matthews's barrister Phillip
Boulten SC) and I did it at a reduced fee because of Mrs Matthews' circumstances," Mr Hopper said.
The Daily Telegraph's online poll yesterday showed an overwhelming majority of people thought police should have the
power to demand women lift their burqa for identity purposes. Of 12,600 votes, 96.5 per cent were in favour, while 3.4
per cent thought it was inappropriate.
Australia’s Multicultural Media reports Carnita Matthews to seek costs and compensation from NSW Tax payers.
Judge Defends Decision & Carnita Matthews son Defends Lieing Mother on Sydney Radio
Lieing Muslim Carnita Matthews and former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib engage in Muslim Festival of LIES and Deceit
Lieing Muslim Hag in a Bag’s supporters aka.Muslim Savages, charge Media and pedestrians whilst invoking the Head Hunters Chant of "allah ackbar" following the appeal of Carnita Matthews been upheld in Sydney Court.
Lieing Muslim, HAG in a BAG, Carnita Matthews Sentenced to six months in Jail, for Lies and Deception,by Sydney, Campbelltown Magistrate.
Australia’s Multicultural Media reports Carnita Matthews to seek costs and compensation from NSW Tax payers.
Damn!!!!! this is one fine Country.
Where else in the world could this happen?
Judge Defends Decision & Carnita Matthews son Defends Lieing Mother on Sydney Radio
Lieing Muslim Carnita Matthews and former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib engage in Muslim Festival of LIES and Deceit
Lieing Muslim Hag in a Bag’s supporters aka.Muslim Savages, charge Media and pedestrians whilst invoking the Head Hunters Chant of "allah ackbar" following the appeal of Carnita Matthews been upheld in Sydney Court.
Lieing Muslim, HAG in a BAG, Carnita Matthews Sentenced to six months in Jail, for Lies and Deception,by Sydney, Campbelltown Magistrate.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Judge Defends Decision & Carnita Matthews son Defends Lieing Mother on Sydney Radio
What facinates me about this interview is what passes for logic and consequences of ones actions and personal responsibility in the Muslim mind.
He honestly wants us to believe that his Mother was found Not Guilty on appeal of her six months Jail sentence for Lieing under Oath.
Islamic truth means anything a Pious Muslim requires it to mean at any given point in time, in order to save face irrespective of how vile their actions are.
Thanks to 2GB'S Ben Fordham for taking this clowns call and exposing the Islamic mind to scrutiny by the largest drive time audience in Sydney.
Lieing Muslim Carnita Matthews and former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib engage in Muslim Festival of LIES and Deceit
Lieing Muslim Hag in a Bag’s supporters aka.Muslim Savages, charge Media and pedestrians whilst invoking the Head Hunters Chant of "allah ackbar" following the appeal of Carnita Matthews been upheld in Sydney Court.
Lieing Muslim, HAG in a BAG, Carnita Matthews Sentenced to six months in Jail, for Lies and Deception,by Sydney, Campbelltown Magistrate.
Judge defends decision to dismiss burqa wearing woman Carnita Matthews' conviction
Amy Dale
The Daily Telegraph
June 22, 2011 5:02PM
A JUDGE has defended his decision to dismiss the conviction of a woman who refused to reveal her identity to a police
officer and made a complaint while wearing a burqa saying the Crown didn't satisfy two key elements of the case beyond
reasonable doubt.
Judge Clive Jefferies has just passed down his official reasons for granting Carnita Matthews her appeal against a
six-month jail sentence after being found guilty of knowingly making a false complaint against a police officer.
The original court decision had found Mrs Matthews falsely claimed a racist police officer had tried to lift her burqa when
she was pulled over for a random breath test last June. It was allegedly she then subsequently made a false complaint
about the officer.
But Judge Jefferies said that he could not be "satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt" that it was Mrs Matthews who made
the complaint about a police officer at Campbelltown Police Station. She was wearing a burqa at the time.
RESULTS: TODAY'S POLL
Should police have the power to demand women remove a burqa?
Yes
96.57% (12863 votes)
No
3.43% (457 votes)
He said the prosecution had made their case based on the signature of Mrs Matthews matching that on her statutory
declaration, which he said couldn't be proved as absolutely true.
He also said that even if it were Mrs Matthews who made the complaint, he was not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt
that she made it "intentionally" knowing it to be false.
Mrs Matthews lawyers have made a costs application on her behalf, with the mother of seven not in court for the hearing.
Meanwhile, Daily Telegraph online readers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the police with an overwhelming
majority voting that police should have the power to demand women remove a burqa in an online poll.
Almost 12,000 people had participated in the online poll at thetelegraph.com.au as at 4.30pm.
"Should police have the power to demand women remove a burqua" was the question posed, with 96.57 per cent,
representing 11,592 people, voting yes and 3.43 per cent, representing 412 people, voting no.
Several readers also took the opportunity to share their opinions on the issue in the story, written by Clemintine Cuneo,
who spent a day wearing a burqa in two Sydney suburbs.
Not happy Jan posted:
I somehow feel this is a real worry when a person can walk around Lakemba, which last time I looked was in Australia,
and without a Niqab the locals looked on her as out of place .....!!!!!!!! What is our country coming too I ask .....
Brett of Sydney posted:
I am more upset that she was stared at in Lakemba without that get up on.
Coal Miner posted:
Then why am I asked to remove my motorcycle helmet in banks and building societies? Muslims are a law unto themselves
and expect us to change to their ways.
Blueeyes of Lakemba posted:
Just want to let you know I am naturally blonde and have blue eyes and live in lakemba. people do not stop and stare nor
do they treat me differently. I have noticed many ladies with hijab or niqab that have blue eyes it's no big deal so I think
you worried about nothing. The old lady in Hornsby is a true reflection of a open minded human who accepts people even
though they are different. I am against the niqab
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Lieing Muslim Carnita Matthews and former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib engage in Muslim Festival of LIES and Deceit
Is Habib lieing in the video above or is he lieing in the audio below ?
Is it possible that these Pious Muslims have told so many lies in their lives that truth is no longer able to be included in their thought processes Black is now White Up is now Down the end result of believers in Islam is indeed a total befuddlement of the mind and senses, resulting in a Sociopath.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Lieing Muslim Hag in a Bag’s supporters aka.Muslim Savages, charge Media and pedestrians whilst invoking the Head Hunters Chant of "allah ackbar" following the appeal of Carnita Matthews been upheld in Sydney Court.
Carnita Matthews, has a long record of driving offences and a history of not paying her fines.
Janet Fife-Yeomansand Paul Kent
June 21, 2011 6:16PM
THE woman at the centre of the burqa row, Carnita Matthews, has a long record of driving offences and a history of not paying her fines.
Court documents have revealed that she had been fined seven times for traffic infringements before she was stopped by police in June last year for not displaying her P-plates in the incident that sparked the row that spilled over to the District Court yesterday.
Since she first received her learner licence in 1998 at the age of 33, she has twice had her provisional licence suspended for totting up too many demerit points and twice had her licence suspended for non payment of fines.The State Debt Recovery Office had to recover the fines. Both of those two suspensions for non payment of fines were later lifted.
It is not known how many times she was physically stopped by police and whether she had her face covered by a burqa or a niqab on those occasions. A number of times she was caught on camera speeding and disobeying traffic lights.
After being stopped by police last year for not displaying her P-plates, Ms Matthews was ordered to pay $276 in fines and court costs.
She claimed on Channel Seven and allegedly in a statutory declaration to Campbelltown police that the officer who stopped her had attempted to tear the burqa off her face, a claim that was proven untrue by the police patrol car video camera.
A magistrate last year found her guilty of making a deliberately false statement and sentenced her to jail for six months. Ms Matthews appealed, saying there was no proof she was the person in the burqa making the atatement and Judge Clive Jeffreys in the District Court yesterday upheld her appeal.
The news comes as women wearing a burqa may be ordered to remove it to identify themselves in the wake of the Carnita Matthews case.
Police Minister Mike Gallacher has revealed that police do not currently have the legal power to require women to show their face if the women refuse on religious or cultural grounds.
He said he wanted the law tightened up.
"Police powers in relation to face coverings are not clear," Mr Gallacher said.
"It’s time to address that."
He said he had spoken to rank and file police who wanted the situation clarified.
Any decision on whether to appeal the controversial judgment by Judge Clive Jeffreys would not be made until after the judge hands down the reason for his decision which is expected tomorrow.
The government is also considering passing new laws requiring people who make complaints against police, or in the case of witnesses giving evidence, to have to provide at least one fingerprint and their signature.
This follows the finding by the judge that he could not be certain that it was Ms Matthews who made the statutory declaration complaining about the officer who stopped her car because the person who handed the document in to the police station wore a burqa.
Mr Gallacher said he was waiting until Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione returned next week to discuss exactly what needed to be done.
He said he did not expect this to inflame community anger about women wearing full face coverings.
He said he had been told that there was nothing in Muslim culture or religion that stopped women from identifiying themselves in certain circumstances.
Yesterday, Ms Matthews avoided jail because her identity could not be proven.
Ms Matthews, 47, from Woodbine, in Sydney's southwest, had been sentenced to six months in jail for making a deliberately false statement that a policeman tried to forcibly remove her burqa because he was a racist.
But judge Clive Jeffreys said yesterday he was not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that it was Mrs Matthews who made the racism accusation because the person who complained to police was wearing a burqa at the time.
The absurdity of the law is that, to reach the level of proof of identity to make the case, Mrs Matthews would have been required to identify herself by lifting her burqa at the police station - what started the uproar in the first place.
More than a dozen Muslim supporters linked arms and began chanting "Allah Akbar" as they stormed out of Downing Centre Court with Mrs Matthews concealed behind them.
Tempers rose and they began jostling with police after several members of the group attacked cameramen.
It marked a stark difference from their behaviour minutes earlier, when they had quietly assembled outside the lifts for prayer shortly after the judge's decision.
Mrs Matthew's lawyer Stephen Hopper defended their actions saying: "They are obviously happy with the result and are expressing it in a way that is culturally appropriate to them."
Judge Jeffreys said yesterday that even if Mrs Matthews had made the complaint, he could not be sure she knew it was a "false" statement.
"I am not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that she made the complaint," he said.
"Even if I was satisfied that she made the complaint, I am not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that it was knowingly false."
Mrs Matthews made the claim in her court appearance last year, saying police could not prove it was her behind the burqa when the complaint was handed in to police. The local magistrate rejected it.
The case had lit up the religious debate when a magistrate found Mrs Matthews had deliberately made false complaints that Sergeant Paul Kearney was racist and had attempted to tear her burqa off her face when she declined to remove it on request.
She was pulled over for a random breath test last June, and accused Sgt Kearney of racism only after he booked her for failing to properly display her P-plates.
The incident was captured on a patrol car video camera and helped clear Sgt Kearney, prompting calls for all police cars to carry in-built cameras to avoid false claims.
"I've got my P-plates on my car ... there was nothing wrong with how they were displayed," Mrs Matthews says on the video.
"You look at me and see me wearing this and you couldn't handle it. All cops are racist."
She then threatens, "100 per cent", that she will take the matter to court and fight the charge.
France was the first country in Europe to implement a full ban on covering up faces in public.
France's burqa ban descended into farce when the first women to be summoned before a European court for illegally wearing the garments were refused entry, because they would not remove their face coverings.
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Lieing Muslim Hag in a Bag’s supporters aka.Muslim Savages, charge Media and pedestrians whilst invoking the Head Hunters Chant of "allah ackbar" following the appeal of Carnita Matthews been upheld in Sydney Court.
Now we know one reason why these “Cultural Enrichers” wear the Burka.
Muslim Savages seen here, in various forms of undress,salivating and invoking their Paedophile Prophets and Head Hunter’s Death Chant of “allah ackbar”, rampage out of Sydney Court building onto street,following the appeal of Lieing Carnita Matthews been upheld.
Expressing their happiness in a way “that’s culturally appropriate for them” claims Muslim Savage’s, lawyer, Stephen Hopper.
Clearly by the words of their own legal council these people are unable to exist in a civilized society, it’s like trying to train Pigs to use a Toilet expecting these Muslim swine to behave like human beings.
Identification + Internment + Repatriation to whatever Islamic shit hole they their parents grand parents ran away from will return Australia to the once civilized, unified Nation it was, prior to these Union Financed Australian Labor Party sponsored Islamic Colonialists arrival in Australia, under the cloak of Multiculturalism.
Muslims have rejected civilization in their own lands and have shown a manic obsession to reject it in any Judeo Christian Nation they have colonized, quickly “uncivilizing” their host nation by their insistence of carrying out their Religious obligation of implementing TERROR in all the lands of the “Infidel”
Lieing Muslim, HAG in a BAG, Carnita Matthews Sentenced to six months in Jail, for Lies and Deception,by Sydney, Campbelltown Magistrate.
Beating the law by virtue of a burqa
Paul Kent From
The Daily Telegraph
June 21, 2011 12:00AM
THE Muslim woman accused of lying about police trying to tear her burqa off has avoided jail - because her identity could not be proven.
Carnita Matthews, 47, from Woodbine, in Sydney's southwest, had been sentenced to six months in jail for making a deliberately false statement that a policeman tried to forcibly remove her burqa because he was a racist.
But judge Clive Jeffreys said yesterday he was not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that it was Mrs Matthews who made the racism accusation because the person who complained to police was wearing a burqa at the time.
The absurdity of the law is that, to reach the level of proof of identity to make the case, Mrs Matthews would have been required to identify herself by lifting her burqa at the police station - what started the uproar in the first place.
More than a dozen Muslim supporters linked arms and began chanting "Allah Akbar" as they stormed out of Downing Centre Court with Mrs Matthews concealed behind them.
Tempers rose and they began jostling with police after several members of the group attacked cameramen.
It marked a stark difference from their behaviour minutes earlier, when they had quietly assembled outside the lifts for prayer shortly after the judge's decision.
Mrs Matthew's lawyer Stephen Hopper defended their actions saying: "They are obviously happy with the result and are expressing it in a way that is culturally appropriate to them."
Judge Jeffreys said yesterday that even if Mrs Matthews had made the complaint, he could not be sure she knew it was a "false" statement.
"I am not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that she made the complaint," he said.
"Even if I was satisfied that she made the complaint, I am not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that it was knowingly false."
Mrs Matthews made the claim in her court appearance last year, saying police could not prove it was her behind the burqa when the complaint was handed in to police. The local magistrate rejected it.
The case had lit up the religious debate when a magistrate found Mrs Matthews had deliberately made false complaints that Sergeant Paul Kearney was racist and had attempted to tear her burqa off her face when she declined to remove it on request.
She was pulled over for a random breath test last June, and accused Sgt Kearney of racism only after he booked her for failing to properly display her P-plates.
The incident was captured on a patrol car video camera and helped clear Sgt Kearney, prompting calls for all police cars to carry in-built cameras to avoid false claims.
"I've got my P-plates on my car ... there was nothing wrong with how they were displayed," Mrs Matthews says on the video.
"You look at me and see me wearing this and you couldn't handle it. All cops are racist."
She then threatens, "100 per cent", that she will take the matter to court and fight the charge.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Westmead Children’s Hospital BEGS for money to exist via a Telethon, whilst ALP , Lu Kewen aka. Kevin Rudd, hands over $200 Million to foreign “Charity” for medical purposes.
Whilst the Union/ Get Up funded, Australian Labor Party / Green Loon / “Independent”, Minority Socialist Coalition / “Co Party” Australian Governments resident Idiot in search of a village at large, and Australian Foreign Minister,former Australian Prime Minister and Beijing’s Highest ranking official in Australia,Lu Kewen, aka. Kevin 07 aka.Kevin Rudd, hands out $200 million of Australians hard earned taxes to a foreign organization in London, Sydney residents this long week end,BEG each other, via, the Channel 9 Telethon for money to continue to finance the Westmead Children’s Hospital, for basic Medical services, you see Socialized Medicine,aka. FREE Medicine, Medicare,MEDI DONT CARE, has run out of money for AUSTRALIANS, but there is plenty of money for this BRAINLESS MORON to fly all over the world writing cheques for his new “best Socialists United Nations Security Council voting friends” you see Lu Kewen is chasing a seat on his fellow Despots UN Security Council, so there has been no shortage of Australian Taxpayer Funds for any Despot or Organization he and the Australian Labor Party thinks will buy this useless sack of Multi Millionaire Socialist Shits arse, a seat at the UN Security Councils “Star Wars Bar”
Australia’s resident Idiot in Search of a Village and Beijing’s highest ranking official in Australia Lu Kewen, aka, Kevin 07,aka. Kevin Rudd.
Tonight on Nine News Sydney,viewers were treated to Peter Harvey and Carl Stevanovich arm in arm, emotional,announcing the fact that via their station’s (Channel 9 Sydney) Telethon they raised One Million Dollars for the Westmead Children’s Hospital………whilst Lu Kewen,aka.Kevin 07, Kevin Rudd,Beijing’s highest ranking official in Australia former Australian Prime Minister and now Australia’s Foreign Minister and Idiot in Search of a Village at Large, promised /gave $200 Million Australian TAX PAYER provided DOLLARS for some foreign Medical “Charity”
Australians pay tax, beg and borrow for the medical welfare of Australian Children and these USELESS Australian Council of Trade Union, Get Up, Green Financed Communist C**ts that Manifest as the Australian Labor Party,the LEFT, the PROGRESSIVES, the BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, STEAL money from the Hospital Beds of Australia’s Sick and Dyeing Children to buy favor of their UN Masters.
Australia’s Idiot in search of a Village Foreign Minister Lu Kewen, Kevin 07, Kevin Rudd is one of two, of the most wealthy members of the Australian Parliament if he wants to donate $200 Million dollars to a foreign “Charity” he is free to do so, however when was he and his Union/ Get Up funded, Australian Labor Party / Green Loon / “Independent”, Minority Socialist Coalition / “Co Party” given permission by Australians to STEAL their taxes to do so?
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Placing Ham in Muslims shoes,Judge Carol Hagen told Knowlson that it was "difficult to imagine a more offensive incident".
No jail for man who put ham in Muslims' shoes
The West Australian
June 7, 2011, 9:21 am
A 30-year-old man who stuffed ham into the shoes of Muslims as they worshipped at a mosque has been spared jail.
Jamie Knowlson also draped slices of the meat - which Muslims are banned from eating - on railings outside the mosque as his victims prayed inside, Britain's Daily Mail has reported.
The offender was captured on security vision as he abused worshippers after they confronted him over his sacrilegious act.
"Knowlson initially told police the stunt was a drunken joke but later admitted that he was fully aware of the offence his actions would cause," The Mail reported.
"He pleaded guilty to causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment and could have been jailed for up to two years, but walked free from Bristol Crown Court with a suspended six-month prison sentence because he had returned to the mosque to apologise for his actions."
During sentencing, Judge Carol Hagen told Knowlson that it was "difficult to imagine a more offensive incident".
"Not only the fixing of meat to railings but aggravated, in my view, that members of the mosque were inside praying at the time," she said.
The Mail said Knowlson went to the mosque from a nearby homeless shelter on January 9.
"(Prosecutor) David Hunter said it had been a premeditated attack specifically targeted at the Muslim community," it reported.
"Knowlson sat in tears as he was handed a six-month suspended sentence and 150 hours of unpaid work.
"A second man is due to stand trial in connection with the incident later this month."
The West Australian
June 7, 2011, 9:21 am
A 30-year-old man who stuffed ham into the shoes of Muslims as they worshipped at a mosque has been spared jail.
Jamie Knowlson also draped slices of the meat - which Muslims are banned from eating - on railings outside the mosque as his victims prayed inside, Britain's Daily Mail has reported.
The offender was captured on security vision as he abused worshippers after they confronted him over his sacrilegious act.
"Knowlson initially told police the stunt was a drunken joke but later admitted that he was fully aware of the offence his actions would cause," The Mail reported.
"He pleaded guilty to causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment and could have been jailed for up to two years, but walked free from Bristol Crown Court with a suspended six-month prison sentence because he had returned to the mosque to apologise for his actions."
During sentencing, Judge Carol Hagen told Knowlson that it was "difficult to imagine a more offensive incident".
"Imagine" this then, God forbid someone place ham in these Brave sons of Alla's shoes.
"Not only the fixing of meat to railings but aggravated, in my view, that members of the mosque were inside praying at the time," she said.
The Mail said Knowlson went to the mosque from a nearby homeless shelter on January 9.
"(Prosecutor) David Hunter said it had been a premeditated attack specifically targeted at the Muslim community," it reported.
"Knowlson sat in tears as he was handed a six-month suspended sentence and 150 hours of unpaid work.
"A second man is due to stand trial in connection with the incident later this month."
Saturday, June 04, 2011
Pious Islamic Malaysian "Obedient Wife Club" urges wives to be 'whores in bed'
Malaysian club urges wives to be 'whores in bed'
June 04, 2011
A GROUP of Malaysian women launched an "Obedient Wife Club" overnight, urging members to be "whores in bed" and obey their husbands to curb social ills like divorce and domestic violence.
Islamic group Global Ikhwan held the club's inaugural meeting in Kuala Lumpur, giving women tips on how to keep their men satisfied and prevent them straying.
"A good wife is perceived to be prim and proper - you just take care of the children - but not much is emphasised on fulfilling sexual needs of the husband. If he needs sex, obey him," Rohaya Mohamad, the club's vice-president said.
Mrs Rohaya said 30 percent of the club members were in polygamous marriages while the rest were in monogamous relationships and that the club was open to non-Muslims.
"You must satisfy your husband. A good wife should be a whore in bed," said 46-year-old doctor, whose husband has three other wives.
She said the club boasted 800 Malaysian members so far with another 200 from across the Middle East.
Over 1000 guests and supporters turned up for the launch in a leafy suburb, held in conjunction with a mass wedding of ten couples, with the brides all members of the new club.
"If the wife is obedient, then the husband feels good and is entertained and this builds a closer relationship and greater love and no one strays," said groom Mohamad Shurahbil Amran, 23.
His bride Umuhani Lokman Hakim, 19, dressed in a golden white Arabic wedding gown, was unforthcoming when asked why she joined the club and would only say: "It is the right thing to do to keep the family together."
The club has come under criticism from Malaysian women's groups who say the onus on keeping a family together is being unfairly placed on women.
"With obedience comes submission, which may lead to domestic violence and marital rape," Women's Aid Organisation head Ivy Josiah said.
"We should really be forming equality in marriage clubs," she added.
Women's rights group EMPOWER said the club was a step back for the progress of the equality movement.
"We cannot go back to caveman days where the man pulls the woman by the hair and takes her to the cave to have his way. We must recognise that women contribute a lot more than just being a sex toy," the group's executive director Maria Chin Abdullah said.
Polygamy is legal for Muslims, who make up more than 60 percent of Malaysia's population, allowing Muslim men to take up to four wives.
In 2010, a study by a Muslim activist group found men in polygamous relationships find it difficult to meet the needs of all their wives and children, and that the result is often unhappy and cash-strapped families.
Friday, June 03, 2011
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