What do you think the chances are that Mustapha Kara-Ali will become a loyal, productive, patriotic member of Australian society? How many more Muslims in Australia think the way he does? But such questions cannot even be asked. They’re ipso facto “Islamophobic,” and reflect more poorly on the questioner than on the subject of the question. And so Australia, and the rest of the West, moves confidently forward into the multicultural future, whistling in the dark.
More on this story. “Mustapha and Diaa Kara-Ali charged with contempt of court for clearing land,” by Benedict Brook, News.com.au, April 18, 2019:
Two Muslim brothers who claim Australian law does not apply to them have been fined $100,000 for contempt of court.
Mustapha and Diaa Kara-Ali reportedly laughed when the judge handed down the punishment today in Sydney’s Land and Environment Court, after they were compelled to appear for felling trees on a northwest Sydney property without council permission.
The brothers had tried to argue that the Islamic organisation they ran, Diwan Al Dawla, was exempt from Australian law on religious grounds.
They failed in their bid and were fined $100,000 for what a judge called a “flagrant” breach of a court order to stop construction works to build a Muslim religious centre on their rural property in Colo.
They and their business were convicted on 12 charges of contempt of court.
A furious Mustapha Kara-Ali left the Court on Thursday saying: “Our religion is prime, the cross belongs in the dustbin of history.”…
In September, Mustapha told the council he had an issue with the “religious symbolism of court”.
Specifically, he objected to the St George Cross on both the Australian and NSW coat of arms which, he said, harked back to the Crusades, a series of medieval religious wars between Muslim and Christian forces.
“How can it be that I’m expected to be loyal to the religious symbols of another religion, because such symbols are given coercive force?” he said in a submission last year justifying why he would not attend court.
“To be present at an adjudicating court that upholds the religious symbols of the crusades is religiously unacceptable.”
He said a religious association such as Diwan Al Dawla can “choose to not comply with state laws” in matters of religious practice.
“We believe that the NSW court’s upholding of religious symbols that represent the Crusader wars of the medieval period encourages and incites religious violence against us by a group of hit squads who share the desire to uphold their own religious symbols which they consider to be official over ours,” he said….