Welcome to the land Down Under, where women glow and men plunder dogs eat cars.
A Darwin man woke yesterday to discover dogs had eaten his car.
And he says it’s not the first time it has happened.
Clayton Dwyer, 47, of Millner, thought his girlfriend was kidding when she woke him up and told him his work ute had been gnawed by a pack of savage dogs. But when he walked outside his Beetson Place home he discovered this was no joke.
His front bumper had been ripped from the car and chewed to bits by the dogs. They had even tried to munch on the front panels.
“You can see the teeth marks,” he said.
Asked what he thought when he first saw the damage, Mr Dwyer said: “Doggone it! That’s a bit ruff.”
The landscape gardener said the pack of wild dogs had been lurking around his neighbourhood for months.
“My girlfriend’s car got eaten about three months ago,” he said. “At first we thought it had been attacked with a hammer, but we took it to the panel beaters and he said it was dogs. You could see the teeth marks on it.”
Mr Dwyer said his neighbours had seen the dogs early yesterday and had chased them away by throwing mangoes at them.
He said he was unsure if his insurance company covered dog attacks.
“I hope they do,” he said.
“It’s actually a new bumper. I only bought it a couple of months ago.
“I know it isn’t the prettiest car, but it didn’t deserve that.”
Dogs eating homework is so old school.
Update: Or is it just an excuse?
Indonesian Islamic terror cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, 2006:
Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has accused America’s main intelligence agency of involvement in the 2002 Bali suicide bombings, which claimed the lives of 202 people, including 88 Australians.
Bashir, the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), was released from prison in June after having served almost two years for involvement in the conspiracy which led to the attack.
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, his brother Ali Gufron, also known as Mukhlas and Imam Samudra were to have been executed earlier this week for the Bali bombings but legal appeals have been lodged.
The cleric has told the ABC’s Foreign Correspondent program the Bali bombings were “hijacked” by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
“So the bomb that killed so many Australians, it was an American bomb,” he said. “It wasn’t the bomb made by Amrozi and his friends.”
“I don’t know whether the Australian Government pretends not to know this, or really doesn’t know.
“If they don’t know, then they’re stupid. But I think they’re just pretending not to know.”
Bashir described the device used in the bombing as a “micro-nuclear bomb”, and says the bomb originally intended for use in the attack “would not have killed people, only injured them”.
Indonesian Islamic terror cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, 2008:
An Indonesian Islamic cleric linked to the three Bali bombers says the explosion was a conspiracy between “America, Australia and the Jews”.
Abu Bakar Bashir told AFP the CIA had fired a nuclear missile at the Bali tourist strip from a ship off the coast.
“It has been mentioned as being a micro-nuclear bomb, not a regular bomb… The bomb was made by the CIA, it could be no one else,” he said in his house at the Al-Mukmin Islamic boarding school on Indonesia’s Java island.
He said the attack was a conspiracy between “America, Australia and the Jews” and the three convicted bombers - Amrozi, Imam Samudra and Ali Ghufron - had been framed.
“The bomb Amrozi set off, the first one, at most it shattered glass and didn’t wound people, or at most wounded them a little,” he said, sitting on the floor and wearing the white clothes and skullcap of a religious man.
Amrozi had been “used by the CIA in coordination with America, Australia and the Jews. The police and the prosecutors aren’t brave enough to prove it.”
Spot the difference?
Leaving aside the fact that the “micro-nuclear bomb” has now morphed into more of “nuclear missile,” the main difference is that now the CIA were in cahoots with Australia and the evil Jooooos.
You see where I’m heading with this?
Clearly, the Jews and their Aussie allies were able to go back in time, aided by their Mossad hitech industry, and join forces with the Americans, who were originally working alone.
But what about the fact that the convicted bombers had confessed and seemed proud of their crimes?
No problem. Behold the genius of the international Zionist conspiracy.
Dismissing Indonesia’s Islamic groups as “Jewish organisations,” Bashir said he would split from the Indonesian Council of Mujahedin which he had led and form a new group to push for pure Islamic law.
In other words, the convicted men were obviously encouraged to confess to the crime by their Islamic overloads, blissfully unaware that they were, in fact, Zionist overlords.
Oh, it is good to be us.
Update: OOOGA BOOGA!!
Question: Which of the following is not an assassination technique: Detonating a car, sniping, booby trapping a room, storming houses, poison, shooting down planes, striking motorcades, cake throwing
Answer: Trick question. They are all assassination techniques
The book at the centre of a terrorism related trial in Sydney lists assassination methods including smothering a target by throwing a “cake”.
The book states “cake throwing” is well-known in the west, and suggests that instead of the sweets, an “adhesive substance could be used”.
Another method listed is wrapping the target in “a strong plastic bag”, which the book says hardly leaves a trace on the body and could leave the impression that it was suicide.
An English translation of the Arabic text in the book has been given to the Sydney jury hearing the New South Wales Supreme Court trial of Belal Saadallah Khazaal.
Today, the translator, Dr Muhammad Gamal, gave evidence in a closed court, after his translation was tendered as evidence in the case.
Mr Khazaal, of Lakemba in Sydney’s southwest, has pleaded not guilty to knowingly making a document connected with assistance in a terrorist act.
He also has denied attempting to incite the commission of a terrorist act.
In the Crown’s opening address on Wednesday, Peter Neil SC said Khazaal produced the 110 page book in September 2003 and soon after caused it to be posted on an internet website.
He said the book espoused a type of jihad which was “very violent” in order to advance the Muslim religion in the world.
But Mr Khazaal’s barrister, George Thomas, said except for a few paragraphs written by his client, the book was compiled from material authored by others which was freely available in the public domain.
The book is titled: Provisions on the rules of jihad - short judicial rulings and organisational instructions for fighters and mujahideen against infidels.
It is dedicated to various people including: “the prisoners languishing in the prisons of tyrants be it infidels, apostates or hypocrites, Christians or Jews or Infidels, Idolater and apostate”.
Twelve methods of assassination are listed, including detonating a car from a distance, sniping, booby trapping a room, storming houses, poison, shooting down planes and striking motorcades.
The smothering section includes drowning and the cake throwing technique.
“A couple could pretend to be joking before attacking the target,” the translation reads.
“This would lead to his eyes, nose and mouth being plugged and loses the ability to breathe.
“Few would suspect the fatal consequences.”
And I know just the shop western intelligence agents could use.
(Yeah, I realize I’m a little - ok, a lot - late with the story, but it’s blog fodder credentials were just too good to resist).
Introducing forest Jihad.
Australia has been singled out as a target for “forest jihad” by a group of Islamic extremists urging Muslims to deliberately light bushfires as a weapon of terror.
US intelligence channels earlier this year identified a website calling on Muslims in Australia, the US, Europe and Russia to “start forest fires”, claiming “scholars have justified chopping down and burning the infidels’ forests when they do the same to our lands”.
The website, posted by a group called the Al-Ikhlas Islamic Network, argues in Arabic that lighting fires is an effective form of terrorism justified in Islamic law under the “eye for an eye” doctrine.
The posting — which instructs jihadis to remember “forest jihad” in summer months — says fires cause economic damage and pollution, tie up security agencies and can take months to extinguish so that “this terror will haunt them for an extended period of time”.
“Imagine if, after all the losses caused by such an event, a jihadist organisation were to claim responsibility for the forest fires,” the website says. “You can hardly begin to imagine the level of fear that would take hold of people in the United States, in Europe, in Russia and in Australia.”
With the nation heading into another hot, dry summer, Australian intelligence agencies are treating the possibility that bushfires could be used as a weapon of terrorism as a serious concern.
Attorney-General Robert McClelland said the Federal Government remained “vigilant against such threats”, warning that anyone caught lighting a fire as a weapon of terror would feel the wrath of anti-terror laws.
“Any information that suggests a threat to Australia’s interests is investigated by relevant agencies as appropriate,” Mr McClelland said.
Adam Dolnik, director of research at the University of Wollongong’s Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention, said that bushfires (unlike suicide bombing) were generally not considered a glorious type of attack by jihadis, in keeping with a recent decline in the sophistication of terrorist operations.
With attacks like bushfires, yes, it would be easy. It would be very damaging and we do see a decreasing sophistication as a part of terrorist attacks,” Dr Dolnik said.
“In recent years, there have been quite a few attacks averted and it has become more and more difficult for groups to do something effective.”
Dr Dolnik said he had observed an increase in traffic on jihadi websites calling for a simplification of terrorist attacks because the more complex operations had been failing. But starting bushfires was still often regarded as less effective than other operations because governments could easily deny terrorism as the cause.
The internet posting by the little-known group claimed the idea of forest fires had been attributed to imprisoned Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab Al-Suri. It said Al-Suri had urged terrorists to use sulphuric acid and petrol to start forest fires.
It’s amazing to think how much effort these people put into destruction.
From the Department of Appropriate Names:
Entrepreneur Dick Smith gave $50,000 to help fund the legal battle to bring confessed terror supporter David Hicks home.
But Mr Smith said “not a cent” went directly to Hicks and some cash had been returned after Hicks was brought back to Australia.
Details of Mr Smith’s financial assistance and other support for Hicks has been outlined in an interview with Readers Digest magazine.
“I sent money to a trust account to David’s solicitor David McLeod in Adelaide,” Mr Smith told the magazine.
“I think it must have got up to about $50,000.
“It was to support family members to visit David and for other purposes.
“The money also funded Geoffrey Robertson, the top international human rights lawyer, to travel to Washington.
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Mr Smith said his sense from talking to Hicks was if he had gone before a jury, he would never have been convicted.
“When I read the initial claims about David they just didn’t ring true, that a simple country bloke who had a decent family should become a supporter of terrorism,” he said
Yeah. I cannot imagine how an anti-Semitic country bloke who converted to Islam could become a terrorist or terror supporter.
Members of Australia’s Muslim community are pushing for polygamy.
For the women’s sake, of course.
Members of Australia’s Islamic community believe polygamous marriages should be recognised to protect the rights of women.
Sheikh Khalil Chami of the Islamic Welfare Centre in Sydney’s Lakemba today said polygamous marriages, although illegal, existed in Australia and should be recognised.
“… Not an open door but in a way everyone will have control,” he told Triple J radio’s Hack program.
“It’s a bit hard, very difficult, but unless we face it, how (do) we overcome it?
“If you know there is law that will help you, there is community will help you. Why not? Why not change the law?”
Sheikh Chami said he was asked almost weekly to conduct polygamous religious ceremonies.
While he declined to perform such ceremonies, he said, other sheikhs did not.
“There are a lot of sheikhs here without any qualifications, without any place,” he said.
“They’ll conduct that marriage no problem at all.”
Islamic Friendship Association of Australia president Keysar Trad said recognising polygamous unions would help protect the rights of women in the relationship.
Mr Trad once proposed to another woman with the consent of his wife, Hanefa, but the second marriage did not proceed.
“I certainly would not have entertained the thought of having a relationship without a religious marriage and I thought the relationship with that person was developing to the stage where we had become too friendly with each other,” he told the program.
“Rather than entertain any thoughts of an affair I thought the only decent thing to do was to consider a proper commitment to that person.
I guess it didn’t occur to him that the real decent thing would be to not flirt with other women in the first place.
“This idea of plural sexual relationships, it is not so much frowned upon by society as long as these people don’t say we want a polygamous relationship.”
Mr Trad’s mother was a third wife in a polygamous relationship overseas and he said the women had admiration and respect for each other and supported each other.
“In a sense, it’s a compliment to the original partner that if he didn’t find marriage to be so good why would he go into it again,” he said.
“In a sense, he’s saying that his first wife has made life like heaven for him so he’s willing to provide the same service, love and support to a second woman.”
Can you believe this guy?
He said women were choosing to enter into such marriages.
Mrs Trad said many people in polygamous marriages kept it a secret - not only because it was illegal, but because society did not accept it.
“Tell you the truth, the hardest part of it (is) the way the others perceive it not what’s happened between me and him,” she said.
Asked if it was just about wanting sex with more women, she said: “Yeah it can be, but having it in the right way instead of having it in like go to prostitute or just date”..
Talk about wishing to have your cake and eat it (assuming the cake was not purchased here).
By the way, Keysar Trad is the spokesperson for the infamous Sheikh Taj Din Hilaly, someone not exactly known for protecting the rights of women.