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Egypt has signed a 10-year agreement with an Australian firm to help build their first nuclear reactor. What could go wrong? Thursday’s report quotes Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif as saying the 900 million Egyptian pound ($161 million) agreement is a step toward Egypt entering an era of peacefully using ...
Dave at Israellycool has the story of an Australian Holocaust denier now facing charges under Australia’s “racist vilification” laws, after being exposed by Israellycool and Tim Blair. Also see: WA man accused of anti-Jew YouTube posts.
A press release from The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs: Australia has decided not to participate in the Durban Review Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance to be held in Geneva from 20 to 24 April 2009. Australia has taken this decision ...
The Australian Islamic leader who compared women without veils to “uncovered meat,” Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilali, is back in the news—for vandalizing his own mosque and then trying to implicate an innocent man. [Video]
Australia, Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilali, Radical Islam, Mosque, Hate Crime
Why can’t America have political scandals like this?
Recommended: Australian photographer Patrick Boland’s Cockatoo Island Project, pictures from a former imperial prison/reform school that became one of Australia’s biggest shipyards, now lying in ruins. Cockatoo Island is like Peter Pan’s Never Never Land for a photographer who likes industrial and historical decay. (Hat tip: Boing ...
Here’s a slideshow of photos emailed by an Australian reader, showing what was happening in Melbourne today, as Hezbollah supporters and genocide advocates took to the streets. With their children.
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Demonstration, Australia, Melbourne
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