“The Holy Koran considers justice a supreme virtue, and I assure the defendants that this court pursues that virtue in every case it deals with, just as the Holy Koran requires of its adherents,” Justice Terence Sheahan told Mustapha and Diaa Kara-Ali.
He could have just said, “In Australia, Australian law applies to everyone.”
Instead, he engaged in this shameless Islamopandering, attempting to convince them that the Qur’an teaches what he says it does, not what they say it does. This is as foolish as the many judges who lecture jihadi defendants about how Islam teaches peace. Instead of pontificating about a book he has almost certainly not read or studied, Sheahan and his fellow judges should be pondering the implications of statements such as the one Mustapha Kara-Ali made upon leaving the court: “Our religion is prime, the cross belongs in the dustbin of history.” They should be pondering what that means for Australia’s future, and trying to determine how many Muslims in Australia agree with the Kara-Alis. But they won’t.
“Mustapha and Diaa Kara-Ali charged with contempt of court for clearing land,” by Benedict Brook, News.com.au, April 18, 2019 (thanks to Natalie):
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 his written judgment, Justice Terence Sheahan said the pair had ignored orders to appear in court and only turned up after being arrested. Mustapha had said attending court could lead to “hit squads” perusing him.
“The Holy Koran considers justice a supreme virtue, and I assure the defendants that this court pursues that virtue in every case it deals with, just as the Holy Koran requires of its adherents,” the judge said.
Diaa was the sole director of Southern Chariot Stud Pty Ltd, which owned the property on Sydney’s rural fringe.
The brothers began building a religious site next to the Colo River and felled trees until Hawkesbury City Council intervened mid-2018, ordering them to stop the unauthorised works.
RELIGIOUSLY UNACCEPTABLE
The brothers failed to stop construction work on the property, which eventually included four flagpoles, a boat ramp, a wall and gates. Construction work had also begun on a series of buildings.
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.
At one point Mustapha said a severed pig’s head had been dumped outside the gates, which was proof of a “hit squad” attack….
Spiro says
You don’t like the Australian law then go back to where you came from but of course that’s probably not as nice as the country your trying to poulute
Alkimos says
Have polluted.
CogitoErgoSum says
Does this Judge know that justice in the Quran requires collection of the Jizya from Christians and Jews? When does he plan on implementing this “just” practice?
Phil Copson says
Does this Judge know that justice in the Quran requires collection of the Jizya from Christians and Jews? When does he plan on implementing this “just” practice?
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When law enforcement “forgets” to collect the $100,000 – who honestly thinks that they’ll ever pay it ?
elee says
Strong agreement with author’s comments about the Islamopandering. Those who claim that “All government belongs to Allah,” Koran 3:155, are anarchists. The institutions of ordered liberty, aka man-made governments, have every right to defend themselves and their citizens, and this judge should have said so.
mortimer says
Justice Sheahan ought to have admitted that he did not understand Sharia law and its operating principle of total inequality.
In Sharia law, ‘justice’ refers only to Sharia law. Australian law is ‘unjust’ for a practicing, serious Muslim.
Anjuli Pandavar says
I agree too, but would go further: since the Qur’an is not a component of Australian law, it’s content is entirely irrelevant in passing judgement and any reference to it inappropriate, even if what the Qur’an says happens to coincide with Australian law, such coincidence in no way serves to either strengthen or weaken the defendant’s case or the case for the prosecution. Secular law should NEVER be explained via the Qur’an.
Even to say something like, “Your Qur’an has no place in my Court,” is to acknowledge that the Qur’an warrants the Court’s consideration (even if ultimately rejected). When a defendant seeks to invoke the Qur’an in defence, he should be treated as if he’d spoken gibberish and instructed to confine himself to the matter in hand.
Saying all this is, of course, not the same as saying that the role of the Qur’an in motivating the criminal’s actions is irrelevant. It is absolutely relevant in understanding the defendant’s motives, but absolutely irrelevant in determining judgement.
elee says
Strong agreement up to the last paragraph. IMHO a defendant’s statements of allegiance to this hateful scripture, while irrelevant to the question of guilt or innocence, is hugely relevant to sentencing in any criminal case. It demonstrates a set propensity to commit further and possibly worse crimes in the future. It is the diametric opposite of repentance and acknowledgment of wrong. Sort of like applauding Hitler in one’s statement to the court before sentencing……the court need not pretend not to hear it.
simpleton1 says
Anjuli Pandavar very good points, as does elee.
Adrian Thomas says
For Your sake and your children’s future Australia WAKE UP !!!!!!!!
Walter Sieruk says
As for those Muslims who live in Australia yet have the gall to feel that they , with their Sharia law minded , have only arrogance and contempt for Australian law should leave that country a go to live in Saudi Arabia if they really believe the their Islamic ways are so right and grand. Likewise they need to and should stop attempting to push and force their Islamic ways of Australia and the other nations of the West.
Walter Sieruk says
First, those Muslims who who live in Australia yet still claim that that they ,with their sharia law and above Australian law. are actually putting into practice What is known as the Stealth jihad otherwise called the Muslim method of Islamic Gradualism to enact Sharia law in Australia. In contrast to the way of the violent jihad or also called the militant jihad .This non-violent form of the jihad for Islam is a very sly, insidious, subtle and deceptive way of working for the advancement of Islam.
This Muslim scheme for achieving the goal of the Islamic agenda is as, many times, as subtly effective as it is demonically clever. Furthermore, this Islamic gradualism, in some ways, is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you”
Second, those scheming jihadist /Muslims who would like to have Sharia law set up in Australia engage in the doctrines of the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya which is very insidious. Taqyyia is the jihad dogma that deception is a good thing to do as long as it’s done for the advancement of Islam. Nevertheless, the God of the Bible “condemns those who devise wicked schemes…” Proverbs 12:11. [N.I.V.] Likewise, Proverbs 12:20 teaches “Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil.”
somehistory says
It is an unholy, filthy, evil book and it holds no justice. A secular judge who calls it “holy” does a disservice to every non moslim who must appear before him and to all of the innocent people in the community who expect justice to rule.
The slimy lawbreakers should be sent packing and made to catch the first shark going to some moslim country where they have already cut down all of the trees for their barracks in which they plan on preying. Let them be “perused” there by “hit squads.” And pursued, too.
islam, when it goes, won’t be sent to “the dust bin of history,” but will be completely destroyed to the extent that there won’t be any “history” told about it…forever.
The evil of it and its ‘creator’ “won’t even come up into the mind (Isaiah 65:17).”
elee says
Never destroy the lessons of history. “Holocause deniers” do that. Remember Winston Smith’s job in 1984?
elee says
My ad for the typo, if I could I’d edit it out. Holocaust.
Walter Sieruk says
Rashida Tlaib is so ignorant and totally blind to the truth. Which is that those jihad organizations she admires as Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic jihad are all fated to fail in the Islamic agenda of destroying the State of Israel and replacing it with an Islamic “state” is already as lost cause. This is because those Islamic groups with that goal are all fated to lose in the end. For that agenda of those Jihad terror entities are greatly overruled by the God of the Bible. For the Jewish people have every right to all of that land, including the West Bank and the Golan Heights , by Divine Right. As seen, for example, in Genesis 28:13-15. 35:48, 49. Psalms 105:7-11. 135:4.
Furthermore, the Jewish people should also have that land by historic rights. As found in First Kings 4:20,21,24,25. 8:55,56.
Therefore ,, the jihadists members of Hezbollah, Hamas and other like-minded Islamic organizations have joined a lost cause and a bad cause.
It may even rightfully be said that the jihadists of such Islamic entities have taken up a stand for a bad cause. This is a bad cause to the extreme. The Bible instructs in much wisdom, as in “Do not stand up for a bad cause.” Ecclesiastes 8:3. [N.I.V.]
Thus Tlaib is a deluded fool
Ole Pederson says
Walter Sieruk says
Apr 18, 2019 at 3:12 pm
We agree about the qualitiy of the person Tlaib, but if you quote the Bible, the Muslims will quote the Q’uran. Nothing gained. As much as you believe in the Bible they believe in Allah. By the same rule the Italians could say “This was once the Roman empire, it is our land!”
Can we keep religion private? We have every reason to unite agains the danger of Islam, whether we are Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Atheists and Agnostics: Islam has declared war on us all.
elee says
APPLAUSE! HEAR HEAR!
mortimer says
Justice Sheahan declared that “The Holy Koran considers justice a supreme virtue.”
However, the Koran says that the non-Muslim Kafir may be deceived, plotted against, hated, enslaved, mocked, tortured and worse. A KAFIR is the lowest of animals in the Koran … a KAFIR is anyone who disbelieves that Mohammed is a prophet.
Moreover, Justice Sheahan may not realize that Islam has its own unique interpretations of legal language … the same word in Islam may refer to a very different idea than that of Justice Sheahan.
In Islamic Sharia law, ‘JUSTICE’ never refers to the legal system of the KAFIR. Only Islamic law may be called ‘just’ for a practicing Muslim … so English Common Law is ‘unjust’ to a Muslim.
Muslim logic works like this: ‘English Common Law is KAFIR LAW … pre-Islamic “JAHILIYA” law (from root jahala “to be ignorant or stupid). Therefore, Common Law is invalid and “STUPID” for a Muslim, BECAUSE Common Law doesn’t recognize Islamic SUPREMACISM and the inherent SUPERIORITY of Muslims over and above the KAFIR.”
The words of Justice Sheahan on ‘justice’, even though well-intentioned, fall on deaf Muslim ears, because the judge is a KAFIR and his man-made legal system is based on the principle of EQUALITY. A KAFIR is NEVER equal to a Muslim in law. Islamic law is based on the revealed INEQUALITY between the kafir and the Muslim. Allah says so in the Koran. Allah emphasizes over and over that kafirs are debased, stupid, unjust, diseased, liars, etc.
I implore Justice Sheahan to consider the following by Fr Henri Boulad, an expert on Islamism:
“Islamism is political Islam, the bearer of a project for a model society and whose aim is to establish a theocratic state based on Sharia, the ONLY LEGITIMATE LAW—SINCE IT IS DIVINE—since it was revealed and enshrined in the Koran and Sunna—it’s a law that applies to everything.
Here is an all-inclusive and all-encompassing project, one that is total, totalizing and totalitarian.”
Dear Justice Sheahan, Islamic law cannot be understood using Western philosophic concepts. Sharia has its own unique concepts that are opposed to equality and reasonableness.
gravenimage says
+1
elee says
Another emphatic +1
Ole Pederson says
Robert Spencer is right: this judge is a fool. And obviously even incapable of understanding the law of his own country.
Gray says
On his ‘Winds of Jihad’ site, the bluntly spoken Sheik Yer Mami points out that Mr Justice Sheahan relied on a document prepared by the Australian National Imams Council. To quote from ‘Winds of Jihad’:
‘In his published reasons, Justice Sheahan said the brothers’ claim they do not have to comply with Australian law is false.
“In December 2017, the Australian National Imams Council (“ANIC”), with the assistance of the NSW Judicial Commission, prepared a document entitled “Explanatory Note on the Judicial Process and Participation of Muslims”,” he wrote.
“The note clearly envisages that Muslims in Australia will often be expected to participate in Court processes.
“It even stresses that there are many similarities between the Western tradition and the Muslim concept of justice.”
But Justice Sheahan pointed out Mustapha Kara-Ali “disowns” that note, quoting him telling the court “that document belongs in the trash bin”.
Sadly, the judge was completely misled on the nature of Islam’s approach to kaffur laws. The National Imam’s document does indeed belong in the trash bin
gravenimage says
+1
Geoffrey de Brito says
The British took the Australian continent away from the aborigines. Now Muslims will take Australia away from the Australians. In the first case, the British used force of arms to accomplish their theft. The Muslim will use deceit and the assistance of the Left to accomplish its conquest. Then, the Chicoms will invade and genocide the Muslims.
The Chinese match Islam’s ruthlessness and, are much smarter, which bodes ill for Islam.
Unless Australia awakens in time, it’s future is Chinese.
gravenimage says
Actually, China is also under threat from Muslims–and regularly panders to them.
kuriakose says
GI, what is your definition of pandering? If pandering means throwing much of their muslim population into camps to ‘relearn islam’, then I suggest you use a different word.
You need to understand China has a very large muslim population, and that it trades with a lot of muslim countries, thus it has to deal with islam in a practical way. I am not exonerating the Chinese, but you could say the same thing of many other countries, the worst being the leading countries in the EU. You could even say that of Singapore, in public they will say islam is a peaceful religion, but behind closed doors every muslim in Spore is monitored closely.
The EU nations have no excuse to pander to the muslims, and they do not dare to follow the Chinese example.
Australia certainly is pandering to muslims, no doubt about that.
gravenimage says
kuriakose wrote:
GI, what is your definition of pandering? If pandering means throwing much of their muslim population into camps to ‘relearn islam’, then I suggest you use a different word.
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kueiakose, I mean China having exempted Muslims from the “One Child Policy” and allowing them–but not Han Chinese–to carry knives. I definitely consider this pandering, and see no reason to use a different word for it.
kurianchacko84@gmail.com says
GI, can you supply evidence of what you stated?
Also, then if you claim pandering is what Chinese do, how does that tie in with the Chinese throwing muslims into reeducation camps, Eg, ‘ KASHGAR, China — Muslim inmates from internment camps in far western China hunched over sewing machines, in row after row. They were among hundreds of thousands who had been detained and spent month after month renouncing their religious convictions. Now the government was showing them on television as models of repentance, earning good pay — and political salvation — as factory workers.’….
Pandering is not a word to be used here. Also, please note that jihadis convicted in China are executed, no waste of time like in Europe, where defence lawyers start using all kinds of excuses and stalling tactics. And we have seen clearly that they get away with light sentences in many cases. So what adjective would you use here?
Kepha says
I do not know which is worse: out-and-out, honest Jihadis, or self-righteous, cocksure liberal Western jurists who are so certain that Islam truly is the religion of peace, justice, and tolerance that the West’s intellectual malcontents assured us it was (from a safe distance, of course).
Barb says
Justice Sheahan could easily PROVE that Judeo-Christian Law is above Sharia Law
1. Judeo-Christian Law was given to Moses and there were thousands of witnesses at the foot of the Mountain who heard the voice of God
2. Where were the witnesses that saw Muhammed talking with the Angel?
3. At Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation the Bible was called “The living Word of God”
4. If Allah were the all knowing God – how come he messed up Mary the mother of Jesus geneology and called her the sister of Moses?
5. If Allah were the true god, hhow come he went from calling the Jews his precious / peculiar people to calling them apes and pigs?
6. Mustapha and Diaa Kara-Ali have clearly shown they disregard the Superior Laws of Australia and should immediately have their citizenship revoked and given one-way tickets back to their country of origin!
johnjjj says
This is the guy; it’s Dr Mustapha Kara-ali.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/mustapha_kara-ali/biocv/cv
Terry Sheahan has no idea.
gravenimage says
Muslims who claimed to be above Australian law fined by non-Muslim judge who assures them he follows Qur’an
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Judge Sheahan is an idiot.
Noelene Kuzman says
So here we have a muslim stating that he shouldn’t have to uphold the laws of a religion he does not subscribe to, yet here we are, being forced to eat halal food that is blessed in the name of a god that we do not subscribe to. I abhor the fact that we do not have a choice. So suck it up snowflake.
CRUSADER says
ACT for America
strives to fight for legislation against Sharia….
and to fight for the US Constitution.
http://www.ActforAmerica.org/issues
??
gravenimage says
+1
Peter WF says
Went to a dinner party some time ago and there was this Australian judge who asked “what’s Bunnings?”
Search Bunnings and you’ll appreciate to what extent his head is in the sand.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Like every other Western “judge” whose judgments I’ve studied (and I Majored in Law, in University) this guy doesn’t know the first thing about the Law. Once tenured by their political masters, they can just make it up.
Iv’e also studied sharia in depth, too – predictably, he also has absolutely zero knowledge of it, while pretending he does. They’re all criminally-negligent frauds and posers. Remember what Shakespeare said, and remember that all judges used to be lawyers, too. Just sayin.
😉
James Cameron says
Maybe the judge was trolling them 🙂
gravenimage says
I doubt it.
infidel says
Singapore offers the best way to deal with Muslims from morphing into rabid Koranimals in that, they nip the problem even b4 it becomes a toxic and virulent bud of Jehaad. And indeed, this little island nation that punches above its weight in world economy, has to be very careful about Jehaad because of its Islamic neighbor Malaysia, whose part was Singapore once and b4 the British excised it from the Malays. Even today, many mad Malay Muslims who cast an envious and coveting eye towards their little neighbor and moreover, Singapore has its own share of Malay Muslims who certainly pose a Jehaadi threat. But Singapore has deftly handled this problem by passing strict laws against proselytism and heavily coming down on any barbaric Mulla who chooses to misuse the pulpit as often happens in other democracies,,, The Singapore model is worth studying to deal with these fanatical creatures,