The Islam Comic Book
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| 'Hate books' are not seditious |
| 2006-05-15 |
| One side is at war, terrorist, military, cultural, religious, subversive, demographic,... while the other pretends it's not. FEDERAL authorities have ruled that books promoting suicide bombings and anti-Australian conspiracies can be sold in the Muslim community because they don't breach sedition laws. In the first known test of anti-terrorism laws, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions ruled that a number of controversial books found in bookstores in Lakemba and Auburn, in Sydney's west, late last year did not incite violence. One of the books, Defence of the Muslim Lands, carried an endorsement from al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden on its back cover and promoted "wiring up one's body" with explosives, News Limited reported. AFP spokeswoman Rebecca Goddard said the books were not in breach of either the Commonwealth Criminal Code or the NSW Crime Act 1900. "No action will be taken by the AFP against individuals who possess copies of the 'books of hate' or sell them," Ms Goddard was quoted as saying. A spokeswoman for Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said the minister accepted the judgment of the AFP. The ruling comes despite British police establishing strong links between three of the suicide bombers involved in July 7 London blasts and a bookstore in Leeds. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #5 yeah. but just try publishing a comic book about the profit (sic) mohammed. The Islam Comic Book |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-05-15 12:50 |
| #4 yeah. but just try publishing a comic book about the profit (sic) mohammed. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2006-05-15 11:53 |
| #3 The Aussies will only wise up when they have their own 9/11. Well, maybe not even then. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-05-15 11:48 |
| #2 the Australian Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (journo's union) just put out a booklet on press freedom in Australia, decrying the attacks on press freedom by.... governement and big business!! in five pages of dribble not one mention of the Mohammed cartoons. A disgusting example of where journalists and editors censored themselves for fear of offending a minority. and lets not forget the cartoons were not offensive to secular, reasonable muslims or to any non-muslim. they were not hideous porn or bloodied murder victim photos but simple line drawings. and let's also not forget they were NEWSWORTHY in fact the riots 'caused' by them were headlining every night for a week. people had a right to know what was provoking such anger and judge for themselves whether it was warranted. just disgusting. the media is the enemy |
| Posted by: anon1 2006-05-15 10:15 |
| #1 "One side is at war, terrorist, military, cultural, religious, subversive, demographic,... while the other pretends it's not." It's only marginally better here in the US. Our liberal establishment (Democratic Party, the media, and the academics) have been keeping up a constant drumbeat of anti-war, anti-Administration hysteria for nearly four years, and that has begun to take its toll. Add to that the Administration's general ineptness at building and maintaining public support for the war and its failure to help Americans achieve anything more than a rudimentary understanding of the "big picture." Top it all off with Bush's witless twaddle about Islam being a "Religion of Peace," and you have the inevitable result: more and more with each passing month, the American public just wants the whole war to go away. They are tired of the constant onslaught of daily bad news; they see no point to what we're doing in Iraq; and they see little progress-- only casualties (never mind that during three years in Iraq we've lost about as many people as we lose every three weeks on our nation's highways). And in the wake of disinformation, ignorance and fatique, follow denial and chowderheaded wishful thinking: Islam is not the enemy; Muslims are just like those nice Presbyterians next door; if we're nice to them and show them how tolerant and inclusive we are they'll reciprocate in kind; and Iran just wants us to stop being so mean to them; and so what if they get The Bomb, anyway? Other countries have it, so why shouldn't they? The atrocity on 9/11 was the direct result of a quarter-century of flaccid, limp-wristed American response to Islamic aggression-- most notably, our ignominious bug-outs from Beirut after the Marine barracks suicide-bombing, and then Mogadishu in the "Blackhawk Down" episode. Inevitably, Osama bin Laden-- along with much of the rest of the world-- became convinced America is soft, corrupt, effete, and frivolous; and that while we command the most powerful military force the world has ever known, we lack the political will to have it actually do anything of any significant difficulty or duration. Certainly, OBL committed a titanic blunder by staging his spectacular 9/11 attack early in the administration of a Republican president from the "cowboy" state of Texas; that was a truly stupid move. But I fear that in the long run, over the next couple of years we are likely to prove the Bin Laden Maxim right: bleed the Americans enough, and they WILL eventually give up and go slinking home with their tails between their legs. Because if the Democrats ever regain control, they will, they will do just that; they've said so. Only they call it "responsible redeployment." Feh. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2006-05-15 06:50 |