Cruel and Unusual Punishment inflicted upon Australian Olympian by the Australian Olympic Committee

Russell Mark takes aim at Australian officials after ban to stop him rooming with wife at London Olympics


Ben English
The Daily Telegraph
July 13, 201212:00AM


OLYMPIC gold medallist Russell Mark last night fired off an extraordinary broadside at Australian officials after he was banned from rooming with his fellow Olympian wife at the London Games.

Mark, a one-time gold medallist heading to his sixth Games, revealed he was told by officials earlier this month he would have to room instead with another former roommate and gold medallist, Michael Diamond.

Michael Diamond

Mark's wife Lauryn said the whole episode had thrown her Games preparations into disarray.


He said the Australian Olympic Committee had told him because accommodation was in a multi-room apartment format, it would be inappropriate for them to share with other athletes.


"The reason they gave was the bathroom sharing ratio would be breached. What a load of absolute rubbish."
As late as July 2, Mark received an email from Australian team chef de mission Nick Green telling him he would not be able to room with his spouse.


But the AOC last night said the pair would be able to room together after all.
"We will hand the keys to the shooting section when they get to the village," spokesman Mike Tancred said.


"If Shooting want to arrange accomodation where Russell and Lauryn can sleep together that's OK with us."


Mr Tancred said AOC sport director Erica de Jong had issued the directive to shooting section manager Nick Sullivan "about a week ago".


However, Mark said Sullivan had told him two days ago he was still rooming with Diamond.


"I think the AOC hasn't caught up with this," he said."It's disappointing because I have worked for the Olympic movement, either on the AOC athletes commision and the Victorian Olympic Council, for 16 years.


"I ask for one favour and it seems it's all forgotten.


"I suspect the real reason is I have upset someone over my Stillnox comments."


Mark caused a stir when he became the first current team member to criticise the AOC for its decision to ban Aussie athletes using Stillnox and two other sleeping pills at the London Games.


Lauryn Mark, who is competing at her second Olympics for Australia, said she was stunned by the decision.


"I was shocked and more than a bit disappointed," she said.


"It's taken me a few days to come to terms with it."


Lauryn, 32, said the decision had disrupted her preparation for London.


"I am really trying hard not to let it affect me.


"We have roomed together for such a long time. It's part of my routine.


"I have to be in a calm frame of mind to perform well."


Lauren has already courted controversy in recent weeks, agreeing to pose scantily clad for racy men's magazine Zoo, posing with a rifle.


The photos have yet to be published.

Lauryen swears by Pole Dancing as a means of keeping fit and healthy
Mark says pole dancing improved her core strength and arm muscles, vital when using her rifle for competition.

Diamond told News Limited Newspapers he would not be concerned if he did have to room with Mark.


"It would be excellent because we have had a happy history of roominig together. He gives me a great positive vibe and I've usually performed well."


The pair roomed together in Barcelona and Sydney, when Diamond won gold in the trap.


Russell Mark has however, maintained his sense of humour about the row.


"I did say to Michael, "you'll have to wear the pink nighty now. But it won't be the same."

Sydney reaps what it's rulers have sown over the past thirty years: A diverse,culturally enriched Dodge City.

My City of Sydney.
I miss the warmth of you 
Miss the Heart of your people.........

Thirty years of "Diversity" "Cultural Enrichment" and Open Borders has given Australians a

Country where almost every day is now a "Harmony Day" gang rape,murder,drive by shootings,stabbings and bashings.

Sydney, the home of the famous Opera House and the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge their imagery despoiled by Drugged stuffed morons and Drunks of all ages, roaming at will throughout Sydney's night spots and tourist attractions.

Home invaders, ATM theft,identity theft,car re birthing

And if the imported "Cultural Enriches" and "Harmony Day" ambassadors dont get you,our home grown scum take up the slack.

Thanks to Labor's "Progressive" elits and their rancid divisive United Nations policy of Multiculturalism 

As the present Australian Labor Party Minister for "School Education,Early Childhood and Youth, Peter Garrett (of Midnight Oil fame) once said "You have to rock the boat before you can sink it "

The last 5 years of International Socialism ruling Australia have just about sunk it. ANV.


What can we do in Sydney to reclaim OUR streets from those who's evil defies belief ?

Four arrested following Patrick Crowe Murder

Sydney's Occupied Territories Stabbing: Patrick Crowe, 22, attacked and stabbed to death..

Thomas Kelly another victim of the Godless Savagery that walks Sydney’s streets

Patrick Croww’s accused Killer Christopher Brilliantes, does not apply for bail, noose tightens on accomplices

Remember when ?

I remember as small child when hearing the closing of Ch 7 Sydney every night (yes TV stations did shut around midnight then and left you with a test pattern so you could tune your set) thinking how smart I was to have stayed awake so late.

My City of Sydney,I miss the warmth of you 

Miss the heart of your people

That little Church Steeple in Woolloomooloo

Sail boats white polka dotting the blue of the bay

As they glide on their way through a clear afternoon

Night folks thirsting for fun,

meeting most everyone at the Cross as they toss

in their merry balloon.

My City of Sydney

I miss your glow at dark

And the nights in a quiet Hyde Park

Miss the Opera House lights,from the Bridge

Though Im thousands of miles

from surfers and smiles of your

laugh loving children at play

My warm City of Sydney

I've never been away

Tommy Leonetti was an American pop singer-songwriter and actor of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In Australia his most famous song was "My City of Sydney" (written by Leonetti & Robert Troup) and was used by the Australian TV channel ATN7 in Sydney for station identification into the 1980s. In America he achieved greater success as a songwriter for movies and Broadway plays.


Tommy Leonetti was born Nicola Tomaso Lionetti in Bergen County, New Jersey in 1929. He married the American actress Cindy Robbins and was stepfather to her daughter, Kimberly Beck. They lived in Sydney, Australia in the 1960s and 1970s before returning to America.
Full bio here

Patrick Crowe’s accused Killer Christopher Brilliantes, does not apply for bail, noose tightens on accomplices

Accused killer of apprentice chef Patrick Crowe, Christopher Brilliantes, does not apply for bail


Evelyn Yamine
The Daily Telegraph
July 12, 2012 1:40PM


THE man charged with the stabbing murder of an apprentice chef did not apply for bail today.
Christopher Brilliantes, 21, was arrested yesterday and charged with the murder of Patrick Crowe.
The 22-year-old was allegedly stabbed during an altercation on Argyle St, Parramatta about 2am on Sunday and later died at Westmead Hospital.
Brilliantes, of Wentworthville, did not want to be brought up to the courtroom and did not apply for bail.
Magistrate Viney formally refused bail and remanded him into custody.
The matter was adjourned until September 13.
A co-accused, Judel Godoy, 18, was granted strict conditional bail after being charged with concealing a serious indictable offence.
The teenager, who is friends with the co-accused Brilliantes, must return to live at his family home in Auburn, where his stepfather, a corrections officer, has agreed to inform police if he does not meet his bail conditions.
These include reporting daily to police, not to go within 1km of Parramatta railway station unless to catch a train, not to associate with any co-accused in any way and he must abide by a residential curfew from 8pm to 6am.
Parramatta Local Court heard he had no participation in the alleged altercation and cooperated with police in an interview after his arrest.
A 15-year-old Toongabbie boy and 16-year-old Rosehill boy were also arrested and charged with affray.

Superintendent Robert Redfern said police were still looking for a teenage boy and three teenage girls who can help with on-going investigations.
Supt Redfern said there was "some interaction" with these teenagers in the lead up to the fatal stabbing about 2am last Sunday.
"The message to these people is that we will do all that we can to find you and bring you to justice so come forward, hand yourselves in to police, so that you can be spoken to," Supt Redfern said.
"There is no way we can bring back Patrick to his family but it's our hope in making some early arrests, it gives some comfort to his family in relation to the loss of their son," he said.
The male police are looking for is described as being in his late teens, of Pacific Islander appearance.
The girls are aged between 15 and 17, of Pacific Islander appearance and the other described as Caucasian.

Four arrested following Patrick Crowe Murder

Sydney's Occupied Territories Stabbing: Patrick Crowe, 22, attacked and stabbed to death..

Thomas Kelly another victim of the Godless Savagery that walks Sydney’s streets

Arab Spring :Egyptian Sex Slave Marriage,the woman said "I enslave myself to you,"

Egypt's First "Sex-Slave" Marriage


by Raymond Ibrahim
Gatestone Institute 
July 5, 2012


What is being dubbed as Egypt's "first sex-slave marriage" took place mere days after the Muslim Brotherhood's Muhammad Morsi was made president.


Last Monday, on the Egyptian TV show Al Haqiqa ("the Truth"), journalist Wael al-Ibrashi began the program by airing a video-clip of a man, Abd al-Rauf Awn, "marrying" his "slave." Before making the woman, who had a non-Egyptian accent, repeat the Koran's Surat al-Ikhlas after him, instead of saying the customary "I marry
myself to you," the woman said "I enslave myself to you," and kissed him in front of an applauding audience.


Sheikh Awn telling his concubine-bride what to say during their "nuptial vows," which included her "enslavement" to the self-proclaimed Sharia expert.

Then, even though she was wearing a hijab, her owner-husband declared her forbidden from such trappings, commanding her to be stripped of them, so as "not to break Allah's laws." She took her veil
and abaya off, revealing, certainly by Muslim standards, a promiscuous red dress (all the other women present were veiled). The man claps for her as the video-clip (which can be viewed here) ends.
The owner-husband, Abd al-Rauf Awn, then appeared on the show, identifying himself as an Islamic scholar and expert at Islamic jurisprudence who studied at Al Azhar. He gave several Islamic explanations to justify his "marriage," from Islamic prophet Muhammad's "sunna" or practice of "marrying" enslaved captive women, to Koran 4:3, which commands Muslim men to "Marry such women as seem good to you, two and three and four… or what your right hands possess."
For all practical purposes, and to avoid euphemisms, "what your right hands possess"—also known in Arabic as a melk al-yamin—is, according to Islamic doctrine and history, simply a sex-slave. Linguistic evidence further suggests that she is seen more as a possession than a human.


Even stripping the sex-slave of her hijab, the way Awn commanded his concubine-wife, has precedent. According to Islamic jurisprudence, whereas the free (Muslim) woman is mandated to be veiled behind a hijab, sex-slaves are mandated only to be covered from the navel to the knees—with everything else exposed. During the program Awn even explained how Caliph Omar, one of the first "righteous caliphs," used to strip sex-slaves of their garments, whenever he saw them overly dressed in the marketplace.


Awn further explained that sex-slave marriage is ideal for today's Egyptian society. He based his position on ijtihad, a recognized form of jurisprudence, whereby a Muslim scholar comes up with a new idea—one that is still rooted in the Koran and example of Muhammad—yet one that better fits the circumstances of contemporary society.


He argued that, when it comes to marriage, "we Muslims have overly complicated things," so that men are often forced to be single throughout their prime, finally getting married between the ages of 30-40 (when they might be expected to have a sufficient income to open a household). Similarly, many Egyptian women do not want to wear the hijab in public.
The solution, according to Awn, is to reinstitute sex-slavery—allowing men to marry and copulate much earlier in life, and women who want to dress freely to do so, as technically they are sex-slaves and mandated to go about loosely attired, anyway. 

"Who said sex-slavery is over?  What—because the UN said so?"

The other guest on the show, Dr. Abdullah al-Naggar, a professor of Islamic jurisprudence at Al Azhar, fiercely attacked Awn for reviving this practice, calling on him and his slave-wife to "repent" and stop dishonoring Islam, arguing that "there is no longer sex-slavery"—to which Awn responded by sarcastically asking, "Who said sex-slavery is over? What—because the UN said so?"


In many ways, this exchange between Awn, who advocates sex-slave marriage, and the Al Azhar professor symbolizes the clash between today's "Islamists" and "moderate Muslims." For long, Al Azhar has been primarily engaged in the delicate balancing act of affirming Islam while still advocating modernity according to Western standards, whereas the Islamists—from the Muslim Brotherhood to the Salafis—bred with contempt and disrespect for the West, are only too eager to revive distinctly Islamic practices that defy Western sensibilities.


While this may be the first sex-slave marriage to take place in Egypt's recent history, it is certainly not the first call to revive the practice. Earlier, Egyptian Sheikh Huwaini, lamenting that the "good old days" of Islam are over, declared that, in an ideal Muslim society, "when I want a sex-slave [I should be able to go]to the market and pick whichever female I desire and buy her." Likewise, a Kuwaiti female politician advocated for reviving the institute of sex-slavery, suggesting that Muslims should bring female
captives of war—specifically Russian women from the Chechnya war —and sell them to Muslim men in the markets of Kuwait.

And so the "Arab Spring" continues to blossom.

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

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Salafists Demand Legalization of Sex-Slave Marriages