Melanie Brown
"For Muslims," says Melanie Brown, wife of terror suspect Willie Brigitte, "the jihad is compulsory. It is the struggle . . . the struggle for God." Unfortunately, she doesn't mean the struggle to "resist worldly temptations." This from the Herald Sun, with thanks to Rusty Shackleford:
THE Australian wife of jailed terror suspect Willie Brigitte emerged from a long-awaited prison meeting with her husband to declare her support for jihad."One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter," said Melanie Brown, quoting a slogan adopted by many supporters of extreme militant groups -- including al-Qaida.
"I may get into trouble saying that . . . but I have heard it a lot, and I agree with it.
"For Muslims, the jihad is compulsory. It is the struggle . . . the struggle for God."
The former Australian soldier also told how her marriage to Brigitte in Sydney was arranged by mutual friends in the fundamentalist Muslim community, because both were keen to wed as the faith decreed.
Ms Brown said she confronted her husband in jail about aspects of his life he had never revealed to her, such as the two former wives and three children he left behind in France when he flew to Australia early last year.
"We did discuss those things. But it's all cool now," she said.
"As far as I understand, he is not married to them now."
Of course, nothing in Islamic law would make it wrong for him to still be married to them.
In her first interview since her life was abruptly and irrevocably changed by Brigitte's arrest in Sydney last October, Ms Brown proclaimed her husband's innocence.But in the next breath she revealed her strident support for "the jihad", adding that acts of violence could be seen as part of such a struggle.
Meanwhile, another Herald Sun report reveals some of the content of Brown's meetings with Brigitte. (Thanks to Jean-Luc.)
SUSPECTED French terrorist Willie Brigitte tried to get information from his Australian wife about the top-secret spy facility at Pine Gap according to French police sources, it was reported yesterday. . . .The Australian newspaper said Ms Brown is understood to have told French interrogators that Brigitte questioned her at length about the US-Australian electronic intelligence station at Pine Gap, near Alice Springs.
He asked her if she had ever been inside the base when she was in the Australian Army Signal Corps, whose members are experts in communication intercepts, the newspaper said.
While in the army, Ms Brown was reportedly training in Arabic and performed a tour of duty in East Timor.
The newspaper reported that Brigitte asked her about the transmission systems and the low-frequency electronic transmitting antennae the US had reportedly installed in Pine Gap.
French police sources said Ms Brown insisted she had not revealed any military secrets to Brigitte.
If you bundle bad ideas as ethics or moral behavior, you justify that bad behavior and even use it as incentive. Islam gives evil an ethical sanction, which makes psychologically dependent Muslims feel right about what they do, regardless of what their vestiges of reason and rationality tell them. This woman adds epistemological relativism to excuse murderous destruction by calling it freedom fighting. If anyone ever wondered if ideas are potent directors of humans, study the Muslims. They are crystal clear.
She is just another useful idiot to parade around in the West.....
jihan
Freedom fighting in a free country? Another contradictory statement made by a radical thinking Islamist. We are a free country, and as long as radical Islam is removed or better yet, wiped from the face of the planet, we will remain that way. Exactly what freedom are they fighting for? The freedom to murder innocent people for no good reason? Pigs.
If this ignorant broad is so supportive of Jihad, perhaps she should be tossed in the slam with her punk husband. Then these two pukes can rot away together. Or step it up, save the taxpayers a boatload of money, put them in a tall building, and demolish it with them inside, like what happend to thousands of INNOCENT people on 9/11.
Go to your paradise now radicals, and spare us for paying for your sorry asses.
D.C. Watson
There is a huge fallacy in the statement, "One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter." At least when you're talking about Islamic terrorists. The fallacy is that they are fighting for freedom. They are fighting to impose their vision on others, whether they like it or not. The "freedom" they are fighting for is fascicistic, oppressive, intolerant, retrogressive, and features the worst sort of sexaul apartheid. They are just another version of your run-of-the-mall autocrats, this time falsely cloaked in "religion." They are the enemies of humanity and are rightly being treated accordingly. Death to tyranny everywhere!