Australian model Michelle Leslie, imprisoned in Bali on drug charges, was roundly criticized for showing up in Islamic dress. But her experience is a glimpse into what it’s like for women under Islam if they make one wrong move, and why they consent to wear restrictive clothing like the burqa: ...
Australian authorities see nothing particularly dangerous about virulent Islamic jihad literature being sold openly in Muslim communities: Police alarm on hate books. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BOOKS of hate promoting suicide bombings, anti-Australian conspiracies and racism can be freely sold in the Muslim community after a ruling that they don’t breach ...
Australian Islamic leaders are rebelling against the recent executive committee elections held by the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, and demanding a board that is “sharia-compliant:” Muslim groups lash new peak council. (Hat tip: raffi.) ISLAMIC leaders have labelled the nation’s peak Muslim body a “dictatorship” and threatened to break up ...
Australia, Islam, Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, Shari'a
Australia’s highest Catholic priest, the Archbishop of Sydney, wants us all to read the Koran and judge for ourselves how peaceful Mohammed’s message is: Pell challenges Islam - o ye, of little tolerant faith. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, said reading the Koran, the sacred ...
I’d chop up PM, claims ‘terrorist’. AUSTRALIA&rsqu o;S most wanted terror suspect, Saleh Jamal, has pledged loyalty to Osama bin Laden and threatened to “chop up” John Howard as Lebanese authorities prepare to deport him as early as May 8. Jamal’s firebrand comments come before his imminent rearrest by Australian police, who ...
The Sydney Morning Herald has an unusually frank piece on the efforts of Islamic supremacist group Hizb ut-Tahrir (lgf: search) to infiltrate and radicalize the Australian Islamic community, by Miranda Devine: Wolves in sheep’s clothing on an extremist Islamic mission. There is a new wave of sophisticated, articulate Islamic fundamentalists trying ...
Two Pakistani Muslims convicted in a series of horrific gang rapes in Sydney will be spending a bit more time in jail, after more rapes were discovered: Increased terms for gang rapists. (Hat tip: Terp Mole.) TWO convicted gang rapists have had their jail terms increased with fresh sentences over a ...
Who could have foreseen that the clash of civilizations would be fought with line drawings? Cartoon in poor taste: Indonesia. INDONESIA today described as “tasteless” a caricature in The Weekend Australian newspaper depicting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as a dog. The publication of the cartoon followed a similar drawing in an Indonesian ...
Arrests ‘disrupt terror group’. (Hat tip: Aussiemagpie.) THE arrest of three men in Melbourne had significantly disrupted the activities of a terrorist group allegedly plotting an attack in Australia, police said. ... A 21-year-old Coburg man, a 25-year-old from Brunswick and a 26-year-old from Hadfield arrested last night are believed to be ...
Here’s a great piece at Australia’s Herald Sun by Andrew Bolt, on that self-loathing icon of the idiotarian left, Robert Fisk ... appropriately titled: Are they all mad? (Hat tip: Simon.) Many of Tony Blair’s former comrades defend not democracy but mass-murdering fascists and head-lopping Islamists. Yes, Tony Blair did sound good ...
An Australian woman who converted to Islam has been charged with plotting to bomb Sydney. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) A woman charged at the weekend with plotting to bomb Sydney was a convert to Islam who planned the attack at the behest of a jailed murderer angered over anti-Muslim race riots ...