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Muslim helpline launched today
ABC (Australia) ^ | July 31, 2007 | ABC

Posted on 07/31/2007 3:24:41 PM PDT by indcons

Australia's first Muslim telephone helpline is being launched in Sydney today.

The crisis hotline is part of a pilot project being run by the Muslim health charity Mission of Hope.

Helpline director Hanan Dover says there has long been a need for a crisis line for Muslims staffed by Muslim counsellors.

"They feel more comfortable with accessing Muslim health service providers because of the stigma that's attached to being Muslim," she said.

Ms Dover says while Muslim Australians have the same mental health issues as others, they feel more alienated since events such as September 11.

"They don't feel very trustworthy towards a lot of the authority figures, especially considering the latest issue with Doctor Mohamed Haneef," she said.

The helpline will initially cover New South Wales, with some access for other states.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: australia; helpline; muslim; muslimaustralians
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Corrected text: "They don't feel very trustworthy towards a lot of the authority figures non-Muslims," she said.
1 posted on 07/31/2007 3:24:43 PM PDT by indcons
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Sure...we’ll help them go back to Mecca!


2 posted on 07/31/2007 3:25:43 PM PDT by princess leah
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“They don’t feel very trustworthy towards a lot of the authority figures,”

I feel sure that the feeling is mutual, for obvious reasons.


3 posted on 07/31/2007 3:27:59 PM PDT by CarryingOn (America will not survive another Clinton presidency.)
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To: indcons

Perhaps if they stopped killing us we would feel more neighborly.


4 posted on 07/31/2007 3:28:31 PM PDT by driftdiver
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To: indcons

1-800-JIHAD-4-U


5 posted on 07/31/2007 3:28:48 PM PDT by jdm
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To: princess leah

I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the first question:

My daughter was viciously raped by sixteen muslims and a heretic. I forget whether I am supposed to cut off her head and stone the heretic, or the reverse.


6 posted on 07/31/2007 3:29:07 PM PDT by Ingtar (The LDS problem that Romney is facing is not his religion, but his Lacking Decisive Stands.)
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To: indcons

“My goat is ill. How can I help her recover?”

signed, Abdul the Horny


7 posted on 07/31/2007 3:29:50 PM PDT by dynachrome (Henry Bowman is right.)
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It must really suck to belong to a 7th century cult masquerading as a "religion" where the culture oppresses you to hate everything but death. An oppression so great that you can't relate to anyone outside your own cult. An oppression so pathetic that you feel justified in demanding segregrated services simply because you don't feel "comfortable" dealing with human beings you idiotically think of as dirty infidels.
8 posted on 07/31/2007 3:30:26 PM PDT by kromike
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Step #1...don't be a muslim.

That will help more than anything else.

9 posted on 07/31/2007 3:30:31 PM PDT by Recovering Hermit (There's another old saying Senator..."Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.")
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“Hi, can you please tell me how I place bomb into baby’s nappy?


10 posted on 07/31/2007 3:31:17 PM PDT by wazoo1031
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Sure...we’ll help them go back to Mecca!

mecca, medina, and other Satanic locations should have ceased to exist shortly after 9/11.

11 posted on 07/31/2007 3:33:02 PM PDT by Recovering Hermit (There's another old saying Senator..."Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.")
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To: Fred Nerks; metmom; little jeremiah; Aussie Dasher

Ping


12 posted on 07/31/2007 3:34:02 PM PDT by indcons
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Here’s the only help-line they deserve...

Assimilate or leave!

Isn’t it interesting that multi-culturalism seems only to be the duty of the invaded nation. No multi-cultural ethic is required of the new immigrants at all. They remain the same as they were in the old country. They don’t lean the new langauge and demand services as if provided by their old government. As if...


13 posted on 07/31/2007 3:35:05 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking it's heritage.)
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To: Ingtar
From the Dear Abul advice column in the Moose-slime Times:

Dear Abul,

Our five-year old son likes to wear the green military fatigues we bought for him. The predicament: The bomb belt we strap around him is red and clashes with his outfit. What should we do?

Signed,
"Gettin' Jihady Wit It"

14 posted on 07/31/2007 3:36:56 PM PDT by quark
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"They feel more comfortable with accessing Muslim health service providers because of the stigma that's attached to being Muslim," she said.

You don't say.

Ms Dover says while Muslim Australians have the same mental health issues as others, they feel more alienated since events such as September 11.

Gee, you don't think that might have anything to do with it, do ya?

15 posted on 07/31/2007 3:39:40 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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Do they have an automated phone system to direct the calls?

"If your daughter said 'hi' to an infidel boy and you need advice on how to kill her, press one. If you wish to burn down several city blocks because of a cartoon of the Prophet (PBUH), press 2. If you need help pleasuring your goat or camel, please press 3. If the bomb-belt is armed and you need immediate assistance, please dial zero now."

16 posted on 07/31/2007 3:41:37 PM PDT by lesser_satan (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: metmom

Claiming victimhood is the muslims’ second-favorite hobby; rioting and killing is their most favorite. The barbarians should be deported back to Arabia.


17 posted on 07/31/2007 3:47:18 PM PDT by indcons
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What’s the number? I want to call them over SkypeOut and ask them a few questions:
1.) How can you beat your wife so that the bruises don’t show?
2.) Is it okay to use a Koran if you run out of toilet paper and there really is no other paper within reach in the whole bathroom...


Can anyone else think of questions to ask them?


18 posted on 07/31/2007 3:50:20 PM PDT by Bon mots
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Since the article mentions Dr Haneef, here’s the story so far:

CHAT room conversations suggested to authorities that Mohamed Haneef may have had prior knowledge of the UK bombings, Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said tonight.

Mr Andrews this evening detailed what he said was intelligence information gleaned from chat room conversations that Dr Haneef had with his brother in India to back his decision to cancel the doctor’s working visa.

He released advice from the solicitor-general which found information provided to him from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) was sufficient grounds to revoke Dr Haneef’s visa.

“The solicitor-general has advised me that based on the material that is known now, I could make the same decision as I originally did,” he told reporters.

“I will not, however, release the full ... protected material as I’ve been advised by the commissioner of the Australian Federal Police that this would have the effect of prejudicing or jeopardising further investigations.”

Mr Andrews said the solicitor-general’s advice covered matters such as contact between Dr Haneef and his cousins in the UK, who are accused of involvement in a failed plot to bomb central London and Glasgow airport.

“Importantly, there was a computer room conversation, a chat room conversation, with Dr Haneef’s brother in India on the afternoon before his attempted hasty departure from Australia,” he said.

“In it, the brother of (Dr) Haneef says ‘nothing has been found out about you’ and asked when Dr Haneef would be getting out, to which (Dr) Haneef replied ‘today’.

“The brother asked whether he had permission to take leave and what he told the (Gold Coast) hospital.

“Dr Haneef said he told them his baby was born in an emergency caesarean. The brother told him to ‘tell them that you have to as you have a daughter born, do not tell them anything else’.

“The brother then said not to delay his departure and not to let anyone else use his number in Australia, nor to give it to anyone.

“The brother added that ‘auntie’ told him that brother Kafeel used it, he’s in some sort of project over there,’’ Mr Andrews said, in a reference to UK bombing accused Kafeel Ahmed.

Mr Andrews said the AFP had told him before making his visa decision that police suspected the internet conversation may be evidence Dr Haneef had prior knowledge of the UK bomb plot.

“And secondly, the AFP consider Dr Haneef’s attempted urgent departure from Australia on a one-way ticket for a purpose which appears to be a false pretext to be highly suspicious and may reflect Haneef’s awareness of the conspiracy to plan and prepare the acts of terrorism in London and Glasgow.

“The suspicion which the federal police referred to in terms of Dr Haneef was that he was wanting to get out of Australia not because of the reason proffered, namely that the child had been born - remembering that that child had been born I think six days earlier.

“That that was a pretext, a false pretext, on which he was wanting to get out of Australia because of his association with the Ahmed brothers, the cousins, and the incidents which had occurred in the UK.”

Mr Andrews said Dr Haneef had not applied for leave from the hospital until after he had received two phone calls, including one from India, in which he was told there was an issue with his SIM card.

“The whole circumstances surrounding Haneef’s attempted hasty departure from Australia, including chat room conversations, when viewed against his clear prior association with the Ahmed brothers, led me to form a reasonable suspicion as required by the migration legislation,” Mr Andrews said.

“I received information from the Australian Federal Police regarding Dr Haneef and I cancelled his visa in the national interest based on that advice.

“I will continue to put the security and safety of Australians first in relation to this matter.”

Under a storm of criticism for his decision to cancel the visa just after Dr Haneef was granted bail by a Queensland court on now abandoned criminal charges Mr Andrews had said he wanted to show why he had terminated the visa on ‘character’’ grounds.

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said he would broadly outline Australia’s reasons for cancelling Dr Haneef’s visa when he meets with Indian officials today.

But he said he would not reveal anything to India’s External Affairs Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee that could hinder ongoing investigations being carried out by police in Australia and Britain.

Mr Andrews and the Australian Federal Police had indicated the decision to cancel the visa had been made on basis of information not provided to the court.

Today Dr Haneef’s solicitor Peter Russo, repeated his call for Mr Andrews to release the material, saying Mr Andrews had used the existence of the material to make slanderous allegations against Dr Haneef.

He said Mr Andrews had floated the release of the information; and now was hiding behind the Australian Federal Police to back off, yet again.

“I again challenge Mr Andrews to lay all his cards on the table,” Mr Russo said from Bangalore in India, where he flew with Dr Haneef on Saturday night.

Tonight Mr Andrews answered the challenge by releasing some details of chat room conversations which he said formed part of his decision to withdraw Dr Haneef’s visa.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22163726-601,00.html


19 posted on 07/31/2007 4:01:29 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair dinkum!)
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http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/gallery/0,22056,5024525-5010140-12,00.html


20 posted on 07/31/2007 4:18:13 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair dinkum!)
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