HALAL SCAM Down Under: Senator Cory Bernardi demands vigilance on halal certification in Australia

Senator Cory Bernardi demands vigilance on halal certification in Australia

The Daily Telegraph
September 25 2015.

LIBERAL Senator Cory Bernardi has challenged Australian national security organisations, saying they did not know if the certification of halal food indirectly funds terrorism.

The Senate’s halal inquiry heard yesterday the Crime Commission and the financial intelligence work of AUSTRAC had failed to find direct links between halal certification fees and terrorists.

AUSTRAC compliance manager Angela Jamieson said the organisation “has no information that indicates halal certification is linked to terrorism”.

But Senator Bernardi said halal certifiers were hiding their funding of terrorist groups through charities and not-for profit organisation.

“There are a number of halal certifiers who are not-for-profit bodies and that are involved in establishing mosques, schools ... they receive halal certification funds, it then flows through the system and where it ends up no one really knows,” Mr Bernardi said.

“But we do know extremist organisations in Australia are funded and they are linked in many cases back to these not-for-profit bodies.

“Surely there is a link then between some of the funding that these not-for-profit bodies receive and the end outcome of extremism in some of their organisations.”

Mr Bernardi said AUSTRAC was not tracking where halal certification money ended up and “it’s not too long a bow to draw to say the product, the profits of halal certification are linked to organisations that are not acting in Australia’s interest”.

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Senate Economics References Committee chair Labor Senator Sam Dastyari got into a heated exchange with Mr Bernardi, asking: “You have the government agency responsible for finding the money here telling us that they believe there is no reasonable link between the two. What more do you want?”

Australian Crime Commission acting strategic intelligence manager Hamish Hansford said the organisation had been on “heightened lookout” for links between halal certification and terrorism but “to date we have not found any’’.

When pressed by Mr Bernardi about indirect links between halal certification fees and terrorism, Mr Hansford said: “Wherever there is a sector with large amounts of cash being remitted there’s an opportunity for either organised crime or people sympathetic with terrorism to utilise and exploit that sector.”

Consumer advocate Kirralie Smith from Halal Choices Inc told the inquiry the evidence from AUSTRAC and the Crime Commission did not “put (her) fears to rest”.

Muslims Gone Wild Down Under : Hamza Cheikho Facebook page support of ISIS "not written by him"

Hamza Cheikho: I don’t support ISIS, says Muslim Hyde Park protester

Amy DaleChief Court Reporter
The Daily Telegraph
September 25 2015.

A MAN who participated in Sydney’s Hyde Park Muslim protests has rejected the suggestion he’s a supporter of Islamic State, or ISIS, claiming several posts on his Facebook profile — some of which appeared to be sympathetic to ISIS — had not been written by him, a court was told yesterday.

The claim by Hamza Cheikho, 22, follows evidence he gave on Tuesday and yesterday when he said his comments on a TV interview at the time of the protests in 2012 suggesting he supported beheading the maker of a YouTube video had been “taken out of context” — and also that he “wasn’t paying attention” to the reporter’s question.

Mr Cheikho is suing Nationwide News, the publisher of The Daily Telegraph, in the NSW ­Supreme Court in relation to four articles that appeared in the fortnight following the protests, during which several police officers were injured and Mr Cheikho was photographed with Khaled Sharrouf, who went on to become one of Islamic State’s most brutal terrorists in the Middle East.

The publisher is defending the case on grounds including truth and honest opinion.

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Muslims Gone Wild Down Under: Hamza Cheikho “taken out of context”.

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Under re-examination by his counsel Tom Molomby SC, Mr Cheikho again addressed an ABC news bulletin in which he replied “yeah” in answer to the question “So you agree the person who made the video (which sparked the riots) should be beheaded?”

Mr Cheikho said he had been “giving an explanation for Sharia law” during the interview. “(The reporter) asked me something about beheading,” he said. “I agreed to what (the reporter) was saying but I didn’t pay attention to the actual question he was asking me.”

Mr Cheikho spent much of the day yesterday being cross-examined by counsel for Nationwide News Tom Blackburn SC, largely about the contents of his Facebook page. The jury of two men and two women was shown a series of posts and updates made on Mr Cheikho’s public Facebook profile, some of which he denied posting himself.

In one post, the profile shared a photo made by a group titled ­“Debunking lies against ISIS”. “ISIS haters are getting so desperate they are photoshopping,” the post’s caption read. When questioned by Mr Blackburn, he said: “I’m not sure I wrote that.”

However, when questioned further, he then denied writing it.

He said he didn’t remove comments from Facebook friends saying “LOL” and “LMAO” in response to a photo of Muslim leader Dr Jamal Rifi leading prayers at the Martin Place siege memorial in the days following the ­December siege.

“It’s (the friend’s) opinion and I didn’t want to have an argument with him,” he said. He also said that he “doesn’t know” how to delete comments made by others.

The jury heard his page contained links to articles about the rumoured death in Syria of Sharrouf.

The hearing continues today.

THEIR Malcolm: How long can Malcolm Turnbull stick with his new 'conservative" message, before he reverts to type?

Malcolm Turnbull’s rise is a defeat for conservatives that looks a lot like victory


Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun
September 24 2015.


THE media Left is gloating. They’ve won and knuckle-dragging conservatives like me and

Alan Jones have lost. Our man, Tony Abbott, is gone as prime minister. Their man, Malcolm Turnbull, rules.

“Ha, ha, ha,” they point out.

Or as the ABC, the taxpayer-funded voice of the Left, put it on Monday, suck it up, Jones and Bolt.

“Once again, it’s remarkable that Abbott was felled despite their support,” crowed Media Watch host Paul Barry. “And it shows how little power they actually have.”

He’s right. Alan and I are shocked we couldn’t get every single Australian to back Abbott, when the only thing against us was the $1 billion-a-year ABC, the anti-Abbott smear factory of Fairfax and the rest of the army of media orcs: SBS, Guardian, Daily Mail, The Monthly, The Project, FM hosts, half the News Corp empire and the Canberra bureaus of every TV station.

Humiliating, I know, but Alan and I proved in the end surprisingly powerless against the others, too — the academics, the race industry, the professional victims, the climate cranks, the multicultural commissars, the free speech police and all the other arbiters of Good Taste.

So boo hoo hoo, we cry. We helped get Abbott elected, but couldn’t save him. But at the ABC it’s party, party. Abbott used to be treated like filth there, but it’s all hugs and kisses now for Turnbull, the ABC’s favourite Liberal.

This, swear to God, is an actual transcript from Monday’s 7.30:

Host Leigh Sales (giggling): I’m sorry I’m laughing, but you’re not at the dispatch box and you’re not at the bar, so I’ve got to squeeze in one more question before we run out of time.

Turnbull (beaming): One more question. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Sales (looking flirtatious): I’m sorry. I’m sorry to be rude like that too.

Turnbull: You’re not being rude at all. It’s quite understandable.

Sales: The — no, no, I did cut you directly off.

Turnbull: That’s fine.

So, yes, I should feel like Samson after a haircut. But here’s the funny thing. We’ve actually won. Me and Alan. We’ve house-trained Turnbull.

Remember what Turnbull used to be like? He headed the Australian Republican Movement and even donated to Labor’s campaign against the Howard government. He trashed opponents of same-sex marriage. He backed Labor’s carbon tax.

But we knocked him into shape, Alan and I. Now behold our neo-Turnbull. This new model refuses to back Labor’s carbon tax and promises to let the public, not the politicians, decide on same-sex marriage.

Turnbull yesterday seemed even to be reading our script on unions and Labor, attacking Labor leader Bill Shorten as just “a cork in the slipstream of the CFMEU”, the most lawless of unions.

And his new ministers stuck to our messages, too. His Communications Minister, who once called for the ABC to be privatised, said yesterday the Abbott government had been right to slash the ABC’s budget.

The Islamic State was still our great threat, assured the new Defence Minister. We’re spending too much, repeated the new Treasurer. And the penny is dropping with some on the Left. Where’s Malcolm? Where’s their Malcolm?

Take warmist Bernie Fraser, former chairman of the Government’s Climate Change Authority. Turnbull “is just sticking with the status quo” on global warming, Fraser groaned this week. “His courage deserted him.”

But Alan and I aren’t kidding ourselves. Yes, we’ve tamed the Turnbull and painted new spots on him. But we know that underneath that painted fur remains a leopard of the Left, fighting his natural instincts.

Take yesterday. Asked by a journalist if he’d change the policies that stopped the boats, Turnbull couldn’t say no — the clear answer that deters people smugglers best, but jars at Point Piper dinners parties.

“I have the same concerns about the situation of people on Nauru and Manus as you do,” he pleaded. (Code: It’s really me, Malcolm, under these Right-wing spots.) “(But) we are not going to make policy changes — particularly the type you’re talking about — on the run.”

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton had to clean up afterwards, insisting Turnbull was “resolute” and illegal immigrants would not land.

Alan and I also remember how easily Kevin Rudd shook off his own training. Rudd promised us before the 2007 election he, too, would be a John Howard-lite and that “this sort of reckless spending must stop”.

Yet after the election was won, the real Rudd re-emerged, even lavishing “stimulus” cheques on the dead.

Perhaps we’ll see the same backsliding with Turnbull, but until then, Alan and I will bask in our success.

Behold our neo-Turnbull. Let the Left weep.

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