Radical Muslim cleric Abdul Benbrika escapes trial over bomb plot

This is total dereliction of duty to the Australian people. Every failure to not prosecute every suspected Islamic terrorist to the fullest extent of the law is a victory for the Islamic jihad. The refusal to continue prosecution is also a tremendous waste of funds and effort put into building the case and will demoralize the prosecutors and police.

FROM NEWS.COM.AU:

Radical Muslim cleric Abdul Benbrika escapes trial over bomb plot

By Keith Moor
From: Herald Sun
September 21, 2011 12:00AM

'Mother of Satan' bomb plotters can't be prosecuted
Proposed trial "is an abuse of the court's process"
"Outweighs the public interest in trying the accused"

RADICAL Muslim cleric Abdul Benbrika has escaped trial over his plot to bomb Australia and he could walk free from jail in only six years.

One of his co-accused Melbourne terrorists already has been released and the other two are eligible to be freed in November, the Herald Sun reported.

The decision to abandon the case was made despite terror cell members associated with Benbrika ordering or buying all the chemicals and equipment needed to make a "Mother of Satan" bomb capable of killing hundreds.

Police planted many listening devices in the homes of various cell members and secretly recorded 16,418 hours of Benbrika and the Melbourne and Sydney cell members talking during a 16-month inquiry.

They also tapped hundreds of phones and monitored 97,480 calls between Benbrika and Melbourne and Sydney cell members in relation to their alleged plot to commit a terrorist act, which would not be put before a jury.

The police and legal costs associated with trying to get Benbrika and three of his followers to trial on conspiracy to commit a terrorist act charges were at least $20 million.

Algerian-born Benbrika was an illegal immigrant who was ordered out of Australia in 1990, 1994 and again in 1995 before winning an appeal to stay.

Article continues HERE.

Men banned as Muslim women win council backing

Muslims continue to make impose their religion in Australia while the authorities continue to bow down in dhimmitude.

FROM HERALDSUN.COM.AU:

Men banned as Muslim women win council backing

Paul Tatnell
From: Herald Sun
September 16, 2011 12:00AM

MAN bans are spreading as two more council functions are declared off-limits because it is "not appropriate" for men to mix with Muslim women.

And in a surprise twist, VCAT backed the latest bans, declaring there was no discrimination and councils no longer needed to apply for exemptions.

The Darebin City Council ban will be in force for a music concert to be held in December, while another female-only event to mark the end of Ramadan was cancelled last week.

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The council sought the bans because it was "culturally inappropriate for young women to participate in recreational activity with males present".

But Ratepayers Victoria president Jack Davis said the bans were "another case of segregation".

"I think it is totally wrong. I think it's ridiculous and I do think it is discrimination, and it goes against what the average ratepayer wants," Mr Davis said.

"We are seeing more and more of this kind of stuff."

Moreland council recently banned men from a dance event while Monash council put up curtains at a public pool so Muslim women could have privacy during a female-only exercise classes.

Darebin Mayor Diana Asmar said: "The December event is a 10-week workshop series that teaches young women DJ-ing skills. The program culminates in a social event that the young women plan and run themselves."

"Darebin's approach is to always identify barriers to community participation and address them," she said.

Darebin council, with the support of the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, originally asked VCAT for an exemption under the Equal Opportunities act so it could have women-only events.

VCAT ruled the events would not discriminate against anybody and special exemption was not needed.

An Equal Opportunity spokeswoman said the decision meant "organisations do not have to go through a formal VCAT hearing to put in place practices to assist groups to achieve substantive equality".

A spokesman for the Islamic Council of Victoria, Nazeem Hussain, said the Darebin decision was not "controversial or surprising in the slightest".

New Australian Law to Make Muslims Lift Veils

At last, a bit of common sense and refusal to bow down to Islamic demands.

FROM NEWSMAX.COM:

New Australian Law to Make Muslims Lift Veils
Sunday, 10 Jul 2011 08:44 AM

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Muslim women would have to remove veils and show their faces to police on request or risk a prison sentence under proposed new laws in Australia's most populous state that have drawn criticism as culturally insensitive.

A vigorous debate that the proposal has triggered reflects the cultural clashes being ignited by the growing influx of Muslim immigrants and the unease that visible symbols of Islam are causing in predominantly white Christian Australia since 1973 when the government relaxed its immigration policy.

Under the law proposed by the government of New South Wales, a woman who defies police by refusing to remove her face veil could be sentenced to a year in prison and fined 5,500 Australian dollars ($5,900).

The bill — to be voted on by state parliament in August — has been condemned by civil libertarians and many Muslims as an overreaction to a traffic offense case involving a Muslim woman driver in a "niqab," or a veil that reveals only the eyes.

The government says the law would require motorists and criminal suspects to remove any head coverings so that police can identify them.

Article continues HERE.

Sharia already in Sydney, say Muslim leaders

Inch by inch, step by step, Sharia is being insinuated into Australian society. Now we see that Muslims are holding their own "courts" to settle divorce cases.  The problem with that is, the couple are still wed under Australian law.  This can only lead to complications as time goes on and property rights and child custody issues arise. 

Allowing Muslims to hold their own "legal system" denigrates Australian sovereignty.  No Western nation can allow there top be more than one set of law for all citizens.

FROM NEWS.COM.AU:
Sharia already in Sydney, say Muslim leaders

    * By Gemma Jones
    * From: The Daily Telegraph
    * May 18, 2011 12:00AM

SHARIA is already being practised in western Sydney, with hundreds of religious divorces granted by imams.

Government says no to sharia law

The Attorney-General has offered an emphatic no to requests for the introduction of sharia law in Australia.
The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils has asked a Federal Government inquiry into multiculturalism to permit sharia, especially in divorce cases.

But a sheik and Muslim leaders yesterday said sharia was already being used to end hundreds of marriages a year. Sharia is also being used by imams in cases of business disputes and neighbourhood fights.

The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils also asked the Government to fund halal and kosher meat outlets and even Muslim schools and for state schools to have special sports uniforms for female Muslim students.

"If the Government and politicians cannot recognise this as essential, it should no longer accuse the Australian Muslim community of intentionally living in enclaves," the submission said.

Sheik Moussaab Legha, from the Islamic Welfare Centre in Lakemba, in Sydney's west, said panels of imams oversaw hundreds of sharia divorces at a mosque in the city.

They first try to persuade the couple to stay married, Sheik Legha said.

If a woman pursues a divorce in the Family Court but is not religiously divorced under sharia, the Muslim community and countries with sharia still see her as married.

Sheik Legha said people who are divorced under sharia by imams at the Greenacre mosque receive a certificate. "It is after the Family Court. The religious way needs to be finalised," he said.

"Most of the time it is like a normal courtroom. You have the imams on one table, you have the family of the woman, you listen to both [sides], to the problems."

University of Technology Sydney academic Jamila Hussain said religious divorces were carried out at two mosques because for some women a Family Court divorce is not enough.

"Religious divorces are basically for women whose husbands can't be found or they refuse to divorce them," she said.

"There is just no way they can get a divorce unless they can get a religious divorce."

Muslim community advocate Keysar Trad has witnessed a sharia divorce in Sydney but he said sharia law was also being used to settle workplace and neighbourhood disputes.

"Really, anything that does not have a criminal element," Mr Trad said of the use of sharia law by Sydney imams.

Firebrand sheikh is back preaching

This is what you get when you import Islam:  Intolerance, threats of death and a violent puritanical view of women.

The more Muslims, the more intolerance.

The most dangerous aspect of the Islamic invasion is Western governments belief that Islam as a moderate and peaceful "religion".  Until such time as Western governments wake up to the invasion, Islam will continue to infiltrate and subvert.

FROM SMH.COM.AU:

Firebrand sheikh is back preaching
Jim O'Rourke
September 5, 2010

The Sydney-born Islamic cleric who called for the beheading of a Dutch anti-Muslim MP has been back in Australia for several months and preaching at an Islamic centre in Campbelltown in Sydney's south-west.

In a speech on his website, Sheikh Feiz Mohammad described Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom, as ''this Satan, this devil, this politician in Holland'' and said his head should be chopped off for denigrating Islam. Sheikh Feiz Mohammad gained notoriety for a speech in Bankstown in 2005 when he said a rape victim had no one to blame but herself for wearing ''satanic skirts''.

An Islamic news website, MuslimVillage.com, reported yesterday the cleric gave the Friday Prayer sermon at the Campbelltown centre last week.

Mr Wilders has called Islamic culture ''retarded and violent''.

Taxi driver rapist jailed for nine years

Here's a typical Muslim reaction to a conviction.  The perp is never guilty, it's all someone else's fault, it's all lies.  The only problem with this sentence is that it wasn't 13 years for EACH of three rapes.  

Ths good thing here is that the colurt did not accomidate the Muslim demands that the perp was innocent.

FROM AU.NEWS.YAHOO.COM:

Taxi driver rapist jailed for nine years

By Stephanie Gardiner
AAP June 23, 2010, 6:15 pm

Taxi driver Hassan Nagi's rape victims may have found some comfort in his jailing.

But when the moment arrived, the family of the HIV-positive sexual predator hurled abuse at the young women, calling them liars and protesting his innocence.

After Judge James Bennett sentenced the 39-year-old to at least nine years, five months and three days jail for the rape of three female passengers, his elderly mother began yelling at the victims.

And his brother shouted: "It wasn't my brother who dumped her on the street."

Nagi, who pleaded guilty to six counts of sexual intercourse without consent, stood in the dock holding a family photo.

Judge Bennett sentenced him to a maximum 13 years, 10 months and 24 days behind bars for the attacks on the women aged 31, 23 and 27 in 2003, 2006 and 2007.

He said a claim by the defence that Nagi showed signs of "Don Juanism", a psychiatric problem said to be a form of sexual addiction, did not justify his behaviour.

"The offender embarked upon what one might see to be predatory behaviour in the pursuit of sexual gratification at the expense of, and in disregard of, his victims," the judge told Downing Centre District Court on Wednesday.

The court heard during the first attack in July 2003, Nagi picked up the woman from Kings Cross after she had spent the night drinking with friends.

He drove for some time before getting into the back of the taxi with her, unzipping his fly, saying, "You want this, you know you want this", and raping her.

In the second attack in 2006, he picked up another woman in Kings Cross and put his hand underneath her skirt.

When she tried to escape, Nagi said, "Come on baby, you're making me so horny", before raping her and offering her money.

In 2007, the third victim got into his taxi and he took her to an industrial area, where he forced her to perform oral sex and raped her.

Judge Bennett said Nagi had occupied a position of trust as a taxi driver and in the first two attacks he "took advantage of intoxication to pursue his sexual gratification ... at their expense".

In their victim impact statements, all three women described their emotional anguish, each having suffered broken relationships with their partners after the rapes.

Nagi's sentencing had been delayed for over a year while he attempted to challenge the lifting of a non-publication order on his HIV-positive status.

His challenge was rejected by the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal last year and the High Court recently refused to hear his application.

Judge Bennett said his condition could not be considered an aggravating feature of the offences because there was no direct evidence he knew about it or was infected at the time of the attacks.

A positive test result was returned in 2009 after he had pleaded guilty and the victims were then informed.

Outside court, Nagi's mother continued defending her son.

"My son's innocent, my son's very healthy," she yelled.
With time already served, Nagi will be eligible for parole in October 2018.

Cab rapist asks court for mercy

FROM ABC.NET.AU:

Cab rapist asks court for mercy

By Candice Marcus

Updated May 14, 2010 00:19:00

Hajy Baba Rahmanian was found guilty of rape. (ABC News: Tim Ide)

video: TAXI RAPIST PLEADS FOR MERCY
 
A taxi driver who raped a teenager after she passed out on his back seat has asked for mercy in Adelaide's District Court.

Hajy Baba Rahmanian, 60, was found guilty of rape by a jury and is awaiting sentence after losing an appeal against his conviction.

The court heard that in June 2006 the 19-year-old victim got into Rahmanian's taxi after a party at North Adelaide.

Her friends rode with her to Hindley Street in the city where they got out to continue celebrations and told the taxi driver to take the victim home because she had been passing out and was severely intoxicated.

The Court of Criminal Appeal judgment said a GPS tracking system in the taxi showed Rahmanian travelled towards the victim's house in Adelaide's southern suburbs but then veered off course.

He took her to his own house at Dover Gardens and had sexual intercourse with the unconscious teenager.

The victim remembers nothing of what happened, except for waking up some hours later with some clothing removed.

It was not until months after the rape that police tracked Rahmanian down, when he went to the victim's house and left a jar of honey on her doorstop, then tried to call her.
 
This is typical Muslim behavior to expect an infidel victim of rape to then want to have a "relationship" with him, and marry.  This outrageous behavior is so ingrained into Muslim society that they expect the inferior infidel to be grateful.


In sentencing submissions, Rahmanian's lawyer Grant Algie urged mercy, saying the crime was odd and at the lower end of the scale.

He said the Iranian immigrant did not fully appreciate the severity of the crime under Australian law.


A typical Muslim excuse.  Under Sharia law, Muslims are not punished for raping non-Muslims.  But so what, there are some things that are more basic and universal than the barbaric practices of the Religion of Perverts.

"There is a very reasonable possibility that given his cultural background and limited insight into laws and sexual behaviour, he didn't realise that having intercourse with somebody who is unconscious and therefore not consenting is a very serious crime," Mr Algie told the court.

"Mercy, in my submission, could and should have a significant role to play in Your Honour's sentencing.

"He is extremely remorseful about the current situation concerning the impact on his family."
 
Right, more concerned for his raping miserable self rather than the victim of his filthy attack.

Prosecutor Chris Edge said Rahmanian abused his position of trust and the crime warranted a significant prison sentence to deter other taxi drivers from such crimes.

"The public should be able to trust taxi drivers to take them or their friends home safely," he argued.

"It's not uncommon for intoxicated people, including lone females, to rely on taxi drivers to take them home."

Mr Algie said Rahmanian was from an educated family and had worked for the Iranian government on a cure for cholera before he was the target of torture and religious persecution when Iran changed leaders.

The prosecutor asked that Rahmanian be taken into custody immediately, but Mr Algie said the judge should carefully consider a suspended jail sentence.

Rahmanian was remanded on continuing bail ahead of sentencing next month.

Penalties are harsh, Muslim elders say

What a load of crap.  ''The penalties, while they are warranted, they seem really harsh,''  Well, that's what happens when you accept the hospitality of a country and then try to destroy it.  The unmitigated ingratitude of Australia's Muslim immigrants is without equal. 

As to the long jail terms radicalizing more young Muslims, the Koran and Islam are all that are necessary to create more murderous Jihadi.  For that matter, the Koran and Mohammed are the source of all the murders and invasions by Islam.  Jailing Jihadi simply eliminates more Jihadi.

Muslims are ''angry and frustrated''  Well good, maybe they'll get the message that they are not welcome to invade and conquer the very nations that welcome them.

FROM THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD:

Penalties are harsh, Muslim elders say
JACQUELINE MALEY, RICK FENELEY AND MALCOLM BROWN
February 17, 2010

SYDNEY

Muslims are ''angry and frustrated'' at the severity of the sentences meted out to five men convicted of terrorism offences, say community elders who worry that the strict penalties will serve to radicalise more young Islamic men.
''The penalties, while they are warranted, they seem really harsh,'' said the president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, Ikebal Patel. ''There is a real possibility that this might alienate some members of the Muslim community … there's a lot of frustration and anger.''

On Monday Justice Anthony Whealy of the Supreme Court sentenced the five men from Sydney's west to jail terms of up to to 28 years.
Justice Whealy admitted there was insufficient evidence the men intended to kill, comments seized upon by Keysar Trad, chairman of the Islamic Friendship Association of Australia.

''Even if they had talked about things like this,'' Mr Trad said, ''it is very likely that there would have been a very large number of points along the way where they would have reconsidered because they didn't want to kill anybody.''
Mr Trad added: ''It seems our standard has changed from proving a crime beyond reasonable doubt to the possibility that they might have intended to commit a crime.''
But what of the stockpile of weapons, ammunition and potential explosives?

'That doesn't translate into a wilful intent to commit an act of terrorism,'' he said.

Sheikh Khalil Chami of the Islamic Welfare Centre in Lakemba regularly visited the convicted terrorist conspirators, who range in age from 25 to 44, in jail. He is certain they were radicalised in Sydney.

Uni draws more fire over Saudi cash

English language students Fahad al-Amer, Muna el Herbi and Manahel al-Sudais from Saudi Arabi. Picture: Patrick Hamilton

The Saudi Wahhabi attempts to infiltrate universities around the world and install Muslin centers goes on pretty much un-challenged. However there is a bit of good news from Australia where Judge Wall is calling out Griffith University for becoming a hotbed of Wahhabi radicalism and a stooge of the Saudis. The Wahhabis tactic of donating huge sums of money in order to place anti-western Muslim centers on college campuses is another means of attacking the West. In the long term, this tactic may be one of the more insidious as it grooms students to accept Islamic practices as "normal" and so reduces resistance to the Islamification of the West.

FROM THE AUSTRALIAN.NEWS.COM:

Uni draws more fire over Saudi cash

GRIFFITH University's attempts to justify accepting large donations from the Saudi Government by citing similar arrangements at Oxford and Harvard have been undermined by revelations British and American authorities have begun examining the growing influence of Muslim benefactors on tertiary institutions.

Britain's MI5 director-general, Jonathan Evans, reportedly told the Brown Government this month that the Saudi Government's multi-million-dollar donations to universities, along with other funds from Muslim organisations in countries such as Pakistan, had led to a "dangerous increase in the spread ofextremism in leading university campuses".
The warning came just days after the Higher Education Funding Council for England held a special meeting to confront fears Saudi donations were unduly influencing universities.
And the US Congress is also examining Saudi donations to American colleges.
Security expert Anthony Bergin, from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, yesterday warned Australian universities against diving for foreign handouts without properly considering the donor's motives.
"I'd put a fair amount of weight on the statement of the head of the MI5 that they're concerned about what degree of influence this sort of funding poses," he told The Australian.
"And I think, frankly, it would be naive to think that the (Saudis) would not want something in return for their donation. It would be a bit odd if they gave the money and said, 'Our first project is looking at human rights in downtown Riyadh'."
Dr Bergin said local national security agencies were closely monitoring foreign funds being channelled into Australian universities: "Of course, they're focused on these things."
As reported in The Australian yesterday, Griffith vice-chancellor Ian O'Connor has defended a $100,000 Saudi embassy grant received by his university's Islamic Research Unit, saying it was similar to donations received by Georgetown and Harvard in the US and Britain's Oxford.
His defence followed revelations that Griffith pleaded for a $1.37million fund from the Saudi embassy - of which it received only $100,000 - and offered the ambassador a chance to "discuss ways" in which the money could be used.
Professor O'Connor faced further criticism yesterday from a trio of long-time ABC religion journalists and commentators - Rachael Kohn, John Cleary and Stephen Crittenden - who said he had confused the Christian doctrine of Unitarianism with the Islamic sects of Wahhabism and Salafism in an opinion article published in The Australian. Professor O'Connor wrote: "Unitarianism is also known by its critics as Salafism or Wahhabism, after an 18th-century Islamic scholar Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab."
The ABC commentators responded by saying: "Ian O'Connor's equation of Wahhabism and Salafism with Unitarianism is utter nonsense.
"Unitarianism emerged as a liberal Christian movement and gained ground in the early
years of American democracy."
And in an interview with The Australian this week, Queensland District Court judge Clive Wall likened Griffith to Pakistani "madrassas" - renowned for producing extremists - and accused the university of becoming an "agent" through which the Saudi Government would promote radical Islam.
It is understood that Griffith has since invited Judge Wall tovisit the university's Islamic centre and meet its director, Mohamad Abdalla.

Judge Wall - who was appointed to the District Court in 1996 - has accused Griffith of becoming a Saudi stooge.

Muslims want uni classes to fit prayer times

More demands. The tactic is to continue tom pepper society with more and more demands till they get their way little by little, if for no other reason than to quiet them down. Eventually, in the face of whatever are the outrageous demands of the moment, those older demands will seem mild and will be acceded to.

The counter tactic to this is to never give in to any Muslim demand that is not guaranteed by the constitution. So far La Trobe University International has refused to grant any of the special accommodations demanded by Muslim students.

FROM NEWS.COM.AU:

Muslims want uni classes to fit prayer times
By Richard Kerbaj and Milanda Rout
February 25, 2008 03:50am

MUSLIM university students want lectures to be rescheduledto fit in with prayer timetables and separate male and female eating and recreational areas established on Australian campuses.
International Muslim students, predominantly from Saudi Arabia, have asked universities in Melbourne to change class times so they can attend congregational prayers. They also want a female-only area for Muslim students to eat and relax.

But at least one institution has rejected their demands, arguing that the university is secular and it does not want to set a precedent for requests granted in the name of religious beliefs.

La Trobe University International chief executive director John Molony said several students had approached the Bundoora institution about rearranging class times to fit in with daily prayers.

Mr Molony said the university was attempting to "meet the needs" of an increasing number of Muslim international students, including doubling the size of the prayer room on campus.

La Trobe University International College director Martin Van Run said that although it was involved in discussions with the Muslim students who had made the requests, the university was not planning to change any timetables.

"That would seriously inconvenience other people at the college and it is not institutionally viable," he told The Australian.
"We are a secular institution ... and we need to have a structured timetable."
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This is interesting. A female convert to Islam slurs the victims of the Bali bombings, but won't show her face. The photo above is labeled as being Trabiah Hutchinson, but who can prove it? I say its a man in drag.
FROM SMH.COM.AU:

Muslim convert slurs Bali victims
Tom Allard National Security Editor
February 5, 2008
RABIAH HUTCHINSON, the Mudgee-born grandmother accused of being the "grand dame" of extremist jihadis in Australia, says she has limited sympathy for the victims of the Bali bombings because those holidaying on the Indonesian island engaged in pedophilia and drug taking.
And her close friend, Raisah bint Alan Douglas, another Australian convert to radical Islam who also married a suspected terrorist supporter, has praised Osama bin Laden, saying he followed a "correct" version of Islam.
The women are featured in a documentary to be aired on ABC television tonight, Jihad Sheilas.
Ms Hutchinson is a former hippie who converted to Islam in Indonesia in 1973. Ms Douglas also hails from country NSW, Dubbo, and has been married five times to Muslim men, including her current husband Omar Abdi Mohamed, a suspected terrorist financier who was deported from the US.
Ms Hutchinson was schooled by the leaders of Jemaah Islamiah, Abdullar Sungkar and Abu Bakar Bashir, at one time marrying the head of JI's Australian wing in the 1990s.
"I have the greatest respect for them," she said of the two men, adding she believed Abu Bakar Bashir was not involved in the Bali attacks which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
"Do I feel for the people who died? Not as much as for those 200 Afghani people that gave me and my children shelter," she said. "Why? Because they were holidaying in someone's country, sometimes engaging in child pornography or pedophilia or drug taking."
The 200 Afghans Ms Hutchinson referred to were villagers who she said were massacred by US-led forces following the September 11, 2001, attacks because they refused to give her up to the authorities.
Ms Hutchinson had taken her six children to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to experience a pure Islamic state.
While Ms Hutchinson wants to leave the country but cannot, Ms Douglas retains her passport and normally lives in Kenya with her fifth husband.
Ms Douglas spoke openly of her admiration for bin Laden. He followed the "correct" and "undiluted" version of Islam, she said. "It's not a bad thing for Islam, what Osama bin Laden has said. I believe that he has woken a lot of Muslims up to the oppression they were under but didn't realise it."
Both women, according to Ms Hutchinson's solicitor, are furious about the documentary, believing they were misled into taking part.

AUSTRALIA faces a "London-type bombing"

So now the Islamists are threatening Australia with "London-type bombing. Seems like the Jihadi are stuck on mindless violence to get their ends.
FROM THE AUSTRALIAN.NEWS.AU:
Australia risks 'London-type bombing
John Lyons | October 29, 2007
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.

(...)
"I think we are very similar to London," he said. "There are these individuals from overseas who are basically in their mid-life who have these ideologies and because of the animosity they have experienced in their own countries have deep hatred of the Western world. It's very easy to tap into the mind of someone who has a low education level, unemployment and who has basically given up on life.
"The right ingredients are there. We need to do something or what happened in London, a London-type bombing, will happen here."
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Muslim immigration likened to bird flu

Now heres a politician who gets it.
FROM NEWS.COM.AU
Muslim immigration likened to bird flu
By Nick Ralston
August 23, 2007 03:12pm
A NSW Senate candidate has compared the immigration of Muslims to Australia to the bird flu and says it should stop.
Christian Democratic Party (CDP) Senate candidate Paul Green called today for a moratorium on Muslim immigration while a study on its social impacts was carried out.
He said it would be easier to carry out such a study with the country's Muslim population at 300,000, rather than three million at a later date.
A study would also give the Australian people a chance to have a say on the immigration program, Mr Green said.
He said that in the last 12 months, a number of local Muslim senior clerics had made statements that were not of "the Australian nature".
"If there was bird flu coming from a people's group across the nation would we not halt, assess the risk management of what it means to Australia and then assess the factors and then say, is it not safe to continue that or withhold it until it is dealt with," he said.
"We are saying there's cracks in the foundation, we need to address them."
Mr Green said Australia would suffer the same fate as "Britain, France and Holland" unless the study was carried out.
However, he said the social impact study would not form part of any political deal done with the Liberal Party for preference swapping ahead of this year's federal election.
Christian Democrats leader Fred Nile said his party's immigration policy also called on a priority for Christians who have been persecuted, particularly in Muslim countries, to be allowed into Australia.
"It's a very broad policy, and it is certainly not racist," Mr Nile said.
"We don't care where the people come from, what colour of the skin they are, we are happy to accept them, particularly the Christians who have been persecuted."
Mr Nile said he believed the Federal Government was already starting to adopt some of the CDP policies.