Ozlam: What Man? What Booth?

Pay no attention to the man in the booth. I am the Great Oz!

Aren't we lucky? "We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful minister of Oz. For the cause, the cause, the cause, the cause...."

Compare the number of mutilated Australians and the number of relatives who picked up family body parts from the aeroport due to the bombing at Bali to the number of Australians who'd remember the incident if you reminded them.

Ask the average Australian how he feels about the "religion of peace" adherents and their persecution of the Christian minister and deacon on charges of vilifying Islam in Queensland. Or, dare we ask, was it closer to home? It wasn't in Tas? No?

Oh, never mind. Long ago, far away. Not to worry. The prime minister is going to have tea with the Mossie lads and get them to sort it out fair dinkum, all this enthusiasm and what have you. All is well down under. Right, mate? ***

Summit leader's 9/11 'plot' theory
Trudy Harris
23 aug 05

ONE of the Islamic leaders meeting John Howard today suspects September 11 was a conspiracy and asks "why did 4000 Jews not show up for work" on the day of the attacks?

Abdul (Ray) Rahman Deen also says there were no black box flight recorders found in the wreckage of the World Trade Centre after hijacked planes were flown into the twin towers, killing thousands.

Mr Deen, who is a development officer for the Liberal Party, says it was therefore wrong to blame any group for September 11 "without full facts and evidence".

The comments are contained in a letter sent recently to the nine core members of the peak Muslim body, Australian Federation of Islamic Councils.

Mr Deen, whose family operates a demolition company in Queensland, issued a statement saying the comments were views expressed in the community about conspiracy theories, rather than his own.

Mr Howard said he was pleased Mr Deen had clarified the comments, but AFIC president Ameer Ali, who received the letter, disagreed with Mr Deen saying the comments in the letter were clearly Mr Deen's personal views.

"There are many people who believe this in the community. This a problem and one that we need to confront," Dr Ali said.

His comments are a severe blow to the 13 Muslim leaders arriving in Canberra for today's summit with the Prime Minister.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au
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What is going on in Australia? Are they crazy? Yes, and so is most of the world. So, what is to be done? Maybe we should just give the Muslims what they want and get it over with so we can bury the dead and move on with our lives. But then there's Hitchens.
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8 July 2005

WE CANNOT SURRENDER

States which shelter these killers will know no peace

By Christopher Hitchens

We know very well what the "grievances" of the jihadists are.

The grievance of seeing unveiled women. The grievance of the existence, not of the State of Israel, but of the Jewish people. The grievance of the heresy of democracy, which impedes the imposition of sharia law. The grievance of a work of fiction written by an Indian living in London. The grievance of the existence of black African Muslim farmers, who won't abandon lands in Darfur. The grievance of the existence of homosexuals. The grievance of music, and of most representational art. The grievance of the existence of Hinduism. The grievance of East Timor's liberation from Indonesian rule. All of these have been proclaimed as a licence to kill infidels or apostates, or anyone who just gets in the way.
http://www.mirror.co.uk
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Kansas just ain't what it used to be, not like when I was a child. Why, I remeber when even Australia used to be in a state of jahalyyah, if you can imagine such a thing.