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Reply #15 - Feb 4th, 2009 at 10:55am
 
Insofar as anything can be saved from itself, it would be remiss of the vigilant among us not, in our own way, to try to save Islam from Islamism - its violent internal momentum... and in doing so save us all, Muslims and non-Muslims alike from Islamic nihilism.... Muslims, apparently, are not able to do it alone.
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Reply #16 - Feb 4th, 2009 at 1:13pm
 
Rudd and Turnbull and O'Bama are all wrong about the priority of jobs. What this country needs is more people like this: 'learned persons' of the mohammedan persuasion 'intensifying their involvement with Islam'.


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Benbrika, 48, came to Australia on a visitor's visa in 1989, fleeing the war in his native Algeria and seeking greater religious freedom.

He obtained permanent residency after marrying an Australian citizen in 1992 and, as he was unemployed, used his spare time to "intensify his involvement with Islam".

"Employment positions were not readily obtainable, so with more idle time Benbrika spent more of each day immersed in religious texts," his lawyer Remy van de Wiel QC said in a submission to the Victorian Supreme Court.

Later, while Benbrika was busy preaching jihad to his followers, he and his family were supported by a disability pension, which he received for stomach problems, and by family support payments for his wife and seven children.

During 482 secretly recorded conversations played to the jury last year in the marathon trial of Benbrika and his followers, the only time he expressed an interest in obtaining work was when he asked about getting a cleaning job for cash payments.

The generous financial support enabled Benbrika, who had worked as an aircraft engineer in Algeria, to become what Mr van de Wiel described as "recognised as a learned person", who was sought after for religious advice as he became a recognised cleric.



Sought after, eh? A role model in his community.



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Reply #17 - Feb 4th, 2009 at 2:16pm
 
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Sought after, eh? A role model in his community.


You know what's even more amusing? He gets a Queens Counsel on the taxpayer dime to represent him for what, a 12 month trial? Few million dollars or so right there.

All of the Religion of Peacers charged with crimes get Legal Aid, because they are on welfare.
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Reply #18 - Feb 4th, 2009 at 2:49pm
 
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You know what's even more amusing? He gets a Queens Counsel on the taxpayer dime to represent him for what, a 12 month trial? Few million dollars or so right there.

All of the Religion of Peacers charged with crimes get Legal Aid, because they are on welfare.


That is one more reason why we prefer our system, as it even supplies true justice, and full representation, to people of all persuasions.

If he tried to promote such treasonous acts in an Islamic country, he would most likely be dead by now.

So as far as paying for his representation, I have no complaints, but anyone that lives on welfare, and just keeps having kids, effectively spongeing off the rest of us, is something I do have reservations about, no matter what religious background they have.

Mind you, the sheer gall of people like benbrika, that openly badmouth our system, yet have no qualms about bludgeing off it, really p1sses me off.
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Reply #19 - Feb 4th, 2009 at 3:39pm
 
I live in Melbourne North Abu, the only gangs I see are Lebo's and Turks. Just how many Muslims are in our jails but a Muslim would never do anything illegal, whould he.
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Reply #20 - Feb 4th, 2009 at 9:12pm
 
Two things about him being a dole bludger. One, he was an aircraft engineer. He should have been able to get a decent job quite easily. The fact that an experienced engineer would look for work for cash in hand, then become a respected member of the Muslim communit while behaving this way, gives me serious doubts about the local Muslim community. What other groups of people make dole bludgers their 'respected leaders? Second, if he was into Jihad, being an aircraft engineer may well have been a better way to do it. It certainly wouldn't have required him to bring in an unknown explosives expert.

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Reply #21 - Feb 4th, 2009 at 10:30pm
 
Calanen,

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All of the Religion of Peacers charged with crimes get Legal Aid, because they are on welfare.


Yeh all Muslims are on welfare aren't they Calanen... Just stay in your only little delusional anti-Islamic fantasy world, don't concern yourself with the reality happening around you.

mozza,

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Mind you, the sheer gall of people like benbrika, that openly badmouth our system, yet have no qualms about bludgeing off it, really p1sses me off.


Agreed mozza, that is just plain wrong. But that's not a Muslim thing, there's plenty of non-Muslims who do that. Islam has special requirements  for Muslims who take up residence in a non-Muslim country, and if Ben Brika were as knowledgable as is claimed, then he would've been aware of them.

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I live in Melbourne North Abu, the only gangs I see are Lebo's and Turks. Just how many Muslims are in our jails but a Muslim would never do anything illegal, whould he.


Certainly not as many as there are Christians in our gaols.

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then become a respected member of the Muslim communit while behaving this way, gives me serious doubts about the local Muslim community.


Self proclaimed respect is generally not as great as it might be made out to be. I personally never even heard of the guy before the trial. And I attend the larger mosques around Melbourne. I think you'll find most Muslims in Melbourne would never have heard of the guy before this incident. He was not imam of a mosque, nor head of any known Islamic organisation, so please stop trrying to make this something it is not. As usual your imagination plays a much larger role in your arguments than your intellect.
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Reply #22 - Feb 6th, 2009 at 3:02pm
 
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Yeh all Muslims are on welfare aren't they Calanen... Just stay in your only little delusional anti-Islamic fantasy world, don't concern yourself with the reality happening around you.


All the ones charged with terror crimes have been.

Every...single...one.

Not one Muslim charged with a terror crime has had a privately paying brief. They are all funded by Legal Aid.
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Reply #23 - Feb 6th, 2009 at 10:22pm
 
What is it about Islam that turns out these mass murderers? I cannot believe that it is pure coincidence that this guy happened to be Muslim. There have been thousands of Australians of various ideologies, both religious and political, that have grievances over something happening to the 'compatriots' overseas. They have protested vigourously. Sometimes they even went to far and the protest turned violent. But now we have a tiny Muslim community in Australia and it all changes and we get people who instead of protesting, decide to blow up a stadium full of people.

It cannot even be that lunatics happen to be attracted to Islam and it gets it's bad name that way. Yes Australia has its share of lunatics, but they don't plot to blow up stadiums or busses.

Likewise, the west has seen plenty of terrorists, but they are usually people who grew up with the violence and learned to hate that way. They were not spoilt dole bludging white boys one the other side of the world to the actual violence who one day decided to slaughter as manny innocent people as possible.

Same story with the London bombers.

What is it about Islam that makes the lunatics get such grand schemes in their heads?
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Reply #24 - Feb 7th, 2009 at 1:27am
 
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What is it about Islam that turns out these mass murderers?


Firstly, they're not mass murderers. You aren't guilty of a crime till you've committed it, not just conspired to commit it.

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I cannot believe that it is pure coincidence that this guy happened to be Muslim.


But it's coincidence that Timothy McVeigh for instance was a Christian, right?

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There have been thousands of Australians of various ideologies, both religious and political, that have grievances over something happening to the 'compatriots' overseas. They have protested vigourously.


You mean like 99.9% of Muslims do?

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Sometimes they even went to far and the protest turned violent.


How about when they firebomb Mosques? This kind of behaviour by "Aussies who were grieved by something that happened overseas" stretches right back to the 1980's, long before 9/11 and Bali.

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It cannot even be that lunatics happen to be attracted to Islam and it gets it's bad name that way. Yes Australia has its share of lunatics, but they don't plot to blow up stadiums or busses.


Nah they just goto major tourist destinations or busy coffee shop strips and open fire with high powered rifles..

Which makes it ok, right?

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Likewise, the west has seen plenty of terrorists, but they are usually people who grew up with the violence and learned to hate that way. They were not spoilt dole bludging white boys one the other side of the world to the actual violence who one day decided to slaughter as manny innocent people as possible.


Ben brika grew up in a country torn by civil war... Hardly a spoilt white dole bludger.

Anyway according to most sources he was a fairly benevolent fellow until the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. As Michael Scheuer has noted, these two invasions caused more Muslims to turn angry and militant than all of Bin Laden's years of trying to recruit people. Bush is the best recruiting agent al-Qaeda ever had.
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Reply #25 - Feb 7th, 2009 at 6:32am
 
abu_rashid wrote on Feb 7th, 2009 at 1:27am:
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What is it about Islam that turns out these mass murderers?



Firstly, they're not mass murderers. You aren't guilty of a crime till you've committed it, not just conspired to commit it.


In the common law, the punishment for attempt and conspiracy to commit a crime, is the same as if it were committed. Just because the cops stop you before you can do something, doesn't mean your punishment should be less for what you fully intended to do.

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I cannot believe that it is pure coincidence that this guy happened to be Muslim.


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But it's coincidence that Timothy McVeigh for instance was a Christian, right?


Yes. Because what Timothy McVeigh was doing had nothing to do with him being a Christian (my dim recollection is that he was not particularly religious). He didnt blow up the Murrah Building, because he said his christian beliefs made him. Muslims, blow up things, and kill people - BECAUSE THEY SAY ISLAM TELLS THEM TOO.

That's the differrence and its a big one.

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There have been thousands of Australians of various ideologies, both religious and political, that have grievances over something happening to the 'compatriots' overseas. They have protested vigourously.


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You mean like 99.9% of Muslims do?


For every soldier in the field, there are 9 other support persons behind him providing money, medical attention and support. And the Islamic community constantly makes excuses for, covers up and sides with people who commit terror.

The Islamic community sympathises with terrorists, and seeks to blame the victims - demonstrating their support. The Islamic community is far more interested in silencing westerners noticing Islamic terror and hate, by calling them racists and islamophobes, than it is in doing anything to stop such people.

The Islamic community never informs on other members of the community who are seeking to recruit terrorists or form cells. They never give evidence against other muslims, because they see terror and jihad as their patriotic duty, and our laws as rubbish.

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Sometimes they even went to far and the protest turned violent.



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How about when they firebomb Mosques? This kind of behaviour by "Aussies who were grieved by something that happened overseas" stretches right back to the 1980's, long before 9/11 and Bali.


Firebomb mosques? That hasnt happened recently, and I know this because - if it had, the Religion of Peacers would all be on the news staging photos by throwing childrens toys into the ashes to sell on Reueters, with crying women and screaming about the need for justice.

On the other hand, Religion of Peacers having been torching and attacking Synagogues all across Europe. But that goes under-reported by Al Ja Reuters.

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Nah they just goto major tourist destinations or busy coffee shop strips and open fire with high powered rifles..


A mentally ill guy, one dude, buys a rifle and kills a whole heap of people. He did not do it because of a religious ideology. He did it because he was nuts and a psychopath.  You have a group, Islam, which does things like Mumbai, coordinated by sane people, because of the religion, and they say its because of the religion.


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Ben brika grew up in a country torn by civil war... Hardly a spoilt white dole bludger.


Boo hoo for him. Things are tough all over. And there was no civil war here. But if people like him keep going, their might be.

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Anyway according to most sources he was a fairly benevolent fellow until the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. As Michael Scheuer has noted, these two invasions caused more Muslims to turn angry and militant than all of Bin Laden's years of trying to recruit people. Bush is the best recruiting agent al-Qaeda ever had.


So the way to protest US foreign policy is to kill innocent people in another country. Way to go their genius. If you are an angry muslim, go join the Taliban and get strafed by A-10s. But attacking civilians in Western countries, is just an act of extreme cowardice by people who should be shot.

The death penalty is too good for people who conspire terror against the Australian state.
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Reply #26 - Feb 7th, 2009 at 7:11am
 
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In the common law, the punishment for attempt and conspiracy to commit a crime, is the same as if it were committed.


But you still call the person a mass murderer. That was all my point was, stop deviating.

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Yes. Because what Timothy McVeigh was doing had nothing to do with him being a Christian (my dim recollection is that he was not particularly religious)


It was a revenge attack for Waco... yeh not religious at all.

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For every soldier in the field, there are 9 other support persons behind him providing money, medical attention and support. And the Islamic community constantly makes excuses for, covers up and sides with people who commit terror


Yeh we know the "all Muslims are guilty by association" argument, please spare us your xenophobic crap.

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if it had, the Religion of Peacers would all be on the news staging photos by throwing childrens toys into the ashes to sell on Reueters, with crying women and screaming about the need for justice.


That's right, when anything happens to Muslims, it's all just staged for sympathy,, when it happens to Westerners, Muslims are the epitome of evil. You've dehumanised your enemy sufficiently... nothing stopping you now is there?

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A mentally ill guy, one dude, buys a rifle and kills a whole heap of people


Go back and read the statement it was in repsonse to, you'll find it's quite relevant. Wouldn't expect you to read anything in context though would we..

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Boo hoo for him. Things are tough all over.


Again, read what it was in response to Calanen, you'll see it's quite relevant.

Is it just me? or did you just quote all my statements you responded to WITH the original statement of freediver's I was responding to.. EXCEPT these last two? Wonder why?

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So the way to protest US foreign policy is to kill innocent people in another country


US foreign policy is 1000 times worse, it's killed far more innocent people... but i forgot they're just dehumanised Muslims to you, so it doesn't count.

Anyway Scheuer didn't say iot justifies it, he just said there's a clear connection and it's pretty damn stupid to deny it and neglect this fact.

Guess it's kind of like your arguments about Israel and Gaza, that Hamas' actions incur the wrath of Israel, so they've got nobody to blame but themselves... Likewise mate.
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Reply #27 - Feb 7th, 2009 at 12:18pm
 
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Guess it's kind of like your arguments about Israel and Gaza, that Hamas' actions incur the wrath of Israel, so they've got nobody to blame but themselves... Likewise mate.


So the victims of terror in Australia, if muslims commit acts of terror in Aus, have no one to blame but themselves?

Wait a sec - this is a Hallmark moment - Abu shows his *real* colours. You thought you saw them before, but, they are really out there now.

And people wonder why anyone would question a muslim's loyalty to Australia. So did you say that the victims of the Bali bombings had no one to blame but themselves?

I bet you did - didn't you?

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Reply #28 - Feb 7th, 2009 at 2:45pm
 
Abu, for such a lengthy response, you did a great job of avoiding the point. Which was, why is it that Islam turns out the mass murderers?

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You mean like 99.9% of Muslims do?


Duh. Nice defelection, but it's the 0.1% that I'm asking about Abu. Why is it that Islam has the 0.1%?

Why is it that Islam seems to combine the rage required to slaughter so many innocent people, with the cool, calculating, controlled, methodical follow through needed to actually pull something like 9/11, or Bali, or the London bombings? Normally, the straight thinking required for such a detailed plan would also give people second thoughts. Is it that Islam provides an alternative motive, other than rage, for mass slaughter? A motive that isn't undermined by otherwise rational thought processes? Is it that Islam somehow makes it rational? You switch between deflecting to the 99.9%, or the actions of the 'evil west'. Does Islam some rationalise things like 9/11, Bali and the London bombings in the same way that western leaders rationalise going to war? Does it make terrorism an inevitable extension of war? Does it make Muslims identify so strongly with people on the other side of the world, and so weakly with the people they interact with every day, that they would slaughter them in cold blood in response to a war on the other side of the world?

Maybe it's because like Abu, so many Muslims automatically deflect away from the actual acts, which leads their less intelligent brethren to conclude that they support terrorism and consider it righteous. Are you seriously incapable of seeing the distinction between islamic terrorism, people like the metnally ill McVeigh McVeigh, and people like George Bush? Can you not distuinguish between a blind rage making something do something stupid, and the careful planning of a terrorist attack? Can you not distinguish the actions of a government in deciding to go to war from the actions of citizen choosing to pointlessly slaughter as many fellow citizens as he can? Because by refusing to acknowledge what you see, or being incapable of seeing it in the first place, you are effectively telling people like Benbrika that they are no worse that George Bush if the blow up a stadium full of people. Perhaps that is what you really think. Perhaps being a Muslim makes you incapable of seeing the difference.

I'm not suggesting this is the answer. It is a genuine question. I am having a go at answering it myself because you seem so intent on avoiding it.
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Reply #29 - Feb 7th, 2009 at 4:18pm
 
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I'm not suggesting this is the answer. It is a genuine question. I am having a go at answering it myself because you seem so intent on avoiding it.


I think you make the same mistake most people make about Islam. They think that because there are only relatively few actual terrorists that the rest of the community has no interest in terror and is on OUR side (yeah right). But it's the tip of the iceberg. In drug cases, there are always informants from inside the drug cartels.

In Islamic terror cases - I have never seen one muslim informant give evidence against the 'terrorists'. Not a single one. What does this tell you? Just coincidence.

Someone is providing enough money to finance an enormous army in the field in Afghanistan. Huge amounts of ammunition, food, medical supplies. That is all coming from somewhere. The amount of money the US needs to keep its military going should be an indication of how much money is being put there.

And jihad has always been a partial obligation for the community. You can participate by providing money, supplies, weapons, and are relieved of your obligation.

The attitude of Islam towards terror indicates to me, that they are cheering from the sidelines (like Abu who blames the Bali bombing victims as having brought it on themselves), some would be contributing money, others turning the blind eye when terror cells are recruiting in mosques. They are certainly not on our side however.
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