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| Bus driver linked to terror groups |
| 2003-06-11 |
| A former shuttle bus driver at Sydney Airport was a member of a violent Indonesian group with suspected links to banned terrorist groups Jemaah Islamiah and al-Qaeda, The Australian newspaper said. The paper said Dance Darmince, who uses the alias Mohammad Darimi, headed a small group of Laskar Jihad members in Sydney and had been coordinating fundraising efforts. From about 1999, he had driven airport shuttle buses transporting passengers around Sydney Airport for private bus company Kingsford Smith Transport. But the company said he quit last November, after on-and-off employment over the past five years. The story follows revelations that Bilal Khazal - a man affiliated with Osama bin Laden, according to the CIA - worked as a Qantas baggage handler at Sydney's international terminal during the lead-up to the Olympics. The Australian quoted a source from within Sydney's Indonesian community who claimed Mr Darmince and other men visited expat Indonesians and asked them for money to help fight "their jihad and the fighting in the Malukus". |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #8 Once again I think Liberalhawk is on the money. My mother's family were "pre air conditioning" dirt farmers from southern Florida, where marriage between second cousins was commonly praticed. This was not only due to the limited population of most small southern towns at the time, but also because it allowed crop lands to stay in the hands of a single family. This made sharing equipment, plowing in straight lines, and other sorts of agricultural stuff much easier to do. It wasn't done because everybody was a pervert. Although I can't say I'm the biggest fan of "The Prophet," he probably married women or girls for financial rather than sexual reasons. This would have been culturally normal in that region at the time. Plus, the Koran implies that he was one hell of a business man in general. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2003-06-11 16:42:58 |
| #7 thus muhammed was in all likelihood not a pedophile, but a man greedy for property and power. Which would be in keeping with the rest of his career. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-06-11 13:28:48 |
| #6 in economically backward communities marriages are largely about property, and there is pressure for early marriage to seal the property arrangements before somebody dies or changes their mind. Early (unconsumated) marriage was therefore an issue in Christian and Jewish communities as well, IIRC. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-06-11 13:26:52 |
#5 "The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became Alright, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, "Best wishes and Allah's Blessing and a good luck." Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah's Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age. (Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Merits of the Helpers in Madinah (Ansaar), Volume 5, Book 58, Number 234)" So, she was 6 when she was engaged to Mohammed (piss be upon him) and 9 when they married. Pedophile? No doubts about it. |
| Posted by: Anonymous_in_TN 2003-06-11 13:10:00 |
| #4 Anon1, supposedly his last wife was 9 or 10, not twelve. He is said to have not had relations with her until she was 12. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-06-11 09:51:04 |
| #3 Dance Darmince sounds like an islamic Lash Larue |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-06-11 09:42:06 |
| #2 NOW the juicy facts are coming out... Guess all that unfair targetting of the Islamic community by Asio actually paid off after all. think it'll measure a blip on the Left's notice-meter? I think not. For heaven's sake he was a goddam baggage handler for Qantarse. btw: have you ever noted that Mohammed supposedly took a 12-year-old girl for a wife - thus making him a paedophile???? |
| Posted by: Anon1 2003-06-11 07:59:05 |
| #1 Dance Darmince??? on-and-off employment Well he had to leave some time for the training, home visits and what-not. |
| Posted by: RW 2003-06-11 05:51:02 |