SMH posted:

Police charged Mr Azari and detained 14 others; nine have been released and two women were issued with court attendance notices.

On Thursday night, a 24-year-old Merrylands man was charged with possessing ammunition without a licence, and unauthorised possession of a prohibited weapon. He was released on bail, and is due back in court on September 24.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

They've charged more since then, I think?

Doctor Spaceman posted:

loving hell Fairfax, what is wrong with you?

Palmersaurus posted:

People will adapt; someone poo'd on the Sutherland train just this Tuesday.

Zenithe posted:

Two now I believe.

Somewhat related:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-18/clarke-and-dawe-mr-desmond-traction-fear/5753062

e. Christ, Lambie is going all anti burqa. Who would have thought?

Systematic posted:

"WE DON'T WANT WOMEN TO BE FORCED TO WEAR A BURQA, THEREFORE WILL FORCE WOMEN NOT TO WEAR A BURQA, EVER. WE'RE A FREE COUNTRY."

T-1000 posted:

You say that sarcastically, but that was literally one of the arguments used in France when they banned face coverings, and the EU upheld the law. In Turkey you can't even wear a headscarf that leaves your face uncovered if you work in the public service or as a journalist, lawyer, teacher or doctor.

quote:

Vandals have spray painted the word “evil” across a far north Queensland mosque – an act the local mayor describes as deeply saddening.

Worshippers arrived at the mosque in Mareeba, inland from Cairns, on Friday morning to find their place of worship defaced with the yellow paint.

The town’s mayor, Tom Gilmore, said the mosque had been part of the community since the 1950s.

T-1000 posted:

You say that sarcastically, but that was literally one of the arguments used in France when they banned face coverings, and the EU upheld the law. In Turkey you can't even wear a headscarf that leaves your face uncovered if you work in the public service or as a journalist, lawyer, teacher or doctor.

SynthOrange posted:

Who knew that demonizing Muslims would have repercussions?!

quote:

Australian Muslims who protested against allegedly brutal tactics used by police in Thursday's counter-terrorism raids did not represent their faith and should take a "long, hard look" at themselves, Prime Minister Tony Abbott says.

Speaking in Sydney on Friday, Mr Abbott said the police operation was "a show of strength it needed to be a demonstration that we will respond with strength to any threat to our way of life and to our national security".

About 400 people attended a protest in Lakemba on Thursday night, expressing concern that the police raids were heavy-handed, and terrorised women and children.

Mr Abbott said "only about 100 people" attended the rally, which was "much smaller than had been expected".

"Sure, they were noisy and they were emphatic, but they were utterly unrepresentative of Australian Muslims," he said.

"The vast majority of people in this country, regardless of their faith, are first-class Australians. They came here because they wanted to join our team. They wanted to join us, not to change us."

Robodog posted:

Turkey isn't really in the same boat as us or France or whoever. The Turkish stuff stems from Ataturk demolishing the Ottoman Sultanate and setting up a new state in the rubble fixated on modernisation/Westernisation. Taking down the previous ruling elites meant taking the social system with it, a big part of which was certain type of religious clothing to denote rank and status. New social system, new state, get rid of the old traditions. And Ataturk really wanted to undermine Islam and make people more reliant of the state than on their religion, to keep the state stable until he established it properly.

Plus Erdoğan has been reforming stuff relating to religious items and clothing anyway.

SynthOrange posted:

Are you implying that Australia is in any way even a semi-serious country?

Cartoon posted:

Have you a source for this?

SynthOrange posted:

Are you implying that Australia is in any way even a semi-serious country?

Seemlar posted:

Seemlar posted:

Seemlar posted:

Australian Muslims who protested against allegedly brutal tactics used by police in Thursday's counter-terrorism raids did not represent their faith and should take a "long, hard look" at themselves, Prime Minister Tony Abbott says.

Speaking in Sydney on Friday, Mr Abbott said the police operation was "a show of strength it needed to be a demonstration that we will respond with strength to any threat to our way of life and to our national security".

About 400 people attended a protest in Lakemba on Thursday night, expressing concern that the police raids were heavy-handed, and terrorised women and children.

Mr Abbott said "only about 100 people" attended the rally, which was "much smaller than had been expected".

"Sure, they were noisy and they were emphatic, but they were utterly unrepresentative of Australian Muslims," he said.

"The vast majority of people in this country, regardless of their faith, are first-class Australians. They came here because they wanted to join our team. They wanted to join us, not to change us."

Splode posted:

Nuke Australia.

T-1000 posted:

Before I forget: I will do a more thorough search before I get home, but it's likely that I was confusing the Australian terror level with the US terror level which was raised around the same time, my bad. There are too many terrorscopes for me to keep track of.

Systematic posted:

Vandalizing mosques, there's a tactic that won't radicalize more Islamic people, ever...

freebooter posted:

It's actually pretty amusing that, whether Labor or Liberal, you can always immediately spot the focus-group tested phrase they've been told to keep dropping into their speeches. Sticks out like a sore thumb. Which is more amusing when you think about how many man-hours a PR team spent shaping and polishing it to try to ease it into the lexicon.

Anidav posted:

Tonight I hope QUT voted out the Young Liberals for spending Guild funds on throwing a boat party for themselves and leaving the clubs to rot.

CrazyTolradi posted:

Knowing QUT, lol no.

Gough Suppressant posted:

The Age front page is pretty funny

TERROR AUSTRALIS
Beheading Plot Foiled
800 Police In Raids
16 Locations in Two Cities
2 Charged

Nibbles! posted:

Aren't they holding x amount without charge and refusing to say who or how many?

SMH posted:

Counter-terrorism authorities have used for the first time extraordinary, Howard-era powers to hold without charge three suspects arrested in Thursday's terror raids.

In a statement late on Friday, Australian Federal Police revealed they had used preventative detention orders to hold the three men without charge for about 36 hours before releasing them on Friday afternoon.

Preventative detention orders can be used only "where there is a threat of an imminent terrorist attack", suggesting authorities were concerned the men would go ahead with an attack if they were released earlier.

The prevention orders were granted by the Supreme Court of NSW on Wednesday before the raids.

As the nation continued to come to grips with allegations of an Islamic State plot to murder Australians on camera, Prime Minister Tony Abbott confirmed that an attack was expected "within days" had authorities not moved when they did.

The Prime Minister said police "expect further charges to be laid against other individuals" from among the 15 people arrested in Sydney in the dawn raids on Thursday.

Of those, an unknown number, believed to be between two and four, were still being held on Friday – suggesting police are using special terrorism powers passed after the 2005 London bombings.