The difference between us and them...

From the off-duty officer that hosed off the Muslim petrol bomber:

Bravo, Officer Ferguson...well done.

"...Ahmed, 27, who doused himself in petrol and set himself alight in the attack, was saved by an off-duty British police officer who hosed him down.

'It never entered my consciousness to walk away from the guy - I would have been failing in my duty to preserve life - and it doesn't matter whose life that is at the end of the day,' the officer, Stewart Ferguson, has said.

Also from the article...Australian hospitals searched, laptops seized. Looks like there are doctors in the house.

Investigators in Australia, where Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, 27, is being held, Friday searched hospitals in connection with the botched attacks.

They said laptops and telephones were seized in Perth and Sydney as counter-terrorism police investigated a possible network of Muslim militants.

But Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty stressed that only one person was in custody and that no charges had been brought.

And in India...
Indian police Friday questioned the families of three Indian suspects as the authorities in Bangalore said they had launched a full investigation into the terrorist plot.

Latest Islamic Whinefest - airbrushed hijabs

Teachers 'lack understanding' and 'demoralising' practice. Wah-wah-wah! I love this!

Muslim hijab 'airbrushed out of school photo'

A VICTORIAN Muslim schoolgirl had her traditional headscarf airbrushed from a class photograph in just one example of the discrimination Islamic students face, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.

While the majority of Victorian schools support students who wear the headwear, some teachers needed more understanding of Islam, the inquiry into Dress Codes and School Uniforms heard today.

The Islamic Council of Victoria is urging the inquiry to continue to allow Muslim students to wear traditional religious items as a "fundamental right" to freedom of religious observance.

More at the link here.

AU: Woman reporter's dress offensive to Muslims.

There they go again. Members of the Australian chapter of the He-Man-Woman-Hater's Club getting all up in a girl's face and telling her what to wear... You know how Dinah feels about that nonsense.

"You need to cover up, you mutt."

THIS is the outfit that has been labelled "offensive" and "disrespectful" to the Muslim community. Twenty-three-year-old journalist Latika Bourke was verbally attacked bya group of Muslim men outside a Sydney mosque because of her dress.

"This young man approached me and said: 'You should be wearing more clothes. You need to cover up, you mutt','' Ms Bourke, who works for 2UE Radio, recounted. Ms Bourke, who was wearing a black trenchcoat, knee-high boots and gloves, said she was shocked and humiliated.
"I'm just incredulous as to why they would say that ... what else is there to cover up? They are doing themselves no favours by behaving like this.''

Ms Bourke was waiting to interview controversial mufti Sheik Taj Eldeen Alhilaly at Lakemba mosque when a man aged about 20 confronted her. His friends stood nearby, supporting him, as he verbally attacked her. "He said: Are you aware that this is our Friday prayers? Do you know you're disrespecting our religion.''

Ms Bourke said she replied: "I'm sorry, how?'' He then advised her to cover up and called her "a mutt''. Ms Bourke, a Christian, said she was very conscious of the need to respect other people's religions. "I knew it was important to cover up when you go to a mosque and that's why I wore a long coat and gloves.

"As soon as it happened I looked at myself and thought, 'What am I wearing that is offensive?'''

The incident sparked a flurry of calls to talkback radio on Friday _ mostly criticising the Muslim man and his friends for what they described as being "offensive behaviour''.