Australia: Two Muslims found not guilty planning attack, still “persons of interest”

 

Holsworthy pair 'still of interest'

SMH

Natalie O'Brien
December 26, 2010

TERRORISM experts believe two men acquitted of planning an attack on the Holsworthy Army Barracks in Sydney are likely to be kept under covert surveillance.

Abdirahman Ahmed and Yacqub Khayre were found not guilty on Thursday of conspiring to plan a terrorist attack, while their co-accused Wissam Mahmoud Fattal, Saney Edow Aweys and Nayef El Sayed were convicted.

Melbourne's Supreme Court was told the accused men's target was the military and their plan was to enter the barracks armed with military weapons and kill as many soldiers as possible before they themselves were killed. But despite Mr Ahmed and Mr Khayre, both of Melbourne, being cleared of involvement in the plot, which included unsuccessful attempts to get a fatwa permitting an attack on the Australian military, the pair are likely to be closely watched.

Terrorism expert Clive Williams, from the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, said they would still be people of interest and that would attract a certain level of attention from authorities.

''I know the police are unhappy with the outcome,'' Professor Williams said.

Carl Ungerer, National Security Program director at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said authorities were likely to keep the men under surveillance.

''The difficulty is what to do with them,'' Dr Ungerer said. ''If the police felt they had evidence to prosecute they would still be persons of interest.

''That is a difficult thing in a democracy - it is a real ethical and moral question.''

Australia three Muslims guilty: “………religious decree to endorse the attack at the barracks and shoot as many people as possible until they were killed or overwhelmed, to advance Islam.”

 

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Who will stand up for Christians ? “Armed groups go into neighbourhoods where Christians live and kill indiscriminately everyone they find in their way,”….”“We are the target of a campaign of violence and liquidation with political goals.”

 

Time to stand up for Christians

Piers Akerman

Daily Telegraph
Saturday, December 25, 2010

AROUND much of the Western world, Christmas hymns are still echoing in the ears of happy holidaymakers, but elsewhere, Christians, for whom Christmas is one of the holiest days, are being persecuted.

While Australian troops are dying in Afghanistan in a war with Islamist forces, the Afghan Government which our forces are supporting seems incapable of implementing policies that respect fundamental principles guaranteeing real religious freedoms.

Afghanistan is not alone. Islamic nations which regularly issue calls for the West to respect Islam and show tolerance for its traditions, rarely practise what they preach.

A 200-page study of religious freedom reveals that Christianity is under siege in the Islamic world and that the dwindling number of Christians still living in Islamic nations remain among the most oppressed.

Pope Benedict, who released the study last month, called for all nations to guarantee freedom for all to practise their faith publicly, with authentic respect for each person.

Although this freedom is assumed in Australia, the US, the UK and other European nations, it is paid scant regard in the Islamic world and across China. India is rife with divisions between the many religions followed.

But it’s the fate of Christians under Islamic rule that is most concerning, particularly as Islamic nations play a greater role within the UN and are granted an unearned tolerance by the Left in the West.

In calling for religious freedom to be respected, the Pope appealed for reciprocity - full rights for Christians in Islamic states where laws ban them from practising their faith openly. Such a call does not sound unreasonable. No Christian state bans the practising of Islam, but the 3.5 million Christians of all denominations who live in the Gulf Arab region, the birthplace of Islam, are barely tolerated and any form of non-Muslim worship takes place in private.

In Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s holiest sites, the report notes, conversion of Muslims is punishable by death, though such sentences are rare.

The Vatican expressed particular concern about the fate of Christians in predominantly Muslim Iraq, where 52 hostages and police were killed last month when a church was seized by al Qaeda-linked gunmen.

“Armed groups go into neighbourhoods where Christians live and kill indiscriminately everyone they find in their way,” Monsignor Philip Najim, representative of the Chaldean Church to the Holy See, reported.

“These are cold-blooded murders in broad daylight, before dozens of witnesses, as if these groups wanted to show that they can act with impunity; that they are in control of the city.”

Monsignor Louis Sako, Archbishop of Kirkuk, Iraq, said: “We are the target of a campaign of violence and liquidation with political goals.”

The West’s tolerant approach to religion is mocked by Islamic governments, most of which claim to observe the Universal Charter of Human Rights’ Article 7, stating that religions are “free to exercise their faith and perform their religious rites within the limits of the provisions of the law,” but also declare Islam as the state religion. This contradiction gives them a fig leaf whenever the issue of persecution of Christians arises.

In Afghanistan, courts apply Islamic Sharia law to the interpretation and judging of individual cases concerning, for example, blasphemy or apostasy - crimes which are not covered by the penal code.

Under Islamic law, the death penalty applies for these crimes.The same applies in Bangladesh, where Christians and Hindus suffer extreme violence and persecution.

Marriage between Muslims and non-Muslims is forbidden in Brunei and Iran, and any non-Muslim man who wishes to marry a Muslim woman must convert. The law of blasphemy is the worst instrument of religious repression in Pakistan, with the penalty of life imprisonment for all who offend the Koran, and the death penalty for those who insult the prophet Mohammed.

According to the report, accusations against alleged blasphemers are often false or motivated by petty interests, which result in scandals and encourage enraged crowds to inflict justice on their own.

Even if arrested on the basis of accusations from only one witness, the unfortunate person risks violence and torture inflicted by the police. Under pressure from crowds incited by local mullahs, a number of judges have imposed the death sentence even in the absence of any evidence against the accused.

The report says the penal law, based on the Koran, punishes with floggings and stoning all behaviour incompatible with Islamic law, such as adultery, gambling or drinking alcohol. This law on blasphemy provides an example of one of the most sectarian and extremist forms of legislation, in addition to paving the way for a radical Islam- isation of the country.

How is it possible for Christians, even nominal Christians who hum hymns and visit churches once or twice a year, to be so oblivious to the fate of those who stake so much more on their Christianity than many in Western countries today?

In large part it is due to the insistent demands for tolerance made by the political Left, a tolerance which embraces Islam, but denies Christianity the same comfort.

It’s obvious to the most casual observer that there are no refugees fleeing the West, but the same cannot be said for the Islamic nations, or the totalitarian Asian states.

The difference lies in the Judeo-Christian cultures which formed the core of Western culture, the source of rallying cries of freedom and liberty.

Standing up for those suffering persecution in oppressive nations because of their Christian belief is a small price to pay for the historic liberation this religion has bestowed on so many around the world today.

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Australia Christmas DAY 2010

Australia three Muslims guilty: “………religious decree to endorse the attack at the barracks and shoot as many people as possible until they were killed or overwhelmed, to advance Islam.”

Trio guilty of army base terror attack plan
Daily Telegraph
December 23, 2010 10:17AM
A VICTORIAN court has found three men guilty of planning a terrorist attack on an Australian army base in Sydney.
Another two men who also stood trial over the alleged planned attack have been found not guilty.
A Victorian Supreme Court trial, which has been running for three months, was told the five men planned a shootout at the Australian Army Barracks at Holsworthy in the belief Islam was under attack from the west.
 The jury heard the men took steps to obtain a religious decree to endorse the attack at the barracks and shoot as many people as possible until they were killed or overwhelmed, to advance Islam.
 Wissam Mahmoud Fattal, 34, of Melbourne, Saney Edow Aweys, 27, of Carlton North and Nayef El Sayed, 26, of Glenroy were found guilty of conspiring to prepare for or plan a terrorist act between February 1, 2009 and August 4, 2009.

The usual cabal of Strutting Muslim “Rats with a Gold tooth” exit our Courts surrounded by THEIR “Community Leaders” dribbling the usual Koran inspired Bull Shit.

The Australian Labor / Greens / “Independents” Coalition Union Funded Socialist Federal Government seems hell bent on importing into Australia as many of these Muslim Terrorists as it can, Australians are entitled to ask WHY?

How many Australians are The Australian Labor / Greens / “Independents” Coalition Union Funded Socialist Federal Government prepared to sacrifice on their alter of “Multiculturalism /all cultures Religions are equal” in order to achieve the Balkanization of Australia.

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Terrified Christians cancel Christmas….

 

Baghdad Christians cancel Christmas celebrations amid terror attack fears in Iraq

Daily Telegraph December 22, 2010

ONLY one Baghdad Christian church will have full Christmas celebrations this year amid fears of terrorist attacks from radical Muslims, The (London) Daily Telegraph reported today.

More than 1,000 Christian families fled Baghdad after five Islamist extremists burst into Our Lady of Salvation Church in October, murdering two priests, holding churchgoers hostage then eventually killing more than 50 people.

Amnesty International warned of an increase in violence in the lead-up to Christmas and urged the Iraqi government to do more to protect the minority group.

There were only 500,000 Christians left in Iraq, about half the number in the country seven years ago.

At Our Lady of Salvation Church, the bloodied hand prints of murdered members of the congregation remain on the walls, which are riddled with bullet holes.

The victims of the October violence included four-year-old Adam Eashoue and his father Uday, 33.

Adam's grandparents Zuher and Amal cannot bear to return to the church and are now considering leaving Baghdad. "I've lost my world," Amal said. "I don't want to leave Baghdad. I was born and married here. But I have to think of my children."

So why does the Australian Federal Government,led by Madame Julia Gillard,the Australian Labor Party / Greens / “Independents” Socialist Coalition, insist on importing into Australia people of the same ideology who are persecuting and killing Christians in Iraq?

People who are not only sworn to eliminate Christianity in Iraq but are on record as swearing to eliminating Christianity in any and all of the Judeo / Christian Nations they RUN AWAY to.

Why would the UN centric Australian Labor Party want to fill OUR country,Australia, with people sworn to destroy us ?

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Australian High Court says no to Christmas Nativity scene in Australian Capital Canberra

 

ANV.22 12 2010 11 22 AM

The Australian High Court ruled today,in a land mark decision, that it would be “dishonest” “disrespectful “ and “deceptive” for the Australian Capital, Canberra, to display nativity scenes.

The full bench of the High Court agreed unanimously that the Capitals officials had failed in their search for three wise men and as such a significant part of the proposed nativity display would be missing.

Although the search for a virgin was continuing, the Court accepted the submissions of the prosecutors that it was highly unlikely that one could be found.

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Hussein Obama’s Loony World of Islamic Supremacism

 

This Judeo / Christian Western Democracy HATING Muslim Arse Clown, Hussein Obama, should be impeached and taken into “Care” before he and his Democrat Party do anymore damage to the civilized world.

 

Hag in Bag Celebrates 911

The Islamic Fox, Hag in Bag, is now in charge of the Hen House.

“The Man is an Abomination”

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Australians defiantly Celebrate CHRISTmas in Sydney's Occupied Territories

Full marks to these Australians for flaunting their Christianity by Celebrating CHRISTMAS, so openly and boldly, in, of all places Sydney's Occupied Territories, the South Western  suburbs of Sydney controlled by Islamic Insurgents or as the Australian Labor Party claim is the jewel in their Putrid Lick Spittle United Nations Multicultural Crown.

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Oprah Winfrey Sydney Opera House show one round up

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Mohamed the misunderstood Taxi driver

Is Mohamad Tohme the worst cab driver in Sydney?

 
EXCLUSIVE by Joe Hildebrand
The Daily Telegraph
December 13, 2010


                                    MEET Mohamad Tohme. Despite tough competition, he might just be Sydney's worst taxi driver.

In 12 years on the road for four major cab companies, he has been accused of slapping, abusing and swearing at customers, refusing short fares and deliberately taking the longest possible route.
He once took a passenger from the airport to Annandale via Oxford St - during Mardi Gras. Last year, he was accused of exposing his genitals after a lewd suggestion to a dissatisfied customer.
Mr Tohme says he's just misunderstood, adding "I've got maybe bad people skills."
The Administrative Decisions Tribunal last week found those bad people skills include convictions for domestic violence and assaulting police and a business associate.During the Mardi Gras incident in 1998, he allegedly also demanded $50 - instead of the $32 on the meter - "because the trip had taken over 15 minutes". This, five other complaints and a 1999 conviction for bashing his wife with a shoe led the Department of Transport to ask him to show cause why his licence should not be revoked.
He asked for another chance and got a final warning. Then in 2004, he allegedly slapped a female passenger.
Fortunately for Mr Tohme, the charge of assault was withdrawn. However, two charges of resisting police and assaulting an officer were not.
Mr Tohme's taxi licence was suspended while he was ordered to undergo an anger- management course. When this was completed, he resumed driving. Between 2006 and 2008 there were another five complaints. In 2008, Mr Tohme was convicted of punching and kicking a "business associate" during a dispute at a service station.
His authority was cancelled but again he pleaded for mercy and it was reinstated for six months. Five months and one week later, in February 2009, a customer asked to be taken to Surry Hills.
According to a subsequent complaint, Mr Tohme refused, got out and "slammed the door so hard, something broke. He opened the door and started screaming".
Inexplicably, he kept driving. In May last year a Westin Hotel doorman complained that, when asked to take a short fare to King St Wharf, Mr Tohme told a passenger to "f ... off". At Darling Harbour in July last year, he allegedly refused fares to Glebe and Leichhardt, telling a passenger to "suck my penis" while exposing himself. The next month the department cancelled his authority.
Mr Tohme denied abusing customers or exposing himself, but tribunal member Peter Molony was "satisfied that he is not a fit and proper person todrive a taxi cab".

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Australian Diggers: "What did you miss most (about your Dad) "all the cuddles and stuff"

Oprah Winfrey climbs the Sydney Harbour Bridge on a picture perfect Sydney summers day

Stay with the momentary freeze I will fix it

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Oprah Winfrey : Sydney turns it on for Oprah with a big “O”and fireworks after party.

 

Oprah Winfrey hosts lavish Sydney party

Jonathon Moran and Elle Halliwell

The Sunday Telegraph December 12, 2010

OPRAH Winfrey mania hit Sydney last night when the American TV queen hosted a lavish party for 450 guests, business leaders and politicians at the Botanic Gardens.

Welcome to Sydney Australia !!!!!!!

Winfrey held an official Welcome To Australia party for her 300 travelling American audience members in a harbourside marquee, against a backdrop of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which had been specially lit up with a giant orange-red "O".

Winfrey, dressed in a multi-coloured Camilla Franks kaftan, beige chinos and embellished sandals, said Sydney had exceeded all her expectations.

"Everyone was saying 'Wait till you get to Sydney, wait till you get to Sydney'.

"Today we were coming in on the plane from Melbourne, me and my little mini team, my hairdresser and my assistant and we started singing Helloooo Sydney (to the tune of Hello Dolly)," Winfrey said.

"I will have to say it measures up to everything everybody has ever said; everything Hugh Jackman has said; everything Nicole Kidman has said; everything Keith Urban told me about it. John Travolta went on and on and on.

"I think it is not just breathtaking, but it sort of takes you in a way that you feel instantly that you want to be a part of it: a part of the people, a part of the lifestyle, the scene; it's really fantastic and I really love it.

"I was just at home having a VB and I was like 'Hello?' I will be back without all these cameras. I'll be back and you won't know it."

Speaking about her whirlwind tour of Australia - she visited Hamilton Island, Uluru and Melbourne, spending less than 24 hours in each place - Winfrey said her highlight has been meeting ordinary Australian families.

She popped in to the homes of two fans in Melbourne and a Lebanese family in Earlwood, Sydney, yesterday afternoon.

Winfrey said she had marvelled with her best friend Gayle King about just how "friendly" the Australians are.

"My highlight has been the people actually. As you all know, we've been in different places where people are not very friendly," she said.

"(Here) I feel absolutely embraced by the people, so much so that I said to the Prime Minister: 'Do you have friendly school you go to?' And I really mean that. Gayle and I were talking about it earlier today and she goes: 'But it seems to be genuine friendly'.

"I said: 'It's like everyone went to Disney class,' but it's not false."

As the sun set and the party kicked off, Winfrey posed for photos in front of the Opera House with her entourage. VIP guests included NSW Premier Kristina Keneally, Federal Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson, NSW Tourism Minister Jodi McKay and US Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich.

A fireworks display to rival New Year's Eve lit the sky at 9.15pm, with the Black Eyed Peas' I Gotta Feeling and Temper Trap's Sweet Disposition blaring from the speakers, before singer Guy Sebastian took to the stage to perform five of his hits at the event, which was hosted by Sandra Sully.

Winfrey's speech during the night drew emotional tears from her audience, who were moved by the generosity of their host.

"I always knew I needed to be treated like this," said one audience member, to which Winfrey replied: "You go girl."

Koomurri indigenous dancers welcomed Winfrey on arrival with a smoke ceremony.

Celebrity chefs Justin North and Pete Evans then cooked up a storm using local produce.

The event, styled by MasterChef judge Donna Hay, featured a menu of duck and snow pea pancakes, cutlets of Mirrool Creek suckling lamb, mini-hamburgers, lime and lemongrass prawns and gelato.

Sworn to secrecy, Hay worked on the party for several weeks until last night's unveiling. Her aim was to showcase the best that NSW has to offer, dividing the party into distinct areas - City Glamour, Country Retreat and Coastal Chic.

Outside the marquee, a fake beach was set up, with Bondi lifeguards, sand, deckchairs, towels and striped beach umbrellas. Inside, an Australian country retreat area was decorated with rustic furniture, hay bales and vintage R. M. Williams saddles and stirrups.

"It's very much an event about Welcome To Sydney," Hay told The Sunday Telegraph. "This party has to be amazing. Every detail has to be amazing.

We're showcasing what Sydney and Australia is about; it's beautiful." Although Winfrey didn't have any specific food requirements, Hay said she had studied Winfrey's popular O Magazine for hints.

"The bar is in Oprah green, a lovely sea-foam, fresh apple green," Hay said. With that in mind, a green-apple-and-thyme martini was on offer as guests arrived, to wash down Sydney rock oysters, tuna sashimi, poached bug tails and king prawns.

Local wines included Cockfighter's Ghost Orange Pinot Chardonnay, De Bortoli Hunter Valley Shiraz and Nugan Estate Manuka Grove Riverina Durif, while beer was brought in from Port Macquarie's Little Brewing Company.

And, as the night came to an end, guests walked away with products from R. M. Williams, Byron Bay Cookies and Napoleon Perdis, as well as a Donna Hay cookbook and a Guy Sebastian album.

Earlier in the day, Winfrey, clad in an Akubra hat, was greeted on the tarmac at Sydney Airport and ushered into a waiting car by VIPs.

The American talkshow queen saw Sydney at its best - a perfect 27C summer's day - as she took in the view of Sydney Harbour from the balcony of the InterContinental Sydney, where she is staying.

Even before her arrival in Australia, Tourism Australia estimated her visit would generate more than $17 million.

Tourism operators expect many millions more when Oprah's Australian shows are broadcast to more than 44 million viewers next month.

Ms Keneally said Winfrey's visit to Sydney would be worth millions.

"It's a bloody big honour for us," she said. "The reality is that we spend a lot of money on tourism and advertising, and yet the thing that has been most successful in terms of generating bang for our buck has been this visit."

Today, Winfrey will climb the Harbour Bridge with her 300 guests, before visiting Bondi.

 

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Oprah Winfrey touches down in Sydney Australia