Fighting words: Sheik Abdul Salam Mohammed Zoud is calling for victory to the Iraqi mujaheddin. Picture: Frank Violi
Well, she would say that, wouldn't she? Guess she agrees with our islamofascist clerics:
Clerics still preaching hatred of West (snip)
Richard Kerbaj
03nov05
MUSLIM clerics in Sydney and Melbourne - led by radicals Sheik Mohammed Omran and Sheik Abdul Salam Mohammed Zoud - are still preaching hatred against the West, urging followers in Arabic to resist peace and support insurgents waging war against Australian soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In open defiance of John Howard's proposed new terror laws and the Prime Minister's demand that Muslim leaders desist from inflammatory rhetoric, Lakemba cleric Sheik Zoud has used his Friday prayer meetings over the past month to praise Muslim fighters.
"Allah yinsur el-mujaheddin fe-Iraq (God grant victory to the mujaheddin in Iraq)," he repeatedly screamed during a 35-minute Arabic sermon at Lakemba's Haldon Street prayer hall in Sydney's southwest last week.
In further contempt of Mr Howard, Sheik Zoud's high-profile counterpart in Melbourne, Sheik Omran, also declared last month: "No victory (for Islam's brothers and sisters) can be stopped by George Bush or Tony Blair or John Howard."
Under expanded sedition provisions, people face up to seven years' jail for promoting feelings of ill will or hostility between different groups so as to threaten the peace, order and government of the commonwealth. This would include urging another person to engage in conduct that supports an organisation or country at war with Australia.
A third cleric - Harun Abu Talha, editor of contentious newspaper Mecca News - has also used Friday prayers at Sheik Omran's Brunswick mosque in Melbourne to attack "the criminal government of Israel that has been hurting our brothers and sisters in Palestine for so many years".
And during a prayer meeting last month, Abu Talha said: "We should not compromise our dean (religion) for the sake of peace." He concluded his sermon: "May Allah help the mujaheddin in Iraq."
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17123135%255E601,00.html
Fighting words: Sheik Abdul Salam Mohammed Zoud is calling for victory to the Iraqi mujaheddin. Picture: Frank Violi
I'm sorry that even though we tried hard, the country isn't quite ready to dump her yet. We are 49-50 divided on the whole issue (which is not as bad as Canada, but far worse than you).
Day by day, Dear Helen is becoming an embarrassment for NZ.