...One should ask why the burning of the Koran is not accepted as a terrorist act intended to incite violence! Let’s be fair in our judgements!

...And Belal Saadallah Khazaals’ crime of writing a book should be seen totally in its historic context of the reign of George Bush and John Howards “years of the program” against Muslims!

...Khazaal was another Muslim victim of "Howard witchery"!

Committing, planning, funding, advocating or participating in the deliberate injury of human beings for ideological or political purposes are terrorists acts. Burning the symbol of an ideology, religious or otherwise, is not. Maybe when Islam rallies to the defence of the human right of all individuals to unbelief, apostasy and blasphemous (so-called) words or actions it will earn more sympathy from more people for its sensitivities.

Emperor Julian says "Committing, planning, funding, advocating or participating in the deliberate injury of human beings for ideological or political purposes are terrorists acts."

Isn't that what we did in Iraq and what we are currently doing in Afghanistan? I'm sure many Australian bureaucrats have also written detailed instructions on how to better kill, bomb, assassinate those who we consider our enemy. Should they also go to prison?
The difference in my opinion is that whilst Australians have gone to foreign lands and killed many Muslims, no Muslims from those lands have ever come here and killed Australians. From their perspective we must appear to be the murderous terrorists, whilst they are the victims of our incessant violence and invasions.
While we continue to do such things it seems unsurprising that some of them may either fight back or urge others to do so. I believe we would do the same if powerful Muslim nations were to invade, bomb and occupy our lands.

Break it down, Diver.
The court would have laughed its leg off if Charlie Waterstreet had raised the issue of context.
It sounds like a plea of necessity. "I had to do it to help muslims resist George Bush and John Howard."
What's more, you seem to be saying any Muslim would do the same. Are you?

An entertaining article which barely scratches the surface of what problems Islam is going to cause the world.

Islam is NOT a product of the West, Bush, Howard and other leaders despised by the luvvies who hate the West generally and therefore embrace Islam as a friend against the common enemy.

Islam is implacable and self-motivated in its opposition to and war against the infidels and the West. Sam Harris's book, The End of Faith, outlines the sociology and psychology of Islam and its adherents and apologists.

There is only one question to be asked about Islam; does it attract mad people, or does it make sane people mad?

I’m afraid Rhys Jones is conflating the likes of Howard with people who disrespect (even by accident) the symbols of a brutal ideology. Not brutal? Then what is the kerfuffle in Pakistan about? What happens to Pakistanis who speak out for human rights including the right of unbelief and apostasy and “blasphemy” (a.k.a. disrespecting Islam). Howard, Bush and Bliar and their entourages lied their countries into a war of aggression. They rightly deserve the punishment meted out to the Nazi and Jap war criminals. Decent people don’t deserve war criminals being constantly held up by “Western apologists” as alibis for condoning the brutality against dissent that has long been the trade mark of Islam. Or hasn’t it? Are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and the like just figments?