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Oz drought blamed on lack of faith (in Allah)
2007-03-12
A LEADING Muslim cleric has blamed the devastating drought, climate change and pollution on Australians' lack of faith in Allah.
And this faith's holiest shrines are located where exactly? What kind of apostasy rates 50,000+ years of drought?
Radical sheik Mohammed Omran told followers at his Brunswick mosque that out-of-control secular scientific values had caused environmental disaster.
like that GPS guided bomb in his cousin's cave.
"The fear of Allah is not there. So we have now a polluted earth, a polluted water, a wasteland," he told a meeting this year.
Plagiarizing Gore, I see.
"What are the people now crying for? The prophet told you hundreds of years ago, 'Look after the water'."
"Move to Paris and the lovely banks of the Seine."
A Sunday Herald Sun investigation also found clerics railing against "evil" democracy, vilifying Jews and Christians and encouraging jihad and polygamy.
Business as usual.
And in a popular DVD selling locally, a foreign sheik exhorts Muslims to take control of Australia by out-breeding non-believers.
Rats outbreed Tigers, too, but who gets the nod in a rumble?
British-based Sheik Abdul Raheem Green forbade Muslims from having fewer than four children so Australia would become an Islamic state.
Haven't we heard of a similar program in the past? Organized by a certain Herr Himmler?
Behind the closed doors of some Melbourne mosques and bookshops, sheiks push for Sharia law, declare Islam at war with the "sick" West and gloat that September 11 boosted Muslim numbers.
Our troops, planes and guns have corrected that brief imbalance many times over.
At a Muslim information centre in Coburg, extreme literature shares shelves with DVDs by firebrand sheiks from around the globe.
A little slice of Berkeley.
The centre, run by Abu Hamza, serves Muslims in the northern suburbs. Many CDs and DVDs there feature London sheik Abdul Raheem Green, who is on an Australian Government watchlist.

On one he tells his audience to Islamise Australia through a Muslim baby boom. "The birth rate in the Western countries is going down. People are more interested in their careers . . . they don't want to have babies," Sheik Green says in one DVD. "So don't you think, Muslim brothers and sisters, we've got a bit of an opportunity here? They're not having babies any more. So what if, instead, we have the babies?

"In Canada one in three or one in four children being born is a Muslim. What does that do to the demographic shift of a Muslim population in 20 years' time?

Islamic Council of Victoria spokesman Waleed Aly said he was disappointed though not surprised by the Sunday Herald Sun's discoveries. But he said extremist speech and literature was confined to only a couple of Melbourne groups. "If I walked into (Omran's group) or (Hamza's centre) it wouldn't surprise me," he said.

Mr Aly said he believed Muslims were radicalised by "cult-like peer groups", not hate literature.
No, the mainstream stuff is the hate literature.
Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy

#10  Thanks, GK. The things I don't know... Still, if 16 years isn't exactly decades, it's still an awfully long time between showers.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-03-12 20:40  

#9  #8 - all that rain was no doubt caused by the dread disastrous Global Cooling™ that began in the 1970's.

Oh, wait....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-03-12 19:15  

#8  #2 This was about 1987, the first time it had rained there in decades,
TW, In late March or early April 1971 we had daily rains for about a week in Riyadh. Water was running shin deep in the streets. The only storm sewer that I remember was an open concrete lined ditch down the middle of the main street. And it was filled with trash. The taxi drivers usually used soft brushes to clean the dust from the exterior their cabs, but they took advantage of the rain pools by driving into the middle of a puddle and washing their cars.
Posted by: GK   2007-03-12 19:11  

#7  Steve, have you ever thought about taking an extended vacation, perhpas visiting a string of foreign countries? I heard syria, iran were nice places to visit.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2007-03-12 16:01  

#6  Just keep your distance from the RB server farm, ok?
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-03-12 15:12  

#5  does it still hold true wherever you are now?

30 days after I arrived at Keesler back in the 80's, we took a direct hit from Elena (which looped back from Florida to get me). And we visited New Orleans seven years straight until Katrina came looking. We moved to Richmond, Virginia area last year, followed by Tropical Storm Ernesto. Any questions?
Posted by: Steve   2007-03-12 14:54  

#4  Was that a local effect, Steve, or does it still hold true wherever you are now?
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-03-12 14:03  

#3  Interesting. Back when I was working for Air Force Broadcasting in Japan, I was widely known as a "Typhoon Magnet". Whenever I had to go TDY down to Okinawa, a typhoon would pop-up and head right for them. Needless to say, I was not a popular person.
Posted by: Steve   2007-03-12 13:00  

#2  Back when Mr. Wife was doing factory start-ups in Saudi Arabia, he had a colleague they called the Rain God. No sooner had the gentleman arrived in the country than it started to rain. Two feet of water running in the streets, and all the chemicals sitting on pallets in the courtyard under the sunshade were ruined. (Oddly enough, it seems the country has no rain sewers.) This was about 1987, the first time it had rained there in decades, if I understood correctly. The Rain God has since gone on to work for a different company, but perhaps he should be sent on a short-term assignment to Australia.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-03-12 10:49  

#1  Oz was fine until the muzzies turned up. Just look at Mecca - rains every four years, whether you want it or not.
Posted by: Angaitch Cruling1154   2007-03-12 09:09  

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