Rahma El-Dennaoui "... probably died in her home and her family concocted an abduction hoax to conceal the child's death,"

Detective suspects Rahma El-Dennaoui's relatives

Peter Bodkin 
The Daily Telegraph
November 09, 2012 12:00AM

POLICE believe toddler Rahma El-Dennaoui probably died in her home and her family concocted an abduction hoax to conceal the child's death, an inquest heard yesterday.

But the officer who has led the investigation into her disappearance for nearly seven years admitted there was little "hard evidence" to support many of his suspicions.

Where is Rahma El-Dennaoui ?

Detective-Sergeant Nick Sedgwick told an inquest his focus had recently turned to Rahma's immediate family due to "inconsistencies and deceit" from several key witnesses.

"(That) led me to believe that Rahma has died at (her) house ... and that the abduction scenario has been staged and her body disposed of," he said.

The 20-month-old was last reportedly seen at her family's Lurnea home about 2am on November, 2010, when her father Hosayn El-Dennaoui said he put her to sleep next to her two sisters. A hole was found cut in the fly screen above her bed later that day. Her family denies involvement in her disappearance.Investigators previously explored theories a paedophile abducted and killed Rahma, or that she had been kidnapped and taken to Lebanon, among other possibilities.

Sgt Sedgwick said he now believed it was "unlikely" the toddler was abducted and she probably died in an "accident or mishap" at home.

He said his suspicion was based on several pieces of evidence, which included Rahma's bed being placed in an unusual position under the window that night and recent telephone intercepts in which relatives referred to police "digging up" her body.

"I find that talk unusual for family members who believe she may still be alive."

Sgt Sedgwick said it was also an "extraordinary coincidence" that the family now claimed to have moved a large cable reel - which would have helped a kidnapper to reach through Rahma's window - into their front yard on the day before the disappearance of the child.

But under cross-examination from David Evenden, representing Mr El-Dennaoui, Sgt Sedgwick said he had thought for "many years" that Rahma had been abducted.

He admitted that police could have better explored potential family involvement in her disappearance early in the investigation - but they pursued other leads when they uncovered no history of violence or abuse in the household.

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Rahma El-Dennaoui

Over a year to examine suspect's van

POLICE didn't forensically examine vehicles belonging to a prime suspect in Rahma El-Dennaoui's disappearance until 18 months after she vanished.

Waiting for news of baby Rahma

THE family of Rahma El-Dennaoui still hopes for news of the girl who vanished more than six years ago, an inquest heard yesterday.

Rahma's sister told police of 'monster in the dark'

INQUEST hears missing toddler Rahma El-Dennaoui may have accidentally taken drugs the night before she disappeared.

Family's fear of Rahma search

RELATIVES of missing toddler Rahma El-Dennaoui feared police would dig up their family farms in a search for the little girl's body.

Rahma's uncle doubts kidnap rumour

RUMOURS of toddler Rahma El-Dennaoui being kidnapped and taken to Lebanon were "bulls**t", the missing girl's uncle told an inquest.

Searching for Rahma

FOR Alyaa and Hosayn el-Dennaoui, nobody will ever replace their lost little girl Rahma but there was joy last week when their 12th child was born.

Child's terrified cries in the night

MORE than six years after she vanished in the night, the mystery of Rahma El-Dennaoui continues to deepen.

Inquest hears 'jokes' about Rahma

A WITNESS discussing "shots" in secretly taped conversations with Rahma El-Dennaoui's father says the term referred to bird hunting, not drugs.

Female Genital Mutilation Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community divided,magistrate says.

Muslims divided on genital mutilation, magistrate says

Paul Bibby
Court Reporter
SMH
November 9, 2012

SYDNEY'S close-knit Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community is starkly divided over allegations of female genital mutilation made against some of its members, a court has heard, with debate raging in the community's online chat forums.
The revelations came during a failed attempt by a sheikh and a retired nurse from the community, who have been charged over the genital mutilation of two young girls, to have their names kept from the public.

Sheikh Shabbir Mohammedbhai Vaziri, 56, and Helen Magennis, 68, have been charged over the genital mutilation of a six-year-old girl and seven-year-old girl in separate incidents between October 2010 and July this year.

Police say Ms Magennis carried out the procedures on the two girls in suburban homes in Wollongong and Baulkham Hills while Sheikh Vaziri was allegedly an accessory - harbouring, maintaining and assisting those involved.

It is also alleged the sheikh later instructed members of the Dawoodi Bohra community to lie to police about what had happened.
Six other members of the community, including the parents of the girls, are also facing charges over the alleged mutilations.

In overturning a suppression order on Sheikh Vaziri's name and refusing to grant one for Ms Magennis on Thursday, magistrate Brian van Zuylen said there was much debate in the Dawoodi Bohra community about genital mutilation practices.

''From the [police] statement of facts there appears to be very different views from members of the community participating in chat forums,'' he said
''Some seem to be supporting the procedures while other, more moderate members are vehemently opposed.''

The lawyer for Ms Magennis, Elee Georges, said he had received instructions the ''whole community is against'' the practices. He also said he didn't expect the matter to go to trial because the medical evidence against his client was weak.

''The medical evidence, at its highest, is unable to confirm or deny [that the procedures took place],'' he said.
Mr Georges and the lawyer for Sheikh Vaziri, David Randle, argued the publication of their clients' names would prevent the defendants from getting a fair trial, and could lead to the identification of the two alleged victims.

But Mr Van Zuylen rejected the arguments, noting the public interest in open justice.

''The court isn't convinced that identifying these people would lead to an inevitable tracing back and identifying of the [alleged] victims,'' he said.
''Nor would it prevent the proper administration of justice or interfere with the opportunity for a fair trial.''

Mr Georges also said his client was suffering from a number of medical problems, including type II diabetes and osteoarthritis, and that continuing publicity of her role in the case would cause ''ongoing, significant undue distress''.

He said Ms Magennis's husband had received a threatening letter following publication of the alleged crime, and she had been harassed by the media.

''She's had people coming to her door … knocking on her back window,'' Mr Georges said.
All eight members of the community charged in relation to the genital mutilations will re-appear in court in February next year.

Sydney's Occupied Territories:Sheik Shabbir Mohammedbhai Vaziri and Helen Magennis, charged with Female Genital Mutilation

From Sydney's Occupied Territories: Sheik and a Nurse charged over Female Genital Mutilation

Multicultural Australia we were warned two years ago

Say it ain't so Joe!!!! say it ain't so. Hussein Obama Islams man in the White House re elected

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Anthropogenic Global Warming Rats jumping ship.

Losing their religion as evidence cools off

BY: MAURICE L. NEWMAN
The Australian
November 05, 2012 12:00AM 

ONCE upon a time when Christendom was at its peak, missionaries would be dispatched to the four corners of the globe in search of converts. They believed their mission would expand the influence of Rome and save heathens from eternal damnation.

It was a compelling message. Convert and enjoy everlasting life in the hereafter. The advantage the missionaries had was that the religion they taught had no hypotheses that could be tested. Death - "the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns" - meant that the afterlife could be neither proved nor disproved. Faith was the only thing needed.

Climate science is a bit like that - push the rewards and the catastrophes far enough into the future, and have faith that the prophecies will come true. However, unlike heaven, which we may reach at any time, climate prophecies need to be distant enough to make them hard to challenge yet sufficiently close to generate urgent action.

So when in 1969 Paul Ehrlich claimed because of global cooling it was an even-money bet whether England would survive until the year 2000, he could not immediately be proven wrong. After all, this was a cooling period.

Unfortunately for him, England is still inhabited and his predictions are still remembered. Ehrlich is now a warmist. Like a good stock analyst, when the company doesn't perform as you thought, better to change the recommendation from a sell to a buy, than admit you were wrong.

When Mother Nature decided in 1980 to change gears from cooler to warmer, a new global warming religion was born, replete with its own church (the UN), a papacy, (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), and a global warming priesthood masquerading as climate scientists. Selfish humans in rich, polluting countries were blamed for the warming and had to pay for past trespasses by providing material compensation to poor nations as penance. Cutting greenhouse gas emissions became the new holy grail. With a warm wind at their backs, these fundamentalists collected hundreds of billions of dollars from naive governments that adopted their faith on behalf of billions of people. No crusader was ever so effective.

The message was stark. If the non-believers didn't convert immediately, our children and grandchildren would face a hell on earth. The priesthood excommunicated and humiliated sceptics and deniers. Alternative views were not tolerated and, where possible, were suppressed. Did someone mention the dark ages?

Because the new arrangements would distort capital allocations, disciples wrote economic texts showing how inefficient, productivity-sapping and costly green industries would actually boost economic activity and employment.

Unfortunately, the cost of saving the planet would fall disproportionately on the poor. This wealth transfer to the rich was unavoidable and, if the poor or the infirm died of cold or heat because they could not afford airconditioning, they would simply be martyrs to the cause. In any case, who could they appeal to? All political parties had signed up to the new religion.

But, self-deluded by the warming period and their confirmatory bias, the priesthood was overtaken by hubris and made increasingly extravagant claims. We were advised that Armageddon was now even closer at hand.

Regrettably for the global warming religion, its predictions have started to appear shaky, and the converts, many of whom have lost their jobs and much of their wealth, are losing faith. Worse, heretic scientists have been giving the lie to many of the prophecies described in the IPCC bible. They could not be silenced.

Of course, the IPCC texts can be interpreted in different ways and sceptics have obviously chosen the wrong interpretation.

When atmospheric temperatures on which we had relied failed to comply with the prophecies, the waverers were instructed to look at ocean temperatures and rising sea levels.

So far, so good. However, the British arm of the climate establishment silently released an encyclical that revealed no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures from the beginning of 1997 until August this year.

This communique was unearthed by the heretic newspaper, the Daily Mail, which pointed out that this period was of about the same duration as when temperatures rose between 1980 to 1996.

Of course, the religious high priests were quick to play down the significance of this pause. Phil Jones of the Climategate denomination claimed it was to be expected and, he insisted, 15 or 16 years is not a significant period.

Yet in 2009 he said that a "no upward trend has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried". But that was then and this is now and he is not about to lose his religion simply because the evidence doesn't support the text.

And, of course, there are always extenuating circumstances. El Nino and La Nina are there when you need them, to be forgotten when temperatures are warming or remembered if they are cooling. And, we've had a record Arctic melt. But better not mention the storm that NASA concedes broke the ice up and drove it south, or the record Antarctic ice gain.

Rather we must listen to Australia's Climate Change Commission novitiates who, against the evidence, have delivered a parable linking Superstorm Sandy to global warming.

At least the media disciples are keeping the faith by emphasising what supports the gospel and, where possible, omitting that which doesn't. New, corroborative revelations enjoy widespread publicity. If the same findings are later retracted for lack of scientific rigour, they are simply allowed to disappear without comment.

Yet despite all, believers in man-made global warming are declining. It will require an extraordinary crusade presaging even direr climate consequences for defying the warmist faith, before defectors even contemplate rejoining the religion. If that fails it may be time to burn sceptics at the stake. But then that would increase CO2 emissions. A dilemma, to be sure.

Maurice L. Newman is a former chairman of the ABC.

There IS a God and here is the proof. GM Workers may resort to "sabotage" aka. Don't Buy a Commadore

Why you should not buy an Australian made General Motors product

Workers may resort to 'sabotage'

The Age
March 30, 2006 - 10:26AM

Workers may resort to "subtle sabotage" in retaliating against unscrupulous employers in the current industrial climate, a senior Labor senator and former union chief says.

Senator George Campbell said similar tactics occurred on assembly lines in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s when there was management exploitation.

"I worked for a long time in this country in the '50s and '60s and there was a lot of sabotage that went on in the workplace, in a very subtle way," he told reporters.

"What concerns me is the sort of relationship that's now been established in the workplace is going to encourage that sabotage to take place again.

"I don't mean in a serious sense, but little things, like a screw being left out.

"As they used to say, never buy a motor car that was produced on a Monday or Friday."

Senator Campbell trained as a shipwright and later was for many years national secretary of the militant leftwing metalworkers' union, before entering parliament in 1997.

He said the government's Work Choices laws reminded him of working in factories in his early days.

"I think workers will find subtle ways of evening up the score with employers if they are being unnecessarily oppressed in the workplace.

"I don't advocate it, I just accept reality.

"I mean, that is what happened in the '50s and '60s."

He said the problem with the Work Choices laws was that those who drew them up had never experienced the realities of factory work or blue-collar jobs.

"Some of them actually ought to spend a few months working in factories seeing what it's actually like to go to work at seven o'clock every morning to work on a production line, to know what kind of relationship is being management and labour in those circumstances.

"They never did. John Howard developed all his industrial relations agenda sitting in the MTIA (Metal Trades Industry Association) offices in North Sydney."

2012 Enter: Reality and the begining of the never ending dole que for the millions of followers of the ideology of Senator George Campbell and the Australian Labor Party,

Comrades Embrace your future. 

"Islamophobes" ? outraged by Pakistan treatment of Australian Sheep

Why Australia (the West) deals with these swine amazes me,let the bastards starve to death in the dark.They have rejected civilization and the humanity ascribed by God, let them reap the whirlwind that they taunt God and nature to deliver them.No Muslim Nation should be supplied with LIVE animals.Their Blsaphemy against God and Nature should no longer be tolerated under the guise of "Oh its their way" "Dont be an Islamophobe" "All Cultures Religions are equal" 
these swine and their UN/ Democrat / Liberal/ PROGRESSIVE All Cultures Religions are equal apologists have run out of excuses for their prize "Best at Show"  IGNORANT SWINE that they Strut before us in their Rat with a Gold Tooth garb as been the saviours / future of their All Cultures Religions are equal, Brave New Politically Correct New World aka."Hope n Change" aka "FORWARD"

The TV Network, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, who,correctly, exposed this latest Muslim atrocity against animals is Australia's 100% Taxpayer funded National TV and Radio network, this organization is renowned for its support of radical leftist / Union / Australian Labor Party / Green agenda.
The presenter (not the reporter) of this story is more commonly known as " Red Kerry"

At no time over the past 15 years do I recall a similar program on Four Corners or any other ABC program, any similar out rage over the Beheading and or ill treatment of "Infidel" human beings by Muslims in Afghanmistan or Pakistan or any where else in the world.
The ABC and some of it's millionaire / TV celebrity supporters are infamous for carrying the can for who they call "Our David" aka. David Hicks, Mohammed Dawoud, Australia's Celebrity Gitmo detainee, adopted by the Progressives and the Australian Labor Party, their financiers the Australian Council of Trade Unions and their partners in crime, the Greens in Australia,well at least we know they like sheep, maybe one day they will evolve to a state where they have as much compassion for Non Muslims.

"Another Bloody Business"

Four Corners' 2011 expose of the brutal mistreatment of Austral"Another Bloody Business"ian cattle in Indonesia shocked many and had far reaching consequences for the live export trade. Tough new regulations were introduced to protect the welfare of Australian animals shipped overseas for slaughter.

But weeks ago news emerged from Pakistan of a brutal cull of 20,000 Australian sheep, ordered by the local authorities in Karachi. Sheep exporter Wellard told the Federal Government they lost control when police with semi-automatic weapons forced their employees away from the compound where the sheep were being held.

How did a major exporter lose control of a shipment of sheep in Pakistan, originally intended for Bahrain? Why was the Australian Government rebuffed by Pakistan when they tried to stop the cull? What does this gruesome episode say about the future of the live export trade?

Local authorities said the cull was carried out humanely. Pictures taken at the scene tell another story. This is a story the industry doesn't want told - you be the judge.

"Another Bloody Business", reported by Sarah Ferguson and presented by Kerry O'Brien,  Monday 5th November at 8.30 pm on ABC 1.

Multicultural Australia we were warned two years ago

Mass immigration kills Aussie culture, says demographer Bob Birrell
By staff writers
Herald Sun
March 24, 2010 7:49AM
    * 'Migration causes social problems'
    * Population expected to hit 35 million by 2050
    * Calls for enquiry into migration numbers
    * Aussie asylum seeker numbers buck world trend
TRADITIONS based on heritage, sporting culture and common language are threatened by mass immigration, a leading demographer has warned.
Monash University population expert Dr Bob Birrell  has said the huge influx of people with few or no English skills had created social problems in Melbourne suburbs such as Dandenong, Sunshine and Broadmeadows and most major cities were feeling the population strain, the Herald Sun reported.
"This is not a pretty picture," he said.  "Social divisions are becoming more obvious and geographically concentrated and certain areas are being overlain by an ethnic identification."
Dr Birrell made the explosive comments in an article for Policy,a magazine published by the Centre for Independent Studies,a right-wing think tank.
In a plea to the Rudd Government to slash the current immigrant intake of 180,000 a year, Dr Birrell warned that the predicted population of 35 million by 2050 would be a disaster for urban living and the environment.
"One would have to wander deaf, dumb and blind through Australian capital cities to not notice how urban congestion has already reduced the quality of life," he said.
The intake dominated by people from non-English speaking backgrounds was transforming Australia, Dr Birrell said. 
"We are losing core elements of what was once shared. Almost all could once aspire to a house and land ... and sharing a common language, sporting culture and heritage," he said.
But mass migration was creating ethnic enclaves in suburbs with cheap housing, and planning rules were forcing Australian-born "losers" and non-English speaking background migrants to live in congested neighbourhoods, "cheek by jowl".
Population target
Kevin Rudd has made it clear that he believes in a big Australia. In a recent speech he declared that migration was "good for our national security, good for our long-term prosperity, good in enhancing our role in the region and the world".
But the Federal Opposition and the Greens said questions needed to be asked about Australia's immigration plans.
Opposition immigration spokesman, Scott Morrison, told the ABC there should be an inquiry into how many people the nation can support.
"It's about what the carrying capacity is," he said.  "We need to get that perspective from regional areas as well as metropolitan areas, where issues of congestion and housing affordability are major problems as well as public transport.
"What's more important, is the process for planning. For example, the states and territories have no input into questions of immigration and migration intakes but they're the ones at the end of the day that have to service the needs that are created by it."
Greens Leader Bob Brown said there should be an independent national inquiry into Australia's population target.
"So that politicians do have an idea of the carrying capacity of this country, its infrastructure, its ability to deal with those quite worrying projections of 35 million people by 2050," he said.   "We've got to do better than just say well let it happen."
Other leading academics have also questioned the challenge that mass intake of migrants will pose.
In their book Australia's Immigration Revolution, Andrew Markus, James Jupp and Peter McDonald agrue that while immigration "offers ‘the most immediate and simplest short term measure to deal with labour and skills shortages" it also comes with serious questions about social cohesion.
Prior to the 1950s 80 per cent of immigrants came from the United Kingdom. Between the 50s and the 1960s migrants from continental Europe became the majority.
After the abolition of the White Australia policy in the early 1970s the mixture of migration changed again. Today, the largest proportion of immigrants come from Asia and Oceania.  China and India rival New Zealand and Britian as the biggest source of immigrants.
Many of the catastrophic outcomes alluded to by Bob Birrell are already facts of life in Australia's  “Occupied Territories”, Multicultural ghettos, no go zones for anyone who is, or identifies as Australian.
The South Western suburbs of Sydney are a good example of what Bob Birrell is trying to warn Australians and our Numb Nutted “leaders “of.These suburbs have been colonized predominantly by Middle Eastern “refugees” and escapees from Lebanon sent here by the Syrian Government during the 70’s and later in the 80’ and 90’s by targeted selection by Australian Labor (Socialist) Governments.
These Muslim Middle Eastern immigrants have at every opportunity made known their hatred of Australians,our Judeo Christian based legal and democratic governmental structures and everything that has manifested the Nation that RAN AWAY TOO NOT FROM and hold in such contempt with the exception of Australia’s FREE Hospital and Medical, subsidised Pharmacy,FREE Tax payer provided housing,Life long social security payments for them and their indigent off spring,FREE education,FREE Dental,FREE translation services for LIFE,Subsidised public transport fares for LIFE, Subsidised child minding fees,Subsidised Gas Electricity and Water charges,these are just a few of the parts (hand outs) these Muslim colonialists apparently LIKE about Australia.
The Government of New South Wales has even provided a specialist consanguineous / incest marriage unit at Auburn Hospital (a Public Hospital now part of the Occupied Territories) in order to deal with the tragic and grotesque manifestations of Middle Eastern Muslims sexual preferences.
The Government of NSW has also provided a dedicated Middle Eastern Crime task force within the NSW Police Force / Service to Police the Muslim Middle Eastern Drug importation / Distribution,Car re birthing / export,Protection rackets and Islamic Rape Gangs who target “Aussie Sluts and Pigs” of ANY age.
Ahh!!!! the joys of Multiculturalism. Australians have never known such divisive HATRED and lack of social cohesion since the official imposition of Multiculturalism during  the Socialist Australian Labor Party Government of E.G Whitlam, sold to Australians by Australia's TV and Hollywood Idiot Wannabees, Social Justice Snake Oil Salesmen and various “Christian Religious Leaders” via the mindless slogan / jingle  / bumper sticker  of “It’s Time” over thirty years ago.
Australia has never recovered from culturally and socially from the relatively short time Whitlam and his subversives were in power.
The Muslim inbreeding problem comes to Australia
Within Sydney's Middle Eastern community inter family marriage seems to be on the rise and it is leading to a high incidence of children born with defects: Erin O' Dwyer explores the devastating cost of a tradition that many in the West regard as taboo.
A smile twists across Kaled Assoum's face. Lying in his cot, he gurgles happily as his mother, Randa, tickles his belly and kisses him on the face. The eight-year-old, pictured above with his grandmother, was born with severe intellectual and physical disabilities. He cannot walk or talk, and feeds through a tube in his stomach. He has the mental capacity of a one-year-old. "I still love him day after day" his father Mohammed says. "From the beginning I was a bit sad and she was a bit sad. She started crying but I said in the end we can't do anything. That’s how God created him. Even if we cry from now on until 100 years, you can't do anything."
It is almost two decades since doctors at Sydney's Auburn Hospital began to research a devastating pattern of birth defects among babies born to Lebanese families. Led by pioneering obstetrician Dr Caroline de Costa, the study showed significant increases in birth defects, stillbirths and miscarriages among women who were married to blood relatives, particularly first and second cousins from families who came largely but not exclusively, from the Middle East. The study found that one in three Lebanese women were married to a cousin and, across the hospital's maternity ward, one in 10 women had married a cousin. Even more alarming was the finding that babies born to these women were four times more likely to be stillborn and eight times more likely to suffer serious birth defects.
Ten years later, maternity ward staff reported these marriages were on the rise. De Costa followed up her landmark study, interviewing every pregnant women who booked into the hospital's maternity ward in one year. In 2001 she published her results,revealing that almost 20 per cent of women were consanguineously married. Of those,more than half were married to first cousins and almost 60 per cent were born in Australia. 
Fifteen babies born to consanguineous couples - related by birth - at Auburn Hospital had severe defects, including heart, kidney and liver function problems. Among non-cousin couples there were five disabled babies - one with a cleft lip and two with club feet. Of those babies that died - six in total - all were born to consanguineous couples. "What was interesting," de Costa wrote at the time, "was that the proportion of pregnant women who were consanguineously married had risen from 11 per cent in the 1980s to 19.6 per cent in 1999. "In other words.. .consanguineous marriage is continuing to be commonly practised by the next generation. Accurate information about risks and non-judgemental genetic counselling need to be available."
When loving your family breeds tragic consequences.
For most in the West, consanguinity is abhorrent but across the world it is a respected cultural practice. Globally at least, 20 per cent of people live in places where cousin-to-cousin marriage is preferred, and nearly 10 per cent of people have consanguineous parents. It is accepted in South-East Asia, Japan, Brazil and Africa, and is particularly common in the Middle East among Muslims and Christians. In Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, about half of all marriages are consanguineous while in Lebanon it is about 25 per cent. At Westmead's Children's hospital, people from 14 Middle
Eastern and African nationalities attended genetic counselling. There are no figures on how widespread inter-family marriage is in Australia, but among immigrant communities in Britain and Canada the practice is even more common than in their country of origin.
Researchers say the trend is the same here. Families want to continue cultural traditions, and the small pool of potential spouses makes intermarriage more likely. Traditionally,the practice has been driven by economics. Dowries were reduced, and landholdings were preserved. Spouses had similar social status, and were thus considered more compatible. In modem times, family support has remained a key factor, as well as a practical way of bringing new family members into the country
So it was for second cousins Randa and Mohammed Assoum. But when Kaled, their fourth son, was born, his severe disabilities shocked them. His birth should have brought joy Instead there was sadness. And questions. "The doctors didn't say it was because we were related, but they did say stop... no more kids," Mohammed says. "We didn't feel angry we just accepted it. It's our faith that makes us accept it."
Their intense love has also seen them through the dark days. The couple remember being sweet on each other as children and when Mohammed emigrated from Lebanon to Australia as a teenager, he knew Randa would one day join him. In Sydney, he worked long hours on construction sites to win her hand in marriage. "Since we were little, our families said, 'She belongs to him and he belongs to her'," Mohammed says.
It was the same story for the couple's siblings. Randa's three brothers married Mohammed's three sisters, and their homes are clustered around the
Auburn area. They are successful, self-sufficient and extremely supportive. But Kaled's disabilities have forced them to reconsider their cultural practices. "What we're hearing from doctors and what happened to us, it's very hard now to let our daughters and sons marry from their family".
Mohammed says. "I wish my sons and daughters would not marry from their family" It is a viewpoint rippling across the Lebanese community
Nonetheless the subject is extremely sensitive, and families fear recrimination for a practice that has long been completely the nor in the East, yet taboo in the West.
The Assoum family was alone in agreeing to tell their story openly to The Sun-Herald but those who spoke on the condition of anonymity admitted they too did not want their children to marry within the family. Lebanese-born mother-of-nine Patima says it is a view supported by the Koran, which states that marriage outside the family helps create new friendships and bonds.
But cousin marriage was common in Fatima's family, and she felt that she and her cousin were well-suited. "But back then I wouldn't have thought about children," Fatima says. "I didn't think of him as a cousin. I was just thinking, is this a partner I can live with?" Fatima says that although her children are all healthy they are ashamed of their parents' marriage. Their grandparents would like the tradition to continue, but Fatima remains opposed. "My children are rejecting it," she says. "They feel ashamed about it so they hide it and they don't talk about it."
Australian-born mother-of-two Salima says she does not explain her family situation to anyone. "For us, it's a very normal situation," she says. "But it's a very difficult topic, because in this society it is unacceptable." Salima was still at university when she first met her older cousin - an engineer from Lebanon who moved to Australia to find work. The pair fell in love and later married. Their youngest son, now 14, is autistic."No one has ever said it is because you are married to your cousin," says Salima, who works in the finance industry "but I've thought about it myself over the years and
I've started to question it. I've learnt to live with the situation, but it's not something I would want my children to do."
It is the wind of change that the medical fraternity has been praying for. The risk of defect or death in babies born to cousin couples is double that of the general population - about 6 per cent compared to 3 percent. Butde Costa's year-long project showed significantly higher risks, perhaps due to the the smaller gene pool in Australian immigrant communities.
Auburn Hospital obstetrician Greg Jenkins who worked with de Costa on the study before she relocated to Queensland - says it is vital that families are educated about the risks, particularly those who face higher risks due to known genetic conditions or a history of intermarriage. In cases where women access high quality ultrasounds early in their pregnancy abnormalities can be identified and couples referred to genetic counselling. They can then decide to terminate - an option allowed in the Muslim faith in the first trimester - or proceed with the pregnancy under expert medical care. But
Jenkins says poor levels of awareness mean that many women book into antenatal clinics too late, and never see trained genetic counsellors or paediatric specialists.
Yet even women with the best medical care have stories that are heartbreaking. Jenkins tells of one woman who learnt at 19 weeks that her baby had a lethal brain abnormality She decided to carry the child. "From her perspective, it was the will of God," Jenkins says. "It broke her heart, but the way she approached it was that she would do the best she could because it was something over which she had no control. "It was a very painful experience.. .a very challenging and confronting situation. My staff kept wanting to send her away for more tests and I said, 'No, that's not -what she wants'." In the end, the woman's baby died an hour after birth. "[But] she got to meet her baby and she got to comfort it," Jenkins says. "She didn't have to make the decision to terminate the life of her child. Her next baby was fine and it brought great joy to everyone involved."
At the children’s hospital at Westmead geneticist Professor David Sillence believes consanguinity may have outlived its usefulness. "When you make the transition from Lebanon to Australia, the bank is on George Street in Parramatta - it's no longer money which the family holds in it own pocket,"
Sillence says. "Consanguinity doesn't necessarily preserve marriages anymore and it doesn't necessarily protect women from abuse within the family
It puts women in a relationship within their household where they not only have a husband but a father-in-law who is related to them because he is the uncle and there is increased pressure on them.
"There is a dysgenic [relating to or causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced] effect that's been shown in repeated studies." One of those is reproductive loss, Sillence says. He has devoted his career to untangling the complicated family tree of Sydney's Middle Eastern community
He tells the story of a Pakistani woman who had five pregnancies, all ending in miscarriage at 16 to 18 weeks. But he was surprised by the depth of grief in the community, particularly among men."I was not prepared for Mediterranean males who sit and cry for one hour about their sadness," he says. Dozens of men spoke to Sillence during a study at Westmead in the late 1990s. He hoped his research would lead to a funding grant to help establish a data bank of rare disorders, and improve screening and testing options.
But September 11 put paid to that. The research funding dried up and the community closed up. Politicians became uninterested in health. Sillence hopes his research will gain momentum again. In the meantime, he mops up the tears and discourages interfamily marriage, except in cases where love is Involved. This is because only love can overcome the vast grief. "You cannot know how much grief there is until you do a study like this," he says. "Your only research cost is Kleenex tissues. Grief can be like a well and that well is very deep for these families."It's grief heaped upon grief.. .the personal grief of a miscarriage, heaped upon the grief of a community, heaped upon grief in an international context."
For Randa and Mohammed Assoum, love has kept them together. And as they sit side by side in the lounge room of their Lidcombe home, their connection is obvious. They giggle, and smile at each other, recounting their courtship. "I loved him," Randa says shyly. "We're still in love and we'll never stop loving each other," Mohammed says. "Not everyone has that we're just lucky,thank God. And we love our children very much." 
The risks are far greater when blood relatives marry
* Consanguinity describes the relationship between blood relatives.Most common is marriage between first cousins.
* Birth defects occur because blood relatives share a greater number of genes, so there is a greater chance of both parents sharing the same faulty gene.
* Children risk inheriting two copies of the same faulty gene, and so being born with a genetic disability.
* Parents who are not related face a 3 per cent risk of having a disabled child. For first cousins, the risk is twice as high.
But, says Dr Kristine Barlow-Stewart, from the centre for Genetics Education, this means the vast majority of children are born healthy. "People think they will automatically have a child with genetic problems and of course that's not so,"she says. "The risk of having a [disabled] child when the parents are first cousins is around 5-6 per cent. "The problem is that where there is a tradition for relatives to marry, you'll get the grandparents who are first cousins,the parents who are first cousins and the children who are first cousins. Then the chance of them sharing the same faulty gene is compounded and there risk is much greater than the 5to 6 per cent risk."
The above article appeared in the Sydney "Sun Herald" on 28 May, 2006, Pgs 77 & 80 under the heading: "The family ties that bind".
Whilst Millions of Dollars are been spent trying to rectify and dealing with the manifestations of Muslim cultural / perversions /bizarre marriage customs and sexual practices, Australian veterans and pensioners are told they cannot access a bed for a knee or hip replacement or even more urgent life saving surgery for up to two or more years, Australian women have given birth to their babies in Hospital Waiting room toilets and in cleaners cupboards because the FREE Medicare health system is unable to cope with the demand for routine medical services for the most needy.
The culture of Islamic inbreeding is so well established and accepted in Australia that a Queens Council appointed at tax payers expense,to defend a member of a Muslim Gang Rape gang,responsible for what Police believe were up to 100 gang rapes of Australian children, known as the Skaf Brothers, used Muslim inbreeding as a defence for his clients participation in the gang rapes of what Muslims described as “ Aussie Sluts and Pigs” citing his physical deformities due to him been one of eleven children born to a mother married to her cousin at the age of 14 as been the cause of his troubled mind and therefore his background should be taken into consideration when sentencing was considered.
To imply that Australia has been diminished and lessened only by the colonization / immigration of Muslims would be incorrect, there are many other separatist cultural groups that have been established in Australia via the myth / ideology of Multiculturalism.
Despite the Australian Labor Party and their Multiculturalism machines non stop insistence that Australians accept without question any and all behaviours illegal or otherwise of their Islamic and other Colonialist friends and indeed guaranteed Australian Labor Party VOTERS has not broken the Australian spirit, Australians will as long as they have breath in their lungs resist the Australian Labor Party sponsored Islamic Intifada and any other Multicultural group the ALP seeks to use to reduce Australia to a third world crap hole like that their new best friends RAN AWAY from.
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Where is Rahma El-Dennaoui ?

Mum defend laughing about missing daughter

Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, 
ABC
Updated November 6, 2012, 2:21 pm

An inquest has heard a Sydney mother laughed about the disappearance of her infant daughter.

Rahma El-Dennaoui was 20 months old when she was reported missing in November 2005 from her home at Lurnea, in the city's south-west.

Today her mother Alyaa El-Dennaoui took the stand to give evidence for a second time at the coronial inquest examining her daughter's disappearance.

The Glebe Coroner's Court was played a phone conversation from earlier this year in which Mrs El-Dennaoui laughed when her sister joked that a friend might have abducted the girl.

"Am I not allowed to laugh?" Mrs El-Dennaoui told the inquest when asked whether she saw anything wrong with the conversation.

In another intercepted phone call played today the child's father, Hoseyn El-Dennaoui, discussed the search for his daughter's body and was asked whether police would dig up a property.

"Maybe they will, but god knows how many bodies they'll find," he said.

Counsel assisting the coroner, Robert Bromwich SC, suggested the property in question was a farm owned by the family.

Mrs El-Dennaoui broke down as she told the inquest how police had accused them of killing their daughter.

But Deputy State Coroner Sharon Freund said she found it hard to reconcile Mrs El-Dennaoui's emotion with the jokes she had made about the disappearance.

Mrs El-Dennoui has also been questioned about inconsistencies in her evidence.

The inquest heard Mrs El-Dennaoui told police her daughter must have been taken through her bedroom window by someone standing on a cable drum.

Today Mrs El-Dennaoui said she had moved the drum there in the days before the disappearance, but in her previous evidence last April she told the inquest she had not put it there.

Counsel assisting the coroner, Robert Bromwich SC, accused her of giving "two completely different accounts".

Mrs El-Dennaoui replied that she might not have been paying attention last time.

The inquest continues.


Rahma's family's phone calls 'secretly recorded', inquest hears

Peter Bodkin 
The Daily Telegraph
October 23, 2012 12:56PM

POLICE have been secretly recording the phone calls of Rahma El-Dennaoui's family in an attempt to uncover if her disappearance nearly seven years ago was staged to look like an abduction, a coroner was told this morning.

An inquest into the young girl's disappearance and possible death re-started this morning followed several days of hearings in April and May.

Today counsel assisting the coroner Robert Bromwich SC revealed phone calls between Rahma's family members had been intercepted throughout the last court dates - and for at least a month afterwards.

Mr Bromwich said the inquiry would now focus on the theory Rahma's that disappearance had been arranged to look like an abduction had taken place.

The last reported sighting of the 20-month-old girl was at her family's Lurnea home about 2am on November 10, 2005, when her father Hosayn put her to bed next to her two, older sisters.

A hole, large enough for a child to be lifted through, was found cut in the flyscreen above the bed the next morning when her siblings woke to find their sister missing.

Glebe Coroner's Court was this morning played a series of recorded phone calls between the missing girl's aunt Rouba Dennaoui and a family friend.

Speaking in Arabic, the two women discussed rumours Mrs Dennaoui's husband Ahmed - Hosayn El-Dennaoui's brother - "went missing" the night and early morning Rahma disappeared, when he claimed to be at work.

"This will send my husband to the place, behind the sun, do you know what I'm saying?," Mrs Dennaoui told her friend.

The women attributed the claims to another friend Samia El-Nabouche, who today agreed the women were speaking in a "secretive way".

Ms El-Nabouche admitted hearing the rumour about Rahma's uncle, but she denied being the one spreading the story or having discussed the man's absence with Mrs Dennaoui shortly after the disappearance.

"With this case, if something is obviously going to lead to anything - what happened to the girl - obviously it is serious," she said.

"I'm not going to sit there and shut my mouth about it ... because we all have a right to know where this girl's gone."

The inquest continues today.

Missing Tot's Dad joked about Cashing In
AAP
October 24, 2012, 6:53 pm

The father of missing Sydney toddler Rahma El-Dennaoui repeatedly joked about collecting the reward offered for information about the child's disappearance, an inquest has heard.

A secretly-taped telephone conversation between the girl's father, Hosayn El-Dennaoui, and his brother-in-law and cousin, Said Dennaoui, was played in Glebe Coroner's Court on Wednesday.

The 19-month-old was last reported seen at her parents' home in Lurnea, in Sydney's southwest, in the early hours of November 10, 2005.

Police began intercepting relatives' phone calls before an inquest began in April this year and continued until at least June.

Earlier on Wednesday, an aunt of the toddler, Rouba Dennaoui, admitted she referred to the inquest using the phrase "cutting the grass" during phone conversations with Hosayn El-Dennaoui because she "had a feeling" her calls could have been intercepted.

In one call, Hosayn El-Dennaoui is heard talking to his brother-in-law Mr Dennaoui in Arabic about the "150,000, they haven't transferred them to me".

He then suggests that another relative should confess and "we'll collect half the reward money".

Under questioning from counsel assisting the coroner, Peggy Dwyer, Mr Dennaoui admitted this was a reference to the $250,000 reward offered by the NSW government for information about Rahma's disappearance.

Mr Dennaoui said the "jokes" were "very stupid and silly" and that Mr El-Dennaoui was a grieving father.

"He's very upset. He want to know what happened to his own child," he said.

The court heard Mr El-Dennaoui was a strict father who tried to "teach the kids the right way".

But Mr Dennaoui said he had never seen Mr El-Dennaoui lose his temper or demand silence from his many children.

The court also heard that telephone charge sheets showed Mr Dennaoui and his wife Wahede Dennaoui called each other on the night of November 9, 2005, when Mr Dennaoui said he was home and believed his wife to be home.

The court had previously heard from two witnesses, neither of whom can be named for legal reasons, that Wahede Dennaoui had stayed at the El-Dennaoui house until about 2am on November 10, 2005, and that the toddler had been sick with a high fever.

Earlier on Wednesday, Rouba Dennaoui told the court that any suggestion her husband, Ahmed Dennaoui, had gone out for hours on the night of Rahma's disappearance was untrue.

She told counsel assisting the coroner, Robert Bromwich, SC, she was a light sleeper and would have woken if her husband had left the house during the night.

Mr Bromwich told her that by referring in a "secretive" way to the rumour that Ahmed Dennaoui had some involvement in the toddler's disappearance, she appeared concerned "not that it is untrue, but that it's true and you want to suppress it".

The inquest continues before Deputy State Coroner Sharon Freund.


Rahma Witness Grilled over Phone Taps
AAP
Updated October 23, 2012, 5:44 pm

A witness at an inquest into the disappearance of a Sydney toddler has been questioned about taped phone calls in which the role of the little girl's uncle was raised.

Rahma El-Dennaoui was about 20 months-old when she disappeared from her bed in the early hours of November 10, 2005.

She had been sleeping with her sisters in the front room of her family's Lurnea home in Sydney's southwest.

The inquest into her disappearance has previously heard police found large cuts to a flyscreen window in the room, big enough for a toddler to be lifted through.

"The possibility that in fact there was no abduction of Rahma El-Dennaoui at all would be a focus of the inquest," counsel assisting the coroner, Robert Bromwich SC, told Glebe Coroners Court on Tuesday.

Witness Samia El-Nabouche testified that when she last gave evidence to the inquest, in April, she had been aware of a rumour Ahmed Dennaoui, one of Rahma's uncles, took the child.

The court has previously heard evidence Mr Dennaoui was away from home for some or all of the night the toddler disappeared.

Secretly taped telephone conversations revealed Mr Dennaoui's wife, Rouba, was concerned Ms El-Nabouche might repeat the rumour, Mr Bromwich told the court.

"Had you agreed with Rouba that you would, in court, deny knowledge of any such rumour?" he asked Ms El-Nabouche on Tuesday.

"Only because I didn't know anything," Ms El-Nabouche replied.

Under questioning from David Evenden, who represents the missing toddler's father, Hosayn El-Dennaoui, Ms El-Nabouche said she was "scared in case things were going to get bigger".

She also told Coroner Sharon Freund she was "scared in case someone kidnapped my children as well".

Relative "Joked" about missing Rahma
AAP
November 5, 2012, 5:34 pm

A relative of missing Sydney toddler Rahma El-Dennaoui urged the girl's father to tell him if he had "done something" to her so he would know what to say in court, an inquest has heard.

Tamer Dennaoui, a second cousin of Rahma's father Hosayn El-Dennaoui, told him: "If you're hiding something from me and you've done something to this girl, tell me so I know what to say (in the inquest)".

The comments were made during secretly recorded phone calls between Mr El-Dennaoui and his cousin last May that were played in Glebe Coroners Court on Monday.

Rahma disappeared from her home in Lurnea in Sydney's southwest in the early hours of November 10, 2005.

The 20-month-old had been sleeping alongside her sisters in the front of the house, and police found cuts to a flyscreen window above their bed that were big enough for a toddler to be lifted through.

Speaking through an interpreter, Mr Dennaoui said his comments to Mr El-Dennaoui were a "joke" to make him laugh.

"Making him laugh about his missing baby child is a good thing?" Deputy State Coroner Sharon Freund asked.

Mr Dennaoui denied this.

Earlier he told the inquest, "If we don't laugh we would die. We need to laugh."

Counsel assisting the coroner, Robert Bromwich SC, put it to Mr Dennaoui that he was offering to help cover up any possible wrongdoing by Mr El-Dennaoui.

"You seem to be asking him to let you know if he's done something to Rahma and for him to tell you what your evidence should be when you come to court," Mr Bromwich said.

"If he told me anything he had done to his daughter, I would come to court and tell the truth," Mr Dennaoui replied.

He said he knew "100 per cent" that Mr El-Dennaoui had nothing to do with Rahma's disappearance.

"But because of what the media was saying and the police, we had our suspicions," he said.

"We had our doubts and I just wanted to make sure."

Mr Denaoui also told the inquest he was aware that police were at one point "digging up the farms of all the relatives who had farms".

"(That's) because the police have this idea that Hosayn killed his daughter," Mr Dennaoui said.

Mr Dennaoui gave evidence to the inquest in May this year.

The inquest continues on Tuesday.