Hakeem al-Araibi us not an Australian citizen for is to be making a fuss about; and we have only the incompetent immigration department to say he is a 'refugee’. And, it seems, his country of origin had good reason to seek his extradition for non-capital crimes. There was no reason to deny the request for extradition except for the fact that he is a soccer player and Australia has an obsession with sport, even though it's just another one of the things we are no longer much good at.

And - surprise, surprise - the usual wackos want to make him a citizen.

Once more the Australian government, cowering to the Marxist Left, has made an idiot lf itself domestically and and internationally

Refugee rights are hard to FU, Except when the applicant quite deliberately destroys identifying documentation. The like of which they needed to obtain visas and FLY to transit countries.

One well remembers the widely reported case of a criminal human trafficker, claiming refugee status and apparently confirmed by UNHR? Then continuing to manage criminal operations from Canberra.

The folk engaged in the money-making side of this tide of misery have no morals and no compunction that prevents their organised criminal activities.

And ready to start again at the drop of a hat, with the clear and present help of corrupt officials and (hopelessly misguided?) advocates like the Author/a hopeless inept UNHR?

The political activist Author tries (and fails) to suggest that the persecuted footballer from Bahrain, and the unidentified illegal entries cooling their heels on Manuus or Naru, are essentially the same! NO, THEY ARE NOT!

The Footballer was someone Bahrain helped identify by trying with BS claims to have him returned. And possibly permanently silenced.

Those cooling their heels in offshore detention have yet to prove their actual status! Unquestionably, without a shadow of a doubt, some would clearly fail a proper professional investigation!

And the, pass the person, activities of UNHR officials isn't it, in my opinion!
Alan B.

Ttbn,

Not sure what the 'Left' has to do with any of this:

* al-Araibi has good grounds for believing that he would be tortured if he was taken back to Bahrain;

* Bahrain had no legitimate grounds to demand his extradition.

Just on those grounds, his application to come to Australia as a refugee seems quite proper and above-board. You don't have to give the 'Left' any bouquets that they don't deserve.

Joe

Why don't the Leftist Australian Journalists enquire with the Bahrain Govt why they're so interested in him ?

Individual,

Probably because he has a high profile, and because he has spoken out about human rights, in Bahrain and across the Middle East, and indirectly implicated the 'religion of peace' and its evolution of the notion of human rights over 1400 years.

Joe

Loudmouth,
I suppose it's like greed calling itself the religion of giving.