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A store employee in Australia has gotten in trouble for wearing a kaffiyeh: Keffiyeh kerfuffle hits Bondi bottleshop. More overreacting right-wingers, seeing terrorist symbols where they don’t exist? No; this time a Palestinian customer complained because she was wearing it for fashion reasons, rather than as a political statement. ...
Australia, dunkin donuts, Symbology, Intifada, Terrorism, Palestinians, Kaffiyeh, LGF
At the invitation of the Australian government: Muslim scholar (Tariq Ramadan) to address Qld conference. A controversial Muslim scholar who was denied access to the US over alleged links to terrorist networks is to give a lecture at a Queensland government-sponsored conference. Professor Tariq Ramadan will be introduced by ...
The United States isn’t the only country plagued with delusional moonbat attorneys: Jury asked to consider ‘America’s evil’. THE jury in Australia’s largest terrorism case has been asked to consider the “evil” America has done, as a court judges 12 Melbourne men accused of plotting to commit “violent jihad”. ...
In Australia, Muslim students from Saudi Arabia want universities to reschedule lectures to fit in with prayer times, and establish separate areas for females: Muslims want unis to fit prayer time. It isn’t going over well with the Aussies. MUSLIM university students want lectures to be rescheduled to fit ...
LGF, Australia, Islam, Saudi Arabia, Sharia, Islamic Supremacism
Coming soon to a transnational progressive agenda near you: Baby tax needed to save planet, claims expert. A WEST Australian medical expert wants families to pay a $5000-plus “baby levy” at birth and an annual carbon tax of up to $800 a child. Writing in today’s Medical Journal of ...
LGF, Australia, Global Warming, Climate Change, Carbon Footprint
Inmates studying al-Qaeda manual. ISLAMIC extremists are using an al-Qaeda training manual to give them instructions for taking over the state’s toughest jails, prison authorities have alleged. Up to 40 inmates had established an internal organisational structure to maintain morale, resist interrogation and recruit members to Islam. The prisoners ...
LGF, Australia, Islam, Militant Islam, Radical Islam, Prison
Mark Steyn pays tribute to departing Australian prime minister John Howard: A loss for civilisation. ACCORDING to my Oz-watching pals in Britain and the US, John Howard is not a failure but a victim of his own success. He made Australia safe for the Labor Party: or, at any ...
The New York Times can barely contain their joy at the electoral defeat of John Howard in Australia: Bush Ally Defeated in Australia. SYDNEY, Australia, Nov. 24 — Australia’s prime minister, John Howard, one of President Bush’s staunchest allies in Asia, suffered a comprehensive defeat at the hands of ...
Australians are voting. Here’s the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s coverage: 2007 Federal Election. Andrew Bolt says, “Whoever wins, the left loses.”
John Howard deserves to win tomorrow in Australia’s elections, but the polls say he isn’t going to. We can only hope the polls are wrong.
The leader of one of Syndey’s largest Islamic youth centers is warning Australia that Muslims are going to attack if relations do not improve. AUSTRALIA faces a “London-type bombing” if relations between Muslims and the intelligence and police authorities do not improve, an influential Islamic youth leader has warned. ...
Australia is waking up to the danger of Hizb ut-Tahrir, as a leader of the radical Islamic supremacist group drops the mask: Islamist ‘leader’ wants revolution. THE mysterious sheik behind the Australian chapter of Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir has revealed the organisation’s support for military coups and revolutions to ...
LGF, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Islamic Supremacism, Australia, Radical Islam
The University of Western Sydney’s Director of Equity and Diversity is calling for halal food and Islamic prayer rooms at all Australian universities. HALAL food and prayer rooms should be adopted at all universities to help Muslim students meet their religious and educational obligations, a conference heard yesterday. The ...
President Bush is visiting Australia tomorrow, and Aussie peace/anarchy groups are planning violent demonstrations. MILITANT APEC protesters are secretly plotting an outbreak of violence for US President George W. Bush’s arrival in Sydney tomorrow, distributing a rioter’s training manual on how to wear gas masks, confront police and even ...
LGF, Australia, Anti-war, Anarchists, Progressives, Moonbats, President Bush
Australian Christians are offended, but not murderously so, about a statue of the Virgin Mary in a burqa and an image of Jesus Christ that morphs into Osama bin Laden. The Anglican bishop of South Sydney, Robert Forsyth, said he was surprised by offended reactions to the artwork. ...
LGF, Australia, Art, Christianity, Islam
Australian Christians poured out of churches across the country, smashing store windows and setting fire to cars, chanting “Death to the Blake Society!” after an art competition included images of the Virgin Mary in a burqa, and Osama bin Laden morphing into Jesus Christ. Oh, wait. No they didn’t. CONTROVERSY ...
LGF, Australia, Art, Christianity, Islam
Got one in Brisbane: BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - An Australian television network reports that a suspect wanted in the British terrorism plot has been arrested in the eastern city of Brisbane. (Hat tip: Thanos.) UPDATE at 7/2/07 5:35:27 pm: He’s a doctor, of course. Aussie doctor held over terror ...
LGF, London, Car Bomb, Radical Islam, Islamic Terrorism, Glasgow, Australia
Names are being named in Australia, in the wake of the attacks in the UK, and the realization that there’s a serious problem with militant Islam down under as well: Hardline Muslim clerics in Australia named. A NUMBER of Australian Muslim clerics have been identified as key hardliners who are ...
One of the four Australian Muslims arrested in Lebanon may actually be a leader of the Syria-linked Fatah al-Islam terror group. A FORMER Sydney taxi driver detained in Lebanon on suspicion of having links to terrorists has been identified as a possible leader of the al-Qa’ida-linked outfit, Fatah al-Islam. A ...
LGF, Australia, Radical Islam, Salafi, Lebanon, Fatah al-Islam
As we noted yesterday, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced an attack piece on internet commenters recently, singling out Tim Blair’s blog and several Australian newspaper web sites for special attention. Tim’s reply is a must-read. Now the Daily Telegraph fights back too, taking a look at some of the sick ...
LGF, Australia, Radical Islam, Internet, Blogosphere, Comments
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced an attack piece last week on internet commenters and singled out Tim Blair’s blog for special criticism, cherry picking through comments to find the most extreme, then presenting them as representative of the entire blog. Sound familiar? In this case, the ABC had help ...
LGF, Australia, Radical Islam, Internet, Blogosphere, Comments
On Friday we noted that the leader of Australia’s Shi’ite community had proudly expressed his support for Hizballah, officially designated as a terrorist entity by the Australian government. Today The Australian reports that it’s not just the 30,000 Shi’ites who openly support Hizballah—it’s all Australian Muslims, Sunnis included: Aussie Muslims ...
LGF, Australia, Radical Islam, Kamal Mousselmani, Sheik Mousselmani, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hezbollah
Australia’s most senior Shia Muslim cleric, the head of the Supreme Islamic Shia Council of Australia, has openly declared his support for Hizballah—and he says every one of Australia’s 30,000 Shia Muslims agrees with him: I support Hezbollah: Aussie cleric. Kamal Mousselmani — head of the Supreme Islamic Shia Council ...
LGF, Australia, Radical Islam, Kamal Mousselmani, Sheik Mousselmani, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hezbollah
Apparently, when Iran captured those British sailors it wasn’t their first attempt; they went for an Australian Navy boarding team first: Iran ‘unable to take Australians’. Iranian naval forces in the Gulf tried to capture an Australian Navy boarding team but were vigorously repelled, the BBC has learned. The incident ...