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Dr Saul, of the University of NSW, said the new sedition law criminalised some things said in a religious context, such as the standard prayer "may God grant victory to the mujahideen in Iraq".

This is a standard prayer? Interesting.

"The legislation is very ambiguous. You don't necessarily have to encourage someone to fight Australian troops — even contributing blankets to mujahideen could be criminal."

It's called 'giving aid and comfort to the enemy', Dr Saul.

Don't get me wrong - I have some concerns about sedition laws myself, but if there are standard prayers that support terrorism, then the problem isn't with laws designed to deal with terrorism.

The problem is with the prayers.

1 posted on 02/05/2006 12:55:31 PM PST by naturalman1975
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The problem is with the prayers.

Most definitely.
2 posted on 02/05/2006 12:57:44 PM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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May God grant victory to all who fight islamofascists.


3 posted on 02/05/2006 12:59:18 PM PST by MarMema (Buy Danish, support freedom)
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This should make a few towels / rags come unwrapped.
5 posted on 02/05/2006 1:00:28 PM PST by LasVegasMac (Just trolling..........)
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Don't get me wrong - I have some concerns about sedition laws myself, but if there are standard prayers that support terrorism, then the problem isn't with laws designed to deal with terrorism. The problem is with the prayers.

No...the problem is with the Muslims. They don't belong among us.

6 posted on 02/05/2006 1:04:07 PM PST by montag813
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I'm still flabbergasted that several Western countries haven't come to the conclusion that the most obvious and extreme enemy of the West is Islam. Haven't they understood that both through word and deed, and the history of, the mohammedans that their mission is to destroy the West and make their citizens either muslims or second class citizens or slaves, or kill them?

My God (the Christian version), when is the West going to wake up? The enemy is already in our camps, waiting....and no amount of Western niceties and diversity and respect are going to make a difference with a group of barbarians who consider themselves your slavemasters. They understand only one thing, raw power, and are effectively controlled by one thing, fear. You deliver the death blow and subjugate them, they'll tow the line. And by the way, send them home to keep them at a safe distance.


7 posted on 02/05/2006 1:05:16 PM PST by john drake (roman military maxim: "oderint dum metuant, i.e., let them hate, as long as they fear")
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I admit this could be a problem for the Muslim religion in Australia if the only payers that Australian Imams utter are prayers for terrorists. Does anyone have any statistics on that. Do Australian Imams pray for terrorists a 100% of the time or only 50% of the time or maybe just 20% of the time. Either way, it sounds like a real dilemma to me


8 posted on 02/05/2006 1:05:20 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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This is a standard prayer? Interesting.

This doesn't surprise me one little bit. In fact, my intuition tells me that this may turn out to be one of their milder "prayers".

I was thinking about this general issue not too long ago. If you accept that islam is a death cult (which I do) and you see their dedication to "prayer" you just have to ask yourself "What would a death cult 'pray' for?"

I suspect it ain't world peace.

9 posted on 02/05/2006 1:05:35 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (When Bush says "we mustn't act like clowns," the RATS don their multi-colored wigs and greasepaint.)
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Truly a big move. Brainwashing youths into hatred and murder just can't be tolerated decade after decade.


10 posted on 02/05/2006 1:06:19 PM PST by tkathy (Ban the headscarf (http://bloodlesslinchpinsofislamicterrorism.blogspot.com))
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Excellent first move by Australia! But the problem goes beyond what they are saying in the mosques. How about the things they teach their kids in their schools and in their homes?

In Japan after WWII, we took over the schools, burned the old militaristic books, fired the old teachers. New teachers and new books were brought in which instilled an appreciation of liberty and democracy. Something similar has to be done now. Australia and all the other Western countries have to go the whole nine yards, or simply deport the b****rds (which is my preference).

But I've gotta admit, the Spanish Inquisition had the best approach: Muslims were either burned at the stake, forced to return to Northern Africa, or forced to convert to Christianity. If you "converted" but were later caught praying to Mecca, you were automatically burned at the stake. In order to keep an eye on muslims who claimed they had converted, ex-muzzies were made to keep the doors of their homes open on Fridays so the authorities, or anyone else with an interest, could see inside and make sure the inhabitants weren't secretly worshipping Allah.

13 posted on 02/05/2006 1:47:51 PM PST by LibWhacker
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What the heck kind of religion is this where a "standard" prayer roots on the terrorists?


18 posted on 02/05/2006 2:10:40 PM PST by B Knotts
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"If one person in a mosque says something outrageous in support of terrorism, these laws allow the government to close down the entire mosque"

It looks like Murder Central is going to take a few hits down Australia way!

22 posted on 02/05/2006 3:13:23 PM PST by Gritty (“Jihad and the rifle alone. No negotiations, No conferences, No dialogue!"-Abdullah Azzam)
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Honey, pack the bags we're moving to Australia where the have a spine.


23 posted on 02/05/2006 3:57:06 PM PST by ichabod_65 (Woo Pig Sooie)
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Muslim leaders did not know what they could say until they saw how the laws were used.

Of course they would not know if 'Death to America' or Death to Israel' were legal to say. How could anybody find anything wrong with that?

24 posted on 02/05/2006 4:00:46 PM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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Western governments traditionally don't get involved with the content of prayers in houses of worship.


29 posted on 02/08/2006 10:38:38 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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Wouldn't it be much easier if muslims were not allowed to enter our Western countries in the first place?

What's so difficult about that? It could avoids lots and lots of problems if muslims are not allowed to migrate to our Western countries, rather than first letting them in and then deal with a myriad of problems that their culture and religion creates.


77 posted on 02/14/2006 5:39:27 PM PST by TheBrotherhood (Tancredo for President.)
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